Cons Of Curses

Cons Of Curses
 * Season #: 7
 * Season Ep #: 6
 * Overall Ep #: 112

Summary
Cotton Puffy overhears a bad word from Mr. Rainbow and he uses it in front of Vanilla Cake and Caramel Cider.

Episode
Note : Throughout the episode, many bits of dialogue are obscured by many sound effects. The sound effects and bold and in between dashes.

(Opening shot; fade in to the kitchen of the Rainbow House. Dirty pots and pans are stacked everywhere, and we can hear other dishes being shuffled o.c. A small TV sits in the foreground, next to the sink with its screen turned away from the camera, and a female voice is heard.) (Mr. Rainbow hustles across the screen—he is the source of the clatter and mess, and he has put on an apron. A large turkey rests on a platter in his hands. The next several lines overlap.) (On the end of this, he crosses the kitchen again, this time with an armload of vegetables in tow. The distinct sound of creaking metal from the oven’s general direction combines with his next words to obscure the start of the host’s next sentence.) (There is an o.c. explosion—the oven just gave up the ghost—that obscures her next few words.) (During the previous line, Mr. Rainbow zips o.s. away from the oven, then back toward it with a fire extinguisher. White clouds of carbon dioxide vapor drift back into view as he uses the thing. Cut to outside the kitchen door; smoke billows into the hallway as his panicked shriek rings out. Pan/tilt up to the door of the playroom, then cut to inside. Vanilla Cake floats up into view, with a building block in hand aimed for the top of a tower.) (The party brother is lying on the floor and working intently on a balloon animal shape.) (Close-up of a point between the three. Each reaches one hand into view and shakes it during the count of the next line.) (Back to the kitchen. A pot of something is boiling on the stove. During the next line, Mr. Rainbow runs across with another armload of vegetables.) (A great commotion; the veggies fly back into view, and he returns to the stove.) (He shoots out one hand and grabs the pot’s handle. The sizzle of flesh on metal does not immediately register in his brain—but after a second his eyes bug out and he sinks his teeth into his lower lip to stifle a scream. Everything he ever learned about heat transfer has just come back to him in one agonizing instant. Finally he pulls free and regards his steaming appendage.) (Cut to the boiling kettle on the stove. Pull back to frame the unfortunate man, sucking frantically at his scalded fingers—and Cotton Puffy, floating unnoticed behind him. His face betrays his complete shock at what he has just overheard.)
 * [Host] (on TV) "All righty, it's almost time to put that turkey in the oven."
 * [Mr. Rainbow] "Turkey in the oven."
 * [ Host ] ( on TV ) "Next we tackle the vegetable stuffing. Now take those veggies and--"
 * [ Mr. Rainbow ] (hustling across) "Right, veggies...Hold on!" (More rattling of utensils.)
 * [ Host ] ( on TV ) " —julienne them like so. Not very difficult. Now mix them in with the tomato coulis we prepared earlier."
 * [ Mr. Rainbow ] (now o.s.) " We prepared that earlier?" (He backs into view.)
 * [ Host ] ( on TV ) " —and stuff it into the turkey."
 * [ Mr. Rainbow ] (puzzled) "What? Bu-but it's in the oven already!"
 * [ Host ] ( on TV ) " See how easy it goes in? Everything should be running just smooth as silk."
 * [ Mr. Rainbow ] "Uh oh."
 * [ Host ] ( on TV ) " Make sure you don’t set that temperature too high, or you’ll be putting out a three-alarm fire. All right, now sit yourself down and enjoy a nice cold beverage—"
 * [Vanilla Cake] "Hey, somebody go down and see if dinner’s ready. I’m hungry." (He places the block; cut to Caramel on the bed reading.)
 * [Caramel Cider] "I'm busy. You go."
 * [ Vanilla Cake ] "No, you go!"
 * [ Caramel Cider ] "No, you!"
 * [ Vanilla Cake ] "You!"
 * [ Caramel Cider ] "You!"
 * [ Vanilla Cake ] "You!"
 * [ Caramel Cider ] "You!"
 * [ Vanilla Cake ] "Ugh! Fine!" (adding another block) "Cotton, you go."
 * [Cotton Puffy] "I can't. I'm in the zone!"
 * [ Vanilla Cake ] "Okay, then." (tossing another block away) "Let's rock-paper-scissor for it."
 * [All three] (from o.s.) "One...two...three!"
 * [ Caramel Cider ] ( from o.s. ) " Scissors beats paper!"
 * [ Vanilla Cake ] ( from o.s. ) "Ha! You lose, Cotton." (Shift to frame all three.) " Now go see what’s for dinner."
 * [ Cotton Puffy ] "I always lose at this game!"
 * [ Host ] ( on TV ) " All right, let’s turn up the heat, shall we?"
 * [ Mr. Rainbow ] ( from o.s. ) " No, please!"
 * [ Host ] ( on TV ) "Time to check that sauce."
 * [ Mr. Rainbow ] "Sauce. Right."
 * [ Mr. Rainbow ] "HOLY -TEA-KETTLE WHISTLING-!!"

(Back to the playroom. As Caramel continues reading and Vanilla waits impatiently with another block in hand, Cotton floats along the balcony to the doorway. His expression has not changed.) (He floats across the room, paying no heed, and stops near Vanilla and the tower of blocks.) (Cut to the balloon animal of a dog on the floor.) (Cotton picks up another inflated balloon and starts to twist it. He rather distracted, however, and the balloon pops in his hand. Cut to the other two; he rises from the ground.) (This outburst has drawn the attention of the other two. Vanilla lets a block slip from his grasp, while Caramel forgets about her book altogether. Now Cotton settles happily down to his work as his siblings approach during the next line.) (The boys smile at each other.) more TBA
 * [ Vanilla Cake ] "Hey, Cotton. What's for dinner?"
 * [ Caramel Cider ] "Hey, Cotton...Cotton?"
 * [ Vanilla Cake ] "Hel-lo? Jupiter to Cotton! Dinner?"
 * [ Vanilla Cake ] ( from o.s. ) "Cotton? Cotton! Oh, I give up!"
 * [Cotton Puffy] (suddenly angry) "Stupid -TOWER COLLAPSING- balloon!"
 * [ Cotton Puffy ] "Well, I guess I'll make your left leg green."
 * [ Vanilla Cake ] "What did you say?"
 * [ Caramel Cider ] "Where'd ya learn that word?"
 * [ Cotton Puffy ] "Mr. Rainbow. I think it's funny."
 * [ Vanilla Cake ] "I don't know what that word means, but it sounds cool."
 * [ Caramel Cider ] "It's pretty obvious, ain't it? It's gotta be an adjective, one that describes words. Like 'great' or 'fantastic'. I'm guessin' it can be used for good and bad things."
 * [ Caramel Cider ] "And you can say 'great', 'super-great', or -BIRD CHIRPING- 'great'."
 * [ Cotton Puffy ] "Balloons?"
 * [ Vanilla Cake ] "-DOG BARK- cool!"
 * [Cotton, Vanilla] " -DOG BARK- That makes sense."