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@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone

2026-04-27 23:00 UTC

Fruit of the Loom with the Cornucopia: Fake\ Curious George with a tail: Fake (I know because I had the fucking Curious George huffing ether shirt in college.)\ Chic-Fil-A: [Fake](https://archive.org/details/eatmorchikininsp00cath) (Link to Chick-Fil-A's founder S. Truet Cathy's book "Eat Mor Chikin" published in 2002)\ Looney Toons: Fake\ Fruit Loops: [Fake](https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Froot_Loops)\ Oscar Meyer: Fake (I often confused the two spellings as a kid because we often bought Oscar Mayer hot dogs from Fred Meyer.)\ Berenstein Bears: Not fake, more of a matter of different publications running with different spellings.\ Jiffy: Fake\ Febreeze: [Fake](https://web.archive.org/web/20160704131126/https://adage.com/article/news/p-g-tests-febreze/18446/) (link to archived post from 1996 in an ad magazine announcing P&G releasing Febreze) Okay Maybe I'll come back and finish digging up the evidence for all of these, but literally the Pikachu one is the only one I'm unsure about. I'm positive everything else on the left hand side has been completely debunked or is a situation like the Berenstain Bears where different publishers used different spellings, especially in the home videos.

Replies (5)

  • @zikzak025@lemmy.world 2026-04-28 01:24

    Pikachu with a dark tail tip is definitely fake. The main variation that was added later on was a heart-shaped tail for female Pikachu, and like another user mentioned, marking *that* one black for the unique Cosplay Pikachu.

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  • @Exatron@lemmy.world 2026-04-28 01:55

    I worked in a library twenty something years ago and once held copies of the same Berenstain/Berenstein Bears story, but with the different spellings. You're right that they just changed it in subsequent printings. Over time, the older copies wore out and got replaced by the new editions.

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  • @homes@piefed.world 2026-04-27 23:22

    Ferris Bueller you’re my hero

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  • @ClipperDefiance@piefed.social 2026-04-27 23:22

    The Pikachu might be based on Cosplay Pikachu from Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire.

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  • @Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2026-04-27 23:25

    Well sure it's been debunked but the myth is that a timeline jump means historical records are going to be different from your memory. So the proof that Looney Tunes is a myth isn't in historical documents but from my memory where I know it was Tunes because of Merry Melodies. My memory agrees with historical proof.

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