Whenever I was coloring with markers and didn't have a skin-colored marker, I would color the people yellow. So when I saw The Simpsons, I naturally assumed that they were yellow because the person drawing them didn't have a skin-colored marker.
A childhood belief about tv shows

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the people who "colored" The Simpsons ran out of skin-toned crayons.Anon
- When I was 6 or 7, I believed that people could have yellow skin like in the simpsons— Noah
- When I was younger, I used to think that people with different colored skin had different color poops.— Samuel
- I used to think that little people in my penis had crayons and colored my pee yellow.— Ryan
- i used to believe that everyone had different colored pee. mine just happened to be yellow.— rick
- My poop was always around the same color as my skin so I assumed white people's poop was white.— jaycee