See, I have zero memory of Shazam, and think you're just misremembering Kazaam. Even knowing and experiencing some Mandela Effect stuff, I really just want to think you're misremembering things. That's absolutely the most logical answer.

I think if you don't have any firsthand experience, it will sound ridiculous, because it DOES sound ridiculous.

For this to be true, you have been transported to another reality, which is my current theory (if there's anything to this, that is) or that your reality has changed in some fundamental way.

For Berenstein, I was always picky about spelling and totally will remember stuff like that, plus I have a very clear image of what the logo looked like, and "stain" is just all wrong.

Discovering this "misspelling" was probably the biggest mindfuck of my life, and NOBODY around me gave a shit while I was busy wondering "ok, what the hell IS reality???".

I actually flew around the world to go back home and check my old books, and sure enough, they were "stain".

So... if anyone had evidence of Shazam, it would surely be fake or photoshopped like this one was, because in whatever dimension or reality or simulation or whatever the hell this is, that movie really never existed, and those bears were always "stain".

So, it's possible that you're from a Shazam parallel dimension and I'm from a no-Shazam, but "stein" dimension, and now we're both somehow in the same, third dimension where neither of those two things are real.

Or we just have bad memories, which makes a whole lot more sense. I just don't buy that I do.

I wonder if there's any sort of hypnosis or whatever to recall the true childhood spelling (in my memory) of "Berenstein Bears"?... who knows... It would still be very easy to say "well, maybe the hypnosis thing didn't really work.."

I don't think I ever watched the show as a kid. Lots of books though. I mainly have a really vivid memory of what the logo looked like. There are photoshops of the logo that are exactly what I remember.

If we are talking about the mandela effect theory then this isn't about logic. Mandela Effect theory started when huge masses of people shared the same memory of Nelson Mandela dying in prison and it all came out in the open when the news reported his death years later than what people remembered. The theory is about altered reality, not altered products. People in very large numbers have different memories of reality. Since then a bunch of easily explainable misunderstandings started getting labeled as mandela effect when they clearly aren't. So the waters got muddied and like many things when it went mainstream it caused a bunch of confusion and most people don't have an accurate understanding.

One theory behind this phenomenon called "mandela effect" is that cern may have done something when it first got turned on that merged more than one timeline together, so some people being from one timeline have a different collective memory than those from the other timeline. This is also backed up that many people remember our solar system being in the outer sagitarian arm of the milkyway, and now they say we are located somewhere closer in the middle, and that we've always believed that (and not just an info update)