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* 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.

* [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".

* 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."

* 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."

{{quote|'''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.

* 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.

* The main character of ''[[Victorious]]'' mistook the ''[[Fresh Prince of Bel Air]]" 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".

 

 

* 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!]

* [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!]

* [http://www.z0l0pht.com/mathas/videos.htm Andrew Mathas] purposely mondegreens songs to make humorous videos.