According to the couple’s son (who thankfully wasn’t simply named “Brother”) there has always been confusion over the spelling of the name and its pronunciation. And the real culprit here isn’t tears in the fabric of the space time continuum, it’s a 19th century immigration officer who misinterpreted the Berenstain’s ancestors as they were while fleeing Ukraine. They pronounced the Jewish name “Bernstein” with a thick accent that was mistakenly transcribed as “Berenstain,” thus confusing millions of internet users more than a century later.
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