I used to believe that a "Sitcom" was any live-action comedy show. So, like, Spongebob wouldn't be a sitcom, because it's a cartoon. I also thought that the name meant Sit-Comedy, you would SIT down and laugh and the COMEDY.
A childhood belief about tv shows

others believed things like this
- a sitcom meant that you sat while you were watching the comedyAnon
- I used to think that 'black comedy' was show like Family Matters and The Cosby Show.— Katie
- For the longest time I thought 90210 was a sitcom Anon
- I thought live-action films were very, very well-drawn cartoons.Anon
- When i was a kid, i thought that nematodes would eat our house like in one episode of SpongeBobAnon
- I thought Spongebob Squarepants was a piece of Swiss cheese.— Melanie