When I was about 5 or 6, I saw a cartoon where the character used an umbrella as a parachute. My older brother said that it was true because it was on tv. He talked me into jumping off my grandma's bird aviary with the umbrella. I wrecked the umbrella and strained my ankle. My brother told me not to tell because I would get in trouble for hurting the umbrella.

Chik DuBay

When I was young, when I watched an episode of Pink Panther, I saw him fall through the end of the up escalator into a room filled with toys, little cars like the shriners drive in parades, and other fun stuff. So I thought that at the end of the up escalators, If you could get sucked in, you would end up in that same room. So at the end of every escalator I went on, I would make sure to try to fall through the end.

Andrew

When I just turned 5 I was looking at the TV guide to see when my favourite cartoons were going to be on. When I saw "for unders 5's" in the TV guide next to my favourite cartoon I ran crying to my mum. When she asked what was wrong i said "I cant watch my cartoons anymore because I am 5. haha

Leacey

As a kid, I used to watch Woody Woodpecker religiously. There was one episode where the vulture grabbed Woody, and rolled him up into a clay cylinder. Woody reappeared behind him. I was convinced that this actually happened, so I grabbed a worm from my backyard and rolled him up in some play-dough. He stayed there.

Justin Whang

I have always loved pokemon all my life. However...at one point, it got a little too serious. When I was 6-right before 10, I believed that when I turned 10(in Pokemon, 10 is when you could start using/keeping pokemon), some kind of pokemon god would teleport me to the pokemon universe.

^_^(Anonymous, if that's spelled correctly)

When I was a child I thought that cartoons were real but everyone was soaking wet. I was 8 or 9 before I was told otherwise.

Traci

I used to believe that there were little people inside the tv adn they can come out.Well,I like this one cartoon charector so much I wrote a note (well a piece of paper with scribbles but hey I was young)and asked if the charector will come "Out" and stuck it in the Vcr.Mom was not happy/

~!~Nel~!~

I was a huge fan of The Carebears and believed they were real. So much so that when I would cry, I honestly believed the Carebears would see on their care-o-meter that I was sad and would come cheer me up. Of course, this never happened and I was always so sad that they ignored me.

Anon

My Dad told me that my brother used to believe that we have our universe and that cartoon characters have their universe and that whenever cartoon characters get into some interesting events we wath them and if we get into any interesting events cartoon characters watch us.

Martin

I was about 6 when they came out with "As told by Ginger". I would watch it all the time, but in secret. This was because it had the rating TVY7 and I thought because I was only 6, it was illegal for me to watch. I would lock my door and keep the volume low and hide under the blankets. When my mom found me and asked "What are you doing?" I said please don't tell on me! Don't call the police, cause I'm breaking the law! She asked me why I'm breaking the law and I told her. She burst out laughing.

Little Outlaw

When i was 7 my cousin told me that thelma from Scooby Doo was a mad serial killer.

Rachel

When I was little I thought Snow White and The Seven Dwarves was actually called Snow White and The Sunny Doors no one could tell me otherwise until I could read

Kelli

I used to believe that I can change what happens in a cartoon. When I saw the same episode and something bad was going to happen, I would yell it at the character so they would avoid it. I was always dissapointed when they "didn't listen".

Adam

I used to believe that cartoon characters were real creations acting in the TV set, and that non-cartoon images were created by the cartoon characters switching photographs really really fast (except for the Dukes of Hazard who used to hang out in the cramped TV because Minnie Mouse had a crush on them).
Uncanny how I got the idea of cell animation, but just got the application mixed up.

Meghan

When I was about 5, I was playing with my cousin, who was around the same age. She was convinced that Mickey Mouse did not wear gloves; his hands were in fact puffy and white.

marauger

I though the "D" written in "Walt Disney" on some videos was actually a backward "G".

A. Nonymous

I thought cartoons were real, I remember asking my mom why there were lines around the "actors" in a cartoon.

Steven Graziano

Remember those old Warner brother cartoons with daffy duck,bugs and the gang. In those cartoons they had these little black bombs that walked around and where meant to represent smelly skunks. They had wave lines of funk excreating from them. I used to think thats what skunks really looked like that. I remember the first time someone pointed a skunk out to me in the wild. "Look there is a skunk" "Where? I don't see it!!"

Anon

When I was little, I absolutely loved Alladin the Disney movie (although the Saturday series were kinda cheesy)I had a crush on the character, and had the Aladin bed set, the mercandise, the partgy gear, and the beach mat. If If got picked on in school, I told everyone that Aladin was gonna kick their ass! Anyways, I wanted to meet Alladin in person, and when I found out I was going to Disney World, I knew what character I was going to see first. I did feel guilty because my motives were part selfish. I was gonna bribe Aladin into giving me Jafar's lamp so he can grant my every wish.

So when I was in Disney Land, my dad told me that Aladin was coming my way. As I ran up to him and Jasmin, I was very dissappointed. The Aladin I loved was short, his costume looked like it was from the dollar store compared to it's movie counterpart, and he was UGLY!! He even looked scary. This was not my dream man, and I cried at the top of my lungs right in front of everybody and called the confused Aladin a wanna-be phoney, and that he could keep his stupid lamp. I refused to leave Disney World until I saw the real Aladin. In fact, all of the characters in the park looked fake. My dad still laughs about it to this day.

Loren

I used to think that all tv shows were animated. I thought that acted tv shows were drawn by really good animators. When i was watching friends i asked my mom if they got paid more than cartoon animators... she laughed soo hard!!!

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