Misunderstandings you had about movies, TV shows, etc

In the LEGO Dimensions level "Once Upon a Time Machine in the West", I originally thought that the Valiant that Lord Vortech summoned was some kind of knockoff of the SHIELD Helicarrier.

• Thought that the reason Aslan came to life was because he had nine lives.
• I thought that in the Berenstain Bears universe, every nation had some different Funny Animal running the show and was named [animal] Country (after all, if Bear Country exists, then Dog Country, Squirrel Country, etc. must exist too according to eight-year-old me.)
• I thought Lucy from Little Bear actually was sentient and she was telepathic.
• I thought the Worrier from Felix and the Worrier was real.

Remember that episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy where Eddy gets Ed to hide his magazines because his Mom is cleaning the house and he doesn't want her to find them, and they then spend the rest of the episode looking for them because Ed forgot where he hid them?

I didn't learn until quite recently that the magazines were at least implied to be porn magazines. When I was a kid, I thought it was comic books (Doesn't help that "magazine" and "comic book" both use the same word in Swedish), and I figured it was quite reasonable for a kid to be concerned about a parent wanting to throw their "comic books" away and not wanting the pictures to get ruined.

That makes a lot of sense, too, now that you mention it.

Edited by MagmaTeaMerry on Feb 18th 2022 at 9:30:39 PM

I feel like they are equally likely to be horror comics, which are typically made for an older audience.

When I was a child, I understood that "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" was about sex, but for some reason, I believed that the woman was afraid that her boyfriend would get amnesia if she slept with him, and I thought, "What a strange thing to worry!".

For a while before I heard the entire song, I thought “Dream Police” was about the singer’s friends looking for him.

I used to believe that Basculin is a Water and Dark type.

I instead thought Zeraora was Electric/Fighting.

Thinking Psyduck and Golduck are Water/Psychic when they're really just Water-type is a mistake I still end up making.

I have the types (mostly) memorized, though on occasion I forget which is what type. Plus the regional variants kinda make it a bit harder. (So I don't got it memorized entirely, haha.)

Anyway~.
For most of my life (until sometime last decade) I thought that, after the volcano stage of The Flintstones - The Surprise of Dinosaur Peak! had a glittery crystal stage afterwards with enemies looking like Captain Hook there. (I never got to the final boss back then.)

As a kid, I didn't understand why Roger Rabbit from Who Framed Roger Rabbit was upset at his wife Jessica playing Patty Cake with another man, and thought he was just being dramatic.

Looking back on it, it's pretty obvious, isn't it?

The first time I played Earth Bound and had Venus sign the banana peel in Fourside, I somehow misinterpreted the "smack!" that she ended her dialogue with afterward as her slapping Ness instead of kissing him and thought she was supposed to be a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing.

Luckily I didn't misunderstand that scene, mainly because here in Italy we use "smack" more as the sound effect for kisses than for slaps.

I thought that the song "So Long, it's Been Good to Know Ya" was about a man being really dramatic about his allergies (since he mentions "this dusty old dust"). I have allergies my self, as do many of my relatives, so I was like, "Dude! Get a grip! Having allergies isn't so bad!".

I thought that Naru was Ori for the longest time. I don’t know why.

For a long time, I thought Superman's comment about a lightning shield in the Superman: The Animated Series episode "Speed Demons" was about a power the Flash had that allowed him to survive lightning strikes, not in realizing it was in reference to the defense system of Weather Wizard's that zapped the crap outta Wally.

Edited by Anicomicgeek on Mar 2nd 2022 at 3:57:25 AM

When I heard "9 to 5" as a kid, I always pictured 'ambition' as being this hot, black (as in, totally black, like charcoal) liquid with the consistency of water that tasted of Earl Gray tea and made everyone who drank it extremely ambitious.

When I was a little kid, there was a preview for One Saturday Morning on my The Little Mermaid VHS that listed the shows as something like: "Doug, Recess, Pepper Ann, Hercules, and much, much more!". My little kid brain interpreted this as there actually being a show called "Much, Much More!" on the One Saturday Morning line-up (it didn't help that "...and much, much more!" played over a clip from one of the block's interstitials and I didn't recognize it) and I wondered why that show never seemed to come on.

When I first watched Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, I misunderstood that convo that went:

Diego: "I feel tingly."

Manny: "Don't say that when you're pressed up against me."

Diego: "Not that kind of tingly!"

I assumed that sabre-toothed tigers had some kind of weird biological quirk that caused them to feel butterflies in the stomach before they either a.) urinated, or b.) vomited. I spent ages trying to determine which one it was, without coming to a conclusion.

when I first started Blend-S I thought Hideri was a Canon Foreigner, due to an interesting combination of only just now recently starting the original manga, and subsequently finding little to no Manga!Hideri content online.

I checked this thread before posting this, but I think I already said this in another thread here (the "Dumb things you believed as a child" one maybe?).

I remember discovering about Lilo & Stitch for the first time in an article on a videogame magazine, mentioning it briefly as a film getting videogames based on it. There were no pictures. So, based on the title only, I assumed that the movie was of course a cartoon version of The Odd Couple about the weird relation between a nerdy ant (Lilo) and a rude cockroach that belches all the time (Stitch).

I didn't understand that the human with the magnifying glass in Antz was a child and was burning the ants on purpose. I thought it was a full-grown entomologist, who was burning them accidentally while trying to look at them.

When I was a little kid and saw the Scooby-Doo! episode "Bedlam at the Bigtop" (the one with the hypnotist clown) for the first time, I legitimately thought they were referencing The Lion King when a hypnotized Shaggy was calling a lion "Simba". 😅

Note: The audio is muted, so I don't know if it's been edited for meme purposes or anything, but...

This scene from Spongebob always confused me as a kid, I assumed the "joke" was that the guard wasn't strong enough to hold up his spear properly.

Now it all makes sense though.

Lots of weird Star Wars misunderstandings as a kid, since I saw most of them, aside from the then-unreleased Revenge of the Sith, when I was 6 or younger, but had played tons of the Expanded Universe video games for years after without having seen the movies more than once.

1. I thought the plans the Rebels used to find the weakness of the Death Star were downloaded by R2 on the Death Star while finding the detention block and turning off the trash compactor and all that, and that Leia had only given her message for Kenobi and the general existence of the Death Star.

2. I didn’t recognize the woman in the gold bikini as Leia and didn’t think she was supposed to be more significant than any of the other dozen incidental characters in that scene, so I barely paid any attention to her and didn’t realize she had choked Jabba to death, and I thought Jabba had just died in the Sail Barge’s explosion. Thanks to this I later become probably one of the only people ever to mistakenly think that outfit was from the Expanded Universe since I didn’t recognize it from any of the movies.

3. I thought Emperor Palpatine falling into the shaft was what caused the Second Death Star to explode.

4. I didn’t realize there was a bet on the Podrace, I thought Anakin just wanted to do the race he was preparing for before leaving to become a Jedi. Theoretically, the only narrative stake would have been if Anakin died in a crash, since I didn’t realize anything beyond Anakin’s sense of pride and accomplishment was at stake in the race’s result.

5. While this one is less weird, I think it was what everyone thought at first in at least base idea, when I did see Revenge of the Sith when it came out, I thought Darth Plagueis and his unnamed apprentice were from KOTOR time and might appear in the next game, not that Palpatine was the apprentice.

In a sort of reverse of this, a kid in my high school gave an anecdote that, since he knew Gotham was fictional as a 5-year-old, he assumed New York City, which was basically the equivalent of Gotham for Spider-Man instead of Batman, was also fictional. He can still remember the exact date he found out New York City was real.

Edited by DeepFiemott on Apr 8th 2022 at 3:56:03 AM