This puzzle references famous Youtube videos which show “English lyrics” misheard from a song in a foreign language. The title references Benny Lava, a particularly famous such video. Here all the videos referenced, all by Buffalax:
Video | Language | Original | Original Movie / Album / Artist |
Benny Lava (Crazy Indian Video) | Tamil | Kalluri Vaanil | Pennin Manathai Thottu |
Indian Thriller (Girly Man) | Telugu | Golimar | Donga |
Moskau | German | Moskau | Dschinghis Khan |
Tunak Tunak Tun | Punjabi | Tunak Tunak Tun | Artist Daler Mehndi |
Each clue, translated into English, sounds absurd. However, the misheard lyrics of the video with the same language, when taken literally, answer the clue. Here are the clues, translated, the corresponding lyrics, and the answers to the clue. We extract by indexing into the answer using the given number. (Using Google Translate to translate the clues suffices.)
German | This master of dance summoned the fish that you invited to enjoy. | Come and dance and love the fish! Mister Disco summoned it! | MISTER DISCO | M |
Punjabi | The lake guard should be sued because of the sawdust and pizza for this green person. | Sue the guard, up the lake there's sawdust and pizza Yoda! | YODA | A |
Telugu | Children are prohibited from wearing this item of clothing. | Its the child no parka rule! | PARKA | K |
Tamil | You fought a man of this profession. | I fought a barber man! | BARBER | E |
Telugu | Unfortunately, this of device of yours is missing a bow. | Gosh, my old calculator ain't got no bow! | CALCULATOR | U |
German | It's time that this former ruler loses. | Castro, it's the time to lose! | CASTRO | S |
Telugu | This vehicle was eaten by a man with prominent nipples. | Nippley man I met, he ate my motorboat! | MOTORBOAT | O |
Punjabi | This strange and chunky alien is in your yard. | In your yard I am the Ferengi man, very odd and chunky | FERENGI | N |
Tamil | You should get this Hindi-speaking conifer. | You need a Hindi yew! | YEW | E |
Tamil | This was the color of the goat that I ate, though I don't know who put it there. | Who put the goat in there? The yellow goat i ate! | YELLOW | O |
Punjabi | One of the merry members of your bus group is this performer who hasn't played in a long time. | And your fiddler's very rusty, It's a very merry busfull | FIDDLER | F |
Tamil | This car part made of minor buns created the main character. | Minor bun engine made Benny Lava! | ENGINE | G |
Punjabi | Because this is somewhat hot, you should be envisioning yourself in a cold place. | All along, dude, try to imagine cold, Cuz the van is kinda hot | VAN | A |
German | My cool tight pants are made of this material in addition to animal hide. | Don't you think I'm cool in tights? 'Cause it's made of yarn and hide. | YARN | N |
Telugu | You should welcome people, with the exception of the guy who buys these. | Welcome the dude who ain't the buyer of mugs. | MUGS | G |
German | You should come into the store selling this body part, where two men are set on fire. | Enter the hymen store! Two men are scorched and burned! | HYMEN | N |
German | One should give utmost respect to this delicacy, lest they, like rangers end up pissed in tar. | Please respect the caviar! Rangers end up pissed in tar! | CAVIAR | A |
Tamil | We are aware of the ingredients of this buttery drink. | We know what's in butter rum! | RUM | M |
Telugu | This good is a cargo that you could do. | Salad is a cargo you could do! | SALAD | S |
Punjabi | This animal should be wrapped in a tacky coat. | Wrap the rat in tacky coat | RAT | T |
Tamil | There was an additional cost to buy this animal. | The puppy had a fee! | PUPPY | Y |
Telugu | It is requested that you do not purchase this hairless animal. | Please don't buy the bald seal. | SEAL | L |
Punjabi | You lay this animal while partying and filling me with tar. | And you fill me with tar and you party, laying bears. | BEARS | E |
The letters read MAKE US ONE OF GANGNAM STYLE. After the team does so, they are given the answer to the puzzle.