I thought that when I was watching a cartoon on TV the cartoon would stop when I switched the TV off and start again at the exact same moment I stopped it at.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- I loved watching the cartoon Casper the Friendly Ghost and wondered why the Holy Ghost never got his own show.— Robert
- I thought cartoons were real, I remember asking my mom why there were lines around the "actors" in a cartoon.— Steven Graziano
- I had alligators and cartoon lions under my bed.— ruth
- i used to believe (when i was little) i could make the wind stop and start by saying, "stop" and "start"— Ali
- I thought if 3 cards stopped at a 3-way stop sign then they had to stop forever until Christmas.Anon
- Before the invention of the camera, everything looked like a cartoon with the quality/effect of oil painting.— MD Caruso