It involves a male talking about how he can 'ship pants', obviously expecting the listener to hear 'Ship' as 'shit'.

Invoked in a Kmart commercial about having store merchandise shipped to your house.

When they call on him, his muffled 'I don't know' sounds like 'Oreo,' which the boss loves. One employee stuffs his face with cookies only to run out of milk before he can wash it down.

One Got Milk? commercial took place at a board meeting deciding what to name the Oreo cookie.

The advertising campaign for Coke with Lime did this to Harry Nilsson's song 'Coconut': You put the lime in the Coke, you nut.One sings it as 'lock the cashbox', only to be briefly stunned when his friend sings it as 'stop the catbox'. An ad for Cingular used this: two men are walking down the street and mangling the chorus of 'Rock the Casbah' by The Clash.It had to be clarified that the phrase was new discoveries. An advert for baby products in the UK, probably for nappies, talked about the need for your infant child to feel confident in their nudist coveries.See Calling Me a Logarithm for when somoene is mistakes a misheard or unfamiliar word for an insult. See also Virtual Assistant Blunder for when a computer misunderstands a voice command. Contrast Malaproper, which is a character who mixes up words on a regular basis Beam Me Up, Scotty!, when the misheard line becomes more famous than the original Lady Mondegreen, which is when fans nickname a character based on what they misheard Something Something Leonard Bernstein, which is when people understand part of a song but struggle to make up actual words from the rest and Viewer Name Confusion, which is when the audience gets a character's name wrong. If even the subtitles are uncertain what's being said, then that's Even the Subtitler Is Stumped. Can overlap with Funny Phone Misunderstanding, if it happens over the phone, Fun with Homophones, if the mishearing happens due to two words sounding the same, Heh Heh, You Said 'X', if the people who mishear the word react to it with snickering, Poor Communication Kills, if the mishearing causes a lot of problems, Accent Depundent if the miscommunication is due to an accent, or In My Language, That Sounds Like., if a language barrier is involved. Compare Rouge Angles of Satin, which is when the words are all technically real words but are misspellings of what was meant and Gosh Dang It to Heck!, which is when made-up words are used to sound like profane ones.

This can lead to Innocent Swearing if an innocent word is misheard as a profane one. The term ' mondegreen' was coined by Sylvia Wright, who wrote a 1954 essay about how, as a child, she had misheard a line from a Scottish ballad - 'They hae slain the Earl o' Moray, and Lady Mondegreen.' It wasn't until she was grown that she learned the line was in fact 'and laid him on the green'. Sometimes, they're shown to be unobservant or simple-minded, but other times they are merely the butt of a silly joke. This can also happen due to words sharing the same sounds, such as 'surely' and 'Shirley.'Ī mondegreen gag is an easy tool for writers to insert humor at a character's expense. If the character mispronounces their Rs, there may be a joke or two at their expense based on whatever mondegreen people heard. Sometimes this is caused by a character's accent, bad enunciation, or stressing of syllables, but it can also happen because of the environment, such as in a nightclub or on a busy street. Strong Bad commenting on Homestar Runner's site introĪ Mondegreen Gag is whenever one character mishears another and responds according to what they thought they heard.

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