tv

I used to believe there were little people inside the television and the radio that werew acting and making the sounds inside them. I used to try and crawl behind the tv and squint to look into the vent to see the little people. I even took a radio apart to try and find them.

Christina

I used to belive that if we break the television we could enter in the filme our in the programs that tv was playing

claudia

I used to believe that the networks were connected to my TV - and that I could punish them for bad shows by changing the channel.

Taunya

i used to talk to the people on playschool through the speaker part of the tv...id get right up close to the telly and have in depth conversations with my mouth over the speaker...i guess it jsut never phased me that they werent answering back!! :)

teresa :)

when I was a kid, I had seen Morgan Freeman on the American television
show for kids, the Electric Company. He was dressed up as Dracula, which
scared me a lot. I used to think that when the lights were out upstairs, he
was up there waiting for me at the top of the steps. So, basically, as a kid,
nothing scared me worse than Morgan Freeman. I think that's funny.

Tara

In the 50's when we got our first television, I believed all the really pretty women were'nt real but robots or dolls because no one could be that pretty and perfect.

Ligit

I used to believe that newsanchors always told the truth, kind of a legal requirement for being on TV. Then one day in the early 70s, when I was about 10, I saw an interview with Mohammed Ali. An hour or so later, Walter Chronkite paraphrased Ali completely to the opposite of what I had actually heard. I now believe one should never trust journalists.

Dave W.

I used to believe (because my dad told me) that at night he would take all of the little people out of the TV, I used to sneak down to have a luck, but he told me that they would only be safe to come out when I was in bed.

rob.

My dad purchased our first t.v. in 1948 and he was watching Peggy Lee I stood in front of the set and he yelled for me to get out of the way. Little did he know that i thought i could look down the front of her lowcut dress and get a free peek.

Young & Dumb

My father told me that the people on TV actually worked at the top of the TV towers. I used to worry about them when it was a windy day, thinking they are all going to fall off of the tower.

Diane

I use to believe (about 30 years ago) that when you turned the television off, the actors would all go and sit down somewhere inside the TV, until you turned it back on. Partly because it seemed like the Brady Bunch or cartoons were always on. Or maybe that's all my parents would allow me to watch.

Samm

Until I was 9, I thought shows that came on the tv were being performed at that very time. Live. So...I also thought all the bands were at the radio station.

Renee'

I use to think that if I sang the Animanicas theme loud enough Yakko Wakko and Dot (or people in costumes) would come over to my house and eat dinner.

Erica

I used to believe that you were not supposed to laugh out loud at TV sitcoms. I think because no one laughed when there was a laugh track.

Holly

My father told me that a local TV transmitter tower was where space rockets were launched from. For years I watched the tower to see the next moon launch.

Andrew

I used to believe that all tv shows were live and that repeats were the actors/actresses doing a very good job.

Claire

I used to think that when actors died on telly, they really died. But since I still got the concept of actors, I figured that the people who made the movies just gave the actors everything they wanted for a week, on the condition that they could kill them on film at the end.

When I found out years later that this formed the basis for snuff films, I was outraged that they'd stolen my idea.

Glen Murphy

In the U.S., televion programs are frequently aired an hour early in the Central time zone, presumably so that they may be simulcast to the east coast and the midwest. I assumed that this practice extended: when a commercial announced a show airing at "8, 7 Central", I assumed that we on the west coast would get it at 5 o'clock.

Joshua McGee

My parents never subscribed to cable, and it took me a while to figure out what it was. First I thought my mother was just mean becuase she whouldn't let me watch cable like my grandmother did. Once I figured out that we didn't get the channels, I thought it was something special that you had to live in the city to get (since I lived in the country and all my friends in town had cable). I had to be six or seven before I figured out you had to pay to get more than a couple of channels.

Juanita the Bee