Current Events > Ok I have gotten triggered by a Mandela effect it absolutely is Berenstein Bears

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I had all their books as a kid I saw the Berenstein ride with the Bears walking around the park being creepy at Valley fair back in the early 90's
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJKpcfm1qD4
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I'm tempted to drive over to my parents house and dig through the attic for these god damn books
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I never understood the Sinbad thing.

Like, everyone I know who actually saw "Kazaam" knows that the genie was Shaq. Sinbad was that goofy mailman from Jingle All the Way.
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BignutzisBack posted...

I had all their books as a kid I saw the Berenstein ride with the Bears walking around the park being creepy at Valley fair back in the early 90's

find me a book where its spelled like that
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AlisLandale posted...

I never understood the Sinbad thing.

Like, everyone I know who actually saw "Kazaam" knows that the genie was Shaq. Sinbad was that goofy mailman from Jingle All the Way.

Sinbad is also an arabian folk tale people are just stupid and mixing things up
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Your instinct is to recall it as Berenstein because that would be the more Germanic spelling of the name and your whole life you've been exposed to "stein", but the family that wrote it was actually descended from eastern European Jews and in at least Ukrainian and Russian, those names tend to take the "-ain" (like "stain") sound instead of "-ein" (as in "fine") sound.