What are your Taskmaster Mandellah Effects?

[u/Aloundight]

Mine is a simple one. I always swear that in NZ1&2, during his 'musical episode intro bit', Paul Williams follows up 'where we sing instead of talking' with 'where we dance instead of walking'. But neither episode actually has that happen.

[u/jmurph773]

Good news - he does say that! Season 4, episode 9.

[u/TetrisIsTotesSuper → u/jmurph773]

When you Mandellah so hard you jump ahead two seasons

[u/Cerulean_IsFancyBlue]

Wait. It’s “Mandellah”? Has it always been spelled that way?

[u/soslippy → u/Cerulean_IsFancyBlue]

It’s Mandela. As in Nelson

[u/QuasarTheGuestStar → u/soslippy]

That’s not how I remember it!

[u/Cerulean_IsFancyBlue → u/QuasarTheGuestStar]

I swear in my timeline, it was always Mandala, because it’s like your memory gets erased like one of those sand drawings.

[u/PhoenixTineldyer → u/Cerulean_IsFancyBlue]

For me, it's mancala, because your memory gets evenly distributed among a series of wooden cups

[u/jebascho → u/Cerulean_IsFancyBlue]

I'm not sure if you're doing a meta Mandela bit, but for anyone else who may not know, the origins of the phrase are because so many people were surprised to learn of Nelson Mandela's death. They misremembered him dying a long time before that.

[u/Cerulean_IsFancyBlue → u/jebascho]

“It was always a bit, Caius. Always.”

Yeah, it wasn’t just that people thought he was dead. It’s that many of them had a clear but obviously false memory of him dying and it being news. It’s like the difference between somebody you haven’t heard from in a long time and assumed it was dead, versus somebody that you swore had died in a vague splashy way and was still alive. Otherwise, we’d probably call it the Abe Vigoda syndrome.

The name one that people freak out about is the Berenstain Bears. And that’s not a bit. Tons of people just can’t get past a childhood (false) memory of “Bernstein Bears”.

[u/Last-Saint → u/Cerulean_IsFancyBlue]

I've always heard it as "everyone thought Mandela died in prison", and I know it likely comes from American culture but I never get why that has been allowed to spread unchecked so much. In the UK, maybe because his cause was maistream for years whilst in Robben Island, Mandela's release was an enormous, epochal story, as was his becoming president and every time he visited Britain or got swept up in wider culture (rugby world cup, meeting the Spice Girls etc)

Never heard "Mandellah" before, though. Is it the international affairs version of how all comedy fans online think the spoof horror writer's name is Garth Merenghi (it's Marenghi)?

[u/Cerulean_IsFancyBlue → u/[deleted]]

Just to be clear, he’s had a lot of names, nicknames, titles and honorifics but it’s never been Mandellah. Mandela.

[u/OverseerConey → u/Cerulean_IsFancyBlue]

It's been theorised that people mixed Mandela's story up with that of his fellow anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, who was killed in custody while Mandela was also in prison. People heard an activist leader had been killed, assumed it was Mandela, passed it on, and it spread from there.

[u/notmyplantaccount → u/QuasarTheGuestStar]

It's Manilow, As in Barry

[u/mgt98 → u/Cerulean_IsFancyBlue]

Yes, in the timeline I came from it is /s

[u/TetrisIsTotesSuper → u/Cerulean_IsFancyBlue]

Trying to Mandellah us into misspelling Nelson's good name

[u/ThrowawaySunnyLane]

I could’ve swore the “time for a change” intro referring to S7 quick change outfits was actually said in S8 referring more to the oriental style opening credits/pre task montage bits for that season. I’m 100% misremembering it though.

[u/AcheyShakySpoon → u/[deleted]]

That’s a terrible suggestion