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MisterToodleoo That guy who stays for the closing credits. Since: Jul, 2018 Relationship Status: Waiting for you *wink*
That guy who stays for the closing credits.
#351: Nov 11th 2020 at 2:28:37 PM

In Def Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar on Me”, I heard the phrase “radar phone” as “red iPhone”, but I knew that couldn’t be it.

Also, in Poison’s “Nothing but a Good Time”, I heard the phrase “like my fun” as “lock my phone”.

Now, a bonus from my childhood:

When people, especially Pa Grape in the VeggieTales video “The Star of Christmas”, would say “ready as I’ll ever be”, I had no idea what a “leverbee” was!

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TheWhistleTropes janet likes her new icon. from Had to leave Los Angeles. It felt sad. Since: Aug, 2015 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
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#352: Nov 15th 2020 at 12:18:05 PM

Something from Pink Floyd this time: "The Hero's Return."

TRUE:

The gunner's dying words on the intercom

MY MONDEGREEN:

The gunner's dying words are political

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KingofNightmares Since: Sep, 2016 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#353: Nov 15th 2020 at 2:57:59 PM

A spoken mondegreen. In the first episode of Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL, when I was 8, I misheard Shark's line "You're about to take a serious blast of damage!" (this may not be a direct quote, but it's close enough) as "You're about to take a serious blast of damnit!"

Now, the misheard line makes no sense, and there is no way a line like that could have gotten past the overly strict censors, so I have no idea why I heard that. Then again, I remember as a kid whenever I'd watch a movie on DVD I'd always ask to have subtitles on. I would always say "sometimes I can't hear it right", but the real reason was because I worried I mishear stuff as swearing. So who knows, maybe I have countless examples of this sort of spoken mondegreen

EDIT: I forgot, not too long before that, I misheard "Zeus' Breath" as "Zuzu's Breath." Doesn't sound very threatening to me

Edited by KingofNightmares on Nov 15th 2020 at 3:06:50 AM

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antenna_ears from California Since: Apr, 2020 Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
#354: Nov 16th 2020 at 4:02:46 AM

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

@Mike K Does that mean you thought “Come Out and Play” was about school bullies instead of school shootings?

Sorry, just had to ask. Lemme lighten things up:

“Ooh-wee-yooh, I look just like Buddy Hottie!”

“Oh-oh and you’ll marry Tyler Moore!”

Edited by antenna_ears on Nov 16th 2020 at 4:10:29 AM

TheWhistleTropes janet likes her new icon. from Had to leave Los Angeles. It felt sad. Since: Aug, 2015 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
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#355: Nov 16th 2020 at 9:59:50 AM

@antenna Yeah, I was told it was about keeping pedophiles separated from the general prison population.

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Risdio51 The Unknown Pleasure they were talking about from that exit they call Paradise Since: Jun, 2019 Relationship Status: Healthy, deeply-felt respect for this here Shotgun
The Unknown Pleasure they were talking about
#356: Nov 16th 2020 at 6:20:51 PM

From "Rivers In The Desert"

The actual line: "A heartbeat for a tin man"

What I thought it was: "A heart ache for a demon"

I can't say goodbye to yesterday…
Demetrios Lord of the Jungle from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
Lord of the Jungle
#357: Nov 17th 2020 at 10:13:10 AM

I must be more tired than I thought. I just read “Top Story” as “Toy Story.” surprised XD ^_^;;

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KingofNightmares Since: Sep, 2016 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#358: Nov 20th 2020 at 2:12:29 PM

Another Yu-Gi-Oh! related one, although this time from an actual song. In Hyperdrive, the opening song in the dub version of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, I misheard "I can hear you breathing, I can see you coming, I can feel the wind" as "I can't hear you breathing, I can't see you coming, I can't feel the wind"

I had literally only seen two episodes of 5Ds as a kid since back then I could never start actually watching a show, and this is still a problem now. As a result, I didn't hear it enough to realize I was hearing it wrong.

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MisterToodleoo That guy who stays for the closing credits. Since: Jul, 2018 Relationship Status: Waiting for you *wink*
That guy who stays for the closing credits.
#359: Nov 22nd 2020 at 8:36:13 PM

In “Elmo’s Song”, when Big Bird says “Sing it, Mr. S!” to Snuffy, my young self misheard it as “Sing it, Mr. Hemps!” before I even knew what hemp is!

One time, when I went with my kindergarten or Grade 1 class to a swimming pool, I thought of myself as Mr. Hemps. I imagined that I had a device called a Hempsonator (I think) which would help me avoid a certain someone who I thought I was afraid of but was actually excited to see. It’s a long story that I will explain later on another forum.

Edited by MisterToodleoo on Nov 22nd 2020 at 9:36:39 AM

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#360: Nov 24th 2020 at 10:36:15 AM

Komm Susser Tod: "I wish that I could turn back time / 'Cause now the guilt is all mine" —> "I wish that I could turn back time / 'Cause now the gift is all mine"

"I didn't know you could read!" - Draco, in another timeline
MikeK 3 microphones forever from in the aeroplane over the sea Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Made of Love
3 microphones forever
#361: Dec 3rd 2020 at 7:57:36 AM

Up until reading the captions of the revival series, I thought that the last line of the Animaniacs theme song was "Knows all the facts", not "Those are the facts". "Animaniacs knows all the facts" is grammatically incorrect but I think I figured they were saying that the show itself "knows all the facts", not that the characters do.

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KingofNightmares Since: Sep, 2016 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#362: Dec 3rd 2020 at 12:24:21 PM

Hearing Mr. Blue Sky as a kid, I had not one, but two mishearings. The first was "please tell us why you had to hide away for so long", which I heard as "please tell us why you had to hide away for solo." Probably doesn't make much sense, but does any mishearing make sense? The second was that robot voice at the end that says "please turn me over" (which actually didn't scare me at all even as a kid), which I heard as another instance of "Mr. Blue Sky, why?"

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TroperNo9001 Champion of HGS Reboot S318 from Hogwarts? Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
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#363: Dec 10th 2020 at 1:51:36 AM

How Deep Is Your Love?: 'Cause we're living in a world of fools —> 'Cause we're living in a world of food

"I didn't know you could read!" - Draco, in another timeline
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#364: Dec 10th 2020 at 7:25:07 AM

I've Been Working On The Railroad: Someone's In The Kitchen With Dinah, Strumming On The Old Banjo —> Someone's In The Kitchen With Dinah, Scrubbing On The Old Man Joe

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#365: Dec 18th 2020 at 7:26:32 AM

I can’t be the only one who misheard “to save me from tears” in “Last Christmas” as “the semi-frontier”.

GoldenCityBird from the UK Since: Oct, 2018
#366: Dec 18th 2020 at 8:54:00 AM

Intended lyrics to the chorus of Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel: "Make Me Smile"

Come up and see me, make me smile

Or do what you want, runnin' wild

What I heard for the longest time:

Come on decieve me, make me smile

I'll do what you want, I don't mind

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TV killed the circus.
#367: Dec 22nd 2020 at 12:04:57 PM

Heard this song from the 2nd season of Hilda and figured looking it up. The song is called "New Kid" by Ex Hex. I've been listening to it for a while now since today, and from looking up the lyrics just now, I turned out to have misheard one of the lyrics I thought as the more meaningful lyrics:

What I heard:

"Play around and you'll become."

What the lyrics say:

"Play around and you'll be conned."

But I still like the lesson that I heard with the former despite it being a mondegreen. On a personal level, the lesson I see is "dabble in anything long enough and you'll become it, so watch out."

Islam is perfect. Muslims are not. But when people see Islam, they're more often looking at the Muslims rather than Islam's sources.
lalalei2001 Since: Oct, 2009
#368: Dec 22nd 2020 at 1:00:16 PM

Going through this thread I realized just how many Disney songs I misheard as a kid. XD

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DrNoPuma Toon bunny crossover from Toon Town Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: I think I love you, so what am I so afraid of?
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#369: Jan 9th 2021 at 1:44:28 PM

The ending of Thanos Beatbox Solo:

Actual lyrics: "Either way, destiny still arrives."

What I hear: "By the way, Destiny's still alive."

I don't know who I thought Destiny was. I guess I assumed it was some DC character who I didn't know about. Maybe someone who Darkseid tried to kill and failed. :P

Edited by DrNoPuma on Jan 9th 2021 at 4:50:55 AM

I can't think of a good signature, so here's my favorite OST from the Sam & Max franchise.
MikeK 3 microphones forever from in the aeroplane over the sea Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Made of Love
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#370: Jan 27th 2021 at 12:29:44 PM

I've been listening to a bunch of Cheap Trick and I was reminded of one I had the first time I listened to "California Man" - "Dance right on 'til your bones are breakin'" instead of "...'til the floors are breakin'". Somehow I liked my version better - greatly injuring yourself while dancing somehow seems more "hardcore" than just causing property damage.

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TV killed the circus.
#371: Feb 13th 2021 at 9:11:05 AM

Was looping Castle of Glass by Linkin Park and clicked the lyrics button on Spotify out of curiosity. It's entirely possible there are more lyrics I heard wrong, maybe not.

Hardly anything there for you to see -> Hardly anything left for you to see

Honestly the way I heard it seems to fit in more with my current state/train of thought or something. The word 'left' suggest having a significant amount of yourself lost. But maybe 'there' instead implyingly questions the existence of that piece of self in the first place.

Islam is perfect. Muslims are not. But when people see Islam, they're more often looking at the Muslims rather than Islam's sources.
MisterToodleoo That guy who stays for the closing credits. Since: Jul, 2018 Relationship Status: Waiting for you *wink*
That guy who stays for the closing credits.
#372: Mar 14th 2021 at 4:22:46 PM

The following paragraph is similar to a post from kablammin45 on Page 6:

When I was a toddler watching The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, I misheard the last word of Roo’s line “Look Momma, look! A kite!” in the worst possible way. However, I knew what he meant, so I just thought he was saying “kite” in a funny way, and I don’t think I ever revealed my mishearing to anyone.

In the same movie, there were other lines that I just couldn’t understand. For example, I heard Gopher’s line “I work strictly cash,” as “(?) birthday catch.”

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#373: Mar 15th 2021 at 2:08:53 AM

There's one of Waluigi's Mario Kart 8 lines I kept hearing as "Oh my god!" I suspected that wasn't the actual line, so I tried listening more closely... and realized it's actually something like "Off I go!" (though looking up his Mario Kart lines, "Here we go!" is the closest one listed)

Edited by Zanreo on Mar 15th 2021 at 10:27:32 AM

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Demetrios Lord of the Jungle from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
Lord of the Jungle
#374: Mar 20th 2021 at 5:04:23 PM

For some reason I just heard “Wavy Ocean” as “Waving Elsa.” XD ^_^;;

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aPod-ofSeals That there is a seal. from the biggest planet on Earth Since: Jan, 2021 Relationship Status: Is that a kind of food?
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#375: Mar 21st 2021 at 8:18:31 AM

Not me , but my dad always misheard the song "You Fill Up My Senses" (by, I believe, Simon & Garfunkel) as "You Fill Up My Sad Sads."

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