#Vib ribbon silver course lyrics series

That Aretha Franklin song 'Respect', that's been around a long time, and we always get to that part where 'R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me. 'Does he have it?' Is that what they're singing? 'Does he have it?' Then you think to yourself 'Why have I been singing 'Monkey hatchet?'' How many people have heard me sing 'Monkey hatchet?' Then there are some songs that you don't even bother learning the words, because you assume that no-one knows the words. also has a bit lampshading this trope in regards to Manfred Mann's cover of 'Blinded By The Light'. The original version is actually far less susceptible to mondegreens - Springsteen sings 'cut loose like a deuce' as opposed to (what sounds like) 'revved up like a douche'. The Vacant Lot comedy troupe has a skit dedicated to mondegreens in the Manfred Mann cover of Bruce Springsteen's Blinded By The Light: 'ripped up douches' 'loofah sponges' and the 'foreman of the night ' and one that's completely incomprehensible.Johnny Rivers' 'Secret Agent Man' is easily misheard as Secret Asian Man, and has been parodied as such at least twice, by the Capitol Steps as well as Da Vinci's Notebook.In his stage act, comedian Michael Winslow used to do a version of ' Purple Haze', changing the lyric to ''Scuse me while I kiss this fly', followed by screeches of 'Help me! Help me!'.And lastly, ' Don't let the sun go down on me' becomes 'Don't let your son go down on me'.' You may be right/I may be crazy' becomes 'You made the rice/I made the gravy'.' The girl with kaleidoscope eyes' becomes 'the girl with colitis goes by', followed by his mother piping up with ' Lucy's in a fight with Linus!'.' Big ol' jet airliner' becomes 'Bingo Jed had a light on'.The causes him him no end of torment whenever he's in the car with them and the radio is playing, since they like to sing along. There's also a comedian who bemoans his parents' staggering inability to hear song lyrics correctly, particularly his father.John Denver's lyrics were skewered by Monty Python's Eric Idle on 'John Denver being strangled' (' You came on my pillow.This common misheard version was naturally seized on by the Capitol Steps for one of their political song parodies. 'You fill out my census' ('You fill up my senses' from 'Annie's Song' by John Denver).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.The advertising campaign for Coke with Lime did this to Harry Nilsson's song 'Coconut': You put the lime in the Coke, you nut.

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.

A later ad promoting savings on gasoline from purchases in store did similarly with ' big gas savings ', expecting the listener to hear 'big ass savings'. 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.

NC: Did they just add orgies to the Dollar Menu? Is the secret sauce lubricant now?

As reviewed by The Nostalgia Critic, this McDonald's ad from the 90s gets this because they say the words so fast that instead of advertising 'food, folks, and fun,' it sounds like they're advertising ' food, fucks, and fun'.

And this one mishears The Skid's 'Into The Valley'. This advert mishears Desmond Dekker's 'Israelites'.

#Vib ribbon silver course lyrics series

Maxell tapes did a series of ads focusing on this.

This Volkswagen Passat commercial has several people mishearing a line from 'Rocket Man'.

T burst through his wall and reprimand him.

One ad for Comcast's 'On Demand' service, has a man mangling the lyrics to 'Born to be Wild' in the shower - and having Mr.

A commercial for T-Mobile plays with this trope: A guy sings along with Def Leppard's 'Pour Some Sugar On Me', and mondegreens it into 'Pour some shook-up ramen.' His girlfriend is, of course, incredulous, and uses her T-Mobile cell phone to call the public library to get the librarian to look up the correct lyrics.

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.