Life imitates Simpsons: The Evil Elmo Doll

1. "Elmo knows where you live." 2. Why did the company issue a voucher for a refund? All they had to do was send a service person to the house to flip the switch from "Evil" to "Good".

Mr. Museum

"Andrey Tarasevich" wrote

Follow the further link on that page to the original story

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/feb/21/toddlers-elmo-doll-makes-death-threats/

and read some of the (many) forum posts. Hilarious! I notice though only two people mentioned Evil Krusty...

Paul

Are there any links that have audio clips?

Here's the toy's web page: http://www.fisher-price.com/fp.aspx?st=8050&e=getProd&selCat=kyn_elmo&pid=34159

I get a cheap kick out of making Elmo say "Mohammed", "Spock", or "Shaneequa".

"Travoltron" wrote

Yeah, look at some of the names in their list. Who would call their child "Aphrodite" (at least these days), or "Chi Chi" (that was a panda, wasn't it?) And would you believe DOGBERT? Yes, it's in there...

Bart makes the cut, but Bort doesn't (payback for the licence plates!) Homer, yes, Maggie, yes, Lisa NO, same with Marge (Margy is there though.)

Glad my folks were conservative voters and just called me Paul!

Paul

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:57:44 +1000, "Paul Bartram" <p.bartram AT OR NEAR mysoul.com.au> wrote:

Check again, Lisa is there.

Aw, that's super...

Paul

On Feb 26, 10:57 pm, "Paul Bartram" <p.bartram AT OR NEAR mysoul.com.au> wrote:

Worse, it means "tits" in Japanese (and I think in Spanish as well).

No Osama, but there IS an Adolf!

Oh, I found a great one. Try the name "Hilmi" and tell me what that sounds like.

What is "Travoltron"? A computer game character who dances disco and goes around with Samuel L Jackson shooting people? Some sort of cross between John Travolta and Tron?

Mr. Museum

You just dated yourself. Long before John Travolta made a comeback, he had to first disappear to make a comeback from. And up until that comeback, say his name and you'd immediately think "Vinnie Barbarino" or what's his name in the white suit from "Saturday Night Fever".

Michael

On 28 Feb 2008 18:13:07 GMT, [email] (Michael Black) wrote:

Oh yeah? Well, up your nose with a rubber hose!

This comment:

"What is 'Travoltron'? A computer game character who dances disco" of course indicates that I am old enough to remember "Welcome Back Kotter" and "TonEEEEEE" from Saturday Night Fever.

Mr. Museum

[email] wrote:

Travolta + Voltron

That sounds a lot more like 'Kill me' than the original phrase complained about in the news article!

I see 'Domer' is in there, just for Maggie.. You know, that really is a weird list. Who on earth would name their child 'Fuzzy', or 'Froggy'? As for 'Oprah', what kind of name is that? Might as well call the kid 'Mvseum'...

Is there any way of capturing that list from Flash to a text file? It's very hard to scroll through on the site, and I'd like a really detailed look at it.

Paul

"Paul Bartram" <p.bartram AT OR NEAR mysoul.com.au> wrote in news:47c509ed$0$3172$[email]:

Lisa did make the list...so did Gabbo.

She had her fifteen minutes of fame - next!