Another "Mandela Effect": Shazaam, a '90s children's comedy movie that never existed.

So remember the recent... thing about the Berenstein/Berenstain Bears name and the discussion about mass social level false memories or even memories of alternate dimensions?

We've got another one. A wacky 90s children's movie that starred stand up comedian Sinbad as a genie named Shazaam that over 300 Redditors claim to remember seeing but that never seemed to actually exist.

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Carl, whose name has been changed because he wishes to remain anonymous, recalls watching a movie called Shazaam with his sister in the early Nineties, and has fond memories of discussing it with her over the last 20 years. In their recollections, the movie starred the American stand-up comedian Sinbad – real name David Adkins – as an incompetent genie who granted wishes to two young children. Meredith Upton, a 25-year-old videographer from Nashville, Tennessee, also remembers the same film. Don goes even further. Although he is not certain that the movie was called Shazaam, he has detailed scene-by-scene recollections of the film, which include the children wishing for a new wife for their father, the little girl wishing for her broken doll to be fixed, and the movie finale taking place at a pool party. Meredith, Don, and Carl are three of hundreds of Redditors who have used the popular social news site to discuss their memories of Shazaam. Together they have scoured the internet to find evidence that the movie existed but each has repeatedly come up empty-handed.

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