Tickle Me Elbow
Just when you think the Elmo craze is over...Fisher-Price has unleashed yet another version of the giggling wiggling toy to turn well behaved mature adults into punching biting elbowing parents at the toy store to get this toy for their little high strung offspring.
A co-worker went to Toys R Us this morning and got one of the first of these new Elmo dolls. She doesn't have kids, she just loves Elmo. I can relate because I have an unhealthy addiction myself to Disney stuff. She brought it into the office and I have to admit...it's REALLY cute. I went a little nuts over it.
Here's the thing I don't get for those of you who have kids. Kids would be tired of it within a couple days and the constant "hahahaha, that tickles" would be enough to drive parents mad. Seriously, don't these parents think about the long term effects this dol will have on their household? Why would you get a doll that talks, wiggles and does all this flipping around on the floor? Think about it. The kid is going to set this thing off all the time until their attention span is depleted or they see something else on TV they want and will point and grunt at it. (this motion will send a parent into the frenzy stated above to get their child the coveted toy)
There is nothing more unnerving than having a doll start talking to you randomly when you walk by. And it would be even WORSE when the damn thing started running out of batteries and the voice is all creepy, low and slow.
"Elmo is possessed, honey. I think it's time to 'put it down'."
I used to hide my Cabbage Patch Doll under the bed because I was afraid of it. Can you imagine having an Elmo doll start talking and wiggling on its own and you are alone in the house? Obviously I've seen too many horror movies.
As if Elmo is going to go on a bender and come after me with a knife when the kids are asleep. "Play with me"
A co-worker went to Toys R Us this morning and got one of the first of these new Elmo dolls. She doesn't have kids, she just loves Elmo. I can relate because I have an unhealthy addiction myself to Disney stuff. She brought it into the office and I have to admit...it's REALLY cute. I went a little nuts over it.
Here's the thing I don't get for those of you who have kids. Kids would be tired of it within a couple days and the constant "hahahaha, that tickles" would be enough to drive parents mad. Seriously, don't these parents think about the long term effects this dol will have on their household? Why would you get a doll that talks, wiggles and does all this flipping around on the floor? Think about it. The kid is going to set this thing off all the time until their attention span is depleted or they see something else on TV they want and will point and grunt at it. (this motion will send a parent into the frenzy stated above to get their child the coveted toy)
There is nothing more unnerving than having a doll start talking to you randomly when you walk by. And it would be even WORSE when the damn thing started running out of batteries and the voice is all creepy, low and slow.
"Elmo is possessed, honey. I think it's time to 'put it down'."
I used to hide my Cabbage Patch Doll under the bed because I was afraid of it. Can you imagine having an Elmo doll start talking and wiggling on its own and you are alone in the house? Obviously I've seen too many horror movies.
As if Elmo is going to go on a bender and come after me with a knife when the kids are asleep. "Play with me"
posted by Spicy Vixen @ 3:17 PM
2 Comments:
At 7:11 PM,
Thomas said…
Sometimes Elmo scares me.
At 9:07 AM,
lfc said…
i hear ya on this one.
my grandma once gave me a baby doll that cried when you turned it over.
i hated the sound of the cry (because it was creepy) so i stuffed it in my toy box underneath a bunch of decapitated barbie dolls. (don't ask)
and every once in a while, you would hear the doll cry. but my mom wouldn't let me throw it away.
of course, if i were stuffed under barbies with no heads, i'd maybe cry too.
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