I have a new love for this joke because my dad finally sat through the movie completely awake and cracked up over this. He got the same shit from my mom when he got back from the Gulf and tried to clean up his language. Because over the course of the war every third word had turned into fuck and it was embarrassing the poor checkout people when he’d say have a nice fucking day like it was totally normal. And guess what little creature was just learning whole sentences at that point too. (Creating the oft retold incident of tiny!stormie leaning out the car window and yelling “FUCK YOU BUDDY!” at the top of my tiny lungs because “that’s what dad does when he honks the horn”)
So apparently for six months my sweary army dad went cold turkey, which included going watch your language at his friends and my mom when they cussed just so he could stop making checkout people and waitresses confused and flustered and I now demand that to be the reason Steve is going watch your language. Because the Howling Commandos did a number on his ability to converse sans expletives.
Please say this included Dum-Dum threatening to wash his mouth out with soap and water