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Friday February 22, 2008
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Dolls are creepy. Seriously, I spent a good chunk of the past week attended/writing about Toy Fair, so I feel like I can definitively make that statement. There's just something about that cold, lifeless stare that's inherently upsetting. Seriously, why do you think they've been the subject of so many horror films? With that in mind, it's perhaps not the biggest shocker in the world to hear that one has been making death threats.
What is shocking, however, is the fact that said doll is actually a lovable Muppet. Honestly, I'd always figured that I could count on the cast of Sesame Street not to murder me in my sleep. If you happen to have picked up a new latest Elmo Doll, however, you may have effectively signed a lovable, cuddly death warrant.
According to a Florida mother, Elmo is making death threats to her two-year-old son, James. The doll, which can be programmed to say a child's name, is playing for keeps, uttering the words "Kill James," after a recent battery change.
A local NBC affiliate picked up the story, complete with footage of the blood thirsty doll.
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February 23, 2008 11:09 PM
GET A GRIP!
You make it sound like this rag doll with a high tech voice box is going to somehow spring to life, hop on the kitchen counter top, grab a cleaver and limp up to the bedrooms, muttering explicitives all the way. To murder the family. This is not "Toy Story"!!! OBVIOUSLY some disturbed employee of the manufacturer implanted these "sayings" as some sort of prank. Come back to reality Brian. And don't bother to write another outlandish column until you do.
February 24, 2008 2:00 AM
The whole thing sounds like a scheme to get a lawsuit going. Besides, "Kill James" Elmo is still better than E-L-M-O (to the tune of YMCA) Elmo.
February 25, 2008 9:48 PM
Sue Me Elmo? This lady is looking for a lawsuit - if she was so worried about her kid hearing it - why did she play it a dozen times in front of james in the two minute news clip?? If James was so hurt that she took away the toy, why didn't he seem to care at all during the new clip?
Why didn't she reset it? re-program it? take it back and exchange it? no - this lady called the news and crossed her fingers for a lawyer to call... ridiculous!
February 27, 2008 8:34 AM
Honestly this whole thing makes me laugh! After reading all of this I want to go out and buy one. Plus how smart is this mother or what ever? You kinda have to know what your doing in order to program it. And how did the guy at the company knew a boy named James was going to buy that exact doll? Think about. You people are making it sound like a Chucky doll. This isn't childs play so just throw it out and get a new one.
March 16, 2008 5:52 PM
ok. so what would you do. would you want to exchange a doll that said it for another that could possibly make more threats. No. Obviously the mother is doing right. If she contacted fisher price 1st and they did nothing, the next thing would be to go to the press. Also the press must have heard it also and believed it to have said kill james to have done a story on it. The doll knows the boys name because thats the object of the doll. its a know your name elmo doll. This woman is obviuosly looking out. What would you do if it happened to your childs toy.
March 18, 2008 12:51 PM
wolfman...have you heard of humor? no? how 'bout sarcasm? no again? then I guess you don't know what sarcastic wit is either. hmm... check out dictionary.com for some definitions and then try reading the article again. you will no longer look like a moron once those terms are added to your vocabulary.