I used to think that a guy would sit in a big circular room with light switches underneath every tv channel screen. When the time came he would switch the switch for commercials. But he would sometimes make mistakes which was why some commercials were so short.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- I used to belive that if we could find the light switch that controlled the sun, we could control the world. Anon
- I used to believe that there was an off switch to the ocean so that it could go to sleep at night.Anon
- I used to believe that commercials would only go away when you bought the product that was being advertised.— Hayabusa
- Thanks to the commercials,I believed that Philadelphia Cream Cheese was made by Jesus.— Too Literal
- When I was younger I thought that if I ate Gusher's, my head would turn into fruit, like in the commercialsAnon
- I always thought you could break through the tv screen and walk into whatever was on the screen at the time.— Linda