Random: No, The Flower Pots In Banjo-Kazooie Weren't Swearing At You

Lol. never thought it was anything other than a silly "thank you" said in a funny halloween ghoulie voice

Legend.

EDIT: There I added some words

In what world did it sound like anything but thank you before

Ah the playground rumours of the N64 days, Ocarina, Mario 64, Lylat Wars so many wild and wacky rumours.

...and we believed them, or at least we wanted to.

So what? You don't even need to mention Conker, the actual Banjo-Kazooie games are still full of those hidden dirty jokes that go past the censors, this one was an accident, but many are clearly intentional ones.

So it’s basically „Thunk you“

You have to be onto something to think they say anything other than "Thank you"

@victordamazio I always feel that claim is exaggerated. I can only think of one dirty joke from the first game, and a few from the second. I wouldn't say they're "full of them".

NO SH*T! I've been wrong all these years!

@ThePizzaCheese Nope, you missed a lot of them.

Duh it's Thaaaaank you! Not what people like to pretend they are saying. Just like Mario is not saying gay bowser in Mario 64.

What? I've never thought they said anything else, always heard 'thank you'. People are just way too used to profanity nowadays, I suppose ...Can't say I'm innocent of that myself, either.

@Truegamer79 So long gay Bowser is a bit harder to make out, I feel, so I can understand that one, and the fact Nintendo themselves changed it later on ...It's the hard 'g' that does it. Always thought it was just 'So long, eh, Bowser?' despite that, though.

I think my american dialect skews the interpretation since no one says "thank you" like that in the US. Two of those four reads really sound similar to F you to me.🤣 That's quite comical.

@victordamazio Is there a list somewhere? I would really be interested in knowing more.

I always understood it as "thank you" and nothing more. Wow, people got really dirty minds...

Anybody with working ears and common sense knew what they were saying.

Grant Kirkhope is a national treasure, he’s like that one fun uncle

Always sounds like thank you to me

It does kinda sound like it's saying f you in the original video posted there, but then again that has a lot to do with the way the voice sounds all compressed and how drawn out it is with the accent adding to the effect. If you're american it's easy to think it's the f word.

It always sounded like thank you to me.

It never sounded like the pot was swearing to me in my childhood. Mario 64 on the other hand, whenever he grabbed a ledge to pull himself up it always sounded like he was saying WHOA, sh**!

While not got to that level yet in Banjo not surprised it's hard to hear correctly. I thought the same with Spyro 1 (which CD audio and I think it may be the same in Reignited than N64 limits with Banjo or if clearer in the 360 version of Banjo) when in Cliff Town the shielded enemies say the P word at least that's how it always sounds to me. It never sounded like a pssst or pffff it sounded like a pu something on the end I'm not sure what and I wasn't sure what they were going for whether a placeholder left in or something. That one has been a mystery to me for years what they were going for and with Ratchet games having the innuendos too who knows what many 20-30 year old devs were coming up with back then.