Bert And Ernie's Blackout Lyrics

Bert: Ernie .... Ernie ...
. Ernie, I'm tired of that program .
... Ernie, we've been watching television all day [or
for several hours?] and I'd like to play a record now .... Ernie?
Ernie: Shh, Bert! Keep it down, I'm trying to watch television.
Bert: Okay, smart guy, you watch your ol' TV.
I'm going to play a record anyway.
[Bert promptly marches back to the record player,
starts playing jazzy music and dancing to it.
Note: the TV, record player,
etc., are continuous throughout the arguement.
]Ernie: Bert?! BERT! Hey, I can't hear the television!
[No response] Bert?! Okay,
if that's the way you want to be about it .
... [he goes over the radio,
turns it on loudly, starts humming along]
(This is where I get lost,
as there is so much noise to hear either clearly.)
Bert: Ernie! Alright Ernie!
[whereupon he runs over to the blender and turns that on] Alright, HERE!
[By now the place is full of noise.]Ernie: OH YEAH?!
Bert: YEAH! YOU LIKE IT??!
Ernie: OH YEAH!!
(POOOOOOOOF! All the lights go out,
the sounds quit, we see only Ernie & Bert's eyes floating
in the total blackness.)Sesame Street - Bert And Ernie's Blackout - http://motolyrics.com/sesame-street/bert-and-ernies-blackout-lyrics.html
Bert: Well now, look, you blew a fuse.

Ernie: Oh yeah, well it was your idea turning on the dumb mixer.
Bert: (resignedly, after a pause) Look,
.... Ernie .... how about you go around and turn off
all that stuff we turned on,
and I will ... I'll go and try to fix the fuse.
[Bert's eyes wander off. Ernie's eyes go all over as
he steps from switch to switch, snapping each off with a loud CLICK.]
Ernie: Okay .... first there's the mixer (or radio?
) ..... then there's the radio (or mixer?
) ..... over here, okay, over here the television .
... and one more, back there--the phonograph!
Yeah .... that's got 'em .... yeah ....
(Suddenly the lights go back on,
Bert returns. He and Ernie start playing cards during
the following dialogue:)
Bert: Look, Ernie, I'm--I'm sorry about playing a record
while you were watching TV ...
Ernie: Yeah, well I'm sorry about turning on the radio ...
Bert: Well, and I'm sorry about turning on the blender ...
Ernie: Yeah, and I'm sorry, I shouldn't be watching so much television ...
Bert: Well, we really shouldn't be doing stuff like that anyway ...
Ernie: Yeah, we really shouldn't, after all ....
[fade out]