Mondegreens and misheard lyrics iceberg

Mondegreens and misheard lyrics iceberg is an iceberg chart topic. A text version, "Mondegreen / Misheard Stuff" by TheGrandFinal, is hosted on IcebergThreads, where it had 692 views as of 29 October 2026.

The IcebergThreads author describes it as: "An iceberg covering various mondegreens (misheard lines, quotes, or lyrics) from various forms of media. In need of entries."

Entries reflect the chart authors' choices and are not verified fact.

Tiers

Tiers and entries from the IcebergThreads version. Notes after a dash are shortened from the author's explanations.

Tier 1

• "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy" – Jimi Hendrix, "Purple Haze" (Actual: "'Scuse me while I kiss the sky")
• Friday Night Funkin' "lyrics" – The singing from Friday Night Funkin' are gibberish but have been heard as "Big ol' bunny", "Go Pico, yeah", and "Demolishing the mannequin", among others.
• "Snoo PINGAS usual, I see!" – Dr. Robotnik, The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (Actual: "Snooping as usual, I see!")
• "Lady Mondegreen" – This gave the name to the mondegreen; Sylvia Wright misheard the "lay'd him on the green" lyric from "The Bonny Earl of Murray" as that line.
• "I'm blue, if I was green I would die" – Eiffel 65, "I'm Blue" (Actual: "I'm blue, da ba dee, da ba die") (May also be interpreted as "I will beat up a guy")
• "Bring Sally up, bring Sally down" – Moby, "Flower" (Actual: "Green Sally up, green Sally down")
• "It's Gonna Be May" – NSYNC, "It's Gonna Be Me" (Actual lyric: the title of the song)
• The Tricky Mod mondegreens – Tricky's singing and speech in the Tricky Mod for Friday Night Funkin' has brought a lot of mondegreens, with the most notable being "cookie".
• "Hello, Clarice" – Hannibal Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs (Actual: "Good Morning")
• "A potato flew around my room before you came" – Frank Ocean, "Thinkin' Bout You" (Actual: "A tornado flew around my room before you came")
• "There's a bathroom on the right," – Credence Clearwater Revival, "Bad Moon Rising" (Actual: There's a bad moon on the rise)
• "So long, gay Bowser!" – Mario, Super Mario 64 (Actual: "So long, king-a Bowser!")
• "Pootis spencer here" – Heavy, Team Fortress 2 (Actual: "Put dispenser here")
• "Gay Luigi" – Mario, Hotel Mario (Actual: "Eh, Luigi?")
• "I'm a Bee" – Black Eyed Peas, "Imma Be" (Actual: "Imma Be")
• "Concrete jungle wet dream tomato" – Jay Z and Alicia Keys, "Empire State of Mind" (Actual: "Concrete jungle where dreams are made of")
• "Git gud" – Hornet, Hollow Knight (Actual: "Git gu!")
• "It doesn't make a difference if we're naked or not" – Bon Jovi, "Livin' on a Prayer" (Actual: "It doesn't make a difference if we make it or not")

Tier 2

• "Motherfucking Gentlemen" – PSY, "Gentleman" (Actual: "Mother Father Gentleman")
• "Change my picture, snap my picture" – The Prodigy, "Smack my Bitch Up" (Actual: "Change my pitch up, smack my bitch up")
• "Olive the Other Reindeer" – The title of a book and TV special of the same name, where a dog named Olive mishears "All of the other reindeer" from "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" as this line.
• "Hold me closer, Tony Danza" – Elton John, "Tiny Dancer" (Actual: "Hold me closer, tiny dancer")
• "Kicking your cat all over the place" – Queen, "We Will Rock You" (Actual: "Kicking your can all over the place")
• "You've been running 'round, running 'round, running 'round, throwing that turtle on my knee" – Charlie Puth, "Attention" (Actual: "You've been running 'round, running 'round, running 'round, throwing that dirt all on my name")
• "Here we are now, in containers" – Nirvana, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (Actual: "Here we are now, entertain us")
• "Gotta Kit-Kat" – Black Eyed Peas, "Boom Boom Pow" (Actual: "Gotta get that")
• "Like a virgin, touched for the 31st time" – Madonna, "Like A Virgin" (Actual: "Like a virgin, touched for the very first time")
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl theme mondegreens – The SSBB theme is another of the most misheard themes in video gaming. Even though the lyrics aren't in English, people have interpreted them as "Call me papa", "So it wasn't me", "Omelet Prevail /…
• "Tree" – What Shaggy is misheard saying in that FNF mod. The clip actually comes from him saying "train".
• "We'll rub/rob a Mexican monkey" – Daft Punk, "Get Lucky" (Actual: "We're up all night to get lucky")
• "I got this soda" – Fetty Wap ft. Remy Boyz, "679" (Actual: "I got this sewed up")
• "Party rockers in the house tonight" – LMFAO, "Party Rock Anthem" (Actual: "Party rock is in the house tonight")
• "You call me your banana" – Leona Lewis, "Bleeding Love" (Actual: "You cut me open and I..."
• "Police I swear to god, not simping for a child" – MGMT, "Little Dark Age" (Actual: "Policemen swear to god, love's seeping from the guns")
• "THIS IS SANDPIT TURTLE!" – Bring Me The Horizon, Shadow Moses (Actual: "This is sempiternal!")
• “My name is Anderdingus” – Internet Meme (Actual: “My name is Zander Dingess”)
• "I'm a lion, I'm a vinyl, I'm a Skittle, I'm a beetle" – Nirvana, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (Actual: "A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido")
• "Feel the meat on the tangerine" – ABBA, "Dancing Queen" (Actual: "Feel the beat on the tambourine")
• "Life goes onion" – Oliver Tree - "Life Goes On" (Actual: Life goes on and on...")
• "There's a whiner down the road" – Led Zeppelin, "Stairway to Heaven" (Actual: "And as we wind on down the road")
• "I believe that the hot dogs go on" – Celine Dion, "My Heart Will Go On" (Actual: "I believe that the heart does go on")

Tier 3

• "Baby can you breed a cactus from Jamaica?" – Robin Thicke, "Blurred Lines" (Actual: "Baby can you breathe, I got this from Jamaica")
• "SHIT, ROUGH, AAGH!" – Knuckles' voice grunting for when he attacks in Sonic Heroes (Actual: "Shift, rock, yeah!")
• "Tiger RoboCop" – Street Fighter (Actual: "Tiger Uppercut")
• "You've got a breadstick/depression on you" – Gorillaz, "Dare" (Actual: "You've got to press it on you")
• "I'm living on sexy elephant" – Florence Welch, "Sweet Nothing" (prod. Calvin Harris) (Actual: "I'm living on such sweet nothing")
• "We didn't start the fire, it was always burning, said the worst attorney" – Billy Joel, "We Didn't Start the Fire" (Actual: "We didn't start the fire, it was always burning, since the world was turning")
• "D'oh, I missed!" – Wario, Mario Kart 64/Party (Actual: "So ein mist!" Which is German for (roughly) "Oh darn!")
• "There's nothing a hundred men on Mars could ever do" – Toto, "Africa" (Actual: "There's nothing a hundred men or more could ever do")
• "I just want to die." – Crazy Cap New Donker Employee, Super Mario Odyssey (what he' s actually saying is gibberish)
• "Clothes" – bo en, "My Time" (Actual: "Close...")
• "I will burn my bread" – "Burn My Dread", Persona 3 (Actual: "I will burn my dread")
• "Gimme the otter" – Baltimora, "Tarzan Boy" (Actual: "Gimme the other")
• "Shall I give you this pear?" – Sephiroth, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (Actual line: "Shall I give you despair?")
• "Let us out/Fearful we won't sing" – Rare Wubbox, My Singing Monsters (Actual lyrics: "Path not found/Buffer overlow")
• "I'm sorry Ms. Jackson, ooh, I am four eels" – OutKast, "Ms. Jackson" (Actual: "I'm sorry Ms. Jackson, ooh, I am for real"
• "Think of Batman pooping snakes." – "You Can Fly", Peter Pan (Actual: "Take the paths that moonbeams make")
• "I'm a little man, I'm also evil, also into cats!" – Fall Out Boy, "This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race" Actual: "I'm a leading man, and the lies I weave are oh so intricate")
• "ROCKET LAWNCHAIR" – Announcer, Metal Slug (Actual: "Rocket launcher!")
• “My name’s Ryan Buttlord” – Internet Meme (Actual: My name is Ryan, i brought Nerds.”)
• "I know you've got cornflakes, chocolate and pudding" – Fall Out Boy, "Sugar We're Goin Down" (Real lyrics: "A loaded god complex, cock it and pull it"
• "I don't believe in SPAM" – Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Otherside" (Actual: "I don't believe it's bad")
• “I’m in this bed with Destroy Lonely” – Ken Carson - i need u. Original lyrics are “I’m in this bih with Destroy Lonely”

Tier 4

• Minion swears – That one McDonald's Minion toy did not say fuck. It's just Minionese or whatever you call it.
• "Soap! Soap! Soap!" – Mishearing of the Latin chanting in Bowser's battle theme from Super Mario Galaxy.
• "A ghost tried to approach me, he got Larry/married" – "A Ghost's Pumpkin Soup", Sonic Adventure 2 (Actual: "A ghost tried to approach me, he got leery")
• "DENNIS!" – Misheard chanting from "Ghetsis Theme" in Pokémon Black & White. It's supposed to be "Ghetsis".
• "CHICKA CHICKA CHICKA" – Boss theme from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
• "Oh, fuck you, Luigi" – Mario, the Super Mario Bros. Super Show (Actual: "Oh, thank you, Luigi")
• "Living with a lover with a red iPhone" – Def Leppard, "Pour Some Sugar On Me" (Actual: "Living with a lover with a radar phone")
• "Cat fucking a handbag" – Caramelldansen (Actual: Klappa era händer)
• "SpongeBob" – Mario, Mario Kart Wii (Actual line is him saying "Mama!")
• "Uh oh! Who wants to die?" – Potty Time With Elmo toy, 2005 (Actual: "Uh oh! Who wants to go?")
• "Bite my Bum" – Po Teletubby toy (Actual is Teletubby gibberish)
• "I'm a furry!" – Edmund, Rock-a-Doodle (Actual: "I'm all furry!")
• "Eat apple/asshole" – What the singing of Yoshi's Happy Song from Yoshi's Story is interpreted as
• "In an interstellar burst, I'm back to say the N-word" – Radiohead, "Airbag" (Actual: "In an interstellar burst, I'm back to save the universe")
• "I want Pringles!" – Gojira, "The Art of Dying" (Actual: "I will bring this...")
• "It's not fair to deny me of the cross-eyed bear that you gave to me" – Alanis Morissette, "You Oughta Know" (Actual: "It's not fair to deny me of the cross I bear that you gave to me")
• "Yo ho ho, wooooah, a-wee yo ho ho, woooah" – Fall Out Boy, "Bang the Doldrums" (Real lyrics: "You're wrong / Are we all wrong?"
• "Is that a gay pig?" – Tori Amos - "Professional Widow" (specifically Armand Van Helden's Star Trunk Funkin' Mix) (Actual: "It's gotta be big")
• "Say 'shit'." – Kai-Lan, Ni-Hao Kai-Lan! (Actual: "Say Xuê.") ("Xuê" is Chinese for "snow")
• "Fuuuck youuu." – Flowerpot, Banjo-Kazooie (Actual: "Thaaank youuu.")
• "It's you" – Sigur Rós, "Svefn-g-englar" (Actual: "tjú")
• "Oh, fuck you!" – Red Birdo's defeat voice line, Super Mario Advance (actual: How could you!)

Tier 5

• "Might can troll(s) everything" – Vergil, Devil May Cry (Actual: "Might controls everything")
• "Lou Bega"/"Vagabond" – Daft Punk, "High Fidelity" (Actual line is a chopped up sample from Billy Joel's "Just The Way You Are".)
• "Ken Lee" – Mariah Carey/Badfinger, "Without You" (Actual: "Can't live")
• "I'm a pretty lady!" – Tails, Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie (Sonic OVA) (Actual: "I'm afraid of lightning!")
• "Hey!/Yay!" – Boards of Canada, "Roygbiv" (Actual: "Lake!")
• "All I want is someone's amiibo" – Major Lazer, "Lean On" (Actual: "All I want is someone to lean on")
• "I have granted kids to hell" – What "Ashley's Song" from WarioWare sounds like when sped up
• "I've got nipples!" – An Elmo toy after being tickled (Actual is probably "I got tickled!" or something like that)
• "Walking by the ribbon, luck is by my side" – "Polaroid", Vib-Ribbon (Actual: "Walking by the river, dog is by my side")
• "Nut" – Goopy Le Grande, Cuphead (Actual: "Gup" and other random sounds.)
• "What the fuck?" – "Fire Fire!!", Um Jammer Lammy (Actual: "With the funk!")
• "Homeboy/Oh my" – Wild West Zombies' sounds, PvZ2 (Actual: groans with no supposed words)
• "Hey you we ma tard!" – Rango, Super Mario Odyssey (actual is gibberish)
• "Ho ho, Santa ripoff!" – "Battle! (Chairman Rose)", Pokemon Sword & Shield (Actual: "Rosa seta credo")
• "Underpants!" – John Foxx - "Underpass" (actual: "Underpass!")
• "Guaraná!" – Hornet, Hollow Knight (Actual: "Garama!")

Tier 6

• "Wow Wow Penis" – BEMANI, "Wow Wow VENUS" (Actual: Take a guess.)
• "The Ear Of Luigi" – Satoru Iwata's announcement of the Year Of Luigi, misheard with one letter removed.
• "The jellybean/jellyfish" – Mario, New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Actual: "Get me out of here!")
• "Don't stop shitting Diddy" – Gorillaz, "Feel Good Inc." (Actual: "Don't stop, get it, get it")
• "Paul Johnson, didja flunk? Didja sleep? Didja rush?" – Daft Punk, "Teachers" (Actual: "Paul Johnson, DJ Funk, DJ Sneak, DJ Rush")
• "Rainbow Stalin" – The Similou, "All This Love" (Actual: "Rainbow styling")
• "Racist penguin" – 2PM, "Tetris (remix)" (Actual: "Place is pumping")
• "Go to hell!" – Topper, Super Mario Odyssey (actual is gibberish)
• "Magnum!" – Pingu, Pingu (Actual: "Noot Noot!". This is heard by Japanese people.)
• "Training Room" mishearings – Omikron: The Nomad Soul (The lyrics in this song are near-indecipherable, leading to a lot of humorous interpretations (ex. what's supposedly "your rival" sounds like "Joe Biden")

Tier 7

• "Winter Tee-Tag" – "Winter Ade-Tag" (Winter Wrap-Up), German version of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Actual: the title of the song)
• "El churro" – Misheard deep voice from Silent Hill 2; probably is actually "ritual"
• "Help? Help me!" – "Not Safe" from OFF (Actual: "Au secours!", which is French for "help".)
• "We snagged it" – The Demented Cartoon Movie (actual: "Gleeg snag zit")
• "Hexagon!" – Luigi, New Super Mario Bros Wii (Actual: "Hot! Hot! Hot!")
• "Two Two" – The Pokémon Xatu's cry, as heard by Japanese-speaking people
• Various "lyrics" in Le Knight Club's "Soul Bells" – Such as "Electronic" or "Dad I've got it". They're mishearings of a sax sample, out of all things! (In the song the sample originates from, "Streetwave" by the Brothers Johnson, it's more clear that…
• "Gummy beeeear... Gummy beeeear..." – The White Chamber, "Terror" (Actual: かみ ぱ (Path to god(?))

Tier 8

• Mondegreens only you've had – And nobody else apart from you has had.
• "Word maths word maths word, straddle" – Deadmau5, "Maths" (Actual: "4 + 4 + 4 =12")
• The mondegreen you thought you heard was actually the real thing – Surprise?
• "Yume Nikki" – Urotsuki, Yume 2kki (What she's actually saying is unknown, though likely in Japanese.)
• "Mr. Squidward" – Whatever is being said in "White Blur 2" by Aphex Twin. Lyrics (or rather, speaking) are nigh-indecipherable, but it can't be "Mr. Squidward" since the song was made before SpongeBob existed.
• Mondegreens from very obscure media – Various media

See also

• Iceberg chart
• Mandela effect iceberg
• Untranslatable words and phrases iceberg

Sources

• IcebergThreads version: TheGrandFinal. Mondegreen / Misheard Stuff. IcebergThreads. 20 March 2026. Retrieved 29 October 2026.