tv

I Used to believe that When you watched TV they were actually taping it at that time and it was Live so i watched 2 movies that had the Same Character in it and i was like "Dad How did that actor get into two places at once?"

Jonasfan

I used to believe that if my Dad took a picture of me stood next to the TV when Going Live was on, it would look like I had really met Sarah Greene. We still have the poloroid!

Hollie

When I was about 6 and would watch a sitcom, I thought the laugh track was other people sitting in front of their TVs watching the show, and that they could hear us. For the life of me, I couldn't figure out how they were otherwise so quiet.

Jerry

when i was little i was terrified of Stick Stickly and my older cousin took advantage of this and said Stick would come to my house at night in a little pink car and eat my brains. I was dumb enough to believe it

Brainless

When I was a little kid there was a soap opera called "Search For Tomorrow" that was on in the afternoons. I remember seeing a commercial for it and wondering how people were supposed to watch it *now* since it wouldn't be on until tomorrow.......

N.

I thought actor's had to redo everything every time and episode would come on again, and just on cable but on VHS too.

Luke

I used to believe that there were little people inside the TV and everybody was all squished in there and whenever a new show came on or the channel was changed, they quickly went up to the front of the TV.

C.W.

I used to think live-action films and television programs were acutally computer-made, so there were not real people there.

Anon

When I was quite young, I use to think TB shots (for tuberculosis) were TV shots, and you got them so if you watched too much television you wouldn't get TV eyes, like in the kids' book The Boy with Square Eyes.

Anon

I used to believe that turning the TV off while a character is on screen kills the character. I would also fast forward over part where a character is suffering because I believed that would make their suffering last for a shorter amount of time

Anon

I believed that TV shows continued on after we watched them. I thought we only got to see an hour of their lives.

Dawn Quiett

If i concentrated hard enough i could enter the televison, and visit Walt Disney programs, especially Winnie the Pooh and Tigger etc. I would shut my eyes, concentrate my hardest that i was there and i tried to enter by hitting my head into the t.v.
Somehow, it never worked

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I used to believe that actors got paid so much money because everytime an ad, tv show or movie that they were in played on TV they had to act it again. I didnt realise that it was taped and they just did it once and replayed the tape. I just figured they stayed in the studio or where ever waiting til they got told that their part was in.

Blonde

Back WAY before VCRs and DVD's, I used to think that when you turned off a broadcast TV program, that the program would resume from where you left off when you turned your TV back on. :oD

Patrick Lynn Burns

When we got our first television, it was during a presidential convention week. Every time it was turned on it was the same program. I thought that it just picked up where it left off when you turned it on.

Anon

I used to think that when I saw someone on TV whom I knew to be dead , it meant that it was his or her ghost.

Sophie

I used to be told that if you watched too much TV your eyes would turn square.

Amy

I used to believe that every television program was live - that they were being taped at the same time that people watched them. Videotapes worked the same way; putting the tape into the VCR would send some sort of signal to the actors and cameramen in the studio. The FBI warnings at the beginning of the movie were really there to give them time to get ready before performing~

Katie Foster

I am SOO glad that I am not the only kid who believed that the TV would stop when you turned it off and resume the same show when you turned it back on. I thought that until I was at least in 4th grade.

Jenn

When I was young, I knew that all the cartoon Disney features I watched were drawn by animators. When I watched grown-up movies (ie live action), I was quite surprised and wondered who could draw that well... I was about 7 when I found out that they were actually filmed.

Sheltered Child