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* Joe Walsh had a 1973 album titled ''The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get''.

* Joe Walsh had a 1973 album titled "The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get."

Compare and contrast with DelusionsOfEloquence, BluntMetaphorsTrauma, FreudianSlip, PopularSayingBut, and MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels. Compare and contrast also with the {{Spoonerism}}, 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 train of thought, that's {{Metaphorgotten}}. If using the wrong word is the result of mishearing the correct word, that's a MondegreenGag. RougeAnglesOfSatin is this trope in written form.

* The ''VideoGame/Persona5'' fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/37123411/ Nudist Queen]]'' (NSFW) has Eiko saying her opinion of Makoto has "done a complete 360", obviously meaning a 180. Ren tells her she means a 540, pointing out to Makoto it is ''technically'' correct. Eiko is fooled, using 540 in the same context later.

* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'': Thompson and Thomson mix up their words at times. To be precise, at times they're wordy and mixed-up.

* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'': Thompson and Thomson mix up their words at times. [[CatchPhrase To be precise]], at times they're wordy and mixed-up.

'''Makoto:''' You mean "{{Paparazzi}}". It's Itallian.\\

Injuries to certain parts of the brain can produce [[http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-11603235_ITM aphasia]], loss of speech or speech impediment. Damage to Broca's Area can cause a complete inability to form words at all, while damage to Wernicke's Area can produce [[CurseOfBabel complete loss of comprehensible speech]] (the words come out okay but don't mean anything in relation 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 intended word with a nearby word in the dictionary. The effect is often hysterical.

* The title character of ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'' has trouble uttering certain words, such as "shool" instead of "school", "spyider" instead of "spider", and most importantly, "Metrocity" (rhymes with "atrocity") instead of "Metro City"[[spoiler:, which becomes particularly important at the climax, as it allows Titan to uncover Megamind when posing as Metro Man]].

* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'': Sally often commits malapropisms in her school reports (such as the "Bronchitis", a dinosaur which became extinct from coughing too much).

* Jason, of all people, did this in one ''ComicStrip/{{FoxTrot}}'' comic. He and his friend Marcus, on March 15th, dressed up as giant eyeballs while chanting "Beware the eyes of March" in an attempt to scare Paige. Paige just corrected them, saying that it was supposed to be the "''Ides'' of March".

* PlayedForLaughs by Music/TheAdventuresOfDuaneAndBrandO in their song based on "[[VideoGame/Action52 Cheetahmen II]]", which opens with a deadpan narration of the game's opening text, preserving the typo "[[BigBad Dr. Morbis]] plans to use the Ape-Man to destroy his failed ''expirement''." [[BrickJoke They later base the rhyme scheme of Dr. Morbis' verse based on this mistake]]:
-->Cheetahmen, you are my failed expire-ment!\\
I'm so sorry, you don't meet the requirement\\
You're a sign I should have gone into retirement\\
I'll run into you and drain your life of its [[PerfectlyCromulentWord entirement]]

I'll run into you and drain your life of its [[PerfectlyCromulentWord entirement

* [[DelusionsOfEloquence Stubb and Krunk]] in ''ComicBook/SinCity''.

* This bit from ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'':

* Sally from ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' often commits malapropisms in her school reports (such as the "Bronchitis", a dinosaur which became extinct from coughing too much).

-->'''Gidney:''' ''[peevishly]'' Budget cuts! Budget cuts! That’s all our Beerless Leader says to us anymore.\\
'''Cloyd:''' ''[whispering]'' Not in front of the G-E-N-Y-U-S. We’ll make a terrible first compression on our guest of honor!