A mondegreen is a misheard song lyric, or more loosely any sort of mishearing. Sometimes people will mondegreen whole songs and animate the nonsense lyrics, resulting in animutations.
Let us gather some for use as plot boosters. Next year I might try an idea for a story with major and minor plot details and characters comprised entirely of these.
The Archive of Misheard Lyrics is a good place to start! Here are some of my favorites from there and elsewhere:
"There's a bathroom on the right" ("There's a bad moon on the rise", "Bad Moon Rising" by Creedence Clearwater Revival)
"TV says donuts are high in fat/Kazoo/Found a hobo in my room/It's Princess Leia, the Yodel of Life/Give my my sweater back or I'll play the guitar" (The central mondegreens in Hyakugojyuuichi!!, one of the earliest animutations)
"Evil one-eyed dragon/He's the American dragon" ("People we're not braggin'/He's the American dragon" - American Dragon Jake Long opening theme)
"Great all my evil plans/We won't last very long" (The YTMND "Rob the Hot Dog", based on the Super Smash Bros. Brawl theme)
I have many others. But that's enough for now.
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I'm the one writing a novel-length set of fanfics about a time-travelling dolphin who fights space aliens.
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Oct 4, 2007 - 05 43
Well, probably two of the most famous could have potential:
"The girl with colitis goes by"
"'scuse me while I kiss this guy"
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