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* In the TV show ''[[Wings (TV 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".

* In Small Steps, Armpit mishears the words "I'm but" as "Armpit".

* A game on ''[[Never Mind the Buzzcocks]]'' 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 [[Something Something Leonard Bernstein]] and [[Perishing Alt Rock Voice]] (the latter a common cause of Mondegreens.

 

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