Before I learned about live studio audiences… I used to think that if I laughed really hard into my television speakers, that other families watching from their living rooms could hear me… because I reasoned that was where these other voices were coming from. So I purposely tried to laugh out of tune and when I heard someone that sounded like myself, I would smile with content because I had just heard myself on TV.
Later when I learned about reruns, I would get excited when I heard someone laugh like myself because I was certain that was ME from a previous taping.
A childhood belief about tv shows

others believed things like this
- whenever i heard a melody, i thought it stuck in my stomach when i heard it in my mindAnon
- I used to believe that if you spoke into the speakers that they would hear it at the radio station. — natalie
- When i was little i thought that people could laugh in different languages— Lauren
- When I first heard of Amsterdam I thought it was "Hamster's Den"— Bootlebat
- The first time i heard of someone getting fired from a job, i thought that they were actually set on fire.Anon
- When I was a kid I heard that the Beatles did acid and I wondered if they melted from it.Anon