When I was little I thought Oprah Winfreys name was really "Okra" Winfrey, so one night for dinner I told my mom I wanted fried Okra for dinner, not the lady on T.V. but the kind you eat.

Cynthia

I used to think that Bruce Wayne in the Batman series was filipino (im filipino) because of his black hair and tan skin. this was when i was 4 to 5

Marc

I used to believe the T.V show "War of the Worlds" was for real, that those aliens were REALLY coming for us.

Adelaida

In the 5th grade, so many of my classmates liked to watch “Home Improvement.” Not knowing anything about the sitcom, I thought there was this new fad of watching home repair shows.

Jen

When I was younger I used to think that Married With Children was called Love and Marriage because of the theme song.

meinpopoistnett

I used to think the show "Mr. Belvedere" was Mr. Velvet Ear. I couldn't understand why.

caywood

Remember Buck Rogers?? There was a character who could take his head off and set it on a table. I tried for days to take my head off and couldn't understand why he could do it so easily and I couldn't...granted I was only 3 yrs. old.

Anon

i used to believe that there real places like the care bares, the wazzles, smurfs and gummi bears. i always used to watch those shows when i was younger and i thought that they would really be real

anna

When i was about 2, i was terified of Elmo. i always thought he was out 2 kill & ONLY ME! Then i had a dream, that i was watching Seasame St. then he said "Hi *******, want 2 play? i couldn't talk (in the dream). He jumped out of the T.V. pulled out a BIG knife, chased me through out the house, killed all of my family. Then I ran down 2 the basement, hid behind a HUGE box and hid there for about 2 days. Then i heard a little annoying "HI!" I looked behind me. THERE WAS ELMO 2 WHOLE DAYS!!!! Thank goddness it was all a dream!

person

In the cult British Kids show called Rainbow, there was a character called Zippy, whose mouth you could zip up, and if he got really annoying one of the other characters would zip him up. This used to scare the hell out of me, cos i thougt "if they keep him zipped up too long he'll suffocate!" I couldn't watch Rainbow after that.

padfoot

My friends and I used to pretend we were the girls from "Sailor Moon" and we would watch the show everyday. When we watched it, we would point out the characters and tell each other and our parents that that was us on TV. I was really disappointed when we all yelled "Moon Power" and funky glitter didn't come out of our fingers and disable our enemies!

Anon

I thought that every TV show was filed live, and I always wondered why they never messed up.

Steve

Since I watched soap operas as a child I believed that the characters were real until I was watching a morning talk show and one of the guests was a character on Days of Our Lives that had been shot a few days before. I was so confused, I couldn't figure out how he came back to life.

Anon

When i was 3 or 4 i used to love Barney on tv. My cousins told me that Barney was murderer disguising himself as Barney. After that i stopped singing their songs and never watched it again.

mizkat

After watching the episode of Barney the dinosaur about the four seasons i got it stuck in my head that ech season occured once a day. I wanted to plant something and it said on the packet to plant it in spring, so every few minutes i would ask my mother if it was spring yet.. This just goes to show that Barney is a lying sneak.

sabrina

When I was little I used to watch star trek with my mom . She taught me how to say the things they were like .. " beam me up scotty " and " are you out of your vulcan mind ?". I was little so I told everyone these things , even strangers . I was on an elevator with my mom and I decided to show of my vast knowledge of star trek and show him the cool phrases I knew . I asked him " are you out of your vulcan mind ??" . His mouth dropped open and he looked at my mom . She then explained what I had really said and how I watched star trek . Apparently he and many other people thought I had said f***in instaed of vulcan ...take my uncle sean for example ....he thought he had been sworn at by a 2 yr. old !!!!! lolz

Alanna

When I was little I used to watch Captain Kangaroo and my favorite part was when they had the artist on. They had a TV trick where he would take a paint brush and run it across the paper and it would "paint" a real life scene on the paper. I remember asking my Mom to buy me a paint brush like that and I got really upset when she told me it was only a TV trick. But of course I didn't believe her, I mean why would the good ole' Captain use tricks? ;)

Tammy

i use to think X-Men were real and scare people.

Dumb Me

When I was 5 or 6, I used to believe that I would grow up and marry Bobby Vinton. I would faithfully watch his TV show every week. And, when my parent's would try to tell me that it just wasn't a possibility...I would get hysterical and fight tooth and nail with them. To this day, I own every recording he has every made.

Velma