Berenstein or Berenstain?

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Do you remember the Berenstein Bears or the Berenstain Bears?

  • Berenstain Bears 9%
  • Berenstein Bears 88%
  • Other 3%

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This pressing question has recently been brought to my attention via YouTube. How do you remember this children's cartoon and book series?
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My mind was blown when on Good Mythical Morning they said it wasn't what I remember it as. D:
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This type of thing creeps me out so, so much. Like, my friend's sister showed me a video about it and I was blown away. I believe this is called the Mandela Effect, which is my favorite thing dealing with messed up perceptions and such.
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I refuse to accept that it's Berenstain but Image
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Agh I think I voted for the wrong one. I definitely know it was Berenstain Bears, but I think that's seared in my memory after I got the name confused with a popular TV commercial lawyer named Sam Bernstein. I think the Bernstein name is more common as a last name and that's where the confusion arose.
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Um this is no question that needs to be answered. It's pronounced Berenstein and I will not have it any other way.

Case closed. I don't even know why you asked this, really.

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@Nikayla, I was curious in knowing because I saw a really interesting video about it! ^_^ A large amount of people remember it being spelled as Berenstein, rather than Berenstain. It's really cool, so I suggest looking it up! I personally remember it as Berenstein Bears. ^_^
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...Okay, am I the only person who doesn't know anything about this regardless of how it's spelled?
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I mean, I never really watched it as a kid. But apparently my parents read it to me, and I do remember seeing an episode or two of it.
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@ChildofNowhere this is being cited as an example of "The Mandela Effect" (named for the common example where some people remember Nelson Mandela as dying in prison in the 1980's). I don't know how common it was internationally but the books/show are children's books about a family of bears that teach moral lessons and such.

Link about the Mandela effect, which supports my theory that people are remember "stein" because it's more common than "stain": http://www.snopes.com/2016/07/24/the-mandela-effect/
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@Mage I was just joking :p. I actually haven't known anyone who's said it Berenstain in my whole life so this is like a new abstract concept to me.

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Oh, okay! I'm bad when it comes to detecting internet sarcasm. :P
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I've always always always known it as Bernstein and...wow. I just can't even--like even after they brought it up on GMM I was like "nah this is Rhett doing a Rhett thing."

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I legitimately contacted my mother a couple of months back and asked her how she remembered it. We both came away from that conversation confused.

Berenstein all the way.
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I always thought it was Berenstein, and I've never seen the cartoon (maybe a bit of the books). *reality implodes*
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