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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 ''[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/[V |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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* The Peter, Paul, and Mary song "Leaving on a Jet Plane" inspired the Pinkard and Bowden parody "Libyan on a Jet Plane".
* "Wrapped up like a douche" ("Revved up like a deuce" (coupe) in the Manfred Mann's Earth Band version of [[Bruce Springsteen (Music)|Bruce Springsteen]]'s ''Blinded By The Light'')
* From [[That Other Wiki]], [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Mairzy_Doats: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:
{{quote| Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey<br />
A kiddley divey too, woooden shoo?<br />