I used to believe that when the bad guy characters on a TV show had a gunfight that they actually were shot and then just went to the hospital to get better (you would see them week after week on different shows getting shot and then appearing on another show.)
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- I thought the guy who got shot at the beginning of Gunsmoke was replaced every week by a live guy.— Monica
- I used to believe that guns shot out blood because everytime somebody shot a gun in a movie you saw blood.Anon
- I used to believe that the people who got shot in TV shows where people who wanted to die.Anon
- I used to think that the actors on tv shows sang the show's theme song.Anon
- I used to think that 'black comedy' was show like Family Matters and The Cosby Show.— Katie
- I used to think that every time a show came on tv, that the actors were inside my tv acting out the show.Anon