When I was little Ban deodorant just had came on the market and had a catchy tune"Ban takes the worry outta being close" Well I listened and went running into the kitchen where I told Mom"Beans take the worry outta being close" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Debbie

I thought that "Celebrity Cruises" meant that at least one celebrity would be traveling in the ship and that mingling with the celebrities was part of the package. I was a tad disappointed when I found out it was just the name of the upscale cruise division of a large cruise company.

Scandia

Joe DiMaggio used to be the official spokesperson in the Mr. Coffee commercials, and not knowing who he really was- I thought his name actually was "Mr. Coffee"!

ajd

I saw a commercial that said, "Don't drink and drive", when I was 5. Later we were in the car and my dad was drinking a coke. I informed what the commercial said.

clevelandphil

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

When i was littlei always thought the "Worthington Ford," commercial song out here in California would say "Pussy Cal, Pussy Cal, Pussy Cal."
In reality: "Go see Cal, Go see Cal, Go see Cal."

Go see cal for a good car deal, that is

jennajms

When I was seven years old, I saw a commercial for the doll Baby Born. In the commercial, the girl was pouring the fake baby food packet (which was powder) into the small dish and it immedietly turned into the wet baby food (commercialism can make anything possible). That led me to believe that it was a "magic bowl" and that the powdery stuff would automatically turn moist.

I finally got the doll for Christmas and I tried this bowl thing out for myself. I was disappointed to find out that you had to add water first!

Queen Bee

Here in Germany we always had those adverts for cleaning agents. After the woman had cleaned the bathroom with them she was standing in front of a mountain. I didn't understand that this meant that the bathroom smelled as fresh as the air on a mountain after you've cleaned it. So I always asked my bother to buy it because I wanted to go on holiday on a mountain.

Anon

I thot that people on billboards and signs and stuff were real people trapped forever behind a wall, i always felt sad for them, and tried feeding them constantly. THis belief ended last summer when I was corrected...oops.

Hammy the rabid Squirrel

When I was a child, I used to believe that if you cut a person in a magazine with your scissors, it would actually hurt them.

Anon

When I was little, every time a Nabisco commercial would end, it had a little tune and had "Na-bis-co!" *ding* I heard it so much (because there were so many Nabisco products.) I became convinced and terrified that Nabisco was taking over the world.

Anon

I used to think that when you won the lottery the big, sparkly hand from the advert really did come out of the sky and say "it's YOU!". So when we bought a ticket, if it hadn't come out and pointed at us within five minutes I predicted that we hadn't won anything. I was never proven wrong, so I believed it for years.

Anon

I used to think that the people in the commercials were doing the commercial 'live' each time. I would follow along each time to see if they did anything different.

Mikey

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

When I was little, there were these ads for Cheese Strings. I absolutely hated Cheese Strings, but one day I saw an ad and I didn't really listen. They were advertising a contest to win a Gameboy Colour, and they showed a sort of Gameboy like design on the bag. I thought that there was a Gameboy in every bag of Cheese Strings! I made my dad go and buy me some, and boy was I disappointed. Then I had a weeks supply of Cheese Strings. Ew.

Anon

wen i was little i was terrified of the tango man! i really thort he acctually came up nd hit u if u drank tango! no wonder i screamed if i saw any 1 drinkin it!

u kno wen uv bin tango'd

I used to believe that the wing on the Goodyear logo was of a hand pointing to the right. This was when I saw it from far away.

Davetista

when i was 6 I used to believe that when i saw movies in my tv, the commercials were to allow actors rest a little before going out to act again. And i was amazed how i could see the same movie many times without the actors making a mistake or getting tired from doing it over an over again

Ben

Shampoo commercials.

I used to think that if you got close enough to a TV and looked down, you could see the boobs of the girl in the shower.

Chester

I used to see this advert on TV for handcream where they screwed up a dry leaf, then told you about the cream, and the leaf was green and fresh.
I honestly thought that if you put this handcream on a dead leaf, it would make it green again. How frustrating it was then that it never worked for me.....

Mark