Thanks to the Warner Bros cartoon "Pepe LePew", I thought skunks came from France. I got really confused when Mum told me they actually came from America-took ages to work out that cartoon characters spoke however the director wanted.
A childhood belief about cartoons

others believed things like this
- I thought Warner Bros was a cop drama that aired on CBS at 10:00 PMAnon
- I thought cartoons were real, I remember asking my mom why there were lines around the "actors" in a cartoon.— Steven Graziano
- I had alligators and cartoon lions under my bed.— ruth
- Before the invention of the camera, everything looked like a cartoon with the quality/effect of oil painting.— MD Caruso
- i used to picture jesus as a kind of cartoon Tarzan, swinging through the trees...— bex
- I loved watching the cartoon Casper the Friendly Ghost and wondered why the Holy Ghost never got his own show.— Robert