I used to believe that cartoons lived inside the TV and you could tell them what to do by shouting into the back of the set, whenever popeye was in trouble i used to go mental for him to eat his spinach.
A childhood belief about cartoons

others believed things like this
- I used to think that if I ate spinach I would have a lot of strength (Popeye)— Fernando
- I used to think that if you ate spinach that eventually, you would be as big as popeye the sailor man.— Corrine
- I believed Popeye when he said spinach made him strong. Yuk Yuk Yuk— johnboy
- When I was a child I used to believe that there were two hands inside the TV making the cartoons move.Anon
- Because of cartoons, I thought that to drive you'd just turn the steering wheel back and forth constantly. — Mitsuki
- I used to believe that we lived inside the earth!— Natalie Howley