Trivia / Bad Lip Reading

• Approval of God:
  • Michael Bublé thought "Russian Unicorn" was hilarious.
  • Gotye tweeted the parody of his "Somebody That I Used To Know".
  • Miley Cyrus tweeted "Black Umbrella" to Snoop Dogg.
  • Harry Styles loved 'Shadow Pico'.
  • Elizabeth Banks enjoyed watching the Hunger Games BLR video... with none other than the lead actress herself.
    Yup - she saw this, people. And she laughed. And so did I. A lot.
  • Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher watched at least one of the Star Wars parodies (specifically, the one with Yoda's seagull song) and loved it, with the former even collaborating with BLR later on, providing the voice of an older Han Solo.
  • Pedro Pascal boasted◊ that he accomplished one of his "career goals" when BLR turned Narcos into Soy Pablo.
  • Lin-Manuel Miranda was already a fan before he got the BLR treatment so this was a given.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: The man behind BLR does most of the female voices.
• Defictionalization: In "THE NFL", Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson asks a reporter if she has an orange peanut for him, and publicly accepts her when she says yes. After the video's release, a fan brought a giant orange peanut to a Vikings game and asked Peterson to sign it, which he did.
• Follow the Leader: Bad Lip Reading in other languages. It had to happen.
  • Bad Lip Reading itself is this to Dayjob Orchestra.
  • Tobuscus' Literal Trailer of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire contained two scenes with Bad Lip Readings.
• Inspiration for the Work: The anonymous creator of Bad Lip Reading got the inspiration for it from his deaf mother, who had learned how to read lips. He started trying it by watching TV with the sound off, but what he thought was being said was so hilariously inaccurate that...
• Man of a Thousand Voices: Every single voice is performed by the same man. He's talented enough (and good enough at editing audio) that it's usually hard to tell, though it does sometimes become pretty clear.
• The Merch: Bad Lip Reading T-shirts exist!
• Reclusive Artist: The creator of the videos (who also does most of the voices himself) keeps his identity a secret since he doesn't want his Bad Lip Reading videos to clash with his more serious work. He has given an anonymous interview, which revealed that he's from Texas and that he was inspired to create the channel after he tried to read lips like his deaf mother did.
• Schedule Slip: The flow of BLR videos has slowed to a trickle since about 2012.