Maybe that is actually Shaquille O’Neal, not Will Smith, in the new Aladdin. ![]() But good luck finding a copy of any of these movies to prove it: the offending frames have all been removed from reissues. A troubled kid inadvertently releases a genie, who must grant him any three wishes he requests. Rumours of a hidden message in the original Aladdin saying “good teenagers take off your clothes” turned out to be untrue, but The Lion King really did feature the words “S-E-X” spelled out in dust (well, the animators claimed it said “S-F-X”) there really was a photo of a topless woman in the background of The Rescuers and we really did see that Jessica Rabbit was wearing no underwear in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. With Shaquille ONeal, Francis Capra, Ally Walker, James Acheson. Forrest Gump never says the words “life is like a box of chocolates”.ĭisney films are no stranger to this territory, either. The Amityville Horror is not based on a true story. Bogart never says “Play it again, Sam” in Casablanca. Having outsourced our pop-culture memory bank to the web, we can no longer separate myth from fact, especially when it comes to movies. ![]() You could also call it the “internet makes us all dumber effect”. This collective misremembering is known as the “ Mandela Effect” – based on the fact that many people (supposedly) believe that Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s. Then, in 2017, excerpts emerged online from a “rediscovered” VHS copy of Shazaam! – with the actual Sinbad playing a genie! Unfortunately, the clip was an April Fools’ spoof, courtesy of US website CollegeHumor. Before his show Thursday night at the Northern Lights Theater, we chatted with comedian Sinbad about his. Creators Dave Caplan Michael Jacobs Brian LaPan Stars Sinbad T.K. He learns as much from the children as they learn from him. Or at least the internet says he did – who knows? As a result of the Shazaam! chatter, someone Photoshopped the fake video box cover. Comedy Sinbad talks about 'Shazaam,' that weird genie movie he definitely never made. The Sinbad Show TV Series 19931994 TV-PG 30 m IMDb RATING 6.2 /10 436 YOUR RATING Rate Comedy Family David (Sinbad) is a single foster father for Zana and LJ, and he's very new to the game. The discussion of Shazaam first arose on a subreddit called r/MandelaEffect, which is dedicated to the belief that when a bunch of people remember something that never happened, their memory actually comes from a parallel universe.Īccording to this speculation, somewhere in another galaxy, people were once sitting in theaters watching Sinbad emerge from a bottle and grant wishes.Contributing factors include the time in 1994 when Sinbad introduced Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger on cable TV, dressed as a genie. According to a recent University of Warwick study, about half of people will believe an event from their childhood actually happened if you describe it to them and tell them to imagine it.īut, as usual, Reddit has a more interesting theory. Reading descriptions of " Shazaam" online may have also planted memories in people's minds.įalse memories like this are actually pretty common, after all. Maybe they're confusing this imaginary film with Kazaam, which starred Shaquille O'Neal as a genie. ![]() How is it possible that so many people have this same false memory? "It feels like a part of my childhood has now been stolen from me," one man told New Statesman upon finding out the film was never made.
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