As a kid my favorite show was Smurfs. I used to believe that I could actually see them if I looked in mushroom patches, as if they were real people. So when I saw wild mushrooms growing in the back yard, I would look down and call for the smurfs to come out. I remember many times running inside crying to my grandparents that the smurfs didn't like me.
A childhood belief about cartoons

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that smurfs were real. I never ate mushrooms. I still don't eat them.Anon
- When I was a child I used to believe that smurfs lived in the mushrooms. So I didn't use to eat.— Ezgi
- i used to believe that the smurfs lived in ordinary mushrooms and i would never eat them!!!— eimear
- my bro used to belive there were smurfs in the atms passing out money— L
- At about age 7 I thought one could see the people running around on a map, if one looked hard enough.— Adam Smith
- I used to think my grandparents were born in prehistoric times.Anon