Ocho And Marvin, Under One Roof! The Alphabet Episode
In an effort to regain control of his team, Bengals coach Marvin Lewis decides to take the drastic step of bringing volatile wideout Chad Ocho Cinco into his home in a spirited attempt to get the two men to understand one another.
Marvin: Hey, Chad! Chad! Get down here! Losing is not an excuse for apathy, young man! I want you to come down here and be a part of this team again!
Ocho: Hold on, coach! Comin’! What’s the scoop? What’s going on? Why didn’t you let Ocho play last night?
Marvin: I told you, Chad. You were late for the team meeting. So I had to suspend you indefinitely.
Ocho: Well, if I wasn’t DEFINITELY suspended, then why couldn’t I play?
Marvin: No, that’s not what that word means, Chad. It means that you are suspended for an indefinite period of time.
Ocho: Well, if you can’t define that period of time, why don’t you let me? I think I should have only been suspended for, like, a minute. Maybe four.
Marvin: No, Chad. You didn’t deserve to be suspended for only a minute. You needed to be suspended for the entire game because of your insubordination.
Ocho: I was suspended for insubordination? That’s BULLSHIT, man! You should be thanking me. Normally, Coach Bratkowski has to do all the offensive insubordinatin’. Why you suspending Ocho for helping his ass out?
Marvin: That offensive coordinating. Not the same thing. This is what I keep talking about, Chad. You keep making mistakes, and then failing miserably to own up to them. I have no choice but to keep you deactivated until I deem you fit to return to the field.
Ocho: LOOK AT ME! I’M FIT!
Marvin: Again, not what I meant.
Ocho: Coach, coach. I already said I was sorry I missed the meeting YO. I already told you, I was sleeping.
Marvin: That’s not a good excuse, Chad. You get plenty of time for sleeping during the night. There’s no reason you can’t show up to a 10 o’clock meeting.
Ocho: All right. All right. Okay, coach. I didn’t wanna say nothing about this, but I have to. The truth is, I haven’t been sleeping good. At all. I think I have a touch of the ammonia.
Marvin: Insomnia.
Ocho: Whatever. It’s just… it’s hard for me to sleep, know what I mean? I got a lot on my mind. Lotta shit goin’ down in OchoWorld, know what I mean?
Marvin: Thankfully, no.
Ocho: It’s just… sometimes at night, I just can’t get to sleeping. I think about shit, you know? I think about, like, letters. You ever think about letters, Coach? I do. And you know what? I really do not like the letter Y. It bothers me, you know?
Marvin: No.
Ocho: It’s just… what’s the point of it? It’s such a gay letter. Everybody’s saying shit like, “Hey Ocho, Y did you sit crosslegged on that one play?” Or, “Hey Ocho, Y did you put mashed potatoes in the toilet?” I don’t like that letter.
Marvin: Okay, that’s not the letter Y. That’s the word “Why,” which is spelled W-H-Y.
Ocho: But Y is in that shit! You see? What’s it doing there?
Marvin: Become sometimes the letter Y acts as a vowel, rather than a consonant.
Ocho: Well, how the fuck does it do that? Where does that letter get off thinking it’s all Optimus Prime and shit?
Marvin: It’s just a letter, Chad.
Ocho: Yeah, but it shouldn’t be. We’ve got so many better letters out there. Like X. That’s a good letter. LOOK OUT BITCHES, THIS MOVIE IS RATED X! That’s solid. I like Z too. It’s so sharp, you know? Like, Z is all, BACK OFF MUTHAPHUCKKA OR I’LL CUT YO ASS! That’s not a gay letter. That’s a letter that will do some fuckin’. Know what I mean?
Marvin: No.
Ocho: Also, the letter Y looks like a slingshot. And I don’t like it when we use letters as weapons. You don’t see any gun-shaped letters. That would be bad for the kids.
Marvin: I have no idea what you’re talking about. It’s Y. It’s a letter. It isn’t malevolent in any way. It serves an important phonetic role in how we speak. You use the letter Y to make a “yuh” sound.
Ocho: Yuh? Who the fuck says Yuh? That’s Eskimo shit.
Marvin: It’s not a word. It’s sound you make to pronounce the rest of the word. If I say the word “Young,” I need the Y sound in order to pronounce it correctly. Do you see what I mean?
Ocho: See, I think you’re just making it all up.
Marvin: I’m not making it up. They teach this stuff in first grade, Chad.
Ocho: You know what would be a good letter? The happy face.
You see a happy face, you know what that shit means. That would be a good letter.
Marvin: Okay, a happy face is not a letter.
Ocho: But it could be.
Marvin: But it isn’t.
Ocho: But it could be.
Marvin: But it isn’t.
Ocho: But it could be.
Marvin: But it isn’t.
Ocho: But it could be.
Marvin: But it isn’t. It’s a fucking drawing.
Ocho: But that’s because you only THINK of it like that, know what I mean? It could be a letter if we wanted it to be.
Marvin: No, it couldn’t. It doesn’t represent any kind of phonetic speech command.
Ocho: Sure it does. It says, HEY LOOK AT ME I’M A WHITE PERSON AND I’M ALL HAPPY AND SHIT!
Marvin: Again, it’s not a letter. It’s a drawing. It can’t be a letter.
Ocho: Yeah, but you don’t KNOW that. What if it used to be a letter and they just left it out by accident?
Marvin: They didn’t.
Ocho: Yeah, but you don’t KNOW that. You can’t possibly know that. You weren’t there when they did it.
Marvin: It doesn’t matter. Trust me. There was never meant to be a happy face in the alphabet.
Ocho: Okay, well let me ask you a question then. You got kids, right?
Marvin: Yes.
Ocho: They ever sing the Alphabet Song?
Marvin: Yes.
Ocho: Are they HAPPY when they finish singing it?
Marvin: Yes.
Ocho: I rest my case. There’s clearly supposed to be a happy face at the end of that shit. You know what else would make a good letter? A Snickers bar.
That way, you could be reading through some word and be reminded OH SNAP! I FORGOT TO FUCKING EAT!
Marvin: A Snickers bar would not be a good letter.
Ocho: Give me one good reason why it wouldn’t be a kickass letter.
Marvin: HOLY SHIT. THE DEPTHS OF YOUR RETARDERY HAVE NOW REACHED A NEW FUCKING LOW. THIS IS WHY I FUCKING SUSPENDED YOU, YOU EMPTY-HEADED DOORSTOP. I’M TRYING TO SAVE MY FUCKING JOB, AND I HAVE A RECEIVER WHO CAN’T BE BOTHERED TO SHOW UP FOR PRACTICE BECAUSE HE’S TOO BUSY THINKING UP NEW, FUCKING STUPID LETTERS FOR AN ALPHABET THAT HAS ALREADY SERVED THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD WELL FOR FUCKING CENTURIES.
DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW TO READ? OR WRITE? ARE YOU FUCKING ILLITERATE? I CAN’T EVEN FUCKING BELIEVE I’M ARGUING WITH YOU ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT A FUCKING CANDY BAR BELONGS IN THE GROUP OF SYMBOLS WE USE FOR DAILY COMMUNICATION. THAT’S HOW FUCKING DUMB YOU ARE, CHAD. YOU MAKE EVERYONE AROUND YOU NEARLY AS FUCKING RETARDED AS YOU ARE. SO GO BACK TO FUCKING SLEEP, ASSHOLE. AND YOU KNOW WHAT? DON’T EVER WAKE UP. BECAUSE ANOTHER HOUR OF YOU AWAKE IS ANOTHER HOUR THE WORLD’S BRAIN CELLS ARE SUBJECT TO MASS FUCKING GENOCIDE.
A FUCKING HAPPY FACE? WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?
Ocho: You know what else would make a good letter? A knife. Ray Lewis agrees with me on that. It would be like Z. Just really badass to have in there. It’d be like, NOW I KNOW MY A-B-KNIFE, NEXT TIME MAYBE I’LL TAKE YOUR FUCKING LIFE.
Marvin: JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.
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November 21st, 2008 at 10:33 am
My head just exploded….
November 21st, 2008 at 10:33 am
“But it could be”
You guys constantly get me into trouble (at work) with Chad and Marvin.
Lotta shit goin’ down in OchoWorld, know what I mean?
Marvin: Thankfully, no.
Classic.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:34 am
OchoWorld
Worst … theme park … ever
November 21st, 2008 at 10:34 am
the letter B must really blow Ocho’s mind. It’s a letter (B), a noun (bee) and an intransitive verb (be).
November 21st, 2008 at 10:40 am
@UU: “If 13 is an unlucky number, the letter B should be too, because it looks like a scrunched together 13. ‘What’s your name? Bob? Get the fuck away from me, Bob.’”
November 21st, 2008 at 10:41 am
Ocho: Why is B intransitive? Shouldn’t it get a along with the other letters?
November 21st, 2008 at 10:42 am
Hilarious – getting me in trouble at work too.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:44 am
“And why does I come before E except after C, coach? That sounds like bullshit to me.”
November 21st, 2008 at 10:48 am
@Byrd
In trouble at work, eh? We know a guy that calls himself 289 who might help you with that…
November 21st, 2008 at 10:48 am
Ocho: Cuz E could totally Kick I’s ass Coach. E has three prongs like a pitchfork or the thing that begins with a ‘T’
Marvin: A Trident?
Ocho: No coach not gum. But that’s a good idea Coach. Gum could be a letter too. A,B, Knife, C, D, E, F, Gum YO BREAF STANK ! FIX YO MOUF FOOL !, H, I J..
November 21st, 2008 at 10:48 am
/still scarred from yesterday’s comment section.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:49 am
I can’t wait until Ocho is an analyst on ESPN.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:51 am
Lemon party anyone?
November 21st, 2008 at 10:51 am
I would contend that the letter P kinda looks like it could be a weapon of some sort. Maybe a gun. But that letter’s kinda gay too. Besides, it means pee. Or pea. And Ocho Cinco don’t like no peas. They’re too hard to eat. You’ve got to eat them with a spoon, and it just don’t feel right eating a solid food with a spoon. So fuck P.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:56 am
thanks for the Mitch Hedberg line BDD
November 21st, 2008 at 11:02 am
Gil Arenas says last place isn’t such a bad place to be. Is there any proof that he and Chad Johnson long lost brothers?
November 21st, 2008 at 11:06 am
Shinons, only if Gilbert is from Hawaii. (Like dogs)
November 21st, 2008 at 11:15 am
I don’t know. Z gets pretty gay when the Brits say it. ‘Zed?’ Zed’s a dead gay rapist, baby.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:19 am
Where does that letter get off thinking it’s all Optimus Prime and shit?
Holy shit I almost burst my spleen laughing at this.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:26 am
And I don’t like it when we use letters as weapons. You don’t see any gun-shaped letters.
What about lower case “r”? Boom, bitch!
November 21st, 2008 at 11:29 am
@Slothrop – Gay Zorro would have to agree with you.
Touch of ammonia – brilliant in many ways.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:31 am
@SSB – “r” is an aggressive letter. We need at least some aggressive letters otherwise our alphabet will be too pansy. And that’s when the terrorists will move in…
November 21st, 2008 at 11:31 am
Wow. You may have gotten a chemically enhanced batch this time Drew. That is some Cheech and Chong sounding thought process. Did anyone you know turn into a lizard?
November 21st, 2008 at 11:36 am
Just think if Chad saw the wing dings font.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:46 am
“Hey Ocho, Y did you put mashed potatoes in the toilet?”
Genius. Fucking genius.
BDD, you know your child has absolutely no shot at growing up normally, right?
November 21st, 2008 at 11:48 am
Snickers bar = greatest letter of all time
November 21st, 2008 at 11:49 am
I don’t know what is more disturbing, that this post nearly got me thrown out of an a-hole law prof’s class or that at one point I *almost* started to agree with Chad on the subjectivity of letters.
/Shaw Alphabet FTW
November 21st, 2008 at 12:16 pm
How have you guys gone this long without paying respect to NOW I KNOW MY ABKNIFE, NEXT TIME I’LL TAKE YOUR FUCKING LIFE ? Shameful.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Ocho: Okay, well let me ask you a question then. You got kids, right?
Marvin: Yes.
Ocho: They ever sing the Alphabet Song?
Marvin: Yes.
Ocho: Are they HAPPY when they finish singing it?
Marvin: Yes.
Ocho: I rest my case. There’s clearly supposed to be a happy face at the end of that shit.
My god, this nearly made people come into my office to ask me if I was OK.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:29 pm
“Yuh? Who the fuck says Yuh? That’s Eskimo shit.”
abso-fuckin-lutely-fan-fuckin-tabulous
November 21st, 2008 at 12:30 pm
@ Jay: Because we all know Chad would not at all be capable of coming up with that shit.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Thanks Drew. Now I want a fucking Snickers. You just made me spend 90 cents in a bad economy! :(
November 21st, 2008 at 1:09 pm
That’s not a gay letter.
Gay Zorro begs to differ
November 21st, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Since when does Ocho read Dune prequels?
November 21st, 2008 at 1:33 pm
The next person that pisses me off today is getting called an empty-headed doorstop.
November 21st, 2008 at 1:35 pm
which does he hate more “a” the word or “a” the letter?
November 21st, 2008 at 1:47 pm
A friend of mine, who is a semiotician, suggested that since letters are just signs a smiley face could be a letter. I told him he was a stupid head and was ruining Marvin and Ocho for me.
November 21st, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Don’t tell Ocho about letters that are “Sand Sheriff” or he’ll get confused and make everyone around him dangerously retarded.
November 21st, 2008 at 2:35 pm
“Ocho: Well, how the fuck does it do that? Where does that letter get off thinking it’s all Optimus Prime and shit?”
FUCKING AWESOME. I spit out my drink reading that.
November 21st, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Chad: … NOW I KNOW MY A-B-KNIFE, NEXT TIME MAYBE I’LL TAKE YOUR FUCKING LIFE.
Marvin: JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, THAT DOES NOT EVEN FUCKING SCAN!
November 21st, 2008 at 3:28 pm
I was having an “omg why does T.O. have to be on my team and won’t someone just medicate him” morning.
However, after reading this, I feel better now.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Ocho: Yeah, but you don’t KNOW that. What if it used to be a letter and they just left it out by accident?
Marvin: They didn’t.
Ocho: Yeah, but you don’t KNOW that. You can’t possibly know that. You weren’t there when they did it.
Marvin: It doesn’t matter. Trust me. There was never meant to be a happy face in the alphabet.
I gotta know, where do you suppose Ocho thinks they let the letters out from???? Jail? School? Clearly not a lot of school time in OC’s world.
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:19 am
ammonia = pneumonia
Goddamn it, its infected me too… next my last name will be chefos