tv

I used to think when people died or got shot on t.v., that they really got hurt or died in real life. I used to think, "i wonder how he felt about having to get shot. Did he really want to die?"

Keis

When I was maybe 5 or 6, I used to believe that whatever channel I turned the television to would appear on every single television in the whole world. I would randomly flick through the channels or switch to a boring TV station if I felt like making the world mad.

J

I used to think that whenever a character died in a show or moive, that the actor playing the character died. I used to think that acting must be a stupid job, cause one day you'd have to die, just to make the story.

Anon

When I was really little, we only had basic cable (17 channels or so), and there were only a select few shows that I was allowed to watch (Sesame Street, Polka Dot Door, Mr. Dress-up), and of course, my parents watched the news from time to time, and my dad watched golf. So, logically, I believed that these were the only shows in existence, and each show had its own channel. So, it made perfect sense to me to say "Can someone please turn the TV to Sesame Street" on any day, at any time.......and I'd be upset if it wasn't on, lol.

Emily

When we got a cable TV one of the channels you had to pay extra for was scrambled so that the image was black-and-white and upside-down. I convinced my little sister that it was the Australian TV.

Anon

I thought that when the lights went out, putting a candle behind the tv would make it work :)

Ricky

We had a really old, small tv when I was a kid. I used to believe that the little black and white world that we watched was really a little black and white world, there for our entertainment, separate from our own. I'd wonder about all that stuff packed into the little tv, in amazement.

kabby

I had just learned how to read, and whenever the family would be watching t.v and the screen would say please stand by I would get up and stand next to the t.v thinking I was helping with the technical difficulties. My parents never told me any different.

Anon

i used to think that when you turned on the tv there was a stage somewhere just for your tv and when you turned the tv on people got on stage and you were watching it live and when you changed the chanel that new people would run on the stage, and thats why it took a while for the chanel to change

catherine

The TV announcer said "and the killer is still at large." My son, about 4 or 5 at the time, looked at me and asked, "Dad, where is Large." He was worried that the city of Large was close to our city and the killer might come and get us!

Anon

When I was little I thought that watching TV too closely would give you sqaure eyes. So I one day went up to the TV and watched it real closely and turned to my mother and said "are my eyes sqaure". My little sister had a friend who used to watch the TV real closely and she had an eye patch (due to the fact she had a weak eye) but I thought it was the damage from her getting sqaure eyes!

Jason

when i was little i thought that if you walked up to the tv and tried to look past the edge og the sreen you would see more of the pic but when i was watching barney and actally tried this i was sad cuz i couldnt see the bird that had flown off screen.

jojo

I believed that Archie and Edith Bunker (from the TV Show ALl in the Family) were my grandparents. I remember getting excited and announcing to the family that "Grandma and Grandpa are on the TV!"

RoB

I used to believe that Jiminy Cricket was a grasshopper because I had never seen a green cricket.

Anon

When i was younger if i saw a black and white photo or something on tv in black and white....i used to think things where actually black and white

Anon

I use to believe when you would watch a comedy t.v. sitcom and heard the people laughing through the t.v. They could hear me back if i went to the tv and laughed into it.

Anon

I used to think that when actors died on telly, they really died. But since I still got the concept of actors, I figured that the people who made the movies just gave the actors everything they wanted for a week, on the condition that they could kill them on film at the end.

When I found out years later that this formed the basis for snuff films, I was outraged that they'd stolen my idea.

Glen Murphy

In the first days of color TV, some shows were broadcast in color, while others were not. My grandparents were the only people I knew that had a color TV at the time, so it was quite a novelty for me and rather alien. When a show would be broadcast on their TV in b/w, I would tell my grandfather something was wrong. (After all, a color TV should display color at all times.) My grandfather told me each time that the set had run out of color and he would have to refill the bottles. I guess I believed that until I was nine or ten years old!

Buck Tilford

My uncle had convinced me when I was a child that he had a tv that you put quarters into in order to watch the shows (kind of like old style pay per view!!!)

Jude Horrocks

My mum used to say that if you had your T.V on after nine the police would come and get you, so when I watched T.V I would look out for a police helecopter.

Lindsay