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* ''Fanfic/TheNightmareHouse'': Lucy's nightmare has people chanting, "Join us, Lucy. Join us, Lucy. Join us, Lucy. Join us now. Join us, Lucy. Join us, Lucy. Join us, Lucy. Lucy Loud." Initially, she mishears this as "Moist and juicy. Moist and juicy. Moist and juicy. Moistened mound. Moist and juicy. Moist and juicy. Moist and juicy. Juicy mound."

* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': Often the baliwick of DumbJock Stretch Snodgrass. In "Spare That Rod!" (a SoundToScreenAdaptation of "Letter from the Board of Education"), Stretch tells Miss Brooks that the Harriet had given him a "mee-mo" to go to the supply room to take "in-vent-ory".

* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': Often the baliwick of DumbJock Stretch Snodgrass. In "Spare That Rod!" (ASoundToScreenAdaptation of "Letter from the Board of Education"), Stretch tells Miss Brooks that the Harriet had given him a "mee-mo" to go to the supply room to take "in-vent-ory".
-->'''Stretch Snodgrass''': I'm in a real jam, Miss Brooks. I can't find no in-vent-ory no place!"

** In ''Battle of the Commercials'', he has trouble understanding the Green Goblin's line "You're running out of [web] fluid!" in a commercial for a ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' video game for the UsefulNotes/Atari2600, and he guesses the last part is "Blue Whip", "[[WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends Bloo]] wigs", "flu weed", or "glue lids".

*** When Edmond is first turned into [[TalkingAnimal a talking kitten]], he exclaims "Jeepers, I'm all furry!", which the Critic mishears as "Jeepers, I'm a furry!".

** "Grenade" by Bruno Mars: Throw my head on a plate for ya! (actually "hand on a blade")

* In one stand-up set, Tig Notaro tells a story about an employee at the Toronto airport suggesting she wait for her flight in "the make believe lounge" on the fourth floor. Tig comes away from the discussion thinking they were "a little weirdo" who was making an extremely dry joke, but decides to get on the elevator and see what's actually on the fourth floor - when she gets there she immediately sees a big sign reading "Welcome to the ''Maple Leaf'' Lounge".

* In one stand-up set, Tig Notaro tells a story about an employee at a Canadian airport suggesting she wait for her flight in "the make believe lounge" on the fourth floor. Tig comes away from the discussion thinking they were either "a little weirdo" or making an extremely dry joke, but decides to see what's actually on the fourth floor - when she gets there she sees a big sign reading "''Maple Leaf'' Lounge".

* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': Butch and Cassidy invoke this on Jessie and James, accusing them of corrupting the Team Rocket motto whenever their paths cross.
** Butch and Cassidy rattle off the following lines:
-->"To infect the world with devastation!
-->To blight all people in every nation!
-->To denounce the goodness of truth and love!
-->To extend our wrath to the stars above!"
** Compare those to what Jessie and James say:
-->"To protect the world from devastation!
-->To unite all peoples within our nation!
-->To denounce the evils of truth and love!
-->To extend our reach to the stars above!"

* ''Series/MuppetsTonight'': A sketch with Kermit the Frog and Sandra Bullock references that the title lyric of the nonsense song "Mah Na Mah Na" sounds like the word "phenomena".
* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'':
** ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E03PodPeople Pod People]]'': The crew has fun with deliberately misrepeating the movie's lines. "Idiot control now! Bees on pot! Burning rubber tires!" The funny thing is some of the ridiculous lines Joel and the bots sang ''are the real lines''. Also, one must remember this is a dub of a Spanish movie so it's bound to have major issues. [[note]] What's even funnier about Idiot Control Now is that no two sets of lyrics written out by fans is the same. [[/note]]
** ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E21SantaClausConquersTheMartians Santa Claus Conquers the Martians]]'': The last host segment has Joel and the Bots singing a fractured version of "Angels We Have Heard on High"
--->'''Angels we have heard are high\\
Softly sipping old champagne\\
Oh-ooooh-ooooh-Ooooreos\\
Inexpensive da-a-nish!''
** ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E09TheGirlInLoversLane The Girl in Lover's Lane]]'': While viewing the movie, the crew hear Bix Dugan as "Big Stupid," and [[AccidentalMisnaming continue to call him that]] for the whole movie.
** ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E10ThePaintedHills The Painted Hills]]'': While reading the end credits for the movie, Joel and the Bots are surprised to learn that the character whose name they heard as "Pile-on Pete" was actually "''Pilot'' Pete".
** ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E11LastOfTheWildHorses Last of the Wild Horses]]'': Mike and the Bots mishear character Charlie Cooper's name as "Johnny Pooper", leading to a [[{{Pun}} stream]] of ToiletHumor jokes.
** ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E19RedZoneCuba Red Zone Cuba]]'':
*** Servo mishears part of the movie's TitleThemeTune as "Mundo Penis".
*** Both robots mishear Chastain's name as "Justine".
*** Crow mishears "''his grandparent meant so much to him''" as his "''green pants''".
** ''[[Recap/MysterScienceTheater3000S08E16PrinceOfSpace Prince of Space]]'': When the Phantom Dictator of Krankor introduces himself, Crow utters out a confused ”Crank-Whore?”
** ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E19InvasionOfTheNeptuneMen Invasion of the Neptune Men]]'': "Rojium-Tanium" is misheard as "Roji-Panty Complex". It was ridiculous enough that it turned into the subject of a host segment in which Tom Servo contracted Roji-Panty Complex and Mike had to take care of him by administering panties every hour.
** ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E22OverdrawnAtTheMemoryBank Overdrawn at the Memory Bank]]'': Fingal asks a computer-generated ghost of his mother, "Am I nuts?", which it comes out as "'M I nuts?", leading the crew to think he's asking something about "my nuts."
** ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S10E13Diabolik Diabolik]]'' has a line being sung by a woman, which Mike interpenetrates as "'Keep my potty down'? Women and their toilet seat issues!"
** In the revival's Christmas episode "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S11E13TheChristmasThatAlmostWasnt The Christmas That Almost Wasn't]]", Jonah tries carolling with the bots, but the song he tries to sing is "Good King Wencelas", "the one Christmas song no one knows the lyrics to."
--->'''Jonah:''' Good King Wenceslas looked out on the Feast of Stephen.\\
'''Servo:''' And the... Christmas guys... did shout...\\
'''Crow:''' ...at the... Justin Bieber.

* ''Series/SesameStreet'':
** In one episode, [[SickEpisode Cyranose de Bergerac has a cold]] which is affecting his hearing. As such, when Oscar tells him he has a cold in his nose (hoping to make him angry since hearing the word "nose" is Cyranose's BerserkButton), Cyranose mishears "nose" as "toes" and "clothes".
** In ''Sink or Float?'', a LicensedGame for Sesame Street, a little girl named Emma and Cookie Monster are seeing which objects sink in water and which float. Emma tells the player to make a "hypothesis", i.e. guess which items will do what, but Cookie Monster mishears and asks how a hippopotamus would fit in the tank.

* In one stand-up set, Tig Notaro tells a story about an employee at a Canadian airport suggesting she wait for her flight in "the make believe lounge" on the fourth floor. Tig comes away from the discussion thinking they were either "a little weirdo" or making an extremely dry joke, but decides to see what's actually on the fourth floor - when she gets there she sees a big sign reading "'Maple Leaf'' Lounge".