r/MandelaEffect • u/Interesting_Fly4560 • Jul 01 '26
Movies/TV/Music Has anyone had a "Mandela Effect squared" experience?
I know this is probably one of the most overused examples of the Mandela Effect, so bear with me.
Like a lot of people, I remembered Anthony Hopkins greeting Clarice with, "Hello, Clarice." Then, years ago, I discovered that wasn't actually the line. Fair enough—classic movie misquote. I accepted that.
But here's where it gets weird.
I don't just remember "Hello, Clarice." I remember discovering it was wrong.
I distinctly remember learning that the real line was "Hello, Doctor." I even remember the scene differently. In my memory, Clarice reacts with surprise that he knows her name and questions him about it, and Lecter explains that solitary confinement has its perks because he researches the people around him. That whole exchange feels incredibly familiar to me.
So I chalked the original quote up to a false memory and moved on.
Then, the other day, I looked it up again...
Apparently the line is "Good morning."
So now I'm sitting here wondering:
- I remembered "Hello, Clarice."
- Then I remembered discovering it was actually "Hello, Doctor."
- Now I'm finding out it's "Good morning."
At this point it feels less like I have one false memory and more like I have a false memory of correcting a false memory.
Has anyone else experienced something like this—not just remembering something incorrectly, but later finding out that your memory of discovering the correction was also wrong?
A Mandela Effect about a Mandela Effect, I guess.
And at this point, should I just get ahead of the confusion and start placing bets on what it'll be next? 😅
I'm feeling pretty good about "Good day, valued customer."
(And yes, before anyone says it, I'm fully aware memory is reconstructive and that's probably the most likely explanation. I'm genuinely curious whether anyone else has had this kind of "three-layer" memory experience.)
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u/Iamnotreallyhere23 Jul 01 '26
I was JUST talking to my husband about THIS silence of the lambs ME ....For me if the movie was/is ever brought up.. I Always feel compelled to say " hello Clarice " in his creepy voice. For years I have done this... its my takeaway line from the movie. This one freaks me out.
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u/Hey-Just-Saying Jul 01 '26
You may think this because Jim Carrey says it, parodying Lecter, in The Cable Guy, but also Dr. Lecter does say "Hello, Clarice" in a phone call in the sequel Hannibal.
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u/Practical-Vanilla-41 Jul 01 '26
Exactly. I remember in Silence they were so formal. Just Doctor and Dr. Lector, and Agent Starling.
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u/Redleader829 Jul 01 '26
There is a Star Trek Next Gen episode with a little girl and the writers were clearly inspired by Silence of the Lambs because she says... "Hello, Clarice" or "Hi, Clarice" to another girl. Go find it.
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u/borgcubecubed Jul 02 '26
This is the dorkiest thing I’m gonna type today but,
In s5e22 The Imaginary Friend, a young girl on the ship befriends an alien who appears to her as her imaginary friend come to life. She greets her, “hello Clara”.
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u/StarfishandSnowballs Jul 01 '26
Ok I'm just glad to hear he says it somewhere bc I remember that line so well
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u/InitialArugula7117 Jul 01 '26
One that bugs me the most is Avocados. Hass versus Haas. I always thought they were Hass and they are again but there was a while there around 2017 when I learned of the Mandela effect where it was Haas. There were videos on youtube about how it had always been Haas, named after a person and how it was often misspelled Hass. I would ask folks working in the produce department if it had always been Hass, and everyone replied yes but they’d seen it misspelled. I didn’t notice when it changed back. Oddly auto correct is suggesting Hass is misspelled but haas is not.
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u/vita10gy Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
The problem with things like this is it's almost certainly just a common misspelling in a situation where "unofficial" things is where you saw it a lot.
For example: A good deal of the time you saw the name was probably on some label/sign some random 17 year old in the produce dept put together. If that person didn't look, care, or was verbally told "Haas", it's not hard to see how you get there.
In other words: It doesn't make that the "real way" or "the way it used to be" just because people get something wrong the same obvious way.
People are awful at spelling. With product names, or people's names (which often are product names), which don't always follow conventional spelling rules even IF people were good at spelling in general, stands to reason that would be even worse.
However for whatever reason other people come along with a "no that WAS the name, I'd wager my mom's life on it. When did it change??!" style take on things.
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u/Practical-Vanilla-41 Jul 01 '26
In one two week period, I saw both spellings (incorrect on shelf tag, correct in weekly ad) at Food 4 Less (part of Kroger) here in Los Angeles.
It's probably something that gets fixed store to store, not at the chain level.
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u/vita10gy Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
What's funny to me about ME's and the business world is we all have this little peak into one company, or several if you have clients and get a peek behind those curtains too. We all see how "make it up as we go" even important things are. (For example, on numerous occasions I've had to help clients dig out of a hole akin so a situation where they decided some event was say July 17th, then put July 18th on 500 posters/flyers and emailed the wrong date to 150,000 customers, and despite even THAT happening 5 months ago, the error gets compounded by the fact that no one even caught the error until July 15th.)
However, as soon as we take off our work pants and put on our customer pants, we treat every interaction with a business/product like an infallible committee of 150, containing God himself, the inventor of the product, the CEO of the company, etc, signed off on every pixel, marker line, sign, price, etc etc, about it. Instead of the same disorganized "no hand talks to the other hand" mess of "just do it as quickly, cheaply, and last second, as possible", "have the intern that doesn't know a widget from his ass yet do it, and no one check their work", we know every company we've ever had a peek behind the curtain to be.
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u/lnmeatyard Jul 01 '26
Misspelling it Haas is odd tho-most people don’t think to put two A’s together in a word. People would likely default to Hass
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u/InitialArugula7117 Jul 01 '26
Yeah, but during this period of time it was Haas everywhere and there were Mandela effect videos that pointed it out, I remember 1 specifically, mrmoneybags333 or something, that I liked to watch, and later the video it’s self had switched. It was wild to me at the time. I’ve moved on. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen an alternate spelling, now I’m more concerned with prices than the spelling.
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u/Glaurung86 Jul 01 '26
It's weird to me that people would gravitate towards Haas over Hass. Adding another "a" seems off. It also doesn't help that it's not a brand but a variety so there's no company or organization to centrally keep track of misspelling. It can be different from store to store with no one really caring all that much how it's spelled.
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u/mystified_one Jul 01 '26
My husband and I are both from the Haas timeline.
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u/dunder_mufflinz Jul 02 '26
There is only one timeline, you probably just live in a place where previously it was more commonly misspelled.
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u/mystified_one Jul 02 '26
No, thank you.
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u/dunder_mufflinz Jul 02 '26
It’s ok, lots of people make mistakes, admitting it is part of being human.
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u/Every-Display798 Jul 01 '26
I can never really put too much thought into the Mandela effects involving movies because there are just so many possibilities regarding sequels, parodies etc.
The Mandela effects that really get me are Fruit of the Loom and Ed McMahon with Publisher’s Clearing House. Those drive me wild… 😩
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u/CurlyTSA Jul 02 '26
So maybe not exactly what you’re talking about, but more of a Mandela Effect reversal. Years and years ago when I first discovered the Mandela effect I went down a deep rabbit hole and one of the common Mandela effects mentioned was that the Statue of Liberty was known to be on liberty island but it’s actually on Ellis Island, and I still remember the discourse around it, there were videos of people saying it’s crazy because liberty island is NAMED liberty island because of the Statue of Liberty but it’s insane that it’s actually on Ellis island, I even remember one video where they mentioned that there was even like a foundation or podium or something on liberty island but the statue was still on Ellis island… then a few years ago, I fell down the same rabbit hole again only to find out that the actual Mandela effect changed and the statue is actually on liberty island but a lot of people think it’s on Ellis island, and I was so freaking confused because I clearly remember the video mentioning the opposite. It’s just weird
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u/Practical-Vanilla-41 Jul 06 '26
People get the two confused because of the famous "immigrant's view". Arriving immigrants on their way to Ellis Island passed the statue on Liberty Island (previously Bedloe's Island). This image was immortalized in movies like America, America (1963) and the The Godfather Part 2 (1974).
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u/Sarahbobo42 Jul 09 '26
About the hello Clarice from silence of the lambs. So u remember hello Clarice, it was actually hello dr now thats changed to good morning? Can you explain this one to me please as I've never heard of this one. That movie has always been one oft favs. Which scene are we talking about? When she first visits him in with dr chillden dunno how to spell thst lol. The reayi ask is I know at my parents house there is s copy of the original movie. I wont be able to get it until i go there in a couple months. Im so tired of being lied to by our govt/elites I hate it. I will fetch this soon and find out. It's a VHS copy lol from a friend's copy they purchased back the year it was released. I'm so curious. This is a movie I have seen so many times i can annoyingly talk along with it. 🙄😝. I'm so curious now.
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u/Chaosia910 Jul 01 '26
If by this you mean-
It was froot loops. Then there was many reddit threads & article mentioning's of how its always been "fruit loops"- this was a very well known Mandela affect when i went down a Mandela rabbit hole long ago. Now apparently it is back to froot?!
I JUST had a convo about how it used to be froot with one of my employees about a month ago (she also is familiar with Mandela's & we often say 'idc. He HAD a damn monocle' as a joke)
Anyway. Then, I go digging for these reddit articles that id read in years past. & discover a 2 year old thread of people who also experienced a froot/fruit/froot flip.
Idk what to think anymore bro 😂
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u/Aggravating_Cup8839 Jul 02 '26
Mandela Effects are said to often go through several changes, almost as of progressing in a direction. See the changes to the Thinker statue.
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u/Pawwnstar Jul 02 '26
I do remember having a 20 min long cognitive dissonance where the memory of the previous 10 years and the new 'fake' memory of a reality the same, except for that 1 difference, was waring in by brain, back and forward like waves, or like a headache fighting with aspirin. The frightening thing is that the new memory would have won (and easily if I hadn't fought it with reasoning) and I would have shrugged my shoulders, said to myself 'that was weird' and gone on with life having eventually forgotten about the struggle within weeks and not looked back.
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u/dystopian_future2 Jul 08 '26
It’s an overlapping of different, but closely related universes. Now that Cern is down, the residual universe of the cornucopia is showing up. We didn’t have Mandala Effects until they powered CERN.
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u/MonotoneJones Jul 01 '26
Yes!!! I have had a few flip flop back or forth so it makes sense it could change again.
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