Stay with me….
My wife and I were traveling, and as a joke I said, “Okay Samantha, I’m tired. I know I said no witchcraft, but just this once you can twinkle your nose and make us be there.” We started trying to twitch our noses like Samantha on Bewitched and obviously couldn’t do it. We laughed, and she said that Elizabeth Montgomery couldn’t do it either, and I argued that she could. This was the ‘60s, so CGI didn’t exist. So my wife gets on Google and looks it up, and it turns out that Elizabeth Montgomery NEVER MOVED HER NOSE, IT WAS HER UPPER LIP THE WHOLE TIME!
I didn’t believe it. It COULDN’T be true. I’ve watch almost every episode growing up, and she twitched her NOSE. We went to YouTube, and, son of a gun, It was her upper lip. EVERY TIME. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
I don’t know anything anymore.
Bearenstein was real. One of the first epiphanies I had wherein I fully questioned my parents’ ineffability when they would not budge on the “correct” pronunciation —despite one of them growing up with German spoken in the house. This is personally my most resonant proof of multiple echoed timelines. 🫠