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[Liberty4all]

Got in a debate online about this. Upon googling apparently there are thousands of people that think it's Berenstein. But it has always been Berenstain.

https://www.seventeen.com/celebrity/news/a32934/the-berenstein-berenstain-bears-conspiracy-theory/

Theories online range from a time traveller butterfly effect to a parallel universe intersecting with ours to explain why so many people remember it as Bernstein.

http://www.woodbetween.world/2012/08/the-berenstein-bears-we-are-living-in.html?m=1

https://news.avclub.com/how-you-spell-the-berenstain-bears-could-be-proof-of-1798282836

What say you GAF

 

[Basoes]

I called it Bernsteen Bears

 

[Cybrwzrd]

Butterfly effect. It is Berenstein Bears. The worst timelines merged a few years back, isn't that accepted truth at this point?

 

[jshackles]

I grew up in the South, so my teachers would usually over-pronounce the ending of the word with a heavy drawl.

So when I was growing up, it was always the "Barron-Stain Bears".

 

[Tesseract]

burnstoon boors

 

[iconmaster]

I'm not the type to believe in chemtrails or UFOs, but learning about the Berenstain Bears shook me to my core.

How did we cross over? And how do we go back?

 

[Scopa]

Berenstein.

Now and forever.

 

[zombie_gamer87]

Berenstein Bears...

 

[Jaxx_377]

I Always understood it to be Berenstain Bears due to the creators anti-semetic refusal to use the more commonly accepted Berenstein spelling

 

[lifa-cobex]

To answer your question.....

 

[Drake]

I called it Bernsteen Bears

me too! That's how my dad always said it when I was growing up, so that's how I always said it.

 

[Liberty4all]

Apparently there are lots of examples of this.

For example is Froot Loops not Fruit Loops.

There are examples of people remembering Billy Graham dying in the 90s not 2018.
http://mandelaeffect.com/billy-grahams-funeral-on-tv/

Some people swear they remember New Zealand bring NE of Australia not SE.

Crazy the deeper into the rabbits hole I go.

 

[davepoobond]

Berenstains are bears
Berensteins are not bears

 

[MilkyJoe]

Berenstein.

Now and forever.

And I know this because we didn't know how to pronounce it, so we assumed it was the same as Frankenstein

 

[AlphaMale]

I grew up reading the books, and they were absolutely, definitely, positively spelled "Berenstein Bears".
In fact, I remember asking my teacher why it was pronounced "-stain", but was spelled "-stein". She just said that was the preferred way of saying it. Why would I need to ask that if it was spelled "-stain"?

Yup, the A-Universe and the E-Universe definitely collided and merged at some point. Or rather, the people who lived in the E-Universe are now living in the A-Universe and timeline.

 

[tekumseh]

It's stain. It has ALWAYS been stain. I was reading those books to my daughter 30 years ago, EVERY DAMN NIGHT. It's always been STAIN...

 

[MMaRsu]

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/the-...-living-in-our-own-parallel-universe.1086840/

already posted 3 years ago

 

[888]

It's stain. It has ALWAYS been stain. I was reading those books to my daughter 30 years ago, EVERY DAMN NIGHT. It's always been STAIN...

Maybe from your Dimension but in the correct Dimension it was Stein.

 

[It's Jeff]

It's Berenstein. Stop trying to change their proud Hebrew heritage.

 

[Ichabod]

On one hand:


On the other, there's stuff like: apparently its always been "Gorton's" fishsticks instead of "Gordon's" wtffffffffff

 

[Boss Mog]

I don't even understand how this can be a question. It's written "The Berenstain Bears" right on the books:

We truly are living in the age of feelings over facts.

 

[Alec]

I called it Bernsteen Bears

This is also how I pronounced it.

 

[WX3]

But did you all see the genie movie with Sinbad?

 

[InterMusketeer]

I had never heard of these bears before the AVGN episode, but Berenstain is just a plain dumb name.

 

[888]

I don't even understand how this can be a question. It's written "The Berenstain Bears" right on the books:

We truly are living in the age of feelings over facts.

It's ok.. it has nothing to do with feelings, just alternate universes merging together.

(Shhh guys, this poster is an alien from the other dimension)

 

[Boss Mog]

I had never heard of these bears before the AVGN episode, but Berenstain is just a plain dumb name.

Tell that to Stan and Jan.

 

[InterMusketeer]

Tell that to Stan and Jan.

They have to agree, right? Who wants to be named after a stain?

 

[Cybrwzrd]

Is this proof? Found it here... https://heavy.com/news/2016/08/bere...ffect-vhs-photo-berenstain-evidence-pictures/

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

In the US, -stein is a very common suffix , often for Jewish/Yiddish surnames.

-stain is not.

Plus we just got done sending a -stein to jail for casting couches. I think the -stein spelling is just fresh on peoples' minds.

 

[888]

Is this proof? Found it here... https://heavy.com/news/2016/08/bere...ffect-vhs-photo-berenstain-evidence-pictures/

Oh snap. The smoking gun. I swear it was always betenstein

 

[jshackles]

Oh snap. The smoking gun. I swear it was always betenstein

Mistakes like this happen all the time though, and were even more prevalent "back in the day".

In 10 years are we going to be arguing whether the 3DS Resident Evil game was Revelations or Revelaitons?