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- Sep 25, 2014
Certainly comes from those only familiar with those TV/home video releases.The worst part is that some of these people never actually saw it in the theaters in the first place and yet they're still acting like it's true.
I don't recall The Jackson 5 cartoon being on in my area at all (if it was syndicated in the 80's), but I do remember the cable channel BET airing it at one point.When I was googling the term I came across something I remember from my childhood, namely the Jackson 5 cartoon. Back in the early 70's Rankin-Bass made a cartoon based on the Jackson 5, years later when Michael Jackson came back with "Thriller" they started showing it on TV again and it's been in syndication off and on since then. You can catch most of the episodes on youtube now. But some woman said that this was proof of the Mandela Effect because she said that had this been on TV back in the 70's she would have known about it.
That's basically the problem with the way TV was back then, you either saw it or you didn't, and when you only had those three-four channels, you could miss something very easily if you had something else to watch, or not watching TV altogether (of course home video and cable TV gave us even more avenues to see it). Syndicated repeats was your only bet of seeing it again years down the road. I know plenty of people that would fit her description of thinking where did this come from. It just befuddles them.Problem is, she gives herself away immediately in saying that growing up they only had three or four channels. Now her theory would work had that show been on one of those channels but who's to say that it was? There was no internet back then, you had to buy TV guide or something assuming of course they made it for your area.
Damn!But instead of thinking, "maybe I just never saw this" it's full blown, "this came from another reality stream and now those two streams have merged into this one".
Maybe in that universe, Bigpaw actually wears pants for once!I had less than half of the Berenstain Bears books when I was a kid, but I don't remember this particular page! It's not because I didn't read this particular book.... it's because there's an alternate universe! Yeah! that's it!
or alternatively:
I remember the tree house being slightly different. Proof of an alternate universe!