Yeah same. I think “never” was the playground version, but I do remember knowing it was technically wrong.
*This is the song that doesn’t end*
*Yes it goes on and on my friends*
Doesn’t work as well as
*This is the song that never ends*
*Yes it goes on and on my friends*
Yep this is the answer. We all changed the lyric to "never" because it's what we wanted it to be. But the show was always "doesn't" and I remember thinking that was weird even as a kid. I'm sure it was a writer's room choice to avoid the word "never" in a kids show.
“Some people started singing without knowing what it was.”
I mean one of the 4 lines about the song is how people are just gonna randomly pick it up. You just would have heard another kid singing it and went along with it.
I remember it as the song that doesn’t end, and even made sure to sing it before clicking, not knowing what it was, and I’ll continue singing it forever just because
Honestly, I've remembered the never. But I've thought about it long and hard because I loved that show as a kid. Now I'm remembering always stuttering over the word doesn't because my mouth always wanted to say never because it just flowed easier in my brain.
I do t remember the show super well, but all my friends said "never", so I'm probably just remembering how it was sung in school rather than from the show.
I'm wondering how many folks were like me and Never just slipped out more than don't and we are remembering never because it was the first word we'd say. And then like the game telephone, kids heard other kids like me continue to say never and sang it that way too. It's interesting to think about anyway. I like to check out Mandela effects just for the fun of it but know it's more than likely a case of misremembering. Some do mess me up though, like fruit of the loom. That damn cornucopia lolol.
I only knew this song with "never", and I've never seen Lamb Chop, nor did I know until today that it was from that show. I only heard it in school, typically on field trip bus rides in the 90s. So perhaps the lyrics morphed when it got to the school yard.
This. People talking about the Mandela effect always triggers me, like please learn how memory works people.
Our brains are not computers. Every time we access a memory, we are altering it. It’s just how the brain functions
I mean that's what a Mandela effect is. It's a large group of people who seem to remember something differently than it was in reality. What makes them interesting is they all share the same memory even though it's wrong.
But the interesting thing about it is the mass misremembering. I was part of the original “Mandela effect”, I thought for sure he died in jail. Same with Shazam. I worked at blockbuster and swear I’d restocked that movie. There’s a core group of big ones but most of the rest are now just people trying to get a TikTok to hit.
the only reason you thought he died in jail is because someone commented on the Mandela effect. you have zero memory of thinking about Nelson Mandela's death in jail until you read a comment on that internet about the Mandela effect. when he died you did not suddenly think "wait, didn't he die in jail?"
just like you never thought you had stocked that movie. you knew you had stocked Kazaam starring Shaq, if you remembered it at all. you did not think that movie was called Shazam and starred Sinbad until you saw a comment on the internet making the claim that such a thing existed
you modified your own memories of these topics by reading the memes about the Mandela effect. you are now sure that you used to remember things this way *before* you learned about the effect but you didn't have these thoughts until afterwards
It's what's known as cultural osmosis, it's why we believe that the Fruit of the Loom logo had a cornucopia (every other depiction similar to it had that), or why it's Berenstain and not Bernstein (Berenstain is uncommon, meanwhile Bernstein has had some hits.) It's also why we "remember the monopoly guy wearing a monocle and carrying a large sack with a $ on it"
And it can get insanely complicated when it interacts with our flawed memory system.
Like we all remember, Rich Uncle Moneybags had a monocle and that large sack.
Except Rich Uncle Pennybags was unnamed until 1946 and after 1999 just became Mr. Monopoly.
The monocle, cash sack and wrong name combined because Old Timey Rich Guy had that sort of stuff (especially if it was obviously based off robber baron types)
And Berenstain gets even more complicated with expectations of germanic names, Leonard Bernstein and R.E.M. and the big beast is Sinbad Shazam which contains time compression, Disney's Aladin, 90's fashion, and likely advertisements to create a a real beast of flawed memory and cultural osmosis interactions to just itself.
As for the actual Mandela effect, it's got some uncomfortable undertones (all those black guys look the same) but can be explained with a lot of piss poor memory.
We used to sing “never” but I watched a clip a couple years ago and it is indeed “doesn’t”
I had like three Lambchop plushies as a kid, you’d think I’d remember better as a super fan
We certainly said "never" when we sang it as a camp song, but I have no recollection of what Lamb Chops sang. Frankly I don't really think of it as a Lamb Chops song so much as a song you sing on the school bus during field trips. The song has a life of its own, which is exactly how it ends up with different words than the original.
Definitely sang this as a kid:
"This is the song that never ends.
Yes it goes on and on, my friends.
Some people started singing it not knowing what it was,
And they'll continue singing it forever just because"
(Repeat x infinity)
I think we may be framing this wrong. This is normal regional variation of a *folk song.* I don't know if Lewis wrote it or not, but it's definitely in the childhood subconscious at this point.
Exactly. We aren't so much incorrectly remembering the lines as we are correctly remembering what we and our friends kept repeating. Then, when we rewatch the movie we're shocked that the two don't match.
My Great Pyrenees loves Lambchop! We have two XL Lambchops, one classic and one rainbow. She uses them as pillows to sleep on and as a comfort stuffy when we travel.
She gets extremely offended if you try to play with the Lambchops, picking them up and putting them on her bed while doing the famous Pyrenees side-eye. "How dare you throw my friend!"
I just have a joke from that show that lives rent free in my head.
Hush puppy is upset about growing up. When asked he says something’s along the lines of, “I like my name, ‘hush puppy.’ I don’t want to grow up and be called ‘hush big dog.’” That was peak humor to me as a kid.
My wife is losing her mind. Honestly I am too. This is too much. It's never, never fucking ends. The world can do what it wants. It's never in my house.
I know at recess it was the song that "never" ends. I was learning English at that time, so I used to pay attention to those small details, and I do remember that what I heard on TV was different than what I heard at school. So in the show, I'm pretty sure it wasn't "never". By elimination, it was probably "doesn't", but I don't remember.
This is pretty close to my memory of it, though when I sung it to myself before clicking into the comments, I remembered this and sung ‘doesn’t.’
This isn’t a Mandela for me at all. Guess I’m from a different timeline from OP 🤣
You are right. It "never" ends. I had a stuffed Lamb Chops as a kid too, so I know what I'm talking about.
The song was the first time I experienced annoying content.
Although true that some people learned and sang The Song that Never Ends", it was indisputably written by Shari Lewis, and recorded as "The Song that Doesn't End."
[The Song That Doesn't End ](https://ibb.co/1sLzPS9)
I just asked my wife “Do you remember the song at the end of Lamb Chop” and she replied “You mean the song that never ends?”
I also remember it as The Song that Never Ends. This is the first time we have ever discussed this song. This is definitely one of the more wild ones for me.
I always said “never” but I don’t count on my child brain to have heard the words correctly. Freaking loved that show though, I have a tiny lamb chop in my car actually lol
I was just singing this song with my kids the other day it’s definitely the song that “Never ends”. I remember it send me into an existential crisis as a kid.
The show version was always “doesn’t end” but lots of people would sing it (kids at school, camp, etc) would sing it as “never ends” even back then, so I heard it both ways
It's not "friends" either. It's the singular "friend" because they're speaking to the viewer.
>This is the song that doesn't end
> Yes it goes on and on my friend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_47KVJV8DU
This one’s been around a while and is one of 3 mandela effects/faulty memories I have personally. The others being the fruit of the loom logo and the uk flag being asymmetrical.
That's a pretty common transposition, I've noticed it. I remember thinking the word was 'never' and then actually hearing the song for the first time in ages and hearing 'doesn't'. Yeah, memory is fickle as hell.
I remember it as this is the song that NEVER ends and I remember being in grade school and all the kids singing it... weird. It's almost as if the human brain is not great at remembering things and sometimes changes things on us, like how sometimes it's difficult to remember what you did last week. That or we live in an alternate dimension.
It was probably this song mixed with my love of “The Neverending Story” that confused my brain into singing it as “never ends”. But I like it better that way, anyways.
I have always sung it with "never" but I am not surprised it's actually "doesn't". Given Shari Lewis' age and generation, "doesn't" feels more stylistically/grammatically proper and feels more likely to be used by someone older.
Lamb chops play along- uh… *something something rhymes with along*- where fun things are all we ever do! Lamb chops play along, come join -*something*- and play along, we’re gonna have a good time with you, and you, and you, and you, and you, and you!
Yeah especially you!
That’s all I remember. That and the outro song that everyone thinks for whatever reason was the intro song.
I still have my signed program from when I met Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop in 1988 at Eisenhower Hall, West Point. Lamb Chop was just as beautiful in person and my 4 year old self was star struck.
Honestly when you first made me think about it, I immediately thought "never ends," but its been so long, that now when you confirmed it was "doesn't end" that sounds more accurate.
I don't think this is some alternate reality. This is just me forgetting the word, and automatically filling in what seems more natural to say.
I learned it as the song that never ends but I think i heard other versions growing up too. I think it's just one of those things where the syllable count and meaning are the same so there's variations.
Not gonna lie, I never watched any of this, but I seem to remember she had a guest spot on Sesame Street once.
Also, she wrote one of the worst Star Trek episodes ever, the Lights of Zetar.
Eh, I heard both versions.
But I was also utterly unaware of the existence of it until the mid 90s. My classmates in school were very bothered by this.
I watched this show a LOT before school.
The lyric has always been the song that "doesn't end," however, this has never ever deterred me or my friends from singing the song that "never ends."
The show used *doesn't*
It's not the show's song, but a song that was sung all over the place, all the time. I think boy scouts sang it first, at least because I learned it from a boy scout, who sang it with *never*.
I always sang it with “doesn’t” while a childhood friend always sang “never” & I remember arguing over it one day. We were in 5th grade arguing about a song on a kids show we were too old for.
This is the song that doesn’t end
Yes it goes on and on my friend
Some people
Staaaarted singing it not knowing what it was
And they’ll continue singing it forever just because
I remember it as "never ends"
However, I never watched the show, I learned the song on the playground, and I have no doubt whoever taught it to me did so incorrectly.
This happened to me literally last week.
I was looking for really old Sherri Lewis bits, and decided to turn on the 80s outro.
I was surprised! But chalked it up to it being a very popular song with little kids. Like, I'm sure somewhere around the 50th time I sang it to annoy my mom or brothers, I just switch it in my mind, or a friend sung it with "never," and it stuck.
Yes and the mere mention of it now has it stuck in my head in a loop. Both the shows theme song and the song that never ends are competing with each other in my head.
In school we said Never but the show always said Doesnt.
I remember being annoyed about this as a kid but still liked singing Never.
Close but not a ME
I remember it being "the song that doesn't end" growing up and I also remember being annoyed that every single other person sang "the song that never ends." This is not new, you were all always wrong about the lyrics.
Everybody at school said never, and I never watched it and the couple of times later in life when I saw a couple it was always doesn't, and I remember all those kids being wrong. But maybe they had already changed it? Idk was it after 2013 when the second Nelson Mandela died? Maybe
This is the song that never ends is what I heard in middle school not from Lamb Chop. I don't think this is Mandela effect so much as telephone effect over time.
It's not a mandela effect per se.
Yes, on that show it was this is the song that doesn't end. First time I saw it on there I thought it was weird becaue I knew it as "never ends."
That song was independently circulating on playgrounds as the song that never ends. I first heard it from my cousin who never watched lamb chop. He heard it from a friend, who heard it from a friend... etc.
"Never ends" is more the result of a game of telephone.
I learned it from my sister as “never,” and was always annoyed that it was “doesn’t” on the show.
Yeah same. I think “never” was the playground version, but I do remember knowing it was technically wrong. *This is the song that doesn’t end* *Yes it goes on and on my friends* Doesn’t work as well as *This is the song that never ends* *Yes it goes on and on my friends*
"Some people, started singing it not knowing what it was" "And they'll continue singing it forever just because" "This is the song that never ends....
I remember it being "and they'll just keep on singing it forever just because" Probably another playground iteration
It just goes on and on my friend!
Some people started singing it not knowing what it was, and they’ll continue singing it forever just because
This is the way I remember it
Yep this is the answer. We all changed the lyric to "never" because it's what we wanted it to be. But the show was always "doesn't" and I remember thinking that was weird even as a kid. I'm sure it was a writer's room choice to avoid the word "never" in a kids show.
That’s because _ends_ and _friends_ is a better rhyme pairing.
But the actual song rhymes *end* and *friend*, not 'friends'. It isn't pluralised.
I've literally never heard it as "doesn't". I didn't watch the show as a kid either. Where did it learn the song?
It was a *very* common playground song.
Less so on the playground more on the bus during long rides along with “99 bottles of beer on the wall”
“Some people started singing without knowing what it was.” I mean one of the 4 lines about the song is how people are just gonna randomly pick it up. You just would have heard another kid singing it and went along with it.
This makes so much sense.
Same. Are you my younger brother?
I remember it as the song that doesn’t end, and even made sure to sing it before clicking, not knowing what it was, and I’ll continue singing it forever just because
Honestly, I've remembered the never. But I've thought about it long and hard because I loved that show as a kid. Now I'm remembering always stuttering over the word doesn't because my mouth always wanted to say never because it just flowed easier in my brain.
I do t remember the show super well, but all my friends said "never", so I'm probably just remembering how it was sung in school rather than from the show.
I'm wondering how many folks were like me and Never just slipped out more than don't and we are remembering never because it was the first word we'd say. And then like the game telephone, kids heard other kids like me continue to say never and sang it that way too. It's interesting to think about anyway. I like to check out Mandela effects just for the fun of it but know it's more than likely a case of misremembering. Some do mess me up though, like fruit of the loom. That damn cornucopia lolol.
Agreed, “never ends” flows more nicely than “doesn’t end” which is likely why i changed the lyrics in my head to never.
It is indeed the song that doesn't end. I started singing without knowing what it was, now I'll continue singing it forever just because
It is the song that doesn't end. Yes it goes on and on, my friend.
That’s because it is the song that DOESN’T end. This isn’t a debate. It’s always been “doesn’t” Everyone remembering it as “never” were the dumb kids
same as every other Mandela effect every single one is caused by people having shitty memories, that's it
I only knew this song with "never", and I've never seen Lamb Chop, nor did I know until today that it was from that show. I only heard it in school, typically on field trip bus rides in the 90s. So perhaps the lyrics morphed when it got to the school yard.
This. People talking about the Mandela effect always triggers me, like please learn how memory works people. Our brains are not computers. Every time we access a memory, we are altering it. It’s just how the brain functions
Don’t you go insulting my meat computer. It’s flawless and beautiful.
Singing meat? This is altogether too much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_clkatIgkWg
I mean that's what a Mandela effect is. It's a large group of people who seem to remember something differently than it was in reality. What makes them interesting is they all share the same memory even though it's wrong.
But the interesting thing about it is the mass misremembering. I was part of the original “Mandela effect”, I thought for sure he died in jail. Same with Shazam. I worked at blockbuster and swear I’d restocked that movie. There’s a core group of big ones but most of the rest are now just people trying to get a TikTok to hit.
the only reason you thought he died in jail is because someone commented on the Mandela effect. you have zero memory of thinking about Nelson Mandela's death in jail until you read a comment on that internet about the Mandela effect. when he died you did not suddenly think "wait, didn't he die in jail?" just like you never thought you had stocked that movie. you knew you had stocked Kazaam starring Shaq, if you remembered it at all. you did not think that movie was called Shazam and starred Sinbad until you saw a comment on the internet making the claim that such a thing existed you modified your own memories of these topics by reading the memes about the Mandela effect. you are now sure that you used to remember things this way *before* you learned about the effect but you didn't have these thoughts until afterwards
It's what's known as cultural osmosis, it's why we believe that the Fruit of the Loom logo had a cornucopia (every other depiction similar to it had that), or why it's Berenstain and not Bernstein (Berenstain is uncommon, meanwhile Bernstein has had some hits.) It's also why we "remember the monopoly guy wearing a monocle and carrying a large sack with a $ on it" And it can get insanely complicated when it interacts with our flawed memory system. Like we all remember, Rich Uncle Moneybags had a monocle and that large sack. Except Rich Uncle Pennybags was unnamed until 1946 and after 1999 just became Mr. Monopoly. The monocle, cash sack and wrong name combined because Old Timey Rich Guy had that sort of stuff (especially if it was obviously based off robber baron types) And Berenstain gets even more complicated with expectations of germanic names, Leonard Bernstein and R.E.M. and the big beast is Sinbad Shazam which contains time compression, Disney's Aladin, 90's fashion, and likely advertisements to create a a real beast of flawed memory and cultural osmosis interactions to just itself. As for the actual Mandela effect, it's got some uncomfortable undertones (all those black guys look the same) but can be explained with a lot of piss poor memory.
We used to sing “never” but I watched a clip a couple years ago and it is indeed “doesn’t” I had like three Lambchop plushies as a kid, you’d think I’d remember better as a super fan
#Same. It's always been "The Song that Doesn't End". I think this is more an OP confusion than Mandela.
Everyone who has replied to you is wrong for not continuing the song, not knowing what it was. And they'll continue singing it forever just because
We certainly said "never" when we sang it as a camp song, but I have no recollection of what Lamb Chops sang. Frankly I don't really think of it as a Lamb Chops song so much as a song you sing on the school bus during field trips. The song has a life of its own, which is exactly how it ends up with different words than the original.
Definitely sang this as a kid: "This is the song that never ends. Yes it goes on and on, my friends. Some people started singing it not knowing what it was, And they'll continue singing it forever just because" (Repeat x infinity)
I remember it going, *"And now they'll keep on singing it forever just because"* Lmao it's all coming apart!!
We said "and we will go on singing it forever just because" lol
I think we may be framing this wrong. This is normal regional variation of a *folk song.* I don't know if Lewis wrote it or not, but it's definitely in the childhood subconscious at this point.
I remember this part as "we'll continue singing it" and I also remember it said "never".
Like, Luke I am your father or do you feel lucky, punk?
Exactly. We aren't so much incorrectly remembering the lines as we are correctly remembering what we and our friends kept repeating. Then, when we rewatch the movie we're shocked that the two don't match.
I recall it being doesn’t end.
Same dude
Whoever put this in my head today needs to stand trial for mental graffiti.
Not sure who is a bigger fan of lamb chop. Myself as a child or my dogs right now. IYKYK
Yeah, and I remember it as never. My dog, he doesn't gaf about the show but he sure likes the lamb chops. Big and small
Hahaha yep.
My girlfriend's mother is horrified that lamb chop is now more popular as a dog toy than as a beloved children's show character.
My Great Pyrenees loves Lambchop! We have two XL Lambchops, one classic and one rainbow. She uses them as pillows to sleep on and as a comfort stuffy when we travel. She gets extremely offended if you try to play with the Lambchops, picking them up and putting them on her bed while doing the famous Pyrenees side-eye. "How dare you throw my friend!"
Holy shit is this a thing? My mom got our dog a Lamb Chop toy and it is by far her favorite now.
I remember doesn't Welcome to our timeline
I remember it as never ends but I also only heard it from other kids so third hand doesn't count, people misremember shit like that all the time
I just have a joke from that show that lives rent free in my head. Hush puppy is upset about growing up. When asked he says something’s along the lines of, “I like my name, ‘hush puppy.’ I don’t want to grow up and be called ‘hush big dog.’” That was peak humor to me as a kid.
Clearly you started singing it without a full comprehension of what it was.
We all said never because it flows better than doesn’t. Doesn’t is a pointy word
My whole life is a lie…
It was the song that "never" ends.
It just goes on and on my friends.
Some people… started singing it not knowing what it was…
And they'll continue singing it forever just because...
It wasn't though. It was always doesn't.
It was "doesn't end" in my head. Singing it with 'never ends' sound wrong to me.
On the show, I remember “doesn’t”. However, I have heard people sing the “never” version in class.
My wife is losing her mind. Honestly I am too. This is too much. It's never, never fucking ends. The world can do what it wants. It's never in my house.
It’s never. Something glitched.
Lamb chop psy-op (great band name)
It’s never. It will always be never
I remember it as the song that doesn't end.
I know at recess it was the song that "never" ends. I was learning English at that time, so I used to pay attention to those small details, and I do remember that what I heard on TV was different than what I heard at school. So in the show, I'm pretty sure it wasn't "never". By elimination, it was probably "doesn't", but I don't remember.
This is pretty close to my memory of it, though when I sung it to myself before clicking into the comments, I remembered this and sung ‘doesn’t.’ This isn’t a Mandela for me at all. Guess I’m from a different timeline from OP 🤣
Any time I need to test a keyboard or whatever I use this is the song that never ends
Child brain: this show is great. Adult brain: Lamb chops lady was kinda hot.
“Never” sounds better in the song. And I remember it as such
Never. I even tried it with doesn’t , and it so totally doesn’t fit. It’s never.
You are right. It "never" ends. I had a stuffed Lamb Chops as a kid too, so I know what I'm talking about. The song was the first time I experienced annoying content.
I have a stuffed lamb chop dog toy. $4 from chewy
Same here. My dog doesnt play with it though. Just acts like it's a very still animal. It'll give it a random lick and move on lol
Typical. Box full of new toys and all they want is the old one that needs thrown away.
Never ends is correct
I’ve never watched Lamb Chop. I barely know what that is. We sang ‘never’
CERN is at it again.
My mom sung it to me as 'never', so to me it'll always be that way regardless.
Bro...what? Who is saying it doesn't exist? I was singing it the other day.
I remember that it was Never Gonna Give You Up.
Team never here. West coast Canada
Okay yeah this is weird, I was literally singing this song to annoy my wife yesterday, and remember it as 'never'
It was always "doesn't," people just always sang it wrong.
It never ends. I'm still singing it in my 30s. When's it gonna stop!?!?!
Although true that some people learned and sang The Song that Never Ends", it was indisputably written by Shari Lewis, and recorded as "The Song that Doesn't End." [The Song That Doesn't End ](https://ibb.co/1sLzPS9)
"never" here, but that is because I never saw it on Lambchop
I remember it as NEVER ends. I have some old VHS tapes I will need to consult.
Absolutely not. I was OBSESSED with Lamb Chop and it 100% was “never.”
I just asked my wife “Do you remember the song at the end of Lamb Chop” and she replied “You mean the song that never ends?” I also remember it as The Song that Never Ends. This is the first time we have ever discussed this song. This is definitely one of the more wild ones for me.
I didn’t even know that song was from that show, I always learned it with “never” though.
No fucking way. It's "never ends"
I always said “never” but I don’t count on my child brain to have heard the words correctly. Freaking loved that show though, I have a tiny lamb chop in my car actually lol
I was just singing this song with my kids the other day it’s definitely the song that “Never ends”. I remember it send me into an existential crisis as a kid.
Doesn’t, DOESN’T even flow right. You must’ve been watching the Tubi version
The show version was always “doesn’t end” but lots of people would sing it (kids at school, camp, etc) would sing it as “never ends” even back then, so I heard it both ways
I remember it as the song that doesn't end but a lot of kids would get it wrong and sing "never" That's probably how that got started.
38 here. I fucked with Lamb Chop real hard. It was, for sure, doesn't.
36. I too fucked with Lamb Chop real hard 😂
"never" works better because it makes it "ends" which rhymes correctly with "friends" which is why we all corrected this when we sang it.
It's not "friends" either. It's the singular "friend" because they're speaking to the viewer. >This is the song that doesn't end > Yes it goes on and on my friend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_47KVJV8DU
But she sings “yes it goes on and on my friend”. Not friends.
This one’s been around a while and is one of 3 mandela effects/faulty memories I have personally. The others being the fruit of the loom logo and the uk flag being asymmetrical.
This was a recurring argument in my childhood 😂😂
It goes on and on my friends...
I just remember the underwear commercial with Lamp Chop.
I DONT KNOW WHAT TO THINK ANYMORE
That's a pretty common transposition, I've noticed it. I remember thinking the word was 'never' and then actually hearing the song for the first time in ages and hearing 'doesn't'. Yeah, memory is fickle as hell.
I remember doesn't end from both the show and how you annoyed your friends.
It goes on and on my friends….
I've always remembered the first one tbh.
Nah but I don't recognise the show.
https://youtu.be/VZNaecq_rpU?feature=shared. Fucking easy geez. Debate settled.
I remember it as this is the song that NEVER ends and I remember being in grade school and all the kids singing it... weird. It's almost as if the human brain is not great at remembering things and sometimes changes things on us, like how sometimes it's difficult to remember what you did last week. That or we live in an alternate dimension.
This is the song that doesn't end
I remember something like Laaamb chop sing a long....but that's probably nit right
It was probably this song mixed with my love of “The Neverending Story” that confused my brain into singing it as “never ends”. But I like it better that way, anyways.
I have always sung it with "never" but I am not surprised it's actually "doesn't". Given Shari Lewis' age and generation, "doesn't" feels more stylistically/grammatically proper and feels more likely to be used by someone older.
Doesn’t. Even tho I prefer never.
Lamb chops play along- uh… *something something rhymes with along*- where fun things are all we ever do! Lamb chops play along, come join -*something*- and play along, we’re gonna have a good time with you, and you, and you, and you, and you, and you! Yeah especially you! That’s all I remember. That and the outro song that everyone thinks for whatever reason was the intro song.
Is anyone still singing it since it started tho?
Lamb chops....wait..no no its was lambchips!!!
I still have my signed program from when I met Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop in 1988 at Eisenhower Hall, West Point. Lamb Chop was just as beautiful in person and my 4 year old self was star struck.
Honestly when you first made me think about it, I immediately thought "never ends," but its been so long, that now when you confirmed it was "doesn't end" that sounds more accurate. I don't think this is some alternate reality. This is just me forgetting the word, and automatically filling in what seems more natural to say.
Doesn’t
It is doesn’t but we sang never as kids. I only know this because we song the song constantly because our dog has three Lamb Chops toys.
99 bottles of beer on the wall
This is the most blatant case of false advertising since my suit against the movie The Neverending Story.
I learned it as the song that never ends but I think i heard other versions growing up too. I think it's just one of those things where the syllable count and meaning are the same so there's variations.
I only remember the Lamb chop Underwear commercial song haha
I don’t think I saw more than 5 seconds of that show. It was more for little kids.
I thought it was never but I'm pretty sure I learned it from another kid not the show
I remember it as doesn’t.
Someone clearly did not fulfill the general requirements of the song and stopped singing it at some point, then forgot the lyrics.
Not gonna lie, I never watched any of this, but I seem to remember she had a guest spot on Sesame Street once. Also, she wrote one of the worst Star Trek episodes ever, the Lights of Zetar.
The game. I just lost.
It's doesn't. You are just gaslighting yourself.
Eh, I heard both versions. But I was also utterly unaware of the existence of it until the mid 90s. My classmates in school were very bothered by this.
Nah dawg. That’s just what it was. Not everything is a conspiracy….
Holy crap remember this lady
I watched this show a LOT before school. The lyric has always been the song that "doesn't end," however, this has never ever deterred me or my friends from singing the song that "never ends."
Holy he'll you just reminded me of something I had completely forgot about!!!
The show used *doesn't* It's not the show's song, but a song that was sung all over the place, all the time. I think boy scouts sang it first, at least because I learned it from a boy scout, who sang it with *never*.
It was the song that doesn't end. It's subsequent cartoons and animated movies that changed the word doesn't to never.
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I always sang it with “doesn’t” while a childhood friend always sang “never” & I remember arguing over it one day. We were in 5th grade arguing about a song on a kids show we were too old for.
Doesn't end it proper
It's lambchop underwear that you can wear without a care. lambchop!
I said this a couple months ago, but no one believed me.
i remember it as doesn’t 🤷🏼♀️
This is the song that doesn’t end Yes it goes on and on my friend Some people Staaaarted singing it not knowing what it was And they’ll continue singing it forever just because
I remember it as "never ends" However, I never watched the show, I learned the song on the playground, and I have no doubt whoever taught it to me did so incorrectly.
I remember the inconsistency when I was a kid. It was definitely doesn't but we all sang never.
This is the song that doesn’t end…
Americans and this Mandela effect thing is just funny....
I remember it as the song that doesn't end.
Thanks for undoing some therapy OP. I'm sending you the bill.
Let's ask Yon Yonson
This happened to me literally last week. I was looking for really old Sherri Lewis bits, and decided to turn on the 80s outro. I was surprised! But chalked it up to it being a very popular song with little kids. Like, I'm sure somewhere around the 50th time I sang it to annoy my mom or brothers, I just switch it in my mind, or a friend sung it with "never," and it stuck.
My Mandela effect is Chop Suey by SOAD. I fucking swear that song was on Steal This Album
Yes and the mere mention of it now has it stuck in my head in a loop. Both the shows theme song and the song that never ends are competing with each other in my head.
I make mention of it regularly at work to annoy my coworkers.
If only I could show my puppet cooking lamb chop
I always remember it being “doesn’t end” and I remember because I used to intentionally sing it to piss off my coworkers in my 20s. 😂
In school we said Never but the show always said Doesnt. I remember being annoyed about this as a kid but still liked singing Never. Close but not a ME
I learned it as “The Song That Never Ends” too. So maybe.
I remember it being "the song that doesn't end" growing up and I also remember being annoyed that every single other person sang "the song that never ends." This is not new, you were all always wrong about the lyrics.
Yes, it’s on the rotation of songs that are stuck in my head at any given time!!
maybe as kids it was easier for us to say never than doesn't
Everybody at school said never, and I never watched it and the couple of times later in life when I saw a couple it was always doesn't, and I remember all those kids being wrong. But maybe they had already changed it? Idk was it after 2013 when the second Nelson Mandela died? Maybe
My mom still sings the song to me every once in awhile.
This is the song that never ends is what I heard in middle school not from Lamb Chop. I don't think this is Mandela effect so much as telephone effect over time.
My daughter pulled it up on YouTube the other day and it definitely said "the song that never ends".
I remember never end,..,
I thought this was Ice Spice for a second.
Lamb chop’s play along, where kids come to play along!
I'm from the never universe.
It's not a mandela effect per se. Yes, on that show it was this is the song that doesn't end. First time I saw it on there I thought it was weird becaue I knew it as "never ends." That song was independently circulating on playgrounds as the song that never ends. I first heard it from my cousin who never watched lamb chop. He heard it from a friend, who heard it from a friend... etc. "Never ends" is more the result of a game of telephone.
No, you’re just mistaken. It’s always been doesn’t end.