Cursed!/Transcript

Here you go, deary. Catch ya later, Mrs. Croaker!

Oh, they'll never catch me! [laughs]

Hey, Maddie! Happy market day!

[laughs] Classic creepy Maddie.

Uh, what are you doing? Hiding.

Ever since Maddie and I got engaged,

things between us have been... awkward.

Dude, if you don't want to be engaged anymore, just go break it off.

Break up with her? To her face? [grunts]

She'll kill me.

[laughing maniacally]

[Sprig whimpers]

Look, breakups are no big deal.

I used to do it for my friends all the time.

They called me the breakup queen.

Also Angel of Death.

Perfect. You go break up with her for me,

and I'll go find a new hiding spot

[together] Yeah. Spranne against the world!

[both laughing]

-Whoo! -Whoa!

Gracious me! Oops. Sorry about that. Barry.

I didn't see you there, Barry.

Shucks, kids. Don't worry about it.

Nothing gets Barry down.

[both gasp] Candy magic.

Have a "Barry" good day. [laughs]

Barry's here!

[crowd cheering]

There goes Barry,

sweetest frog in all of Wartwood.

Swell. And now to break up with Maddie for ya.

[screeching]

Or maybe breaking up by text would be better.

By wha--? By text.

It's not super cool, but, hey,

everybody's done it at least once.

[laughs] Now we're both cowards.

(She writes a letter that reads:)
 * Dear Maddie,
 * I break up with you.
 * ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 * -Sprig

(She then folds it into a paper airplane.)

Whoa.

Huh. That wasn't so bad.

See? Like I said, no problem.

[sizzling]

[chortling]

[rooster crows]

[yawning]

Huh? Something ain't right here.

[Anne screams]

Anne? I can't see. Whoa. [groans]

Whoa. Anne? Whoa!

[grunting]

Anne, are you okay? Whoa.

Sprig. What happened to your face? [squawks]

Whoa. What happened to your voice?

It's not just my voice, dude.

When I woke up, these things started growing out of me.

And whenever I try to talk, I just--

[squawking, bird calls]

What is going on? Morning, kids.

Goodness gracious, boy! What's on your face?

I dunno. I just woke up like this.

And me. Anytime I try to talk I-- [squawks]

Have you guys seen my toothbrush?

Huh? [chirps]

[laughing]

Yes!

Hmm. Woke up like this, you say?

Hmm...

You fixed it.

Aw.

I've seen all I need to. [laughing]

You two... have been cursed!

Cursed? [squawks]

That's a thing here?

This land of ours is home to many arts, Anne. Sculpture, mosaics, and of course... THE DARK ARTS.

Cursed? But-But how? When?

Well, it takes about a night for a curse to kick in. Either of you upset anyone yesterday?

[both gasp] Maddie!

Dude, you've got to go talk to her.

Any way you could wait till tomorrow?

Because I am loving this.

Hey, I think it's getting better.

Sprig, we have to go talk to Maddie.

Only she can reverse this.

[sighs] You're right.

Or maybe we can try lifting this curse ourselves,

without any awkward conversations.

Okay, but hurry.

I've got a really bad feeling about where this is headed.

[squawking]

[Smash to a card reading "THREE HOURS LATER"; in the kitchen, Sprig is now an entire ball of fur.]

Come on, come on.

A little bit of this...

[coughs] Well, that didn't work either.

How you doing over there, Anne?

[Anne has fully transformed into a big brown bird.]

[squawks]

[both scream]

Anne, are you okay?

You know, it's actually not that bad. Watch this.

Ha.

[gobbling]

Mmm!

I hate this curse. [explosion]

[Sprig grunts] [crash]

[coughing] I think I'm getting closer.

Anne: Sprig, enough is enough. You are going to get Maddie to lift this curse. And that's that.

[sighs] Fine, fine.

But it's gonna be so awkward.

Got Mr. Plantar's bread order here.

[exclaims] She's here. Someone hide me.

Run! Objects bend to her will!

Nope. That's on me. Forgot to fix those hinges.

[groans]

Oh... Hey, Maddie.

Sprig. [squawking]

Stop stalling, dude.

Uh... [groaning]

Maddie, I'm sorry for the way I broke up with you.

It was wrong of me to have Anne do it

and doubly wrong that we didn't do it face to face.

Your breakup literally hit me in the face.

But as much as I would've preferred an actual conversation,

I was fine with what you wrote.

Oh, thank goodness. Told ya. Breakup "qua-ween."

[crow caws] So can you take these curses off of us? Please?

Maddie: Sorry, but I can't. Curses can only be lifted by the caster, and this isn't my curse.

[squawks] What? [gasps]

But if it wasn't you, then who?

Hmm.

[squawks] Hey! [coughs]

This trail will lead us to the caster.

Quickly. Before it goes cold.

You gonna fix this door? Eh. Eventually.

Hup, hup!

Meh. It's worth a shot.

Maddie: Why'd you think it was me who cursed you?

Sprig: Well, you do give off a creepy vibe.

Maddie: Just because I seem creepy to you doesn't mean I'm a bad person. I'll have you know, I learned magic to help people, not hurt them. Sheesh. Appearances aren't everything, Sprig.

Sprig: Yeah, well that's... That's a really good point.

[crow caws]

Anne: Kurt the crow says this will all end in tears.

[grunts] [gasps]

[yelps]

What kind of evil person would live in a place like this?

[all gasp]

Hello, children.

[all gasping] Barry?

[laughs] Enjoying the curse I put on you?

Why, Barry? Why?

Why? I'll tell you why.

Surely you remember barging into me at the market yesterday?

Spilling my entire stock of blue moon berries

that only grow once every ten years.

They were priceless.

I played it cool and was sweet

because my image is half my business.

I may look nice,

but I'm petty and vengeful on the inside.

Yeah, that was our bad. Looks can be deceiving. We get it.

Ah, right, right. The lesson thing. Barry, we're sorry.

Please lift the curse.

You can't see it really, but I'm begging on my knees.

[coos]

Hmm, let me think. Never!

Not only am I petty, but I'm very unforgiving.

As a curse wielder myself, this abuse of magic offends me.

Hmm? Oh, goodness.

You should never curse someone unless they really deserve it.

And, buddy, you deserve it.

[gasps, whimpers]

Ah! Two can play at that game.

-Ha! -[grunts]

[both gasping, grunting]

[barrel squawks]

[growling]

[both grunting]

Ah! My last curse. [growls]

I'm out. What do we do?

Give me a hand. You mean literally?

Or figuratively? Ow!

Ow. What the heck?

[Barry exclaims]

Gotcha!

-Oh, dear. -Ha!

[explosion]

And that's how you fix a door.

[explosion]

Good job.

[coughing, squawks]

Oh, no. My beautiful body.

[all coughing]

We're back to normal. She turned the curses back on him.

Maddie, you did it. I can talk.

All right, you crazy kids bested me.

Now go on, turn me back.

Nothing doing. You're way too dangerous.

[caws] What? You can't just leave me like this.

Aw, come on, Maddie. We did him wrong.

[sighs] Fine. I'll change him back.

But for a price.

[Sprig] Any chance we could get some of this candy?

[Maddie] No way.

[caws] Good-bye, Kurt.

I'm not sure if all this was a blessing

or a curse. [caws]

It was literally a curse, Anne.

Thanks for helping us, Maddie.

And sorry the engagement had to end like this.

Friends?

Friends.

Whoa! I can't wait to hang out.

[owl hoots]

[snoring, croaking]

[glugs] Meh.

[gasps]

What, you got a better way to eat ants off the floor?

Sheesh.