Curse Your Fate to the Words

This Page is about profanity and is named after Cast Your Fate to the Wind by Vince Guaraldi.

## Transcript

* *[shows Sesame Street at night]*
* **Oscar:** Well, it's the worst time of the day once again. Take that pile of filth out with you. *[Oscar holds up a trash bag with flies flying around it]*
* *[Ernie goes to the dumpster while bringing the trash bag]*
* **Ernie:** *[singing]* Takin' out the trash, takin' out the trash.
* *[Ernie throws the trash in the dumpster and then looks at some writings on the dumpster]*
* **Ernie:** Hmm...dumpster writing! The voice of the people! "Up with rainbows, down with stew!" *[laughs]* "Girls are pink too!" *[laughs]* Ha, those Pink Girls... Here's one someone didn't finish! Big Bird smells. *[writes the word "good" after "smells"]* Good. *[laughs]* Hmm, what's this one? Super Sonico is a... hmm? Super Sonico is a *[Elephant Sound]*.
* **Oscar:** *[Clearly disgusted]* Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?
* **Ernie:** Well, sometimes, but not... Recently.
* **Bert:** Hey Ernie.
* **Ernie:** Hi, Bert! Do you know what this word means?
* **Bert:** "Super Sonico..." Uh, who is Super Sonico?
* **Ernie:** *[pointing to "Super Sonico," then the unseen word as they are said]* Nah, not that word, that word.
* **Bert:** Hmm... *[Elephant Sound]*! Oh, hey! I think I know what that means. That's one of those sentence enhancers.
* **Ernie:** Sentence enhancers?
* **Bert:** You use them when you want to talk fancy. You just sprinkle it over anything you say, and Wham-o! You've got yourself a spicy sentence sandwich!
* **Ernie:** Oh, I get it! Let me try. *[clears his throat]* Hello, Bert. Lovely *[Elephant Sound]* day we're having, isn't it?
* **Bert:** Why, yes it is, Ernie. This *[Elephant Sound]* day is particularly *[Elephant Sound]* lovely!
* **Ernie:** How *[Elephant Sound]* right you are, Bert!
* *[The two say the word a couple of times]*
* **Ernie:** Ooh, You're right, Bert, my lips are tingling from the spiciness of this conversation.
* **Bert:** Oh, mine too!
* *[both laugh]*
* **Ernie:** It tingles when I laugh!
* *[Ernie walks into a park]*
* **Ernie:** Hello, girls, nice *[Elephant Sound]* day we're having, uh? *[The girls stare in shock]*
* **Violet:** *[gasps]* What did he just say?!
* **Lucy:** This is Horrible.
* **Ernie:** Hey, Bert, how the *[Elephant Sound]* are ya?
* **Bert:** *[sitting at a bench]* Pretty *[Elephant Sound]* good, Ernie.
* **Marcie:** I thought this was a fun place, not a gutter mouth convention.
* **Ernie:** *[taps on the microphone and speaks into it]* Attention, people, today's special is a *[Elephant Sound]* Sushi served with creamy *[Elephant Sound]* noodles and served to *[Elephant Sound]* perfection. *[The Bullies laugh while Sally is angry at them. She Slaps Bully #1]* And don't forget to ask us to *[Elephant Sound]* the *[Elephant Sound]* drinks. It will be our *[Elephant Sound]* pleasure. *[Schroeder hears the intercom]* Hi Kid, how the *[Elephant Sound]* are ya?
* **Bert:** Nice *[Elephant Sound]* day, isn't it Kid?
* **Linus:** I don't understand. That guy's talented, he doesn't have to work blue.
* **Elmo:** Let's go somewhere more family oriented. *[Everyone leaves the Park, grumbling in frustration]*
* **Violet:** *[chattering (variously and) inaudibly]* I'm never going here again!
* **Big Bird:** *[chattering (variously and) inaudibly]* Those foul-mouth bottom feeders.
* **Super Sonico:** Huh? What Happened?
* **Charlie Brown:** Apparently, Ernie and Bert just learned a new word, and Ernie just said it over the intercom.
* **Super Sonico:** Well, what was it? What'd he say?
* **Charlie Brown:** Er...he said...um, well he said...
* *[Charlie whispers]*
* **Super Sonico:** Huh? *[Charlie whispers it again; Sonico gasps]* Furonto to sentā! Why, I oughta make the two of you using such language!
* **Ernie:** But, we were only using our sentence enhancers.
* **Bert:** Yeah, it's fancy talk.
* **Super Sonico:** There ain't nothing fancy about that word!
* **Ernie:** You mean *[Elephant Sound]*?
* **Super Sonico:** Yes, that one! Now quit saying that! It's a bad word!
* **Ernie and Bert:** Bad word?! *[both start wiping their tongues]*
* **Super Sonico:** Hai! that's bad word number 11. In fact, there are 13 bad words you should never use.
* **Bert:** That's a lot of *[Elephant Sound]* bad words.
* Super **Sonico:** OK. I want you to promise me you'll never use that word again.
* **Ernie and Bert:** We promise.
* *[later at Ernie's house, Ernie and Bert are playing Snakes and Ladders]*
* **Ernie:** Gee, I'm glad Sonico told us that word we were using was a bad word!
* **Bert:** Yeah, me too, because classy sophisticates like us shouldn't stain our lips with cursing.
* **Ernie:** Yea, verily. Now, let's play a nice, wholesome game of Snakes and Ladders.
* **Bert:** Oh, boy, my favorite!
* **Ernie:** Come on, Elmo needs a new pair of shoes! *[rolls the dice]*
* **Bert:** Oh, Snakes. Too bad, Ernie, you gotta ride the Snake.
* **Ernie:** Darn. *[moves game piece to Snake]*
* **Bert:** My turn! *[rolls dice]* Hooray! Ladders! Yay! Up, up, up!
* **Ernie:** Come on, Ladders, Ladders, Ladders! *[rolls dice]* *[sighs]* Snakes again.
* **Bert:** My turn! *[rolls dice]* Ladders!
* **Ernie:** Ladders, Ladders, Ladders! *[throws dice]* Snakes?
* **Bert:** *[rolls dice]* Ladders! *[moves to Ladders]* Well, this is your last chance, Ernie, or if you get Snakes again, you lose!
* **Ernie:** *[gets frustrated while rolling the dice]* Ladders, Ladders, Ladders!! *[dice is thrown and lands on Ladders]* Ha! Ladders! *[dice turn over to Snakes]*
* **Bert:** Snakes...
* **Ernie:** Ah, *[Elephant Sound]*! *[covers his mouth when he realizes his mistake]*
* **Bert:** Ooooh...! You said number 11!
* **Ernie:** *[babbles for Bert to understand]* I didn't mean... you gotta understand, Bert, I was trying...what I meant to say was...some things just slip out. You gotta understand!
* **Bert:** Don't worry Ernie, I understand. *[pause]* Sonico! *[runs out the door]* Super Sonico! Sonico! *[starts running to Sonico's Home]*
* **Ernie:** *[starts running after him]* No wait, Bert! *[after Ernie catches up to Bert]* Bert, no, please don't tell!
* **Bert:** But, you said "*[Elephant Sound]*"! *[Covers his mouth as he realizes his mistake]*
* **Ernie:** Aha! Now I'm gonna tell Sonico on you!
* **Bert:** Not if I tell first!
* **Ernie:** I can run faster than you! *[laughs]*
* **Bert:** *[riding in an ice cream truck]* See ya at Nitroplus! Ha, ha, ha! *[the truck goes the wrong way]* Oh no!
* **Ernie:** *[laughs]* Sonico, Sonico, Sonico!
* **Super Sonico:** What, what, what?
* **Ernie:** Bert, Bert, Bert!
* **Super Sonico:** Yes, yes, yes?
* **Ernie:** He said, he said, he said!
* **Super Sonic:** Sore de, otokonoko-tachi!
* **Ernie:** *[talking fast]* Me and Bert were playing Snakes and Ladders, and Bert was going up-up-up, and I had to ride the Snake and then we ran and Bert, he said some things.
* **Super Sonico:** *[eyes Ernie]* What kind of things?
* **Ernie:** Well, he said...
* **Super Sonico:** Yes?!
* **Ernie:** Well, uh, let's just say he said a certain word that you said we shouldn't say, and this particular word happens to be number 11 in the 13 words you said shouldn't be said.
* **Super Sonico:** Uh... Right, now what was that part about the, um... Who now?
* **Bert:** *[walks to her and eats an ice cream cone but throws away the cone]* Sonico, Sonico, Sonico! *[Sonico sighs]*
* **Ernie and Bert:** He said that word that you said we shouldn't say...!
* **Ernie:** ...number thirteen...
* *[They babble on about the word, as Sonico stares on disapprovingly, until the two are just pointing at each other and yelling, "Dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah!"; Sonico eventually slaps both to quiet them.]*
* **Sonico:** Now I want you to calmly tell me what you need to tell me, understand?
* **Ernie and Bert:** Hmm... *[they both point at each other again]* He said "*[Elephant Sound]*"!
* **Super Sonico:** *[gasps]* Do my ears deceive me?! You two should be ashamed! Time to take out the trash. *[picks Ernie and Bert up by their pants and carries them out]* You two need to be taught a lesson. I thought I made it clear. Never, and I mean, never use number 11 or any of the 13 bad words! Now the both of you wait right here. I'll be back.
* **Bert:** What's going to happen to us?
* **Ernie:** We'll probably get shots!
* **Bert:** Oh, no!
* **Ernie:** I'm sorry, Bert. Sonico was right. There's no need for words like that.
* **Bert:** I'm sorry too, Ernie.
* **Ernie:** Let's make a vow, Bert. From this day forth a foul word shall never pass our lips! We'll be good citizens, just like Cute Super Sonico.
* **Bert:** *[shakes hands with Ernie]* Agreed!
* **Super Sonico:** All right, you two foul mouths. As punishment for *fouling* the air with yer foul words, you're going to give a unpainted house a fresh coat of paint from top to bottom. *[jams her foot on a rock then hops on one leg]* Ō, ō! Ā! My *[Elephant Sounds]* foot! What *[Elephant Sounds]* genius puts a *[Elephant Sounds]* rock in a *[Elephant Sounds]* path?! Can't you see I got a *[Lion Roar]* foot here?! Oh! *[seal bark!. Continues saying a bunch of swear words, censored out by train whistles, truck horns, giant bells, etc.; at this moment, Ernie and Bert count the swear words he uses]*
* **Ernie:** Five, six, seven...
* **Super Sonico:** ...a whole lotta *[Pigeon sound]* and with a side of *[Elephant Sound]*, a heapin' helpin' of *[giant bell]* and a overload of *[Goose sound]* ...
* **Bert:** Nine...
* **Super Sonico:** *[seal bark, Lion Roar, and a train whistle]*! *[cries in pain]*
* **Ernie:** *[cuts to Ernie with 13 fingers]* That's all 13, Bert!! *[gasps]* We're gonna tell Oscar!
* **Super Sonico:** *[worried]* No, please! *[Ernie and Bert laugh as they run to Oscar, Sonico runs after them]* Wait, please!
* *[They go to the trash can]*
* **Ernie and Bert:** Oscar!
* **Oscar:** Why, hello there!
* *[Ernie, Bert and Sonico all explain the situation at the same time, swearing numerous times as they do so!]*
* **Ernie:** Oscar, she said *[Elephant Sound]* and then he said *[Elephant Sounds]* again and said *[Elephant Sounds]* and then she screamed at the top of her voice *[train whistle]*! And he--*(horn honks)*--Oscar, she didn't care! Such a stream of cursing I have never heard in my days!
* **Oscar:** *[shocked]* Oh, my! Just what I Saw Last Night!
* **Super Sonico:** *[gasps]* What have these foul-mouthed heathens done to you? *[takes a coin out of her pocket]* You two should be ashamed!
* **Oscar:** You should all be ashamed. And if you're gonna talk like bullies, then you're gonna work like bullies.
* *[Then the three are removing graffiti]*
* **Oscar:** I guess you three freight trucks have earned a glass of pink lemonade.
* **Ernie, Bert and Sonico:** Yeah!