The Mandela Effect on TAS

[johnnybear]

I recently watched the X-Files episode about this phenomenon! And apart from the fact that it has happened to me quite a few times in my life, I think it's progressed to my viewing of TAS too!
This morning I watched The Practical Joker episode of TAS where The Romulans attack the Enterprise and accuse them of straying into the Neutral Zone but I clearly remember the Romulan ships as Bird of Preys and not the Klingon design! Now if you say you've probably forgotten from your childhood I'd agree with you but I saw this episode a few years back on the DVD set that I still have! I remember specifically because I wondered why they had reverted back to the BoP design where as they used the Klingon design in The Survivor! So I was getting excited about seeing the BoP version again but I find that the universes have collided again and now we have Klingon ships instead! Just to make sure I got out the Survivor and checked that one too and they're Klingon design in that one too as I remembered! Has anyone else had this sort of thing happen to them on here?
JB

 

[Lord Garth]

^ I loved that episode of The X-Files!

Back in the '80s, before I became a fan, my parents watched Star Trek on TV sometimes. I wouldn't call them fans in the sense like we are, but they used to watch the show. I never really paid much attention to what they watched.

But I remember thinking I saw Kirk trapped between decks. Like he had to get himself up. It makes no sense at all. And I never saw anything like that in any of the episodes after I did become a fan.

So... The Mandela Effect.

 

[Poltargyst]

Are you sure you're not referring to the Mengele Effect?

 

[Discofan]

I was certain it was the mango tree effect...

Why do I keep getting that song from Dr. No in my head?

 

[Orac]

Your memories of The Practical Joker are probbly mashed together with memories of the remastered version of The Enterprise Incident which replaced D7's with BOP's.

 

[TrickyDickie]

I remember The Berenstein Bears spelled that way, but pronounced Berenstain.

I remember all of the major tv networks airing the story of Billy Graham's death in 2009.

I remember all of the major tv networks airing the story of Stan Lee's death years before the hoax.

Milk Duds were malted milk balls in the other timeline.

 

[johnnybear]

Your memories of The Practical Joker are probbly mashed together with memories of the remastered version of The Enterprise Incident which replaced D7's with BOP's.

Nope! I've only seen that once and I don't own the CGI discs! And the last time I watched the TAS set was about six years back...!
JB

 

[retroenzo]

I remember The Berenstein Bears spelled that way, but pronounced Berenstain.

Whenever I see anything about the Mandela Effect, I always see the Berenstain Bears mentioned. Were they only big in the US because I've never heard of them before. Or is this another type of Mandela Effect for me in that I don't remember them at all?

 

[johnnybear]

I'd never heard of them either, retro! So they must have only been in the US!
JB

 

[Nerys Myk]

They were a US thing. Used to sell a ton of the books when I was a book retailer.

 

[Orac]

The Berenstein Bears books were in our library when I was a child and I live in New Zealand.

 

[Greg Cox]

They were a huge phenomenon in children's publishing.

 

[Tim Thomason]

I remember wondering as a child why they spelled their name "Berenstain" (I distinctly remember the Stain as opposed to Stein that I had seen in Einstein, Frankenstein, or Ben Stein), and oddities in spelling to this day stick out to me.

I guess I never switched universes.

 

[Emperor Norton]

The odd thing is that the butterfly effect would mean vastly different histories if even one small thing were really different. And no one ever seems to remember a child that no longer exists. Just distant minutiae.

 

[SiddFinch1]

Most people's memories are terrible

 

[F. King Daniel]

Most people's memories are terrible

This. I distinctly remember a Next Gen novel about the Tholians which apparently doesn't exist. And I've mixed up loads of details between episodes as time's gone on.

 

[J.T.B.]

I remember wondering as a child why they spelled their name "Berenstain" (I distinctly remember the Stain as opposed to Stein that I had seen in Einstein, Frankenstein, or Ben Stein), and oddities in spelling to this day stick out to me.

Yes, I'm with you. My brother and sister had a few of those books and used to get them from the library. I was a little older and remember wondering about the spelling of "Berenstain" on the covers. I think people were so accustomed to names ending in "-stein" that their brains filled it in for them. Sort of a mental auto-correct mistake.

This. I distinctly remember a Next Gen novel about the Tholians which apparently doesn't exist. And I've mixed up loads of details between episodes as time's gone on.

To me the classic is the people who (mistakenly) remember seeing the deleted Star Wars scenes in 1977. In the early '90s I argued about it with a guy who was so convinced that he had seen Luke looking up at the star destroyer in the sky, I thought he was going to take a swing at me.

 

[ChasFink]

I guess I never switched universes.

OR, the memory adjustment worked better on you than it did on the folks who remember when it was "-stein". They did a good job on you!

 

[johnnybear]

I remember wondering as a child why they spelled their name "Berenstain" (I distinctly remember the Stain as opposed to Stein that I had seen in Einstein, Frankenstein, or Ben Stein), and oddities in spelling to this day stick out to me.

I guess I never switched universes.

Maybe you're anchored in your own quantum reality?
JB

 

[Discofan]

Is it some kind of localized Mandela effect when I can't find my car keys? And then I find them where I am sure I looked a dozen times without seeing anything... Weird, huh?