When I was little I was terrified of a commercial with dancing pants. Every time the commercial would come on my mom would act like she was calling the cable company to tell them to quit airing it. That would work until the commercial came on again, and then she'd have to "get angry" at them for not listening to her the first time.
A childhood belief about adverts

others believed things like this
- Because of a commercial I seen on tv, I thought the whole world was the size of the of the U.S.— Paulette
- When I was little, I used to think the commercial advertising the Mitsubishi car was actually a Mr Fishy Car.Anon
- I used to believe that spaghetti grew on trees, based on a pasta commercial from the 70s.— Dianne
- i thought aliens would come to earth year 2000 because of a commercial were an alien ate a hot dog— ulle
- Living near Canada's border without cable, I didn't know I was American. — Romania
- I used to believe that you could quit smoking by eating cold turkey:)— Loren