I used to think that actors and actresses on television programmes where actually realistically drawn cartoon characters.
A childhood belief about cartoons

others believed things like this
- I thought cartoons were real, I remember asking my mom why there were lines around the "actors" in a cartoon.— Steven Graziano
- I used to believe that actors were little people that lived inside the television set.Anon
- I thought the women in Prisoner Cell Block H were actresses banged up in prison themselves.— Reb Kean
- When I was five, I tried to report myself to the police because I'd drawn on the furniture.Anon
- I used to believe that I could jump through the television and be where the people were on television.— Ash
- I thought live-action films were very, very well-drawn cartoons.Anon