When I was really young and I first saw The Simspons on TV, I didn't know that they were supposed to be humans. I thought they were these wierd-looking aliens with yellow skin. When I saw a character with dark skin that wasn't yellow, I thought, "Wow, he actually looks like a normal person. "
A childhood belief about cartoons

others believed things like this
- When I was 6 or 7, I believed that people could have yellow skin like in the simpsons— Noah
- In 'Call Me Maybe', I misheard 'Ripped jeans skin' as 'Rich cheese skin'. — Carly Rae Cheddar
- as a young child i thought poo was brown from eating chocolate and pee was yellow from drinking apple juice!Anon
- I used tobeleive that skin crickets would eat my fleashif i went outside after darkAnon
- When I was younger I used to believe that the darker your skin was, the dark your shadow would be.— Mary S.
- I used to think that someone having dark-coloured skin was a result of eating too much chocolate.Anon