# We now live in an alternate reality (The weirdest Mandela effect yet) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 21, 2026, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-now-live-in-an-alternate-reality-the-weirdest-mandela-effect-yet/1031829 "2026-07-21T15:57:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
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This has been mentioned extensively in several other threads on the Mandela effect. > [@What Mandela Effect example gets you the most?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mandela-effect-example-gets-you-the-most/1029005/9): > > For me, as I noted in another thread, it’s the scene in Moonraker where Jaws has the meet cute with the tiny blonde with glasses and braces. Except she didn’t have braces. But I remember commenting in the theater that it was cute she did. So, unless we believe in parallel universes, it wasn’t a faulty memory as it was a wrong processing of the scene in real time. > [@The Mandela Effect is plaguing me again](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-is-plaguing-me-again/984338/33): > > I mean… it is named after a major historical event that people misremembered. A new one to me is from Moonraker. Jaws’ new girlfriend in the movie DOES NOT have braces… a lot of people remember the reveal of her having braces as being a big cute moment in the movie. I even did…but after having watched the scene again, I think people are experiencing a kind of “fill in the blank.” The scene would be so much better if she DID have braces. So peoples’ internal screenwriters corrected the actual m… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-now-live-in-an-alternate-reality-the-weirdest-mandela-effect-yet/1031829)._