I think we've all had 'em.
You know, those moments when you spent years thinking a character's name was something it wasn't, or you misheard some dialogue in a way that made no sense, or you thought a character was the opposite gender they actually were, etc. (Yeah, I just discovered I wasn't the only one who thought Tippy was a girl.)
In the original movie, when Ducky said, "Lots of things cannot fly. Rocks...trees...sticks...Spike," I was 100% sure she said, "Rocks...trees...sticks...
bikes."
Similarly, when Hyp told his flunkies to "get in there and help, you creeps," I thought he said, "you
crates."
I also remember that I kept hearing Dil's name as "Gil" and thinking she was male because of it.
In LBT VII, I had Rinkus and Sierra's names confused for
years, and after I finally realized my mistake, a friend who also watched LBT informed me he had thought the same thing! As he explained it, "Rinkus sounds more evil!"
That was pretty much my rationale, too, not realizing they were named for their species the first time I saw the movie. Clearly, the more threatening name belonged on the hotheaded psycho, right? It didn't help that I thought Sierra was exclusively a girl name IRL--though I knew both characters were guys, I thought the more feminine name should be on the pink character. An internet search has since shown me that Sierra is a gender-neutral name, though I found it was within the top 100 girls' names in 2000, the year LBT VII came out, while not even penetrating the top 1000 for boys, so no wonder I was confused. Couldn't they have named him "Dactyl" or something, instead?
Oh yeah, and one more thing I recall was when Cera asked Pterano, "What are you doing here??" and he said, "Migrating, like the others out there in the field," his accent made little-me hear his first word as, "My greetings." Heh...I thought,
okay, he's going around greeting everybody in the valley, he's trying to convince them he's friendly. The only thing weirder than the misunderstandings little kids can take from something is the way they manage to rationalize those mix-ups!
So, what kind of LBT misunderstandings did the rest of you have when you were younger?