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Mom Upset Over "Death Threat" Elmo

Little James here loves Elmo. In fact, his entire house is filled with every Elmo toy you could possibly imagine and even a few you can't. One of these beloved Elmos is a model that you can program with your computer to say your kids name. Recently, James' mother replaced the batteries in "Elmo Knows Your Name" and is now convinced that the doll is homicidal. More »

3:37 PM on Fri Feb 22 2008
By Meg Marco
12,313 views, 95 comments

Latest by The Marionette: Hmmm, they should make a movie out of that.... oh wait... more »

Toxic Lead Paint Prompts Recall of 967,000 Fisher-Price Toys Sorry kids, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and Fisher-Price are recalling Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and 83 other types of fun toys that happen to be covered with toxic lead paint from China.

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Walmart Mysteriously Finds Hidden Stash of Elmos

We hope we are not dignifying this obvious publicity stunt with coverage, but Walmart has "found" 4,000 of those stupid Extreme Tickle Me Elmo pieces of crap and will be "make [ing] the toys available "around noon E.T. on a first come, first serve basis" for $39.97 apiece." So, if you're one of those people who wants a zombified psychotic Elmo beast that will amuse your brat of a kid for about 10 seconds total, here's your big chance to hit refresh 300 times and still not get one. Have fun. —MEGHANN MARCO More »

5:09 PM on Thu Dec 14 2006
By Meg Marco
135 views, 17 comments

Latest by Scott in DC: suckers! I got my Elmo TMX back in october - and I still love playing with it. And I'm 27! more »

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Consumer Reports Hates Elmo Too

Consumer Reports has finally tested the "hottest toy" of the Christmas season the "extreme" T.M.X. Elmo...with hilarious results. It seems the Elmo is little more than "hard plastic covered by a thick fabric," and it tends to scare younger children.

"The youngest children's reactions ranged from disinterest to fear." "Marc, 14 months, was interested in the toy at first, but lost interest quickly, opting instead to dig in the dirt. One-year-old Julia was scared of Elmo and cried whenever the toy was activated." More »

11:47 AM on Mon Nov 6 2006
By Meg Marco
230 views, 6 comments

Latest by Jesse in Japan: What about the Oozinator? more »

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Elmo, Thankfully, Goes Missing


Walmart has declared missing a shipment of 100 Elmo T.M.X. dolls. The annoying-as-fuck toys went missing en route to a Walmart location in Bentonville, AR. More »

1:44 PM on Fri Nov 3 2006
By Meg Marco
124 views, 8 comments

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Absolutely Nightmarish Tickle Me Elmo TMX in Action

In 1963, Charles Beaumont penned the classic Twilight Zone Episode, "The Living Doll." In it, a possessed plastic doll named Talking Tina (and voiced by none other than June Foray, the voice of Rocket J. Squirrel) plots to kill Telly Savalas, a bitter husband who cruelly treats his stepfather to cope with his own impotence. More »

7:13 AM on Fri Sep 22 2006
By consumerist.com
288 views, 30 comments

Latest by sammi2116: I love that thing!!!!! I don't have any young kids and have put in a request to get one more »

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X-treme Elmo to Terrorize Nation's Retail Workers

If you happened to work in a store, as I did, during the Rosie O'Donnell induced Tickle Me Elmo craze, you'll understand my legitimate feelings of horror when confronted with people lining up to buy Elmo T.M.X. Announced today, Elmo T.M.X.'s (the X stands for X-treme) reveal ended "months of unprecedented secrecy that's had the toy industry abuzz." More »

1:24 PM on Tue Sep 19 2006
By Meg Marco
177 views, 9 comments

Latest by Godders: What is so wrong with retail employees buying up products and ebaying them anyway? When demand outstrips supply, prices go more »

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Murder Me Elmo II: "Who Has To Die?"

Murder Me Elmo Update! Turns out this story was just another cock tease, as Elmo is really just saying "Who has to go?" not "Who wants to die?" Or so the company insists: More »

12:11 PM on Fri Jan 27 2006
By consumerist.com
48 views, 2 comments

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Murder Me Elmo!

Every once and a while, something absolutely perfect in your life unexpectedly happens. Going from nadir to apex on the parabola of awesomeness: for some, it's seeing that unexpected, infinitely coveted purple drop in World of Warcraft; for others, it's going skydiving and landing in the missionary position inside Scarlett Johansen. But no matter what your dreams in life are, you have to admit, Elmo using his shrill nightmarish voice to tell small children looking for instructions on using their first potty that they are about to die is just shy of the best thing ever. More »

2:24 PM on Tue Jan 3 2006
By consumerist.com
280 views, 2 comments

Latest by airship: Of course, the definitive book on the subject is Taro Gomi's Everyone Poops, which includes brilliant observations like "An elephant more »