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* ''WesternAnimation/SnooperAndBlabber:'' In "The Lion is Busy," the two detectives chase escaped zoo lion Snagglepuss into an adventurer's club building. Snooper exclaims "We've got him in the Daniel's den!"
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** In "Nurse to Meet You," Popeye and Bluto are trying to get close to Olive at a hospital but she ejects them from the building. When the two presuppose what injuries they could occur, Olive states "You'd be illegible for a hospital!"

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** In "Nurse to Meet You," Popeye and Bluto are trying to get close to Olive at a hospital but she ejects them from the building. When the two resuppose what injuries they could occur, Olive states "You'd be illegible for a hospital!"

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** In "Nurse to Meet You," Popeye and Bluto are trying to get close to Olive at a hospital but she ejects them from the building. When the two resuppose presuppose what injuries they could occur, Olive states "You'd be illegible for a hospital!"
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** In "Nurse to Meet You," Popeye and Bluto are trying to get close to Olive at a hospital but she ejects them from the building. When the two resuppose what injuries they could occur, Olive states "You'd be illegible for a hospital!"
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* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'''s Lindsay does this mainly with names ("Kyle" for Chris, "Doug" for Duncan, and so on) and occasionally with other words (e.g. "dental" for "mental") as one of the most high-profile elements of her DumbBlonde stereotype. Beth also got into the act when she first arrived on the island and told Chris, "It's so incredulous to meet you!"

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* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'''s Lindsay does this [[AccidentalMisnaming mainly with names names]] ("Kyle" for Chris, "Doug" for Duncan, and so on) and occasionally with other words (e.g. "dental" for "mental") as one of the most high-profile elements of her DumbBlonde stereotype. Beth also got into the act when she first arrived on the island and told Chris, "It's so incredulous to meet you!"



** The episode "Telephonies" has the Gangreen Gang in the Mayor's office making prank phone calls at the cost of the dignity of Mojo Jojo, Fuzzy Lumpkins and Him until they've had enough and call the Mayor for action:

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* King Julien, TheDitz of ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'', doesn't exactly use the wrong words, but he's prone to mangling the actual form of the words. "No, I will not succeed. No-one will be sucking seed!"

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* King Julien, TheDitz of ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'', doesn't exactly use the wrong words, but he's prone to mangling the actual form of the words. "No, I will not succeed. No-one No one will be sucking seed!"
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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "[=SpongeBob's=] Road to Christmas", after [=SpongeBob=] tells Plankton, "You just gotta believe," Patrick repeats, "You just gotta bleed."

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In "[=SpongeBob's=] Road to Christmas", after [=SpongeBob=] tells Plankton, "You just gotta believe," Patrick repeats, "You just gotta bleed."


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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'': As a RunningGag, Patrick is ''very'' prone to mispronouncing words or phrases.
** In "Nitwit Neighborhood News", Patrick thinks a criminal (whom he mistakes for a celebrity) is wearing a SuspiciousSkiMask so "he won't be noticed by pepperoni!" He means "paparazzi", and Squidina corrects him.
** In "Mid-Season Finale", Patrick reminds the audience to "stay turned" for his show.
** In "Fun & Done!", Patrick pronounces "kazoo" as "Kalamazoo".
** "Olly Olly Organ Free":
*** Patrick pronounces "segue" as "seg-yoo" instead of "segway".
*** When his stomach hurts, Patrick opts for "abominable" (abdominal) surgery.
** In "The Star Games", Patrick mispronounces "the Cretaceous period" as "the crustacean period".
** In "Super Stars", superhero Patrick gives a shout of "Up, down, and away!"
** In "There Goes the Neighborhood", Patrick pronounces "varicose veins" as "very close veins".
** In "Movie Stars", [=SpongeBob=] says "look no farther" and Patrick adds "and no mother!"
** "Dr. Smart Science" has two:
*** When giving a lecture on the Zodiac, Patrick mislabels "Sagittarius" as "Saggy Terry".
*** After spending the entire episode being lectured against using pseudoscience, Patrick finally identifies it and calls out [=GrandPat=] for using it... except he pronounces it "strudel science". Sandy shrugs and says "eh, close enough."
** "The Commode Episode":
*** Patrick asks for a "volume-teer" from the audience.
*** Patrick pronounces "OpenSesame" as "open recipe!"
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* Music/TheBeatles' "Eight Days A Week" was already cited in the Music tab; the cartoon episode extends it. When movie star Lips Lovelace loses his ability to kiss, Paul thinks it's absurd. "Anybody can kiss," he says.
-->'''Lips:''' Really? Eight days a week? Six weeks a month? Thirteen months a year?
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** In "Zip Zip Hooray" (an edited segment of the pilot ''The Adventures of the Road Runner''), Ralph Phillips says he wants to be a "p-sychoanimalist" when he grows up.
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** Darla commits a malaprop in "The Case of the Puzzled Pals":

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** "Service With a Guile" has Popeye and Bluto fighting over who will service a Navy admiral's car at Olive's service station. Olive says to let Popeye do it because "he's more mechanically reclined."
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* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', ComicBook/KlarionTheWitchBoy is prone to misusing words in his sentences, and is usually corrected to his irritation by [[IntelligibleUnintelligible Teekl]], his familiar.
-->'''Klarion:''' Foolish mortal! Klarion is chaos personified! He cannot be constipated!\\
'''Teekl:''' Meow.\\
'''Klarion:''' Yeah, yeah, 'contained'. He knew I meant 'contained'.
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** In "Life of Crime", Patrick misspeaks "Liar, liar, pants on fire" as "Liar, liar, plants for hire". [=SpongeBob=] promptly corrects him.

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** In "Life of Crime", Patrick misspeaks "Liar, liar, pants on fire" as "Liar, liar, plants for hire". [=SpongeBob=] promptly corrects him.
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** In "Lighthouse Mouse," a parrot repeats what Sylvester says, prompting Sylvester to retort "You said what I heard me!"
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* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' features Dewey, a wannabe black power activist, greeting Huey with the phrase "salami, eggs, and bacon." He was going for the Arabic greeting "as-salaam alaikum." What's especially amusing about this is that Muslims don't eat salami or bacon because they don't eat pork, thus making Dewey look even more ignorant.
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** The episode "Telephonies" has the Gangrene Gang in the Mayor's office making prank phone calls at the cost of the dignity of Mojo Jojo, Fuzzy Lumpkins and Him until they've had enough and call the Mayor for action:

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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' episode "Telephonies" has the Gangreen Gang in the Mayor's office making prank phone calls at the cost of the dignity of Mojo Jojo, Fuzzy Lumpkins and Him until they've had enough and call the Mayor for action:

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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'':
** In the episode "Boogie Frights", Blossom [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl3tnwldQFo misquotes]] Benjamin Franklin's proverb "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise":
-->'''Blossom''': Now, girls, you know we need to get plenty of sleep. It’s our responsibility as superheroines to be well-rested so that we’ll be at peak crime-fighting performance whenever evil rears its ugly head.
--> And, like Ben Franklin always said— “Early to bed, early to wake, makes a lady smart, pretty, and great.”
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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "[=SpongeBob's Road to Christmas=]", after [=SpongeBob=] tells Plankton, "You just gotta believe," Patrick repeats, "You just gotta bleed."

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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "[=SpongeBob's "[=SpongeBob's=] Road to Christmas=]", Christmas", after [=SpongeBob=] tells Plankton, "You just gotta believe," Patrick repeats, "You just gotta bleed."



* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleRascals'' short "The Zero Hero", Alfalfa says in a defiant tone, "I'm half the man [Captain Muscles] is!"

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** Darla commits a malaprop in "The Case of the Puzzled Pals":
--->'''Alfalfa:''' I still can't figure out why Spanky would want your doll.\\
'''Darla:''' If he were here, you could question him. But he must be on the ham.\\
'''Buckwheat:''' That's ''lam'', not ''ham''.\\
'''Darla:''' Oh. Sorry.
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In ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleRascals'' short "The Zero Hero", Alfalfa says in a defiant tone, "I'm half the man [Captain Muscles] is!"

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* ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'': From "Public Enemy No. 1," where DM has amnesia and Baron Greenback makes him think he's a bandit called the White Shadow, Greenback learns that somebody has beaten him to crimes he was planning:

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* ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'': From "Public Enemy No. 1," 1", where DM has amnesia and Baron Greenback makes him think he's a bandit called the White Shadow, Greenback learns that somebody has beaten him to crimes he was planning:



* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "[=SpongeBob's Road to Christmas=]", after [=SpongeBob=] tells Plankton "You just gotta believe", Patrick repeats, "You just gotta bleed".
* ''WesternAnimation/WorkItOutWombats'': In "Special Delivery," Zeke says that Malik's drawn out route to Sammy's house looks like a long 'pasketti' noodle. And in "Zeke's Collection Selection," he keeps mispronouncing 'bonanza' as 'bananazana.'

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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "[=SpongeBob's Road to Christmas=]", after [=SpongeBob=] tells Plankton Plankton, "You just gotta believe", believe," Patrick repeats, "You just gotta bleed".
bleed."
* ''WesternAnimation/WorkItOutWombats'': In "Special Delivery," Zeke says that Malik's drawn out route to Sammy's house looks like a long 'pasketti' noodle. And in "Zeke's Collection Selection," Selection", he keeps mispronouncing 'bonanza' as 'bananazana.''bananazana'.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleRascals'' short "The Zero Hero", Alfalfa says in a defiant tone, "I'm half the man [Captain Muscles] is!"
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** In “The Cissy,” Cartman claims to be “[[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} Transginger]]” so that he doesn’t have to use the same restroom as the “Cisgingers.”
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** Ralph Wiggum. ''Him'' fail English? Definitely not "unpossible." He also calls Superintendent Chalmers "Super Nintendo Chalmers" in "Lisa Gets an A".

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** Ralph Wiggum. ''Him'' fail English? Definitely not "unpossible." He also calls Superintendent Chalmers "Super "[[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Nintendo Chalmers" Chalmers]]" in "Lisa Gets an A".
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* ''WesternAnimation/WorkItOutWombats'': In "Special Delivery," Zeke says that Malik's drawn out route to Sammy's house looks like a long 'pasketti' noodle. And in "Zeke's Collection Selection," he keeps mispronouncing 'bonanza' as 'bananazana.'
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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Telephonies" has the Gangreen Gang in the Mayor's office making prank phone calls at the cost of the dignity of Mojo Jojo, Fuzzy Lumpkins and Him until they've had enough and call the Mayor for action:

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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' episode "Telephonies" has the Gangreen Gang in the Mayor's office making prank phone calls at the cost of the dignity of Mojo Jojo, Fuzzy Lumpkins and Him until they've had enough and call the Mayor for action:

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-->'''Raimundo:''' What Omi just did to that sentence is what we're going to do to you!

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-->'''Raimundo:''' -->'''Omi:''' He who is last to laughing, laughs most loudly!\\
'''Raimundo:'''
What Omi just did to that sentence is what we're going to do to you!
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** In "Cow's a Beauty", Cow says she'll win all the "beauty ''pigeons''" instead of "pageants".

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Stumpy, [[CrapsaccharineWorld Smileyland]]'s resident [[TheDitz idiot]], does this quite frequently. For example, he refers to a library as a "liblerary", and thinks [[TheSmartGuy Mr. Cat]] is
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Stumpy, [[CrapsaccharineWorld Smileyland]]'s resident [[TheDitz idiot]], does this quite frequently. For example, he refers to a library as a "liblerary", and thinks [[TheSmartGuy Mr. Cat]] is
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* Omi from ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' and ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinChronicles''. There are '''multiple''' moments where Omi says something, and the cast, sometimes ''including the villain'', stops whatever they were doing and try to figure out what the heck Omi just said. And in one episode, Raimundo suggests that [[AnAesop the lesson for the day]] is "Omi can't use slang."
-->'''Raimundo:''' What Omi just did to that sentence is what we're going to do to you!
* Early Cuyler of ''WesternAnimation/{{Squidbillies}}''.
-->'''Early:''' Where do I see myself in five beers?\\
'''Sheriff:''' No, "years", ''"years"!''\\
'''Early:''' Uh, I dunno. Jail?\\\
'''Dan Halen:''' Lets talk briefly about your work ethic\\
'''Early:''' Well, I don't think ethnics do no work. I mean, that's they problem, really. If you ain't like me, go hang from a damn tree.
%%* ComicBook/{{Starfire}} from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', more so in the cartoon version.
%%* Linka from ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers''. Ma-Ti from the same show has a few of these as well.
%%* Mikey Simon on ''WesternAnimation/KappaMikey''.
* All the babies in ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' do this, even the more mature Angelica. Most of the babies' internal logic in this show was based on malapropisms and the sheer willingness of everyone else to believe they were telling the truth. Occasionally subverted, though, as sometimes Angelica says a malapropism and the babies repeat back the right word.
%%* Exile from ''WesternAnimation/RoadRovers''.
* Jim Moralès from ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko''. Sissi delves into this too.
** Aelita did it a couple of times during the time following her being brought into the real world. One memorable one was when she told Jeremie that he was "as stubborn as a fool" during an argument about her [=DJing=] the school dance. He corrects her, saying "It's stubborn as a mule!" but hers ''does'' make some sense.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'''s Lindsay does this mainly with names ("Kyle" for Chris, "Doug" for Duncan, and so on) and occasionally with other words (e.g. "dental" for "mental") as one of the most high-profile elements of her DumbBlonde stereotype. Beth also got into the act when she first arrived on the island and told Chris, "It's so incredulous to meet you!"
* TheButcher from ''WesternAnimation/WordGirl''. Mr. Big as well, though his is on purpose.
* WesternAnimation/BugsBunny is occasionally prone to being one of these, although it's usually a matter of him mispronouncing words rather than using the wrong ones.
** "What a maroon!"
*** "What an "im-BEH-cile", what an ultra maroon! (''Bully For Bugs'')
** "What is this, a blackout? I didn't hear no sireen!" (''Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk'')
** "I got an athlete's fizzy-cue." (''WesternAnimation/TortoiseWinsByAHare'')
** "Yoo-hoo! Mr. Pie-rate!" (''WesternAnimation/BuccaneerBunny'')
** "It's about time for me to employ a little stragedy." (''Bunny Hugged'')
** "Bon voyagey!" (any cartoon with a simulated sail-off)
** "Like the Romans say, E Pluribus Uranium! (''Roman Legion Hare'')
** "I am a little fat-i-gyoo-d" ("Transylvania 6-5000")
** in another short, he says that a bullet must have "ricoshateted"
** Red Hot Ryder, the dimbulb from ''WesternAnimation/BuckarooBugs'', doesn't so much deliver a malapropism as it is a non-sequitur:
--->'''Bugs:''' (''holding a carrot like a gun against Ryder's butt'') Stick 'em up! Or I'll blow your brains out!\\
'''Ryder:''' Well, that's mighty neighborly of ya!
** In "French Rarebit," Bugs tours Paris to see the "mon-sewers and madam weasels."
** In ''Falling Hare'', he learns that:
---> "The constant menace to pilots are the gremlins who wreck planes with their 'dia-bo-LI-cal saba-tagey'".
** In ''Ali Baba Bunny'', the thug guarding the treasure of Ali Baba is prone to this, repeatedly botching the phrase "OpenSesame" to enter the magic cave:
--->"Uh, Open Sasparilla? Open Saskatchewan? Open Septuagenarian? Open Saddlesoap?"
** Arch from the 1946 Sniffles cartoon "Hush My Mouse", who was a cartoon version of Ed Gardner's character Archie from the radio show ''Duffy's Tavern'' ("Well, if it ain't Eddie G. Robincat in the flesh and fantasy!")
*** In another, Sniffles mispronounces "etc." (et cetera) in one scene, or rather, he pronounces it exactly as it appears.
** ''Porky the Wrestler'' grappler Hugo Bernowskiwoskimowskiskowski:
--->'''Hugo:''' I fight anybody my heavy!
%%* Pugsy from ''WesternAnimation/{{Fangface}}''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'':
** In one episode, the Eds play a game of Truth or Dare and end up acting like one of the other Eds. Eddy ends up acting like Edd and tries to make himself sound smarter by using large words. Of course, since his vocabulary isn't as good as the real Edd's, he ends up making a lot of malapropisms.
--->'''Eddy:''' Excuse me, Eddy. May I fuel inject? [[ArtisticLicenseOrnithology Chickens cannot fly as they are mammals.]]
** In another episode:
--->'''Ed:''' Allow me to re-irritate.
* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'': "I'm going to give you two hits: Me hitting you in the face, and... me hitting you in the face again."
* [[CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys Antoine]] of ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM''. In his world, a fool is a fuel, bingo is pronounced gringo, and fertilizer is fraternizer.
* Blob from ''WesternAnimation/TheDreamstone'' wavers in and out of this depending on RuleOfFunny. [[DelusionsOfEloquence It seems to hit him the hardest when he's trying to sound either intelligent or authoritative.]]
* Peggy from ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' becomes this in Spanish.
** Truth be told, a lot of it is actually "Spanglish." ("Mayheecan," for example.)
** Her feeble grasp on the language frequently dips into MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels as long as RuleOfFunny applies.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Telephonies" has the Gangreen Gang in the Mayor's office making prank phone calls at the cost of the dignity of Mojo Jojo, Fuzzy Lumpkins and Him until they've had enough and call the Mayor for action:
-->'''Big Billy:''' Hullo?\\
'''Him:''' Let me speak with the Mayor!\\
'''Big Billy:''' Uh, he's not in right now. Can I take a massage?
* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', Wakko Warner was prone to these. He once shouted at a man whom he thought was a magician to "pull a rabbit out of your pants!" (Then again, Wakko was also a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, so according to his thought processes, that might not even count as a mistake.) He and siblings also mispronounce longer words like skulecatary for secretary and "p-sychiatrist" for psychiatrist.
* Mrs Price in ''WesternAnimation/FiremanSam''.
-->'''Sam:''' Now make sure you don't leave that candle unattended.\\
'''Mrs Price:''' Of course, I'm very reprehensible.
* King Julien, TheDitz of ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'', doesn't exactly use the wrong words, but he's prone to mangling the actual form of the words. "No, I will not succeed. No-one will be sucking seed!"
* Tish's mom from ''WesternAnimation/TheWeekenders'' like for instance "fishing model" instead of fashion model, leading to her CatchPhrase of "Is what I say" any time this is pointed out to her and/or Tish translates for her.
* Don Karnage of ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' is notorious for mangling the English language.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'':
** Duck turns "revolutionary" into "revo-thinga-gummy," and "sagacious" into "good-gracious."
** Edward introduces the others to the word "deputation," which over the episode is turned into "depot station," "desperation," and "disputation."
** Percy interprets "teething troubles" as "a toothache."
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
** An early RunningGag had Principal Skinner making these. For example, in "Simpsons Roasting On an Open Fire", he says "melody" instead of "medley".
** Ralph Wiggum. ''Him'' fail English? Definitely not "unpossible." He also calls Superintendent Chalmers "Super Nintendo Chalmers" in "Lisa Gets an A".
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''
** In early episodes the kids had trouble pronouncing long words, like hermaphrodite.
** Also, in Officer Barbrady's debut in "Chickenlover", when admitting that he can't read, he exclaims "I'm illegitimate!"
** In "Sexual Harassment Panda" Craig refuses to answer Mr. Garrison's question on the grounds that it may "incinerate" him before Mr. Broflovski tells him the correct word.
* ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop''. Goofy and Pete are both habitual Malapropers. Goofy would typically use real words that were the wrong word ("decimated driver", "you're ''historical''"), but Pete would do a mix of that, mixing two words together, and giving an incomprehensible phrase such as "Do as I think not mean what I say." To hilarious effect in the second episode, when their sons [[ZanyScheme emulated their fathers' behavior so that they would be allowed to be friends]], PJ (who is typically rather eloquent) incorporated the malapropisms. Pistol did this in at least one episode, when she mentioned [[UsefulNotes/AmeliaEarhart Amelia "Airhead"]] as an example of girls who can fly.
** In the ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' short "How To Be a Gentleman", this happens to Goofy as his botched attempts to greet the Queen of England result in numerous blows to his head from her scepter.
--->'''[[LemonyNarrator Narrator:]]''' One should bow gracefully and say, "my dear Queen, how delightful to make your acquaintance".\\
'''Goofy:''' My queer dean, how delightful to acquaint your maintenance.\\
''(the queen bashes him on the head so hard that he falls and a lump grows on his head...followed by several more lumps growing from said lump)''
* From the ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'' cartoon "The Natural Thing To Do":
-->'''Olive:''' Er... let's converse.\\
'''Bluto:''' Hey! I hear conversing is comin' back!\\
'''Popeye:''' Yeah. And convoisin' breaks up the monopoly of not talkin'!
** In ''Goonland'' Popeye finds his imprisioned Pappy, who doesn't want anything to do with him. Through his tears Popeye moans "Ohh, he don't know his own skin an' bones!"
* At the end of the ''WesternAnimation/MikeLuAndOg'' episode "Giant Steps", Mike is told the truth about the "giant" that's coming to the island.
-->'''Wendell:''' It's a metabolical statement.\\
'''Og:''' Metaphorical.\\
'''Wendell:''' Yeah, that too.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies'' episode "The Caped Crusader Caper", Professor Flaky often mixes up sayings.
-->'''Professor Flaky:''' I like Shaggy because he's dumb to kind animals.\\
'''The Penguin:''' That's kind to ''dumb'' animals! Dumb, dumb, dumb!
* Peridot of ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' does this from time to time. Mostly due to [[JustifiedTrope not being from Earth and not really interacting with humans outside of Steven]].
* From ''WesternAnimation/BrandyAndMrWhiskers'':
-->'''Mr. Whiskers:''' I'm no fighter, I'm a pacifier!\\
''[cut to a live-action shot of a baby sucking on a pacifier shaped like Whiskers's head]''\\
'''Mr. Whiskers:''' You know what I mean.
* On ''WesternAnimation/WildAnimalBabyExplorers'', Sammy the Skunk is this, but only because he's younger than the other characters and therefore is still learning the right words.
-->'''Skip:''' We are a looking at a hippopotamus.\\
'''Sammy:''' Hippo... bottomus? Hipsomonoplus?\\
'''Skip:''' We can also just say "hippo."
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': D.W. does this every now and then and is always immediately corrected by Arthur. Justified in that she is four years old. For example, in "Feeling Flush", she confuses "water conservation" for "water conversation".
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Stumpy, [[CrapsaccharineWorld Smileyland]]'s resident [[TheDitz idiot]], does this quite frequently. For example, he refers to a library as a "liblerary", and thinks [[TheSmartGuy Mr. Cat]] is
"intelligious".
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
--> '''Joey Mousepad:''' What if management remains intragnisant[[labelnote:*]]Likely trying to say "Intransigent", meaning "inflexible" or "uncompromising".[[/labelnote]]?\\
'''Donbot:''' From the context, it is clear what you mean.
* From ''WesternAnimation/TheDickTracyShow'' episode "The Casbah Express":
-->'''Joe Jitsu:''' Parting is such sweet and sour.
* ''WesternAnimation/PunkyBrewster'': "The Quartersize Quarterback" has Glomer making a forward pass of a football to Allen, to whom he has given the abilities of a pro player.
-->'''Glomer:''' Allen! Catch toeball!\\
'''Punky:''' ''Foot''ball, Glomer!
* In ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'', characters would sometimes confuse their words with similar-sounding ones.
** In "The Cow with Four Eyes", Chicken replies to Cow telling him he needs a prescription in order to have glasses by saying "So I'll ''get'' a subscription".
** In "Comet", Cow says "posterior" when she meant "posterity".
* Buzz is this on ''WesternAnimation/BeatBugs'', sometimes. In "Let it Be," for example, she meets a firefly called Mother Mary that she calls her "cardigan angel."
* In "Nancy vs Dudley" from ''WesternAnimation/FancyNancy'', [=JoJo=] misconstrues the Eiffel Tower as the "Awful Tower." At first, Nancy is annoyed, but later after she realizes that she wants [=JoJo=] to play with her and asks what she wants to play, she quite happy to agree with [=JoJo=]'s request: "Let's build the Awful Tower."
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' episode "[[Recap/ReadyJetGoS2E21MoonCircusEveryDayIsEarthDay Every Day Is Earth Day]]”, Carrot mistakes "toaster" for "poster" and presents a toaster instead of a poster at the DSA celebration, much to Mr. Peterson's annoyance.
* ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'':
** Tigger of the various Disney incarnations is a master malaproper.
--->'''Tigger''': (''regarding Rabbit'') Well, you know ol' cotton-bottom. He's the self-deficient type. Ya' know, a real do-it-without-ya kinda guy.
** In "Buster's Buried Treasure" on ''WesternAnimation/MyFriendsTiggerAndPooh'', Lumpy repeatedly uses the phrase "gold balloon" in place of "gold doubloon."
* Sol from ''WesternAnimation/SonsOfButcher'' is infamous for [[IncrediblyLamePun butchering]] quotes, giving such "wisdom" as "My father who does art in heaven", "Desperate times call for separate pleasures", "I'll welcome death with open legs", and "Take it sleazy!"
* [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS1E04ZoesAndZeldas Season 1, Episode 4]] of ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'' has three separate people butcher the idiom ''"Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me"'':
** First Mr Peanutbutter:
--->Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice...fiddle-dee-dee.
** Then Virgil van Cliff:
--->Fool me once, shame on you, but teach a man to fool me, and I'll be fooled for the rest of my life.
** And finally, Todd:
--->Fool me once, fool me twice, fool me chicken soup with rice.
* ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'': From "Public Enemy No. 1," where DM has amnesia and Baron Greenback makes him think he's a bandit called the White Shadow, Greenback learns that somebody has beaten him to crimes he was planning:
-->'''Stiletto:''' The White Mouse. Danger Shadow. You know... your life-long anniversary.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "[=SpongeBob's Road to Christmas=]", after [=SpongeBob=] tells Plankton "You just gotta believe", Patrick repeats, "You just gotta bleed".
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