tv shows

When I was really little I used to believe if you broke the screen of the TV the characters would come out and you could talk to them and hang around them so every time Barney(which was my favorite tv show) came on i would ask my mom for the hammer and she asked why and i said i want to break the tv to play with barney

KeLly

I used to believe that the people who got shot in TV shows where people who wanted to die.

Anon

I used to believe that it took exactly one week to produce one episode of my favorite TV show, because a new episode would come out every Saturday.
Because of this, I also believed that reruns happened because one of the actors got sick or something and they weren't able to finish the episode in time for that week.

Chris M

I used to wonder how it would be snowing in summer and light when it was dark, and warm in the winter on tv shows. Finally I learned it was pretaped.

Anon

My sister and I would watch the Power Puff Girls when we were younger, and in the Theme Song, this Speech Bubble (now I realize it's probably a sound company or something) would come up, and we thought that meant that we could talk to the television charactors while that symbol was up. We would say things like 'Bubbles, you're my favourite!'

We still joke about this from time to time.

Megan

I was 6 or 7 when "Roots" came on. Everybody who was ever on TV was in it, and everybody in the country watched it. I guess it didn't occur to my parents that a mini-series about slavery might include some pretty uncomfortable stuff. At any rate, the scene where the slave drivers whip Kunta in order to get him to accept his new name? Well, after it was all over one of the actors said, "We sold off what was left of him." I thought they had whipped him so hard that he came apart, and they sold his body for meat! I was absolutely horrified that my parents weren't nearly as outraged as I was.

helen

I used to beleive that Big Bird's beak was made out of the same stuff birthday cake flowers were made of. Everytime I watched Sesame Street I wanted to take a bite out of his beak!

Susy

I used to think that the begining theme song on shows was done live every time. And I always thought that the people probubly got really sick of doing the same thing EVERY day.

Ashley

Way back in the 1950's there was a crime drama called "The Naked City". When my mother was a child, she heard about it when she was young and she thought it was about a city FULL of naked people. She got a big suprise when she first saw it.

Mike

For some reason, I once thought that OJ Simpson invented the Simpsons TV show. I asked my mom about this one day, and I stood corrected. It turned out that OJ was a past-football player and Matt Groening or whoever was the guy who invented the show. Now I wonder if Homer J Simpson was named after OJ.

The Wicked Witch of the Northeast

When I was very young (4 years i think maybe 5) I used to watch Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. I never really liked the show. So one day I was fed up with listening to him. So I went up to the TV and looked at Mr. Rogers and said, "You are stupid". The TV camera zoomed into his face and I thought he was mad at me. I got terrified and ran away and told my mom if the TV man could hear me. She told me no but I didn't believe her. I ran up to the TV and changed the channel quickly so he wouldn't yell at me.

gdc

I used to believe that when the hosts of Sale of the Century waved at the cameras when the show was ending, that they were actually waving goodbye to me. I used to wave back at them.

Claire

I used to believe that if you turned off the television the show would pause. i ran up the electric bill leaving the tv on all the time.

Britney

that Worzel Gummidge was the scariest thing on television... and the daleks of course.

tracy g

Because of the hit Brit sit-com Dad's Army I used to believe my dad would go off every Thursday and fight in a war. Because every Thursday was dad's army...

simon

I believed that on Romper's Room at the end of the show when the lady used to look through the magic hand held mirror and call names of the children she saw watching the program, that she could actually see the children. She called my sister's name but never called mine. That's because my sister's name is Denise which is a common name but my name is Jeneil. What was the likelihood of her calling my name. Now I know the truth!

Jeneil

people on soaps didn't know they were being filmed

katherine

After watching the episode of Barney the dinosaur about the four seasons i got it stuck in my head that ech season occured once a day. I wanted to plant something and it said on the packet to plant it in spring, so every few minutes i would ask my mother if it was spring yet.. This just goes to show that Barney is a lying sneak.

sabrina

When i was 3 or 4 i used to love Barney on tv. My cousins told me that Barney was murderer disguising himself as Barney. After that i stopped singing their songs and never watched it again.

mizkat

my best friend used to think that Jimmy Saville's name was Jim'll Saville because of 'Jim'll Fix It'

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