History Main / MondegreenGag

* Eva from ''Film/DoctorAtLarge'' speaks with a lisp; when Dr. Sparrow tells her to take some big breaths, she thinks he means ''big breasts'' and remarks that they are for a ''thixteen''-year-old.

* When The Mr. T Experience contributed a CoverVersion of {{Music/REM}}'s "Can't Get There From Here" to a tribute album, there was no official lyric sheet to the song, so whenever there was a line the band couldn't make out, they picked the most ridiculous mondedgreen they could think of as an alternative - for example "Donna Reed is not my mom" instead of "Brother Ray can sing my song".

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* ''TabletopGame/PerplexCity'': One card is based on identifying misheard phrases and lyrics.
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* LetsPlay/TacoMan frequently expresses concern that the title of his ''WesternAnimation/{{Captain N| The Game Master}}'' parody, ''Taco-Man: The Game Master'', sounds like, ''Taco-Man: The Gay Master'', if someone puts the {{AcCENT Upon The Wrong SylLABle}}.

* When Abby and Gretchen first become friends in ''Literature/MyBestFriendsExorcism'', "We Got The Beat" by Music/TheGoGos starts playing, and Abby cites the lyrics... or rather, what she ''thought'' the lyrics were when she was in fourth grade, when the scene takes place. The mondegreens actually become plot-relevant later [[spoiler: when a traditional exorcism fails, Abby successfully turns it into a IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight by singing her version]]:

** "Literature/BattleHymn": This {{Feghoot}}, builds up to the punchline that the title of the [French National Anthem is pronounced "Mars Say Yes".

* ''ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}'': Matt Fraction's son refers to Hawkeye as "Hawkguy"

The term {{mondegreen}} was coined by Sylvia Wright, who wrote a 1954 essay about how as a child she had misheard a line from a Scottish ballad -- "They hae slain the Earl o' Moray, and LadyMondegreen." It wasn't until she was grown that she learned the line was in fact "and laid him on the green."

* ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'': The "Out and About With Pooh" storybook "The Honey Cake Mix-Up" revolves around Pooh and Roo trying to bake a birthday cake for Kanga; however, Pooh mishears the flour ingredient as "flower", and the two literally try to put flowers in the cake which makes it come out wrong.

** In ''Ride/TheSimpsonsRide'', Sideshow Bob says, "You've foiled my plans for the last time!" Bart hears it as, "I've soiled my pants for the last time!"

%%* ''Film/{{Airplane}}'':%%Quotes aren't context.
%%-->'''Dr. Rumack''': Can you fly this plane and land it?\\
%%'''Ted''': Surely, you can't be serious.\\
%%'''Dr Rumack''': I am serious, and don't call me Shirley.

This can lead to InnocentSwearing if an innocent word is misheard as a profane one. Compare RougeAnglesOfSatin, which is when the words are all technically real words but are misspellings of what was meant; and GoshDangItToHeck, which is when made-up words are used to sound like profane ones. Can overlap with FunnyPhoneMisunderstanding, if it happens over the phone, FunWithHomophones, if the mishearing happens due to two words sounding the same, HehHehYouSaidX, if the people who mishear the word react to it with snickering, PoorCommunicationKills, if the mishearing causes a lot of problems, AccentDepundent if the miscommunication is due to an accent, or InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike, if a language barrier is involved. If even the subtitles are uncertain what's being said, then that's EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped. Contrast {{Malaproper}}, which is a character who mixes up words on a regular basis; BeamMeUpScotty, when the misheard line becomes more famous than the original; LadyMondegreen, which is when fans nickname a character based on what they misheard; SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein, which is when people understand part of a song but struggle to make up actual words from the rest; and ViewerNameConfusion, which is when the audience gets a character's name wrong. See also VirtualAssistantBlunder for when a computer misunderstands a voice command.

* When Abby and Gretchen first become friends in ''Literature/MyBestFriendsExorcism'', "We Got The Beat" by Music/TheGoGos starts playing, and Abby cites the lyrics... or rather, what she ''thought'' the lyrics were when she was in fourth grade, when the scene takes place:

-->'''Homer Simpson:''' [[CatchPhrase D'OH!]]

* In ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'', Doctor Misar thanks a Jedi PlayerCharacter by trying to quote the Jedi CatchPhrase ("May the Force be with you"), which he has misheard as "May the floor be with you."

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': In the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "pop-up" book, a faulty sound chip in Strong Bad's hypothetical pop-up book causes his {{catchphrase}} "DELETED!" to come out as sounding like "the lake head"[[note]]Including an EasterEgg of a picture of Manicouagan Reservoir, a crater lake in Quebec, Canada, that [[ItKindOfLooksLikeAFace looks like Strong Sad's head]][[/note]] and ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest''.

* In the Literature/CarlHiassen novel ''Literature/SickPuppy'', a RunningGag about Palmer, one of the bad guys of the novel, is his tendency towards this, introduced when he says, "I read the newspaper today, oh boy."

* In the Literature/CarlHiaasen novel ''Literature/SickPuppy'', a RunningGag about Palmer, one of the bad guys of the novel, is his tendency towards this, introduced when he says, "I read the newspaper today, oh boy."