media: tv shows

When I was a kid, my mom watched alot of star trek, so naturally, I started watching it with her. Around then, I thought that starfleet academy was a real place and I wanted to grow up to be a starfleet officer

My dad would always watch the show Cops, while I would watch with him. Since most of the people on the show were black, it led me to believe every black person was a criminal. Whenever I saw a black person on the street, I would start singind the Cops theme song. Needless to saw, my mom wasn't to thrilled.

I had a bunch of misconceptions when it came to Wheel of Fortune. When I was really little, I thought Vanna White was a robot because she never talked (I guess I always missed the end segments). Once I figured out she was a real person, I thought she and Pat Sajak were married (I believed this for years). I also believed that the center of the wheel was filled with green slime like on Nickelodeon.

When I was very young I watched Doctor Who. The daleks scared me half
to death, and because of their shape I associated them with garbage cans.
Whenever I saw a black garbage can I would scream and run away.

When I was about 3, I LOVED Mr. Rogers. I used to watch him all the time. One year, he was participating in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade that I was watching with my mom.

There he was...I was so excited and began waving to him from our living room. When he went by on his float, he was waving to the camera and in that moment, I truly believed that he was waving back at me.

When I was younger, when watching TV, I used to think that the laughing that happens after a joke was the laughter of the other people watching the show from their own living rooms. I used to try to talk to my cousins or friends if I knew they'd be watching the same show.

When I was a kid in the 60's, we'd watch the Ed Sullivan Show. I remember being really confused because in the beginning, they'd say "Life from New York...The Ed Sullivan Show." Then at the end they'd say, "This show has been pre-recorded." When I pointed it out to my dad, he roared with laughter.

I used to believe…

just like anon i used to believe that bat man was evil and holding robin hostage.

i used to believe that the bubbles on the laurence welk show came out of the people's instruments

One of my earliest memories of a TV personality (on par with Mister Rogers, in my three-year-old estimation) was of a Chinese chef named Dan. He wore aprons with funny slogans on them, and his TV show was called 'Wok With Dan'. My mother once even took me to sit in the studio audience and watch his show being taped.

Years later, I saw another Chinese cooking show with a different title and a chef named Martin Yan, and I thought Martin was Dan's older brother. Fortunately it didn't take very long for me to figure out that the other show had not been called Wok With Dan, and that it was actually the same guy. (I was a little white girl from farm country in Canada, and I'd never met anyone named Yan. It was an easy mistake.)

So I'm a lifelong fan. If I'm home on a Sunday I still watch Martin Yan's Chinatowns while I eat lunch.

Thanks to The Muppets, I used to believe that Dr. Watson really was a dog in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Years later I was very confused at first when I started reading one of them.

When you here studio audiences reacting to things, I used to think this was other people at home watching. I also thought that if I laughed loud enough or shouted things, they'd be able to hear me!!

For years my Brother thought Hi-Di-Hi was set in the present day rather than the 1960s.

He also though it was illegal for someone to be on 2 different television channels at the same time.

When I was 5 or 6 I thought Matt Dillon (Gunsmoke)shot a new guy every week. I decided I didn't want to be an actor if I might get shot by Matt Dillon.
It just seemed a high price to pay for fame.

My mother used to watch General Hospital when I was a kid. There was one character who went to the nut house. A while later the character came back but was played by a different actress. I used to think that people who went to mental institutions came back as totally different looking people.

When I was 5 or 6 I would get up really early to watch Monty Python's Flying Circus. I would watch and get very ticked that there were no clowns or elephants doing tricks. (Or was there)