Here’s the Wikipedia article about the Jeannie cartoon. Apparently it only lasted one 16-episode season, in 1973. Joe Besser did indeed voice Babu, and Mark Hamill (!) voiced the male lead, in his first voice-acting gig.
Joe Besser saying “Yapple Dapple!” has been a permanent ear worm for me for going on forty years now. And I never even saw the damn Jeannie cartoon - I heard it on a cross-over with Scooby-Doo.
I’m not sure if I ever saw Jeannie but I know I saw Laff-A-Lympics
Waitaminit! You were serious? Like, you didn’t remember it so it didn’t exist and I went into a different universe and googled it up? Well, that’s. . . special.
The nice thing about how our culture is now so fractured and balkanized is that no one has any shared experiences anymore so there won’t be any more Mandela Effects because everyone can just remember whatever they want.
Terry Pratchett beat you to it. That’s a plot point in his Discworld novel Jingo. Although it’s not a phone, but a Dis-organizer, a magiteck version of a Blackberry.
Can’t tell you how proud I am to have accidentally plagiarized someone with Pratchett’s imagination.
We can remember it for you wholesale.
Watching the latest series of ‘The Cleaner’ and there’s an elderly black actor that looks and sounds just like Derek Griffiths. But I know for a fact that he died in 2019 as I remember the tributes to him on Twitter. Nope, he’s still alive. So whos death am I remembering?
All I can think of is Brian Cant, but he died in 2017 and is also white. But they were contemporaries on PlayAway.
I started the “alternative ending to Big” saga, but of all the other Mandela effects I’ve ever read about, only one seems to impact me as much.
At the end of Moonraker, I also thought Jaws’ girl smiled and she had braces on. I guess it was poor image on TV, but I remember my Dad even laughing and pointing out her braces…which is a joke about his metal teeth.
She didn’t, but I’m not the only one that thought that.
I think this is exactly the type of joke switcheroo which tricks your mind, like the ear scene in Reservoir Dogs. She looks exactly like the type of preppy young girl who should smile and have braces. With about a second of smile, with wire framed glasses, and huge cleavage to distract as well, it doesn’t give much time to concentrate too. If viewed on television, like I watched most bond movies, the quality was awful and watched back then for us, on 20" set., that you’d probably fill in the gaps in your mind anyway.
It’s one which high definition threw into sharp relief, and indeed, a lot of people haven’t seen the film since well before even laserdisc.
It is, however, so obviously trickery which worked, that I’d prefer to call this misremembering technique the “Jaw’s girlfriend has braces effect” which is much more forgivable than people missing the president of South Africa not being there for FIVE years, which has roots in sustained lack of knowledge and possibly racism.
I “remember” the braces…
…partly because it would be such a light yet poignant moment; why wouldn’t they film her doing a braces reveal?
And the big “showing off her teeth” smile makes more sense with hardware.
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Almost everyone in the original Reddit agrees that it makes sense, and that she DID have braces (and then they all start to doubt reality… one redditor says “Fuck this timeline!”)
https://www.reddit.com/r/JamesBond/comments/1abjdpj/ok_admit_it_who_thought_jaws_girlfriend_in/
I thought she had braces too. I saw it on a fairly small B&W TV so maybe it looked like she had braces. Maybe also I didn’t know really and I’m pretty sure I’ve seen a similar young blonde haired girl wearing braces at least once in some other movie so it’s possible conflation of memory.
I miss my timeline.
Everything since the Gore Administration made much more sense than whatever’s been going on here.
So, how do I get back there?
Wellll, just to complicate things, I found a number of vintage “Are those braces or not?” clips.
BUT here’s the movie (shown on Canadian TV), off someone’s VHS tape, and she has braces:
Apparently that’s NOT George Lazenby as the bagpipe player in Twilight Zones “Five Characters in Search of an Exit”
Looks just like him though
Maybe. too blurry to tell.
Seems like it…
I agree. More points against it are that Moonraker was an Anglo-French co-production, which isn’t much, but braces are a hell of a lot less common there than here, certainly back then. More damning (from Wikipedia) is a 1979 LA Times review that says:
Kiel…even acquires a love interest, a small, voluptuous blonde named Blanche Ravalec. It would be a relationship made in heaven if only she wore braces.
Finally, the actress that played her definitively said that nope, no braces.