cartoons

I was believe that cartoons were real.

Sophie

This is not exactly what I believe, but an example of the cruelty that older siblings inadvertantly inflict on their younger brethren.

My mum was studying psychology A'level when I was about 15. I had a younger brother - aged 3. He was really naughty and I was sick and tired of him getting to watch all the cartoons when I wanted to watch other stuff.

I read my mum's psychology textbook and came accross the idea of conditioning. I reasoned that my brother didnt know any different and so I could just tell him that news programmes were, in fact, cartoons. If I did it often enough then he would get the message and I could watch all the TV I wanted. For two weeks I stalked the little imp and kept telling him that news was cartoons and vice versa. Naturally, he wasnt having any of it and would scream blue murder whenever I turned over from a cartoon to the news and told him that I was giving him what he wanted.

Eventually my mum found out and grounded me for a week.

I'm now a clinical psychologist and my brother is an IT consultant. Need I say more...

mike

I used to love dragon ball z and all that manga stuff, i really thought that one day i would turn super and be able to fly and shoot power beams and id save the world. I also used to believe taht id one day be transported to a strange digimon world

weirdo i know

I used to believe that those cartoon 'specials' (the ones where they take loads of old classic cartoons and splice them together with a couple of badly-animated new scenes to link the totally unrelated stories) were in fact brand-new, hour long cartoons I'd never seen before.

Anon

i believed that you could do things that happen in cartoons so i used to try and do what they did like get hit by sumtin and become flat or sumtin, of course i went through many band-aids and used alot of ice

Wayne

I used to believe that cartoons were filmed live action by tiny tiny people that lived in the carpet.

Liz

I Used To Believe In Superheroes, I Used To Tell My Parents I Wanted To be One, Also Used To Think Pirates Were Fun/Cool I Wanted To Be One They Talked To Me About Both Those Situations

KellGirl

I used to think cartoons were painted with pencils..and movies were painted with pilots

Laura Alpízar (CR)

i thought that the people in the cartoon shows where real. like tom and jerry. i loved thoughs two to death. so i would all was woundered why dose jerry all was hurt tom so much after all all toms trying to do is his job.
:)

lizzy

Until quite recently I thought that all cartoons were made by drawing the same picture over and over and the pictures then being flicked in front of a camera, like the flickbooks you make in school. I imagined a poor, underpaid Korean man (for some reason exploited workers were Korean) standing in front a camera and flicking thousands and thousands of pictures.

Anon

I thought Hannah Barbera was one woman until someone writed exactly that belief, a minute since

Anon

i used to believe that when i watch GODZILLA,
TOKYO city is in a big problem and many people are killed by her.

Hisashi

When I was little, I used to watch "Underdog", and on that cartoon was a character named Polly Purebred. Being around five years old, I had no idea what a pure bred dog was, and thought that it was weird that Polly Purebred was named after some kind fancy bread.

N.

At one point when I was little, I believed cartoon characters were played by actors (not voiced, actually played by them, by people in costumes) like on sitcoms. My mom quickly set me straight.

trfan01

I saw something on a cartoon show when I was about 5, that a little kid put toilet paper on the floor claiming it's a river, and a chair over it claiming it's a bridge. He got someone to cross the bridge, but he fell in, so he was in real water and drowned. I really wanted to go swimming, but my parents said no, so I wasted a whole bunch of toilet paper putting it on the floor and putting a chair over it. I kept on stepping on the toilet paper, but it was still dry. Then I found out those cartoons were just making stuff up to amuse little kids.

Misty

On Aladdin theres this bit where the guard runs his thumb across a sword.
So i took the biggest knife i could find and ran my thumb across it.
needless to say i bled a lot and cried.

Becci

I used to believe in SUPERHEROES (and I kinda still do)...

Tina

I once was absolutely terrified of steam or any other white gas. This was because i'd seen a halloween special of the simpsons. At the end it showed the family getting turned inside out by a mysterious fog. They then started dancing around and singing.
I didn't want to join a freak show!

Maverick

I used to think the "D" in the Disney logo was actually a "G" for years and I never understood why, until my mom showed me I was looking at it wrong and it actually was a "D"! I still think it's easy to mistake for a "G".

Smarter than you!

When I was young I had a huge fear of the Kaa snake from the jungle book cartoon. I would always hide in the other room when he came on the tv. He would give me constant nightmares too.
I'm 15 now, he still scares the @%#$ out of me.

Hool