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  • "Need You Tonight" by INXS
    • Actual lyrics: "Your moves are so raw"
    • Mondegreen: "Your needs are so raw"
  • "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley
    • Actual lyrics: "You wouldn't get this from any other guy"
    • Mondegreen: "You wouldn't get this far with any other guy"
    • Actual chorus:
      • Never Gonna Give you up
      • Never Gonna let you down
      • Never Gonna run around and
      • desert you
      • Never Gonna make you cry
      • Never Gonna say goodbye
      • Never Gonna tell a lie
      • and hurt you
    • Mondegreen of the chorus:
      • I'm gonna give you up
      • I'm gonna let you down
      • I'm gonna run around and
      • desert you
      • Then I'm gonna make you cry
      • Then I'm gonna say goodbye
      • Then I'm gonna tell a lie
      • and hurt you
  • New Super Mario Bros.
    • Actual dialogue: "That's-a so nice!"
    • Mondegreen: "Texas on ice!"
  • "New York Girls", the traditional folk song which has been performed by Music/Steeleye Span and Bellowhead:
    • Actual lyrics: "There, Martin Churchill took me in and sent me ‘round Cape Horn"
    • Mondegreen: "Where Martin Churchill took me and he sent me ‘round gay porn"
  • "Next Is The E" by Moby:
  • "Ninety Six Tears" by Question Mark and the Myserians:
    • Actual lyrics: You're going to cry, 96 tears
    • Mondegreen: You're going to cry, for 96 years
  • None Piece
    • Actual dialogue: "I'm insulting your wardrobe!"
    • Mondegreen: "I've been searching your wardrobe!"
  • "No Limit" by 2 Unlimited
    • Actual lyrics: "Let me hear you say yeah!" (Yeeeeaaaahhhhh!)
    • Mondegreen: "Let me hear you say yeah!" (Nooooooooo!)
  • “No One is to Blame” by Howard Jones
    • Actual lyrics: “Some break the rules and live to count the cost”
    • Mondegreen: “Some break the rules and never get caught”
  • "No Pride" by Green Day
    • Actual lyrics: "You'd better digest your values"
    • Mondegreen: "You'd better practice your values"
  • "No Rain" by Blind Melon
    • Actual lyrics: "All I can say is that my life is pretty plain"
    • Mondegreen: "All I can say is that my wife is pretty plain"
    • Actual lyrics: "You know I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today"
    • Mondegreen: "You know I'd like to keep my jeans dry today"
    • Actual lyrics: "I'll always be there when you wake"
    • Mondegreen: "I'll always be there when you wane"
  • "November Rain" by Guns N' Roses
    • Actual lyrics: "Don't ya think that you need somebody? / Don't you think that you need someone?"
    • Mondegreen: "Don't complain that you need somebody / Don't complain that you need someone"

    O 
  • "Obstacle 1" by Interpol:
  • Oh Canada
    • Actual lyric: "Oh Canada, our home and native land"
    • Mondegreen: "Oh Canada, our old man ate his lamb"
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest:
    • Actual dialogue: "I tried, didn't I? Goddammit."
    • Mondegreen: "I tried and I died. Dammit."
  • "One Week" by Barenaked Ladies
  • "One-Winged Angel" from Final Fantasy VII:
    • Actual lyrics: "Estuans interius, ira vehementi"
    • Mondegreen: "Xbox, Jim Carrey, steal a bear, run and pee"
    • Actual lyrics: "Veni, veni, venias, ne me mori facias"
    • Mondegreen: "Many, many, many ass, everybody touching ass"
  • "On Reflection" by Gentle Giant
  • "One Way Ticket To The Blues" by Eruption
    • Actual lyrics: "One Way Ticket To The Blues"
    • Mondegreen: "One Way Ticket To the Moon"
    • Mondegreen: "One day Cricket On the Moon"
  • "Organ Donor" by DJ Shadow:
    • Actual lyrics: "The mighty feel my lovin', playin' a funky solo!"
    • Mondegreen: "The mighty puma, Orville! Playin' a fuckin' solo!"
  • "Other Father Song" from Coraline:
    • Actual lyrics: "She's a peach, she's a doll, she's a pal o' mine."
    • Mondegreen: "She's a peach, she's a doll, she's a powerline."

    P 
  • "Panic Station" by Muse
    • Actual lyrics: "Get up and commit"
    • Mondegreen: "Get a pancake mix"

  • "Paralyzer" by Finger Eleven
    • Actual lyrics: "The most pretentious thing"
    • Mondegreen: "Those brutes that she slayed"
    • Actual lyrics: "Well, I am imagining a dark lit place"
    • Mondegreen: "Well, I am imagining a chocolate place"

  • "Party in the USA" sung by Hannah Montana
    • Actual lyrics:
    I hopped off the plane at LAX
    With a dream and my cardigan
    Welcome to the land of fame excess
    • Mondegreen: "Welcome to the land of fame and sex." This may have been the original line as it rhymes with LAX.

  • "Party Rock Anthem" by LMFAO:
    • Actual lyrics: "Party rock is in the house tonight"
    • Mondegreen: "Party rockets in the house tonight"
    • Another Mondegreen: "Party rockers in the house tonight"
    • Actual lyrics: "Lookin' for your girl? She on my jock.
    • Mondegreen: "Lick a pretty girl, she owe me job"
    • Actual lyrics: "Where the drank? I gots to know"
    • Mondegreen: "We're the train, I gotta know"
    • Actual lyrics: "I'm running through these hoes like Drano"
    • Mondegreen: "I'm running through these hounds like Drayden"
    • Actual lyrics: "I got that devilish flow"
    • Mondegreen: "I got The Devil is blue"
    • Another mondegreen: "I got that devilish due"
    • Actual lyrics: "Yeah, that's the crew that I'm reppin'"
    • Mondegreen: "Yeah, that's a cool little weapon"
    • Actual lyrics: "No Led in our Zeppelin"
    • Mondegreen: "No Lennon or Zeppelin"
    • Actual lyrics: "We get money, don't be mad"
    • Mondegreen: "We get mined, don't be mad"

  • "A Passage to Bangkok" by Rush
    • Actual lyrics: "Sweet Jamaican pipe dreams"
    • Mondegreen: "Sweet Jamaican baked beans"

  • "Pedal to the Metal" by Lazerhawk
    • Actual lyrics: "I'm gonna break the speed limit by 80 or more"
    • Mondegreen: "I'm gonna put the pedal straight though the floor"
    • Actual lyrics: "Built to die, oh baby"
    • Mondegreen: "Pedal to the metal, baby"

  • "Pepper" by Butthole Surfers
    • Actual lyrics: "They were all in love with dyin', they were doin' it in Texas"
    • Mondegreen: "They were all in love with 'die' and they were doin' it in Texas"
    • Another mondegreen: "They were all in love with Diane, they were doin' it in Texas"

  • Unknown Peanuts TV special about baseball

  • Phineas and Ferb, "Isabella and the Temple of Sap":
    • Actual dialogue: "Stickiness is the most underrated of all the -nesses."
    • Mondegreen: "Stickiness is the most underrated of all the messes."

  • "Pin" by Grimes:
    • Actual lyrics: "Drunk in a parking lot just after 3"
    • Mondegreen: "Try and get a Pokémon just after 3"

  • "Pirate Metal Drinking Crew" by Alestorm:
    • Actual lyrics: "But then the damn pirates came along and said"
    • Mondegreen: "But then the vampires came along and said"

  • "Pizza Engineer" and "Peppino's Sauce Machine" from Pizza Tower
    • Actual lyrics: "Short stock! Short stock!"
    • Mondegreen: "Door stuck! Door stuck!"

  • "Planet X" by Louis Cole:
    • Actual lyrics: "Work goes in, tracks come out"
    • Mondegreen: "Work goes in, drugs come out"
    • Another: "Work goes in, Drax come out"

  • "Play That Funky Music" by Wild Cherry
    • Actual lyrics: "Play that funky music, white boy"
    • Mondegreen: "Play that funky music right, boy" note 
    • Another mondegreen: "Play that fucking music right, boy"
    • Another: "Play that funky music, wild boy"

  • "Please Don't Stop The Music" by Rihanna
    • Actual lyrics: "Mama-say, mama-sa, ma-ma-ko-ssa"
    • Mondegreen: "I'm insane for the sound of Microsoft"

  • Pogo's tracks, which usually have gibberish lyrics:
    • "Alice":
      • "Mary sailed all the way to love the death of gravel"
    • "Bite Size Candies"
      • "When you're an M&M, there's no sense in wondering where your heroes are"
    • "Buzzwing":
      • "Hentai nan toe in non-dark paws"
      • "Great-eyed white lizard face"/"Great idea, loser face"
    • "Expialidocious":
      • "Never give, and then I'll never be pissing songs, arse sings this"
    • "Jungle Dash":
      • "I'm the cookie person, I'm the cookie to fetch, I'm a turd"
      • "I wanna smell a laptop"/"I wanna sell my laptop"
    • "Living Island":
      • "We can be either laughing, or hit my knotting up"/"We canned the ethernet, but hit the naughty car"
    • "Scoobystep":
      • "Bitches and cows, yeah yeah yeah yeah!"
    • "Scrumdiddlyumptious":
      • "Don't we want to make sex a miracle?"
      • "Separate the sorrow and collect up all the cream"
    • "Toyz Noize":
      • "I found a star, I-I-I found a star, in my undies, then I save the moon"
    • "Upular":
      • "Dad made a sound"
      • "Fuck me in a fluorescent wig"/"Fuck me in a forest nowhere"
    • "Wishery":
      • "I'm wishing... (I'm wishing...) your death. We are sending fire with your name."

  • "Poison" by Bell Biv Devoe
    • Actual lyrics: "Cause in small portions"
    • Mondegreen: "Cause it's abortion"

  • "Pompeii" by Bastille
    • Actual lyrics: "And the walls kept tumbling down in the city that we love"
    • Mondegreen: "And the world kept tumbling down in the city that we love"
    • Actual lyrics: "How am I going to be an optimist about this?"
    • Mondegreen: "How I'm-a going to be an optimist about this."

  • "The Pretender by Foo Fighters
    • Actual lyrics: "What if I say I'm not like the others?"
    • Mondegreen: "One of these things is not like the others"

  • "Primadonna" by MARINA
    • Actual lyrics: "Prima donna girl"
    • Mondegreen: "Pre-Madonna girl"
    • Actual lyrics: "All I ever wanted was the world"
    • Mondegreen: "All I ever wanted was the whirl"
    • Actual lyrics: "Fill the void up with celluloid"
    • Mondegreen: "Fill the void up with Set and Lloyd"

  • "Prince Ali (Reprise)" from Aladdin
    • Actual lyrics: "Give me adequate cause"
    • Mondegreen: "Give me adequate jaws"
    • Actual lyrics: "His assets frozen"
    • Mondegreen: "His ass is frozen"

  • "Propane Nightmares" by Pendulum
    • Actual lyrics: "Flesh too weak to choke the self/Heal the wounds or crack the shell/Lift yourself from what’s below/Raise the anchor"
    • Mondegreen: "Much too weak to jump yourself/Heal the wounds or crack the shell/Lift yourself from worlds below/Praise the anger"

  • "Prosthetic Head" by Green Day

  • "Pull the Trigger" from Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth
    • Actual lyrics: "Despite my differences, we are still tight!"
    • Mondegreen: "Despite my differences, waste of time!"

  • "Pump Up the Jam": by Technotronic
    • Actual lyrics: "While your feet are stomping"
    • Mondegreen: "Why you feel that stupid"
    • Actual lyrics: "I want a place to stay"
    • Mondegreen: Agua après Tuesday.

  • "Purple Haze" by Jimi Hendrix
    • Actual lyrics: "Excuse me, while I kiss the sky"
    • Mondegreen: "Excuse me, while I kiss this guy"

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    R 
  • "Rapture" by Blondie:
    • Actual lyrics: "DJ's spinning I said my, my"
    • Mondegreen: "DJ's spinning to save my mind"
  • "Raspberry Beret" by Prince:
    • Actual lyrics: "She wore a raspberry beret"
    • Mondegreen: "She was a rat with spherical breasts"
    • Another mondegreen: "She saw a raspberry parade"
    • Actual lyrics: "But I could tell when she kissed me, she knew how to get her kicks"
    • Mondegreen: "But I could tell the way she kissed me, she knew how to give a kiss"
  • "Ready to Die" by Andrew W.K.:
    • Actual lyrics: "We cut without a knife"
    • Mondegreen: "Wake up without a life"
  • "Return To Sender" by Elvis Presley
    • Actual lyrics: "Return To Sender"
    • Mondegreen: "Return December"
  • "Revenge of Vera Gemini" by Blue Öyster Cult:
    • Actual lyrics: "Into the hole, in which she finally gets me"
    • Mondegreen: "And when the Holy Windscreen Wiper gets me"
  • RoboCop:
    • Actual dialogue: "Help me."
    • Mondegreen: "Kill me."
    • Actual dialogue: "Die, you blaggard!"
    • Mondegreen: "Die, you blogger!"
  • RoboCop (the game):
    • Actual dialogue: "Protect the innocent"
    • Mondegreen: "Protect the elephant"
  • "Rock the Casbah" by The Clash
    • Actual lyrics: "Rock the Casbah"
    • Mondegreen: "Rock the Cash Bar"
  • "Rose & Beast" by Haruomi Hosono
    • Actual lyrics: "Ie no ma ri o"
    • Mondegreen: "Yellow Mario"
  • "Running with the Wolves" by AURORA:
    • Actual lyrics: "Locked or free"
    • Mondegreen: "Lacto-free"
  • "Rust In Peace... Polaris" by Megadeth:
    • Actual lyrics: "I am a nuclear murderer"
    • Mondegreen: "I am a Nokia murderer"
    • Actual lyrics: "Ready to pounce at the touch of a button"
    • Mondegreen: "Ready to bounce and turn to butter"
    • Actual lyrics: "Military gluttons"
    • Mondegreen: "Military blockheads"
    • Actual lyrics: "Satan rears his ugly head"
    • Mondegreen: "Saint Francis up ahead"
    • Actual lyrics: "To spit into the wind"
    • Mondegreen: "To spend it on weed"
    • Another Mondegreen: "To spin it away"
    • Actual lyrics: "I spread disease like a dog"
    • Mondegreen: "Last spectre sees like a dog"
    • Actual lyrics: "Discharge my payload"
    • Mondegreen: "Discharge my pillow"
    • Actual lyrics: "Mile high"
    • Mondegreen: "My heart"
    • Another Mondegreen: "Aha!"
    • Actual lyrics: "Rotten egg air of death"
    • Mondegreen: "Rotten nigger of death"
    • Actual lyrics: "Wrestles your nostrils"
    • Mondegreen: "Assaults your nostrils"
    • Actual lyrics: "Launch the Polaris"
    • Mondegreen: "Lots of Polaris"
    • Actual lyrics: "The warheads will all rust in peace"
    • Mondegreen: "Walk into lava in peace"
    • Another Mondegreen: "The world has Polaris in peace"
    • Actual lyrics: "World leaders sell missiles cheap"
    • Mondegreen: "Well, yeah, sell missiles cheap"
    • Actual lyrics: "I rule on land, air, and sea"
    • Mondegreen: "Like wool, a London sheep"
    • Actual lyrics: "Winds blow from the bowels of Hell"
    • Mondegreen: "Winds blow for Bowser in Hell"
    • Actual lyrics: "High priest of holocaust, fire from the sea"
    • Mondegreen: "I could be so high, I was fired from the scene"
    • Actual lyrics: "Nuclear winter"
    • Mondegreen: "Nokia winner"
    • Actual lyrics: "All pay the price"
    • Mondegreen: "Oh! Pan of rice"
    • Actual lyrics: "Talk of the part when the..."
    • Mondegreen: "Die in a bar, will ya?"

    S 
  • "Sad Song" by We The Kings:
    • Actual lyrics: "All the missing pieces of my heart, they finally collide"
    • Mondegreen: "Odo, listen, listen, somebody is finally in love."
    • Actual lyrics: "So stop time here in the moonlight, 'cause I don't ever wanna close my eyes"
    • Mondegreen: "So stop 'til I'm healin' no more, and Sutton ever wanna change my eyes" or "So eyes, now are healin' the moon. Like, I don't ever want those! Not eyes!"
    • Actual lyrics: "Like I'm half of a whole"
    • Mondegreen: "Like I'm half on the phone"
    • Actual lyrics: "I've got no hand to hold"
    • Mondegreen: "I've got no hair to fall"
    • Actual lyrics: "Without you I feel torn, like a snail in a storm. Without you, I'm just a sad song."
    • Mondegreen: "Without you I feel dumb, like a snail in a stone. Without you, I'm just a salsa."
    • Actual lyrics: "Like I'm leaving all the past and silhouettes upon the wall."
    • Mondegreen: "Like a Leela on a cat, the silhouettes can find a fall."
    • Actual lyrics: "Like we're standing hand-in-hand with all our fears up on the edge."
    • Mondegreen: "Like a scaredy-cat and Harry Potter, fears are from Leanne."
    • Actual lyrics: "You're the perfect melody, the only harmony I want to hear. You're my favourite party. With you standing next to me, I've got nothing to fear."
    • Mondegreen: "Without the big candy, meowed in harmony, oh the Lee! We can pay the party! You scaredy-cat, you're on the move with your fleas!"
  • "The Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats
    • Actual dialogue: "Everybody look at your hands"
    • Mondegreen: "Everybody take off your pants"
  • "Sailing" by The Happy Fits:
    • Actual lyrics: "My body's aching"
    • Mondegreen: "My butt is aching"
    • Actual lyrics: "Something that isn't there"
    • Mondegreen: "Something pissing the bed"
  • "Salty Dog" by Flogging Molly:
    • Actual lyrics: "With us, your cut-throat thieves"
    • Mondegreen: "With us, your cup of tea"
  • "Say My Name" from Beetlejuice:
    • Actual lyrics: "Yes, life sucks"
    • Mondegreen: "Yes, live sex"
  • Scarface
    • Actual dialogue: "Libertad"
    • Mondegreen: "Leave or die"
  • "Scar Tissue" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
    • Actual lyrics: "With the birds, I'll share this lonely viewin'"
    • Mondegreen: "With a perfect shade, it's a lonely view"
    • Another mondegreen: "With a purple shade, it's a lonely view"
  • "Secret Agent Man" by Johnny Rivers
    • Actual lyrics: "Secret agent man"
    • Mondegreen: "Secret Asian man"
  • Sesame Street:
    • Actual lyrics: "They talked about the high price of furniture and rugs and fire insurance for ladybugs."
    • Mondegreen: "They talked around the hot fire, the furniture's in love, and fire ain't serious for ladybugs."
    • Actual lyrics: "Boiled or stewed, whole or chewed."
    • Mondegreen: "Almond stew, polo chew."
    • Actual lyrics: "...Or walk the straight and narrow like a circus acrobat? A cat, that's who!"
    • Mondegreen: "...Or walk a straight and narrow line? A circus acrobat. A cat, that too."
    • Actual lyrics: "But somewhere in the middle, it gets awfully 'QR' to me."
    • Mondegreen: "But somewhere in the middle, it gets awfully quergelly."
    • Actual lyrics: "Breathing in your ventilation."
    • Mondegreen: "Taking in your information."
  • Se7en:
    • Actual dialogue: "Certain books are flagged. Books on say, nuclear weapons and, well, Mein Kampf."
    • Mondegreen: "Certain books are flagged. Books on say, nuclear weapons and, well, Minecraft."
  • "SexyBack" by Justin Timberlake:
    • Actual lyrics: "Take it to the chorus"
    • Mondegreen: "Take it to the course"

  • "Shadow Shadow" by Azari, cover by JubyPhonic
    • Actual lyrics: "For doubt I'll pay the price"
    • Mondegreen: "For that, I'll pay the price"
    • Actual lyrics: "Can I say that this is hell?"
    • Mondegreen: "Can I see that this is hell?"
    • Actual lyrics: "Your head begins to wander"
    • Mondegreen: "Your head begins to water"
    • Actual lyrics: "I feel a chill I didn't know"
    • Mondegreen: "I feel a chilli, didn't know"
    • Actual lyrics: "The sweetened smoke above"
    • Mondegreen: "The Sweden smoke above"
    • Actual lyrics: "Hunting hell hyenas"
    • Mondegreen: "Haunting hell hyenas"
    • Actual lyrics: "The ego fights in turn"
    • Mondegreen: "The eagle fights in turn"
    • Actual lyrics: "My hand is dyed with lead"
    • Mondegreen: "My hand is tied with lead"

  • "Shape of You" by Ed Sheeran
    • Actual lyrics: "Come on, be my baby, come on"
    • Mondegreen: "Come on, see my baby puma"
    • Actual lyrics: "I’m in love with your body"
    • Mondegreen: "I’m in love with you, buddy"
  • "Shelter" by Madeon and Porter Robinson
    • Actual lyrics: "And it's a long way for it, so trust in me"
    • Mondegreen: "And it's a long way, fart, so trust in me"
    • Another mondegreen: "And it's a long way for it, so just tell me"
  • "Shiny" from Moana:
    • Actual lyrics: "C'est la vie"
    • Mondegreen: "Sailor V"
  • "Shock the Monkey" by Peter Gabriel
    • Actual lyrics: "Fox the fox, rat on the rat"
    • Mondegreen: "False the facts, ride on the racks"
    • Actual lyrics: "Shock the monkey to life"
    • Mondegreen: "Shock the monkey tonight"
  • "Shout Out to My Ex" by Little Mix
    • Actual lyrics: "Shout out to my ex"
    • Mondegreen: "Shout out to my ass"
  • "The Show" by Lenka
    • Actual lyrics: "Just like a giant spotlight"
    • Mondegreen: "Just like a diamond spotlight"
  • "Show Me the Way" by Styx
    • Actual lyrics: "Have fallen to idols of clay"
    • Mondegreen: "Fall into islands of flame"
  • "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight" by R.E.M.:
    • Actual lyrics: "Call me when you try to wake her up"
    • Mondegreen: "Colm Meaney, try to wake her up"
  • "The Sign" by Ace of Base:
    • Actual lyrics: "I saw the sign"
    • Mondegreen: "I saw the sun"
  • The Simpsons
  • The Simpsons Hit & Run:
    • Actual dialogue: "Crop circles!"
    • Mondegreen: "Crap circles!"
    • Another: "Crab circles!"
    • Actual dialogue: "Ouch, my bikini zone's chafing!"
    • Mondegreen: "Help, my bikini zone! Save me!"
    • Actual dialogue: "Oh yeah, stretch the legs and the crotch"
    • Mondegreen: "Oh yeah, crystalline undercrotch"
    • Actual dialogue: "Just call me air-Homer!"
    • Mondegreen: "Just call me... Ehh... Homer!"
    • Actual dialogue: "Ooh, the vibrations tickling my feet"
    • Mondegreen: "All the vibration's kicking my teeth"
    • Actual dialogue: "Let's see you do better!"
    • Mondegreen: "That's the YouTube banner!"
    • Actual dialogue: "I have road rage and I know how to use it!"
    • Mondegreen: "I have a good brain and I know how to use it!"
    • Actual dialogue: "Boy, I oughta...!"
    • Mondegreen: "Yadda-yadda-yadda!"
    • Actual dialogue: "Easy as pie! The number, that is"
    • Mondegreen: "Easy as pie! Whatever that is"
    • Actual dialogue: "Keep an eye out for smoking"
    • Mondegreen: "Keep an eye out for Smokey"
  • "Sincerely Me" from Dear Evan Hansen:
    • Actual lyrics: "'Cause all that it takes is a little reinvention"
    • Mondegreen: "'Cause all that it takes is a little Greek invention"
  • "Sing We Now of Christmas"
    • Actual lyrics: "From the eastern country came the kings afar"
    • Mondegreen: "From the eastern country came the King Zafar"
  • "Situation" by Yazoo
  • "Slow Burn" by David Bowie
    • Actual lyrics: "And who knows? / Echoes in tenement halls"
    • Mondegreen: "And who knows? / Echoes interment halls"
    • Actual lyrics: "Leading us on and on and on"
    • Mondegreen: "Leading us on but not along"
  • "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana:
    • Actual lyrics: "Load up on guns"
    • Mondegreen: "Load up on girls"
    • Actual lyrics: "With the lights out, it's less dangerous"
    • Mondegreen: "Turn the lights down, hit the stages"
    • Actual lyrics: "Here we are now, entertain us"
    • Mondegreen: "Here we are now, entertainers"
    • Another mondegreen: "Here we are now, in containers"
    • Actual lyrics: "I feel stupid, and contagious"
    • Mondegreen: "Acting stupid is contagious"
    • Another mondegreen: "Help the stupid, they're contagious"
    • Actual lyrics: "A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido, yeah!"
    • Mondegreen: "I'm a lotto, I'm a vinyl, I'm a skittle, I'm a beetle, yay!"
    • Actual lyrics: "Our little group"
    • Mondegreen: "I lit up Drew"
  • "Smells Like Nirvana" by "Weird Al" Yankovic:
  • "So Human" by Lady Sovereign
    • Actual lyrics: "I'm a star, I'm an individual"
    • Mondegreen: "Homestar! I'm an individual"
    • Actual lyrics: "Had bad days, offended people"
    • Mondegreen: "Hot bodies, offended people"
    • Actual lyrics: "And I really fucking had enough"
    • Mondegreen: "I ain't really fucking hot enough"
  • "Something Super Sweet" by Rory Webley
    • Actual lyrics: "There's stuffing in the place where my heart's meant to be"
    • Mondegreen: "There's nothing in the place where my heart's meant to be"
  • "A Song for Your Futile Heart" by Save Face
    • Actual lyrics: "Fixing a home with prescription parts"
    • Mondegreen: "Fixing a hole with prescription parts"
  • "The Song with Five Names" by Will Wood:
    • Actual lyrics: "And everything and everyone will die soon, and we'll have nothing left for us to lie to"
    • Mondegreen: "And everything and everyone will die soon, and we'll have nothing left for Nosferatu"
  • "Soon May the Wellerman Come", sometimes known simply as "Wellerman", a ballad of indeterminate origin, first definitively recorded in The '70s in New Zealand:note 
    • Actual lyrics: "Some day when the toungin' is done"
    • Mondegreen: "Some day when the tuggin' is done"
  • "The Sound of Silence" by Simon & Garfunkel
    • Actual lyrics: "Left its seeds while I was sleeping"
    • Mondegreen: "Left, it seems, while I was sleeping"
  • "Spanish Bombs" by The Clash:
    • Actual lyrics: "Oh, mi corazon"
    • Mondegreen: "Oh my god, a thong"
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
    • Actual dialogue: "I finished my essay, saved a bunch of people, got hit by a drone..."
    • Mondegreen: "I finished my essay, saved a bunch of people, got hit by a drunk..."
  • SpongeBob SquarePants
    • Actual dialogue: "Who are you people?"
    • Mondegreen: "How are you people?"
  • Spyro: Year of the Dragon: note 
  • "Stand and Deliver" by Adam and the Ants:
    • Actual lyrics: "So sick of easy fashion"
    • Mondegreen: "So sick of eating fashion"
    • Actual lyrics: "Da-diddly-qua-qua"
    • Mondegreen: "Far-diddly-quaad-quaad"
  • Star Trek:
    • Actual dialogue: "in trouble"
    • Mondegreen "in tribble"
    • Actual dialogue: "He could overpower MacGuyvers"
    • Mondegreen: "He's got a lot of power in his diapers."
    • Actual dialogue: "Are you still looking for that ship?"
    • Mondegreen: "Are you still looking for that shit?"
    • Actual dialogue: "I promised to show Nori and Adlin the airponics bay this afternoon."
    • Mondegreen: "I promised to show Maurie and Elaine the airponics bay this afternoon."
    • Actual dialogue: "Just day dreaming, the way you would about someone you'd like to meet."
    • Mondegreen: "Just day dreaming, the way you would about someone and I want to believe."
    • Actual dialogue: "Any nuclear reaction on ops?" "No; none on ops."
    • Mondegreen: "Any nuclear reaction on Hobbes?" "No; none on Hobbes."
    • Actual dialogue: "We lost colleagues, friends... and Kwejian."
    • Mondegreen: "We lost colleagues, friends... and an equation."
    • Actual dialogue: "That's the size of the gravitational anomaly that hit Kwejian and the space station."
    • Mondegreen: "That's the size of the gravitational anomaly. I think Egon and, um... Danny saw one."
    • Actual dialogue: "Lieutenant Uhura"
    • Mondegreen: "Tentacle horror"

  • "Stay" by Oingo Boingo":
    • Actual lyrics: "If we get through one more night"
    • Mondegreen: "If we get the room one more night"

  • "Step Into Christmas" by Elton John
    • Actual lyrics: "Eat, drink, and be merry; come along with me"
    • Mondegreen: "Kleenex and kleenex; top of my wish list"

  • "Stolen Dance" by Milky Chance:
  • "Stranger in Moscow" by Michael Jackson
    • Actual lyrics: "Take my name and just let me be"
    • Mondegreen: "Take my neighbor, just let me be"

  • "Sun & Moon" by Two Steps from Hell
    • Actual lyrics: "Sharona re michina"
    • Mondegreen: "Shine on, my baby cheetah"
    • Actual lyrics: "Latenta"
    • Mondegreen: "Love's angel"
    • Actual lyrics: "Shelete"
    • Mondegreen: "Je m'appelle"
  • "Superbrawl 6"
    • Actual Line: "I respect you, bookerman"
    • Mondegreen: "I respect you, boogerman"
  • "Super Cool" by Beck, Robyn, and The Lonely Island (from The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part)
    • Actual lyrics: "Like a stray dog on a free rein"
    • Mondegreen: "Like a stray dog on a freeway"
  • Superman: The Movie
    • Actual dialogue: "How you doing? Jimmy Olsen."
    • Mondegreen: "Hey, dork. Jimmy Olsen."
    • Actual dialogue: "Both you, and then one day, your heirs!"
    • Mondegreen: "Both you, and then one day, your ass!"
  • Super Mario 64:
    • Actual dialogue: "So long-eh, Bowser!"
    • Mondegreen: "So long, gay Bowser!"
    • Another: "So long-a big Bowser!"
  • Super Mario Bros. (1993) (film):
    • Actual dialogue: "Oh, thank you Luigi!"
    • Mondegreen: "Oh, fuck you Luigi!"
  • Super Mario Bros. Wonder:
    • Actual line: "Wonderful!"
    • Mondegreen: "What the fuck?"
  • "Supermassive Black Hole" by Muse:
    • Actual lyrics: "Don't you know I suffer?"
    • Mondegreen: "Don't you know I'm sulphur?"
    • Actual lyrics: "Glaciers melting in the dead of night"
    • Mondegreen: "Glass sheets melting in the dead of night"
    • Another Mondegreen: "Grey shoes melting in the dead of night"
    • Actual lyrics: "You're the queen of the superficial"
    • Mondegreen: "You're the queen of the silverfishes"
  • Super Smash Bros. Brawl
    • Actual dialogue: "PK Fire!"
    • Mondegreen: "PK Murder!"
    • Actual lyrics: "Audi famam illius, solus in hostes ruit, et patriam servavit"
    • Mondegreen: "Hurry mama, we need booze, so if it wasn't me, if I pee a tsunami"
    • Another actual lyrics: "Audi famam illius, cucurrit quaeque tetigit destruens"
    • Mondegreen: "Ali Baba, Winnie Pooh, it wouldn't very fare, if I eat at a spoon fair"
    • One more actual lyrics: "Spes omnibus, mihi quoque, terror omnibus, mihi quoque, Ille"
    • Mondegreen: "Despacito, Team Fortress, there are those people's feeding OMELETTES!!!! IN HELL!!!!"
  • "Suzerainty" by Polite Fiction:
    • Actual lyrics: "Make it what you want"
    • Mondegreen: "Hey, kid, what you want?"
  • "Sweet Dreams (are made of this)" by "Eurythmics"
    • Actual lyrics: "Sweet Dreams are made of this"
    • Mondegreen: "Sweet Dreams are made of these"
    • Another: "Sweet Dreams are made of ease"
    • And another: "Sweet Dreams are made of cheese"
    • Actual lyrics: "Who am I to Disagree?"
    • Mondegreen: "Two-hundred miles to Disapree."
    • Actual lyrics: "Some of them want to be abused."
    • Mondegreen: "Some of them want to be amused."
  • "Sweet Escape" by Gwen Stefani:
    • Actual lyrics: "Maybe that's the reason I've been acting so cold."
    • Mondegreen: "Maybe that's the reason that the napkins are cold."

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