Are you suffering from the Mandela Effect?
Let's talk about that.
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- Goooooood Mythical Morning! - What is the famous line that...
...Darth Vader says to Luke Skywalker in Empire Strikes Back?
Take a moment. Link, don't answer. I know you know.
If you said, "Luke, I am your father," you may be suffering from the
Mandela Effect. Because it's actually "No, I am your father."
And there's a lot of people that know about that misconception.
- A lot of people who don't. - But there is a lady, a paranormal...
...expert named Fiona Broome who was at Dragon Con in 2005.
- Unfortunately, we weren't. - Oh, yep.
- Not in 2005. - Biggest regret of my life.
But she was talking with a group of people about Nelson Mandela,
and she along with this group of people she was talking to thought that Nelson
Mandela died in prison. Well, he didn't die in prison. He got out of prison, and
- then in 2013, he died. - But they had a shared memory that...
- ...that's how it happened. - And she was like, "But no, this...
...happens with a lot of things," like the "Luke, I am your father," thing.
- Mm. - The Nelson Mandela thing, and...
- ...some other examples. - Mhm.
Lots of people getting things wrong together. Her theory is that, possibly,
people are slipping in between alternate realities, and she has called that
the Mandela Effect. And, you know what, there are some people thinking this...
- ...might be the case. - Now, uh, I've never been to...
...Dragon Con in '05 or any other year, and I'm not gonna -- much respect to...
- ...all of you Dragoncon-ers... - Shoutout to Dragon Con.
...and to Miss Broome. But may I present an alternate theory?
- Pree-please! Pretty please. - (laughing) They're just remembering...
...stuff wrong! You know, you're wrong. There's a thing called history...
- ...and the facts associated with it. - Right.
I think you're probably right. We're taking a stance. The official Good
Eythical Norming stance on the Mandela effect is that if doesn't exist.
- Mhm. - And that people just can't get...
...stuff right. So what we're gonna do today is we're gonna go through some
of the most commonly misconceived things out there and help stamp out Mandela
- Effect amongst the Mythical Beasts. - Right, and there's no shame in...
...getting some of these wrong. The shame is not changing once you now know...
- ...it's right. - Right. The shame ends today.
The shame ends for all of us. Uh, picture your favorite monkey.
As long as it's Curious George. 'Cause let's just picture Curious George,
and make it your favorite monkey. And then tell me, as you're picturing him:
does he have a tail?
- I'm Blues Clues-in' it up here. - Oh, I like it.
- Just like you did with the... - Oh, I'm excited about it.
- ...with the "Luke, I am your father." - Did you give them enough time?
I don't know. Did you? If you said, "Yes, he has...
- ...a monkey. He has a tail." - "He has a monkey."
(laughing) He is a monkey, so he has a tail. You'd be wrong.
(incorrect buzzer) George has no tail! Look at this. You know.
Is he curious? Who cares?! Is he tailless? Absolutely!
We should just start calling him Tailless George!
And it has been confirmed: even when you... (stammering)
He could be hiding the tail behind his body, but no. Full bare-butt George
- facing you, bending over: there's no tail. - (laughing)
- We didn't wanna show that picture, but - - We're not showing that one.
- Trust me. They do exist. - But it exists. (laughing)
Okay, in Disney's Snow White, the evil queen looks into the mirror and says,
blank "mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?"
- Ooh! - If you said "Mirror, mirror on the wall,"
You're wrong! (incorrect buzzer) It's not "mirror, mirror," it's...
..."magic mirror." What is a mirror mirror, anyway?
Is it a mirror you... look at to... see another mirror?
- What? I don't even know what that is! - In my memory, she's getting the...
...attention of the mirror, like, the face has to turn around in the mirror.
And that takes time. It's like, "Mirror? Mirror?"
Now, I will say that there are those who say the very first time this was written
in the original form by the Grimm -- the Brothers Grimm...
- "The Grimm." - ...the Grimm Brothers or the...
...Brothers Grimm, it did say "Mirror, mirror," but in the movie itself,
- she says, "Magic Mirror on the wall." - I have the movie memory...
- ...of "mirror, mirror." - That is this reality.
- This reality. You're in it. - Hm. Wow.
That one blew my mind a little bit. Not enough to rewatch Snow...
- ...White, though. In the United... - Mm.
...States, is Thanksgiving on the third or fourth Thursday in November?
Multiple choice. (clicks tongue)
If you said the third Thursday, you'd be wrong. (incorrect buzzer)
It is the fourth Thursday of the month ever since 1941.
Now, this one got me, because when I was asked this question, I just said, "Third."
- I was just like, "Yeah, third. Right?" - You just felt like you knew it.
I was like, "Fourth Thursday? That's December, right? That's the next month."
- (laughing) No, it's always... - I was wrong.
...been that way. Turkey Time. Fourth Thursday. Eat up.
Okay, Tiananmen Square. You may or may not remember this, but on June 5...
- I do, vaguely. - 1989, basically there were students...
...in Tiananmen Square in China who were protesting the government.
They had been there for a while. And then the government sent the military in...
...and there was this famous video of a student protester standing in front...
- ...of a tank. - (Link) This image is in my brain.
Good. Now, what happens next?
Let's find out.
I don't wanna watch this guy get run over by a tank.
Oh, the tank's dodging him.
He doesn't get run over! He gets up on the tank!
So many people think that he gets run over. Get this into your brains, people:
he didn't get run over. That didn't happen in this form of history. The history...
- ...that YOU'RE a part of. - Which is THE history.
- The history. With a capital H. - The history: it didn't happen.
All right, let's move onto another one. Back to a lighter subject. Look at this...
...picture. It's a happy, hairy family of bears dressed as humans.
Now, this was a popular children's book -- I was familiar with it -- and an...
- ...animated series. - Yes.
This family was known as the Beren-WHAT Bears?
Hm, so if you said Beren-stein, you'd be wrong. It's BerenSTAIN!
(incorrect buzzer) Those bears are stained! Look right there at the
bottom of the title: the BerenSTAIN Bears. Now, I'm not saying that
they're actually stained, but I am saying that...
- That is a good way to remember 'em. - ...that is fact...
I think the dad may have had a stain on his overalls. Maybe.
That's how their name is spelled: BerenSTAIN.
- It's not "stein." It's "stain." - Not Berenstein.
- Don't make that mistake again. - Mm.
- Okay. - And don't wear human clothes, bears.
- It's confusing! - That's another show. Okay?
- It messed up my childhood. - When you think of the color...
...chartreuse, what do you picture?
Well, if you, like a lot of people, picture something maroonish red or...
...magenta, you would be WRONG! (incorrect buzzer) Because it's...
- ...yellow-green! No, it's nto blue. - Blue!
(laughing) Well, yellow and green make blue, don't they? No, they don't.
- Yeah, yellow and blue make green. - Yellow and blue make green.
- But chartreuse is officially what? - (Rhett) It's yellowish green.
(Rhett) It is the color of vomit. The way that you're gonna remember this from
- now on is chart-(retches)-euse. - Really!
Okay? You're gonna picture -- you're gonna say it as if you're
vomiting, because that is -- it's actually named after...
- I pictured like a turquoise blue-ish. - Well, you're wrong, Link.
- Okay! Okay. - You're wrong. And the people who...
...pictured anything other yellow-green are wrong. I pictured maroonish red...
- ...also when I thought of this. - Hm.
But I was wrong. It's the color of the liquor Chartreuse, which is...
- ...puke-colored. Now you know. - Okay. We stamped that one out!
Let's move onto the show that I was obsessed with as a kid: Mr. Roger's
Neighborhood. And, of course, the theme song was great. I sang it along with
him every time I watched it. See, we all know the lyrics, right?
It's a beautiful day in blank neighborhood.
What is it?
Oh, "the" neighborhood? No! (incorrect buzzer) it's actually "this"...
- ...neighborhood. And even when... - No, it's not. It can't be.
...I was told it was "this neighborhood," I didn't believe it. So I'll give you...
- ...the proof that I had to see myself. - ♪ (Mr. Roger's theme song) ♪
- Bringing back memories, now. - It's a beautiful day in this...
- ...neighborhood. - There it is: right at the beginning.
- Right off the bat. - It's a beautiful day in this...
...this, this, this, this, this, this neighborhood.
He kinda slides it in there. He's like, "♪ (It's a beautiful day in-ss...) ♪
- ♪ (...neighborhood) ♪ - Well, he definitely says, "this."
He knew every day he sung it was probably suposed to be "the."
You know what? Mr. Rogers may have been part of a conspiracy created to make...
...people think that they were suffering from the Mandela effect.
Oh, yeah. Him and Mandela are both in on it.
Oh, Mr. Rogers and Mandela. That's the kinda thing I like to believe.
- (laughing) - Okay, now you have at least a few...
...of the things that you thought incorrectly about history corrected...
- ...today. Assuming that at least some... - Yes!
...of those you got wrong. I know I did. So welcome to this world.
- Welcome to reality. - Yeah.
- We're all here together now. - We're gonna stay here together, okay?
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- ...Mandela Effect facts. - "Interpretive dance."
- ♪ (music) ♪ - Once upon a time, there was a very...
...short man, who waddled though the streets of knowledge searching for
his identity. Um, as he... frolicked to and fro in the happiness of his
ignorance, he suddenly started to realize that, A, he has no rhythm or dancing
ability. And B, uh... he has no loved ones. And C, he was mistaken about the
most important things in his life.
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