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I not only believed in the little people inside the telly (it seemed the most logical solution at the time) but also that these little people, in particular the daleks from Dr Who, were going to escape from the broken tv in next doors garage and come after me, a deeply worrying prospect at the time...

i was certain that when the television turned off, the people in the show froze, only to resume when the TV was turned back on. I was forced to turn off "the Incredible Hulk" and come to dinner. Afterwards, my dad turned on the TV when i went to the bathroom. I was furious to discover that the Hulk was over because Dad had turned on the TV without me...

I used to believe…

Tv had me going when I was a small kid. I beleived that the people I saw on the screen were really that size. I spent hours trying to get them out of the box. I wanted thoes talking dolls soooo bad (smiles).

I used to believe…

When I was younger, there used to be commercials of kids that would put on underwear featuring prints of cartoon characters, and would proceed to transform into these characters. So when my mom bought me a pair of He-Man briefs, I was really excited. Didn't work though...shattered my world for a while.

I used to believe…

Back WAY before VCRs and DVD's, I used to think that when you turned off a broadcast TV program, that the program would resume from where you left off when you turned your TV back on. :oD

I used to believe…

When our city's theatres began showing X rated movies, I always knew there were
naked people in them but I had no idea what else ever went on in those movies.
I figured it was otherwise just a regular movie but no one bothered to wear clothes. I figured the worst that ever happened is that the men and women
pointed to each other's parts and giggled.

I used to believe…

When I was 11 years old listening to my favorite radio station, on a transistor radio. I thought that the artists were at the radio station singing on stage.

i used to think that the songs on the radio were performed by the singers who were actually at the radio station. i didn't know they had records then! (i was pretty little!)

i used to believe that the people on tv could see you. once i waved my hand at a character on sesame and (coincidently or perhaps only in my imagination) they waved back. from that point on, i would always wave at the tv, but the people on tv were always ignoring me, being too busy with their own lives to wave back.

I used to believe…

When I got my first radio, I thought that my favorite band(s) were playing into the microphone at our local radio station....so every song was live!

I used to believe…

When i was younger i allways watched childrens t.v @ my grans house after school for hours on end! They said to me everyday that i would get square eyes. Then when i had 2 get picked up by my mum and dad i allways would go "mum, dad are my eyes square??" They allways said yes you have, as my gran allways stood behind me nooding her head to make them say yes. Why did i belive them?? because i was only little and they brought me up like that!

I was a young adult before I finally realized that, at the end of Hogan's Heroes, you're seeing Col. Hogan's hat on top of the spike of Col. Klink's spiked helmet. Until then, it had always appeared to be some weird kind of hat or helmet I'd never seen before.

I remember once when my grandmother--a dear old soul, but never the sharpest tool in the shed--was watching a Western with my family, and she asked, "How did they film that? Did they have movie cameras back then?"

None of us made a sound, but the silent laughter was deafening.

She also thought, when somebody got killed in a movie, then they really were dead.

She could never get the concept of that show, "Police Squad" either--you remember, the show that was like "Airplane," but it made fun of cop shows. There would be a cop (Leslie Nielsen) and a bad guy firing at each other, and the camera would pull back to reveal that they were, like, two feet apart. No matter how many times we explained to grandma that the show was a spoof, and was supposed to be stupid, she'd still say, "Well, that's just silly. How can they miss! Even I could hit somebody that close!"

I have a zillion stories about her like that. TV was a lot more fun when she was around.

I used to believe that when you called the radio station and requested a song, that they had to get the people that sang the song to come to the station and sing it.

I used to believe…

Recently I was watching reruns of 'Let's Make a Deal' (hosted by Monty Hall) with my sister, and she said, "When I was little I thought his name was Monty Python".

I used to believe there was a lady sitting in the radio, singing.