In about second grade my mom use to always watch Beverly Hills, 90210. Well in school, when we learned the phone number to call the police and fire department, 911, I ran home and excitingly told my mom. When she asked me what the number was I told her "90210".

Calvin Lee attempts to understand television:

When I was a child, I had a very big misunderstanding about what black and white television was. I thought that old television shows did not have color, because color did not exist until the 1960s. I felt so bad for all the people who lived back then when there was no color. It must have been so boring and sad all the time.

I used to be quite stupid: I took everyone on television as real.

On one particular occasion I was watching some infomercial as a child on the art of hair restoration. One of the ingredients in this natural solution was peanut butter. My kid brother was nine months old and was lacking in the hair department. I figured that I would help him.

That evening I took a spoon and a jar of peanut butter and covered his entire scalp. When my mother arrived home from work that night she was less than amused.

Perhaps the infomercial in questions was The Peanut Button Solution?

Hayden from Oregon never got to stay up very late.

When I was younger, I thought that the last show for the day on TV ended at 12:00 am, and after that, the screen said "Please go to bed now".

Steve gets confused about televisions.

I used to think that the television was just a big telephone with a screen. So when I watched my favorite shows like Mr. Dressup and Bill Nye I would yell into the speakers to try and talk to them. I never understood why they didn't answer me until my mom walked in at me with my mouth pretty much on the speaker and got a little confused. She then proceeded to explain the differences between TVs and telephones.

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If only it were as easy to break into Television as Shelby thought:

When I was younger I thought that to get into the television with the people all you had to do was break the screen and bam, you would be right there with them!

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Seth from Temecula had a small issue with spacial relations on television.

When I was younger, when I would see people blurred out on TV shows like Cops, I would walk to the side thinking I could see past the blur.

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Seth from Temecula had these ideas about child actors.

When I was younger my mother told me that kids in commercials would get paid thousands of dollars for being in a commercial. Naturally being young and naive I was under the impression the child was paid thousands of dollars every time their commercial was played.

A Mysterious Stranger from Arizona shares the following:

When I was a kid, I of course watched TV and inevitably saw commercials. You know how it would say "Call the number on your screen"? I, until age twelve, thought that meant you had to transform your television screen into a mysterious telephone, and actually call the number, ON your screen.

K. Praslowicz shares another tale of being a stupid little child:

Back when I was a young boy I used to see the commercials on television for upcoming football games and wonder in amazement how they could be showing actual clips from the game if it hadn't been played yet. Of course, the footage they showed was from previous games.

It puzzled me to the point that one day I went and asked my father how this was possible. I'm sure he thought that I was stupid.