Freak-Me-Out-Elmo
My sweet, fun-loving brother and lovely sister-in-law have purchased for Braden some of his favorite toys.
From his baby registry, they got him the BE Musical Turtle Crib Toy, which he LOVES.
When we visited this past summer, they gave him this little guy:
Its sings the ABCs, which is one of Braden’s favorite songs.
And for Christmas, they got him the Stretch & Fun Elmo. Which he is really amused by (he loves that red freak).
This toy version of Elmo has arms and legs you can pull, and when you do he says silly things, like, “Elmo needs a good stretch!” and “Whoooooaaa!” and “Teeeheeeheee!!!”
You really have to give those arms and legs a gooood tug to get him to say anything, though. At first, Braden couldn’t do it by himself. Lately, he is good at it, and so he likes the toy even more.
Braden plays with it, pulls the legs, laughs, and then deposits it somewhere. This is pretty much his M.O. with all toys, no big deal.
A couple of weeks ago, he had left it sitting on its face in his room. It stayed there for a couple days like that.
I think Elmo got tired of sitting on his face.
Because we were sitting in the living room watching a DVD together, and from Braden’s Room I heard,
“ELMO NEEDS A GOOD STRETCH!”
And really, I don’t think I was imagining the annoyed tone that is usually not there when he says that.
I may have nightmares.
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Mrs. F
OMG, LOL, we have a Bob the builder phone that rings in the middle of the night.
Cute!
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zoeyjane
HA!
we have a v-tech turtle that starts naming off the shapes in french whenever there’s a bump downstairs from my asshat neighbours.
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regina
I love Elmo!!
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Jenny
Every toy is possessed. I think so anyway. I wrote about it a while ago to. A lot of people agreed with me.
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Taz
hrmm..
interesting..
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Veronica
Elmo scares me. In a bad way.
Maybe he is programmed to talk if he isn’t moved or played with after a few days? Maybe the toy programmers are the evil ones.
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MizFit
SO FUNNY.
my toddler had the frog as well when she was little and loved it—-elmo? shes not a fan!
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river
Just be glad it’s not an evil Chuckie doll. That movie gave me the creeps and we’re a family that loves horror movies.
Lilacspecs
In the daycare I used to work at they switched most of the sinks to automatic, even the little ones for the kids. The one in the 3 year old room constantly malfunctioned and started shooting water all by itself during nap time.
I’ve also seen those light up shoes start lighting up and flashing when they are off of the child and sitting untouched on a table.
Strange how all the items for children are the ones that become possessed.
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Tasina
I learned the hard way that a remote control Hummer with dying batteries sounds like DEMONS FROM THE BOWELS OF UNHOLY HELL when heard through a baby monitor at 1 in the morning.
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Gordo
We had no choice but to give Cameron (our three-year-old) Tickle Me Elmo for Christmas this year. All the kid asked for for two months was “a toy rocket ship and Tickle Me Elmo”. No choice.
Oh, you HAVE seen the video of “Death-threat Elmo“, haven’t you? Yikes.
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HRH
I am so thankful not to have ANY of the mentioned toys at my house. I sleep well with Elmo-free dreams.
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donna
We have that little Leep guy and he makes me want to yank my eardrums out with a pair of tweezers.
My husband hates Elmo but very recently we’ve let Bridget watch some TV in the form of Sesame Street and although she hasn’t said anything about Elmo, when he’s on the screen, her attention is captured like nothing else. I don’t think it’ll be long before rather than hearing her yell “Moooo-mmy!” through her monitor in the mornings we’ll hear “Elllllll-mo!”
For Christmas I bought her a Tickle Me Cookie Monster, which I still love more than she does….
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Ree
OMG. I’d bury it deep. DEEEEEEEEEP in the garden. Have you seen the Chucky movies? They’re the ONLY scary movies that give me nightmares.
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Junebug
Remember Furbies? We had one that used to get positively demonic at times. It would say very weird things and wake up when you’d least expect it. We actually wondered if they had programmed it to spy on us. Well, not really, but we had good imaginations about it.
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HappyCampers
Ohhh….my mom had this stuffed bear that snored when you pressed it’s tummy. The batteries had been dead for AT LEAST ten years. The dogs have laid on it, played with it, grandkids had hugged it. No noise.
Her dad (my grandpa) passed away, & when I was at her house (the day after he died) we were in the living room and all the sudden that bear STARTED SNORING. WTF? It kept snoring until we took the batteries all the way out. FREAKY.
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justmylife
Little Miss has toys that go off all by themselves. We blame it on the ghosts she is convinced are in the house. We have decided as long as they keep playing with her toys, they aren’t messing with us. heh.
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missy wiggins
i am convinced elmo may quite possibly be the devil.
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Maggie
That’s awesome. I think I need one of those for my cats to get back at them for scaring me in the middle of the night. Leave that home with them during the day with a little camera – yah, that would make my day.
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Sadie
I would have nightmares just having elmo in my house again! I’m THRILLED to say the girls have never known him (and are mildly disturbed by him). I think having my oldest go through his Elmo phase was plenty enough to last a lifetime.
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Marylin
LOL I hate the noisy toys that go off at random! We had a lil dog-in-a-car thing that barked randomly no matter where we put him. I ended up taking the batteries out cause I didn’t want to end up woken up in the middle of the night again with it barking!
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Dawn
we had a moving santa claus that kept freaking us out.
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Kelly
My son used to have the psychopath Sing N’ Snore Ernie, which was abnormally LOUD. One night at about 3 am, in the midst of my REM sleep, I hear, “I FEEL GREAT, I FEEL GREAT!” I jumped up out of bed and tore the flippin’ cord out of that G-D thing! I was PISSED! It didn’t help when I awoke in the morning, and sing and snore Ernie was on my bedside table with a butcher knife and a sign taped to his chest that read, ” I FEEL GREAT!”
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Christie
Elmo and I have never gotten along, though my daughter had a Wiggles guitar that used to start wiggling by itself… wigged me out!
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clickmom
We had an animal sound puzzle that would roar/trumpet/growl if there was a missing piece in it when the lights went off. For the longest time it was in the playroom, where I always have to turn the lights off at the end of the day and it would scare me every time. Now I keep the puzzle in the basement and have a good giggle whenever there is some guy fixing one something or other in the basement. I never warn them and it works every time.
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Beck
YIKES!
LoveLladro
I have been reading your site for a little while now and you are so entertaining! I love hearing about your adventures in parenthood (I am new to the club!) Too funny about Elmo… I say get in good with some of the other toys in case there is a revolt ;~)
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janet
aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!! that elmo is a scary scary guy.
and stay away from that tickle-me guy …
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Michelle
Hate Elmo. Hate. My inlaws got Sabrina a baby elmo for Christmas – it says “Elmo up up” over and over and over and giggles. It has never left the car. We have this singing dog that just randomly starts talking. And the dog will push some of the toys around so they make noise after she is in bed. So much for our “no toys that require batteries” rule. That lasted about 2 days until she started getting gifts.
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Eve
ROFLMBO
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Becky
Hee hee! Yeah, the husband and I talk about “haunted toys” all the time. There are a few in this house. They just suddenly…come to life at odd moments and scare the piss out of ya. One is an Elmo toy – the potty training one. Middle of the night, for no apparent reason, you’ll suddenly hear from some corner of the house; “Elmo needs his drink now.” Then there is the learn how to tell time clock that will just suddenly start to play this eerie music. Soooo fun. Not.
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Elizabeth
The comments on this post are cracking me up! But that Elmo-creeeepy.
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Ashley
Well…at least it’s not a Chucky doll. Now that…would freak me out.
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ourcrookedtree
it looks like there are lots of possesed toys out there…ours is a Thomas the Train Ride Along Toy; it makes a “chug a chug choo” sound late at night…freaks me out ever time!
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Jo Beaufoix
Hee hee, that would have freaked me out too. Kids toys can be so blooming scary.
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Alyssa
We took all the electronics out of our son’s Tickle me Elmo. He loves to just carry him around. We’ve sewn Elmo’s arms back on more times than I can count, and the last time I put it in the wash, my son was walking around saying “Elmo, where are you?” It was very cute. I think a non-talking Elmo is a lot less scary for the parents,lol!
Rebecca
That’s too funny…
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Jenski
If I had bars on my bed to keep me in, I would totally want that crib turtle for company! Sounds like Elmo is a little too needy…
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Kara - down to earth mommy
hahaha toys are totally posessed. Our Little People Farm randomly moos if the barn door is even microscopically open. Once it was packed in a box for a road trip and that thing mooed like every 5 minutes!
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