Pinched this from Facebook. If anyone gets it, please explain it to me, because I don't.
Seriously?
Well, um, ok, but you're not going to like it.
In the cartoon, we see a young girl answering the phone. The youg girl is clothed in what can be recognised as a 'Dorothy dress' from Dorothy Gale, the character in The Wizard of Oz, so memorably played by Judy Garland.
In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy has a little dog, often threteaned by the Wicked Witch. Her little dog is called Toto.
Toto are a popular beat combo, m'lud who in some versions are named after Dorothy's little dog. In other versions, they may have been named after toto from the Latin as in 'in toto' to refer to them having played multiple styles as a session band, but here we're going with the first version.
In the 1980s, Toto the band, not the little dog, had a pangalactic hit with the song Africa. During the song, the lead singer, Steve Lukather, who is currently the only original member of the band still playing with them, sings 'I will bless the rains down in Africa'. While I find the diction of the aforesaid Mr Lukather to be entirely adequate, some with the repetition of the lyric have heard it as 'I will bless Lorraine down in Africa'.
Hence in the cartoon, the Mondegreen Lorraine is calling the little dog, not the band, Toto, from down in Africa.
And here are Toto, the band, not the little dog, with the song Africa for you to decide what you think Mr Lukather is singing.
https://youtu.be/FTQbiNvZqaY?si=O0MfoMUerv8RYQt3
