tv

When I watched Stars in Their Eyes as a 90's kid, I always thought the person dressing up as a singer was instantly transformed the second they went through the doors and came out again, and didn't realize that they were just speeding up the time, while he or she had a makeover!

Natasha

Many moons ago, when I was a kid I used to watch "Underdog". On that show there was a character named Polly Purebred. Being my silly 5-year-old self I didn't understand what "purebred" meant and could never understand why a dog was named after bread.

N

When I was a child I used to believe that there were two hands inside the TV making the cartoons move.

Anon

When I was younger I believed that if I were approching too much my TV it would explode.

Antho8=>

I used to believe that Montel Williams was Oprah’s brother and that his name was “Luprah Winfrey”

Tim

When I was really little, I misheard "brought to you by" as "broctayu by", thinking broctayu was all one word. I thought it meant something like "affiliated with", as in "these products we're showing commercials for products we liked enough to use on the show". I wasn't entirely wrong, but I had a very naive and simplistic view of it.

Matt

I watched a TV version of "Jane Eyre" when I was about 6 and it really confused me. I thought a mad woman lived in out attic for about 3 years.

J

I used to believe that if i watched TV for too long, my eyes would turn square. As told to me by my mother.

Alex

Being a child of the 70's i used to thinks whilst watching The Bionic Woman on TV that i too could leap over fences etc. SO at the age of about 6 i went to the top of the stairs and made the dur dur dur dur noise that used to play when she jumped and leaped off the top of the stairs - how i didn't break my neck i will never know...... talk about tV influencing our young fragile little minds...

Anon

When I was little my mum led me to believe that there were only 2 TV stations, BBC1 & 2 as she didn't want me see the adverts and get the "I wants". It was only a matter of time before I discovered the other 2, from friends in the playground talking about cartoons and stuff that I'd never heard of - the shame!

Kathy

I used to think that if I was watching The Brady Bunch and Mom called for dinner that I could turn off the TV and come back to see the rest of the show when we were done. Although it never worked out that way I continued that thought process for a couple of years. I imagine I also used to bump into walls when I was learning to walk, back up and bump into them again. That's my only explanation.

Tom McDonald

My Mum and Dad would never let me watch rented videos more than once. They told me that the cassette had a counter in it, which the shop checked and would charge us the fee for each time the video was watched by us.

Anon

i used to believe when my parents recorded something on t.v. that it was also recording the noises we made.so i always sat real quite and a few years later my sister was recording a cassette of the radio and i would walk in and yell nadine sucks! thinking it would record it...and i'd ask her if she ever got a special message adn she'd me like nope

nikki

i used to belive when my dad used to watch the footy on TV if we couldn't see the scores in the top corner of the TV, if u peered round the edges of the screen you could see it. My neck must've really hurt...

hurt neck

If you look at a screen too long, your eyes will turn square.

Anon

My mum told me that cartoons were drawn by hand and that it took ages to do etc.. only I thought that all TV was hand drawn after that and amused my mum for ages by watching TV shows and marvelling at how clever the drawings were!

Clare

I used to believe as a child that the Jerry's Kids Muscular Dystrophy Association Annual Fund Raiser on television was literally for Jerry's kids. I couldn't figure out why Jerry Lewis kept having children if he knew they'd all be severely handicapped and have a debilitating disease.

Sofia

I used to think that if you got close enough to the T.V. you could see up ladies dresses.

Peter

When I was little (maybe 2 or 3), my family was sitting in the living room and my mom was watching the news. Operation Christmas Child was on the report, and when I heard that the kids didn't get presents, I took one of my presents from under our Christmas tree and tried to give it to one of the kids on the tv.

Cassie

i used to believe that people in black and white movies live in a colourless world and there were also miniature human like orchestra in the radio playing the music.

Adzmir