I thought that the people that were in adverts for food only ate that food. I felt sorry for the people that advertised non-food stuff as they were hungry.

Helen

Bachelors Super Noodles adverts featured a little girl whose plaits would twirl around like a helicopter whenever she ate the noodles. The first time I tried the noodles, I made my mother plait my hair, and began to cry when my plaits didn't even move. Plus I didn't even like the noodles!

Steph

when i was little (about 6) i thought that ad breaks were so the writers of the show had time to think up what came next.
i asked mum and she said it was true

flicky

I used to believe when they said 'no tears' shampoo for kids, they really meant no matter how much of it got in my eye, it wouldn't hurt. I believed this for only about a couple of hours. I put shampoo directly in my eye after watching that commercial.

Andrea

I used to think hte commercials for "male enhancement" were for "mail" enhancemetn.

i htought that they would send you mail so it seemed like you were popular and more people would like you.

boy was i far off....

what a difference a few letters make

In Scotland the advert for our national soft drink, Irn-bru showed a bunch of guys and lassies developing phenomenal strength after drinking. I was sorely dissapointed when I could not obliterate concrete after a can or two.

E110

There used to be a type of medicine that was advertised on the TV, I think it was an antacid but I can't remember what it was called, for which the add slogan was "Suck them and see."
The way the voice over guy said it made it sound like "Sucamin C" which I presumed was something like Vitamin C, but perhaps a man made version, or something equally as dense.

Ross

I never wore gloves. I always had fingerless mittens that are hard to build snow people with. I asked my mother why, and she said when I was little I loved the talking glove on the Hamburger Helper dinner commercials. She told me I was afraid I would kill the glove's family if I stuck my hand inside thier heads.

I don't really remember liking the dinners made by Hamburger Helper as a kid.

Violet

There is/was an ad for Gander Mountain (a sporting goods chain) in which the words "Hunt! Fish! Camp!" are chanted .... when I was young I refused to go to Gander Mountain because I misheard the chant to be "Hunt! Fish! Kill!" and I didn't want to go to a store where people were so violent and obsessed with death.

TheAmber

When I was a child, I was deathly afraid of Mister Clean. I cannot explain this irrational fear...he just scares the hell out of me, to the point where I had nightmares about the advertising icon. Whenever a "Mister Clean" household cleanser ad would play itself out on my family's television set, my mother claims I would run from the room screaming.

hong_kong_cavalier

When I was little I wanted nothing more than to be an actress or a singer. Then I heard a commercial on the radio for Alfred Hitchcock on Nick at Night and it said "where the stars come out to die." So I thought if I became famous I would have to die. After that I wanted to be a cleaning lady...

Elissa

There used to be these Red Cross public service announcements on TV saying to donate blood. But I thought they were saying "don't eat blood".

Brandon Campbell

When my older brother and I were younger, he subscribed to Nintendo Power. One day, he received an ad that was a little yellow packet with the words "Do Not Open This" in big, "exciting" font.

"Why can't you open it?" I asked.

"If you open it, you'll go blind," he joked.

I was terrified out of that little packet for over three years until I finally got the nerve to brave opening it up.

It was just an ad for a renewal subscription of Nintendo Power.

Anon

When I was a child, the "This is your brain on Drugs" (Where they fry the egg) commercials would play all the time during the Saturday Morning cartoons. I completly misunderstood those commercials and believed that the act of frying an egg in butter would somehow make it be "Drugs" I learned quickly how wrong I was when I yelled at my mom for "Making Drugs" for breakfast one saturday morning.

Anon

When I was a child, I once saw a commercial for Nutra-Sweet while I was visiting my grandma. The commercial showed bananas and milk, so I believed that if you ate bananas chopped up in a bowl of milk it would turn into sugar. I remember eating this concoction several times but alas it never turned into sugar.

Laura W.

Back in the early '70's, my brother Mike thought that the Pillsbury Dough Boy was REAL!! One day at a supermarket, he got away from my Mom and he went to the refrigerator section of the store and he began busting open cans of Pillsbury biscuits looking for the Dough Boy to pop out. Biscuits were everywhere! The supermarket manager got a kick out of my brother's little stunt and didn't make my Mom pay for the cans that he busted open!!!

Dotti

you know how you get those sears catalogs in the mail? well, when i was little i use to think that the people modeling the clothes were for sale. it made sense at the time, everything else they showed on it was for sale so it didn't ever cross my mind that i was wrong

steven

When I was a little kid I used to think that the ads on TV were aimed specifically at me and when I bought the item being advertized they would stop showing the commertial. I hated the ad for a doll that turned into a cupcake (don't ask) and begged my mother for it so that they would stop showing the commertial.

Anon

When I was a boy, I believed that the television stations kept track of everything you bought, and would stop sending commercials to your house advertising those products you already had.

MTC

When the advert breaks came on tv I used to belive that when they said "We'll be right back after these messages" that the tv people were reading mail.

Tibbie