The Mandela Effect and "Dirty Dancing"

The Mandela Effect is a phenomenon in which large segments of the population remember details wrong. The website Buzzfeed has published an article written by Christopher Hudspeth and titled 20 Examples Of The Mandela Effect That’ll Make You Believe You’re In A Parallel Universe, which summarizes the phenomenon as follows.

There’s an unexplained phenomenon that you’ve probably experienced without knowing what it’s called, and it’s garnering more and more attention lately. "The Mandela effect" is what the internet is calling those curious instances in which many of us are certain we remember something a particular way, but it turns out we’re incorrect.

The name of the theory comes from many people feeling certain they could remember Nelson Mandela dying while he was still in prison back in the ’80s. Contrary to what many thought, Mandela’s actual death was on Dec. 5, 2013, despite some people claiming to remember seeing clips of his funeral on TV.

These false memories have some people thinking their memory sucks, but some wonder if they’ve gone to a parallel universe, or if time travelers have gone to the past and slightly affected our present, or if they’re simply losing their freakin’ minds. Whichever it is, what’s most interesting about the Mandela effect is that so many individuals share the same false memories.

The article is quite amusing. Two of the 20 examples are from movie dialogues:

15. Life isn’t like a box of chocolates.

It seems that the majority of people confidently remember Forrest Gump stating that his mama always said, “Life is like a box of chocolates.” Well, it turns out that he actually said, “Life was like a box of chocolates,” despite what you may’ve felt you distinctly remembered.

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18. The Queen in Snow White never said, “Mirror, mirror on the wall.”

While the famous Snow White quote you’ve probably heard others say and repeated yourself is “Mirror, mirror on the wall,” it turns out the correct line is “Magic mirror on the wall.” Some people also remember the second part of that quote being “Who is the fairest of them all?” but apparently it's “Who is the fairest one of all?”

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Some wierdo named Evin Powers makes a lot of YouTube videos about the Mandela Effect, and one of them is about the movie Dirty Dancing. Powers talks about the movie's dialogue where Baby Houseman says:

You told me everyone was alike and deserved a fair break. But you meant everyone who is like you. You told me you wanted me to change world, to make it better. But you meant by becoming a lawyer or an economist and marrying someone from Harvard.

Powers is sure that the original dialogue had the words a doctor:

... you meant by becoming a lawyer or a doctor and marrying ....

Powers is so sure he is right that he thinks the supposed dialogue change is part of a world-wide conspiracy to cause World War Three.

The video's YouTube page has about 300 comments, many of which agree that they remember Baby saying the word doctor.

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Another YouTube video indicates that a version of the movie that includes the deleted scenes is in circulation.

These changes are not any Mandela Effect. Rather, scenes that had been deleted have been restored into a bootleg movie or into some special-edition DVD.

However, this Mandela Effect video is valuable because it specifies where the deleted scenes fit into the movie.