History Main / MondegreenGag

* ''Literature/KirbyLightNovel'': In the first book, ''Kirby and the Dangerous Gourmet Manor!?'', the owner of the titular manor is Madame Parfaitsky, which sounds like "I like parfait" (''parfait [ga] suki'') in Japanese. So, when Waddle Dee first tells Kirby about her moving to Dream Land, Kirby mishears him and starts asking him what flavor of parfait he likes.

* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': In the Season 9 episode "Last Time in New York", Lily finds Ted and Marshall's swords after she thought Marshall got rid of them due to the incident in the Season 1 episode "The Duel" where Marshall accidentally stabbed Lily on the shoulder. While she and Robin are wondering why the guys are into these swords, they begin to duel with Lily misquoting the infamous quote from Inigo Montoya in ''Film/ThePrincessBride''. Future Ted lampshades this.

** In “Backwoods Bunny”, a father/son crow duo, Pappy and Elvis, is trying to blast Bugs with a rifle with the son ordered to pull the trigger at the count of “four”. Since Elvis is a simpleton, Bugs is able to create a set of pipes to guide the shots to Pappy. Thanks to Elvis’ simple mindedness, he shoots Pappy at “four”, “for”, “far” ("I said 'far' not 'four'!”), “two-by-four” and when Bugs sings “I’m Overlooking A Four-Leaf Clover”.

* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'': This is half the humor -- standard phrases come into the duo's head and come out as a DoubleEntendre. In one of the music video segments, Beavis and Butthead watch the video for the song "Sold My Fortune" by Sugartooth: due to the {{Yarling}} vocals, they hear the title drop as "sold my ''futon''", and conclude the singer wrote it because he sold his used futon after buying a bigger bed.

* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'': This is half the humor -- standard phrases come into the duo's head and come out as a DoubleEntendre.
** In one of the music video segments, Beavis and Butthead watch the video for the song "Sold My Fortune" by Sugartooth: due to the {{Yarling}} vocals, they hear the title drop as "sold my ''futon''", and conclude the singer wrote it because he sold his used futon after buying a bigger bed.

** One episode has Homer claiming that he's been calling Mrs. Krabappel "Krandall", bemoaning the fact that no-one ever corrected him.

* Music/{{Nirvana}}'s ''Smells Like Teen Spirit'' from ''Music/{{Nevermind}}''. When MTV aired the music video, they subtitled lyrics into the video.(Unfortunately, even MTV got the lyrics wrong. It's no wonder why Music/WeirdAlYankovic's parody pokes fun at the fact the lyrics are nigh-impossible to understand.)

** In one episode, Space Ghost quotes one of Music/{{Beck}} 's lyrics back to him as "I got two turntables and my mommy's home." instead of "I got two turntables and a microphone.".

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** One piece of evidence in case 5-3 is a poor-quality recording of a woman saying "You're a goner." Athena points out that one of the witnesses is named Hugh O'Connor, meaning that the woman could be talking about him.[[spoiler: She isn't. The woman is Constance Courte, the victim, and she's saying that Professor Aristotle Means is a goner because she has proof that he's been taking bribes.]]

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* Creator/LouisCK also has a bit lampshading this trope in regards to Manfred Mann's cover of "Blinded By The Light".

* The Vacant Lot comedy troupe has a skit dedicated to mondegreens in the Manfred Mann cover of Music/BruceSpringsteen's ''Blinded By The Light'': "ripped up douches"; "loofah sponges" and the "foreman of the night;" and one that's completely incomprehensible. The original version is actually far less susceptible to mondegreens -- Springsteen sings "cut loose like a deuce" as opposed to (what sounds like) "revved up like a douche".
* In one set, Johnny Lampert bemoans his parents' staggering inability to hear song lyrics correctly, particularly his father. The causes him no end of torment whenever he's in the car with them and the radio is playing, since they like to sing along.

* ''A Claymation Christmas Celebration'': Throughout the movie, various characters flub "Here We Come A-Wassailing" with their own interpretations; Dogs selling waffles sing, "Here we come a-waffling", geese sing, "Here we come a-waddling" and pigs sing, "Here we come a-wallowing", Rex tries to correct them, but can't because he nor anyone else knows what it means to wassail. At the end, a carload of elves drive up and explain that to wassail is to go around singing carols and receiving Christmas treats.

'''Bluster:''' Sock [Candy]? Cranky, whatever are you talking about? Why, I would never strike an employee! They could sue me.

** In “Backwoods Bunny”, a father/son crow duo, Pappy and Elvis, is trying to blast Bugs with a rifle with the son ordered to pull the trigger at the count of “four”. Since Elvis is a simpleton, Bugs is able to create a set of pipes to guide the shots to Pappy. Thanks to Elvis’ simple mindedness, he shoots Pappy at “four”, “for”, “far” (I said 'far' not 'four'!”), “two-by-four” and when Bugs sings “I’m Overlooking A Four-Leaf Clover”.

* ''WesternAnimation/AClaymationChristmasCelebration'': Throughout the movie, various characters flub "Here We Come A-Wassailing" with their own interpretations; Dogs selling waffles sing, "Here we come a-waffling", geese sing, "Here we come a-waddling" and pigs sing, "Here we come a-wallowing", Rex tries to correct them, but can't because he nor anyone else knows what it means to wassail. At the end, a carload of elves drive up and explain that to wassail is to go around singing carols and receiving Christmas treats.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tintin}}'': A RunningGag with Professor Calculus, who is half-deaf, and so often mishears things comically, such as mishearing "hat" for "cat" or "state" for "estate".