Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

If somebody mentions Sheen or Shannon, I just ask "Is that the elfin one?"

Regina King and Regina Hall (the names, not the persons, obv), and then sometimes Rebecca Hall comes to muddy things up, such as when she decides to make her feature-film directorial debut at the same time as Regina King's.

Just realized I was conflating Dick van Patten with Jerry van Dyke. Subsequently realized that I have no actual reason to be thinking about either of these people.

how about Dick Shawn, are you thinking about Dick Shawn?

Is that the New Yorker editor or the guy from The Princess Bride?

Sarah Champion, music journalist
Sarah Champion, MP

I've just this minute checked Wiki to check if they aren't the same person.

Phil Elverum
Phil Ek
Daniel Ek

Just realized I was conflating Dick van Patten with Jerry van Dyke.

And I would have blithely continued doing the same if I hadn't read this.

Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gaskill

can I suggest Mary Gaitskill

we should be striving for equity in current times

Curtis Hanson
Curtis Harrington

This thread is so hard to load.

Jessica Walter
Katherine Helmond

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDaMm1ydQDQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZiJxNTdzwI

Gorilla Biscuits
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

(Boomer age actresses):

Lisa Eichhorn
Lisa Eilbacher
Jill Eikenberry

Lesley Ann Warren
Lesley-Anne Down

Mr. Brightside
Mr. Sandman
Enter Sandman

I think those are all songs but I don’t know if I have ever heard any of them. At least one of them is a meme of some kind that I don’t understand. Anyway I hope they’re all fine.

they are all fun pop songs that I've heard on TV

Rod Steiger
Roy Scheider

I do know which is which, but when one is mentioned it takes me a moment to remember which name goes with which face.

Not an "always" situation but when I heard on the radio that Prince Phillip had died for a second or two I was thinking Prince Charles.

If only

No, Charles has to survive to fuck up the monarchy once and for all.

Bermuda
The Bahamas

I don't really get them mixed up , but whenever I picture Jack Antonoff in my mind I imagine him looking more like Antony Fantano.

Doris Day
Dinah Shore

Bhad Bhabie
Bad Bunny

Stevolende
Robert Adam Gilmour

Rozz Williams
Rick Rozz

Willy Russell
Willie Rushton

Todd Rundgren
Tedd Nugent

Sorry, I've slipped an extra t into Ted to try to cover my shame

Day of the Tribbles
Trouble with Triffids

+ The Tripods

Surely Tripods/Triffids has been done already

Shaun Derry
Sean Dyche

Gregory Isaacs
Gregory Abbott

Grilled cheese
The Constitution

Richard Marx
Curtis Stigers

The Drifters
The Coasters

^^^this, also The Platters

Gerry Rafferty
Ralph McTell

Lots of Rs in their names and both have signature songs about London. Also one's Scottish and the other has a Scottish name.

Mina
Milva
(RIP Ennio Morricone)

Ira robbins
ira kaplan

Also:
ira robbins
Everett true

Stalactite
Stalagmite

Lee Dorsey
Lloyd Price

flannery o'connor/flann o'brien

i mean i know who both of them are but i might say the name of 1 when i mean the other

In that case, consider posting on this other thread, created for pretty much exactly that purpose: Oh! I Always Got Those Two Mixed Up: Future Edition

Oh wait, you've already been there.

And done that!

Merisms
Legal doublets

Steves Roach and Reich

E.G. Marshall
R.G. Armstrong