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** The listener tuned in mid-word, giving him a harder time to make sense of what is said as he only has about half of the syllables to work with.
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* '''Inverted''': The lyrics are intended to be pure gibberish, but are misheard to form coherent lyrics.

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* '''Inverted''': The lyrics are intended to be [[WordSaladLyrics pure gibberish, gibberish]], but are misheard to form coherent lyrics.
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** The recording quality sucks, and the lyrics got LostInTransmission.

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** The recording quality mixing of the song sucks, and the vocals are so much quieter than the music that the lyrics got LostInTransmission.
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Clicker two goatback tu [[MondegreenGag mon da' Green Gag]].

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Clicker two goatback tu [[MondegreenGag mon da' Green Gag]].green gag]].
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'''Basic Trope''': Misheard lyrics or dialogue.
* '''Straight''': "Troperia, my land and home" is misheard as "Troperia, my land and dome".

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'''Basic Trope''': Misheard lyrics or dialogue.
A character mishears what another character said.
* '''Straight''': A song's lyric line "Troperia, my land and home" is misheard as "Troperia, my land and dome".



** Every verse is interpreted as something else to the point where the whole song changes meaning or loses it completely.
* '''Downplayed''': A minor word is misheard that doesn't change the meaning much; "The" to "Their", for example.

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** Every verse is interpreted as something else to the point where that the whole song changes the perceived meaning or loses it completely.
* '''Downplayed''': A minor word is misheard that and doesn't change the meaning much; "The" to "Their", for example.



* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

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* '''Zig Zagged''': '''Zig-Zagged''': ???



* '''Played For Laughs''': The singer is misheard to be singing about [[AccidentalPublicConfession an embarrassing rumor]] that his audience has been suspecting for a while.
* '''Played For Drama''': Instead of a song, a diplomatic message is misheard and [[PoorCommunicationKills sparks a war]].

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* '''Played For for Laughs''': The singer is misheard to be singing about [[AccidentalPublicConfession an embarrassing rumor]] that his audience has been suspecting for a while.
* '''Played For for Drama''': Instead of a song, a diplomatic message is misheard and [[PoorCommunicationKills sparks a war]].



Clicker two goatback Tu[[MondegreenGag mon da' Green Gag]].

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Clicker two goatback Tu[[MondegreenGag tu [[MondegreenGag mon da' Green Gag]].
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'''Basic Trope''': Misheard lyrics or dialogue.
* '''Straight''': "Troperia, my land and home" is misheard as "Troperia, my land and dome".
* '''Exaggerated''':
** "Tropicana, Myron's cantaloupe".
** Every verse is interpreted as something else to the point where the whole song changes meaning or loses it completely.
* '''Downplayed''': A minor word is misheard that doesn't change the meaning much; "The" to "Their", for example.
* '''Justified''':
** The listener is hard of hearing or wasn't paying attention.
** The singer isn't singing clearly.
** The singer is using a language that the listener doesn't understand.
** The recording quality sucks, and the lyrics got LostInTransmission.
** The assumed lyrics are homophones for the actual lyrics.
* '''Inverted''': The lyrics are intended to be pure gibberish, but are misheard to form coherent lyrics.
* '''Subverted''':
** A sharply out-of-place lyric is thought to be misheard, but is [[BrickJoke referenced later]].
** The misheard lyric rhymes properly, while the actual lyric [[PainFulRhyme rhymes painfully]].
* '''Double Subverted''': It then makes references to the real lyric. It was misheard, after all.
* '''Parodied''':
** The singer writes WordSaladLyrics to intentionally make the audience think they've heard wrong.
** "This old man, he played one," is misheard as, [[Series/BarneyAndFriends "I love you; you love me."]]
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': No line is misheard.
* '''Enforced''': The song's lyrics are printed as homonyms for evade the censors.
* '''Lampshaded''': "You idiot, that's not the right word!"
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': The band like the mondegreen, so they say that people who heard that were right and perform the song with the new lyric, making an AscendedMeme.
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': The singer bungles his diction on purpose [[PlayedForLaughs for the sake of comedy]] or for the sake of [[TheWalrusWasPaul alternate interperetation]].
* '''Played For Laughs''': The singer is misheard to be singing about [[AccidentalPublicConfession an embarrassing rumor]] that his audience has been suspecting for a while.
* '''Played For Drama''': Instead of a song, a diplomatic message is misheard and [[PoorCommunicationKills sparks a war]].
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Clicker two goatback Tu[[MondegreenGag mon da' Green Gag]].
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%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???

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