You know how on PBS they usually say something like "this program was sponsored in part by viewers like you?" I thought "Viewers like you" was an actual company.

I also thought that TV was kind of like video, so that when i turned it off, i could turn it back on later and whatever show i'd been watching would start right where i'd left it.

Kris

My sister and I once insisted that my parents buy Mrs. Butterworth's Pancake Syrup, and when they did, we sat at the table and waited for her to talk.

That was a lesson about the truth of advertising!

Kresel

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

Lisa-Marie

Until I was about 10 i thought that when, on tv, they said stuff like, in this compition there are 250 tvs up for grabs, that one person got them all. I always wondered what the hell i would do with 250 tvs...

Mrs Poynter DeLonge Armstrong Trott Murphy Bubbins Poynter Delonge Poynter

when I was little (about 5-6) there was a commercial that would play all the time "Cal Worthington Ford" (those of you from California, no doubt know who I'm talking about. well he would feature zoo animals in his commercials with a little jingle that went "when you need a car or truck, go see cal go see cal go see cal" well for YEARS I thought he said "pussy-cow" which in my young mind meant a fantastical animal, that was the size of a cat but looked like a cow.

Heather

Michelin had an ad campaign when I was really little (mid-70s) where the Michelin Man would come thundering over hill tops etc., so when a bad storm would kick up, I thoughtit was the Michelin Man coming to get me1

Colleen

There was this old Pop- Tarts commercial that I really liked in fifth grade. It was advertising freezing your Pop- Tarts, so it had a yeti in it that said, "Best eaten frozen!" At the end of the ad, an announcer with a Norwegian accent cam on and said, "Listen to the Yeti!" But I thought he was saying something in Norwegian, like, "Lisen Tudietti!"

When he get on, he leave ur @$$ for a white girl

Watching the 'Mr Muscle' cleaning product-range ads convinced me that the products actually made Mr Muscle appear in your bathroom or kitchen and clean up the place for you.

Agla

Have you ever seen the "concerned children's advertisers" commercial about house hippos? I saw it and for a long time belived house hippos were real. I always wanted to pet one, they're so cute and small. :)

Horse

When I was younger, I thought that the jingle for the Chevy commercials was "lagger up". I now know that they were saying "like a rock".

KurtIsTheCoolest

When I was a young kid there used to be an advert on TV for Barrett Houses and the man would always say "The nation's second biggest house builder!". Naturally I was 110% convinced that our local house builder was THE biggest in the land. It was years later that I realised he was just a small builder who built just a few houses a year in our town.

Rick

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

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

I used to believe the pillsbury dough boy lived in the "grocers freezer".I spent many a trip looking for him,the scary thing is I wanted to find him so I could throw him off the bed,I guess I thought it would stop his little laugh and make a cool splat?!

polly

I used to beleive on commercials when they would say "you have to be 18 or older to order" that means that the kids on the actual commercial were 18 and you had to be 18 to play with the toy.

Kryptonite

I used to believe tv commercials were not played from tape, but their actors had to perform live in front of camera every time the commercial was emitted. I remember how I wondered about commercial with group of kindergarten children listening to dentist and answering his question - "man, how poor they are, being such a child they have to play the same scene thousands of times and to do it completly the same each time" It was just one day when I realised, "Hey it is impossible to make perfectly identical moves so many times!" Then I said to myself "Ya fool, what are cassetes for!" =)

Ja Polak

when I was about 5 there was this commercial for Circuit City and a big plug always plugged into the top of the building. I used to think it really did that and I wanted to go by Circuit City all the time to see the giant plug.
Its only been 8 years since I believed that.

Chichick

I used to think Mr. Rogers lived at Target because I always saw the Target logo before/after his show.

stephanie

In Canada (and possibly elsewhere), there are back pain relief medications called Robax. They have a series of long-running commercials featuring wooden marionette-type people. In them, the marionettes do something active until needles pop up from their backs, representing back pain. I thought that you actually got needles coming from your back whenever you had too much activity and got back pain and Robax was used to pull them out.

Ouch!

As a child, maybe until I was about 7 or 8, I always wanted to send off for every special offer I saw on any kind of food or drink packet, whether it was for something I really wanted or not. I once saw on a bottle of tomato ketchup "Free from artificial colour and preservative". Because it had the word "free" on it, I thought it must be some kind of special offer. I was very disappointed when I tried to peel the label off and found no special offer underneath.

Alan, Sheffield