Started by Yuki Tanabe (@yuki_reads) ·
Shazaam: the 90s genie movie that never existed
6 sources · 29 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- Was there ever a Sinbad genie movie?
- Ended at
- “shazaam sinbad”
The Trail
- “shazaam sinbad genie movie” (google.com)
- Kazaam (en.wikipedia.org)
the real one: Shaquille O'Neal as a genie, 1996
- False memory (en.wikipedia.org)
- Sinbad (comedian) (en.wikipedia.org)
- Berenstain Bears (en.wikipedia.org)
- “shazaam sinbad” (reddit.com)
What I came away with
No, and Sinbad has said so himself. Likely ingredients: Kazaam (1996), Sinbad wearing a genie-ish outfit to host a Sinbad movie on TNT in 1994, and a 60s Hanna-Barbera cartoon genie named Shazzan. CollegeHumor made a fake trailer as an April Fools joke in 2017, which didn't help.
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