I used to watch the Hanna Barbara cartoon of Laurel and Hardy, and could never for the life of me understand why they called each other "Stan" and "Ollie" when their names were Laurel and Hardy, like the title said! Hah!
A childhood belief about tv shows

others believed things like this
- We knew a woman named Barbara Hannah, and I thought she was was in charge of Hannah-Barbara!Anon
- my boyfriend used to think that Hanna and Barbera were two women that did all the cartoons— Helen
- I thought a tidal wave was acutualy a title wave because if the wave was big enough it had its own title!— Nate
- My girlfriend belived that sitcoms were called that because you sat down to watch them.— Zeppy
- When I was little, I couldn't understand why people called me a tomBOY, instead of a tomGIRL.— Amanda
- I used to think light sabers were called life savers.— alison