tv

When I was a kid, I thought my dad could control what shows aired on the TV.
One day I was sitting in front of the TV, and told my dad that I wanted to watch some show, so my dad picked up the phone and "called the TV-station" and asked if the could please put on the show I wanted to see. Right after the comercials, my show started, and I considered my dad as a very influental man, until i learned about programlistings.

Andreas Aaris-Larsen

I'm not sure if they still do, but PBS at least used to conclude a lot of shows with, "... is brought to you by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by viewers like you." I assumed Viewers Like You was just another company of some kind.

Anon

When I was younger I used to think that where ever you turned off the television is where it would pick up when you turned it back on. I couldn't grasp the idea of the programs continuing after it was turned off.

jogo

I use to believe that when commercials came on the actors had to always go on and do it over and over again never knew it was recorded =) And i always asked myself how come they never mess up.

Anon

I used to think that the people on the t.v had to jump in the TV and then jump out when no one was watching...accually one time i tried to jump in the T.V. and had to get 6 stitches.

Krystie

When I was watching TV back when I was 7 or so, I used to believe that all the clapping in the shows were from people at home, so I would clap as loud as I could so I could hear myself on TV.

Christina

I used to beleive that if I broke open the T.V. I would be able to climb inside my favorite shows.

Chris

My Mom always showed me the old Black and White shows an said "That's all they had when I was young" One day I asked her "when did the world find color?"

GP

When i was little i used to think people on tv were
stuck in the tv and the button on the tv told them to switch costumes.

Katie

I once voted (aged 9ish) for a kids' TV-presenter by pressing a 'button' on the screen and watching the metres rise.

I actually believed they had somehow got a touch-screen capacity for the 'vote'.

I felt cheated that my vote didn't win.

My vote was the smelly tramp thrown in for comic effect (by rising furthest in the 'voting' chart, and then being pipped by the pre-selected presenter).

Anon

Although I realised TV was all pretend, I didn't have any idea of what stunt men were. Watching Starsky & Hutch one day, some guy got pushed off a tall building and was killed, so I concluded that the producers must have a) paid him incredibly well and b) fixed him up with lots of hot girls for a couple of months before shooting to persuade him to give up his life for his art...

RC

My brother always used to believe TV was live. One time he was watching a show with some actor. He decided he was bored of it so he changed to a different channel, and saw the same actor.

He got really freaked. As I passed his room in the next few days, I heard him murmuring things about running really quickly and changing clothes at the speed of light.

Anon

When i was just a boy, i used to believe that the tv hosts were presenting the show just for me:)))
so, i was changing the channel so that i could get then when they wouldn't speak. I also used to believe that if i'dd make funny faces in front of the tv, they'll begun to laught.:))

Muce

When I was youger, I used to believe that if you put the side of your face to the TV screen, you would be able to see everything else that they weren't showing you on the screen...like if there was a tree branch on TV, if I put the side of my face to the screen I would be able to see the WHOLE tree.

meee...

when i was a kid i used to think that if you were in the middle of watching a tv show and you turned off the tv, that when you turned it back on later, it would still be at the same spot in the same show like it was a movie put on pause... i think i believed this because my brother and i were watching some cartoon one day and turned off the tv to go outside and play, and when we came back in hourslater, we turned on the tv again and it was the exact part of the exact same episode of the exact same show we had been watching earlier. it was obviously just a wayyyy coincidental fluke, but from there on out i thought that's how tv worked.

Jill from Rocky Hill

I used to believe that when there was a kiss on TV or in a movie, that one person was kissing above the other person's lips and the other person was kissing below the other person's lips. I never thought they were actually kissing each other on the lips.

June

A girl in my sorority came to college planning on double majoring in theatre and pre-med, because she thought you needed an actual medical degree to play a doctor on TV, and her dream was to star in a show like Grey's Anatomy someday!

A smart(er) sorority girl

I used to think that when you turned off the TV, the program would stop, and then resume the next time you turned the TV on. I never noticed that this never seemed to be the case.

Buckler

When I watched PBS programs, there was always a long pause between the programs. I remembered watching my teacher rewind the movie reels in class, and stick another film on the projector. I imagined that was what was happening at the studio during those long pauses...the people in the studio were re-winding the movie, and sticking a new one on. Now that I am a broadcast technician by trade...I know what I thought was actually occuring...because TV programs back when I was growing up actually did come off of movie reels. Nowadays though, they come off of videotape. I also thought if you held a piece of videotape up to a bright enough light, you could see the pictures on it, just like on a piece of movie film

steven W

I thought If you hit the T.V. with a hammer and the screen broke then what ever you were watching would come out of the t.v.

BrownSugar778