media: tv

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.

I used to believe that you could talk to the people on tv and that they would talk back. I am a basketball fan so when I was younger I would always yell at the players thinking that they could hear me and learn from their mistakes.

I used to believe that when people kissed on tv they actually had a little peice of glass between eachothers' lips because it would just be crazy to actually kiss someone just for a tv show. And no one could tell because glass is clear.

I used to believe that when a t.v show stopped, and the credits were rolling with the last shot as a backgroud, the people in it had to freeze until the credits finished and i used to feel sorry for those people becuase they couldn't move or breath for such a long time!

I used to believe that people on TV shows, actually WERE in the TV. Particularly Scooby Doo, for some reason. And I had this 'lifelong dream' of finding a secret way into the TV and solving mysteries with the gang, and to be Daphne's best friend.

my mom brought a vcr home for the first time. i had never seen one before. she told me that it would let us watch movies on our television. she set it down on the floor in front of the tv. i ran over and looked at the back of it to see where the movie would be projected out of the vcr and onto the tv.

I used to believe that when you watched tv whenever the shot was changed to a different camera that the operator would quickly pull out the tape and throw it to the next person who had the next shot.

I used to think "Hulk Hogan" was really "Haul Kogan" before I knew his name!

Our son thought if you turned off the TV it would save your place like a bookmark in a book. (He was 5 before he remembers seeing TV, we lived in Europe)

I used to believe that when the movies or TV shows were playing, they were actually acting them out live. I was amazed at the memory power they had to do marathons, and to do their shows over again many times during the year.

I used to believe that when people in TV shows turned on the TV, they could see me. It made perfect sense to my 4 year old self. Since I could see them they had to have seen me.

I used to believe, having only one TV in the house, that televisions worldwide could only receive one signal at once, and that changing the channel would change it for all of them. This was my explanation for commercial breaks and the like.

This is not me, but a friend of my father's. Apparently, Dad and his friend used to watch TV together as young boys, and Dad's friend didn't have a TV when he was little, so he didn't know how TV worked, so every time there was an ad break, he would burst into tears and rant about how the show had ended too early.

I used to believe when you turned the TV off, the program would turn off, and
when you turned it back on, it would resume from where it left off.

I used to think that if you stood next to the television and looked into and past the edges of the screen, you would be able to see more of the picture, much like you can when looking into a mirror.

I used to believe that when an actor died or was killed in a TV show that they were really dead. I was always amazed to see that actor appear in a different show at a later date. "That can;t be the same guy, he died on that last Perry Mason episode".