cartoons

I used to think that on winnie the pooh it hurt his feet when they were playing the theme song and he was walking on the letters that spelled out ''POOH BEAR'S HOUSE -]".

Deanne

I used to believe that Jane Jetson was supposed to be an alien. After all, she had those weird musk-ox-like horns!

I didn't realize until I was about 28 that those "horns" were just supposed to be her hair. Duh.

She was WAY more interesting when she was an alien!

Anon

I argued with my mother once that the Mighty Mouse cartoon was indeed in color, and I was positive! She said it couldn't be color on a Black & white TV. Who do you think was right?

Lily Lizard in AZ

My Husband and I both tried this as kids:

There was a cartoon/movie on years ago called "Dot and the Red Kangaroo". At one part, Dot shows the Red Kanagroo how to dig up water to survive or something (I forget the plot). She did this by on clean swipe on the soil with her claws and then the water appeared. Well, we both tried the same thing upon seeing the show. He gave up after a while, but I dug down at least two feet only to find NO WATER and that my parents house was built on a rubbish dump!

Meghann

As a big fan of cartoons as a child, I thought that it was only logical that WE too had the black outlines that surrounded most cartoon characters. I was amazed when I couldn't see my outline, or anyone elses for that matter..so I just figured that we moved to fast to see them.

Ohio..

The Animaniacs were fictionalizations of the Warner brothers and the "Warner Sister" it took me years to realize this was not the case.

Lee

My Dad had told me when I was around 5 years old that he made a potion that could turn me into a Ninja Turtle. I ran around and told all the neighborhood kids that I had this potion and was so cool becasue of it. Needless to say, I never turned into a Ninja Turtle.

Tater

When I was a kid I used to think Walt Disney was make-believe--like Santa or the Tooth Fairy. I guess Micky and his gang seemed to good to be true.

Aud

i used to believe that cartoons where real, i thought that they were acting, but they were still real!

happygirl

After watching for the first time the episode of the Rugrats with the dust bunnies I thought dust bunnies would come and eat me!!!

Pinkpanther#2

When I was little I thought the teenage mutant ninja turles were real. (this was back when they came out with the 1st cartoon show and the first movie and all) I thought this becuase I saw people in ninja turtle costumes on tv at certain events and because they starred in their own movie. I thought they were real superheros and celebrities. I got a 'autographed poster' by them and believed they really autographed it. I felt so special.

Amy

Rememeber the USA Cartoon Express? It came on the USA channel and it was a time when they showed a number of cartoons back to back. Well, they used to show an animated train with children on it, watching the cartoons. I ALWAYS wanted to get on that train and just watch cartoons all day long.

Stacey G.

when I was little I wasn't allowed to watch the simpsons, but my brothers were and when they would talk about the show and say "Bart," I would yell at them claiming that it was Bark not Bart, Bart wasn't a real word.

Leanna

I very early found out that cartoons are in fact series of fast changing pictures, each next only a bit different from previous. It was well explained in some magazine for kids. So I knew how does every cartoon work, but I though it is executed just like the cartoon-book you can make yourself - they are holding out there in the studio thick stack of colored papers right in front of camera, and when the sheets are moving very fast, it is just being filmed and showed on TV. So many times I just wondered why all those cartoons on TV are so perfect quality since there should be visible trails of sheets moves etc. Then some day I found out they just record each one picture in the other film-tape tile, and this is it.

Wojtek, southern Poland

You guys probably never heard of this show but I used to watch aaahhhh real monsters and one of the characters names was crumb. I was about five or six and my mom told me to pick up the crumbs on the floor. I thought she said crumb was on the floor so I got on the floor and looked for him. I thought he shrunk so tiny I couldn't see him and I never found him.

Tamra

I used to believe that looney tunes and nickelodeon were interchangeable words that meant the same thing

Ben

When I was 6 or 7, I grew up in that generation of Dragonball Z and Sailor Moon, so not only did I believe that if you learn martial arts you can utilize flying, and energy blasts, that if you believe hard enough and "train" that when you turn 14, you can become a sailor scout....Also only in japan did Pokémon and Digimon exist (they didn't coexist in the same area however), and you could only receive a partner if you lived there. So my pikachu plush was the closest I got to having a "real" Pokémon. I watched too much TV as a kid lol

CommanderFarron

when i was about 6 i asked my dad if cartoons saw each other as cartoons or as real people like if there world was all ya know..bright and colourful when my dad said they probly dont know that they werent real....i thought that was crazy and that surely they should know what they are. i still thionk about that sometimes lol

Anon

I used to believe that the town of South Park from the show South Park really exsited. I would always want to go there (cause I lived in Colorado) and meet Kenny (from the show). Now I know that it's based of another town in the SOUTH PARK VALLEY!

Tommy

I used to believe that you could become a real Pokemon trainer on your 10th birthday. Being the Pokemon lover I was, I got really excited for my 10th birthday to get my own starter pokemon and pokedex! When i actually turned 10, I got disappointed because I didn't become a real pokemon trainer but I did get a toy pokedex and pokemon figures. It wasn't the same, though.

Landon