Velha Surda is a recurring character from A Praca e Nossa, the long running bench comedy show on Brazilian network SBT. Played by Roni Rios, she sits beside Apolonio, played by Viana Junior, and mishears almost everything he says, creating new and ridiculous topics from similar sounding words. The sketch became one of the programme's most remembered routines, repeated in reruns and later shared online as short clips and audios. Its mishearing premise survives outside Brazil because the confused delivery needs little translation.