tv shows

I used to feel sorry for the kids on Sesame Street because I thought it looked like they lived in the ghetto. The city street scene with the buildings and garbage cans and lack of grassy fields, etc. was very different from the houses with land and livestock, trees, and barns that I was used to seeing.

rural child

On the News show "One News" a reporter, once finished reporting a story would state thier name and the News Crew they were with, for examle "Joe Bloggs, One News". But I believed they were saying "Joe Bloggs, Won News" as if the news was a huge competition to see who could get the best story possible

Patrick Lees

I used to believe that the heart at the beginning of the I Love Lucy Show was made of real chocolate.

Krissa

I used to believe that 'canned' laughter (from sitcom tracks and the like) actually came from a can- that you opened a giant tuna can with speakers inside, and you could hear the audience laughing in front of their TVs. This was waaaaay past the era of sitcoms... and I believed it until about 3 years ago. ::BLUSH::

Tarka

I used to believe that when a movie or programme ended on TV and the credits came up, that it was just time for parents to put their kids to bed and then go on watching!

Nicholas Orsmond

On Blue's Clues, Steve would ask a question and you would hear a bunch of little kids answer. I thought that I could be a national superstar just by yelling answers into my TV's speakers.

Kat

That "Twim Peaks" and Northern Exposure were the same show.

LongLiveRock

When I was 5, I used to think the people on the Cosby Show were a real family. Then one day I asked, "Why can't be we on TV too? And who are the people whose names keep coming on when the show starts?" and my aunt said, "TV isn't real, they're pretending". That changed my world, since up to that point I thought EVERYTHING on TV was real.

Rhonda

Me & my brother used to think that the science programme QED was called "KWED" rather then "KYOO EE DEE".

Richard Davies

When I was young and watched reruns of my favorite children's programs, I used to believe that each show was filmed over and over again and that every show was live. I was amazed at how the actors could say the same exact things and make the same exact movements for each show.

olivia

At my grandmas house many years ago, when the orginal Twilight Zone was new, there used to be a panic before the show started to change the channel. If they missed it and the show actually started with "Do not adjust the vertical, do not adjust the horizontal..." no one was allowed near the TV until the show had finished.

Blackie

I used to believe that Tiff Needell was called Tiffany Dell. I could never figure out why a bloke, espeically a racing driver, had a girls name.

Steve Sutton

There was a persistent rumour at our school (that I believed) that Happy Days had been filmed in the 1950's and The Fonz had died in a motercycle accident shortly after it had finished.

Darren

When I used to watch "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids," I believed that Russell was a girl. Must've been the hat and the funny voice. Being a girl myself, I wanted someone to identify with, I guess.

When I got the Fat Albert board game one Christmas, I wanted to play Russell. My mom said to my dad "Is that his brother." "SISTER!" I said, adamantly. My parents gave up trying to explain.

Sometime later, Russell used the phrase "Yuck, a girl!" on the show, and I think that convinced me. Rocked my world, though.

Bill Cosby had an album, which I didn't hear until years later (although my parents had heard it long before I got the Fat Albert game) called "To My Brother Russell, Whom I Slept With."

--Beth

my best friend used to think that Jimmy Saville's name was Jim'll Saville because of 'Jim'll Fix It'

lulu

When I was really little I used to believe if you broke the screen of the TV the characters would come out and you could talk to them and hang around them so every time Barney(which was my favorite tv show) came on i would ask my mom for the hammer and she asked why and i said i want to break the tv to play with barney

KeLly

When I was little, I always thought that the actors/actress's on TV had to act all over again if it was a rerun.

Autumn

I used to watch the Hanna Barbara cartoon of Laurel and Hardy, and could never for the life of me understand why they called each other "Stan" and "Ollie" when their names were Laurel and Hardy, like the title said! Hah!

Chelsea

I used to believe that the people who got shot in TV shows where people who wanted to die.

Anon

I used to believe that it took exactly one week to produce one episode of my favorite TV show, because a new episode would come out every Saturday.
Because of this, I also believed that reruns happened because one of the actors got sick or something and they weren't able to finish the episode in time for that week.

Chris M