The year was 1995. The internet as you know it today was still in its infancy. But if you flipped through TV Guide or your local newspaper, you might have stumbled across an ad for The WB’s inaugural Sunday night fall lineup.

For users on X, this classic print ad is frying more than a few brain cells. It features a grid of smiling stars hawking sitcoms that most people have never heard of. And after racking up more than 150K views, many in the X thread insist there’s no way this marketing poster is real. It must be AI-generated.

There’s not a single show from this 1995 The WB lineup I remember. The series “Simon” in particular feels like it never existed. pic.twitter.com/Jpkj97H1AA— Valerie D'Orazio (@TheVallyD) July 26, 2026

There’s not a single show from this 1995 The WB lineup I remember. The series “Simon” in particular feels like it never existed. pic.twitter.com/Jpkj97H1AA— Valerie D'Orazio (@TheVallyD) July 26, 2026

“Harland Williams and Jason Bateman had a show together?” asked one X user. “That lineup gave me a full dose of the Mandela Effect.”

It’s not a glitch in the matrix; this moment in pop culture history definitely happened. Before The WB became the sacred home of teen angst and brooding vampires, the........

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