Was it always BerenstAin Bears?

[vicky]

Because when I was a kid I thought it was Berenstein Bears?

Was it a figment or my imagination???

I feel nuts.

[wambam]

I always thought it was stEin

[vicky]

Whaaaat the hale?

[shamrockshake]

I really hate the Berenstain bears. that's probably flameful

[isitnaptime]

I don't know but OMG my 2.5 year old found a youtube video of the Berenstain Bears about two months ago and is obsessed. We watch this crap daily!

[cleo29]

Jan 13, 2016 13:08:58 GMT -5 RexManningDay said:

Although H's mom was a first grade teacher for 40 years and, according to her, it has always been Berenstain. lol.

This is how I always remembered it being. And that the husband and wife writing team are Stan and Jan Stain or something like that

[eav2c]

The Berenstain's (the authors) were my neighbors growing up and I still always said Berenstein. I think my parents did too!

[Deleted]

I swear to god it's BerenstEin Bears.

We're using some of my old childhood books so I'll run home at lunch and look at a book published in 1982 to verify.

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[pagas]

Jan 13, 2016 13:20:32 GMT -5 calamity said:

I had that book!

[mcsangel2]

Jan 13, 2016 13:20:32 GMT -5 calamity said:

Thank you!!!! I read them as a kid in the 70s and also would have sworn it was Berenstein.

[callmehales]

Jan 13, 2016 13:20:32 GMT -5 calamity said:

so you're saying your home is a portal to the other side.

[Deleted]

To credit someone else, it was in the comments section of the vox article someone posted above

[TR]

Jan 13, 2016 13:17:57 GMT -5 cjoy said:

This website is fucking me up, guys.

mandelaeffect.com/henry-viii-portrait-turkey-leg

I don't have that memory, but this part is cracking me up:

Maybe that’s true for some people with this memory, but — even if I’d seen the movie as a small child and later forgot it — what I recall was in color, and it wasn’t funny.

[candreco]

Messy Room was my favorite!

I'm really annoyed that the current ones being written by their son are so damn preachy. Like, I want to slap the sanctimony out of Cousin Fred on the regular.

[eav2c]

Jan 13, 2016 13:20:32 GMT -5 calamity said:

When you google the book it has Stain. So was it changed at some point? Is this your picture?

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[keyslover]

Jan 13, 2016 13:08:24 GMT -5 RexManningDay said:

You and the rest of the world.

There's been a rift between two parallel universes, that's all.

DH went down this rabbit hole and just has to include me!

[keyslover]

Jan 13, 2016 13:08:51 GMT -5 vicky said:

Whaaaat the hale?

In my universe, I say "hell". So weird!

[TR]

Jan 13, 2016 13:29:14 GMT -5 toledo said:

Jan 13, 2016 13:27:36 GMT -5 11d said:

Maybe this is like how it is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone but in the USA it's Harry Potter and the Philosopher Stone.

Opposite.

Thank you! I was like "wait...whaaaaa?"

[sangria]

Wait- has that picture with -ein been vetted.

I'm freaking out here. I feel like a nut.

[Deleted]

Jan 13, 2016 13:36:14 GMT -5 sangria said:

Wait- has that picture with -ein been vetted.

I'm freaking out here. I feel like a nut.

I got it off the internet, it MUST be real!

[CajunShrimp]

My son has Too Much TV (1984) and No Girls Allowed (1986) here in the living room and they both say -stain. They are old copies, not reprints.

[TR]

You guys, looking at old copies won't help because they OBVIOUSLY went back in time and changed it. We just have these shadow memories left.

[Deleted]

Jan 13, 2016 13:56:25 GMT -5 TR said:

You guys, looking at old copies won't help because they OBVIOUSLY went back in time and changed it. We just have these shadow memories left.

When growing up we always pronounced it "steen" (long e) and it was spelled Berenstein. Then my freshman year of high school (1999) I took German and learned that -ein is pronounced "eye"n, with a long i. So I went back to look at the books and tell my mom we've been saying it wrong.

And then two years ago when my son was born, I tore out my old books and they were BerenstAin! So whoever went back in time did it after 1999 or else my freak out would have happened in high school.

Maybe it was Y2K. The computers didn't all crash and no Armageddon, but those Berenst(e)ain Bears got the brunt of it.

[gummybear]

Did y'all know there is a third kid bear now? Honey Bear?

[achi]

Jan 13, 2016 13:14:25 GMT -5 superduper said:

In my head I have always pronounced it Beren-STEEN, so there is no way that it has always been spelled with A. Why would I pronounce it that way if there were an A? Why???

This is how it's pronounced where I'm from and how we read it to O.

[wysiwyg]

No. What? I could have sworn it was E. You know, because of the way the name is pronounced.

What even.

[textbookcase]

I also always thought it was -stein. My mom was a kindergarten teacher and all of her old books say -stain. I've read a lot about the Mandela effect and it's some freaky shit, yo. I also remember the turkey leg portrait, New Zealand is in a different spot on the map, and I swear it was Interview with A Vampire, not THE vampire.

[TR]

Jan 13, 2016 14:17:32 GMT -5 textbookcase said:

I also always thought it was -stein. My mom was a kindergarten teacher and all of her old books say -stain. I've read a lot about the Mandela effect and it's some freaky shit, yo. I also remember the turkey leg portrait, New Zealand is in a different spot on the map, and I swear it was Interview with A Vampire, not THE vampire.

This one is killing me