History Main / Mondegreen

There's also the related but distinct '''Soramimi''' phenomenon, which is when lyrics in one language sound like actual words and lyrics in another language. Finding ''soramimi'' (Japanese, vaguely translating to "tricks of the ears") in songs from other languages is such a popular pastime in Japan that one well-known comedy show devotes a regular segment ("Soramimi Hour") to it. For instance, the refrain of the Scorpions' "You Give Me All I Need" was interpreted as ''"Yukimi onanii"'' — "watching the snow fall while [[ADateWithRosiePalms pleasuring yourself]]." A ''soramimi'' of "Moskau" by ''Music/DschinghisKhan'' can be found [[http://pya.cc/pyaimg/pimg.php?imgid=16420 here]]. For English speakers, probably the best-known soramimi is the title of the Cuban folk-song ''Guantanamera'' (popularised by Music/TheSandpipers in 1966) being misheard as "one ton of melon" or "one-ton tomato". Another very popular soramimi is the famous [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=sdyC1BrQd6g&gl=GB "Benny Lava" video]].

->''And Lady [[TropeNamer Mondegreen]].''"\\

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Computer programs that try to understand speech often come up with something like this, from lyrics or just speech, as it's much more difficult for them to distinguish words from each other than it is for humans. The beta version of the speech-to-text transcriber on Website/{{Youtube}} currently works as an automatic Mondegreen generator, [[MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels often]] [[HilarityEnsues hilariously]], when applied to any song there that allows captions.

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->''"I mean, what the crap was [Homestar] even saying there? 'Everybody, now bleed a beetle'? No! Ewww. 'Everybody, law deed will be dull'? Uhhhh, no kidding. 'Everybody, something the feed mill'?"''
-->-- '''Strong Bad''' [[https://homestarrunner.com/toons/april-fool-09 commenting]] on ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'''s site intro

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->''And {{Lady|Mondegreen}} [[TropeNamer Mondegreen]].''"\\

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Sometimes this is caused by [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome bad diction]], or [[LyricalShoehorn bizarre]] [[WordSaladLyrics lyrics]]. For a more in-depth look at the history of mondegreens and how they're used in various media, please see [[Analysis/{{Mondegreen}} the Analysis Page.]]

The term was coined by Sylvia Wright, who wrote a 1954 essay about how as a child she had misheard a line from a Scottish ballad — "They hae slain the Earl o' Moray, and LadyMondegreen." It wasn't until she was grown that she learned the line was in fact, "...and ''laid him on the green.''"

A GagSub for a music video will probably be filled with mondegreens (and mostly works best if [[GratuitousForeignLanguage original and sub language are different]] ...unless the language is homophone-rich).

Can lead to InnocentSwearing if an innocent word is misheard as a profane one. Contrast {{Malaproper}}, which is a character who mixes up words on a regular basis, and BeamMeUpScotty, which is for when the misheard line becomes more famous than the original. See also LadyMondegreen, which is about something similar happening with character names in other works; SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein, where people understand part of the song but struggle to make up actual words from the rest; RougeAnglesOfSatin, which is when the words are all technically real words, just not the correct ones; ViewerNameConfusion, which is when the audience gets a character's name wrong, and GoshDangItToHeck, when made-up words are used to sound like profane words.

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[[folder:Advertising]]
* An ad for Cingular used this: two men are walking down the street and mangling the chorus of "Rock the Casbah" by Music/TheClash. One sings it as "lock the cashbox", only to be briefly stunned when his friend sings it as "stop the catbox". He then agrees with that interpretation.
* A commercial for T-Mobile plays with this trope: A guy sings along with Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar On Me", and mondegreens it into "Pour some shook-up ramen." His girlfriend is, of course, incredulous, and uses her T-Mobile cell phone to call the public library to get the librarian to look up the correct lyrics.
* One ad for Comcast's "On Demand" service, has a man mangling the lyrics to "Born to be Wild" in the shower -- and having Mr. T burst through his wall and reprimand him. No, seriously.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjT3fvCkjrQ This Volkswagen Passat commercial]] has several people mishearing a line from "Rocket Man".
* Maxell tapes did a series of ads focusing on this. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxELSzay2lc This advert]] mishears Desmond Dekker's "Israelites". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gib916jJW1o And this one]] mishears The Skid's "Into The Valley".
* As reviewed by WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmGNB5LRQ4A this]] UsefulNotes/McDonalds ad from the 90s gets this because they say the words so fast that instead of advertising "food, folks, and fun," it sounds like they're advertising "[[BreadEggsMilkSquick food, fucks, and fun]]".
-->'''NC:''' Did they just add orgies to the Dollar Menu? [...] Is the secret sauce lubricant now?
* Invoked in a UsefulNotes/{{Kmart}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCsqABAQLjs commercial]] about having store merchandise shipped to your house. It involves a male talking about how he can "ship [his] pants", obviously expecting the listener to hear "Ship" as "shit". A later ad promoting savings on gasoline from purchases in store did similarly with "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0-nMrdEt9Y big gas savings]]", expecting the listener to hear "big ass savings".
* One Advertising/GotMilk commercial took place at a board meeting [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4y7KPE7BSE deciding what to name the Oreo cookie.]] One employee stuffs his face with cookies only to run out of milk before he can wash it down. When they call on him, his muffled "I don't know" sounds like "Oreo," which the boss loves.
* The advertising campaign for Coke with Lime did this to Harry Nilsson's song "Coconut": [[https://youtu.be/LteUkSwrjsQ You put the lime in the Coke, you nut...]]
* An advert for baby products in the UK, probably for nappies, talked about the need for your infant child to feel confident in their nudist coveries. It had to be clarified that the phrase was ''new discoveries''.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* In ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'', Shuro is later revealed to be Japanese-like warrior whose name is Toshiro but the Western-like cast misheard it.
* In ''Manga/{{Yotsuba}}'', this tends to happen anytime Yotsuba sings.
* Anime/{{Pokemon}}: Butch and Cassidy invoke this on Jessie and James, accusing them of corrupting the Team Rocket motto whenever their paths cross. Butch and Cassidy rattle off the following lines:
-->"To infect the world with devastation!\\
To blight all people in every nation!\\
To denounce the goodness of truth and love!\\
To extend our wrath to the stars above!"
:: Compare those to what Jessie and James say[=:=]
-->"To protect the world from devastation!\\
To unite all peoples within our nation!\\
To denounce the evils of truth and love!\\
To extend our reach to the stars above!"
* In the film adaptation of ''Manga/ASilentVoice'', Shouya mishears [[spoiler: Shouko confessing her love for him ("suki" in Japanese)]] as "moon" (tsuki in Japanese), due to her speech being too difficult for him to understand.
* ''Anime/{{Hamtaro}}'': Penelope's [[TheUnintelligible one-word speech]] changed from "Ookyoo!" to "Ookwee!" during Season 1. In the episode where it took place, Hamtaro gives the possible reason a big LampshadeHanging.
-->'''Hamtaro:''' Did you just say "Ookwee"?
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[[folder:Card Games]]
* One ''TabletopGame/PerplexCity'' card is based on identifying these.
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[[folder:Comedy]]
* "You fill out my census" ("You fill up my senses" from "Annie's Song" by Music/JohnDenver). This common misheard version was naturally seized on by the Capitol Steps for one of their political song parodies.
* John Denver's lyrics were skewered by Creator/MontyPython's Eric Idle on "John Denver being strangled" ("[[DoubleEntendre You came on my pillow]]...[[TheImmodestOrgasm HYUUUNG!]]") — and yes, [[HilaritySues Denver sued]].
* There's also a comedian who bemoans his parents' staggering inability to hear song lyrics correctly, particularly his father. The causes him him no end of torment whenever he's in the car with them and the radio is playing, since they like to sing along.
** "[[Music/SteveMillerBand Big ol' jet airliner]]" becomes "Bingo Jed had a light on".
** "[[Music/TheBeatles The girl with kaleidoscope eyes]]" becomes "the girl with colitis goes by", followed by his mother piping up with "[[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Lucy's in a fight with Linus!]]"
** "[[Music/BillyJoel You may be right/I may be crazy]]" becomes "You made the rice/I made the gravy".
** And lastly, "[[Music/EltonJohn Don't let the sun go down on me]]" becomes "Don't let ''your son'' go down on me".
* In his stage act, comedian Creator/MichaelWinslow used to do a version of "[[Music/JimiHendrix Purple Haze]]", changing the lyric to "'Scuse me while I kiss this fly", followed by screeches of [[Film/TheFly1958 "Help me!]] [[BlackComedyRape Help me!"]]
* Johnny Rivers' "Secret Agent Man" is easily misheard as ''Secret Asian Man'', and has been parodied as such at least twice, by the Capitol Steps as well as Da Vinci's Notebook.
* The Vacant Lot comedy troupe has a skit dedicated to mondegreens in the Manfred Mann cover of Music/BruceSpringsteen's ''Blinded By The Light'': "ripped up douches"; "loofah sponges" and the "foreman of the night;" and one that's completely incomprehensible. The original version is actually far less susceptible to mondegreens -- Springsteen sings "cut loose like a deuce" as opposed to (what sounds like) "revved up like a douche".
* Creator/LouisCK also has a bit lampshading this trope in regards to Manfred Mann's cover of "Blinded By The Light".
-->''You know that song "Blinded by the Light"? Whenever it said 'revved up like a deuce' I always thought it said [[spoiler:'[[YourMom your mother's]] [[CountryMatters cunt]] smells like oranges']]. Strange how that works...''
* Penn Jillette even joked about Music/PaulMcCartney's alleged poor grammar in "Live and Let Die" ''in front of a UK audience'' in ''Creator/PennAndTeller: Fool Us'' (He says "This ever-changing world in which we're livin'" but it sounds more like "This ever-changing world in which we live in").
* In Creator/EllenDeGeneres's stand-up days, she discussed this.
-->"Does he have it?" Is that what they're singing? "Does he have it?" Then you think to yourself "Why have I been singing 'Monkey hatchet?'" How many people have heard me sing "Monkey hatchet?" Then there are some songs that you don't even bother learning the words, because you assume that no-one knows the words. That Aretha Franklin song "Respect", that's been around a long time, and we always get to that part where "R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me. R-E-S-P-E-C-T, ({{beat}}) coch-C-T HO!"
* South Carolina radio hosts Johnboy & Billy have recorded multiple bits about this trope, joking about it being an actual condition called "chronic lyricosis".
* Creator/PeterKay has an entire routine built around this sort of thing, such as suggesting Music/MichaelJackson is assuring his listener in "You Are Not Alone" that "your burgers are the best" (it's "your burdens I will bear") or that Music/{{Duffy}} is "begging you for birdseed" ("mercy"). Funniest of all, in the song "Drive" by Music/TheCars, the singer does a little vocal styling right before the chorus that really does sound like he's saying "pork pie": "Can't go on, thinkin...nothin's wrong...pork pie..." Once you hear it, you can't unhear it.
* Creator/GeorgeCarlin pulls this in a spoof of a commercial:
-->'''Dad:''' Marge, I dunno what it is, what I mean to say that I don't know what it is. But I just can't get close enough to make a sale. Do you think I could have ''[forcefully]'' ''BAD BREATH??''\\
'''Marge:''' ''[coughs]'' It's possible, dad. You wilt the dandruff! You should try Listerine.\\
'''Dad:''' Mr. Clean?
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* In one issue of the ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'' story arc "Quiver," we learn that Stephanie Brown originally mistook Comicbook/RasAlGhul's name as "Rasta Guy."
* In A DC comics New Year's special, [[Comicbook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]] teases Barbara Gordon for having once thought "Auld Lang Syne" was about an "Old Lane Sign."
* In ''ComicBook/AmeliaRules'' Aunt Tanner uses her own mondegreening of "Still Rock'n'Roll to Me" by Billy Joel in AnAesop about why she still believes in Santa Claus:
-->'''Tanner:''' "You shouldn't try to be a straight-A student if you already think too much."\\
'''Amelia:''' Heh, heh. That's pretty good.\\
'''Tanner:''' I thought so! It was, like, my motto -- for years! But the thing is, one day I read the lyrics and they were completely different! "Should I try to be a straight-A student? If you are, then you think too much." ... I was devastated! But even knowing the new lyrics, it never replaced the one I'd made up... Do you know what I'm saying?\\
'''Amelia:''' Um... Yeah. Santa is like Billy Joel... are, and the lyrics are Rudolph, and... actually, no.
* In the crossover ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}''/''ComicBook/{{Shi}}'', when Vampirella first hears her name (some baddies fear the "Shi-Killer"), she quips: "She-Killer? How generic!" Could of course be a {{Pun}}/TakeThat instead. (As all crossovers fights are essentially [[IncrediblyLamePun drawn]] -for not insulting either fan group-, Shi returns the favor by [[InsistentTerminology always calling her a Hannaya]], annoying her to no end.) [[note]][[OurVampiresAreDifferent The Japanese Vampire type.]][[/note]]
* WesternAnimation/TheHairBearBunch escape to a western town ("Wild Wild West Wingding", issue #7, Gold Key) where the townspeople live in fear of an outlaw named Sandy Claws. The bears mistake it as Santa Claus and start festooning the town with Christmas decorations.
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* "Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly" was perpetually mondegreened in Walt Kelly's comic strip ''ComicStrip/{{Pogo}}'' as "Deck Us All with Boston Charlie", and then again with Beauregard the Dog claiming that the lyrics are ''actually'' "Bark Us All Bow-Wows of Folly" (though the latter song is often mistakenly appended to the end of "Boston Charlie" these days), and then ''again'' when a hungry turtle sang the lyrics as "Dunk Us All In Bowls Of Barley."
** Even the "Deck Us All With Boston Charlie" itself got mondegreened at one point, as "Tinkle, Salty Boss Anchovy." Which caused [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Churchy La Femme]] to lament that "The way ''he's'' singing it, it don't make no ''sense''!"
* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' has Calvin intentionally mondegreening the pledge of allegiance as "I pledge allegiance to Queen Fragg, and her mighty state of hysteria...", and getting in trouble for it.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'': Sally is the queen of these.
** One story arc has Sally preparing for a Christmas pageant in which "I come out and say, 'Hark!', then Harold Angel starts to sing." Everyone assumes that she's simply confused by the name of the song...until a kid named Harold Angel actually shows up.
** Sally was known for these kinds of blunders. In another Christmas strip, she recites: "The stockings were hung by the chimney with care/In hopes that Jack Nicklaus soon would be there." In yet another, she tells her class the story of "Santa Claus and his rain gear."
* ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'':
** One strip had Opus the penguin mangling "The Star-Spangled Banner" when he finds himself unable to remember the lyrics ("Oh say can you see, by the dawn's early light / what so proudly we snailed, at, um, the starlight's last cleaning...").
** A SundayStrip from September 1988 had that year's Presidential candidates UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush, Michael Dukakis and Bill D. Cat each [[http://web.archive.org/web/20080719170850/http://tafkac.org/songs/louie_louie_real_words.html translate]] the notoriously IndecipherableLyrics of "Louie Louie" based on what they could understand, as if it would tell the public something about them all. Since the ad was sponsored by Bill's [[FictionalPoliticalParty Meadow Party]], it takes jabs at Bush ("Iran-Contra thing makes me phlegm") and Dukakis ("Kitty she leads me everywhere") while saying Bill's gibberish translation, half of which outright defies transcription, "reveals a simple honesty."
* In John Kovalic's comic strip ''Wild Life'', [[Webcomic/DorkTower Carson the Muskrat]] thinks the lyrics to his favorite U2 song are "I still haven't found Walter's cookie jar" (''I still haven't found what I'm looking for'')
* The WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}} [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugrats_(comic_strip) tie-in comic strip]] at least twice had the characters sing a badly mondegreened Yankee Doodle
* ''ComicStrip/TheFamilyCircus'' kids are known to make these.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Madoka]]'' ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMLQingi2gA Magica]]'' ''[[TheAbridgedSeries Abridged]]'' has Madoka BreakingTheFourthWall to [[PlayedForLaughs play this for laughs]] on the [[VictoriousChorus (actually meaningless)]] lyrics in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MaQ6m6mho8 Mami's theme song]]. [[http://youtu.be/5mLvtCmdQIM?t=2m40s Scene here.]]
-->'''Madoka:''' [[HoYay Yummy, oh yummy... lick my feet and I'm such a boss you're a lesbian]]... Mami, what the hell kind of song is this?
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2064124/6/Parenting-Class Parenting Class]]'' Ginny denies her attraction to Harry while Hermione is half-asleep in her jello.
-->'''Ginny:''' He's only a friend!\\
'''Hermione:''' Bees only say end? What did you say Ginny?
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11774226/10/Fortunate-Son Fortunate Son?]]'' Harri comes up with a rather ''interesting'' interpretation of Music/AtomicKitten's "Whole Again."
-->Baby you're the one, you can make me come,\\
You can feel my hole again.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11651647/13/Across-The-Time Across the Time]]'':
-->'''Hermione:''' Yup. Daphne Greengrass. Like I said, she's in our year. It wasn't a surprise that not many really knew her or aware she existed. She keeps mostly to herself that Greengrass girl. Most of her housemate called her The Ice Queen of Slytherin.\\
'''Ron:''' The Ice Cream of Slytherin? That's an odd title to be given to a girl, don't you think?'
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/TheNightmareHouse'', Lucy's nightmare has people chanting, "Join us, Lucy. Join us, Lucy. Join us, Lucy. Join us now. Join us, Lucy. Join us, Lucy. Join us, Lucy. Lucy Loud." Initially, she mishears this as "Moist and juicy. Moist and juicy. Moist and juicy. Moistened mound. Moist and juicy. Moist and juicy. Moist and juicy. Juicy mound."
* In ''Fanfic/NurseJet'', Jet mangles "Bless you" into "Dress you".
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[[folder:Films — Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFlightOfDragons'', the closed captioning for the official VHS releases frequently substitute the word "horn" for the actual word "hoard".
* ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011'': Pooh and his friends thought that Christopher Robin was kidnapped by a monster known as the Backson because Pooh actually mistranslated Christopher's message "I'll be back soon."
** Not the first time it's happened. In ''WesternAnimation/PoohsGrandAdventure'', Pooh and friends journeyed to rescue Christopher Robin from the terrible land of Skull. [[spoiler:Actually he'd just gone to school.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'': The gargoyles mishear Esmeralda telling Quasimodo "Looks like Frollo's wrong about the both of us." as "Frollo's nose is long, and he wears a truss."[[note]]A truss is a tricorn-like headdress worn by judges in the Middle Ages. It's also an archaic device used to treat hernias.[[/note]]
** Which is itself often Mondegreened by viewers as "Frollo's nose is long and he wears a ''dress''".
* In ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway'', Roddy protests to the thugs looking for Rita that he's just an innocent bystander. They now think that Roddy's name is Millicent Bystander.
* The Christmas short ''WesternAnimation/OliveTheOtherReindeer'' has this set off the plot. Upon hearing on the radio that one of Santa's reindeer is injured and that they'll be counting on "all of the other reindeer," Olive decides that Santa did not say this, but the title, and that she is not a dog at all, and that she is in fact, a reindeer. So she goes to the north pole to prove it. A bus driver later tells Olive that he used to think the pledge of Allegence was about him, Richard Stands. As in, "And to the Republic, for Richard Stands." There is also a character named "Round John Virgin" a common Mondegreen for the words "Round yon virgin" in Silent Night.
* Near the end of ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars 2}}'', Mater, Finn [=McMissile=], and Holly Shiftwell are all captured by the Lemons and are trapped inside a giant clock tower in London, England. As the Lemons proceed to drop Mater into the clock's gears to shred him alive, the tow truck immediately yells, "Dad gum!", and as a result he deploys his weapons Finn and Holly gave him and blasting away the ropes suspending them over the clock gears, therefore freeing himself and allowing them to escape. [[note]] This is actually a firing of a ChekhovsGun from earlier in the movie, where Mater has problems with the voice-activation of his spygear. [[/note]]
* The DVD of ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'' has a blatant subtitling error in the "Sea of Science" segment; the chorus is subtitled "It's only a normal song". Whoever did the subtitles, the significance of the accompanying track being called "Only a '''Northern''' Song" evidently escaped them. (This problem is bypassed on the Blu-Ray, by the songs not being subtitled.)
* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe2'', the minions cover "I Swear" (specifically, the version by All-4-One; the minions that sing it are dressed up like them). Being the [[SpeakingSimlish minions]], they [[http://despicableme.wikia.com/wiki/I_Swear mondegreen the entire song]]; most noticeably, they sing the line "And I swear" as "Underwear".
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'', when Lightning discovers that Doc is the Hudson Hornet, he tires to tell the others, explaining that he had three Piston Cups.
-->'''Mater:''' ''(SpitTake)'' He did ''what'' in his cups?!
* Throughout ''A Claymation Christmas Celebration'', various characters flub "Here We Come A-Wassailing" with their own interpretations; Dogs selling waffles sing, "Here we come a-waffling", geese sing, "Here we come a-waddling" and pigs sing, "Here we come a-wallowing", Rex tries to correct them, but can't because he nor anyone else knows what it means to wassail. At the end, a carload of elves drive up and explain that to wassail is to go around singing carols and receiving Christmas treats.
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[[folder:Films — Live-Action]]
* In ''Theatre/AnimalCrackers'', [[Creator/MarxBrothers Groucho]] asks Chico to play a song about Montreal: "I'm a dreamer, Montreal." This is a mangled reference to the De Sylva, Brown & Henderson song "Aren't We All?"
* In ''Film/TheLongKissGoodnight'', Samuel L. Jackson misquotes England Dan and John Ford Coley's "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight" when he sings, "I'm not talking 'bout the linen," and Geena Davis corrects him that the song is actually saying, "I'm not talking about moving in."
* ''Film/RoleModels'' referenced "I want to Rock and Roll" with, "I like to rock and roll part of every day. I can only rock and roll from three to five."
* When Scott was reading ''Twas the Night Before Christmas'' to his son in ''Film/TheSantaClause'', his son mistakes "arose such a clatter" for "a Rose Suchak ladder". This turns out to be justified.
* In ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'', Brian and his mother are listening to Jesus' Sermon of the Mount from way in the back row, prompting Brian's mother to ask, "Did he say, 'Blessed are the Cheesemakers'?" ("Well obviously it's not meant to taken literally, it refers to any manufacturer of dairy products.")
* In the romantic-comedy ''Film/IGiveItAYear'', the main couple Nat and Josh argue over misheard song lyrics. Nat thinks the lyrics from "Sweet Dreams Are Made of This" go "I travelled the world in generic jeans" instead of "I travelled the world and the seven seas", much to Josh's chagrin. She also thinks the line from "We Built This City" goes "we built this city on the wrong damn road". Josh also brings up the lyrics from "Tiny Dancer", which Nat thinks goes "hold me close and tie me down sir".
* In ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'', when Logan addresses the very overweight Fred J. Dukes as "bub", Fred gets mad because he mishears it as "Blob". (Fred J. Dukes would actually become the mutant known as the Blob).
* In ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', Bond introduces M and Kincade to each other. Later Kincade calls her by the name "Emma", presumably thinking he had heard an abbreviation of the name rather than a code letter.
* In ''Film/MuppetsMostWanted'', Constantine sings the verse "The lovers, the dreamers, and me" of "The Rainbow Connection" as "The lovers, the dreamers, and cheese".
* In ''Film/HedwigAndTheAngryInch'' Hedwig is listening to Tommy's version of "The Origin of Love." Instead of "Osiris" he says "The sirens" on the recording (for which he claims writing credit). He tries to talk his way out by saying there were two versions of the lyrics and she says "There's one version and you [[PrecisionFStrike fucked it up]]!"
* In ''Film/AngelsInTheOutfield'', some of the baseball players think that the first line of "The Star-Spangled Banner" is "Jose, can you see," prompting one of them to comment, [[LadyMondegreen "Wow. It's about a Spanish guy!"]]
* In ''Film/TwentySevenDresses'', Jane and Kevin are in a bar when "Benny and the Jets" comes on. They have a small argument about the lyrics, with Jane settling on "She's got electric boobs and mohair shoes" (It's "electric boots, a mohair suit").
* In ''Film/TheTuxedo'', the last thing Clark Devlin says before going into a coma from an assassination attempt is "water strider". Jimmy Tong mistakes this for "Walter Strider", leading to a wild goose chase where he tries to catch this imaginary character, believing him to be responsible for the attack.
* ''Film/JumpinJackFlash''. Terry has to write down the lyrics for "Jumpin' Jack Flash" in the days before you could look them up on the internet, and has some difficulty working out what Music/MickJagger is singing.
-->"I was raised by two lesbians? [clip] Mick, Mick, Mick...speak English!"
* PlayedForDrama in ''Film/{{Lion}}'', as young Saroo's mispronunciation of the name of his hometown Ganesh Talai as Kanestalee makes it impossible for authorities to help track down his family.
* In ''Film/TheSantaClause 3: The Escape Clause'' Mother Nature tells Jack Frost that he is accused of trying to upstage Santa in a series of acts that are "willful and malicious" but Jack Frost misinterprets it as "skillful and delicious".
* ''Film/TheBigLebowski'': The Dude is trying to use a quote by [[UsefulNotes/VladimirLenin Lenin]], but can't remember the exact phrasing. [[CaptainOblivious Donny]] mishears it as "Lennon" (as in, Music/JohnLennon) and begins unhelpfully quoting [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] songs until Walter tells him to shut up.
* In ''The Way, Way Back'', Joan starts singing along to "Kyrie" by Mr. Mister, but she thinks the refrain is "carry a laser" instead of "kyrie eleison".
-->'''Kip:''' Are you saying "carry a laser?"
-->'''Joan:''' That's what it is...
-->'''Kip:''' Why would anyone write a song called "Carry A Laser?"
-->'''Joan:''' Because... they like outer space
* In ''[[Film/ThisIsSpinalTap This Is Spinal Tap]]'', when talking about the [[SpontaneousHumanCombustion spontaneous combustion]] of the drummer Peter 'James' Bond, the rockers mention they were playing on a festival in the [[Series/ILoveLucy Isle of Lucy]].
* ''Film/KissKissBangBang'': When Perry tells Harry, "I'm talking money!" from a distance away, Harry responds, "What? 'Talking monkey'...?" Perry, who has a very dim opinion of Harry's intelligence, just starts riffing, "Yes, a talking monkey. Came back here from the future. Ugly sucker. Only says 'ficus.'"
* ''Film/TheFlintStreetNativity'': Zoe thinks the lyrics to "Silent Night" include the line "Round John Verger" in place of "Round yon' virgin". Her drawing of a nativity scene includes a large man looming behind the manger to depict "John Verger". Debbie, who's playing Mary, ends up singing the incorrect lyric during the play.
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[[folder:Jokes]]
* A woman greeted her son as he came home from Sunday School. "So what did you do today?"\\
"We sang a song about a bear!"\\
"A bear?"\\
"Yes! Gladly, the cross-eyed bear!"
* Teacher: Can anyone use "officiate" in a sentence?\\
Student: A man got sick because of officiate.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Journalist and Rolling Stone editor Gavin Edwards had written numerous books on this topic (before the Internet made reading and sharing mondegreens easy) in the 1990's, which were collections of these sent in by readers, such as '''[[Music/JimiHendrix Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy]]'', ''He's Got The Whole World In His Pants'', ''When a Man Loves a Walnut'', and ''Deck The Halls With Music/BuddyHolly''.
* "Blowin' in the Wind": In Salman Rushdie's novel ''The Ground Beneath Her Feet'', a character has the magical ability to hear in his mind songs that will become hits three years into the future. But sometimes the lyrics come out garbled. When he heard Music/BobDylan's aforementioned song, he thought the chorus went "The ganja my friend is growing in the tin..."
* ''Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs''
** Creator/DaveBarry has an entire section on mondegreens. Ironically, it's in a different section that he awards the [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment "Certificate of Redundancy Certificate"]] to Music/PaulMcCartney and Wings for the line (from "Live and Let Die"), "But if this ever-changing world in which we live in..." not knowing that the actual line goes, "But if this ever-changing world in which we're livin'..."
** He mentions the song "Help Me Rhonda" wherein he says the opening lyrics sound like "Well, since she put me down, there's been owls puking in my bed." He later references the infamous "Blinded By the Light" (see above) by saying that ''of course'' the line isn't "Wrapped up like a douche, another runner in the night". No, it's "Wrapped up like a douche, [[BrickJoke there's been owls puking in my bed]]."
* The children's novel ''In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson'' has the Chinese protagonist mangling the Pledge of Allegiance on her first day of school in the US:
-->'''Shirley:''' I pledge a lesson to the frog of the United States of America. And to the wee puppet, for witches' hands, one Asian, in the vestibule, with little tea and just rice for all.
* The Lois Lowry novel ''All About Sam'' renders the Pledge of Allegiance as the Pled Jelly-Juntz. Justified as the protagonist is four years old.
* In the novel ''The Prisoner of Pineapple Place'', set in an invisible alley of invisible residents, the protagonist believes the words of the Pledge are "One nation, ''invisible'', with liberty and justice for all". The story suggests this might be an intentional example on the teacher's part, given the residents' own invisibility.
* There's a running joke in ''Literature/GoodOmens'' about how all cassette tapes left in cars will eventually metamorphose into tapes of "The Greatest Hits of Queen". Crowley listens to the song "Radio Ga Ga", hearing the lyrics "''All we need is Radio Ga Ga''". It's actually "''All we'' hear ''is Radio Ga Ga.''" Another time, he wonders who Moey and Chandon are. [[note]] The lyrics are "''She keeps some Moët & Chandon in her pretty cabinet''".[[/note]]
* "Olive, the other reindeer ..." (''Literature/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer'': "...AllOfTheOtherReindeer..."). Inevitably, a book called ''WesternAnimation/OliveTheOtherReindeer'' was published in 1997, and was turned into a ChristmasSpecial in 2003 (as seen above) by Creator/BillPlympton and Creator/MattGroening of ''The Simpsons'' fame.
* One of Creator/BeverlyCleary's ''Literature/RamonaQuimby'' books had the titular protagonist thinking that the lyrics of ''The Star-Spangled Banner'' began "Oh say can you see, by the dawnzer's lee light" and becoming convinced that "dawnzer" must be another word for "lamp." (This leads to humiliation one evening when, proud of having sussed out a new vocabulary word, she confidently suggests turning on "the dawnzer", even adding, when questioned, "It gives off a lee light!")
* An early book in ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'' has BSC client Jamie Newton singing the first verse of "Home on the Range" in this fashion. In his defense, [[JustifiedTrope he's only three]].
-->"Oh, give me a comb\\
Where the buffalo foam\\
Where the deer and the antelope pay\\
Where seldom is heard\\
A long-distance bird\\
And the sky is not crowded all day."
* John T. Sladek's novel ''The Müller-Fokker Effect'' (really!) has the following version of ''The Star-Spangled Banner'':
-->Ofay can you pee\\
By the dong's surly blight\\
What you probably inhaled\\
At the toilet's last cleaning.
* An in-universe mondegreen names the book ''Literature/SnotStew'': it comes from the [[CuteKitten kitten protagonists]] mishearing the human children arguing: "Is not!" "Is too!" becomes "S'not!" "S'tew!"
* ''A Monk Swimming'' by Malachy [=McCourt=] (a memoir of growing up in Ireland and moving to America) uses a mondegreen from the prayer "Hail Mary" — "blessed art thou amongst women".
* The novelization of ''Literature/RevengeOfTheSith'' has this dialogue between Gunray and Anakin:
-->'''Gunray:''' Palpatine promised to leave us in peace!
-->'''Lord Vader:''' The transmission was garbled. He promised to leave you in ''pieces''.
* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'': ''Crookedstar's Promise'', barn cat Fleck thinks that the Moonstone (a place where warriors communicate with their ancestors) is the "Foodstone". Prompts the hilarious line "Is there a Foodstone as well as a Moonstone?"
* The title ''Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye'' comes from an in-universe Mondegreen, Holden mishears the song "Comin' Thru the Rye" and adopts this mistaken phrase as his future purpose in life, forming a mental image of himself catching kids who are running around in a rye field (which is inexplicably placed on "some crazy cliff,") which to him is symbolic of [[MoralGuardians protecting them from adult themes]], especially sex. The song is actually, very ironically, about two lovers meeting to have sex in a rye field.
* Creator/IsaacAsimov
** "Literature/BattleHymn": This {{Feghoot}}, builds up to the punchline that the title of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Marseillaise French National Anthem]] is pronounced "Mars Say Yes".
** ''Literature/FoundationSeries''' ''Literature/ForwardTheFoundation'': During "Dors Venabili", Wanda is in Seldon's office and has what she believes is a dream, in which two men are talking about "lemonade death". [[spoiler:It turns out that it had not been a dream, and that the two men are [[AssassinationAttempt plotting to kill]] Dors with a machine called the Elar-Monay device.]]
* In ''[[Literature/{{Doom}} Doom: Endgame]]'', Fly and Arlene are being connected to the Newbie computer simulation, and he sees Arlene mouth a message to him: "Patrick". Fly has absolutely no idea what she's trying to convey with that message or how it could help them, all that comes to mind is the story of Saint Patrick who converted the Irish. Once in the computer, he decides to trust Arlene and attempts to convert the monsters. He succeeds and rallies a growing army of the enemy, awed by his RealityWarper powers. Once they regroup in the computer, Fly learns that she said "battery", as in "CutTheJuice".
* In Creator/NoelStreatfeild's 'The Whicharts', the children's name comes from a mondegreen of the Lord's Prayer — Our Father, Whichart in Heaven. Since they are illegitimate, they assume this means their father's name is Whichart, and take it as their own.
* Penny of ''Literature/{{Edenborn}}'' claims her name is from a Lung Butter lyric "play Penelope", actually "play the melody" according to another character. It's unclear whether she reached this on her own or if her mother misinformed her.
* In Seeker, first book of the Noble Warriors trilogy, someone delivers a partial warning "Whatever you do, don't", but the remaining words become mangled by distance into "enemy orb ladder" — the full message being [[ItMakesSenseInContext "Whatever you do, don't empty your bladder!"]]
* Colene, the main character of the ''Mode'' series by Creator/PiersAnthony, when she was as a child, heard the song lyric "Mares eat oats" as "Maresy Doats" and named her toy stuffed horse after the misheard lyric. (Incidentally, the song "Mairzy Doats" was deliberately written so as to inspire this exact mishearing - see its entry below, under Music.)
* In ''Literature/ElevenTwentyTwoSixtyThree'', one of the characters Jack Epping meets is called "Silent Mike", because when little he misheard the song "Silent Night", thinking it was all about him.
* In Ellen Raskin's ''Figgs and Phantoms'' Mona Lisa Figg discovers some sheet music for Creator/GilbertAndSullivan's ''The Yeomen of the Guard'' in her late uncle's effects and realizes that what her parents have been singing for years as "tis but pickles sister keeps" is actually "tis but mickle sister reaps."
* In Becky Chambers' SF novel "The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet", there exists, well, the approximate equivalent of Alien Punk Rock, detailing the sex life of local royalty, but for someone who can't speak the alien language, "Soskh Matsh Mae'ha" [[PardonMyKlingon (whatever obscenity that is)]] comes out as "Socks Match My Hat".
* In the ''Literature/FatherBrown'' story "The Absence of Mr. Glass", [[spoiler:there is no Mr. Glass blackmailing Mr. Todhunter over some dark secret; Todhunter is learning to be an illusionist, and was merely thinking out loud while practicing juggling: "Two, three — missed a glass."]] Add to that the fact that British English drops post-vocalic R's...
* In ''Literature/NurseryCrime'', Jack's teen son Ben keeps adopting elaborate, literature-based courtship rituals based on mishearings of his love interest's words. He hears "I love kids" as "I love Keats", and "I'm looking forward to Lawrence's turn [to buy something from the shops]" as "looking forward to Lawrence Stern" and repeatedly makes misguided wooing attempts based around references to those writers.
* A short story by Aleksandr Shibaev demonstrates several instances of this in Russian (note that, while the dialogue is spoken between two school children, the only difference between the phrases are [[TheProblemWithPenIsland how the letters are divided into words]]):
** ''Nesu raznye veshchi`` (I' m carrying various things) and ''nesuraznye veschi'' (absurd things).
** ''Nesu mel'' (I'm carrying chalk) and ''ne sumel'' (didn't manage to).
** ''Emu zhe nado budet'' (he is going to need this) and ''emu zhena dobudet'' (his wife will get it for him)
** Finally ''ta marka'' (that stamp), ''tam arka'' (there's an arch) and ''Tamarka'' (a girl named Tamara).
* Literature/LovecraftCountry: The character thinks the war memorial photo is "our Dennis", but the parents referred to the Ardennes.
* PlayedForDrama in Margot Austin's story "[[Literature/ChurchmouseStories Gabriel and the Moths]]." Gabriel thinks Parson Pease-Porridge plans to replace him after hearing him say he's getting a new cat because the current one's moth-eaten. He actually heard him talking about getting a new ''hat.''
* In Thomas Pynchon's ''Bleeding Edge'', a bunch of dot-commers in a karaoke bar misinterpret a line from Music/{{Toto}}'s "Africa" as "I left my brains down in Africa." ("I bless the rains down in Africa.")
* In ''Literature/ReadyPlayerTwo'', Shoto mishears Music/{{Prince}}'s "Little Red Corvette" as "Living Correct". Aech gives him grief over it.
* The children's picture book ''Can Bears Ski?'' is about a young bear who keeps hearing people asking him the same unusual question, "Can bears ski?" After getting hearing aids, he discovers that the question he's been hearing is actually "Can you hear me?"
* The picture book ''Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs'' written by Alan Katz and illustrated by David Catrow and a number of other picture books from the same series are entire picture books based around this concept, filled with songs whose lyrics are mondegreens of real-life songs. (The title of the original comes from "Take Me Out to the Ballgame.")
* ''Music/TheGoGos'': An interview with Jane Weidlin revealed that a live performance in Australia had the audience call for "Alex The Seal." It wasn't until the set was done that it dawned on the group that they were calling for "Our Lips Are Sealed."
* In ''Literature/{{Pyramids}}'' an attempt by the mummies to translate the ancient hieroglyphs on the first pyramid via Chinese Whispers initially results in "and Khuft said unto the First" being heard as "Handcuffed to the bed, the aunt thirsted".
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* Greg from ''Series/DharmaAndGreg'' had a habit of this. "I want to Rock and Roll all night... And part of every day!" Dharma tries to correct him ("...Party every day"), and he drunkenly replies, "[[FridgeLogic If you party every day, how can you get enough rest to Rock and Roll the next night?]]"
* Chyna in ''Series/ANTFarm'' once posted a video of herself holding a soccer ball and singing randomly "tonight I'm a soccer ball". A record label producer saw the video and assumed the lyrics were "tonight I'm unstoppable". She didn't bother to correct him as obviously that sounds like a more sensible thing to have said so she just rolls with it.
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': A butchering of "Hold me closer, tiny dancer" by Music/EltonJohn is referenced in an episode wherein Phoebe is convinced that "Hold me close, young Creator/TonyDanza" is the actual line.
* "Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly" was mondegreened in the television series ''Series/{{V 1983}}'' by Willie as thus:
-->'''Willie:''' Deck the halls with lousy folly/Fa la la la la, la la la la/Tis the evening scruffy molly/Fa la la la la, la la la la/Don't we know how gay a carol/Fa la la, la la la, la la la/Holy moly Yule Tide carol/Fa la la la la, la la…
* The Music/{{Clutch}} song ''The Regulator'' has the lyric "I see a lantern burning" misheard by fans as "I see Atlanta burning". So did the producers of ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', who used the song in an episode.
* Electric Light Orchestra's "Don't Bring Me Down" is referenced in VH-1's [[ILoveTheExties "I Love The 70s Volume 2."]] The made up word, "groose" is often mistaken for "Bruce".
-->"I just want to know who Bruce is."
* Inverted with the credits song for ''Series/WKRPInCincinnati''. For years fans of the show have attempted to translate what the garbled lyrics are...finally decades later, the producers admitted there ARE no lyrics. The musician sang gibberish as a placeholder and was going to put in real lyrics later; the producers liked the gibberish version so much though that they told him not to bother and [[ThrowItIn used it]].
* Music/{{Nirvana}}'s ''Smells Like Teen Spirit'' from ''Music/{{Nevermind}}''. When MTV aired the music video, they subtitled lyrics into the video. (Unfortunately, even MTV got the lyrics wrong. It's no wonder why Music/WeirdAlYankovic's parody pokes fun at the fact the lyrics are nigh-impossible to understand.)
* Intentionally done for the song "Kinda Lingers" on ''Series/NotTheNineOClockNews''.
* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'':
** They had fun with ''Film/PodPeople'' "Idiot control now! Bees on pot! Burning rubber tires!" The funny thing is some of the ridiculous lines Joel and the bots sang ''are the real lines''. Also, one must remember this is a dub of a Spanish movie so it's bound to have major issues. [[note]] What's even funnier about Idiot Control Now is that no two sets of lyrics written out by fans is the same. [[/note]]
** The last host segment of ''Film/SantaClausConquersTheMartians'' has Joel and the Bots singing a fractured version of "Angels We Have Heard on High"
--->'''Angels we have heard are high\\
Softly sipping old champagne\\
Oh-ooooh-ooooh-Ooooreos\\
Inexpensive da-a-nish!''
** While viewing ''Film/TheGirlInLoversLane'', the crew hear Bix Dugan as "Big Stupid," and [[AccidentalMisnaming continue to call him that]] for the whole movie.
** In ''Film/LastOfTheWildHorses'', Mike and the Bots mishear character Charlie Cooper's name as "Johnny Pooper", leading to a [[{{Pun}} stream]] of ToiletHumor jokes.
** Another poor dubbing gave us "Roji-Panty Complex" from ''Film/InvasionOfTheNeptuneMen.'' It's actually "Rojium-Tanium." It was ridiculous enough that it turned into the subject of a host segment in which Tom Servo contracted Roji-Panty Complex and Mike had to take care of him by administering panties every hour.
** The GrandFinale, ''Film/DangerDiabolik'', has a line being sung by a woman, which Mike interpenetrates as "'Keep my potty down'? Women and their toilet seat issues!"
** A common mondegreen of the Joel era theme song was mishearing "his bosses didn't like him so they shot him into space" as "so they shot him in the face". This became an AscendedMeme in the {{Revival}} when "so they shot him in the face", sung to the tune of the theme song, was used as a riff.
** In the revival's Christmas episode "The Christmas That Almost Wasn't", Jonah tries carolling with the bots, but the song he tries to sing is "Good King Wencelas", "the one Christmas song no one knows the lyrics to."
--->'''Jonah:''' Good King Wenceslas looked out\\
On the Feast of Stephen.\\
'''Servo:''' And the... Christmas guys... did shout...\\
'''Crow:''' ...at the... Justin Bieber.
* ''Ken Lee'' ("Can't live [without you]", ''Without You''). Made famous by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQt-h753jHI this clip]] from the Bulgarian version of ''Pop Idol''.
* ''Series/SixFeetUnder'': InUniverse pop-star Celeste's song ''Set My Loving Free'' is sung by Keith as ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEk18HUlphc&list=FLjzW69sgd5CZAx4pzozg8XA&index=7&feature=plpp_video Shave My Legs For Free]]''.
* In ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'', Greg Proops confuses the title of Sir Mix-a-lot's "Baby got back" with "Ladies got back".
* In the TV show ''Series/{{Wings}}'' one episode's subplot revolved around Antonio becoming a busker in the airport, singing a song he learned back in Italy (his introduction to English): "My Goat Knows the Bowling Score, Hallelujah." After everyone gets sick of him singing the same line over and over they suggest he go on to the next verse, which he does: "Sid's new hair is in the mail, Hallelujah." (That is, "Michael, row the boat ashore" and "Sister, help to trim the sail", respectively.)
* The Australian TV show ''Comedy Inc.'' has fun with this trope in their stop-motion vignette series ''Ernest the Engine and Others'' where the character Stevie the Steam Train tends to "stutter badly at the most inappropriate of times", such as when he sings the song "'''Count'''ry Roads".
* The main character of ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' mistook the ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' theme song lyric "shooting some b-ball outside the school" as "chewing some meatballs outside the school."
* In Small Steps, Armpit mishears the words "I'm but" as "Armpit".
* A game on ''Series/NeverMindTheBuzzcocks'' called "Indecipherable Lyrics" is based on the teams trying to deliberately come up with entire verses' worth of mondegreens for particularly mumbled songs. See also SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein and PerishingAltRockVoice (the latter a common cause of Mondegreens.
* On a Christmas episode of ''Series/MockTheWeek'', Adam Hills tells a story about his grandmother: when ''Deck the Halls'' was announced as the next song coming up on some tv special, she claims she'd never heard of it. When the rest of the family started saying she must know it, she snapped, "I've never sung ''Dick the Horse''!"
* One of Creator/JimmyFallon's "Late Night Hashtags" routines had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOffciZ9Gdw examples]] [[FourthWallMailSlot sent in by fans]] via Website/{{Twitter}}.
* In an episode of ''Series/JustShootMe'', Nina and Elliott get into an argument about whether the lyrics of their favourite blues song are "Stone for my pillow" (because the singer is sleeping in the street) or "Slow, foamy killer" (referring to malt liquor). They call the singer's widow, who tells them that it is "Stone cold armadillo", but it was actually Finch messing with them.
* This, apparently, is what led to [[BigBad the Clairvoyant's]] {{Ubermensch}} ideas in ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'':
-->'''The Clairvoyant:''' You remember that speech you used to give us, Nick? About how one man can accomplish anything once he realizes he can become something bigger? Well, now I am.\\
'''Fury:''' ...A ''part''. A ''part'' of something bigger.\\
'''The Clairvoyant:''' [[RunningGag Is that how it went?]]\\
'''Coulson:''' Not a great listener.\\
'''Fury:''' [[LetMeGetThisStraight If you tell me]] this whole [[spoiler:HYDRA]] path thing you took is because you misheard my damn "One Man" speech—\\
'''The Clairvoyant:''' [[SanitySlippage I am the key to the future of the universe. I'm the origin of all things]]—\\
'''Fury:''' [''to Coulson''] You got it, right?\\
'''Coulson:''' Totally.
* One affiliate airing ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' had somehow captioned "All hands on deck for saucer separation" as "All hands on deck for happy birthday" in one of the episodes.
* On an episode of ''Series/MatchGame'', a contestant in the BonusRound invoked this when given the phrase "Cuckoo ____". Asked to fill in the blank, she replied with "Cuckoo, friend, and Ollie", a mangling of the classic puppet show ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukla,_Fran_and_Ollie Kukla, Fran, and Ollie]]".
* Every single episode of ''Hey Vern, It's Ernest'' had a sketch where Ernest went to his barber and asked him to give him a haircut that made him look like a Wall Street tycoon. The barber always mishears the instruction as something that rhymed which was thematically related to what the episode was about ("I thought you said The Man in the Moon" or "I thought you said a wind-blown sand dune" or something).
** The episode "Holidays" has Ernest setting out to celebrate all the holidays of the year in one day, starting with New Year:
-->'''Ernest''': (''singing'') Should old maintenance be real hot, and never hard to find...
* In the episode "Ua Helele'i Ka Hoku" of ''Series/HawaiiFive0'', Jane Miller always thought a line of Freelance Riot's song "Sweet Disaster" was "Playing love songs to strangers / And drinking Hartigan." while it actually is "Playing love songs to strangers / And breaking hearts again.".
* From an anecdote told by Colin Hay of the band Music/MenAtWork on an episode of the music quiz show ''Series/SpicksAndSpecks'': one time, during a live performance, an audience member called out "Sing the song about the goats, mate!" Naturally, Hay was confused, but eventually realised that the audience member meant the song "Overkill". The chorus goes: "Day after day it reappears / Night after night my heartbeat shows the fear / ''Ghosts appear and fade away...''"
* From ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', there's all the times where Rick pronounces his son Carl's name in such a way that it sounds more like [[Memes/TheWalkingDead2010 "Coral"]] instead.
* [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=EqOIjdzw_x0 This segment]] from ''Series/JimmyKimmelLive'' has a man reviewing ''[[Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017 Beauty and the Beast]]'', but he keeps mondegreening the film's name, as well as the names of some of the actors in the movie.
* ''Series/ICarly'':
** Subverted in "iGot Detention". After a teacher holding Carly, Sam, and a whole class in evening detention says that the school's principal is a "weak spineless fool", secretly on camera as the Principal is watching online, the teacher tries to cover it by saying he misheard and what he actually said was "sleek, stylish, cool!"
** Played straight in "iStakeout". The detectives who infiltrate the Shay's apartment to spy on the convenience store next door believe the owner is selling "pirated" movies, which are illegal copies. As it turns out, he's really selling ''pirate'' movies, poorly homemade movies about pirates which are not illegal at all.
* Riotishly enforced on the German satire "Heute Show". Pussy Riot was all over the headlines at the time, and the moderator rhetorically asked what a pussy is. Cut to a Bavarian politican, talking about some "Parteivorsitzender" (party chairman). Due to his Bavarian and his mumbling, and the set-up, it invariably mondegreened to "Parteifotze". Luckily, as mentioned [[CountryMatters elsewhere]], in Bavaria the word doesn't mean pussy anyway...
* In the ''Series/{{BattleBots}}'' revival, one bot driver gives a [[BloodKnight very enthusiastic and inarticulate battle cry]] before his bout starts. The subtitle guy doesn't even ''try'' to guess what the hell he said: "????????!!!"
* During a ''Series/SoYouThinkYouCanDance'' audition featuring a traditional Mongolian dancer, the dancer describes that the dance she's doing is traditionally performed while holding a bowl of horse milk. Unfortunately, her English isn't that great, so her accent turns it into "whore's milk" instead. The confusion takes a moment to clear.
* ''Series/JudgeJudy'' once heard a case brought by a young woman who was suing her ex-boyfriend for assault in a situation instigated by some [=DVDs=] of hers the boyfriend had neglected to return. One of those [=DVDs=] was the movie ''[[Film/{{Friday}} Next Friday]]''. Due to the plaintiff's poor diction, Judge Judy heard the phrase "''Next Friday'' movie" as "X-rated movie."
* In an episode of ''Series/YouCantDoThatOnTelevision'' dealing with politics, Alasdair uses the word "slimy" as an adjective to describe modern-day politicians. Justin then dumps a bucket of green slime over Alasdair's head.
--> '''Alasdair:''' I said "slimy", not "slime me", you idiot!
* At least two experiments on German TV showed the gullibility of the "I want to believe" personality type. The first (1970s or so) was more unintentional, it was the good old Set-Radio-To-Static-Tape-It-And-Hear-The-Ghosts-Talk setup. After much mumbo-jumbo mondegreened together, one ancient troper later identified the taped stuff as coming from "Sugar Me" by Lynsey De Paul. Hilarity ensued. The second was intentional and even more egregious, as science TV Show "Quarks&Co" used a snippet from [[Music/PinkFloyd "Another Brick In The Wall"]] and claimed someone is saying "Hol ihn, hol ihn unters Dach!", accompanied with some impromptu horror story. As you can see [[https://scary.fandom.com/wiki/Hol%27_ihn_unters_Dach here]], in the meantime it turned into an urban legend.
* An episode of ''Series/BostonCommon'' has two characters arguing over the lyrics to [[Music/MenAtWork Down Under]]. You really couldn't blame them for not knowing what vegemite was, though.
* ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver'' once ran an "And Now... This" montage documenting news anchors saying "[[UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic mask debate]]," which sounds like "[[AccidentalInnuendo masturbate]]."
* A meta example in the ''Series/BlackMirror'' episode [[Recap/BlackMirrorRachelJackAndAshleyToo "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too"]]. The chorus to Ashley O's hit single "On a Roll" opens with the line "Hey yeah woah-ho", which many viewers have misheard as "Hey, I'm a ho". (Given both Ashley O's [[{{Stripperiffic}} skimpy outfit]] and the fact that she's played by Music/MileyCyrus in [[AdamWesting a parody of her public persona]], the lyric would not be wholly out of character.) The best part? ''So did the Russian translators'', so the song's chorus' first line is really subtitled as if translated from the Mondegreen.
* ''The Break with Michelle Wolf: In 2018, when it was revealed that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency or ICE was separating illegal immigrants' children into prison camps, Wolf savaged the organization with a satirical ad, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything "ICE is...", in which ICE members were completing the sentence with statements like "ICE is... protecting the homeland from the enemy"]], drawing an obvious parallel to the Middle Eastern terrorist group ISIS.
* A [[https://youtu.be/lxmP01HERnQ sketch]] on Series/MuppetsTonight with Kermit the Frog and Sandra Bullock references that the title lyric of the nonsense song "Mah Na Mah Na" sounds like the word "phenomena".
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* [[http://books.google.com/books?id=3QkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA97&dq=%22dust+on+the+bottle%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OAfnUfXHEe2u4APvsoCoCg&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22dust%20on%20the%20bottle%22&f=false This]] 1997 article in ''Billboard'' magazine discusses several mondegreens that CountryMusic radio program directors have heard from callers. Among them:
** David Lee Murphy's "Dust on the Bottle" being misheard as "Dust on the Bible"
** Ty England's "Should've Asked Her Faster" being misheard as "Should've Slapped the Bastard"
** The line "Let's all go down to Dumas Walker" from Music/TheKentuckyHeadhunters' "Dumas Walker" being misheard as "…go down to do Miss Walker"
** Billy Ray Cyrus' "Some Gave All" being misheard as "Some Gay Ball"
* The term was coined by Sylvia Wright in a 1954 essay in ''Harper's'', She describes that as a young girl, she misheard the line "They hae slain the Earl o' Moray/And laid him on the green" from the 17th-century ballad "The Bonnie Earl o' Moray" as "They hae slain the Earl o' Moray/And LadyMondegreen".
* ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'' had a feature showing how kids interpreted various patriotic songs, such as "The Star Spangled Banner", "My Country Tis of Thee", "The Battle Hymn of the Marines", and "America the Beautiful". For example, the last lines of "The Star Strangled Grandma" are as follows.
-->''Oh say does that star-strangled\\
Grandma smell Dave.\\
For the mandolin is free\\
and our home is a cave.''
* There was an article in a 1980s ''Reader's Digest'' edition in which the author recounted how, as a child, she thought that the first line went of ''The Star-Spangled Banner'', "O say can you see, by the daunserly light" and kept "daunserly" as her secret, magical word. She was eventually corrected on this by her family when she decided that it couldn't hurt to share that magical word with her sister who, of course, initially had no idea what she was referring to.
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* "Old Scratch" as a nickname for {{Satan}} is likely an example of this (possibly crossed with BlindIdiotTranslation): It likely comes from the Old English word ''Scrat'' meaning a goblin or demon, which in turn comes from the Old Norse ''Skratte'', meaning the same thing. At some point someone post likely misheard and/or misread the word, and from there it caught on
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* Music/{{ACDC}}'s "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" has a parody version done by Music/BobRivers that was called [[BestialityIsDepraved "Dirty Deeds Done With Sheep"]] due to misheard lyrics from the original song, and had some of instruments replaced with farm animal sounds.
* Music/Anamanaguchi once made a song using Hatsune Miku, but due to her accent the chorus "I'm thinking Miku, Miku, oo-ee-oo" is commonly misheard as [[PrecisionFStrike "I'm freaking Miku".]]
* Music/TheBangles included a cover of "Sweet and Tender Romance" on their 2011 album ''Sweetheart of the Sun''. Despite having found no official lyrics. Susanna Hoffs remarked, "We listened to the [=McKinley=] Sisters' recording over and over again, and could decode most of the words, but in the end we guessed a bit! What you hear on the record is actually our "scratch" vocals, and in fact Vicki and I are singing different words!"
* Music/TheBeachBoys:
** "She's my little blue scoop, picks up all of my rocks" ("She's my little Deuce coupe/You don't know what I've got", The Beach Boys, "Little Deuce Coupe"). Filk artist Music/TomSmith includes this in "Smurfin' Safari", a medley of [[Franchise/TheSmurfs Smurf]]-themed Beach Boys parodies.
** Courtesy of Creator/DaveBarry....from "Help Me, Rhonda": ''"Well since she put me down I've been out doin' in my head"'' became ''"Well since she put me down, there been owls pukin' in my bed".''
** "Caroline, No" was originally written by Tony Asher as "Carol, I know." Music/BrianWilson misunderstood the lyric, and after discussing it they decided that "Caroline, No" fit the melancholy tone of the song better.
* The line ''Soy un perdedor'' from "Loser" by Music/{{Beck}} was [[LampshadeHanging called out]] in a Creator/VH1 special on the best songs of the 90s, where various musicians and critics sang what they thought Beck was saying instead of the Spanish line.
* "Slow Uncle Walter/The fire engine guy" ("Smoke on the water/A fire in the sky", ''Smoke on the Water'' by Music/DeepPurple). The Barenaked Ladies pay homage to this Mondegreen in their song "The Night I Fell Asleep At The Wheel":
-->''Rubberneck traffic and passers-by/ And Slow Motion Walter the fire engine guy / Stand around with their mouths open wide...''
* Music/ElectricLightOrchestra's "Don't Bring Me Down", is frequently mondegreened as "Don't bring me down, Bruce!" The actual lyric is "Don't bring me down, groose", which is a made-up word. ELO realized so many people were hearing this that they actually started singing it live.
* The line "'Scuse me while I kiss the sky" from Music/JimiHendrix's "Purple Haze" being misheard as "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy" is something Hendrix was aware of. Hendrix was known to pause at this point in the song and either point to or kiss one of his male band members during concerts. In at least a few live recordings, he very clearly says "kiss this guy" or "kiss that guy".
** Hendrix was also guilty of this in his [[CoveredUp cover]] of Music/BobDylan's "All Along The Watchtower", turning Dylan's lyric "None of them along the line/Know what any of it is worth" into "None will level on the line/Nobody offered his word".
* Doug Ingle's slurred mispronunciation of "In The Garden of Eden" became the official title of the famous Music/IronButterfly song, "Ina-Gadda-Da-Vida".
* In ''Billie Jean'' by Music/MichaelJackson, many people misheard the line "the kid is not my son" as "the chair is not my son." There are people who are very assertive that they've heard "chair" and not "kid." A famous and funny example involves Late night Television Host Creator/DavidLetterman and his Band Leader sidekick Paul Shaffer who were talking about this song. Dave was trying to decipher the lyrics to Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean," wondering if Jackson was singing the lyrics, "The kid is not my son" or "The CHAIR is not my son". Letterman played the song for the audience, but had stagehand Al Frisch say the word "CHAIR" in a thick New York accent over Jackson singing the word "kid." A lot of people also hear the line as "The cheetahs mugged my son" rather than "kid" as well.
** Jackson was a repeat offender. His most famous "catchphrases" were mondegreens, most famously, "SHAMONE!" which is really him saying "C'MON!".
** The line "Show 'em how funky strong is your fight" from the chorus of "Beat It" is quite easy to mishear as...well, [[ClusterFBomb you can probably guess]].
* Music/{{Oasis}} caused a lot of perplexed speculation concerning exactly how you go about securing a layer of textured floor covering over an avalanche. ''"Someday you will find me, carpeting a landslide..."'' [[note]] The line in ''Champagne Supernova'' is actually "caught beneath a landslide"[[/note]]
* "Hey Sandy" by Polaris was the theme tune to ''The Adventures of Pete and Pete'', with a famously unintelligible lyric which the band swore they would never reveal.
* Music/ElvisPresley
** Cover artists are divided as to whether the line in Elvis's ''Peace in the Valley'' is "the Lamb is the Light" or [[Literature/SherlockHolmes "the lamp is alight"]].
** A mishearing for "(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame" came up during a phone-in quiz on Steve Wright's [[Creator/TheBBC BBC Radio 2]] show, a caller was asked, "In the hit single by Elvis Presley, what's the name of His Latest Flame?", to which she responded "Anne-Marie".[[note]]The actual lyric is "''And'' Marie's the name / Of his latest flame"[[/note]]. When Wright had stopped laughing, he gave her the point.
* Splender's song "I Think God Can Explain" was originally "I Think I Can Explain." But the lyrics and titled were changed due to a mishearing, and the band preferred the version that was ultimately released.
* The title of "Seven Nation Army" by Music/TheWhiteStripes is based on a non-musical mondegreen. Jack White stated that as a boy, he thought the Salvation Army's name was "Seven-Nation Army" and decided to call the song that.
* Kim Petras ' 2017 single "I Don't Want It At All", a {{Retraux}} pseudo-1980s song, from August 2017 has the lyric "I'mma have everything on the rack" which has often been misheard as "I'm have everything on the brack" / "I'mma have everything on the brak", which is itself suggesting she was singing about salty water ("brack" being an old Scottish dialect word for this). It's so often misheard that it was joked about on local radio in England!
* Music/KingsOfLeon has an intentional aversion/backstory example in ''Sex on Fire'', one of their biggest hits. The WordSaladLyrics originally featured "Set Us On Fire" as the chorus, but ''everybody'' would Mondegreen it as "Sex on Fire". According to [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]], one of the sound mixers came in and said, "Sex on fire, huh?" It became a running joke, and eventually the group not only changed the lyrics, but made it the album title track.
* ''I'm Blue'' by Music/Eiffel65 is misheard by many to be saying, "If I were green I would die." The actual lyrics are intended to be random gibberish ("Da Ba Dee Da Ba Dai"). Several have also misheard it as "I'm in need of a guy."
* The John Denver-composed, Peter, Paul, and Mary-popularized song "Leaving on a Jet Plane" inspired the Pinkard and Bowden parody "Libyan on a Jet Plane".
* Fredde Le Grand's dance hit "Put Your Hands Up For Detroit" contains only one repeated line: A sample that goes "Put your hands up for Detroit, our lovely city". So many people misheard it as "I love this city" that Le Grand had to post a message on his website clarifying the lyrics.
* "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mairzy_Doats Mairzy Doats]]" intentionally inverts this trope. Official lyrics:
-->Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey\\
A kiddley divey too, woooden shoo?\\
''[the lyrics then {{lampshade|Hanging}} with the bridge]''\\
If the words sound queer and funny to your ear, a little bit jumbled and jivey,\\
Sing "Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy."\\
''[thus, the second line should be interpreted]''\\
A kid'll eat ivy, too, wouldn't you?
* The first time Music/StevieNicks met Music/TomPetty's wife Jane, Jane said that she and Tom met "at the age of seventeen." However, her thick Southern accent made it sound like "Edge of Seventeen." Nicks liked the sound of it, and wrote a song around it.
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Wiedlin Jane Wiedlin]] of [[Music/TheGoGos the Go Go's]] has commented on a few occasions that fans are constantly asking the band to sing the song about "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lips_Are_Sealed Alex The Seal]]".
* Folk singer John Prine, in a live version of his song "That's the Way that the World Goes 'Round," mentions a fan who told him she liked the lyrics "It's a happy enchilada, and you think you're gonna drown." Actual lyric: "It's a ''half an inch of water'', and you think you're gonna drown." Rather than correcting the fan, he told her he was glad she liked the words.
* Music/PinkMartini actually ''recorded'' a Mondegreen not realizing it was the wrong lyric. In "Amado Mio," a cover of another song, China Forbes sings "I want you ever, I love my darling, wanting to hold you and hold you tight" - and only later did the band realize that the words are "My one endeavor, my love, my darling."
** So did the ''Series/{{Glee}}'' cast, when stars Lea Michele and Idina Menzel sang a duet of Music/LadyGaga's "Poker Face." The correct lyric is "She's got me like nobody", but it's often heard as "She's got to love nobody." Michele and Menzel's cover included the Mondegreen instead of the correct lyrics.
* Music/TheyMightBeGiants' John Linnell wrote a song called ''Olive, The Other Reindeer'', named after a ''WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer'' mondegreen of "...AllOfTheOtherReindeer..."
* Australian punk legends Radio Birdman took their name from a misheard lyric in Music/TheStooges' ''Music/FunHouse''-originated song "1970" ''Radio '''burnin''' up above...''
* The Lightning Seeds got their name when Ian Broudie misheard a line from Music/{{Prince}}'s "Raspberry Beret". The actual line is "Thunder drowns out what the lightning sees."
* Music/WeirdAlYankovic got the idea for "Like a Surgeon" from Music/{{Madonna}} Mondegreening her own song "Like a Virgin" while talking to a friend.
* Creator/CaseyKasem once played Music/KennyLoggins' "Welcome to Heartlight" as a Long Distance Dedication on ''Radio/AmericanTop40'' from a listener who apparently thought the song was called "Welcome to Hard Life."
* The song "Pontoon" by Music/LittleBigTown came about as the result of a mondegreen. Co-writers Luke Laird and Natalie Hemby wrote a song for Music/MirandaLambert called "Fine Tune"; a publisher later inquired about the song, but thought that it was called "Pontoon". After Hemby corrected him, the two thought that they actually ''should'' try writing a song called "Pontoon".
* Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival:
** The song "Bad Moon Rising" having the line "there's a bad moon on the rise" misheard as "there's a bathroom on the right" led to John Fogerty [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H06_0ApzkzY using the mondegreen version of the line]] in live performances.
** A contestant on ''Canadian Idol'' managed to get under Zack Werner's skin with his mondegreens:
--->'''Contestant:''' I see a black moon risin'...\\
'''Zack:''' It's ''bad'' moon...\\
'''Contestant:'''...I see trouble in the air!\\
'''Zack:''' It's ''on the way''...
* Electric Six's biggest hit "Gay Bar" was reportedly inspired by mishearing the lyrics to DEVO's "Girl U Want" when the speakers were too loud. Somehow, "She's just the girl, the girl you want" became "She's just the girl in a gay bar". So then they decided to write a song that was actually about a gay bar.
* Music/ImagineDragons songs are sometimes misheard, to the extent where Dan Reynolds has to Tweet fans the correct lyrics. For at least one tune ("Destination"), he admitted considering officially changing the lyrics to match the misheard version ("I think a little 'bout a lot/I reach a verdict" became "I think a little 'bout a lot/I'm introverted").
* Music/TonesOnTail: The remix of "There's Only One" is titled "Now We Lustre" after a mondegreen of the song's title when it's reversed.
* {{Music/Weezer}}'s [[LiveAlbum Live EP]] ''The Lion And The Witch'' was recorded when bassist Scott Shriner had been in the band for less than a year, and it includes him memorably flubbing the lyrics in his backing vocals for the bridge of "Holiday": "We will write a postcard to our friends and family and free-base" instead of "We will write a postcard to our friends and family ''in free verse''". The rest of the band give him some good-natured ribbing for this in the ensuing stage banter.
** The very first track on the band's first album contains a common Mondegreen from the band: "My name is Jonas/I carry underwear". It's actually "I'm carrying the wheel".
* Music/GuidedByVoices' "The Best Of Jill Hives" came about because Bob Pollard thought he heard that phrase being uttered on a TV he had on in the background, then thought it would be a good song title. Odds are he was actually hearing a promo for ''Series/DaysOfOurLives''.
* The common mondegreen "I'm a little man, and I'm also evil, also into cats" ("I'm a leading man, and the lies I weave are oh so intricate") from "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" by Music/FallOutBoy has been acknowledged by the band a few times.
** "The frozen proof" becomes "The frozen fruit" in "Centuries".
*** "The poisoned youth" also becomes "The frozen fruit" during 8Bit Drummer's cover of the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8DOInEKuDs here]].
** "I am the sand in the bottom half of the hourglass" becomes "I am the sinnin' bottom half of the hourglass" in "Immortals".
* Music/{{Aerosmith}}'s "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" was born from a mishearing. The line (and song name) was supposed to be "Cruisin' for a Lady".
* "DARE" by Music/{{Gorillaz}} was supposed to be "It's there", but Shaun Ryder's slurred vocal style made it constantly sound like "dare", so they decided to make that the name of the song.
* Sam Cooke's "Twistin' the Night Away" had the misheard lyric "He's dancing with the chicken slacks." The actual lyric is "He's dancing with the chick in slacks." A Boston-based soul band, The Chicken Slacks, would later name themselves after the mondegreen and further reference it with a bumper sticker they sold at early shows: "I Went Dancin' With The Chicken Slacks".
* The title of Sly and the Family Stones's "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" was created as an intentional mondegreen of "thank you for letting me be myself again." It's obviously tongue-in-cheek, since the chorus is the one part that ''isn't'' especially difficult to understand.
* Mondegreen on the part of the music video director for Music/MindInABox's "Synchronize". The songs lyrics are "stick a needle in my ''vein''", but the music video shows an MRI of sticking a syringe needle in a man's ''brain'' as the lyrics are spoken.
* Music/CultureClub's 1984 hit, "It's a Miracle," has often been misheard as "It's America." Which oddly enough ''was'' the original title of the song.
* Bobby Hart caught the very end of [[Music/TheBeatles "Paperback Writer"]] on the radio and somehow heard "take the last train" instead of the TitleDrop. Once he learned that wasn't the actual lyric, he and Tommy Boyce wrote "Last Train To Clarksville" for Music/TheMonkees.
** Similarly, John Fred heard the title of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" as "Lucy in disguise with diamonds." With that in mind, he wrote "Judy in Disguise (with Diamonds)", which became a number-one hit on ''Billboard'' charts.
* Billie Meyers' "Kiss The Rain" is an example of a song being inspired by mishearing the title of another song, Bush's "Glycerine".
* Music/AnimalCollective invokes this intentionally in their song "What Would I Want? Sky." It samples the line "Willow sky. Whoa, I walk and wonder why." from the Grateful Dead track "Unbroken Chain."
* Greg Hawkes, keyboardist for Music/TheCars, misheard the line "Everything you say is fiction" on an early version of the song "I'm In Touch With Your World" as "everything is [[ScienceFiction science fiction.]]" Ric Ocasek decided he [[ThrowItIn liked it better than the original]], and sang it that way on the final version, with Hawkes adding an appropriately spacey keyboard noise right afterward.
* Whoever wrote the lyrics on the Music/{{Stratovarius}} website mangled a line from one of the band's own songs. A line in "I Walk to My Own Song" is written as "far above the frozen minds", even though Kotipelto is clearly singing "frozen hearts".
* Music/{{Bastille}}'s hit "Pompeii" includes the line "How am I gonna be an optimist about this?". One fan repeatedly holding up a cardboard cutout of an ''octopus'' at the appropriate moment eventually distracted (and amused) the lead singer enough that he sung the wrong line towards the end...
* An amusing Dominican Republic radio request had Corona's "The Rhythm of the Night" being brought as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UawxJF1n3w "Esas son Reebok o son Nike?" (Is This The Reebok or the Nike?)]]. In Brazil, it is "Jesus Humilha Satanás" (Jesus Humiliates Satan) due to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4MQzMOlXjI a comedian imitating such a request]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_5hdZ58eE4 a subsequent]] {{Defictionalization}}.
* In a version of the Christmas song "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" sung by Music/JohnDenver and Series/TheMuppets, Miss Piggy ends up interrupting the song when Gonzo sings "Now give us some figgy pudding", thinking he said "''piggy'' pudding". He has to explain that he said ''figgy'' as the pudding is made of figs though, in annoyance, he mutters "and bacon".
* Music/{{Magazine}}'s "Model Worker" includes the line "I know the cadre will look after me", which [[ItMakesSenseInContext makes sense in context]]. However, some listeners managed to miss that this was a love song [[ViewersAreGeniuses phrased in the vocabulary of Chinese communist propaganda]], and believed that they heard "I know '''that Carter''' will look after me", taking this as some kind of satirical reference to then-US President UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter. Lead singer Howard Devoto didn't bother fighting the mistake very hard; when UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan replaced Carter as president, he started singing "I know that Reagan will look after me".
* CountryMusic singer Music/KathyMattea has sometimes nicknamed herself "Captain Potato" after someone misheard her name as that phrase.
** Similarly, Karen Carpenter of Music/TheCarpenters, after hearing herself referred to in Japan as the "lead sister" rather than "lead singer" of the group, ran with it and started wearing shirts emblazoned with the phrase "Lead Sister."
* 1960s folk band The Seekers and solo artist Sonny James both had versions of the song, "I'll Never Find Another You." The line, "There is always someone for each of us, they say" was misheard by Mr. James as "There is always someone to reach across, they say."
* Not being a Southerner, unlike songwriter Levon Helm, and singing the song only from hearing it, Music/JoanBaez misinterpreted the line in "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" as "Till so much cavalry came" instead of Helm's correct rendition "Till Stoneman's cavalry came", referring to actual Union cavalry commander George Stoneman, noted for destroying Confederate railroads.
* Music/BritneySpears intentionally invoked this in "If U Seek Amy", which sounds like "F.U.C.K. Me" with a space shifted. Due to this, some radio stations censored the "k" sound at the end of the word "seek".
* Purple Mountains' "Nights That Won't Happen" gets its title from David Berman's mishearing of [[Music/TheMoodyBlues "Nights In White Satin"]]
* A rather infamous case that turned into an example of NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity came with Music/ManfredMann's cover of [[Music/BruceSpringsteen "Blinded by the Light"]], where a combination of their adjustment of the song's lyrics and Mann's pronunciation quirks led to the line "revved up like a deuce" being misheard as "wrapped up like a douche." This cased a bit of a row among listeners, which in turn bolstered the cover's success when it was released as a single in 1976, becoming a No. 1 hit in the US, the UK, and Canada. Bruce Springsteen joked about this in later years, facetiously grumbling about how it his song was only able to become a hit after it was rewritten to be about a feminine hygiene product.
* Some German cover versions use this trope intentionally - the title is made to match the original just phonetically. Examples: "Uli's Pulli" by Klaus und Klaus ("Wooly Bully" by Sam the Sham) and, especially egregious, "Die Wanne ist voll" by Didi Hallervorden and Helga Feddersen ("You're the one that I want" by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John).
* "Ça Plane pour Moi" by Plastic Bertrand doesn't have to do anything with a plane. It is near-lying to assume that the English cover version "Jet Boy, Jet Girl" was influenced by this trope.
* Music/{{Adele}}'s "Rolling in the Deep" has one line toward the beginning, "Go ahead and sell me out, and then I'll lay your ship bare," that gets misheard as "Go ahead and sell me out, and then I'll lay your shit bare" enough that most radio edits of the song censor the word "ship." The song's subject matter (a scorned lover reprimanding their unfaithful partner) and [[ParentheticalSwearing the specific tone the line takes]] makes it a weird case where it could be intentionally ambiguous.
* The song "Little Green Bag", made even more famous by the characters of Creator/QuentinTarantino's Film/ReservoirDogs [[PowerWalk power walking to it]], has an interesting story. The original title was "Little Greenback", making reference to a dollar bill (you can actually clearly hear the main singer makes emphasis in the "CK" at the end of the first verse). Nonetheless, the single was given the erroneous title "Little Green Bag". It didn't help that the new title made it seem it was referring to a bag of marijuana. The band embraced the new title from the beginning.
* The cover of the Music/BlackEyedPeas single "Imma Be" depicts a bee, which suggests that they were aware that the [[BrokenRecord constant repetitions]] of "Imma Be" can be misheard as "I'm a bee".
* The lyric, "I walked in the corner with the body screaming dolo," in [=SAINt JHN=]'s "Roses" inadvertently leaves it open to interpretation as it is sung in an artificial high pitch, as with the rest of the chorus, and has been misheard in ways like, "I was in a portal with a bag of screaming goats," "I was in a porno with a bag of screaming goats," and "I was in a porno with UsefulNotes/JoeBiden screaming, 'No!'". A prominent Website/{{TikTok}} meme that went viral in the Spring of 2020 pointed out the mondegreen, with the misheard lyric usually accompanied by someone the [=TikTok=] creator knows or the creator doubling as a friend or family member pointing out the lyrics are interpreted incorrectly.
* "Whatever You Like" by T.I. has a line that goes "I want yo' body, need yo' body," which really sounds like "I want Joe Biden, need Joe Biden." (The song came out a few months before Biden's election as Vice President.)
* Music/{{Megadeth}}'s cover of Music/TheSexPistols song "Anarchy in the U.K" has differing lyrics to the original, which Dave Mustaine explained was because he couldn't understand what Johnny Rotten was singing.
* The Mr. T Experience covered "Can't Get There From Here" for an {{Music/REM}} tribute album in the early 1990's - since R.E.M. weren't in the habit of including printed lyrics with their albums and there weren't any fan sites to consult yet, the band made deliberately absurd guesses whenever a particular line stumped them. Examples include 'Donna Reed is not my mom" (instead of "Brother Ray can sing my song") and "Spiderman gives it all" ("He's mighty bad to visit home")
* The Hungarian Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} has its [[https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelet_kaptam,_lájf own article]] about famous song mondegreens that became popular jokes in the '80s and are still quoted today.
** The most famous, which the article itself is named after, is "Levelet kaptam, lájf" ("I've received a letter, life"), from the Opus song "Life is Life". People have tried to explain the misheard line for decades and there's even an old UrbanLegend that Opus had deliberately hidden an actual Hungarian phrase into the song. Reporters eventually contacted the band personally to clear up the mystery: the original line was just the gibberish "labadab dab dab live". Still, the mishearing remains a part of the nation's cultural psyche because it was so ubiquitous.
** Other widespread mondegreens mentioned in the article include the nonsensical "Yomaha yomaso" (Music/ModernTalking's "You're My Heart, You're My Soul") and "Ajesko" (Music/StevieWonder's "I Just Called to Say I Love You"), "Szentmihályon presszó lesz" ("there will be a bar in Szentmihály", from the line "Sending out an SOS" in Music/ThePolice's "Message in the Bottle"), "Húzz be" ("throw a punch", from the line "Who's bad" in Music/MichaelJackson's "Bad"), "Ásót visz a Laci" ("Louie is taking a garden spade", from Music/KylieMinogue's "I Should be So Lucky") and "A nagymamát szétvágjuk" ("we're cutting apart grandma", from Music/GeorgeHarrison's "Got My Mind Set on You").
* The hook to "Janitor" by Suburban Lawns was supposedly inspired by a misheard conversation-  when vocalist Su Tissue met her friend Brian Smith for the first time in a loud room, she asked him what he did for a living and got the response "I'm a janitor"... but what she heard was "oh my genitals". Thus the chorus of the song alternates between "I'm a janitor" and "oh my genitals", deliberately slurred so the listener can't quite tell which is being sung.
* Arik Einstein's "Ahavtiah" (using an uncommon conjugation of the Hebrew verb "to love") is often misheard as "avatiach" (Hebrew for "watermelon").
* National Velvet tried out a new, then-unrecorded song called "Sarsaparilla" during live performances - Audiences liked the song, but at least one fan seemed to be under the impression it was called "Sex Gorilla". For the studio version of the song they changed the title and lyrics accordingly - the music video even included images of singer Maria del Mar being carried around in a giant gorilla's hand ala Fay Wray in ''[[Film/KingKong1933 King Kong]]''.
* The line "Focus on me" is often misheard as "Fuck a zombie" in "Focus" by Ariana Grande. This is referenced in Bart Baker's parody of the song.
** Rucka Rucka Ali actually made a parody song based on this mondegreen called "Fucka Zombie".
* When {{Music/Voivod}} covered Music/PinkFloyd's "Astronomy Domine", they got one of the lyrics wrong - Pink Floyd's version had the lines "Stairway scare, ComicStrip/DanDare, who's there?", which the Voivod version renders as "Stairway scared and death rules there". As a Canadian band formed in the 80's, they'd likely never heard of the British comic strip hero from the 1950's.
* Music/{{Ministry}}'s "Psalm 69" samples the line "Liar! Blasphemer!" from ''Film/ThePitAndThePendulum1991'', then during the guitar hook following the second verse, the first word of the sample repeats while a klaxon alarm is blaring, making it sound like someone shouting "Fire!".
* French example with "La Zoubida" by comedian Lagaf'. He plays the part of a French-Arabic man named Moktar and he says at one point "Arrive Moktar sur un scooter doré" ("Here comes Moktar on a golden scooter"). However, thanks to his faux accent and slurred pronounciation, it comes off as "Franchise/HarryPotter sur un scooter doré". Funnily enough, the song came out six years before the first HP book was published.
%%In-universe examples only. Only add a song if the group or another song references the mondegreen in some way.
* Music/TaylorSwift's song "Blank Space" features the line "Got a long list of ex-lovers", but with more emphasis on the "of" than the ex". As such, the syllables "-st of ex-" can blend into "Starbucks", which left several listeners confused as to why Swift was singing about "Starbucks lovers" in a song where coffee appreciation is unrelated.
** For many people, this goes even farther and is misheard as "get along with Starbucks lovers", which makes it confusing as to why they would "tell you she's insane" if they supposedly get along.
* In Russian singer Elvira T's song "Mutny" ("Sketchy"), the line "na zhestkom stilye" ("in a rough style") is often misheard as "na russkom stilye" ("in a Russian style").
** In her other song "Ekstra Lyubov" ("Extra Love"), the line "Snova my na tvoyey dachye" ("We're in your dacha again") is often misheard as "Snova my na tvoyey tachkye" ("We're in your car again"[[labelnote:*]]The word "tachka" actually means "wheelbarrow", but is often used as slang for "car".[[/labelnote]]).
* Music/{{Eminem}}, especially from the 2010s onwards, uses these intentionally to create layers of subtextual meanings to his lyrics... although his fans have a tendency to assume these are intentional when they're not, something he's complained about in his Genius annotations of his songs.
** On "Murder, Murder", Eminem raps, "''I want the whole pie, I won't be denied Nathan''", a ShoutOut to a mishearing of a Music/TheNotoriousBIG lyric from "One More Chance / Stay With Me (Remix)" - "''Those the ones I like 'cause they don't get Nathan (nothin') but penetration''".
** In "Kill You", Slim alliterates the [[WordSaladLyrics largely gibberish]] string, "I invented violence, you vile venomous volatile vicious vain Vicodin, ''[[HockeyMaskAndChainsaw vrin-vrinn vriiinnn!]]''". 'Volatile vicious vain Vicodin' is pronounced to sound like 'little bitches takin' Vicodin'.
** In the middle 8 of "My Mom", Eminem sings, "''I can't even write a rhyme without you in it''", which sounds like "with AutoTune in it". So in his next line, he sings in Auto-Tune.
** The first verse of "Fine Line", a CelebrityIsOverrated confessional song, uses these - along with double-entendres - to create the image of the rapper [[LipstickAndLoadMontage doing his stage makeup in front of the mirror]], without ever explicitly stating this in the lyrics. For example, he pronounces "a martyr is how I paint myself, and through my harrowing ordeals, I'm so vain" to sound like "a mirror is how I paint myself, and do my hair...". The "vain" then links onto a string of "vanity" double-entendres in later lines, such as "vanity surrounded by lights".
** In "Alfred's Theme", he announces "I'm [[GayMoment Diddy's side bitch!]]", then [[WhoWritesThisCrap audibly goes through his lyrics sheets]] to find out the lyric was actually "I'm still East Side, bitch!".
** In [[https://youtu.be/w1iIxCiBbFc?t=169 this 2009 appearance on a French radio station]], Eminem mishears "Plain de titres" ('a lot of titles') as "Planet Tit", and announces he comes from there.
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[[folder:Podcasts]]
* ''Podcast/{{Rifftrax}}'':
** In the Rifftrax for ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} New Moon]]'', the commentators joke that one of the songs on the soundtrack seems to say "Armed with your staring fly." The song is ''Roslyn'' by bon Iver and [[{{Music/StVincent}} St. Vincent]] and the real words are "Aren't we just terrified?"
** In the Rifftrax for ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'', Kevin makes this something of a RunningGag concerning Creator/PatrickStewart's accent. When Picard tells Kirk that they have to stop the missile launcher for firing the warhead, Kevin grips "There's no time to be sitting in a lawnchair!" And when Picard requests for the ship ''Farragut'' to transport him and Riker up, Kevin utters "What did he just call that guy?"
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[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
* Wrestling/{{Sheamus}} is somewhat infamous for this, both in promos and even his theme music.
--> IT'S A SHAMEFUL THING; LOBSTER HEAD
** He'll even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=792g_yC7pFM rip off your head and fuck your girlfriend!]]
* Wrestling/{{John Cena}} has one.
--> BRRRRRRRRRRRR APPLEDOUGH!
* Wrestling/{{Evolution}} had an infamous one in their theme music, thanks to [[Music/{{Motorhead}} Lemmy]].
--> EVILUTION IS YOUR LISTERINE
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[[folder:Radio]]
* ''Radio/CabinPressure'' has Arthur sing "Get dressed you merry gentlemen" in the ChristmasEpisode with everyone immediately questioning him. As per usual him being TheDitz, he's surprised to find out it's actually "God rest you merry gentlemen".
* Radio/TerryWogan was once utterly perplexed by a listener's request for Wogan to play the song about ''Mulligan's Tyre'' on his radio show. Neither he nor the production staff could work it out. Intrigued, Wogan contacted the listener and asked. After listening to the fan hum a few bars and say "You know. The one with the bagpipes", the mystery became clear. Terry Wogan was then more than pleased to play Music/PaulMcCartney and Wings performing ''Mull of Kintyre''.
* A listener jokingly wrote into the Ken Bruce show on [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] Radio 2 to ask why Music/HarryStyles was singing "What? I'm [[Series/TheApprentice Alan Sugar]]. Hi!" For the rest of the time "Watermelon Sugar" was in the regular playlist, that's what Bruce called it.
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[[folder:Roleplay]]
* In ''Roleplay/TheGamersAlliance'', Rimnerian Songs, named after Craig Rimner who first introduced them to the world, are twisted versions of the songs they are based on and which tend to have naughty or downright incomprehensible lyrics based on the lyrics of the original songs.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* In a theatrical parody called ''Rudolph the Red-Hosed Reindeer'' about a crossdressing/gay reindeer, the Snowman-narrator sings a song about a woman named "Sylvia Gould" until the Lumberjack corrects him that it's supposed to be "Silver and Gold."
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[[folder:Theme Parks]]
* At Ride/UniversalStudios:
** Cosmo in ''Ride/JimmyNeutronsNicktoonBlast'' hears "help us" as "Elvis" and "achin' head" as "bacon head".
** In ''Ride/TheSimpsonsRide'', Sideshow Bob says, "You've foiled my plans for the last time!" Bart hears it as, "I've soiled my pants for the last time!"
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* The version of "Purple Haze" in ''VideoGame/GuitarHero World Tour'' is a live recording and includes the line "'Scuse me while I kiss the sky" modified to "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy" - while he points to a man!
* The song "Second Heaven" in ''VideoGame/{{Beatmania}} IIDX'' contains the line "Somebody scream!" twice, which the fandom misheard as "San-bai ice cream!" ("3-scoop ice cream!") This has since turned into an AscendedMeme; Ryu☆ made a mention of it in the [[http://www.konami.jp/bemani/popn/music17/mc/song14/handz..html artist's comments]] when the song appeared in ''VideoGame/PopnMusic''. Additionally, ''VideoGame/SoundVoltexBooth'' also has a remix of the song, the cover art of which depicts a character holding a 3-scoop ice cream cone.
* In ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'', Doctor Misar thanks a Jedi PlayerCharacter by trying to quote the Jedi CatchPhrase ("May the Force be with you"), which he has misheard as "May the floor be with you."
* The announcer in ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCalamityTrigger'' is known for her questionable pronunciation of "[[ArcWords The wheel of fate is turning.]]" This was acknowledged in ''Videogame/{{Skullgirls}}'' where the announcer will occasionally start a match with "Gorilla fate is yearning."
* The official strategy guide for ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' says that you'll hear Sephiroth say, "Sin Harvest" before unleashing his ultimate attack. The actual line is "Descend, Heartless Angel," but it's so fast you can miss the "Angel" part entirely.
** Sephiroth's ''One-Winged Angel'' Theme is in Latin, yet some decode the words in English, with lyrics becoming "Xbox, Jim Carrey, Eat a Pear, Lemon Tea!" or "Many, many, many ass. Everybody touching ass"
%%* Mondegreens are a common source of contradictions in the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' franchise. Whether they're played straight or subverted depend on the case.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' has quite a few of these in the form of its many [[CallingYourAttacks ultimate callouts]], which are often in different languages, but perhaps the most notable was Zarya's "Ogon po gotovnosti" ("Fire at will!"), which sounded remarkably close to English upon hearing it, in the general vein of "I'm going for the tobelstein!" Lampshaded by Blizzard, where one of her unlockable sprays is titled "Tobelstein."
* LetsPlay/TheRunawayGuys popularized a Mondegreen in the Western versions of the first ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' (as well as all versions of the sequel): Wario's losing quote. It's actually "''[[ForeignCussWord So ein mist!]]''" [[WordOfSaintPaul according to the voice actor]], but to English-speaking ears it sounds like [[MemeticMutation "(D')oh, I missed!"]].
* Thanks to LetsPlay/{{Chuggaaconroy}}, the Sunflowers from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'' can be heard as saying "Ooh, I'd love a dick!" instead of "Ah, I'm loving it!"
* Choosing to continue after dying in ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' will prompt the Umbran Elder to say. "The shadow remains..." what? The line is drowned in echoes and special effects, so it's not easy to make out. The Bayonetta Wiki lists it as "The shadow remains cast!" which is likely what it says.
** Music/LadyGaga thought it said "The shadow remains tough!" when she tried her hand at the game.
** [[LetsPlay/TheKingOfHate DSP Gaming]] interpreted it simply as "The shadow knows" back in his playthrough during the earlier days of his videos.
* In ''VideoGame/DragonBallFighterZ'', one of Ultimate Gohan's stock lines during battle is "I see you!" Unfortunately, he says it so quickly that it sounds like ''"SHIIEET!"'' to some people — including Creator/TeamFourStar, who almost certainly popularized it.
* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'':
** Many people thinking that Dan "Toasty" Forden was saying "Whoopsie" is one of the most common Mortal Kombat misconceptions in history. Justified, since Dan doesn't say "Toasty" very clearly, his tone is quite high-pitched which can be easily heard as "whoopsie."
** The FunnyBruceLeeNoises Raiden spews in his flying Torpedo attack had people mistakenly interpreted as words instead of gibberish, so there's a lot of funny misinterpreted sentences like, "Give me back my Moneh!", "Get back in the car!", "Santa Monica!", "My mother's from LA!" or "Peanut butter sauce!"
** In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat4'', all of the characters yell in all sorts of nonsensical gibberish as they're fighting. However, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQAGKNIQMeo it can sound like they're saying something in an complete sentence.]]
* Given ''Videogame/StreetFighterII'' runs on CallingYourAttacks, amusing mishearings were common in Brazil, with the outstanding case being Sagat's "Tiger uppercut" becoming [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWOe8tQecSc "Tiger Robocop!"]]. This also happens in Malaysia, with the addition of the LuckyTranslation that Guile's Sonic Boom attack was often misheard as "Sabit-ku!" (lit. My Sickle! in Malay, which is what his sonic boom looks like on screen).
* ''VideoGame/EliteDangerous'' has a few notable ones that have become memes amongst the community. The lines are all spoken by the ship's onboard AI but due to pronunciation issues as well as other sounds and the intensity and panic of situations most players end up hearing the lines very differently. The newest update also introduces a new male AI voice, which could create more; or lessen the mishearings.
** [[http://i.imgur.com/eDwmyE8.jpg "Friendship Drive Charging"]] - instead of Frame-shift charging. Probably the most well-known example due to the sheer amount of times it is said.
** "Landing gear attractive" - Retracted ends up pronounced like Attractive in many situations. Also applies to other devices. Apparently, your ship's AI just can't resist those [[NoYay curvy Sidewinder legs]].
** "Shields are fine" - Instead of Shields online. Although both really have more or less the same meaning.
* In a pretty huge coincidence, in both ''VideoGame/HotelMario'' and ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'', despite having completely different voices and accents, Mario mispronounces something as "Gay" (just look at ''any'' comment section featuring the intro to ''Hotel Mario'' or the final cutscene in ''Super Mario 64'').
** "Nice of the Princess to invite us over a picnic ''gay'' Luigi." ("eh, Luigi?")
** "So long, ''gay'' Bowser." ("So long, King Bowser")
** "The pickle." ("Let's-a-go"; in ''Super Mario 64'' he says this before entering a painting after the player selects a star on the white level selection screen, but is often misheard as either "the pickle" or "Hot pickle" by many. Others have also heard a variety of other things, like "That tickles", "Mexico", "Popsicle", "Testicle" or "Whoa, echo".)
** In ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros'', Mario's "That's-a so nice!" after completing a level is heard by many people as "Thank you so much!" or "Breakfast tonight!" instead.
* The chanting in Ghetsis's themes in both ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' and ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'' is ''supposed'' to be his name. The majority of fans misheard it as ''Dennis'', so it almost immediately became a meme to refer to Ghetsis as Dennis instead of his actual name.
* The lyrics of Guzma's theme in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' are very commonly misheard. Misheard lyrics include "Rub a dub dub dub" and "Go to hell". The later one was even added in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewoeCQByBRs this]]cover of the song
* In the CuteMonsterGirl-themed {{eroge}} ''Princess X'', demon princess Naja reads in a magazine that the way to win any man's heart is ThroughHisStomach, and attempts to endear herself to the protagonist by preparing the dish rumoured to win over even the most recalcitrant man. Unfortunately, she can't read Japanese that well, so instead of preparing ''nikujaga'', a traditional dish of meat and potatoes, she brings in a ''nikujaguar'', a large, green multi-tentacled monster with the roaring head of [[{{Pun}} a big cat]]. It manages to eat her BeleagueredAssistant alive while Naja is distracted trying to peel the onions (a task she struggles at because [[ComicallyMissingThePoint no matter how many layers she peels off, there's always another one]]).
* ''VideoGame/JustDance'': The Music/{{Jamiroquai}} song "Automaton" has an alternative routine titled "Tomato Version". This seems to be a reference to the line "I'm automaton", which is easy to mishear as "I'm a tomato".
* In ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', a chef in the middle ages is frustrated by his time-traveling guest's request for "eyes cream." May be a JustifiedTrope, since it's implied the dish the guest intended to order hasn't been invented yet.
* Enough people misheard the lyrics to "Steel for Humans" from ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'' as "Banana tiger" that the band who recorded the songs for the soundtrack, Percival, started selling merchandise [[https://percival.pl/en/produkt/banana-tiger-sticker/?v=9b7d173b068d with a "Banana Tiger" design]].
* ''VideoGame/CryptOfTheNecroDancer'': In one of the story mode cutscenes, a flashback has Cadence wondering why her father and her uncle thought some "gold 'n loot" was so important. The "gold 'n loot" actually turns out to be the Golden Lute, the game's resident MagneticPlotDevice.
* ''VideoGame/GodOfWarII'' brings us [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3K7RSw_8wU Hold! Devil's! Pot of tea! Hold, devil's, pot of tea! Hold! Devil's! Pot of tea! Hold, devil's, pot of tea Mulan!]]
* Sometimes, the [[SpeakingSimlish gibberish lyrics]] of (most) ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin'' songs does not stop people from mishearing them for actual lyrics.
** "Monster", one of two songs with actual English lyrics (coincidentally sung by the same opponent) has two misheard lines, the second one being right after the first:
*** "''Evan/And then, I'm gonna eat your girlfriend''" ("''Hay man, I'm gonna eat your girlfriend''")[[note]]Due to the fact that "Monster" was put in the files (albeit left unused until the Week 7 update) back when Boyfriend's name was still being speculated by fans, this led fans to believe that his name was actually Evan. However, it was deconfirmed by the developers, even going as far as to reference it in a CouchGag added in a later update, ''His name isn't Evan--silly [=TikTok=]''.[[/note]]
*** "''Or maybe turn her into bruh''" ("''Or maybe turn her into broth''")
** Boyfriend's part of the opening verse of "Philly Nice" is commonly misheard as "Pico funny" or "Big ol' bunny" (the former of which became a {{Catchphrase}} said by fans when one of the devs are streaming, to the point of [[AscendedMeme getting its own]] CouchGag, and the other becoming a [[MemeticMutation meme]] in its own right), among other things. Later in the song, a verse sung by Pico is often misheard as "demolishing the mannequin".
* The songs in ''VideoGame/{{Nier}}'' are in [[SpeakingSimlish Simlish]] based on sounds from real-world languages, so it's common to see people try to make sense of the vocals without realizing they're nonsense.
* The first two words of "[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate Lifelight]]", "Colours weave...", can easily be misheard as "Come as we...".
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* ''WebAnimation/FreedomToons'': From "Fighting Nazis Then vs. Now":
-->'''Soldier #1:''' What else are these Nazis doing?\\
'''Blond SJW:''' They believe there are only two genders!\\
'''Soldier #2:''' Well, of course, there's more than two genders.\\
'''Redhead SJW:''' Thank goodness!\\
'''Soldier #3:''' Yeah. The Russians have their a-gender, the Germans have their a-gender, the Japanese have their a-gender, everybody's got an a-gender.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=978cHrm5fvk This]] WebAnimation/YouTubePoop mondegreens a line from ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory''. (In case you're wondering, they're actually saying "gangway", as in "clear the way" or more bluntly "get out of the way".)
* The WebAnimation/{{Animutation}} trilogy, ''WebAnimation/ColinMochrieVsJesusHChrist'', provides misheard English sing-along lyrics for its three non-English songs. They get more plot-important as the videos progress. The first video, "French Erotic Film", only has a reference to "an old blue Scot called Dill" to connect to Colin becoming a Scotsman. "Plan 9 from Underpants" has mondegreens with references to Colin and Creator/AndrewKepple (the creator of the trilogy). By "Conquest of Animutopia", plot-important mondegreens are the norm and ones that sound like non-sequiturs happen less than half the time.
-->''May Colin be defeated,\\
may Colin leave, or are\\
we wrong, Canadian leader?\\
[[MythologyGag You're Pokémon!]]''
* Mentioned in one segment of ''The Fingertips Project'' (a music video for "Fingertips" by Music/TheyMightBeGiants done by members of the WebAnimation/{{Animutation}} community); during the segment for "I Don't Understand You", mondegreens from "The Bonny Earl O' Murray" (the TropeNamer for "mondegreen") and "Advance Australia Far" appear.
* Many WebAnimation/{{Animutation}}s tend to run on mondegreens to fuel its weird and trippy imagery. See page for examples.
* The SpiritualSuccessor to Animutations, Buffalaxes (named for said youtuber, Buffalax, who created the genre), also runs on this, albeit usually without the trippy imagery. Unlike animutations, buffalaxes usually shun trippy imagery for the original music video. It's humor comes from the over-the-top offensive and expletive-laden mondegreens. Simply put, while the goal of an animutation artist is to make surreal imagery to go with a mondegreen of the song, the goal of a buffalaxer is to mondegreen the song with lyrics that are as offensive as possible. For example:
** The Indian song ''Tunak Tunak Tun'' with English words that sounded like the original Punjabi lyrics. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdG_fey4_ow The results are hysterical.]] "In your yard I am teh [[Franchise/StarTrek Ferengi]] man, very odd and chunky!"
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4vO4srRsHE Moskau! Moskau! Moskau! Billy is a handyman! Porcelain is the surest plan. Hohohohoho...hey! Moskau! Moskau! Dinah Steeler is too loose. Castro it's the time to lose. Hohohohoho!]]
** In the same vein as Moskau: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Flae7G3VsI Ching! Ching! Dschingis Khan! He liked the ho but then he liked the Hindu better!]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AMf7R22TNk Kinky Tom! Kinky Tom! Here I sell the dog!]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4ivw0mA6mg But sit and fart in the duck]]
** And lastly, the evergreen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjteR9DEMOA Saint Sea Hat! Jew made you a beaten man!]]
* The John Desire cover of ''Hot Limit'' by T.M. Revolution has a ton of these, in no small part thanks to the fact that it was originally a Japanese song that was translated into English and sung by an Italian band. The WebAnimation/{{Animutation}} ''[[http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/ritalin We Drink Ritalin]]'' has a collection of Mondegreens from the song. To compare, [[http://www.animelyrics.com/dance/johndesire/hotlimit.htm these are supposed to be the actual lyrics]].
* Music/OZone's ''Dragostea din Tei'' has been intentionally "misinterpreted" in other languages:
** The [[http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/maiyahi Japanese version]] even includes {{Shout Out}}s to ''Manga/OnePiece'', ''Franchise/StreetFighter'', and ''Sazae-san''. It used to be popular as a drinking song as part of the chorus ''(numa numa iei)'' sounds very similar to a Japanese phrase that means ''"drink, drink, yeah!"''
** Another video takes a misinterpreted "razor blades" in the chorus and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5DNuQfoy10#t=2m55s runs with it]].
** Or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dH9yOc7lWs "She's a rather slutty date"]].
** The "sequel" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SmhpGfaHzU Despre Tine]] can have its chorus misheard as "My naked naughty day!"
* In an episode of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', an exhausted and desperate Donut tries to deliver the important and cryptic message "It's under the sand" to Caboose, but because Donut is on the verge of passing out, his words come out as "It's under....thessssssand". Caboose hears it as "It's under this, and...", and {{Hilarity Ensues}}.
* One of the staples of WebAnimation/YouTubePoop, and by extension internet meme culture in general, is a dinosaur character from the infamously cheap and shoddy Creator/DingoPictures cartoon ''Dinosaur Adventure'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6EoRBvdVPQ saying "Yee"]], taken from the cartoon's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eizpKk89lbM Italian dub]]. He is actually talking to the dinosaur named "Peek", but due to the low audio quality, the dubbing actor's odd voice and delivery, the [[MouthFlaps minimalistic lip animation]], and the parody clip's editing, people have misheard it as "yee" and ran with it. If one listens closely to the actual dub though (not to mention the original German dualogue and other language dubs), they can make out that the line is "Peek".
* [[http://web.archive.org/web/20071011192016fw_/http://www.ummagurau.com/writing/video/ads/creator.htm An article on]] an old Creator/UltraGames advert gives a different interpretation on the dialouge:
-->"I'm the creator of ''Ultra Games'' for Nintendo... I connect an ear to your commandoes, searching for deadly weapons.  Defender... of the ''Crown'' - with strategic arson seizures, raves, and destroyers.  And Skate...or ''Die''.  An eye-bladder event that pits you against ''friend'' or Bionic Lester.  So check out Ultra Games, and remember: ''I'm not the father of your '''T. V."'''''
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* In ''Webcomic/RasputinCatamite'' attendees at the Christmas concert sing an English-language song phonetically with painful results.
* As ''Webcomic/SuicideForHire'' [[http://suicideforhire.comicgenesis.com/d/20080413.html points out]], Music/{{Nightwish}}'s "Romanticide" apparently includes the lyrics, "Happy haunting, you taco-faced carny fork." (The actual line is, "Happy hunting, you double-faced carnivore.")
* In ''Webcomic/{{Weesh}}'', this comes courtesy of Tate, who can't quite get the hang of "Feliz Navidad".
-->'''Tate:''' Fleas on my dog! Prospero baño felicidad! [[note]]A happy, prosperous bathroom[[/note]]
* Victor of ''{{Webcomic/Comc}}'' is prone to this. In addition, he is a horrible singer and doesn't realize either fact. This trait is shown already in [[http://sites.google.com/site/comccomic/archive/comc1 the first str'p]].
-->'''Marc:''' ''[singing]'' [[Music/BonJovi We gotta hold on, ready or not...]]\\
'''Victor:''' ''[to himself]'' Oh, I know that one...\\
'''Victor:''' ''[singing off-key]'' ''YOU GIVE UP THE BRIGHT WHEN IT'S KEPT IN A POT!"[[note]]Actual lyric: "You live for the fight when it's all that you've got!"[[/note]]
* ''Webcomic/RoomiesItsWalkyJoyceAndWalky'':
** "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20140209121932/http://www.itswalky.com:80/d/20060715.html She's got a chicken to ride, an' she don't care!]]"
** "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20140210113402/http://www.itswalky.com:80/d/20070428.html Hallelujah it's Raisinetts!]]"
* The Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" was mondegreen'd as "Chimpanzee for the Devil" in ''Webcomic/CollegeRoomiesFromHell'' (admittedly, by a character who's a CloudCuckooLander)
-->'''Roger:''' [[http://www.crfh.net/d/20050511.html Well, the coolness levels of that song just dropped 666%.]]
* For New Year's 2016, Sasha from ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'' has [[http://www.housepetscomic.com/2016/01/01/lady-in-mondegreen/ yet another take]] on "Auld Lang Syne".
-->''Should old acquaintance be forgot and never thought to dine''\\
''Should olden maintenance be forgot, an owl gang sign''\\
''For Owl Gang Signs hoo hoo, for Owl Gang Signs''\\
''We'll knock the feathers off your tail throwing Owl Gang Signs''
* In one ''Webcomic/PartiallyClips'' comic, a musician realizes (mid-performance) that the lyrics to ''[[Music/TheBeatles Eleanor Rigby]]'' isn't "Picks up her eyes", which ruins his interpretation that Eleanor is some kind of alien. This completely ruins his appreciation of the song.
* At [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20161221 the masquerade ball in]] ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' one of the many guests [[ShoutOut dressed as famous pop culture characters]] is cosplaying as [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]], complete with a little gremlin-like creature hanging around his ankles singing a [[MemeticMutation memetically mondegreen'd]] rendition of [[{{Leitmotif}} 'One-Winged Angel']]:
-->...bells, frogs, big cherries, Literature/PeterPan, magic cheese...
* In the "Minions Are Forever" arc of ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' one of Dr. Nofun's subordinates turns "It's Raining Men" into "It's the reign of men."
* ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'': Max [[https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-4-page-49 mishears]] "Sure be" as "Sherby", and pictures a sherbet Toys/{{Furby}}.
* ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'': a strip titled "The erotic adventures of Lady Mondegreen" features a so-called king who contantly mishears everything as sexual. It turns out he was installed on the throne deliberatly to discredit to intitution of kingship.

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[[folder:Web Original]]
* In Website/{{Cracked}}'s article "[[http://web.archive.org/web/20120107205553/http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-reasons-new-years-ruins-everything-great-about-drinking_p2// 5 Reasons New Year's Ruins Everything Great About Drinking]]", number 2 is "The Music", because nobody really knows the lyrics to "Auld Lang Syne":
-->Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never yab to bye, adaaa dada banana boat, and auld lang synnne.
* This little bit from ''WebSite/{{Snopes}}'' on [[http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/rafiki.asp an old Disney picture/audio book]] certainly counts.
* [[http://kissthisguy.com/ The Archive of Misheard Lyrics]], whose website URL comes from a mondegreen of Hendrix "Purple Haze", and [[http://amiright.com Am I Right]], are possibly the biggest archives of mondegreens in existence. Yes, you can submit your own.
* The Similou's ''All This Love'' inspired a mini fad on YTMND about the famous communist hero, [[http://rainbowstalin2.ytmnd.com/ Rainbow Stalin.]] The actual lyric was "rainbow ''styling''", apparently referring to the act of wearing colorful clothing ("In your tank top, rainbow styling")
* [[http://imgur.com/sggIZd3 Rammstein writes C# code.]]
* [[http://magiccheese.ytmnd.com/ BELLS FROGS BING CHERRIES JINGLE BELLS MAGIC CHEESE]] ("One-Winged Angel" from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'')
* [[http://www.rathergood.com/bill "Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, put your hands all over my body"]] ("Erotic, Erotic, Put your hands all over my body") in Madonna's ''Erotic''.
* [[http://www.rathergood.com/elephants "Elephants, Yeah!"]] ("E di pensier," "La donna é mobile" from Verdi's ''Rigoletto'', as sung by Luciano Pavarotti)
* "Old Long Johnson" the cat. "Oh, Don Piano. Why do I despise you all the live long day?"
* In The Simpsons Archive's [[http://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/8F02.html Episode Capsule]] for "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E7TreehouseOfHorrorII Treehouse of Horror II]]", Homer's "O foul, accursed thing!" was transcribed as "Oh, foe, the cursed teeth! [[EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped [huh?]]]"
* A Cheezburger Network post featured a prank involving the duo of ''WebVideo/TheSlowMoGuys'' with Creator/GavinFree pranking Daniel Gruchy with the [[VideoGame/{{Fallout}} Pipboy App]]. In the video, after he gets pranked, a laughing Gavin says "Sorry, Dan." ''Somehow'', the person who put it up heard it as "Sorry, ''dad''", leading to the article saying that a son pranked his father. It's become a small meme now that Dan is Gavin's father.
* Barracuda's "Ass Up" led to numerous memes about [[http://giraffesintheair.ytmnd.com/ putting giraffes up in the air]]; As one might guess from the title, the lyric is actually "put your ass up in the air".
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[[folder:Web Videos]]
* Many Website/YouTube videos give you the option to turn on closed captions. On videos where the maker provided the captions, there's no issue. However, the rest of these videos use a speech-to-text program to automatically transcribe the captions, leading to such moments as "Hey, I've been trying to reach you for the past hour. What've you been doing?" being interpreted (or misheard by the program) as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVNrkXM3TTI&feature=player_embedded "Anytime we put that style what you've been doing?"]]
* "Hold me closer, Creator/TonyDanza", a butchering of "Hold me closer, tiny dancer" by Music/EltonJohn, became an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgPjnTCZNu4 ascended meme]] featuring guess who? TheDanza.
* Many Website/YouTube videos parody the first section of Carmina Burana, called Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi, based on Mondegreens. Can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYufeRxaMtg here]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scCTty3KDLk here]] and [[https://youtu.be/nIwrgAnx6Q8 here]].
* Introducing: Seleno Gomez and his hit single ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_spxdIgQWmA Laviu, laca no son]]''!
* Music/GreenDay's "Know Your Enemy" has an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emO4rL_5yTs AMV]] dedicated to the Mondegreen of "Do you know your anime?"
* Lordi -- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPHaahKa1Nk "Biomechanic Man"]]
* WebVideo/RhettandLink have a series of videos where they intentionally do this with Youtube's caption feature called ''Caption Fail.''
* WebVideo/ThatDudeInTheSuede chose [[Music/RobZombie Return of the Phantom Stranger]] as the theme song for his ''Fandom Stranger'' series because of this trope.
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qayDROc-dkE Rum Stein]]'' by Music/{{Rammstein}}.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCewlbGHXN8 ''SHREDDED WHEEEEAAAATTTT!'']] The real lyrics are...well...[[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil pretty]] [[{{Squick}} disgusting]]. However, the mondegreen actually fits the vocals better. It's basically [[IndecipherableLyrics incoherent vocal noises]], anyway.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oiLfTnrC40 "Marmoset there'd be days like this..."]] (actually "Mama said there'd be days like this," by the Shirelles)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNLDLyeepVs BOAT! RUDDER! STRANGE! MOUNTAIN! STOMP! UKRAINE! THIS! LIME!!]] From the infamous "Interpretation of Trivium". Trivium have mentioned people turning up to their concerts with T-shirts with these "lyrics" written on, even though it was written by [[PoesLaw someone who hates Trivium]] as a form of trolling.
* In a similar vein to the Hungarian mondegreening of Nightwish's "Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan" (see above), someone posted the (also Finnish) Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l14yC2YB6rQ "Lintu" with misheard lyrics]], which has gems like "kurváim úszkálnak" ("my bitches are swimming") and "Jaj lányom, szülj te buktát!" ("Oh, my daughter, give birth to a sweetroll!")
* Yumi Kawamura and her GratuitousEnglish songs for ''VideoGame/Persona3'' and ''VideoGame/Persona4'' are full of this. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8Pn8y-odQ4 Here's just one example.]]
* [[http://www.z0l0pht.com/mathas/videos.htm Andrew Mathas]] purposely mondegreens songs to make humorous videos.
* And then there's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-ZnPE3G_YY this]] little gem "''Songs Of Praise'' with subtitles".
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKgSF0BNFrU Here]] we find out that the Gamecube Wavebird controller has "fudge brownies" inside.
* Slowbeef of ''WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}}'' once made a video called "A Public Service Announcement to all Lets Players" wherein he attempted to read ''Literature/AmericanGods'' by Creator/NeilGaiman whilst [=ZoopSoul=] [[LetsPlay LPed]] ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy''. Everytime [=ZoopSoul=] dies, Slowbeef interrupts himself and says "[[MemeticMutation Please Stop Lets Playing I Wanna Be The Guy.]]" At one point he gets to the part where Shadow "was (secondly) going to towel himself off" and [=ZoopSoul=] ends up dying at that moment. It is commonly misheard as "Second he was going to tell himself, Please Stop Lets Playing I Wanna Be The Guy." In reality it's, "Second he was going to towel himself - Please Stop Lets Playing I Wanna Be The Guy."
* The German [=YouTuber=] Creator/{{Coldmirror}} has produced quite a lot of videos mondegreening songs.
* In ''WebVideo/NarutoTheAbridgedComedyFandubSpoofSeriesShow'', when Iruka announces the team line-ups in the style of the ''Manga/OnePiece'' theme song, because he likes ''Manga/OnePiece'', he sings it as "Dreamin'! Don't give it up, Naruto! Dreamin'! Don't give it up, Sakura! Dreamin'! Don't give it up, Sasuke! Dreamin'! Don't give it up, that guy!" The actual lyrics to "Pirate Rap" by Russell Velasquez are "Dream it!", not "Dreamin'!" Again, it's unclear whether this was actually Creator/LittleKuriboh's mistake or just Iruka's.
* In the K-pop episode of ''[[WebVideo/{{React}} YouTubers React]]'', Anthony and Ian of WebVideo/{{Smosh}} misheard the main line of the Music/GirlsGeneration song as "I got a boy on my chin". The real line is part English and part Korean, and translates to "I got a boy, a handsome one". With them being Smosh, this quickly went viral.
* WebVideo/{{CDZA}} did a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6jRICTGmnM whole video devoted to this phenomenon]].
* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic''
** In his review of ''WesternAnimation/RockADoodle'' in which, due to [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome Edmond's lisp]], it's hard to precisely make his voice out in several scenes (with him mocking it numerous times), and once, the Critic mistakes his shouting for Chanticleer as SantaClaus.
--->''''''Critic:''' ''[[https://youtu.be/HS6GLDGg-hA?t=238 That's Christmas, you moron! Santa Claus only comes at Christmas!]]''
** In the review of ''WesternAnimation/Dougs1stMovie'', characters keep mentioning an InUniverse amusement park called "Funkytown", but he insists they're saying "Fuckytown".
--->'''Critic:''' Stop saying "Fuckytown!" It's a G-rated flick! Learn to pronounce your n's!
** In his review of ''Film/RichieRich'', he tries to figure out what Dr. Keanbeane says at one point ("My inventions!").
** In his sixth review of old commercials, known as ''Conquest of the Commercials'' (2015), he mistakes one UsefulNotes/McDonalds commercial's tagline, "For food, folks and fun", as "For food, ''fucks'', and fun".
* ''WebVideo/{{Caddicarus}}'' has fun with this when reviewing ''VideoGame/VibRibbon'', pointing out that the songs are full of easy-to-misinterpret Engrish:
-->♪Sunny day, I wank my Wii / I wake up ass cheeks so fine day♪
** Also, in his George Of The Jungle review, the music is so much louder than the voices that he hears Ursula say:
--> '''Ursula''': My head feels like it's gonna fall off! [[TheUnintelligible And my head is not in the shed!]] [[WordSalad MY GODZILLA!]]
* ''WebVideo/ProfessorJuice'':
** In the ''VideoGame/UmJammerLammy'' review, during the song "Fire Fire!!", Rosie mishears the lyric "with the funk" as "what the fuck" and does a SpitTake.
** In the ''VideoGame/SpaceChannel5 Part 2'' review, when Fuse gets hit by Purge's attack, Rosie says she first misheard Ulala calling out Fuse's name as "views", which made her think [[ItsAllAboutMe she was more concerned about her ratings than Fuse getting hurt]].
* This kooky take on Music/TheClash's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z24CR6ACwSw ''Rock The Casbah'']].
** Or this one, singing the praises of stopping the bottom of one's desktop from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiGXNmDGWYA automatically hiding itself away]].
* LetsPlay/TacoMan frequently expresses concern that the title of his ''WesternAnimation/{{Captain N| The Game Master}}'' parody, ''Taco-Man: The Game Master'', sounds like, ''Taco-Man: The Gay Master'', if someone puts the {{AcCENT Upon The Wrong SylLABle}}.
* Some ''WebVideo/TheKeyOfAwesome'' videos end with a rubber ducky singing, "The Key of Awesome!" in a manner that sounds kind of like, "Ducky of Awesome!"
* ''WebVideo/CLWEntertainment'': The official captions for the ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' 2005 fandub opening have a very bad interpretation of the lyrics. [[https://youtu.be/39zEJTZ79ps "Twisting my hard eye, magic rings raw meat round..."]]
* ''Headhunter Productions'', the movie reviewing [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic pony]], done this in [[https://youtu.be/gHdZQ_qUMdU his review of]] ''Film/SantaAndTheIceCreamBunny'' at the ''very first scene'' in an attempt to guess what the actors were saying due to how incomprehensible the dialogue was from them. Right before this, he commented that he had to do this "because you can't understand ''anything''!"
--> "''[[https://youtu.be/gHdZQ_qUMdU?t=193 We with the landlord scored happy diner powers and the heater worked all day long...]]''"
* Music reviewer ''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows'' sometimes points out lyrics that are easy to mishear:
** From "Imma Be" by The Black Eyed Peas: "I'm a bee! I'm a bee! I'm a I'm a I'm a bee!" (It's actually repeating "Imma be")
--->'''Todd:''' You're thinking it, I'm thinking it, Vice President Biden is thinking it.
** "Eenie Meenie" by Sean Kingston and Justin Bieber: Eenie meenie miney mo '''''lava'''''...? (real lyric: "lover")
** "Grenade" by Bruno Mars: Throw my head on a plate for ya! (actually "hand on a blade")
** "3" by Britney Spears: One, two, three, why don't me, you, and me... (actually "not only you and me")
--->'''Todd:''' How many Britneys are there in this equation?!
** Subverted on "Club Can't Handle Me." The lyrics are so incoherent that he looks them up, only to find that they are the lyrics proper.
** He actually called Music/TheBlackEyedPeas out on this during "The Time", on the grounds that they'd screwed up a line from the source material.
** "S&M" by Rihanna: Ass, ass, ass and ham, ham, ham... (actually "S-S-S and M-M-M")
** Any attempt before finding out Kanye is singing "[[WordSaladLyrics I'm tryin' to bathe my ape in your Milky Way]]".
** Likewise, the opening line of Ne-Yo's chorus in "Give Me Everything" (which he finds shocking, as Pitbull is supposed to be TheUnintelligible there!).
** Becomes a RunningGag in Flo Rida's "Whistle". Todd says that he's checked numerous lyric websites, and almost all of them have different lyrics because none of them can figure out what he's actually saying.
** Music/MileyCyrus' "Wrecking Ball": "All I wanted was to break you off / all you ever did was raaaape me". (actually "all I wanted was to break your walls/all you ever did was wreck me")
** {{Music/Kesha}}'s "Your Love Is My Drug" as "yellow is my drug".
** Because of how vocalist Ronnie Winter stretches out the word "man" into two syllables in the chorus of Music/TheRedJumpsuitApparatus' "Face Down", Todd managed to mishear "do you feel like a man?" as "Do you feel like holding on?". Once he does learn what the actual lyric is supposed to be, he still thinks it sounds more like "do you feel like [[UsefulNotes/PreColumbianCivilizations a Mayan]]?"
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdyC1BrQd6g Benny Lava]]".
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWT9tLa15vU Jesus take the Wii]]".
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'':
** In "Death in Bloom", Princess Bubblegum goes away on an errand and tells Finn and Jake that she'll return "on the Morrow", as in, her [[GiantFlyer fast bird steed]] named "The Morrow". Finn thinks that she meant "the morrow" as in "tomorrow", and it isn't until the climax that Jake corrects him, forcing them to rush since Finn thought they would have more time to fix something they broke while she was gone.
-->'''Jake:''' No, man, the Morrow is her bird!\\
'''Finn:''' Come again?\\
'''Jake:''' It's her bird, that thing is ''crazy'' fast. It'll only take her like twenty minutes to get back once that conference is over. Are you listening, man? (''dramatic slow-motion'') ''The Morrow is a biiird...''
** PlayedForDrama in "Three Buckets". Finn discovers that his [[ArtificialLimbs robot arm]] has a variety of voice-activated functions. Soon afterwards, he's in a fight, and while trying to defuse the situation before anyone gets seriously hurt, he uses the word "finality". The arm's speech recognition [[AccidentalMurder misinterprets it as "fatality" and kills his opponent]].
--> '''Finn:''' Today doesn't have to have this kind of... finality!\\
'''Robot arm:''' Fatality!
** ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTimeDistantLands:'' Centuries ago, Marceline's BreakupSong "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCF-fK_jV30 So Glad That I Woke Up]]" managed to repel a dragon that was attacking the Glass Kingdom. The citizens still sing this "holy song" to keep it at bay, but over the years it's morphed into "So Mad at the Coconut."
* Even the subtitles are uncertain what the one-lined end credits to ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' say. Sometimes it's "Dancing is Forbidden" (this is what it's supposed to be - the sole lyric is sampled from Master Shake saying this line in the first episode), other times it is "Dance Finger Puppets". Sometimes it's even "Danzig is morbidity".
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** The version of "Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly" on the first Christmas episode ("A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas"), the lyric was sung by Cleveland and Quagmire as "Deck the balls on Uncle Charlie..." (in syndication, the line is partially muted, so all Cleveland and Quagmire say is "...on Uncle Charlie...")
** "f'in cry" (Stewie's line in the theme song, "Laugh and cry"). A clearer version was used in the third season due to censor complaints, and Stewie has been saying "Laugh and cry" with clarity ever since.
** Peter sometimes does this. For example, he once mispronounced Pewterschmidt as "Pieceofschmidt", Valerie Bertinelli as "Valerie [[Series/SesameStreet Bertandernie]]" and Mr. Gutentag as (among many others) "Mr. Googlesearch".
*** One CutawayGag showed Peter recording an album of Christmas songs while not knowing the lyrics. This resulted in such gems as him singing "I brought these gifts for you, [[AssShove they're up in my bum]]..." to the tune of "The Little Drummer Boy".
* Angelica once mondegreened the entire song, "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" on an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', something like this: "My country tears of thee, sweet land of lizardy, of thee I see. Land that my father buyed, land of my chill and pie, From every mountain slide, let freedom ring." She also did something similar with "America the Beautiful" on another episode, which started out "O beautiful, for spaceship eyes..." Later substituting "America, America..." with (what else?) "Angelica, Angelica" And in case that wasn't sufficiently self-centered: "...from me to shining me!" She also managed to mangle the ''Series/GilligansIsland'' opening theme in one of the comics.
** Generally, the babies misinterpreting and mispronouncing words like this happens OnceAnEpisode, and sometimes drives the plot if they hear a word they don't know as something else.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}'' did a number on the Pledge of Allegiance, with Loud Kiddington messing up ''every line''. It included the "Richard Stands" mistake and ended, "One naked, undergarments, invisible man, with Liberace and puffed rice for all!"
* In the WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse short "Clock Cleaners", Donald and the mainspring have a heated argument:
-->'''Donald''': Says who?\\
'''Mainspring''': Says I!\\
'''Donald''': I'll bust you, you doggone snake-in-the-grass!
** American Family Association, a conservative fundamentalist Christian activist organization, believed Donald was saying "F-- you!" instead of "Says who?", and was calling the mainspring a "son-of-a-bitch" instead of a "snake in the grass".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has a couple of subtitling mishaps and some straight mondegreens:
** "Moe Baby Blues", when aired on Sky 1, has the line "No means no for Elmo!" subtitled as "A smack in the mouth!"
** "The Last Temptation of Homer", when Bart (imitating Creator/JerryLewis) says "My voice is crazy with the spraying already!" after getting his throat sprayed, the subtitles ALWAYS have it as "My voice is crazy with this braying already!"
** In "Pokey Mom", when Homer is shown a painting of a unicorn in outer space made by a prison inmate, and asked what it's breathing, he replies "Air." When told that there is no air in space, he replies "There's an Air 'n' Space museum", which [[LamePunReaction gets him thrown out of the prison]].
** In "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song", this exchange.
--->'''Superintendent Chalmers''': You're fired.\\
'''Principal Skinner''': I'm sorry, did- did you just call me a liar?\\
'''Superintendent Chalmers''': No, I said you're fired.\\
'''Principal Skinner''': Oh. ...That's much worse.
** One episode has Homer claiming that he's been calling Mrs. Krabappel "Krandall", bemoaning the fact that no-one ever corrected him.
** The episode "O Brother, Where Bart Thou?" had Bart dreaming about different famous brothers, including the [[Series/TheSmothersBrothersComedyHour Smothers Brothers]]. The closing credits featured a banter between them in which one brother says "Take it Tom" which is misheard as "Take it Naked Bacon". Homer ends up chiming in that he too heard "Take it Naked Bacon".
---> But folk singers never say "Take it Naked Bacon".
** In "The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star", when Homer questions the way Bart is speaking while saying grace at dinner.
--->'''Lisa:''' That's Latin, Dad, the language of Plutarch.
--->'''Homer:''' [[WesternAnimation/PlutoThePup Mickey Mouse's dog?]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrr7m7dRBPk Super Nintendo Chalmers]]
** "Bart Sells His Soul" references the "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" example where Bart pranks his church into having the song played under the guise of "In The Garden of Eden".
** This exchange from "Homerpalooza" when Homer buys a rastafarian hat and shows it to his kids:
--->'''Bart:''' Dad, you cannot wear that, that's a rastafarian hat!\\
'''Homer:''' Pfft, hey, I've been safarian since before you were born.
** From "Million Dollar Abie", where Springfield introduces bullfighting:
--->'''Lisa:''' No, wait, wait! Bullfighting is a cruel pseudo-sport!
--->'''Homer:''' Lisa is right! It ''is'' a cool super sport!
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
** In "Imperfect Storm", Linda is ticked off when a pair of landscapers called "Du Bois" (pronounced "doo-boys") alter the backyard, and tells Candace what's going on. Due to the pronunciation, Candace thinks Linda is referring to "the boys", meaning Phineas and Ferb, and believes she busted them.
** In "Just Our Luck", Candace comes outside to greet the boys with a pie she made for their "Bust Day". Phineas mishears what she said as "'''Bus''' Day", which isn't for a week.
* In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'', when Jimmy Jones is naming some of Ben's aliens, he incorrectly identifies Jetray as "Jeffrey". Ben corrects him.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'':
** In the premiere episode, Chris tells the contestants during the orientation that they will be using a communal washroom. In the original, un-bowdlerized version, Lindsay misunderstands this as "Communion washroom" and objects on the grounds that "[[ChristianityIsCatholic I'm not Catholic]]."
** The most prominent expression of Lindsay's DumbBlonde stereotype is that she routinely butchers people's names in a mondegreen style. She normally gets either the first consonant sound or the first vowel sound right, and the Lindsay-fied name ''usually'' has the right number of syllables; but beyond that, all bets are off.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Applebuck Season", Applejack whips up some particularly nasty muffins (Even Pinkie Pie gets sick from them) because she is so tired she mishears the ingredients.
-->'''Pinkie Pie:''' One last thing: wheat germ!\\
'''Applejack:''' "Wheat worms?" [[InsaneTrollLogic That must be fancy talk for earthworms!]]
** There was also a a Mondgreen that became AscendedFanon. When the premier was watched with [=YouTube=] captions, the sea serpent was shown with the caption "steven magnet". Fans immediately latched on to that, claiming "Steven Magnet" to be the serpent's name. Come [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E9SliceOfLife the 100th episode]], and he reappears (having not been seen in the 98 episodes in between), and goes by Steven Magnet.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' Mr. Krabs tries to ask Mrs. Puff on a date only to become unbearably nervous and start speaking gibberish. In an effort to help, [=SpongeBob=] tries to translate his gibberish and comes up with several horrifying answers before finally getting it right. The answers include "He says he'd like to hit you with a rake." and "try and guess your weight!"
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'':
** In "Roll Over, Beethoven", Yakko, Wakko and Dot aggravate Ludwig von Beethoven by constantly mistaking the word "Pianist" for..... some other mondegreen that could arguably be heard in lieu. It doesn't help that the way Beethoven pronounces it as 'pea-en-ist' rather than 'pea-an-ist'.
** The segment "Bingo" is entirely based around this, with Wakko mishearing everything Dr. Scratchansniff says during their bingo game. For example, he thinks "B-4" is "before" and "I-30" is "I'm thirsty".
** In ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'', the Warners mistake the BigBad's name, Salazar, for "Salad Bar".
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' episode "Cry Freedom Fighters!", [[TheDitz Plastic Man]] [[TrainingThePeacefulVillagers rallies the oppressed inhabitants of Qward]] with a mangled version of "Yankee Doodle".
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Meet The Beat-Alls" consists mostly of jokes centered around Music/TheBeatles references. One of them is the line "Someday monkey won't play piano song, play piano song", which is how a line in the song "Michelle" which is sung in French ("Sont des mots qui vont tres bien ensemble, Tres bien ensemble") sounds to many English speakers.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Madeline}}'' episode "Madeline on the Orient Express" has it's plot resulting from this- [[spoiler: The chef on the train mistook a customer's request for a ''snack'' as ''[[BizarreTasteInFood snake]]'' and thus kidnapped the pet snake of another passenger to ''cook'']]. This issue was hinted when Madeline asked for an ''ice cream cone'' and got a ''nice green bone'' instead.
* In the special ''WesternAnimation/TootAndPuddle: I'll Be Home for Christmas'', a group of goats performs "''Fa'owre, my hinny, fa'owre, fa'owre''," which translates as "Fall asleep, my honey. Fall asleep, fall asleep." Toot performs it as "Fire away, my ninny, fire away, fire away!" before finally deciding to simply hum.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' episode "Not So Goofy", Jose Carioca tells Goofy that he's going to teach him "poise and grace".
-->'''Goofy:''' You want me to poison Grace? I don't even ''know'' Grace.
** Goofy does it again in "Dining Goofy" when he attempted to help Clarabelle with her gossip.
--->'''Goofy:''' And I heard Minnie tell Mickey this building is infested with fleas.
--->''(several dog and cat guests run out of the club)''
--->'''Minnie:''' Goofy, I said the kitchen was low on cheese!
* ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'': Die Fledermaus has a name that sounds like "Deflator Mouse" to an English speaking audience. Those that have some understanding of German, however, will know that his name is German for "The Bat". Which suits him, as he is a Batman Expy.
* This is half the humor of ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'': standard phrases come into the duo's head and comes out as a DoubleEntendre.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhostCoastToCoast'', Space Ghost quotes one of Music/{{Beck}} 's lyrics back to him as "I got two turntables and my mommy's home." instead of "I got two turntables and a microphone.".
** This was also deliberately utilized in the episode "Pavement" during one of {{Music/Pavement}}'s musical numbers, in which the lyric "Living the high life" is constantly repeated and sounds like "Land of the hot knives".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': In "The Sale", Gumball overhears potential buyers for Mr. Robinson's house talking about the house when they are in the garden. When the man says "their soil", Gumball mishears it as "there's oil" and thinks there's oil underground under the Robinsons' yard.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In the episode "Let's Play Peace, Man!", [[AllLovingHero Kaeloo]] tries to convince [[TheDitz Stumpy]] that peace is better than war. He asks her what he will get out of it, and she says he can win the Nobel Peace Prize. He mishears it as "Frozen Peas Prize" and tells her he doesn't eat peas.
* The ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' episode "Hear! Hear!" has Penfold turning every statement he hears into a Mondegreen. That's because his ears are full of cotton.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': D.W. is very prone to mishearing words.
** In "Tales From the Crib" D.W. is telling Vicita the story of the time she began to sleep is a real bed which included the Tibble's story of the scary Arachnar who haunts children that have just gotten a big bed. She tries to reassure Vicita that Arachnar does not exist because he is an "Irving legend", told by one's Uncle Irving, rather than an urban legend. When Vicita points out that she does not have an Uncle Irving, D.W. dismisses him as an Irving legend as well.
** In the episode "Postcards From Buster" D.W. has made several homemade postcards of New York City's famous landmarks, or rather her interpretation of them. They include the "Vampire State Building", "Rocks-of-Falling Center", and the "Statue of Liver Trees".
** The various D.W. Christmas carols on the ''Arthur's Perfect Christmas'' album release are all about D.W. doing this with traditional Christmas carols, for example, performing "What Child Is This" as "''What time is it when the little hand is pointing at the umbrella stand? Of all the things that Santa brings, I hope one's a digital clock.''" The gag finally comes to an end when she tries to perform "O Tannenbaum" ("O Christmas Tree") as "O Tanning Mom," resulting in Arthur telling her she can't sing anymore Christmas carols because she doesn't sing them right and her saying she doesn't understand why people like them, given that they aren't even about Christmas.
** In "D.W. Thinks Big," she asks her mom if she can have "the oderant" like her cousin.
** In "Mom and Dad Have a Great Big Fight", D.W. doesn't want to be an "organ." She means "orphan."
** In "Arthur's Knee", Arthur scrapes his knee while at the dump, but doesn't want his parents to know because he wasn't meant to be there. Brain warns Arthur that he could get tetanus or staphylococcus if he doesn't tell a doctor. At the doctor's office, D.W. proudly says, "I told him all about ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'' and Indianapolis and all that stuff!"
* Creator/ButchHartman clarified that many people get the lyrics wrong for the theme song of ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom. Many people mishear the very first word, "Young" for "Yo".
* For transcriptions of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''[='=]s pilot episode, "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe", Cartman's line, "...and these scary aliens wanted to operate on me," was commonly misheard as "...and these scary ''hands''..." due to the sound the visitors pulling down his pants drowning out his dialogue partially.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' episode "[[Recap/ReadyJetGoS2E21MoonCircusEveryDayIsEarthDay Every Day Is Earth Day]]", Jet mishears the word "habitable" as "habit-a-bubble".
* Many sources say that part of the lyrics to the theme song to ''WesternAnimation/SagwaTheChineseSiameseCat'' are "Hop on, yo!". It's actually the Chinese phrase "Hao peng you", meaning "best friend".
* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': In the "The Mentor of our Discontent", Shego says "Whoa, back off!" when prompted from her name and it promptly geens Mondegreened to Miss Wobakoff and ''HilarityEnsues''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'': In "My Hero", while trying to use mathematics, Owl says the word "hypotenuse", but Gopher mishears him and says, "Hey! Who are you calling a hippopotamus?"
* ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula:'' In a flashback scene of "Dear Diary," an early and evil incarnation of Duckula rises with Igor nearby presenting a filled goblet.
-->'''Igor:''' A nice aperitif?\\
'''Duckula:''' (''priming his fangs'') Yes, they're lovely. And soon I shall be sinking them into...(''sees drink'') oh..."aperitif"!
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': In the episode "Shop Girl", [[BrattyHalfPint Lola]] shows her [[TheDitz ditzy]] sister Leni how to act aggressive by tackling [[BigSisterBully Lori]] and yelling, "I hope you like the taste of floor!" When Leni repeats Lola's behavior later in the episode, she instead yells, "I hope you like the taste of flan!" before pausing and asking to clarify if Lola said "flan" or floor".
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* LetsPlay/TheRunawayGuys popularized a Mondegreen in the Western versions of the first ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' (as well as all versions of the sequel): Wario's losing quote. It's actually "''[[ForeignCussWord So ein mist!]]''" [[WordOfSaintPaul according to the voice actor]], but to English-speaking ears it sounds like [[MemeticMutation "D'oh, I missed!"]].

** "The pickle." ("Let's-a-go"; in ''Super Mario 64'' he says this before entering a painting after the player selects a star on the white level selection screen, but is often misheard as either "the pickle" or "Hot pickle" by many. Others have also heard a variety of other things, like "That tickles", "Mexico", "Popsicle" or "Testicle".)
** In ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros'' Mario's "That's-a so nice!" after completing a level is heard by many people as "Thank you so much!" or "Breakfast tonight!" instead.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'': The gargoyles mishear Esmeralda telling Quasimodo "Looks like Frollo's wrong about the both of us." as "Frollo's nose is long, and he wears a truss."[[note]]A truss is a tricorn-like headdress worn by judges in the Middle Ages. It's also an archaic device used to treat hernias.[[/note]]

** In "Alfred's Theme", he announces "I'm Diddy's side bitch!", then [[WhoWritesThisCrap audibly goes through his lyrics sheets]] to find out the lyric was actually "I'm still East Side, bitch!".

** On "Murder, Murder", Eminem raps, "''I want the whole pie, I won't be denied Nathan''", a ShoutOut to a mishearing of a Music/NotoriousBIG lyric from "One More Chance / Stay With Me (Remix)" - "''Those the ones I like 'cause they don't get Nathan (nothin') but penetration''".

* In Elvira T's song "Mutny" ("Sketchy"), the line "na zhestkom stilye" ("in a rough style") is often misheard as "na russkom stilye" ("in a Russian style").

* Yumi Kawamura and her {{Engrish}}y songs for ''VideoGame/Persona3'' and ''VideoGame/Persona4'' are full of this. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8Pn8y-odQ4 Here's just one example.]]

** In her other song "Ekstra Lyubov" ("Extra Love"), the line "Snova my na tvoyey dachye" ("We're in your dacha again") is often misheard as "Snova my na tvoyey tachkye" ("We're in your car again"[[labelnote:*]]The word "tachka" means "wheelbarrow", but is often used as slang for "car".[[/labelnote]]).

** In her other song "Ekstra Lyubov" ("Extra Love"), the line "Snova my na tvoyey dachye" ("We're in your dacha again") is often misheard as "Snova my na tvoyey tachkye" ("We're in your car again"[[labelnote:*]]The word "tachka" means "wheelbarrow", but is often used as slang for "car".[[/labelnote]])

** In her other song "Ekstra Lyubov" ("Extra Love") the line "Snova my na tvoyey dachye" ("We're in your dacha again") is often misheard as "Snova my na tvoyey tachkye" ("We're in your wheelbarrow again").

* From ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', there's all the times where Rick pronounces his son Carl's name in such a way that it sounds more like [[Memes/TheWalkingDeadTVShow "Coral"]] instead.

* Wrestling/{{Evolution}} had an infamous one in their theme music, thanks to [[Music/Motorhead Lemmy]].

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* Music/Anamanaguchi once made a song using Hatsune Miku, but due to her accent the chorus “I’m thinking Miku, Miku, oo-ee-oo” is commonly misheard as [[PrecisionFStrike “I’m freaking Miku”.]]

* TheFamilyCircus kids are known to make these.