Back at the Barnyard (TV Series)

Home Sweet Hole/Otis' Mom (2008)

Wanda Sykes: Bessy the Cow

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Otis the Cow : [seeing a depressed Bessy looking at a picture]  Hey, Bessy.

  Bessy the Cow : [depressed]  Hey, Otis.

  Otis the Cow : Oooooh, you got me there wi---Wait, "Hey Otis"? What, no insults, no zingers? Who are you and what you've done with my sarcastic, anger-spewing friend!

  [Bessy growls in anger] 

  Otis the Cow : Ahh, fear!

  [she sighs in depression] 

  Otis the Cow : What, no hitting? My face is surprisingly not stingy.

  Bessy the Cow : For your information, this is a picture of my long-lost son. I was separated him from when he was just a few months old. I remember it like it was yesterday.

  [flashback to a petting zoo years ago] 

  Bessy the Cow : [voiceover]  We were at the petting zoo at the county fair, when a sweet baby snuck off, to play with some balloons.

  [the baby grabs a whole bushel of them in his mouth and suddenly floats off] 

  Bessy the Cow : [voiceover]  When I turned around, he was floating into the air and I never saw him again.

  [flashback ends] 

  Otis the Cow : That's so weird. I was separated from my mom at the county fair when I was a baby. All I have to remember by is my first cow bell. Wait here, I'll go get it!

  [searches for it] 

  Bessy the Cow : [sighs]  My baby.

  Otis the Cow : See? Here it is.

  [Bessy looks at it and is surprised] 

  Otis the Cow : I like to nuzzle it when I'm stressed out and stuff, you know, world's getting me down. It's kinda like a secruity blanket, that's made of iron, and makes a ringing sound and

  [sees Bessy smiling] 

  Otis the Cow : why are you staring at me like that?

  Bessy the Cow : This is my baby's cowbell. Do you know what this means?

  Otis the Cow : I think I do and it feels..no.

  Bessy the Cow : Otis, I'm your mother!

  [hugs him] 

  Otis the Cow : [stunned by this revelation]  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

  [echoes] 

  Bessy the Cow : You done?

  Otis the Cow : Hold on. One more. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

• [last lines] 

  Otis the Cow : [as the two cows stand under a tree]  Hey, Bessy.

  Bessy the Cow : Hey, moron. Thank goodness that whole thing's over.

  Otis the Cow : Oh, it wasn't so bad, was it? I think I liked being your son. You know for like an eighth for a day.

  Bessy the Cow : Well, I didn't completely hate you as a son either. Tell anybody and I'll take you out.

  Otis the Cow : Our secret! Pinkie swear! Promise!

  Bessy the Cow : You think maybe I could burp you one last time?

  Otis the Cow : Alright. But seriously, just once more.

  [burps] 

  Bessy the Cow : That's my boy.

  [They walk off. Unbenownst to them, Bessy's real son, now all grown, is still floating in a balloon] 

  Bessy's Kid : Hello? Hello? I'm been up here a very long time. A little help please.

  [floats away into the distance]