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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2011 11:46:57 GMT -5
Maybe not exactly pop culture but my mind was completely blown when I found out the truth about Iceland and Greenland
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Oct 17, 2011 13:06:05 GMT -5
Maybe not exactly pop culture but my mind was completely blown when I found out the truth about Iceland and Greenland Mighty Ducks 2?
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Post by jagilki on Oct 17, 2011 13:22:47 GMT -5
When I was younger I thought there was some big book that the Smurfs were based on, kinda like Lord or the Rings.
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Post by lildude8218 on Oct 17, 2011 13:29:20 GMT -5
that the dogs were named Scooby Dooby Doo and Scrappy Dappy Doo respectively. actually that may have just been true for Scrappy, I can't remember.
I knew that aliens were typically scary (hadn't seen E.T. since I was born in 82) so I assumed ALF was a menace that would eat my face. Didn't help that the first time I saw him he was doing that loud yelling he was known for.
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Oct 17, 2011 14:20:57 GMT -5
Not really a "pop culture" thing but I recall seeing a movie on TV when I was young (no older than 5) where two people were killed (I remember one person was shot) and they immediately started aging and withered away to a skeleton. They were probably vampires or something but I remembering thinking that this is what really happened to people when they died regardless of how they died. Like if you were to die in a car accident you're body would suddenly age and wither away to a skeleton.
Another one is in regards to the Ewoks. I knew there were Ewok movies and a cartoon series. I also knew that they were in one of the Star Wars movies. However I didn't think of them as being Star Wars characters but rather that they were only making a cameo in Star Wars. I guess I thought the Ewoks existed prior to Star Wars.
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Post by texaswhopper on Oct 17, 2011 14:47:39 GMT -5
My biggest was the Barbra Ann misconception.
When I was kid I thought the Beach Boys were singing "Boberam".
When I found it was Barbara Ann it was like a revelation.
There is no woman named Boberam. It's Barbara Ann!
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Oct 17, 2011 14:52:09 GMT -5
My biggest was the Barbra Ann misconception. When I was kid I thought the Beach Boys were singing "Boberam". When I found it was Barbara Ann it was like a revelation. There is no woman named Boberam. It's Barbara Ann! Surf Ninjas?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2011 16:30:11 GMT -5
Maybe not exactly pop culture but my mind was completely blown when I found out the truth about Iceland and Greenland Mighty Ducks 2? yep
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Post by theryno665 on Oct 17, 2011 16:46:08 GMT -5
I was thinking Wayne's World 2 myself.
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Post by emoney3265 on Oct 17, 2011 17:10:35 GMT -5
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. HEY! I still call it that to this day. I knew full well that it was wrong but that's what myself, my brother, and friends call it to this day.
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Post by Red Impact on Oct 17, 2011 17:47:41 GMT -5
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 don't know why, of all the things I've read in this thread, this is the absolute funniest to me. I don't know why, but I busted out laughing when I read that. For my part, I always got the theme song to The Adventures of Pete and Pete wrong. It wasn't until a few years ago that I actually learned what the lyrics were.
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Post by rapidfire187 on Oct 17, 2011 17:49:06 GMT -5
Yup yup. We were all f***ing idiots.
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Post by celticjobber on Oct 17, 2011 18:53:44 GMT -5
I thought Freddy Krueger's name was "Freddy Cougar".
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Post by The OP on Oct 18, 2011 18:25:53 GMT -5
I hated that bit of dialogue because when she tells him Iceland is green he goes "But...I thought Greenland was green". And then she explains it to him. There's no way a real conversation would play like that though because she didn't say anything about Greenland, and it bugged me even though I was like 12.
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Post by wildojinx on Oct 19, 2011 7:50:21 GMT -5
As a young he-man fan i initially thought man-e-faces was a bad guy and tri-clops was a good guy. It didnt help that one of man-e-faces alternate faces was a monster.
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Post by Acclaim Entertainment on Oct 19, 2011 7:52:03 GMT -5
We thought that WWF WrestleMania for the NES was the pinnacle of wrestling games back in the 80's... until Pro Wrestling came out.
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Post by jagilki on Oct 19, 2011 10:31:14 GMT -5
The Dog my Mom and Dad had before I was born was named 'Gandalf". First time I read The Hobbit, for a fleeting second I thought the Wizard was named after our dog.
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Post by rapidfire187 on Oct 19, 2011 12:27:17 GMT -5
I thought Freddy Krueger's name was "Freddy Cougar". You're not the only one.
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Post by Threadkiller [Classic] on Oct 19, 2011 17:23:02 GMT -5
Forget a huge one for me:
As a kid, I used to think the blood in wrestling was food coloring. As a seven year old, I just couldn't believe Ric Flair was bleeding buckets at WM8 and not food coloring.
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Post by Handsome Halfbreed on Oct 19, 2011 19:27:39 GMT -5
I too thought it was Dark Vader. On an episode of Gimme a Break, Darth Vader was mentioned and I thought that actress had a speech impediment. I also called Tatooine.. Tatoona and Imperial Dignitary, Imperial Dignity.
As a kid watching sitcoms with canned laughter, I recall an episode of Diffrent Strokes and hearing a kid laughing. For whatever reason I thought the TV was able to pickup the laughing response from those watching so I immediately faked laughing everytime there was canned laughter.
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