Your Mondegreens

A spoken mondegreen: In A Goofy Movie, for some reason, Roxanne calling out to Max in the movie's Dream Intro never actually registered as intelligible dialogue for me when I was a really little kid. I thought her calling for Max was a cow mooing in a weird way, even after repeated viewings.

I heard the lyrics of "Fortunate Son" by Creedence Clearwater Revival as:

A spoken mondegreen: when Alastor summons Husk in the pilot episode of Hazbin Hotel, the "Hoooooootel" bit sounds like "Whoooooooa... the hell?!"

I always heard the Rush "Subdivisons" lyric "Nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone" as "mystic." Listening to it again I have no idea how I heard that.

"Been Caught Stealin'" by Jane's Addiction - "I didn't trust 'em then" instead of "I enjoy stealin'". I kinda justified it as saying that stealing is "sticking it to the man". I just found out because they used it in the documentary McMillions and I had captions on.

On today's edition of "Kid Kablammin's Malapropered Lyrics": "You Can Fly" from Peter Pan:

Actual Lyrics: "When there's a smile in your heart..."
What I Heard/Sang: "When there's a smart in your heart..."

Then again, when I was a really little kid a lot of the song was just gibberish with "YOU CAN FLY YOU CAN FLY YOU CAN FLY!!" mixed in to my young ears.

Just found out another one: I misheard the Def Leppard "When the Walls Came Tumbling Down" lyric "everybody ran as they screamed at the sound" as "raised a scream."

Edited by MFLuder on Apr 22nd 2020 at 2:13:33 AM

From "E.G.G.M.A.N."

The actual line:

What I heard:

I assumed he was just using "blue" as a derogatory term for Sonic, and that the point of this line was that Sonic would never know the thrill Eggman gets from being evil.

Another "Kidblammin" mondegreen, this time a spoken one. I cannot for the life of me which episode it was from at this point, but there was an episode of House of Mouse where Pete was causing some sort of trouble and at one point Donald and Goofy were reporting the results of Pete's mischief to Mickey and Minnie, the latter of whom expressed dismay:

Actual Dialogue: Oh, this is Pete's doing...
What I Heard: Oh, this is peach-doing...

Somehow I didn't pick up that Minnie was obviously talking about Pete and not using a weird nonsense adjective to describe a bad situation until quite some time later. I was a weird kid.

There's some ad that's popped up on a You Tube video or two that starts out talking about how social distancing has changed our lives. I haven't figured out what the first thing the narrator says is, but it's probably not "our coffins are shaking".

I remember playing some snowboarding game on the SNES where the announcer kept reminding you to "catch some air!" - my sister and I intentionally mondegreen-ed it into "catch the mayor!"

Edited by MikeK on Jun 16th 2020 at 9:12:25 AM

In the intro song for "Steamed Hams", I keep mishearing the last line "there'll be trouble in town tonight" as "there'll be travel in time tonight".

I heard "They'll be travelin' town."

I feel like with the many "Steamed Hams But X" videos, someone has to have done one with time travel.

So, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the Holy Hand Grenade scene: The full line in question is "lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it". I kept hearing either "not" or "naught" instead of "naughty". "Being not in my sight" would I guess mean God would look the other way as you killed your foe. "being naught in my sight" would mean your foe means nothing to God or something?

When I was a little kid, I used to think Caillou said “sucks when I’ve had enough” in his theme song. It was weird to me because preschool shows wouldn’t typically use a word like “sucks”. I eventually found out it’s “'cept” (except).

I will never be able to not hear the chorus of Africa as "I guess it rains down in Africa".

I somehow remembered my friend talking about hearing "Everybody Plays The Fool" by The Main Ingredient as "everybody plays the flute" as a kid, making a joke about feeling like he was missing out on playing in some worldwide woodwind orchestra. Adding to this, there is some kind of woodwind instrument in the hook, though I'm not sure if it's flute or not.

When I was a kid, I always misheard “Come back when you’re a little, mmmm, richer!” as “Come back when you’re a little, mmmm, mature!]]

This isn't from anything, but when I was in middle school, my friends and I and the class Alpha Bitch^note She told her "lackeys" that they weren't allowed to be friends with me because I was "weird", for starters. Why she was there was because she considered my friends her friends - They all went horse-back riding. were talking about ages. And Alpha Bitch tried to brag that she was the oldest in class. It didn't quite work out thanks to me:

What she said: I'm the oldest of all.

What I heard: I'm a swallow.

So my other friends teasingly called her a swallow for quite a while afterwards.

Another Mondegreen concerned a song that Fenno-Swedish rapper Markoolio made for the Soccer World Cup back in, like, '97-'98. (I don't remember the exact year)

There's a a part where he sings "And we'll score lots of goals" ("Och mål, det kommer det att bli"), and I always misheard it as "And we'll score goals in April". ("Och mål, det kommer i April") I always used to wonder why April was such a significant month in that song.

I always thought My Sharona was "High Corona" (not "My Corona" like that joke that's been made a bajillion times).

Growing up and hearing "Particle Man", I always heard "degraded man, Person Man" as "the greatest man, Person Man"

I literally did not know the truth until 2018-ish, and even my mom thought it was that

Hoo, boy. I recently misheard 90% of "Sad Song", by We The Kings:

• "With you, I'm alive" = "If you are alive"
• "All the missing pieces of my heart, they finally collide" = "Odo, listen, listen, somebody is finally in love."
• "So stop time here in the moonlight, 'cause I don't ever wanna close my eyes" = "So stop 'til I'm healin' no more, and Sutton, ever wanna change my eyes." (first time) and "So stop when I'm healin' the moon—- I don't ever want those-- not eyes!" (second time)
• "Like I'm half of a whole" = "Like I'm half on the phone."
• "No hand to hold" = "No hair to fall."
• "Without you, I feel torn, like a sail in a storm" = "Without you, I feel dumb, like a snail in a stone."
• "I'm just a sad song" = "I'm just a salsa."
• "Without you, I fall" = "If you, after all."
• "Like I'm leaving all my past and silhouettes up on the wall." = "Like a Leela on a cat, the silhouettes can find a fall."
• "With you, I'm a beautiful mess." = "Yeah, you are a beautiful man."
• "It's like we're standing hand-in-hand with all our fears up on the edge." = "Like a scaredy-cat and Harry Potter, fears are from Leanne."
• "You're the perfect melody" = "Without the big candy."
• "The only harmony I wanna hear." = "Meowed in harmony, oh, the Lee!"
• "You're my favourite part of me." = "We can pay the party."
• "With you standing next to me, I've got nothing to fear." = "You scaredy-cat! You're on the move with your fleas!"

In my defence, it was a remix of the song, with a very high, helium-like voice.

From "Top Of The World" by The Carpenters: What I heard: "All the leaves on the trees and the church of the breeze, There's a place that sings of happiness for me." Actual lyric: "In the leaves on the trees and the touch of the breeze, There's a pleasin' sense of happiness for me."

From "Come Out and Play":

My mishearing:

I used to think it was "getting wedgies with the greatest of ease" instead of "weapons".

From the song "Girls Chase Boys"

Real lyrics: All the broken hearts in the world still beat.

What my 14 year old self heard: All the broken arms in the restroom ^note  alternately, rusted bleed.