Nora and I have been watching Better Call Saul on Netflix. We’re finally on the last season, and it’s fantastic. I noticed at the beginning of S6E1, in the upper left, where they show a warning about the content of the show, suicide is listed. I immediately started to wonder which character we would lose. Last night, we found out. And it wasn’t at all who I thought.
I won’t get into any spoilers here, so I’ll be vague. I was working backward from Breaking Bad on the characters that didn’t make the jump to the more recent part of the storyline. And I was certain that I’d narrowed it down to one of two characters. I even boldly proclaimed to Nora who I thought it was going to be. And then it happened. And we were shocked.
No way this character is dead. They were an integral part of the early story in Breaking Bad. We couldn’t figure it out. I had to turn to our benevolent overlords at Google and see what the hell was happening. This character was not in Breaking Bad. Not for a second.
WHAT?!
This got me thinking about the Mandela Effect. I mentioned to Nora how this seemed to be a perfect example of this phenomenon. She looked at me blankly. She didn’t know what the ME was.
For those who don’t know, the Mandela Effect was coined in 2010 based upon a group-collective false memory of Nelson Mandela having died in prison in the 1980s. This strange phenomenon has spurred conspiracy and alternate-reality theories galore.
This, of course, led me to look up lists of common Mandela Effects and share.
- Berenstain Bears
- Shaggy’s Adam’s apple
- Curious George’s tail
- Sex and the City
- The Monopoly man’s monocle
- Jiffy peanut butter
The list goes on. What’s your favorite example of the Mandela Effect?