I Read That As/T-Z

T

• Tagalong Kid -> Tagalog Kid (Apologies to any Filipinos around.)
  • This Filipino troper thought this one too, so apology accepted.
  • Tilnanogue Kid
• Táin Bó Cúailnge -> Tae Bo Challenge
• Take That Us -> Take That, US (someone doesn't like Eagle Land)
• Talks Like a Simile --> Talks Like A Smile
  • Tastes Like a Simile ("Mustard of your doom!")
• A Taste of Power -> A Waste Of Power -> A Taste Of Water
  • A taste of powder.
• Tales of Magazine is commonly misread as Tails of Magazine or Tales of Magazne
• Tastes Like Chicken -> Tastes Like Children
• Ted Baxter Close Up -> Ted Baxter Closes Up, Dash Baxter close up
• Telephone Polearm -> Telephone Problem
• Tempting Fate -> Tempting Fate -> Tempting Fate
  • Tempting Bate
  • Tempting Brit. Or if you're that kind of person, Tempting Brit.
  • Tempting Fat
  • Twisted Fate
• Terrible Ticking -> Terrible Tickling -> Terrible Trickling
• That Makes Me Feel Angry - That Makes Me Feel Agony
  • That Makes Me Feel Hungry
• The Chosen One -> The Chosen Orne (AAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!)
• I used to read The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker as The Legend Of Zelda Wind Walker.
• Thememobile -> The Meme Mobile, The Me Mobile
• There Are No Therapists -> There Are The Rapists, They Are Not The Rapists, There Are No "The Rapists"
• There Is Only One Bed -> Only One Beard, There Is Only One Bard
• They Call Me Mister Tibbs -> They Call Me Mister Gibbs
• Thinker Pose - Tinker Pose (don't ask)
  • Tinkerbell Pose, Tinker Rose
• 3rd Rock from the Sun -> Third Reich from the Sun, Thirty Rock From The Sun
• This Is My Boomstick -> This Is My Broomstick (It helps that this editor hasn't seen Army Of Darkness)
  • This... is... my... BROOMSTICK!,
  • This is my Moon Stick
• This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself -> This Is Something He's Got To Do To Himself
  • This Is Something: He's Got To Do Himself
• This Is Sparta -> This Is AAAAAAHHH
  • This! Is! FARTAAAAAA!!!
  • This! Is! SPARDA!!! -> This! Is! SPINDA!!!
  • This! Is! PRADA!
  • This! Is! DEMACIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
• This Is Your Premise on Drugs -> This Is Your Penis On Drugs, This Is Your Prinnies On Drugs
• This Page Will Self-Destruct -> This Pig Will Self Destruct
• This Troper -> The Trooper
• Thundering Herd -> Thundering Nerd (What, The Angry Video Game Nerd?)
  • -> Tsundering Her
• Title Bin -> Titty Bin (Hey, it was bound to happen eventually, right?)
• Titus Andronicus -> Titus And Ironicus
• Token Evil Teammate -> Token Evil Incarnate
• Token Minority -> Tolkien Minority --> Ticking Minority
• Tokimeki Memorial -> Okidoki Memorial
  • Tolmekian Memorial
• Tomato in the Mirror -> Tornado In The Mirror (AAAHH!)
  • Are you a Troper? Are you playing Iji? Komato In The Mirror.
• Tomato Surprise -> Tornado Surprise ("EVERYBODY GET UNDER SOMETHING!")
• Tomboy and Girly Girl -> Flamboyant Girly Girl
• Took a Level in Badass -> Took A Level In A Badass; Took A-Levels In Badass
  • [[Took On A Badass Level
  • Took a Level In Dumbass
  • Took A Level In Fatass
• Total Annihilation -> Toei Animation (though to be fair I am a little drunk as I type this), Total Inhalation
• Total Party Kill -> Total Panty Kill
  • Tonight Party Kills
• Touched by Vorlons -> Touched By Vogons
  • Touched by Voltron
  • Touched by Voltorb
  • Touched By Vorticons -> Touched By Vortigaunts -> Touched By Vorkosigans
  • Touched by Volcom
  • Douched By Vorlons
  • Touch My Vorlons
    • Touch. My. PINGAS!
  • Touched By Morons
  • Touched By Angels
  • Touched By Pylons -> Touched By Pythons
  • Touched By War Lions
  • Torched by Vorlons
• Trailers Always Spoil + Trope Telegraphing -> Tropers Always Spoil
• Training Tropes -> Training Toph
• Transformation Ray -> Transformation Bay, Transformers Bay
• Transformation Trauma -> Transformation Aura, Information Trauma
• Transformers Energon -> Transformers Eragon
  • Transformers Aragorn
• Trenchcoat Brigade -> Turncoat Bride
  • Treatcheron Brigade
  • Turnabout Brigade
• Triggerheart Exelica -> Triggerheart Replica, Tiggerheart Replica
  • Triggerheart Excella
• Tropemanteau -> Trope Mantis
• Tropes About Taboos -> Tropes About Tattoos
• Tropes Are Tools -> Tropers Are Tools
• True Neutral -> Duke Neutral.
• Truth Serums -> Truth Lemurs, Truth Sermons, Truth Semen
  • Truth Samus
    • Samus Is a Girl
• Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle -> Tsukasa Reservoir Chronicle, Tsubasa Reservoir Carnival
  • Conversely, Tsukasa Hiiragi -> Tsubasa Hiiragi
  • Tsundere Reservoir Chronicle
• Tsundere -> Tsunade, Tornado
  • Trunade (so therefore Giant Trunade -> Giant Tsunade)
• TV Tropes -> TV Ropes Wiki
  • TV Toes Wiki
  • TV Popes Wiki
  • TV Poops Wikis
  • TV Tome Wiki
  • TV Gropes Wiki
• Tropes Will Ruin Your Life -> Tropes Will Ruin Your Liver
• Twilight -> Twitlight
• A Twinkle in the Sky -> A Twinkie in the Sky (yummy!)
• Two Guys and a Girl -> Two Guys On A Girl
  • Two Guys One Girl
• Tyke Bomb (and Laser Guided Tykebomb) -> Dykebomb, Tickbomb, Iykebomb
  • Tickbomb -> Dickbomb

U

• Ultraterrestrials -> Ultra Testicles
• Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny -> Ultimate Hoedown of Ultimate Destiny
• Unexpected Genre Change: Unexpected Gender Change.
• Unflappable Guardian -> Unfappable Guardian -> Unfappable Cardigan
• Unions in Hollywood -> Unicorns In Hollywood
  • Onions in Hollywood
• Unpleasable Fanbase -> Unpleasant Fanbase (kind of appropriate, really)
• Unpronounceable Alias -> Unpronounceable Aliens
• The Un-Smile -> The Un Simile, The Un Slime
• Unusual Euphemism -> Unusual Euphemia
• Useful Notes On Poland -> Useful Notes On Polaroid
  • Useful Notes Of Blood (Death Note?)
• Useful Notes On Punk -> Useful Notes On Pink, Useful Notes of Dunk, Jurassic Park (I have no clue how that happened).
• Utopia Justifies the Means -> Utopia Justifies The Meats
• Uwe Boll -> Uwe Bowl, Uwe Bull, Uwe Hole, Uwe Butthole, Uwe Bolk, Uwe Bowel.

V

• Vancian Magic -> Vatican Magic (for when the Pope decides it's time to get serious)
  • Vicodin Magic
  • Van Helsing Magic
• Van Buren -> Van Gurren
• Van Helsing Hate Crime -> Van Helsing Hates Crime
• Verbal Tic -> Verbal Tick
  • Verbal Kint -> Verbal Knit (how I got there, I don't know. Third Base.)
  • Verbal Kint -> Verbal C***
• The Very Definitely Final Dungeon -> The Very Definitively Final Dungeon
• Vetinari Job Security -> Katamari Damacy Job Security
• Victorious Childhood Friend -> Victorian Childhood Friend, Vicarious Childhood Friend, Vicious Childhood Friend
  • Victorious Childhood Fiend
• Viewers are Morons -> Viewers Are Mormons -> Viewers are Nomnoms
  • Viewers Are Normans
• Viewtiful Joe -> Beautiful Joe
  • Vengeful Joe
• Villains Blend in Better -> Villains Blend In Butter
• Villains Out Shopping -> Villains Out Shipping
• Vocaloid -> Bukkakeloid
  • Vocal Void
• Voices Are Mental -> Viewers Are Mean
  • Voices Of Hentai
  • Voices Are Metal
• Vorkosigan Saga -> Volkswagen Saga

W

• Waif Fu -> "Waifu"
  • "Why, foo?"
• Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World -> Wake Up, Go To School, Fuck The World
• Waking Non Sequitur -> Walking Non Sequitur
• Walk It Off -> Wank It Off
  • Walk It Out
• Warrior Therapist -> Warrior: The Rapist.
• Wasteland Elder -> Wasteland Eldar
• We Hardly Knew Ye -> We Hardly Knew Yue
• We Help the Helpless -> We Help The Homeless, We Are The Helpless, We Help The Heiress, We Help The Hercules
  • We Hump The Homeless
• Weird Al Effect -> Weird AI Effect, Weird Al Infect, Weird Al Insect
• Well, Excuse Me, Princess! -> Well Intentioned Princess, Well Execute Me Princess
• Weapon Tombstone -> Weapon Trombone
• Western Animation -> Gestern Animation
• We Will Not Have Pockets in the Future -> We Will Eat Hot Pockets In The Future
  • We Will Not Have Rockets In The Future
• We Will Use Manual Labour in The Future -> We Will Use Manuel Labour In The Future
• What an Idiot! -> Waffle Idiot
• What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome? -> What Do You Mean It's Not Aversion
• What Do You Mean It's Not Didactic? -> What Do You Mean It's Not Diabetic
• What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?? -> What Do You Mean It's Not For Heroes?
• What Happened to the Mouse?? -> What Happened To The Moose?
  • What Happened To The Mousse?
  • What Happened To The House?
• What Measure Is a Mook? -> What Measure Is A Mork (which seems to be the position of the writers of Futurama.)
  • What Measure Is A Monk
• What Measure Is a Non-Human? -> What Measure Is Anon Human -> What Measure Is Not A Human
  • What Measures a Human?
  • What Measure Is A Newman? -> What Measure Is A Newbie?
• On the Cool Mask page and Color Coded for Your Convenience... When Fubuki in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX , suffering from Jekyll-and-Hyde Syndrome, succumbs to his powerful but evil dark side, it is symbolized by such a mask appearing on his face from nowhere except a cloud of black smoke. + The mysterious masked man in the second season of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. He could take the full brunt of Nanoha's attack without being fazed and routinely made short work of anyone he attacked. -> When Fubuki in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX , suffering from Jekyll-and-Hyde Syndrome, succumbs to his powerful but evil dark side, it is symbolized by being fazed and routinely made short work of anyone he attacked.
• White Dwarf Starlet -> White Dwarf Star Fleet
• Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises -> Wide Eyes And Shuriken Irises
• Widget Series -> Digit Series
• Widow Woman -> Window Woman, Wonder Woman, Willow Woman
• Will They or Won't They? -> Will You, Won't You?
• Winged Humanoid -> Widget Humanoid
• Wisdom from the Gutter -> Wisdom From The Guitar, Wisdom From The Butler
• Wishplosion -> Whiplosion
  • Fishplosion
• The Woobie -> The Wookiee, The Boobie, The Mooby -> The Nooby
  • The Shoobie
    • The Coobie
  • The Shroobie
  • The Woolseyism -> The Wesley
• Women Drivers -> Women Drinkers -> Woven Drinkers
• Word Cruft -> World Cruft, Warcraft, World Crust, World Craft, Word Craft
• Word of God -> Word Of Zod, World Of God, Word Of Gold
• The World God Only Knows -> The Word of God Only Knows
• World of Warcraft -> World of Wordcruft
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit -> Wounded Gazebo Gambit
• Wring Every Last Drop Out of Him -> Writing Every Last Drop Out Of The Pen (Trying to avoid Couldn't Find a Pen for as long as possible?)
  • Wiring Every Last Drop Out of Him
  • Writing Every Last Drop Out of Him
• Writing for the Trade -> Writing For The Tirade, Waiting For The Trade, Waiting for the Tirade
• WTH Casting Agency? -> With Casting Agency -> What's With The Casting Agency?

X

• X-Men -> X-Man. I think we all did at some point before 1992.
• XYY -> YYZ -> XYZ

Y

• Yamato Nadeshiko -> Yamato Nadesico
  • Considering that Martian Successor Nadesico was specifically named with Space Cruiser Yamato in mind, you're not that far off.
• Yandere -> Flandere (somewhat appropriate, isn't it?)
• Yangire -> Rangire
  • Ahrire
• Yellow Sash of Power -> Yellow Slash Of Power
  • Yellow Slash of Power can also refer to Link's Final Smash.
• Yes, Virginia -> Yes Vagina -> Yes Virginal
  • No Virginia
• You Cannot Kill an Idea -> You Cannot Kill an Ikea
• You Got Spunk -> You Got Splork
• You Have to Burn The Rope -> You Have To Burn The Pope -> You Have To Bum The Pope
  • You Have To Burn The Trope
• You Lose At Zero Trust -> You Lose At Zero Thrust, You Lose at Zeerust, You Lose With Zero's Trust, You Lose With Zero's Trust (not that you have a choice…)
  • You Lose At Zerg Rush
• Your Other Left -> Your Left Ear
• You Shall Not Pass -> You Shall Not Piss (on hospitality?)
• You Wanna Get Sued? -> You Wanna Be Sedated (Guess what this troper was listening to...)
  • You Wanna Get A Suit -> You Wanna Get A Slut
  • You Wanna Mary Sued
• Yvonne Craig + Danny DeVito (on the list of actors needing summary) -> Yvonne De Carlo

Z

• Zack and Miri Make a Porno -> Zack and Wiki Make a Porno -> Zack and Cody Make a Porno -> Zack and Miri Make A Promo
• Zeerust -> Veerust, Zerg Rush, Zee Thrust, See Rust, Zero Rust
• Zettai Ryouiki -> Zetta Ryouiki, Zettai Ryuichi (I'd hit it?)
  • Zettai Ryouko
  • Zettai Ryo-Ohki
• Zorbeez -> Zorbak
  • Zorbaz (Actually, I always misread Zorbaz signs as Zorbak and then Zorbeez. It's even worse when I try to say it.)