I always thought that when you turned the tv off it would "pause" whatever program you were watching until you turned it bac on again.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- When I was a kid, I used to believe if you were watching TV, and you turned it off, it paused.Anon
- That boys turned into women when they became adults and girls turned into men when they became adults. Anon
- The first time I saw fog, I thought the air had turned sour.— jamby
- I used to be terrified of the numbers 18 and 19. I think I thought that when you turned 18 or 19, you die.— Emmy
- When I was six I thought that when all puppies grew up they turned into golden labradors. — Marieka
- I thought that cruise control was like autopilot i.e the car would just drive itself if you turned it on— Yqatuba