I still kinda wonder about stuff like that, though more like Mario Galaxy's "not QUITE the same way" thing.
I used to think that the line "He's got more than just mad skills" in the Perry the Platypus Theme Song was "He's got more than just man skills."
Read Pokemon Ultimate EmeraldMy dad told me that thunder was made of clouds bumping together (though he vehemently denies this). I was very angry when I found out it wasn't true, and swore to give any small children who asked me a more science-friendly, if simplified, answer.
Full moon is on the sky and he's not a man anymore
I long ago swore never to give a child a dumbed down, fake answer.
Also to tell them where babies came from if they asked because I like making parents angry.
Read Pokemon Ultimate EmeraldFor a while when I was a kid, I got "Kenosha
" and "Genosha" mixed up. ^_^;;
My bizarre history with profanity, part 4:
One time in elementary school, a female friend and I were being pushed on a tire swing by her older brother and a male friend of his. At one point, the tire swing almost hit the brother’s friend, which caused him to say something that, to my young self, sounded like “Polygrammit!” The brother then said to his sister and I, “That’s a bad word. Don’t ever use that grammar.”
Did I fantasize about this being an actual curse word? Yes, I did! Using my extremely limited knowledge of The Powerpuff Girls (which I had obtained by not paying much attention to and fast-forwarding through a preview on a VHS rental of The Best of Dr. Seuss), I imagined a Sir Swears-a-Lot simian named Bearer the Swearer yelling at the girls about something being “polygramite-ish”. And by the way, I imagined him being intentionally poorly animated, with his mouth only moving in an “O” shape.
And what did the boy actually say? I’m guessing it was “Holy dammit!”
And now, here’s a bonus:
When an elementary school assignment paper included a sentence that featured the word “immigrants”, I was nervous because I didn’t know that word before and it seemed similar to “ingrates”, which I had heard from A Bug's Life. You see, similar to my Open Season fiasco, I thought that certain words in the movie could be curse words. In this case, however, I thought this because the aforementioned female friend had once told me that her mom didn’t “like the language in that movie”. But nowadays, I think she was getting A Bug’s Life confused with Antz.
Edited by MisterToodleoo on Feb 8th 2021 at 4:51:10 AM
I actually didn't know he wasn't until a couple years ago. I was unfamiliar with the comics he actually originated in, it was the first place I saw the character, and I didn't really give it much thought. Sure all of the other characters in Mickey's Christmas Carol were "played" by established Disney characters, and it would be weird to suddenly move a character that was originally in 19th century England to 20th century Duckburg, but no weirder than Baloo suddenly wearing clothes and flying a plane.
On the TaleSpin note, this was more of a mondegreen, but did affect how I viewed the show: In the theme song I somehow heard "friends for live through thick and thin" as "friends for life with Rin Tin Tin", and wondered if the Heroic Dog of that name was every going to make an appearance, probably also turned into a Funny Animal like the main cast.
Edited by MikeK on Feb 16th 2021 at 2:18:19 AM
I thought when adults wanted babies, there was a special store they would go to. And they could pick different styles of various body parts (legs, head, hair, etc) and put them in a shopping cart. Then when they get to the cashier, they put the parts on a conveyor belt and the cashier puts the parts together and VOILA, you have a baby.
I thought for a while that "the big green" was a euphemism for a Groin Attack because I saw the the poster/cover for The Big Green and assumed the title was describing was was going on in it.
"Hey, least I didn't lose all my artistic talent when I crash landed in the arena here."I used to think that the South Pole was very warm. Living in the Northern hemisphere, I had come to associate North with cold and South with warmth. So if the North Pole was the coldest possible place, it made sense that the South Pole would be the warmest possible one. I know there was at least another kid in my school who thought the same thing.
Also, it took me long into adulthood to know which of the poles was called Arctic or Antarctic, but that's another story.
Edited by C105 on Feb 18th 2021 at 3:24:37 PM
Whatever your favourite work is, there is a Vocal Minority that considers it the Worst. Whatever. Ever!.I also believed that.
I still love the first real life entry on The Illuminati page just for this line
I used to think that everyone could see their face all the time even without a mirror and I thought there was something wrong with me because the only way I could see my own face was in a mirror.
Read Pokemon Ultimate EmeraldWell, that is what they try to teach us in schools. The internet makes it so much harder for them to brainwash us.
Read Pokemon Ultimate EmeraldLooking at that poster, I can imagine how a kid might think that - the title is even oriented right under the character's crotch!
I was fascinated with "Employees Only" signs and figured they'd only have that sign up if there were some really cool stuff in the breakroom.
Reminds me of when my family traveled to Maryland and I kept seeing Chevy Chase ATMs (a bank not native to our region of the US) - I thought the actor/comedian also had his own bank.

I used to think that not only would the Universe restart after going through the Big Crunch, but also that it would replay the exact same way as it did before. And I said that when it would get back to the time when I was a kid, I would say this: "You know, I have a feeling that I said that already."
Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!