You know how the bottle for Mrs. Butterworth's pancake syrup looks like a little lady? When I was a child, the television commercials would show that bottle walking around on the table talking to people. I thought it was real. After all, it didn't look like a cartoon. When I would eat pancakes, I would stare intently at that bottle because if it so much as budged, I wasn't going to miss it. I always thought that the bottles we kept getting were broken because she didn't move or talk.
A childhood belief about adverts
others believed things like this
- I thought that elmers glue was made from milk, since it had that cow on the glue bottle. — Monty
- that a piece of liver in your fridge if left overnight would wrap itself around a bottle of milkAnon
- I used to believe the people of television were talking to me alone !— Margaux, a French student in eighth grade
- I used to belive that all animals could talk but just didn't want to aroung people!— Mallory
- For the longest time I didn't know that Spinal Tap wasn't a real group. No wonder I couldn't find their music.— Louis
- I used to turn the TV off when I left the room so I didn't miss anything.— S.Lee