tv shows

There used to be a channel called TechTV. On it, they had a show called "The Screen Savers". I used to think that it was a show where they showed Screen Savers which are those little videos that play when you walk away from your computer. As soon as I watched it I realized it was a show about computers.

Anon

I used to believe EVERYTHING I watched on Nova and In Search Of. I would try to research things and I took notes on all the shows. I knew that one day I would discover exactly how internal combustion worked and save people from burning up!

Jennifer Camille

When I was little, I didn't know the difference between "cash" and "change". So I used to wonder, when people won money on game shows, how the contestants got thousands of dollars in quarters home.

Anon

I used to believe that the wolf or whatever in the 'Road Runner Show' would one day catch the bird.So saddened that with all these years of trying he still hasn't.

Epimeno01

Because the teacher's name in Clifford is Mrs. Carrington, I assumed every fictional female authority figure had the last name "Carrington" by default. So I thought Vee from Chuggington's full name was "Bea (I misheard her first name) Carrington".

Anon

Recently I was watching reruns of 'Let's Make a Deal' (hosted by Monty Hall) with my sister, and she said, "When I was little I thought his name was Monty Python".

Brooke

I used to tell my Mom I was going to take the "Love Boat" to "Fantasy Island".

kandi

One time when I was a little girl, my dad came in and turned of the TV while I was watching it. Upset at him, I said, "I wish Charlie Brown was my dad!"

Cassandra

I used to think that some television shows were real. That they were merely people being filmed without knowing it. My idea was stolen though. They now call that "Reality Tv" not the Brady Bunch.....

Reality Tv

My brother used to believe (and insist) that "Family Feud" was really called "Family Feudge" (pronounced "fyooj"). I don't remember when he finally came clean about it.

Joey Schwartzman

For some reason, I thought Siskel and Ebert was a show starring 2 sisters, so my little sister and I would play "Siskel and Ebert", and we'd have all these adventures. It was fun

Ls

As a child watching Mama's Family, I truly believed the Mama was an old woman acting on tv. I NEVER knew that Mama was actually Vicki Laurence!

Paulie

I used to believe when a show was on people were filming it right then.LOL!

someone else

I used to believe that you could jump into the TV show and interact in the cartoon world, like in Channel Chasers.

Isabelle

Not my belief, but my son's. He's 3. He watches Blue's Clues religiously, and one night, thought that he could 'ski-doo' into a picture, just like blue and Steve. It was the middle of the night when he first tried this. I woke up to him singing the 'ski-doo' jingle, two seconds of silence, then about a half-hour of crying and trying to explain to him that he can't ski-doo!

gerald626

A former colleague used to believe that the title of the show "Jim'll Fix It" referred to the presenter's name. He thought the show was presented by a guy called Jimall Fixit.

Steve Buck

When I was very small (3 years), I would only catch bits and pieces of M*A*S*H as my mother and grandmother watched. I knew there was a character called Radar, and I figured it must be the one who dresses up like a woman, because he'd be able to sneak up to the enemy in all of his disguises.

20 years later, M*A*S*H is still one of my favorite shows of all time

Itty

I used to watch "The Gary Gnu Show" religiously. They had a character on there named Speed Reader. I thought he actually was reading as fast as it looked like he was.

Mattchoo

I used to believe that the power rangers were real and every time they fought, it was really going on.

Me

I thought that Big Bird's gender was unidentifiable. I just assumed that Big Bird was both male and female. That's why I was disgusted by "hirm"*.

*hirm - pronoun used to refer to an individual who is both male and female. Contraction of "him" and "her".

MD Caruso