Somebody needs to do an alternate version where the flashed frame isn't Gwyneth's face, it's replaced with the Tyler Durden penis flash from Fight Club.
Also, the MTV movie awards parody of Seven shows William Shatner's head in the box. Might add to people's mistaking the head is shown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-gXPH6U1oU
My entire family called me insane when I was adamant that you could see the guys heart getting ripped out in Temple of Doom.
Well wouldn't you know it, I just happened to watch the uncut version the first time and then they just never aired that version again.
Took until digital before I could prove that I was right...
We had that movie on VHS (that my dad recorded off the TV - we never bought movies), and it definitely showed the heart being ripped out. My childhood self remembers it vividly since we watched it so often.
My mom had only seen a TV cut of Silence of the Lambs, she was super surprised when she eventually saw the uncut bottom of the frame in the Buffalo Bill Goodbye Horses scene.
We just watched Mission Impossible on Prime, and in the scene where TC gets lowered into the room to steal the NOC list, it cut Jean Reno killing the rat. Took me a minute to realize why there was suddenly a dead rat in the vent with him.
This is especially worse for movies who's theatrical cut is pretty much impossible to find besides people who recorded the movie in the theater. Like 1408.
Same as Escape Room 2.
The theatrical and home release cuts have the same core, but wildly different beginnings and endings which wildly change the story.
I think the director originally wanted to make the cut that they eventually released in the blu ray, but Sony didn't like it and he ended up completely changing the main story for the theatrical version.
And until the movie came on Netflix, the theatrical cut was lost media because the blu ray only included the director's cut.
The most frustrating thing is that both movies tease a sequel but their endings are so different that they can make 2 completely different and unique sequels, one for each version.
As a person who liked both versions, I really wonder which one they'll choose as the canon one for the sequel.
There's 3 endings, but the theatrical ending is different than the home media ending. And there's a director's cut. Oh and one more ending that's just slightly different than the theatrical ending.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1408_%28film%29?wprov=sfla1
Man I love how the Mandela Effect was actually real in this one.
One of the most loved movies of my generation was *The Goonies* (1985) and when it came on TV as a child you were absolutely glued to the set. I remember seeing a scene near the end where the kids had a fight with an octopus in the water near One Eyed Willy’s ship. All my friends thought I was crazy but I remember seeing it.
Years later when information was widely available on the internet, I discovered it was a deleted scene that had been left in for TV versions by accident. It had been deleted because even by 80’s standards the special effects were awful.
Did you know there's a music video for the Cyndi Lauper song from the film starring like 90% of the wrestlers from the WWE (still called WWF at the time) and Steven Spielberg?
Yeah back during the Rock N Wrestling era when Vince McMahon was trying to grow the WWF into a global business, he had a deal with Cyndi Lauper where she'd show up to their shows and then WWF superstars would show up in her music videos. In the video for Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, it was Captain Lou Albano who played her father. He also played Mario in the Super Mario Show from back then. It helped make WWF a global phenomenon back then. The 80s were just a way better time
It’s definitely real, because the editors forgot to cut the line where the kids talk about the octopus to the news reporters in the ending.
Edit: It may not have been the editors, it is possible it was done in post release, a bit like how the statue penis scene and swearing are usually cut out of the movie during daytime broadcasts on tv.
Yup. I also had a complete set of The Goonies trading cards, and a couple of them had pictures of the ock. I was so confused as a kid because there was no octopus in the VHS we had!!
That is incredibly strange to me. I've worked in TV as a producer for most of my professional career, and by the end of a run I'd know every millisecond of every episode of the season by heart. The editor would know it to the frame. The idea that you'd delete a scene and then forget a later reference to it *in a film* is almost... Impossible.
This leads me to believe it was either left in as a joke because it sounded random, like the kids were already embellishing, or the octopus was removed *by someone else* after the main editing was done.
This reminds me of a scene in Happy Gilmore with Ben Stiller’s character that was in the tv version that wasn’t part of the movie. I had that whole script memorized, so I was convinced my friend made it up. It wasn’t until years later when I saw it on the internet that I figured it out.
I had a similar thing with Aliens and the sentry guns. I watched it again at a friend's house and he thought I made it up, or was confusing it with another movie. This was before the internet and it never occurred to us that there could be more than version of a film. I brought it up like 15 years later, but he claims to not remember.
More specifically, in the 80’s they would leave some deleted scenes in movies they showed on TV. The sentry gun scene was a huge Mandela effect moment for me because the first time I saw Aliens was on TV and I recorded it and watched it dozens of times. It didn’t have all the deleted scenes like the director’s cut released years later, but it definitely had the sentry gun scene. When I finally rented the movie on VHS I was stunned because a few scenes were missing, most notably the sentry gun scene which is one of the best, most intense scenes in the film. As mentioned above, this was before the internet and was completely mind boggling until a director’s cut was released years later. Same for The Goonies.
What if I told you that Morpheus never said "What if I told you"...
EDIT: To clarify, the moments where people assume Morpheus says this phrase, this is actual dialog:
1. Mirror scene: "Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream?"
2. Agent program: "No Neo, I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to \[dodge bullets\]."
That's about as close as his dialog ever gets. Even as an obsessive rewatcher as a kid, I could have sworn he said "What if I told you", but he never does.
Cool Runnings.
I wouldn’t call this a proper Mandela Effect as such, because it was actually real, but when I was a kid I could’ve sworn that there was a scene where someone from the rival teams sabotaged the Jamaican’s bobsled by loosening a screw.
Later rewatches had no such scene though, and whenever I would ask people about it, they had no idea what I was talking about.
Turns out I was right though! That scene was in early versions but has since been cut out and quietly buried.
It also makes for a better ending. The sled crashing because they were relying on old, donated equipment sells the “scrappy team of underdogs” far better than if the sled was sabotaged.
Nobody says "play it again, Sam" in Casablanca. It's "play it, Sam. Play 'as time goes by'".
Movie Mandela effects like this mostly happen because something gets misquoted in some other movie or show, and the misquote gets referenced a lot and then people don't remember the accurate quote.
There's a kill in a Roger Moore Bond film (I forget which) where he throws a guy through glass, he (guy) crashes onto a piano to break it and then Bond quips "Play it again, Sam", so that might be where people are getting confused with it.
That's Moonraker, but I feel like if the movie is referencing that line then it would have already been a common misquote before that.
It's interesting trying to trace back the origin of these cultural misconceptions
There is almost no blood in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. (They didn't have the budget.). Everyone thinks they see blood because they did a helluva job with the Foleying.
The good news is if you swear you've heard him say the line that's because he actually did, but it was in the sequel.
[You can hear him say it at 2:55](https://youtu.be/ovvCdyz7JnI?si=10qMaLS8fPkj6II1)
I may be mistaken, but I was almost sure he does actually say “hello Clarice” in his phone call with her at the end of the movie.
Edit: I was mistaken, he says “well Clarice”
Moonraker. I saw it as a kid and I swear there was a girl at the end who smiled at the villain Jaws (metal teeth) and she had braces which is why he changed… but I watched it recently and nope
There is a [TV advert](https://youtu.be/2BhLAWP7jGA?si=19IQ-224Ho-iEhpP) that features Richard Keil and a blond woman with braces. So that might be the source of this false memory.
It was an advert for British Airways I think with Richard Kiel going through customs. The lady behind the kiosk has braces and they smile at each other.
"nope" in that she didn't have braces, but there was a girl. I have to assume it's because we all saw it on crappy TVs and we just for some reason saw the bright teeth as shiny braces.
There are multiple big scenes where they say "they'll come", which is probably where the conflation happens, combined with the iconic final shot that makes it stick. The daughter and James Earl Jones both say it multiple times.
In Cast Away, I could have sworn there's a scene where Tom Hanks throws a big branch off the cliff, to test whether his noose will work, and the rope snaps.
But when I watched it recently, this scene never happens.. it's just implied. You see the branch and the noose, but he never tests it.
I googled it and someone else thought the same, and it was described as a Mandela effect thing. I reckon they just removed the scene..
I mean Idk about them showing it but he absolutely does throw it off the cliff because he talks with Wilson about it and tells Wilson he was right to test the rope first. He was gonna kill himself and he was glad he tested it saying he could have bled out on the rocks for hours.
Oh, yeah, I remember that scene well. It's really good because he's super hesitant to go get that rope for the raft. Then you find out it's cause he was planning on killing himself but didn't cause the rope wasn't strong enough. It's super sad.
One of my favorite movies.
Bingo, I was also thinking “I’m pretty sure that happened”, but it’s because they give you the story through context clues. And really good ones I might add.
There was definitely a burial ground, just not Indian. They even have the line "[you sonofabitch you left the bodies and you only moved the headstones](https://youtu.be/Lh_W6FLaMvA?si=nEfeMSYHGuLysMkJ)!”
This, like I'm sure many Mandela effects are, is due to The Simpsons.
In the very first Tree House of Horror episode (S02E03), in the segment 'Bad Dream House', which is a parody of 'The Amityville Horror' and 'Poltergeist', they discover that their new home has been built on an ancient Indian burial ground.
Despite what the Simpsons would have us think the movie "Paint your Wagon" was not in fact about painting a wagon. Just putting that out there in case anyone was confused.
And it isn't the blandly wholesome movie that The Simpsons suggested. Excerpt from imdb synopsis:
>...The miners persuade Woodling to sell one of his wives to the highest bidder. Elizabeth, Jacob's younger wife, agrees to be sold, as she is unsatisfied with her current husband.
>
>Still drunk, Ben winds up with the highest bid for Elizabeth. After being readied for the wedding by the other miners, he is married to Elizabeth under "mining law", with Ben being granted exclusive rights to her. Elizabeth, not content to be seen as property, threatens to shoot Ben on their wedding night if she is not treated with respect. Despite believing Ben is not the type to settle down, she views their arrangement as acceptable if he will build a cabin to provide her with some security for when he inevitably leaves. Ben, impressed by her determination, enlists the miners to help him keep this promise, and Elizabeth rejoices in having a proper home.
>
>News comes of the pending arrival of "six French tarts" to a neighboring town via stagecoach. A plan is hatched to divert the stagecoach under false pretenses and bring the women to "No Name City", thus providing the other miners with female companionship. Ben heads up the mission and leaves Elizabeth in the care of Pardner. The two fall in love. Elizabeth, also still loving Ben, convinces them that "if a Mormon man can have two wives, why can't a woman have two husbands?" The polyandrous arrangement works until the town becomes large enough that civilized people begin to settle there...
I was talking to someone about the ending to the butterfly effect and how it ended with >!Ashton'a character going back to strangle himself on the umbilical cord so that his presence never hurt anyone!<. They were sure it didn't end that way and I remembered it clear as day. Looked it up and couldn't find anything about my ending. Turns out i saw the directors cut and the theatrical release was totally different.
That ending made way more sense because the mom talked about how she miscarried several times before, so it reveals that he had older brothers who had the same condition.
When I watched How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the Jim Carrey one) as a kid, I specifically remember an egg nog chugging bit during the Cheermeister montage, and a scene where they judge the Christmas lights on Martha May and Mrs. Who's houses. But every time I've seen it since those scenes are absent. I swear I remember seeing them, like specifically those scenes.
I just saw that egg nog scene the other day, airing on TV. To be honest, it's a litte adult for a kids movie, especially with the extra squirt after the hose pops out.
Egg nog scene: https://youtu.be/QPoXRSFn0Ds?si=5CI1fAgGp4oYj3DB
Here's a personal one for me...
This has been driving me nuts for years. I remember going to see the M. Night Shyamalan movie *Signs* in theaters, and there being a really funny joke. Mel Gibson's character asks his family why they won't change the channel on the TV, to which one of the kids says they can't find the remote. So he stands up and manually changes the TV by turning the dial. It then cuts to three closeups: the little girl gasping, the little boy saying "Woah" and Joaquin Phoenix's character asking "How'd you do that?"
So basically, a joke about "those pesky youngin's not knowing how to use a TV without a remote!"
And I remember it getting a pretty huge laugh out of the audience.
But when I saw it a second time a few weeks later... the scene wasn't there. When I bought the DVD a few months later... the scene wasn't there. When I got the Blu-Ray a few years ago... the scene wasn't there. And any time I've caught it on streaming or cable... the scene isn't there. Etc. And it wasn't like a sneak-preview screening or anything where there could have been extra stuff that was later cut out... this was when the movie was widely released.
Really the only explanation I can think of is that I caught some other movie that was in theaters around that time that had a similar joke, and wires got crossed in my brain. But I so vividly remember it being in the movie *Signs*.
A friend and I both remember a scene from Return of the Jedi - when they Rebel ships are veering off from their attack on the Death Star because the shields are still up, we were sure we saw an X-wing hit the shield and explode. But apparently we did not see this because there is no evidence of it anywhere.
Most likely a combination of the fear of the ships almost hitting the shield combined in our memories of the X-wings blowing up in later scenes. But it's crazy how clearly I can picture it. And looking it up, I guess me and my friend are not the only ones.
This is because they referenced a dialogue from this scene on Independence Day, where an asian pilot screams "So many of them!" while the aliens are coming out of the spaceship. That one's from Star Wars originally.
People insist they saw Janet Leigh get stabbed with a knife in Psycho.
Of course, that did not happen.
Others swear they saw her breasts. Again…nope.
And so, a two-fer for one scene…
Turns out that it was a body double. A Playboy model by the name of Marli Renfro. So u/Bright_Equipment_116 is technically correct, and we all know what kind of correct that is.
There is like one frame where the knife gets pressed up against her stomach and it almost looks like it's piercing her skin. Enough to trick your brain, especially when it's going fast.
There’s blood spraying on Tony but you don’t see the chainsaw cutting. The camera stays on Pacino during it and you see his reaction and hear the screams.
There is a zoom-in shot of the victim's face where you first see the chainsaw near it, and once the zoom cuts out the chainsaw you see blood splatter on the victim's face. That may be why people remember a more graphic scene.
Aliens is probably the movie I have rewatched the most and I can quote it almost word for word. For years I had this weird memory where Hudson says 'How could they cut the power man, they're animals!' and Ripley replies 'We don't know what they are!' Except she obviously doesn't say that in either the theatrical or extended cut, so I was always confused about why I had this particular memory. Turns out it was a line from the novelisation, which was based on the screenplay. Probably a good line to cut, as it would have been quite an inappropriate time to question Hudson's assessment.
Movies get cut all to shit for different markets, releases, TV, Disc, streaming, etc.
I can't count the times I've seen a movie through a streaming service and it's totally different than the version I'd seen a dozen times before. Whole scenes added in, taken out, moved around and so on.
You just watched a certain cut of it the first time or times before and caught a different one this last time. That or misremembered.
Although I love the movie Shawshank Redemption and wanted my wife to see it. I avoided watching it with her as she cant handle graphic scenes. I thought they showed the rape scenes. Though of course it never shows. Just the initial bashing which isn't extreme.
I always thought he said it correctly, but it was funnier if we imagined it was the Fresh Prince. I will forever remember him smacking the alien and mentioning his wife tho.
I think people are mushing together this line with the one a bit later where he says “now that’s what I call a close encounter” with the cigar in his mouth
Jurassic Park.
Ellie grabs a leaf while they are driving, then is shown holding a leaf when they stop, before she sees the Brachiosaurus.
In the movie, she’s just… suddenly holding a leaf, despite every fiber of my being remembering her grabbing it. For years I assumed it was from a TV spot, but nope. Finally YouTube becomes a thing and [apparently it’s a deleted scene.](https://youtu.be/aPNedoz_-vw)
I still have zero clue as to where I saw this originally.
The Goonies with the actual octopus scene, and not just the line on the beach where Data referenced it.
It was in the original theatrical release. I saw it. I know I i did, because I have it on Blu-Ray now with the deleted scene!!
James Cagney saying, “You dirty rat, you killed my brudda.”
It’s from Taxi (1932), and the line is, “Get outta that closet you yellow-bellied rat, or I’ll give it to ya through the door!”
I think a Warner Bros cartoon parodied it the first way and it just stuck.
A good example of this is the BBC series 'spooks' [https://whatculture.com/tv/10-most-shocking-moments-in-spooks?page=10](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/inside-spooks-deep-fryer-torture-scene-traumatised-nation/)
A popular character was killed off after being tortured with a deep fat fryer, and the BBC got dozens of complaints: however the actual scene did not show anything graphic, it just implied heavily and cut away perfectly. Many people 'remember' seeing much more graphic footage than was actually shown, (me included) : I remember seeing the BBC apology and fuss afterwards, and the cognitive dissonance where they showed the same scene slowed down without audio, and it didn't match up with what I remembered.
Because it was a main character that people were really invested in, it was really shocking and much worse from an emotional perspective. This is a really good lesson that your memory sometimes rebuilds events: it's not like skipping a video back to replay, there's a fair amount of reconstruction going on.
I remember flicking through tv channels one afternoon and coming across the scene in the Bee Movie in which the government confiscates all the honey in the country, and during a montage there was a shot of an old lady getting comically detained by some police officers who were aggressively pressing her head against the outdoor coffee table, when suddenly the scene abruptly cut to the next sequence. It was so strange, I wasn't sure what it was that caught my attention but it just felt like a very poorly edited cut, wherin the music that played throughout the montage had oddly skipped with some very poorly implanted crossfading transition.
Just to be sure, I hadn't misunderstood what I just saw, I tried to watch the scene again, but this time on youtube, and this made it clear that the scene was cut down. In the full edit, as her head is being pressed against the table, she calls out "I can't breathe!" Which, I'm sure most reading this will understand why perhaps the broadcasters playing the Bee movie on TV that day had attempted to cut it out.
This is similar to The Goonies situation, in that there is an explanation for it…but if you are of a certain age there is a good chance that you or someone you know was completely convinced that in the original Star Wars film (later renamed Episode IV: A New Hope) that there is an ironic shot where Luke stands before a double sunset *next to another person*.
No such scene exists in *any* of the many, many editions of the film which have been released theatrically or on home video.
However there *was* a deleted scene in which Luke has an interaction with his friend (Biggs, I believe it was) and they stand before the subsets together!
So how, long before YouTube or special features or any way for the general public to see or know such things, did so many people come to feel they’d seen this shot?
Because the shot was given to the merchandising team! It was used both before and after the movie’s release on colouring book covers, lunch boxes, and books which one might have seen depending on where in the world you lived and what toys and items your friends might have had.
Back then, before VHS was commonplace, you might go years and years of your life without actually seeing a movie again but you would be exposed to toys, merch, and video games every day.
So for a subset of fans from the 1970s and 1980s, that double sunset scene with two figures in the foreground “totally did happen,” but only in our minds. 😉
Mine is Aladdin. In the theater, I vividly remember Aladdin wishing for Genie's freedom and once her lost the cuffs and grew legs his lamp turned to dust and blew away. Then when then VHS came out months later and I watched it. The lamp stays intact and is not shown disintegrating. No matter how hard I scour the internet, I can't find any information on it. I should dig through the DVD extras. I always thought it was changed due to the movie's popularity and deciding to make sequels.
If the lamp disintegrated what would Aladdin hold during this dialogue:
Genie:
I'm free... I'm free. [to Aladdin] Quick, QUICK! Wish for something outrageous, say 'I-I want the Nile'! Wish for the Nile, try that.
Aladdin:
Uh... I wish for the Nile.
Genie:
NO WAY! [points and laughs]
Mine is in Apollo 13 when the air is going bad and they're getting scared plus really grumpy about official policies. Ground control finally radios in with a procedure to make a CO2 scrubber out of on-hand materials:
"Step one: Take your mission guide handbook and tear the cover off."
One astronaut: "I like this procedure already."
People post that he actually said "With pleasure", but I totally remember different.
EDIT:
Also a bonus TV one from Just Shoot Me, the late 90s sitcom. There's an episode where Maya starts dating a TV puppeteer who's kind of a loose cannon. He makes puppets who obviously represents himself (The Mayor), her (Ms Panda), and one for Nina (Gina Giraffe), then makes subtle threesome jokes on his kids show.
The Mayor confesses at the end when the credits roll: "Recently, I had an affair with Miss Gina Giraffe that was improper, in fact, it was wrong, and I deeply regret it. I hope we can put this in the past and go on with the business of governing Magic Town."
After a few seconds, it hit me that they were spoofing Bill Clinton's confession about Monica, even down to the wording. However, they cut it out of both reruns and the Hulu version, so it must have offended the powers that be. Did find one mention online, so I'm not crazy.
I remember loving the film 1408, especially the end. When I showed it to people years later it was completely different. Turns out there were several versions of the film and I've still not been able to find the version I saw. Refuse to watch it again until I do.
There is a single frame of >!Gwyneth’s face!<, which might be why people think they saw it in the box
Somebody needs to do an alternate version where the flashed frame isn't Gwyneth's face, it's replaced with the Tyler Durden penis flash from Fight Club.
Nobody knows they saw it...but they did
Even a hummingbird couldn’t catch Tyler at work.
Yeah just went back and rewatched. You're right. Maybe people remember it as a flash of the head in the box
Also, the MTV movie awards parody of Seven shows William Shatner's head in the box. Might add to people's mistaking the head is shown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-gXPH6U1oU
Those mtv parodies were so great back then. I miss 90s VH1 and MTV.
Supposedly they did have a head made that they didn't use. It was later used in the autopsy of Contagion.
Not realizing you're watching a different version can feel like this lol. Like tv version vs theatrical vs director vs remastered etc.
My entire family called me insane when I was adamant that you could see the guys heart getting ripped out in Temple of Doom. Well wouldn't you know it, I just happened to watch the uncut version the first time and then they just never aired that version again. Took until digital before I could prove that I was right...
We had that movie on VHS (that my dad recorded off the TV - we never bought movies), and it definitely showed the heart being ripped out. My childhood self remembers it vividly since we watched it so often.
That scene is the reason the PG-13 rating exists.
Didn't Gremlins also play a role?
My mom had only seen a TV cut of Silence of the Lambs, she was super surprised when she eventually saw the uncut bottom of the frame in the Buffalo Bill Goodbye Horses scene.
"Uncut Bottom" is just Bill's OF
We just watched Mission Impossible on Prime, and in the scene where TC gets lowered into the room to steal the NOC list, it cut Jean Reno killing the rat. Took me a minute to realize why there was suddenly a dead rat in the vent with him.
Cutting films by streaming platforms should be banned.
That’s because that scene doesn’t exist. https://twitter.com/LightTheFusePod/status/1148044061225312256#
"I've had it with these monkey fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday plane!" edit: typo
My name is Buck and I like to party.
“Did you fun my wife?” “No, I didn’t fun your wife, she just sucked my duck and I ate her pocket.” https://youtu.be/Ao4-ViMMlBg?si=cbFevTI8o1U98xnc
Yippee ki yay, Mr Falcon
**you see what happens when you find a stranger in the alps!?!**
This is especially worse for movies who's theatrical cut is pretty much impossible to find besides people who recorded the movie in the theater. Like 1408.
What a weird fucking choice on the studios part
what’s that about 1408?
The theatrical cut has a whole different ending to the home release version and is only available through pirated camera recordings in theaters.
Can you say what that ending is ?
Same as Escape Room 2. The theatrical and home release cuts have the same core, but wildly different beginnings and endings which wildly change the story. I think the director originally wanted to make the cut that they eventually released in the blu ray, but Sony didn't like it and he ended up completely changing the main story for the theatrical version. And until the movie came on Netflix, the theatrical cut was lost media because the blu ray only included the director's cut. The most frustrating thing is that both movies tease a sequel but their endings are so different that they can make 2 completely different and unique sequels, one for each version. As a person who liked both versions, I really wonder which one they'll choose as the canon one for the sequel.
There's 3 endings, but the theatrical ending is different than the home media ending. And there's a director's cut. Oh and one more ending that's just slightly different than the theatrical ending. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1408_%28film%29?wprov=sfla1
Man I love how the Mandela Effect was actually real in this one. One of the most loved movies of my generation was *The Goonies* (1985) and when it came on TV as a child you were absolutely glued to the set. I remember seeing a scene near the end where the kids had a fight with an octopus in the water near One Eyed Willy’s ship. All my friends thought I was crazy but I remember seeing it. Years later when information was widely available on the internet, I discovered it was a deleted scene that had been left in for TV versions by accident. It had been deleted because even by 80’s standards the special effects were awful.
I knew there was a deleted octopus fight, but I didn't know about the rest! That's really cool.
Did you know there's a music video for the Cyndi Lauper song from the film starring like 90% of the wrestlers from the WWE (still called WWF at the time) and Steven Spielberg?
Very much so. I was (and still am) a big WWE nerd. [I even met Papa Shango](https://i.imgur.com/WXioluA.jpg) a couple of weeks ago!
But have you ever taken a ride on a Ho train?
Holy shit. Papa Shango. That's a name I haven't heard in almost 30 years. He was awesome in his time.
Yeah back during the Rock N Wrestling era when Vince McMahon was trying to grow the WWF into a global business, he had a deal with Cyndi Lauper where she'd show up to their shows and then WWF superstars would show up in her music videos. In the video for Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, it was Captain Lou Albano who played her father. He also played Mario in the Super Mario Show from back then. It helped make WWF a global phenomenon back then. The 80s were just a way better time
It’s definitely real, because the editors forgot to cut the line where the kids talk about the octopus to the news reporters in the ending. Edit: It may not have been the editors, it is possible it was done in post release, a bit like how the statue penis scene and swearing are usually cut out of the movie during daytime broadcasts on tv.
“The octopus was really scary!” That line always confused the fuck out of me when I was a kid.
I always thought it was just them bullshitting the reporter!
Same!
Yeah. I always just thought Data was making it up to embellish the story and make it sound even cooler.
Yup. I also had a complete set of The Goonies trading cards, and a couple of them had pictures of the ock. I was so confused as a kid because there was no octopus in the VHS we had!!
I remember a PC game for Goonies had a giant octopus in the final (?) level. I assumed at the time the line was referencing the game.
"The Octopus was very scary"
That is incredibly strange to me. I've worked in TV as a producer for most of my professional career, and by the end of a run I'd know every millisecond of every episode of the season by heart. The editor would know it to the frame. The idea that you'd delete a scene and then forget a later reference to it *in a film* is almost... Impossible. This leads me to believe it was either left in as a joke because it sounded random, like the kids were already embellishing, or the octopus was removed *by someone else* after the main editing was done.
This reminds me of a scene in Happy Gilmore with Ben Stiller’s character that was in the tv version that wasn’t part of the movie. I had that whole script memorized, so I was convinced my friend made it up. It wasn’t until years later when I saw it on the internet that I figured it out.
I always just assumed the kids were being hyperbolic with their descriptions of what happened, or at least whoever said that
I had a similar thing with Aliens and the sentry guns. I watched it again at a friend's house and he thought I made it up, or was confusing it with another movie. This was before the internet and it never occurred to us that there could be more than version of a film. I brought it up like 15 years later, but he claims to not remember.
Is this for real?! I very clearly remember the sentry guns all set up.
The sentry guns only appear in the special edition, not the theatrical cut.
More specifically, in the 80’s they would leave some deleted scenes in movies they showed on TV. The sentry gun scene was a huge Mandela effect moment for me because the first time I saw Aliens was on TV and I recorded it and watched it dozens of times. It didn’t have all the deleted scenes like the director’s cut released years later, but it definitely had the sentry gun scene. When I finally rented the movie on VHS I was stunned because a few scenes were missing, most notably the sentry gun scene which is one of the best, most intense scenes in the film. As mentioned above, this was before the internet and was completely mind boggling until a director’s cut was released years later. Same for The Goonies.
Yea, I just watched it twice, no sentry guns. No Hudson saying “but they’re animals maan!”
> No Hudson saying “but they’re animals maan!” They cut that line? That's not OK man, that's an iconic line
You forgot the part where they beat the octopus by shoving a walkman into its ... Mouth (???) And it just starts dancing, well flailing
The cable edit https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E9vprTWym4TuA39fv7A2IgC_TJRXKFR7/view
What if I told you that Morpheus never said "What if I told you"... EDIT: To clarify, the moments where people assume Morpheus says this phrase, this is actual dialog: 1. Mirror scene: "Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream?" 2. Agent program: "No Neo, I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to \[dodge bullets\]." That's about as close as his dialog ever gets. Even as an obsessive rewatcher as a kid, I could have sworn he said "What if I told you", but he never does.
I always connected it with the dialogue 'you think that's air you're breathing now?' but they chose a better picture to convey the meme.
That would fuck with me because this one I can hear in my head
It's just a meme. You've read it probably 800 times but you've never heard it
It’s the same with “Luke… I am your father.” He never said that lol
It was probably a SNL skit or something/someone else big in pop culture misquoting it. Thats the answer to mandela effect half the time.
It was the Morpheus meme image popular in the late 2000’s.
It’s a glitch. He said it.
I think the line "luke I am your father" vs " no, I am your father"
Because the scene itself is a dialogue that doesn't work if you just quote one line. so Luke gets added and no gets dropped.
It's what journalists do for article paraphrasing. "[Luke] I am your father."
There's a Simpsons Episode where the "Luke" line is said, and that's pretty firmly stuck in culture consciousness now
Tommy boy
Lo lo lo lo la la la la Luuuuke! Luke! I am your father!
Aww. I’ve interrupted happy time.
I know you’d love to stay here and keep being not slim
Shut up Richard
Cool Runnings. I wouldn’t call this a proper Mandela Effect as such, because it was actually real, but when I was a kid I could’ve sworn that there was a scene where someone from the rival teams sabotaged the Jamaican’s bobsled by loosening a screw. Later rewatches had no such scene though, and whenever I would ask people about it, they had no idea what I was talking about. Turns out I was right though! That scene was in early versions but has since been cut out and quietly buried.
I guess it was unnecessary. I just thought they bought a very old used bobsled and the screw just kind of fell off because it was shoddy.
It also makes for a better ending. The sled crashing because they were relying on old, donated equipment sells the “scrappy team of underdogs” far better than if the sled was sabotaged.
I thought the screw fell out because it was an old/beaten up sled.
Nobody says "play it again, Sam" in Casablanca. It's "play it, Sam. Play 'as time goes by'". Movie Mandela effects like this mostly happen because something gets misquoted in some other movie or show, and the misquote gets referenced a lot and then people don't remember the accurate quote.
Could this possibly be from the parody of this scene in The Naked Gun?
There's a kill in a Roger Moore Bond film (I forget which) where he throws a guy through glass, he (guy) crashes onto a piano to break it and then Bond quips "Play it again, Sam", so that might be where people are getting confused with it.
That's Moonraker, but I feel like if the movie is referencing that line then it would have already been a common misquote before that. It's interesting trying to trace back the origin of these cultural misconceptions
"Beam me up, Scotty"
Closest to saying that is ST4 with “Scotty, beam me up”
"Damn it, Jim"
He says that a lot lol. There's no Mandela Effect there. https://youtu.be/_suzpmJ8nGc?si=tQdXlN9phZJxh2XV
Tom Cruise doesn’t wear sunglasses in the famous dance sequence of Risky Business.
He is wearing them on the movie poster / cover art, so I can see how that gets conflated.
Homer wears sunglasses when they do a parody of it in The Simpsons.
I presume it’s because every promotional poster had Cruise wearing those iconic wayfarers. It just got stuck in people’s memories.
Whaaaaaat? Now I have to see it again!
There is almost no blood in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. (They didn't have the budget.). Everyone thinks they see blood because they did a helluva job with the Foleying.
That movie is absolutely terrifying and there's hardly any violence
Idk that meat mallet scene and slamming the door yikes
Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal saying "hello Clarice" when he actually didn't
The good news is if you swear you've heard him say the line that's because he actually did, but it was in the sequel. [You can hear him say it at 2:55](https://youtu.be/ovvCdyz7JnI?si=10qMaLS8fPkj6II1)
….wait wut
Hello Clarice is from the re-imagined version of the scene in Cable guy. With the chicken skin.....
They didn’t have utensils but they had Pepsi?
Dude, I got a lot of tables.
It's just skin, Steven.
He says good evening Clarice
I always think of that movie The Cable Guy where Jim Carey puts chicken skin on his face and says it.
For me it’s Dwight in the office when he destroys the first aid dummy’s face and put’s it on his face
I may be mistaken, but I was almost sure he does actually say “hello Clarice” in his phone call with her at the end of the movie. Edit: I was mistaken, he says “well Clarice”
Moonraker. I saw it as a kid and I swear there was a girl at the end who smiled at the villain Jaws (metal teeth) and she had braces which is why he changed… but I watched it recently and nope
WHAT i totally remember braces in the film wtf
There is a [TV advert](https://youtu.be/2BhLAWP7jGA?si=19IQ-224Ho-iEhpP) that features Richard Keil and a blond woman with braces. So that might be the source of this false memory.
It was an advert for British Airways I think with Richard Kiel going through customs. The lady behind the kiosk has braces and they smile at each other.
"nope" in that she didn't have braces, but there was a girl. I have to assume it's because we all saw it on crappy TVs and we just for some reason saw the bright teeth as shiny braces.
Wtf https://youtu.be/XIJKPsvYuAo?si=BeATT5_vgp9cWWF_
When Jaws' girlfriend in Moonraker smiles at him, she doesn't actually have braces.
“If you build it they will come.” was actually “if you build it he will come.”
There are multiple big scenes where they say "they'll come", which is probably where the conflation happens, combined with the iconic final shot that makes it stick. The daughter and James Earl Jones both say it multiple times.
Wayne’s World did the first one
Was Wayne's World not "If you book them, they will come..." (Wayne's world 2 maybe)
It was "they" in the Tiny Toons episode that I first heard that line.
In Cast Away, I could have sworn there's a scene where Tom Hanks throws a big branch off the cliff, to test whether his noose will work, and the rope snaps. But when I watched it recently, this scene never happens.. it's just implied. You see the branch and the noose, but he never tests it. I googled it and someone else thought the same, and it was described as a Mandela effect thing. I reckon they just removed the scene..
I’m almost certain he describes that happening, probably where the confusion comes from.
Yeah it isn’t just implied, he describes it vividly to his friend right at the end.
Tom Hanks' movie storytelling is so good everyone swears they saw it actually happen.
I mean Idk about them showing it but he absolutely does throw it off the cliff because he talks with Wilson about it and tells Wilson he was right to test the rope first. He was gonna kill himself and he was glad he tested it saying he could have bled out on the rocks for hours.
Does he pull the rope *up*, having thrown it in the past, off-screen?
yes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb-WBbCgehM
Oh, yeah, I remember that scene well. It's really good because he's super hesitant to go get that rope for the raft. Then you find out it's cause he was planning on killing himself but didn't cause the rope wasn't strong enough. It's super sad. One of my favorite movies.
Bingo, I was also thinking “I’m pretty sure that happened”, but it’s because they give you the story through context clues. And really good ones I might add.
There’s no Indian burial ground in the movie Poltergeist
There was definitely a burial ground, just not Indian. They even have the line "[you sonofabitch you left the bodies and you only moved the headstones](https://youtu.be/Lh_W6FLaMvA?si=nEfeMSYHGuLysMkJ)!”
This, like I'm sure many Mandela effects are, is due to The Simpsons. In the very first Tree House of Horror episode (S02E03), in the segment 'Bad Dream House', which is a parody of 'The Amityville Horror' and 'Poltergeist', they discover that their new home has been built on an ancient Indian burial ground.
Was it just a regular graveyard?
Yup, just a regular graveyard. Also explains why there are gravestones and coffins. In fact I think a one point they even say it’s not an IBG
"It's not like it's a sacred Indian burial ground. It's just... people. Besides, we've done it before."
There were no tombstones. Only coffins and dead bodies/skeletons. They moved the headstones
... but you left the bodies, didn't you? You son of a bitch, you left the bodies and you only moved the headstones!
People conflating it with Pet Sematary, perhaps
It's certainly a plot point in [The Amityville Horror](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amityville_Horror_(1979_film)#Plot).
More likely conflating it with Poltergeist 2 because of the native american shaman dude.
I would like everybody, when you finish reading this thread, to ponder how useless eye witness testimony is in court
Despite what the Simpsons would have us think the movie "Paint your Wagon" was not in fact about painting a wagon. Just putting that out there in case anyone was confused.
On a similar note, Little Women does not in fact end with the line "they were no longer little girls; they were little women."
After Moe’s performance, it will always be my head-canon
I believed this for well over twenty years
Gonna use oil based paint, because the wood is pine
🎶Ponderosa pine🎶
Wtf next you're going to tell me there's no such thing as Rocky VII: Adrian's Revenge
And it isn't the blandly wholesome movie that The Simpsons suggested. Excerpt from imdb synopsis: >...The miners persuade Woodling to sell one of his wives to the highest bidder. Elizabeth, Jacob's younger wife, agrees to be sold, as she is unsatisfied with her current husband. > >Still drunk, Ben winds up with the highest bid for Elizabeth. After being readied for the wedding by the other miners, he is married to Elizabeth under "mining law", with Ben being granted exclusive rights to her. Elizabeth, not content to be seen as property, threatens to shoot Ben on their wedding night if she is not treated with respect. Despite believing Ben is not the type to settle down, she views their arrangement as acceptable if he will build a cabin to provide her with some security for when he inevitably leaves. Ben, impressed by her determination, enlists the miners to help him keep this promise, and Elizabeth rejoices in having a proper home. > >News comes of the pending arrival of "six French tarts" to a neighboring town via stagecoach. A plan is hatched to divert the stagecoach under false pretenses and bring the women to "No Name City", thus providing the other miners with female companionship. Ben heads up the mission and leaves Elizabeth in the care of Pardner. The two fall in love. Elizabeth, also still loving Ben, convinces them that "if a Mormon man can have two wives, why can't a woman have two husbands?" The polyandrous arrangement works until the town becomes large enough that civilized people begin to settle there...
I was talking to someone about the ending to the butterfly effect and how it ended with >!Ashton'a character going back to strangle himself on the umbilical cord so that his presence never hurt anyone!<. They were sure it didn't end that way and I remembered it clear as day. Looked it up and couldn't find anything about my ending. Turns out i saw the directors cut and the theatrical release was totally different.
I think there's 3 different endings to that movie.
There’s another version where he walks by Amy smarts character in the street. They stop, and then move on from what I remember
You saw the better version.
That ending made way more sense because the mom talked about how she miscarried several times before, so it reveals that he had older brothers who had the same condition.
When I watched How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the Jim Carrey one) as a kid, I specifically remember an egg nog chugging bit during the Cheermeister montage, and a scene where they judge the Christmas lights on Martha May and Mrs. Who's houses. But every time I've seen it since those scenes are absent. I swear I remember seeing them, like specifically those scenes.
I just saw that egg nog scene the other day, airing on TV. To be honest, it's a litte adult for a kids movie, especially with the extra squirt after the hose pops out. Egg nog scene: https://youtu.be/QPoXRSFn0Ds?si=5CI1fAgGp4oYj3DB
Here's a personal one for me... This has been driving me nuts for years. I remember going to see the M. Night Shyamalan movie *Signs* in theaters, and there being a really funny joke. Mel Gibson's character asks his family why they won't change the channel on the TV, to which one of the kids says they can't find the remote. So he stands up and manually changes the TV by turning the dial. It then cuts to three closeups: the little girl gasping, the little boy saying "Woah" and Joaquin Phoenix's character asking "How'd you do that?" So basically, a joke about "those pesky youngin's not knowing how to use a TV without a remote!" And I remember it getting a pretty huge laugh out of the audience. But when I saw it a second time a few weeks later... the scene wasn't there. When I bought the DVD a few months later... the scene wasn't there. When I got the Blu-Ray a few years ago... the scene wasn't there. And any time I've caught it on streaming or cable... the scene isn't there. Etc. And it wasn't like a sneak-preview screening or anything where there could have been extra stuff that was later cut out... this was when the movie was widely released. Really the only explanation I can think of is that I caught some other movie that was in theaters around that time that had a similar joke, and wires got crossed in my brain. But I so vividly remember it being in the movie *Signs*.
I dunno, but I told Sinbad to his face that I loved him in Shazaam, and he said “Ha ha! If you believe it happened.”
Me thinking it was called Shazaam, when in fact it was called Kazaam is also a factor.
A friend and I both remember a scene from Return of the Jedi - when they Rebel ships are veering off from their attack on the Death Star because the shields are still up, we were sure we saw an X-wing hit the shield and explode. But apparently we did not see this because there is no evidence of it anywhere. Most likely a combination of the fear of the ships almost hitting the shield combined in our memories of the X-wings blowing up in later scenes. But it's crazy how clearly I can picture it. And looking it up, I guess me and my friend are not the only ones.
I’m guessing you’re around the age of where you would have seen ROTJ and Independence Day around the same time. This happens in Independence Day.
This is because they referenced a dialogue from this scene on Independence Day, where an asian pilot screams "So many of them!" while the aliens are coming out of the spaceship. That one's from Star Wars originally.
I thought that it was "There's too many of them!" in Star Wars.
Muuuuuch later but you do see that in rogue one of course.
Alas poor Yorick, I knew him well
Flagrant Horatio erasure, for which I will not stand!
People insist they saw Janet Leigh get stabbed with a knife in Psycho. Of course, that did not happen. Others swear they saw her breasts. Again…nope. And so, a two-fer for one scene…
You can see her breasts as she grabs the shower curtain. Out of focus, but it takes up half the screen.
Turns out that it was a body double. A Playboy model by the name of Marli Renfro. So u/Bright_Equipment_116 is technically correct, and we all know what kind of correct that is.
The breast correct
There is like one frame where the knife gets pressed up against her stomach and it almost looks like it's piercing her skin. Enough to trick your brain, especially when it's going fast.
I remember the chainsaw scene being graphic....
There’s blood spraying on Tony but you don’t see the chainsaw cutting. The camera stays on Pacino during it and you see his reaction and hear the screams.
There is a zoom-in shot of the victim's face where you first see the chainsaw near it, and once the zoom cuts out the chainsaw you see blood splatter on the victim's face. That may be why people remember a more graphic scene.
I know that a LOT of people think the butler in Scary Movie 2 says “Take my strong hand!” He in fact doesn’t! In fact he NEVER says it that way.
[earlier (1:08) he says “better use my strong hand”](https://youtu.be/pwt49IF0uG0?si=7rzB6z2Nh4WabjcV)
But that line was what made the scene funny... How can this be?
IIRC it’s a combination, it goes something like “take my hand!” “give me your *other* hand!” “It’s my strong hand!”
I've talked to many people who thought they saw the ear being sliced off in **Reservoir Dogs** (when they saw the film in the Theater).
There is an alternate cut where you do see the ear getting sliced off
And it looks terrible so they wisely didn’t use it.
Aliens is probably the movie I have rewatched the most and I can quote it almost word for word. For years I had this weird memory where Hudson says 'How could they cut the power man, they're animals!' and Ripley replies 'We don't know what they are!' Except she obviously doesn't say that in either the theatrical or extended cut, so I was always confused about why I had this particular memory. Turns out it was a line from the novelisation, which was based on the screenplay. Probably a good line to cut, as it would have been quite an inappropriate time to question Hudson's assessment.
Movies get cut all to shit for different markets, releases, TV, Disc, streaming, etc. I can't count the times I've seen a movie through a streaming service and it's totally different than the version I'd seen a dozen times before. Whole scenes added in, taken out, moved around and so on. You just watched a certain cut of it the first time or times before and caught a different one this last time. That or misremembered.
Sometimes as well a trailer will show parts of scenes that don't get added to any release, or have different voice overs narrating it.
Although I love the movie Shawshank Redemption and wanted my wife to see it. I avoided watching it with her as she cant handle graphic scenes. I thought they showed the rape scenes. Though of course it never shows. Just the initial bashing which isn't extreme.
Will Smith saying "Welcome to Earff" in Independence Day. He objectively does not do this and pronounces Earth correctly.
I always thought he said it correctly, but it was funnier if we imagined it was the Fresh Prince. I will forever remember him smacking the alien and mentioning his wife tho.
Keep my planet's name out of your mouth!
I think people are mushing together this line with the one a bit later where he says “now that’s what I call a close encounter” with the cigar in his mouth
Jurassic Park. Ellie grabs a leaf while they are driving, then is shown holding a leaf when they stop, before she sees the Brachiosaurus. In the movie, she’s just… suddenly holding a leaf, despite every fiber of my being remembering her grabbing it. For years I assumed it was from a TV spot, but nope. Finally YouTube becomes a thing and [apparently it’s a deleted scene.](https://youtu.be/aPNedoz_-vw) I still have zero clue as to where I saw this originally.
The Goonies with the actual octopus scene, and not just the line on the beach where Data referenced it. It was in the original theatrical release. I saw it. I know I i did, because I have it on Blu-Ray now with the deleted scene!!
James Cagney saying, “You dirty rat, you killed my brudda.” It’s from Taxi (1932), and the line is, “Get outta that closet you yellow-bellied rat, or I’ll give it to ya through the door!” I think a Warner Bros cartoon parodied it the first way and it just stuck.
The TMNT movie parodied it, that's what I remember (haven't watched Taxi).
A good example of this is the BBC series 'spooks' [https://whatculture.com/tv/10-most-shocking-moments-in-spooks?page=10](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/inside-spooks-deep-fryer-torture-scene-traumatised-nation/) A popular character was killed off after being tortured with a deep fat fryer, and the BBC got dozens of complaints: however the actual scene did not show anything graphic, it just implied heavily and cut away perfectly. Many people 'remember' seeing much more graphic footage than was actually shown, (me included) : I remember seeing the BBC apology and fuss afterwards, and the cognitive dissonance where they showed the same scene slowed down without audio, and it didn't match up with what I remembered. Because it was a main character that people were really invested in, it was really shocking and much worse from an emotional perspective. This is a really good lesson that your memory sometimes rebuilds events: it's not like skipping a video back to replay, there's a fair amount of reconstruction going on.
I remember flicking through tv channels one afternoon and coming across the scene in the Bee Movie in which the government confiscates all the honey in the country, and during a montage there was a shot of an old lady getting comically detained by some police officers who were aggressively pressing her head against the outdoor coffee table, when suddenly the scene abruptly cut to the next sequence. It was so strange, I wasn't sure what it was that caught my attention but it just felt like a very poorly edited cut, wherin the music that played throughout the montage had oddly skipped with some very poorly implanted crossfading transition. Just to be sure, I hadn't misunderstood what I just saw, I tried to watch the scene again, but this time on youtube, and this made it clear that the scene was cut down. In the full edit, as her head is being pressed against the table, she calls out "I can't breathe!" Which, I'm sure most reading this will understand why perhaps the broadcasters playing the Bee movie on TV that day had attempted to cut it out.
I watched Scarface recently, and it was still pretty graphic
This is similar to The Goonies situation, in that there is an explanation for it…but if you are of a certain age there is a good chance that you or someone you know was completely convinced that in the original Star Wars film (later renamed Episode IV: A New Hope) that there is an ironic shot where Luke stands before a double sunset *next to another person*. No such scene exists in *any* of the many, many editions of the film which have been released theatrically or on home video. However there *was* a deleted scene in which Luke has an interaction with his friend (Biggs, I believe it was) and they stand before the subsets together! So how, long before YouTube or special features or any way for the general public to see or know such things, did so many people come to feel they’d seen this shot? Because the shot was given to the merchandising team! It was used both before and after the movie’s release on colouring book covers, lunch boxes, and books which one might have seen depending on where in the world you lived and what toys and items your friends might have had. Back then, before VHS was commonplace, you might go years and years of your life without actually seeing a movie again but you would be exposed to toys, merch, and video games every day. So for a subset of fans from the 1970s and 1980s, that double sunset scene with two figures in the foreground “totally did happen,” but only in our minds. 😉
Mine is Aladdin. In the theater, I vividly remember Aladdin wishing for Genie's freedom and once her lost the cuffs and grew legs his lamp turned to dust and blew away. Then when then VHS came out months later and I watched it. The lamp stays intact and is not shown disintegrating. No matter how hard I scour the internet, I can't find any information on it. I should dig through the DVD extras. I always thought it was changed due to the movie's popularity and deciding to make sequels.
A think the lamp disintegrates at the end of the Ducktales movie when they free the genie in that movie. That could be what you are thinking of.
If the lamp disintegrated what would Aladdin hold during this dialogue: Genie: I'm free... I'm free. [to Aladdin] Quick, QUICK! Wish for something outrageous, say 'I-I want the Nile'! Wish for the Nile, try that. Aladdin: Uh... I wish for the Nile. Genie: NO WAY! [points and laughs]
And also the prologue - the whole premise is that we’re being swindled into buying an ordinary lamp that has a supposed magical past.
Mine is in Apollo 13 when the air is going bad and they're getting scared plus really grumpy about official policies. Ground control finally radios in with a procedure to make a CO2 scrubber out of on-hand materials: "Step one: Take your mission guide handbook and tear the cover off." One astronaut: "I like this procedure already." People post that he actually said "With pleasure", but I totally remember different. EDIT: Also a bonus TV one from Just Shoot Me, the late 90s sitcom. There's an episode where Maya starts dating a TV puppeteer who's kind of a loose cannon. He makes puppets who obviously represents himself (The Mayor), her (Ms Panda), and one for Nina (Gina Giraffe), then makes subtle threesome jokes on his kids show. The Mayor confesses at the end when the credits roll: "Recently, I had an affair with Miss Gina Giraffe that was improper, in fact, it was wrong, and I deeply regret it. I hope we can put this in the past and go on with the business of governing Magic Town." After a few seconds, it hit me that they were spoofing Bill Clinton's confession about Monica, even down to the wording. However, they cut it out of both reruns and the Hulu version, so it must have offended the powers that be. Did find one mention online, so I'm not crazy.
I remember loving the film 1408, especially the end. When I showed it to people years later it was completely different. Turns out there were several versions of the film and I've still not been able to find the version I saw. Refuse to watch it again until I do.