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[[File:YotsubaMondegreen2.jpg|link=Yotsuba&!|frame|Yotsuba sings about the true nature of life.]]
{{quote|''"I mean, what the crap was he even saying there? 'Everybody, now bleed a beetle'? No! [[Squick|Ewww.]] 'Everybody, law deed will be dull'? Uhhhh, no kidding. 'Everybody, something the feed mill'?"''
|'''Strong Bad''' [http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemailintro.html commenting] on ''[[Homestar Runner]]''{{'}}s site intro}}
Sometimes caused by [[Elmuh Fudd Syndwome|bad diction]], or [[Lyrical Shoehorn|bizarre]] [[Word Salad Lyrics|lyrics]].
For a more in-depth look at the history of mondegreens and how they're used in various media, please see [[Mondegreen/Analysis|the Analysis Page.]]
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'''Note: Examples below should be [[In-Universe]], or ones referenced in other works ONLY.'''
{{examples}}
== Advertising ==
* A recent ad for Cingular used this: two men are walking down the street and mangling the chorus of "Rock the Casbah" by [[The Clash]]. 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 turns to T-Mobile for help for some reason.
* 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.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWy-LCGDsd8 This Volkswagen Passat commercial] has several people mishearing a line from "Rocket Man".
* Maxell tapes did a series of ads focusing on this. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbP_wBn3Lsc This advert] mishears Desmond Dekkerby's Israelites. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gib916jJW1o And this one] mishears The Skid's "Into The Valley".
== Card Games ==▼
* One ''[[Perplex City]]'' card is based on identifying these.▼
* "You fill out my census" ("You fill up my senses" from "Annie's Song" by [[John Denver]]). 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 Monty Python's Eric Idle on "John Denver being strangled" ("You came on my pillow...HYUUUNG!) -- and yes, Denver sued.▼
* There's also a comedian who bemoans his parents' inability to remember song lyrics, the trump being that his father sings one of Elton John's song as "Don't let your son go down on me".▼
* In his stage act, comedian [[Michael Winslow]] used to do a version of "Purple Haze", changing the lyric to "'Scuse me while I kiss this fly", followed by screeches of [[The Fly|"Help me! 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 Springsteen's ''Blinded By The Light'': "ripped up douches"; "loofah sponges" and the "foreman of the night;" and one that's completely incomprehensible.▼
* Springsteen's ''Blinded By The Light'' was made fun of by comedian [[Louis CK]] who once commented▼
{{quote|''You know that song 'Blinded by the Light'? Whenever it said 'revved up like a deuce' I always thought it said {{spoiler|'your mother's [[Country Matters|cunt]] smells like oranges'}}. Strange how that works...''}}▼
* Penn Jillette even joked about Paul McCartney's poor grammar in "Live and Let Die" ''in front of a UK audience'' in ''[[Penn & Teller]]: Fool Us''.▼
* In [[Ellen DeGeneres]]'s stand-up days, she discussed this.▼
{{quote|"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!"}}▼
== [[Comic Strip]] ==▼
* "Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly" was once mondegreened in Walt Kelly's comic strip ''[[Pogo (comic strip)|Pogo]]'' as "Deck Us All with Boston Charlie".▼
* ''[[Peanuts]]'' once subverted this trope: a 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."▼
* The Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" was mondegreen'd as "Chimpanzee for the Devil" in ''[[College Roomies from Hell]]'' (admittedly, by a character who's a [[Cloudcuckoolander]])▼
{{quote|'''Roger:''' [http://www.crfh.net/d/20050511.html Well, the coolness levels of that song just dropped 666%.]}}▼
* A ''[[Bloom County]]'' 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..."). ▼
* In the comic strip ''[[Wild Life]]'', 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'')▼
== Film ==
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* In the movie ''[[The Long Kiss Goodnight]]'', 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." Then again, the line was famous for being incomprehensible, especially on 70s-vintage AM rock radio when it was originally a hit. (To the point that the duo would deliberately mumble it in liver performances to "preserve the mystery".)
* ''[[Role Models]]'' 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 ''[[The Santa Clause (film series)|The Santa Clause]]'', his son mistakes "arose such a clatter" for "a Rose Suchak ladder". This turns out to be justified.
* In ''[[Life of Brian]]'', 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'?"
* ''[[Winnie the Pooh (Disney film)|Winnie the Pooh 2011]]'': 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."
* ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'': "Frollo's nose is long, and he wears a truss." <ref>A truss is a tricorn-like headdress worn by judges in the Middle Ages</ref>
** Laverne was actually saying that she heard "his nose is long and he wears a dress."
* In ''[[Flushed Away]]'', 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 ''[[Olive the Other Reindeer]]'' 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 Allegiance was about him, Richard Stands. As in, "And to the Republic, for Richard Stands."
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* 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 Mondegreen on the teacher's part, given the residents' own invisibility.
* There's a running joke in ''[[Good Omens]]'' 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.''"
* "Olive, the other reindeer ..." (''[[Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer]]'': "...[[All of the Other Reindeer]]..."). Inevitably, a book called ''Olive, The Other Reindeer'' was published in 1997, and was turned into a [[Christmas Special]] in 2003 by [[Matt Groening]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' fame.
* One of [[Beverly Cleary]]'s ''[[Ramona Quimby]]'' 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."
* John T. Sladek's novel ''The Müller-Fokker Effect'' (really!) has the following version of ''The Star-Spangled Banner'':
{{quote|''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 ''[[Snot Stew]]'': it comes from the [[Cute Kitten|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".
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== Live Action TV ==
* The line ''Soy un perdedor''," from ''Loser'' by [[Beck]] was [[Lampshade Hanging|called out]] in a VH-1 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.
* "Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly" was mondegreened in the television series ''[[V (TV series)|V]]'' by none other than Robert "[[Nightmare On Elm Street|Freddy Krueger]]" Englund himself.
{{quote|'''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...}}
* A butchering of "Hold me closer, tiny dancer" by [[Elton John]] is referenced in an episode of ''[[Friends]]'', wherein Phoebe is convinced that "Hold me close, young Tony Danza" is the actual line.
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* Greg from ''[[Dharma and Greg]]'' 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, "If you party every day, how can you get enough rest to Rock and Roll the next night?"
* [[Nirvana]]'s ''Smells Like Teen Spirit''. When MTV aired the music video, they subtitled lyrics into the video. (Unfortunately, even MTV got the lyrics wrong. It's no wonder why [[Weird Al]]'s parody pokes fun at the fact the lyrics are nigh-impossible to understand.)
* [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]] had fun with ''[[Pod People]]'' "Idiot control! 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.
* ''Ken Lee'' ("Can't live [without you]", ''Without You''). Made famous by [http://youtube.com/watch?v=FQt-h753jHI this clip] from the Bulgarian version of ''Pop Idol''.
* [[Six Feet Under]] - [[In-Universe]] pop-star Celeste's song ''Set My Loving Free'' is sung by Keith as ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEk18HUlphc&list=FLjzW69sgd5CZAx4pzozg8XA&index=7&feature=plpp_video Shave My Legs For Free]''.
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== Magazines ==
* There was an article in a 1980s ''[[Readers Digest]]'' 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.
== Music ==
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* "Slow Uncle Walter/The fire engine guy" ("Smoke on the water/A fire in the sky", ''Smoke on the Water'' by [[Deep Purple]]). The Barenaked Ladies pay homage to this Mondegreen in their song "[[Tear Jerker|The Night I Fell Asleep At The Wheel]]":
{{quote|''Rubberneck traffic and passers-by/ And Slow Motion Walter the fire engine guy / Stand around with their mouths open wide...''}}
* [[Electric Light Orchestra]]'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.
* Cover artists are divided as to whether the line in Elvis's ''Peace in the Valley'' is "the Lamb is the Light" or [[Sherlock Holmes|"the lamp is alight."]]
* Doug Ingle's slurred and/or drunk/stoned mispronunciation of "In The Garden of Eden" has likewise become the official title of the famous [[Iron Butterfly]] song, "Ina-Gadda-Da-Vida".
* "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. The lyrics have been guessed as everything from "Can you settle to shoot me" to "can you see the shroom babe" and no one is any the wiser.
* One of the more famous mondegreens is "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy" ("'Scuse me while I kiss the sky", [[Jimi Hendrix]], ''Purple Haze''). Hendrix, aware of the mondegreen, was actually 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".
* Likewise, "Solid as a Rock" (Ashford and Simpson) was so prone to being twisted to "Solid as Barack" at the time of Obama's inauguration that the original performers on stage were leading the audience in this chant at one point.
* "Seven Nation Army" by [[The White Stripes]] has the line "And the feeling coming from my bones...", but it sounds ''exactly'' like "And the feeling coming from my balls..."
* [[Kings Of Leon]] has an intentional aversion/backstory example in ''Sex on Fire'', one of their biggest hits. The [[Word Salad Lyrics]] originally featured "Set Us On Fire" as the chorus, but ''everybody'' would Mondegreen it as "Sex on Fire". According to [[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.
* The Peter, Paul, and Mary song "Leaving on a Jet Plane" inspired the Pinkard and Bowden parody "Libyan on a Jet Plane".
* "There's a bad moon on the rise" (Credence Clearwater Revival) was prone enough to mondegreen as "there's a bathroom on the right" that [[Bob Rivers]] actually recorded a parody of the song under that title. Not only that, CCR was known to occasionally sing it that way in concert.
* "Wrapped up like a douche" ("Revved up like a deuce" (coupe) in the Manfred Mann's Earth Band version of [[Bruce Springsteen]]'s ''Blinded By The Light'')
* From [[That Other Wiki]], [[wikipedia:Mairzy Doats|Mairzy Doats]] is built of intentionally inverting this trope. For those not willing to go to the link here are the actual lyrics on the sheet:▼
* "Loaded guns in your face" ([[Billy Joel]], "Pressure") can easily be misheard as "lonely cunts", something [[Moral Guardians|which can't be said]] on the radio.
{{quote|Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey▼
* Likewise, "Play that funky music, white boy" (Wild Cherry) is easy to mistake for "play that f-cking music right, boy."
A kiddley divey too, woooden shoo?▼
▲* From [[That Other Wiki]], [[wikipedia:Mairzy Doats|"Mairzy Doats"]] is built of intentionally inverting this trope. For those not willing to go to the link here are the actual lyrics on the sheet:
(Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy▼
▲{{quote|''Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kid'll eat ivy, too, wouldn't you?) }}▼
▲''A kiddley divey too, woooden shoo?
▲''(Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy
▲''A kid'll eat ivy, too, wouldn't you?) }}
* [[Stevie Nicks]] gives us an example of an [[Ascended Trope]]. The first time she met [[Tom Petty]]'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.
* 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.
* [[Pink Martini]] 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."
* [[They Might Be Giants]]' John Linnell wrote a song called ''Olive, The Other Reindeer'', named after a ''[[Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer]]'' mondegreen of "...[[All of the Other Reindeer]]..."
* Australian punk legends Radio Birdman took their name from a misheard lyric in [[The Stooges]]' "1970" - ''Radio '''burnin''' up above...''
* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] got the idea for "Like a Surgeon" from [[Madonna]] Mondegreening her own song "Like a Virgin" while talking to a friend.
* [[Rush]]'s "Tom Sawyer" has a line ("Catch the witness, catch the wit/Catch the spirit, catch the spit") which has been misheard as "catch the fish". Which amused the band so much that they would (as many other bands have) sing the Mondegreened lyric -- while pointing to a rubber fish on the stage.
* [[Starship (band)|Starship]]'s "We Built This City" includes the line "[[w:Guglielmo Marconi|Marconi]] plays the mamba", but it has been transcribed (presumably by someone too young to know about the origins of radio) as "Ma Coney plays the mamba".
▲* "Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly" was once mondegreened in Walt Kelly's comic strip ''[[Pogo (comic strip)|Pogo]]'' as "Deck Us All with Boston Charlie".
▲* ''[[Peanuts]]'' once subverted this trope: a 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."
▲* The Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" was mondegreen'd as "Chimpanzee for the Devil" in ''[[
▲{{quote|'''Roger:''' [http://www.crfh.net/d/20050511.html Well, the coolness levels of that song just dropped 666%.]}}
▲* A ''[[Bloom County]]'' 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...").
▲* In the comic strip ''[[Wild Life]]'', 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'')
== Recorded and Stand Up Comedy ==
▲* "You fill out my census" ("You fill up my senses" from "Annie's Song" by [[John Denver]]). 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 Monty Python's Eric Idle on "John Denver being strangled" ("You came on my pillow...HYUUUNG!) -- and yes, Denver sued.
▲* There's also a comedian who bemoans his parents' inability to remember song lyrics, the trump being that his father sings one of Elton John's song as "Don't let your son go down on me".
▲* In his stage act, comedian [[Michael Winslow]] used to do a version of "Purple Haze", changing the lyric to "'Scuse me while I kiss this fly", followed by screeches of [[The Fly|"Help me! 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 Springsteen's ''Blinded By The Light'': "ripped up douches"; "loofah sponges" and the "foreman of the night;" and one that's completely incomprehensible.
▲* Springsteen's ''Blinded By The Light'' was made fun of by comedian [[Louis CK]] who once commented
▲{{quote|''You know that song 'Blinded by the Light'? Whenever it said 'revved up like a deuce' I always thought it said {{spoiler|'your mother's [[Country Matters|cunt]] smells like oranges'}}. Strange how that works...''}}
▲* Penn Jillette even joked about Paul McCartney's poor grammar in "Live and Let Die" ''in front of a UK audience'' in ''[[Penn & Teller]]: Fool Us''.
▲* In [[Ellen DeGeneres]]'s stand-up days, she discussed this.
▲{{quote|"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!"}}
== Tabletop Games ==
▲* One ''[[Perplex City]]'' card is based on identifying these.
== 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 Luberjack corrects him that it's supposed to be "Silver and Gold."
* The version of "Purple Haze" in ''[[Guitar Hero]] 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!▼
== Web
* As ''[[Suicide for Hire]]'' [http://suicideforhire.comicgenesis.com/d/20080413.html points out], [[Nightwish]]'s "Romanticide" apparently includes the lyrics, "Happy haunting, you taco-faced carny fork." (The actual line is, "Happy hunting, you double-faced carnivore.")
== Web Original ==
* In ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s article "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131026113913/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":
{{quote|Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never yab to bye, adaaa dada banana boat, and auld lang synnne.}}
* In the [[Riff Trax]] for ''[[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 [[St. Vincent]] and the real words are "Aren't we just terrified?"
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* [http://kissthisguy.com/ The Archive of Misheard Lyrics], whose website URL comes from a mondegreen of Hendrix "Purple Haze", is possibly the biggest archive of mondegreens in existence.
* The Similou's ''All This Love'' inspired a mini fad on YTMND about the famous communist hero, [http://rainbowstalin2.ytmnd.com/ Rainbow Stalin.]
== Web Video ==
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* Lordi -- [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPHaahKa1Nk "Biomechanic Man"]
* [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''.
* O-Zone's ''Dragostea din Tei'' has been intentionally 'misinterpreted' in other languages, the [http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/maiyahi Japanese version] even includes [[Shout-Out
** Another video takes a misinterpreted "razor blades" in the chorus and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5DNuQfoy10#t=2m55s runs with it].
** Or [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dH9yOc7lWs "She's a rather slutty date"].
** The "sequel" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SmhpGfaHzU Despre Tine] can have its chorus misheard as "My naked naughty day!"
* "O Fortuna" [https://web.archive.org/web/20170314153450/http://www.briankaneonline.com/2010/02/24/oh-four-tuna/ Godspeed.]
* [http://www.rathergood.com/elephants "Elephants, Yeah!"] ("E di pensier," "La donna é mobile" from Verdi's ''Rigoletto'', as sung by Luciano Pavarotti)
* [[That Dude in the Suede]] chose [[Rob Zombie|Return of the Phantom Stranger]] as the theme song for his ''Fandom Stranger'' series because of this trope.
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* 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 [http://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!")
* ''[[God of War]]'' brings us [http://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!]
* Yumi Kawamura and her [[Engrish]]y songs for ''[[Persona 3]]'' and ''[[Persona 4]]'' are full of this. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8Pn8y-odQ4&feature=related Here's just one example.]
* In an episode of ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'', 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]].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH8gtrD4_C4 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!]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080915175223/http://www.z0l0pht.com/mathas/videos.htm Andrew Mathas] purposely mondegreens songs to make humorous videos.
* And then there's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-ZnPE3G_YY this] little gem "''Songs Of Praise'' with subtitles".
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=978cHrm5fvk This] [[
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKgSF0BNFrU&feature=related Here] we find out that the Gamecube Wavebird controller has "fudge brownies" inside.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wix4GxuGqHY Sheamus] will rip off your head and fuck your girlfriend.
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* ''[[Family Guy]]'''s 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 [[Family Guy]] theme song, "Laugh and cry"). A clearer version was used in the third season due to censor complaints, but the clearer version has since been dropped ever since the show came back from cancellation.
* Angelica once mondegreened the entire song, "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" on an episode of ''[[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!"
* ''[[Histeria!]]!'' did a number on the Pledge of Allegiance, with Toast messing up ''every line''. It included the "Richard Stands" mistake and ended, "One naked, undergarments, invisible man, with Liberace and puffed rice for all!"
* Another example of subtitle mishaps, The Simpsons episode "Moe Baby Blues" when aired on Sky 1 has the line "No means no for Elmo!" subtitled as "A smack in the mouth!"
** Another Simpsons subtitling example: in the episode "The Last Temptation of Homer", when Bart (imitating [[Jerry Lewis]]) 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 ''[[Ben 10:
▲== Video Games ==
▲* The version of Purple Haze in [[Guitar Hero]] 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!
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