When I was little I used to watch a show. It was a little kids show. The guy that was on it always said names of people like "Godd morning, Sally, Good morning, Ben!" And I thought he could really see people and one day he came on and he said, Good Morning, Katelyn, Good Morning, Melissa" and that just so happens to be me and my sister's names! I ran to my mom screaming, "MOMMY! MOMMY! MR. DRESSUP SAW ME!!!" and my mom would just laugh. It never ocurred to me that he was just saying names.

Katee

when i was little, whenever we watched stars in your eyes, i used to think they'd send someone through the lights and the smoke, and send the real singer back out, and i used to shout at the tv that they were cheating, i also thought that everything on telly was live!

alyssa

when i was younger there used to be a cooking show that my mom and grandma used to watch called the froogle gourmet, and I thought that he was always called the 'google' gourmet, so whenever the show came on, i would always yell 'look it's the google gourmet!'

shauna

When I was a child I was fascinated by Julia Child and her show "The French Chef". I believed Julia had magical powers. She would make a dish or desert and then put it in the oven or refrigerator. When she was finished putting everything together she would look at the audience, say a few "magic words" and, POOF! Out came the finished product!

Fast Food

I used to believe that a cartoon was colored with markers, and a T.V. show (like friends or E.R.) was colored with colored pencils.

Anon

When I was about 4 years old and used to watch the TV show "Alice" with my family, I would do my impression of one of the waitresses. When she said, "Mel, kiss my grits" to the owner, I didn't know what grits were. I would say, "Mel, kiss my grips!" My family would crack up at me messing up the line and I thought they just liked my impression!

Lilred

When i was about 4 or 5 years old, i watched the original 1970's version of the planet of the apes.i then started to have nightmares about the monkeys and that they would come through our letterbox in our door and chase me upstairs and attack me while i was in my bedroom.Very wierd i know and i still have the same dream now and again

Anon

I used to believe that the characters in soap-opera were real, and that all the things that hapenned to them were also real.

CoKaLu

There is a very famous British children's TV show called Blue Peter which is almost as much of a British Institution as Big Ben. When I was a kid the presenters, John Noakes, Peter Purves and Valerie Singleton in those days, used to say at the end of each programme "we'll see you on Monday/Thursday". I thought this meant they could see me sitting on my parents' settee like I could see them on TV. When I studied 1984 for English in high school the phrase "the telescreen not only transmitted but received" reminded me of what I had thought about the Blue Peter presenters when I was a kid.

Robert

I grew up in NY and used to believe that The Dukes Of Hazard took place during the Civil War.

Anon

Whenever one of my friends would come over, we would watch "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" on Nickelodeon. There was one episode where I guess a ghost haunted a house, and would leave a painted mark of an uppercase green Q over the victim's bed. After we watched that episode we were wicked scared.

So then we went around my house searching to see if we could find anything with an uppercase green Q. Well, we found a book that was titled "TROPICAL AQUARIUM FISH" in green lettering. We then thought the book was possessed.

Jess

Here's a bizarre one for you:

When I was 10 my mom used to watch a lot of vintage Nick at Nite shows, so I grew up watching the 50's "Adventures of Superman" TV series. I really had a crush on the actor that played Superman. I used to imagine that he would come visit me at night and bring me presents and tell me he was going to take me away to his Fortress of Solitude and marry me. I was very devastated later when I found that George Reeves (said actor) had committed suicide.

Michelle

on some shows that i used to watch, whenever that person was sad, they would play sad music, so every time i got sent to my room, i would wait for the sad music to come on. Obiously, it never did.

Katelyn

There was a show "Sightings" that I just ate up. It seemed like they really gave footage of mysterious unexplainable phenomenon. Then they did something really stupid: they did re-runs of Sightings. After hearing that my locale was predicted to shatter via a massive earthquake into several unconnected islands last April, I couldn't really take that show seriously.

Starling

i saw an advert for the samaritans which said do you ever feel you've had enough and want to end it all, this was during an ad break between the A-team, i thought people who wanted to top themselves volonteered to die on programmes like the A-team, this was before the lad next door told me he was going to be a stunt man!!!!!!!!!!

Jo Pope

When I was 5 I thought that if I turned the hands of a clock to the right time I could watch beavis and butthead. (my brother showed me the show and I loved it) so I did that once thinking it would work. I kept on trying it and realized it wouldn't work.
P.S.I'm still a kid

Anon

i used to think that the people on the cosby show were played by bill cosby's real family. i still thought it was a scripted show and everything, but i thought they were all related.

allison m.