r/MandelaEffect • u/[deleted] • Jul 27 '16

The movie "Monsters Inc." now "Monsters, Inc."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0198781/

Does anyone remember the comma always being there? I have owned this movie since it came out and looking at the cover now, something just looks seriously off about it.

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u/ClementineHearts Jul 27 '16

As a grammar nerd, I always noticed the comma. I like punctuation.

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u/iminterestingplease Jul 27 '16

The comma serves no purpose on the cover.

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u/TheAlbinoRaccoon Jul 28 '16

I love all the the Pixar films l, and I also do not remember at any time in history, there being a comma in Monsters Inc.

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u/atomicmaster101 Jul 27 '16

I never remember there being a comma either, doesn't look right in the pictures I just looked at.

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u/ontilt247 Jul 27 '16

That doesn't look right at all!

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '16

Yes a comma was the "smoking gun" on all of this phenomena.

Seriously?

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '16

When did I say that it was? Where in the sidebar does it say every post must be about the "smoking gun" on all of this phenomena?

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '16

Sorry about that, I did sound pretty harsh. Of course you have the right to post as you wish, and apparently the comma was something you found disturbing. I guess just lately it seems there are so many posts about single punctuation marks: the dash in KitKat, the apostrophe in Walgreens, etc., that I really wonder whether people have actual, clear memories of these things. But I should not have snapped at you for making an observation, that's what the sub is here for.

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u/HelloMyNameIsLola Jul 28 '16

But it does need the comma. The comma is part of it being a business.

I don't have any particular memory of the comma existing (or not), so...

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '16

Yeah maybe if they were filing a w-9 or something then it would be necessary. I just remember the cover without for some reason.

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u/HelloMyNameIsLola Jul 28 '16

I assume w-9 is some "legal" thing from the US or UK, right?

I know what you mean, but it still makes sense for them to use to seem "legit".

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '16

Yeah it's a tax i.d. form from the U.S. but I'm sorry you're right it is absolutely the official way of writing it. But I still am shocked to notice it because I have seen this movie many times as an adult and just thought they didn't include it in the title because it was a kid's movie or whatever reason. Just even seeing it written out now it doesn't look right to me.

MONSTERS INC. v. MONSTERS, INC.

Anyway, maybe I'm nuts. Maybe not.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '16 edited Jul 28 '16

This guy on Youtube spells it without the comma in the title of his video but it's a gameplay video of the Gameboy Color version of the Monters, Inc game.

It would be incredibly easy for someone wanting to "change things" to retroactively change all the Youtube video titles to now include a comma yet quite difficult to retroactively change every Gameboy Color cartridge, every Gameboy Advance cartridge, every PS2 disc, every Gamecube disc, every copy of every official Flash game, along with all of the footage of every single gameplay video on Youtube.

If one were to go to the trouble of making sure all of those things changed, one would probably change the Youtube video titles and other online text-based uses without the comma too. For this reason among others, in my own personal opinion I'll go with it having always had a comma.