When I was about 3 or 4, I thought that when they said they had to be 'shot' (i.e. filmed), they had to shot with a little dart that let them be filmed somehow.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- 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 EVERYTHING we did was being filmed for someone somewhere to watch as a movie— KatBird_27
- people on soaps didn't know they were being filmed— katherine
- I thought the song "Hit me with your best shot" was "Hit me with your pet shark"Anon
- 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 when you were fired, you were shot.— Murray