When I was like 8 or 9 I would watch TV and see those commercials for acne care. My brother was about 14 and he had pimples and I remember hoping that by the time I hit puberty and got pimples that they would still make that kind of stuff (I thought it was just a fad that would go away!)

Katie

I used to believe that comercials are evil beings that would keep appearing until you bought the product.

Anon

When I was a baby, I was terrified of the Empire Carpet commercial. (You know - "5-8-8-2-3-hundred, Empire!) My mom said I used to scream hysterically every time it came on.

Emma

When I was little, I thought the phrase in t.v. commercials "brought to you by" was one big word, "broughtoyoduby" meaning they would bring it to you if you buy it.

Ashley Nylin

In the 70's an advert on UK TV for Wrigleys Spearmint Gum had people carrying around enormous packets of gum. I believed that when you bought and opened a packet of Wrigleys Gum it would inflate to this size.

Calum

i used to beleive that all familys on TV and adverts were real familys.

Lisa-Marie

When I was yound there was an ad for a tube of smarties. A guy would open the tube and he would be sucked inside to a world of smarties. I made my mum buy me a packet thinking that if I opened it I would be sucked inside. I was very dissapointed.

Alex Scobell

The only ads I ever paid any notice to were toy commercals, which usually only advertised new toys. I believed for the longest time that only new things were advertised on television. I'll never forget the pepsi commmercial that made me realize my error...

Elisa

When I was about 4 or 5, I used to see the Mrs.Butterworths commercials on tv, and the only lady that was the bottle would come to life. Well, whenever my mom bought it, I would sit with the bottle in front of me and try to talk to her. She never talked back :( False advertising to children is so mean!

Kendyl

Theres this add on TV which is for a roof restaler. Part of its cachy song is Watch This Roof actually thats the name of this company.

Well on the way home one afternoon my friend and I say a sign saying Watch This Roof. Thinking it meant Watch this roof we stood on the road for nearly 20 minutes thinking something would happen. Later we found out that that sign meant the roof had been restalled by the company.

Claire

There used to be an advert for St. Ivel Gold (a kind of buttery spread). And it used to end with a shot of the top of the tub. Then a knife came across and in one simple move from right to left, the spread became shaped into the name of the product. I used to spend ages trying to do it and could never figure out why it only flattened the spread further.

Geoff

When I was little, really little, I thought that the commercials on tv about food was what the people in the grocery store was stocking at that exact moment. I know this sounds stupid!!!!!

Jennifer

You know sometimes when adverts are cut short, well, when i was little, i used to think that it was because th people who made the adverts were away for the day, and the advert man would play out as much as he could remeber then leave it! how stupid i must have been....

Amber

Not really a belief, but the advert for galaxy chocolate, used to say "why have cotton when you can have silk?" so when i was young I used to refer to galaxy as "silk". In the middle of supermarkets i'd look to mum and say "could we get a bar of silk?"
and people would give us strange looks

ha

When I was only like 2, I thought that the WB frog And the WB emblem would come out and "Take me away". (we watched the show "Full house a lot)

Kyle

When I was a kid, there used to be a car commercial for a local dealership. The catch phrase was "Go see Cal" and was sung. For years, my sister thought they were singing "Pussy Cow."

Denise

anyone rmb the bananas in pajamas song? that freaked me out, i thought that one day theyd come and get me

Gotyu