I used to believe it was Ronald McDonald that made the sun light up because in a McDonald's commercial when I was a child he pulled a lamp cord from the bottom of the sun and it turned on. I thought the commercial was informing us that's how the sun "came on".

K

When I was younger, I always believed that everything on TV was live. So one day I wanted to show off a little how observant I was, and casually told my brother, "That kid sure is lucky to be able to drink chocolate milk every day." And he said, "No..." to which I replied, quite sheepishly and quickly, "Oh, um, yeah." Even though I didn't totally understand.

Fiver

that in the early 60's the coke-a-cola song was being sang to me on the radio, just for me...that is what my parents would tell me...one day i wanted one and i cried because my Dad did not get me one. That is when he told me it was an ad on the radio and it was for everyone to hear, not just made for me...i was crushed......i drink diet coke now.....

angie

When I was younger, I used to beleive that every time a commercial came on, it was acted right there, live. So I felt very bad for the actors because they would act the same commercial over and over again every time it came on. I felt especially bad for the ones who acted in the commercials that rerun again and again and again...

Chelsea

When I was young I thought that if you bought a product that was advertised on TV, that they would stop sending the ads, so you wouldn't see them anymore between shows.

Ian MacLatchie

One time when I was a kid, I thought that I was skipping/fast-forwarding commercials on TV by –in actuality- changing the channel. I thought I'd get back to the show faster.

EJ

You know how the bottle for Mrs. Butterworth's pancake syrup looks like a little lady? When I was a child, the television commercials would show that bottle walking around on the table talking to people. I thought it was real. After all, it didn't look like a cartoon. When I would eat pancakes, I would stare intently at that bottle because if it so much as budged, I wasn't going to miss it. I always thought that the bottles we kept getting were broken because she didn't move or talk.

Anthony C.

Since i first saw teh coca cola christmas advert i thought the song they were singing was ' i'm a piece a coming, i'm a piece a coming' althgouh i had no idea why. My brother helpfully corrected me and told me it was hundred things are coming and after dinging that for a while my mum finaly told me and my brother the real words 'holidays are coming' which makes so much more sense although doesn't sound as good in my opinion

oh don't i feel sheepish!

i used to believe that if i saw something i wanted on tv i could jump into the tv and get it.

Darian

I used to think the ONLY commercials on TV were of Toys, it was GREAT and thats all i would see... but once i got older and started to watch other things on TV not only Nickelodeon and The Disney Channel i noticed there were many many more commercials. (Bummer... Not only Toys)

Rebeca Brown

I thought Tuck's Medicated pads were for putting matches out. In the commercial they used to show a match light on fire and then they would use the pad to put out the flame. I would always tell my mom why don't people save money and just blow the match out.

Shelly

I misheard an advert where the line was 'his debt, is destroying his family'
but i misheard it as 'his dad, is destroying his family'
No wonder i never trusted loan companys...

Zeedee

After watching a commercial for Imperial margarine and then eating some on bread I spent hours looking for my crown wondering why it didn't appear on my head with a "BA BA DA DUM!"
Also after eating a Halls I would wonder why I didn't see vapours going up my nose like on TV.

little jen

I used to believe that if my mom bought snuggles laundry softner that she would bring home the lil bear too!

Teresa

When I was little, I believed the snuggle bear and pillsbury dough boy were real.

Amy

There was a commercial on TV for a local car dealership with the jingle, "If you're looking for a deal, go see Cal." I believed it was "If you're looking for a deal, pussy cow," and I would sing it out loud without ever getting corrected.

Meighan

When I was younger and heard infomercials saying "call the number on your screen," I thought they meant the phone number on my window screen and I would always get up and look on the window screen, looking for a changing number.

stephanie

i used to believe that for each commercial on TV people had to put a different tape in each time and i believed it till i was 11!

little miss freakout

Quite a while ago there was an advert for R.Whites lemonade with a tune on it that had the lyrics 'I'm a secret lemonade drinker, R.Whites, R.Whites'

I thought it was 'I'm a secret liberty drinker'...makes no sense at all!

Katty

You know how on Jeopardy there was always these things supporting the program that Alex Trebek just /had/ to tell you about? When he said "brought to you by" I thought he said somethnig that sounded like "brochuby" so it was like a question like "Brochuby Zest bath soap?" I assumed he was trying to hypnotise me into buying it... I always told him that I only got 2 dollars for allowance (I was 5) and that wasn't enough to buy a huge thing of soap.

Anon