media: tv

I used to think that having a bad signal from a tv or radio station meant that other people had already sucked up all the signal before it got to our house, and there wasn't enough to go around.

i used to believe that in sops/dramas that their name on set was their real name and when my mum told me that it wasnt their real names i was so shocked. i thought she was lying.

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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

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...

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!

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.

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.

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

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...

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

I used to believe cartoons where real people. You can imagine how that went...