Ernie: Hey there, Mr. Ice Cream Cone Man!
Ice Cream Man: Huh?
Ernie: Hey, I wanna ice cream cone!
Ice Cream Man: Okay, just a minute.
(As the man gets out of the truck from behind the cutout, Ernie speaks to the camera.)
Ernie: Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, I`ve been thinking of a very special ice cream cone which I am going to order right now. (patented Ernie Laugh) (the man now stands next to him) Hey, Mr. Ice Cream Cone Man, I want a very special ice cream cone, can you make it up for me? (the man makes an agreeable noise) Okay, here comes the flavour. Now, I would like one (as he recites each flavour, Ernie ticks them off on his fingers ... he has to use a few of them more than once as he only has four!) chocolate-strawberry-peach-vanilla-banana-pastachio-peppermint-lemon-orange-butterscotch ice cream cone.
Ice Cream Man: What did you say?
Ernie: I said, I want a chocolate-strawberry-peach-vanilla-banana-pastachio-peppermint-lemon-orange-butterscotch ice cream cone.
Ice Cream Man: You mean you want a chocolate-strawberry-peach-vanilla-banana-pastachio-peppermint-lemon-orange-butterscotch ice cream cone?
Ernie: Yup!
Ice Cream Man: Okay, I`ll be right back.
(The camera moves in on Ernie and the man disappears offscreen. Ernie rubs his hands in anticipation.)
Ernie: Oh boy, I can hardly wait! Hardly wait for my chocolate-strawberry-peach-vanilla-banana-pastachio-peppermint-lemon-orange-butterscotch ice cream cone!
(The man reappears carrying a cone piled high with different colored ice cream scoops.)
Ice Cream Man: Ha! You didn`t think I`d remember that you wanted a chocolate-strawberry-peach- vanilla-banana-pastachio-peppermint-lemon-orange-butterscotch cone, did ya? But I did!
(As the man recites the flavours, Ernie ticks off each one starting at the bottom of the cone, then begins to scratch his head.)
Ernie: Wait a minute! Wait a minute! Listen, you brought me an ice cream cone all right, but you brought me a butterscotch-orange-lemon-peppermint-pastachio-banana-vanilla-peach-strawberry-chocolate cone! And I didn`t ask you for that, I asked you for a chocolate-strawberry-peach-vanilla-banana-pastachio-peppermint-lemon-orange-butterscotch cone!
Ice Cream Man: (starts to wrinkle his face in disgust) You mean ...
Ernie: I mean you put the chocolate on the bottom and the butterscotch on the top and I wanted the butterscotch on the bottom and the chocolate on the top! You made my ice cream cone upside down!
Ice Cream Man: Come on now, it really doesn`t matter if you have a chocolate-strawberry-peach-vanilla-banana-pastachio-peppermint-lemon-orange-butterscotch ice cream cone or a butterscotch-orange-lemon-peppermint-pastachio-banana-vanilla-peach-strawberry-chocolate cone!
Ernie: Doesn`t matter? Why, of course it matters. It matters very much that you put the top on the bottom and the bottom on the top! Why, what makes you think that it doesn`t matter?!
Ice Cream Man: All right, I`ll tell you what, if you wanted the cone to be a chocolate-strawberry-peach-vanilla-banana-pastachio-peppermint-lemon-orange-butterscotch and I made it instead into a butterscotch-orange-lemon-peppermint-pastachio-banana-vanilla-peach-strawberry-chocolate cone, it`s very easy to fix.
Ernie: Hmm ... well, how is it easy to fix when you put the chocolate on the bottom, down here, and I wanted it on the top, up here?!
Ice Cream Man: Simple, just eat the same cone standing on your head!
(Ernie looks surprised and shocked as his hand flies up to his mouth.)
