What Mandela Effect example gets you the most?

In My Humble Opinion
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There is an endless list by now of Mandela effect items like…the alternate ending of Big, the spelling of Febreze, the Kit Kat logo, the spelling of Looney Tunes, the spelling of Froot Loops, the spelling of the Berenstain Bears, the Monopoly Man Rich Uncle Moneybags having a monocle,…the list just goes on and on, I can be here all day naming them…

But most of these, I have to say, don’t really affect me at all. I don’t have particular memories connected to any of them, some of them I do remember vaguely and I’m like “oh, that’s not really how it was?” But none of them really stand out…

…Except for two of them.

In my opinion, there are two that I remember distinctly the most…. And that almost make me a believer that history has changed somehow.

The first of these is the writing that is found on all side mirrors on cars. You know that little writing at the bottom of all the side mirrors? What is that writing say?

A couple years ago I was thinking of this and I came up with the answer “objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear”…right?

I was baffled to find out that’s not it. There is no word “may”. It’s “objects in the mirror are closer than they appear”. The first time I read that I thought what happened to the word “May”? Like, that is something I clearly remember seeing and reading. That one really gets me.

But there is one even stronger than that.The Fruit of the Loom logo. You know, on brief underwear and Cotton shirts come on the tag? What does the Fruit of the Loom logo look like in your head. If you said a bunch of fruit in front of a Horn of plenty or a cornucopia, you would be wrong.

It’s actually just a bunch of fruit. That’s it. No cornucopia. But when you go look at a picture with the fruit included with the cornucopia, something happens in your brain that says “this is indeed what it used to look like”. It looks so familiar, and that’s not because I have seen fruit and vegetables around a cornucopia in real life many times…no, I distinctly remember that logo. That logo specifically has been with me since I was a kid. It’s fruit in front of a cornucopia.

It boggles my mind how it really isn’t. If any Mandela effect entry makes me question whether or not we’ve all been sent to another universe where something used to exist but now it doesn’t, that would be the one. I would have sworn with my dying breath that the Fruit of the Loom logo had a cornucopia in it.

Do you have any specific Mandela Effect entry that you feel strongly about?

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I find myself often having to remind myself that Johns Hopkins University has an S after the John. It is not John Hopkins University.

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Tom Cruise, Risky Business, sliding across the floor, sunglasses, what the fuck.

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Rich Uncle Pennybags.

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I don’t know about strongly, but there’s, “Elementary, my dear Watson,” which Sherlock Holmes never said. And there’s, “Alas poor Yorick, I knew him well,” which Hamlet didn’t exactly say.

Those seem like pretty small potatoes. And speaking of potatoes, I probably feel more strongly about the lunch I’m about to have than about either of those examples.

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From One Froggy Evening: “Hello, ma baby, hello, ma ___…” I distinctly remember the frog singing “darling,” but apparently it’s “honey.”

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I’m convinced that the guy who used to travel around and eat weird stuff used to be named Andrew Zimmerman.

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Apparently no one in Star Trek has actually said “Beam Me up, Scotty” which is surprising to me.

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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.

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I swear it was “Berenstein” and would pronounce it “steen” as a kid.

The DC comics-based TV show Peacemaker had a discussion about that very subject (the Berenstain Bears) which led to an argument on the way to a mission. Which is funny, because that show has an actual multiverse you can travel within.

I relate so much.

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Mine is probably not that common, but for years I was convinced the guy who played the “Big Fig Newton” (“Ooey gooey rich and chewy inside…”) was Jonathan Winters. I would have bet a lot of money on that.

He wasn’t, though. It was a guy named James Harder.

It should have been Jonathan Winters, though! He would have been perfect.

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WInters would have been perfect for most roles. I loved that guy in anything.

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“Let’s give it to Mikey. He’ll eat anything!”

To this day that is what I remember from the commercial.

Apparently it’s “He hates everything.”

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The line was widely misquoted as “he’ll eat anything”, but it’s weird to me why that transition happened. The whole point of the commercial was that even a very picky kid would love Life cereal. If it’s announced that he’ll eat anything, and then he digs into the bowl of Life cereal, that isn’t exactly a ringing endorsement of the cereal. To accept the misquote, you’d have to not only misremember the line, but misunderstand the whole plot and purpose of the commercial.

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The Fruit of the Loom one gets me most.

Like, why else would a kid know what a cornucopia is?

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My personal one:

No, it wasn’t due to a mere remix (as one Doper mused), it was a completely different cut, one I have never found in any of his discography. No longer exists anywhere.

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The cornucopia thing is the one I disagree with most on a visceral level. When I hear about it, it sounds vaguely familiar, but then when I see the supposed pictures they look all off and unbalanced. Any supposed cornucopia looks too large to gel with my memory of the logo which doesn’t have any one part sticking out too much.

My personal one was when Homer Simpson sings “I am so smart! I am so smart! S-M-R-T! I mean S-M-A-R-T”, that he actually said “I mean S-A-M-R-T”, for a further joke upon realizing he misspelled it but then misspelling it a second time. But the clip of him and simpsons fans all disagree with me.

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I don’t know (or care really) whether it’s still the case, but when I attended, there was officially a “The” in front of “Johns Hopkins University”.

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The funniest thing about the incorrect version is that the line, “He’ll eat anything,” implies that what they are asking him to eat is so awful that only someone like Mikey would eat it. Not that I have ever seen the ad in question.

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I’d hate for you to never cross that bridge.