When I was little, the only TV shows my parents ever watched were Seinfeld and Roseanne. I had no interest in Seinfeld, but the angry, constantly-shrieking-about-nothing Roseanne Barr intrigued me. After an unhealthy amount of exposure to the show combined with my own family experiences, I began to believe that all fathers' names were "Dan," since my own dad's name is Dan, and John Goodman's character on the show shares this name. The total lack of exposure I had to the first names of other fathers (who talks about that when they're little anyway?) led me to believe this odd little mistake for an embarrassing number of years.
A childhood belief about family
others believed things like this
- That "Twim Peaks" and Northern Exposure were the same show.— LongLiveRock
- I used to believe that God looked like George from Seinfeld. — Liz
- I thought God looked a little like Newman from SeinfeldAnon
- I used to think that 'black comedy' was show like Family Matters and The Cosby Show.— Katie
- I used to believe my parents names were mom and dad till i was 9— Sophiae
- As my parents had given me a name, I thought that it was up to me to give them names tooAnon