I believed the sticks you'd occasionally see hanging from the arms of The Muppets were crutches from a recent accident that the character had had. Makes sense, I guess.
A childhood belief about tv shows

others believed things like this
- I thought the lines in the sky left behind by airplanes were "sky scrapers". Makes sense.Anon
- I thought a major general is more powerful than just a general (which still kind of makes sense to me)— Demond
- The muppets were REALLY inside the T.V.!Anon
- i used to think that when i went to sleep gonzo from the muppets would suck me up through his nose and eat meAnon
- I fully believed, up until about 6 years old, that the word 'accident' was a noun that meant 'burnt toast'.— Karl Goetz
- I believed that chocolate milk must have been cow diarrihea......makes since to me— Suzanne