My dad told me that the Simpsons were yellow because Marge made a poisonous soup and everybody in Springfield ate it, and became yellow. I believed it until I was 15, and I still suspect that there is an episode I missed in the begining where they turn yellow.
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- When I was 6 or 7, I believed that people could have yellow skin like in the simpsons— Noah
- I believed that the gap between the double yellow lines in the road was a special lane for motorcycles.— Joel
- I used to believe that if i behaved badly i would be taken away in a yellow van.— Mattio
- I used to believe that we all lived in a yellow submarine— Jacob
- Up until about six, I use to believe that everyone had a different color of pee and I was stuck with yellow.Anon
- I used to believe bananas came from yellow monkeysAnon