For the first few years when "Wheel of Fortune" was on NBC, I thought Chuck Woolery and Susan Stafford were husband and wife.
That’s what I thought about Pat and Vanna when I first started watching Wheel in the early 90s.
When I was first exposed to straddling shows on GSN, they didn’t seem to make sense because I wasn’t used to games stopping at one point and being picked up when the next show began.
When the Jeopardy! set used to turn blue to red, I thought they taped the two halves of the game on different sound stages.
When I taped my first episodes of Price, I would always fast forward through 3 Strikes because that game was always being lost. I also thought contestants won their cent total on the Showcase Showdown and that the turntable had a “second story” for the Showcase podiums.
I thought the games used on Nick Arcade were real arcade games instead of console ports or simply regular games.
Until I knew of the existence of the kids versions, I thought Double Dare played with the family format through its run.
Until the age of YouTube, I thought if you gave an illegal clue in Pyramid’s Winner’s Circle or Super Password’s bonus round, the contestant won nothing with Donnymid rectifying it by giving you the cash on the board. I also didn’t know the applause was canned on the Clark versions until about a year ago.