The Mandela Effect: Dolly's Braces

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This isn't new but I wasn't aware of it and somebody just brought it to my attention. This person asked me if I remembered the scene where the character Jaws meets his "girlfriend" in the James Bond film Moonraker (1979), and as he guided me along to retrieve my memory of it, I remembered her as having braces, which is what makes the two characters click. This is how a lot/most people remember the scene. The thing is though that, apparently, in our new reality, she doesn't anymore.

This video presents the story, and at the end I do think its maker probably has a point in his conclusion, but still, weird...

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Here's an example of this thing is weird. An old description of the film:

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This I thought was a good video explaining the potential illusion.



I especially like the comment about the teeth being shown for 2 seconds so it's easy to misperceive (and therefore "misremember").

That being said, I won't argue against the many comments under this video that still swear they saw braces, especially from people who owned the movie and kept watching it repeatedly. Of course they could still have been misperceiving (mis-apprehending) and therefore, technically, misremembering, but it's still food for thought. A little bit.

This is the only example of the Mandela Effect I've heard that actually potentially gives me pause a little. I never thought Mandela died in prison, never thought Tom Cruise had sunglasses in the singing alone scene in Risky Business, etc. etc. Does anyone here have an example of the ME that stumps them?

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Does anyone here have an example of the ME that stumps them?

No, but if I'd had to guess, I would have guessed that Dolly had braces. In any case, this thread seems to be the best place to share this recent article, although none of its examples seems definitive:

Measuring the Mandela effect: How many Britons share false memories?

By Dylan Difford for YouGov UK on June 13, 2025.

The FT’s prime example was the ‘iconic’ scene in the BBC’s 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice in which Colin Firth’s Mr Darcy emerges wet-shirted from a lake on his Pemberley estate. Nearly half of Britons (49%) say they recall this scene, except it never actually happens: Mr Darcy is seen walking on his estate, having swum in his lake, but you never see him emerging.

Another quirk of the collective British memory is the colour of Walkers’ salt and vinegar crisp packets, with the public divided between the 39% who correctly recall them always being green and the 38% who insist they were once blue but were changed to green

One of the more unusual misrememberings in the British psyche is about the Captain Pugwash children’s books and TV series, which 29% of Britons are under the impression included characters with double entendre names such as Seaman Staines and Roger the Cabin Boy, a myth that led to series creator John Ryan taking two national newspapers to court. In reality, none of the Black Pig’s crew had smutty names, as recalled by 20% of the public.