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===In television=== <!--This section is for NOTABLE AND SOURCED examples that have some SPECIFIC SIGNIFICANCE to the genre. As there are many TV mondegreens, this list includes *only* examples in titles and instances where a mondegreen is an essential feature of the show or advertisment. --> Mondegreens have been used in many television advertising campaigns, including: * An advertisement for the 2012 [[Volkswagen Passat]] touting the car's audio system shows a number of people singing incorrect versions of the line "Burning out his fuse up here alone" from the [[Elton John]]/[[Bernie Taupin]] song "[[Rocket Man (song)|Rocket Man]]", until a woman listening to the song in a Passat realizes the correct words.<ref>{{cite AV media |title=2012 Passat Commercial: That's what he says?|via=YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uibqTxCJxLI |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131018033436/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uibqTxCJxLI |archive-date=18 October 2013 |url-status=dead|access-date=28 November 2011}}</ref> * A 2002 advertisement for [[T-Mobile International AG|T-Mobile]] shows spokeswoman [[Catherine Zeta-Jones]] helping to correct a man who has misunderstood the chorus of [[Def Leppard]]'s "[[Pour Some Sugar On Me]]" as "pour some shook up ramen".<ref>{{cite AV media |title=Def Leppard T-Mobile Commercial|via=YouTube |date=12 January 2009 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWalP8U-GZc |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/FWalP8U-GZc |archive-date=11 December 2021 |url-status=live|access-date=11 April 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> * A series of advertisements for [[Hitachi Maxell|Maxell]] audio cassette tapes, produced by [[HHCL|Howell Henry Chaldecott Lury]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Kanner|first=Bernice|title=The 100 best TV commercials—and why they worked|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gD6TAAAAIAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Times Business|page=151|isbn=9780812929959}}</ref> shown in 1989 and 1990, featured misheard versions of "[[Israelites (song)|Israelites]]" (e.g., "Me ears are alight")<ref>{{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTuM1fNzSgQ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016012516/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTuM1fNzSgQ |archive-date=16 October 2015 |url-status=dead|title=Maxell Tapes 80's advert for Maxell Audio Cassette Tapes |date=29 November 2012 |first1=Ron |last1=Heimink |via=YouTube|access-date=27 February 2014}}</ref> by [[Desmond Dekker]] and "[[Into the Valley]]" by [[the Skids]]<ref>{{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAsmf1LGcpA |date=4 July 2006 |last1=OrientFan |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/DAsmf1LGcpA |archive-date=11 December 2021 |url-status=live|title=Skids – "Into The Valley" Maxell advert|via=YouTube|access-date=27 February 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> as heard by users of other brands of tape. * A 1987 series of advertisements for [[Kellogg Company|Kellogg]]'s ''Nut 'n Honey Crunch'' featured a joke in which one person asks "What's for breakfast?" and is told "Nut 'N' Honey", which is misheard as "Nothing, honey".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Video Ad Library: Kellogg Co. – Nut N' Honey Crunch |url=http://www.adrespect.org/common/adlibrary/adlibrarydetails.cfm?QID=9&ClientID=11064 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221027073053/http://www.adrespect.org/common/adlibrary/adlibrarydetails.cfm?QID=9&ClientID=11064 |archive-date=27 October 2022 |publisher=Jensen AdRespect Advertising Education Program}}</ref>
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