Basic Trope: A character mishears what another character said.
- Straight: A song's lyric line "Troperia, my land and home" is misheard as "Troperia, my land and dome".
- Exaggerated:
- "Tropicana, Myron's cantaloupe".
- Every verse is interpreted as something else to the point that the whole song changes the perceived meaning or loses it completely.
- Downplayed: A minor word is misheard and doesn't change the meaning much; "The" to "Their", for example.
- Justified:
- The listener is hard of hearing or wasn't paying attention.
- The listener tuned in mid-word, giving him a harder time to make sense of what is said as he only has about half of the syllables to work with.
- The singer isn't singing clearly.
- The singer is using a language that the listener doesn't understand.
- The mixing of the song sucks, and the vocals are so much quieter than the music that the lyrics got Lost in Transmission.
- The assumed lyrics are homophones for the actual lyrics.
- Inverted: The lyrics are intended to be pure gibberish, but are misheard to form coherent lyrics.
- Subverted:
- A sharply out-of-place lyric is thought to be misheard, but is referenced later.
- The misheard lyric rhymes properly, while the actual lyric rhymes painfully.
- Double Subverted: It then makes references to the real lyric. It was misheard, after all.
- Parodied:
- The singer writes Word Salad Lyrics to intentionally make the audience think they've heard wrong.
- "This old man, he played one," is misheard as, "I love you; you love me."
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: No line is misheard.
- Enforced: The song's lyrics are printed as homonyms for evade the censors.
- Lampshaded: "You idiot, that's not the right word!"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: The band like the mondegreen, so they say that people who heard that were right and perform the song with the new lyric, making an Ascended Meme.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Plotted A Good Waste: The singer bungles his diction on purpose for the sake of comedy or for the sake of alternate interperetation.
- Played for Laughs: The singer is misheard to be singing about an embarrassing rumor that his audience has been suspecting for a while.
- Played for Drama: Instead of a song, a diplomatic message is misheard and sparks a war.
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