Misconceptions you had as a kid about pop culture

[Threadkiller [Classic]]

Example: As a five year-old, Luke Skywalker's sword = a light saver.

Further example: I believed that gremlins were real and my neighbor's dog was Gizmo in disguise.

Have at it.

[VenomFang]

Yup I also thought it was light saver.

[Alexander The So-so]

Another Star Wars one: when I first saw the movie, I thought the name was "Dark Vader."

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I really asked my parents as a child if listening to boy groups made you gay.

[VenomFang]

Yeah I also thought he was Dark Vader.

[The OP]

I thought they were life savers and the candy was named after them.

[noleafclover1980]

Dark Vader, Life Saver.

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For some reason, I kept calling He-Man's Skeletor "Golog". After my parents tried to tell me his correct name, I improved it to...Gologtor.

[theryno665]

I used to get Led Zeppelin and Def Leppard confused because their names kinda sounded alike.

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

Before I learned Cindy Wilson's name (the B-52's singer), I thought her and Katey Sagal were the same person when I was 5.

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I insisted that Mondo Gecko and Triceraton of my TMNT figures were pronounced Mondo Geeko and Tri-ceration.

[Alexander The So-so]

Oh, and when I used to play Castlevania as a kid, my cousin used to call Dracula "Drasul," so I ended up copying it.

And it's not me, and it's not a mistake, per se, but I had a friend who insisted on calling the Facility level from Goldeneye 007 the "Faculty." He pretty much knew what it was really called, but it was mostly a "poor literacy is kewl" mentality on his part.

[texaswhopper]

I really thought Hulk Hogan had some special vitamins he was eventually going to start handing out to kids to go with saying their prayers and being a Hulkamaniac. I thought as a little kid "I have to get some of those."

He fights for what is right! He fights! HE FIGHTS! *elbow

[willywonka666]

A little twist on this topic: My parents would always hear me and my brother commentating when playing with our LJN wrestlers and they thought it was really The "Iran Sheik" rather than the "Iron Sheik" and WE were getting it wrong.

[Lick Ness Monster]

For some reason, I thought Wade the Duck from the U.S. Acres cartoon that aired with the old Garfield series was just this massive pop culture icon. It wasn't until years later that I found out that he wasn't...quite the big deal that I thought he was.

I could also write an essay about all my childhood experiences with Friday the 13th...but to make it short, I'll just say that I thought that the whole thing (the Paramount movies) were really this massive, interlocking masterwork that was up to people who watched the series to deduce. Example: I thought that if I watched the movies enough times, I would catch some cryptic thing that would tell me why Tommy Jarvis went back to the side of good after appearing to go insane at the end of A New Beginning. Hey, I was too young to know that there was something as simple as bad sequel continuity, and this shit was REAL to me, dammit!!

[SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts]

Oct 17, 2011 9:15:50 GMT -5 texaswhopper said:

I really thought Hulk Hogan had some special vitamins he was eventually going to start handing out to kids to go with saying their prayers and being a Hulkamaniac. I thought as a little kid "I have to get some of those."

He fights for what is right! He fights! HE FIGHTS! *elbow

I remember hearing from my sister that Hogan would do steroids with Vince McMahon in the lockerroom and thought steroids were pills.

[turkeysandwich]

Much like the OP, I believed that gremlins were real, but for a reason. When I was 4, I remember seeing a story on the news where some children had been kidnapped and the parents claimed they were abducted by gremlins. I still remember they showed video of a child's room with empty pillow cases on the floor. I still remember seeing that to this day, probably because it really scared me.

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Growing up my mother always watched day time soap operas so in my infinite wisdom I was under the impression that we were actually watching these peoples lives...As if it was all real since a new episode was on everyday...I couldnt believe some of the stuff that took place and used to be so thankful that none of that crazy stuff was happening to us

I remember instances like where if a character got killed I would tell my mom that we should go to the funeral to show we care...My mom would tell me we didnt have the money but we can watch it on tv...

I think she let me think these things just so I'd sit down and watch them with her lol...

that or shes nuts...both are debatable

[Sajoa Moe]

I used to think that cartoon characters were real people in costumes. So when Jerry would split Tom in half or drop a bowling ball on his head, I hoped that the actor in the costume was alright.

[breakdownthewalls]

I got "The Untouchables" and "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" somehow mixed up.

I thought Untouchables was about a bunch of aliens that invade Earth, enslave people and take over their bodies, hence they were untouchable. At the same time I knew guys with suits were in the movie, so I also imagined a plot where the top aliens all were part of the mafia.