Stupidest questions ever?

By reversed you mean, that the polarity is wrong? Positive of C1 is not supposed to be connected to input signal?
Positive terminal should be connected on TDA2050, see post #13.

As tda is used in single supply it is biased at half supply by the divider on minus input.

By the way schematic in post#1 is wrong as this decoupling cap is reversed. This schematic come from UTC datasheet which is exact copy of the original one from ST, I guess you reproduced the datasheet schematic.