There was a show called "You can't do that on Television" back in the (19)80's on Nickelodeon. Sometimes they'd ask the home audience to participate and 'vote' by pressing a Red or Green square on the screen. Although I always wondered how it worked, I really believed my vote went through by touching the TV screen. & sometimes, when I thought I was being slick, I wouldn't vote, just to see if 'they' would notice and say something to me on TV or send a letter to my mom.
A childhood belief about tv shows
others believed things like this
- I thought you could vote as many times as you want, not just once.— Lord Zedd
- If you look at a screen too long, your eyes will turn square.Anon
- I always thought you could break through the tv screen and walk into whatever was on the screen at the time.— Linda
- I used to believe that if I broke the glass on the tv screen, I could go into the tv show...— Karyne
- My sibs and I thought that the screen door was called the "scream door" so Mom could yell at us through it. — Kyle
- When I was little, I thought that if you stood behind the TV, you could see your insides on the screen.— C.W.