History SelfDemonstrating / Malaproper

* In ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' the character [[TheDitz Spinner]] did this a lot in the earlier seasons, such as calling Ms. Kwan the pain of his existence rather than the bane, and saying the peace club meeting was boring people into submersion rather than submission.

* Eve from ''Manga/{{Needless}}'' does this a LOT - though in her case she not only mangles speech, but ''[[AccidentalMisnaming renames characters on a whim]]'', often with arguments from the victim. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity Assured]]. She does this so often that ''other characters'' eventually start using the alternate names, the victim eventually just accepts it as a nickname.

* Unfortunately common all over the world. Creator/ScottAdams publishes "Dogbert's New Ruling Class Newsletter" when he feels like it, and a regular feature is a section citing malapropisms and garbled adages which readers heard, mostly from their [[PointyHairedBoss Spiky Headeaded Bosses]] and cow-orkers.

* In addition to her [[KansaiRegionalAccent Kansas Regal Accident]], [[Manga/AzumangaDaioh Osaka]] has a tendency toward amusing mispronunciation and vocabulary confusion, especially of any non-Japanese words.

* Half the fun of the otherwise [[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish Disappointingly Good English]] in ''VideoGame/MetalWolfChaos'' is the President of the United States' awkward one-liners. This includes such gems as "I'll make you just like perforated cheese!" and was entirely unintentional.

* Hermes of ''LightNovel/KinosJourney'' occasionally mixes up his "idiots"[[note]]"idioms"[[/note]].

* Also from Brazil, Vicente Matheus, who managed local team Corinthians, was prone to gems such as "Who's in the rain is to get burned!", "It was a result that both Greeks and Napolitans (UsefulNotes/{{Trojan|War}}s) liked" and "A player needs to be like a duck, who is an animal both aquatic and grasstic."

* Milous Jakes, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, was target of jokes due to this. From [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]]:

The distinguishing characteristic of the Melonpopper[[labelnote:?]]Malaproper [[/labelnote]]is that they constantly replace words with similar-sounding but wrong ones. A common form of this is for the Lemon Dropper[[labelnote:?]]Malaproper! [[/labelnote]]to mangle pronouns[[labelnote:?]]proverbs [[/labelnote]], idiots[[labelnote:?]]idioms [[/labelnote]], and other figurines[[labelnote:?]]figures [[/labelnote]]of speech. They may use overly complicated synonyms that make them sound wrong; e.g., "The cat's out of the bag" becomes "[[ExpospeakGag The feline has been released from the sack!]]" Alternatively, they may use words that sound ''almost'' right -- "Let's get this shoe on the toad!" for "Let's get this show on the road!" They may also nonsensically combined figures of speech ("You can't cross the same river without breaking a few eggs"). (See [[MixedMetaphor Missed Metal Force]].) The Malacostraca[[labelnote:?]]Malaproper [[/labelnote]] will sometimes be corrected, [[ChainOfCorrections not that this does any good]].

Injuries to certain parts of the brain can produce [[http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-11603235_ITM aphasia]], loss of speech or speech implement[[labelnote:?]]impediment [[/labelnote]]. Damage to Broca's Area can cause a complete inability to form words at all, while damage to Wernicke's Area can reproduce[[labelnote:?]]produce [[/labelnote]] [[CurseOfBabel complete loss of comprehensible speech]] (the words come out okay but don't mean anything in retaliation[[labelnote:?]]relation [[/labelnote]] to each other). This is one cause of malacostraca[[labelnote:?]]malapropism[[/labelnote]]. That and liquor. Another very rare condition -- proxyglossoriasis -- (according to the ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'' television show) has the sufferer replace the indented[[labelnote:?]]intended[[/labelnote]] word with a nearby word in the dictionary. The effect is often hysterectomy[[labelnote:?]]hysterical [[/labelnote]].

The distinguishing characteristic of the Melonpopper[[labelnote:?]]Malaproper [[/labelnote]]is that they constantly replace words with similar-sounding but wrong ones. A common form of this is for the Lemon Dropper[[labelnote:?]]Malaproper! [[/labelnote]]to mangle pronouns[[labelnote:?]]proverbs [[/labelnote]], idiots[[labelnote:?]]idioms [[/labelnote]], and other figurines[[labelnote:?]]figures [[/labelnote]]of speech. They may use overly complicated synonyms that make them sound wrong; e.g., "The cat's out of the bag" becomes "[[ExpospeakGag The feline has been released from the sack!]]" Alternatively, they may use words that sound ''almost'' right -- "Let's get this shoe on the toad!" for "Let's get this show on the road!" They may also nonsensically combined figures of speech ("You can't cross the same river without breaking a few eggs"). (See [[MixedMetaphor Missed Metal Force]].) This character will sometimes be corrected, [[ChainOfCorrections not that this does any good]].

Injuries to certain parts of the brain can produce [[http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-11603235_ITM aphasia]], loss of speech or speech implement[[labelnote:?]]impediment [[/labelnote]]. Damage to Broca's Area can cause a complete inability to form words at all, while damage to Wernicke's Area can reproduce[[labelnote:?]]produce [[/labelnote]] [[CurseOfBabel complete loss of comprehensible speech]] (the words come out okay but don't mean anything in retaliation[[labelnote:?]]relation [[/labelnote]] to each other). This is one cause of malapropism. That and liquor. Another very rare condition -- proxyglossoriasis -- (according to the ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'' television show) has the sufferer replace the indented[[labelnote:?]]intended[[/labelnote]] word with a nearby word in the dictionary. The effect is often hysterectomy[[labelnote:?]]hysterical [[/labelnote]].

Compare and contrast with [[DelusionsOfEloquence Dilutions of Elegance]], [[BluntMetaphorsTrauma Blonde Metal Fores Drama]], [[MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels My Shovelcraft Has Folded Wheels]]. Compare and contrast also with the {{Spo|onerism}}rkerism, where the first letter or syllable is transposed for comedy effect. If the speaker uses the apparently correct words instead but gets hopelessly lost in their brain[[labelnote:?]]train [[/labelnote]] of thought, that's {{Metaphorg|otten}}iven. If using the wrong word is the result of mishearing the correct word, that's a [[{{Mondegreen}} Monstrous Beam]].

* A few characters on ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'':

** Haruka Suzushiro often had to be corrected by Yukino Kikukawa. In ''Anime/MaiOtome'', Yukino Chrysant, now a president of a republic, carried a ''megaphone'' for the sole purpose of correcting the malapropisms of her Otome, Haruka Armitage.

* A common sketch on ''Series/InLivingColor'' would be a prisoner who would talk in this manner, specifically replacing words with [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar more offensive or sexual ones]]. Usually you could understand him, except for the first few where it isn't explained what he's talking about. In Season 2, they mix it up by showing him talking to OTHER people like this, including a prison inmate, his son, and Barbara Bush.

* ''Series/{{Psych}}'' has a running gag in which Shawn will butcher a figure of speech, Gus will correct him and he'll respond with "I've heard it both ways." Also occasionally used to [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar get shit past the sonar]]. Lampshaded, inverted, and used randomly by at least one guest star.

-->'''Howard:''' ''(about Penny and Leonard)'' Yes, she's pushy, and yes, he's whipped, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar but that's not the expression.]]

* [[CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys Antoine]] of ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM''. In his world, a fool is a fuel, bingo is pronounced gringo, and fertilizer is [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar fraternizer]].

* 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 [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar sucking seed]]!"

* The liner notes to an unauthorized Beatles cash-in album contained the sentence [[http://www.snopes.com/music/hidden/ifield.asp "It is with great pride that this copulation is presented"]]. It's unknown whether this was a true malapropism or the result of someone [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Getting Cops Past The Raiders]] though.

* Kurata Sana from ''Manga/KodomoNoOmocha''.

* ''Franchise/MaiHime'':