when i was 4 of 5 i thought that the Simpsons were supost to be animals, not humans (yellow skin, four fingers...) so i got really confused when Marge described Homer as a "human being" in one episode.
A childhood belief about cartoons

others believed things like this
- When I was 6 or 7, I believed that people could have yellow skin like in the simpsons— Noah
- I thought Oklahoma was named after my Uncle Homer. (Pre-Simpsons)Anon
- When I was young, I used to wonder what if the animals turned into humans while the humans were away.— Kirk
- I used to believe that the people who "colored" The Simpsons ran out of skin-toned crayons.Anon
- I used to believe when I was a child ,
during xtmas time animals speak like humans after 12 pm— lan - i used to think a small man named homer lived in my grandmother's freezer and made ice. — ana