Mandela Effect

[Jazzy G]

I used to get their books out of the library when I was a kid, and saw a few episodes of a cartoon they were in on one of the satellite kids' channels. I don't think they were a huge thing here, but they were definitely a thing. 

[Carbomb]

I'd seen the books in the library too. 

[Chili]

I'm with Chest in that I've never seen them in the UK. But then I only recently realised the Bad News Bears was a series of little league films and not something about actual bears so it's a lottery with me.

[FLips]

I had one of their books when I was a kid, the one with the spooky trees I think. Quite honestly could not give a single shit what they were called though.

[johnnyboy]

2 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

Everyone in the pocket of big sherbert.

Big Sherbet.  It doesn't even look right, does it?

[Carbomb]

12 minutes ago, johnnyboy said:

Big Sherbet

Sounds like an ex-girlfriend

[westlondonmist]

1 hour ago, Chili said:

I'm with Chest in that I've never seen them in the UK. But then I only recently realised the Bad News Bears was a series of little league films and not something about actual bears so it's a lottery with me.

Sounds like NJPW tag team of Bad News Brown and Ivan Koloff.

[Jazzy G]

4 hours ago, Carbomb said:

Sounds like an ex-girlfriend

It's what they'd call the tag team of Big Show and Albert in Hull.

[JLM]

I definitely mentally amended “Blue Riband” to “Blue Ribbon” until well into my adult life. I don’t want to meet the child who is familiar with the word Riband though, so I am ok with it. It basically means ribbon anyway, shut up stupid nerdy medieval history nerd kid I invented. 

[Chris B]

I could have sworn this was part of another thread.

[lanky316]

Interesting, in MY timeline it's always had it's own thread.

[BomberPat]

17 hours ago, FLips said:

Quite honestly could not give a single shit what they were called though.

This is what almost every single example of the Mandela Effect comes down to for me; how often do you actually think about this shit? Of course you don't have a very clear memory of a fairly inconsequential kids' book, or a line in a film, or what a corporate mascot looks like, so it's not very surprising that if someone asks you a leading question about it - "do you remember the Monopoly Man having a monocle?" - your brain fills in the blanks and figures, "I guess, probably, who gives a shit?".

It's an act of monumental self-absorption to think that the explanation of alternate timelines or widespread conspiracy is somehow more believable than "you remembered something wrong".

[RedTwoster]

This may or may not count, but up until recently I'd thought Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest was actually called Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy Kong's Quest and wrote it as such. When I found out I was wrong, it blew my mind. 

[DavidB6937]

It's the same with plenty of song lyrics that I've got absolutely wrong over the years but there's no chance I'm changing them now.

[TheBurningRed]

I was convinced for years Old Mout Cider was called Old Mount. In fact, I was so sure that it was Mount, that I read it on the bottle and seen it on adverts and they must've changed the name to Mout.