"Beat Up Elmo! Pull Your Fur Out" Sez kids' toy!

[Drtooth]

Hot off the "Elmo wants to die" fiasco of 20 odd 5, a new Elmo toy controversy has arrisen. Arroze...Arrozzen...Arroz con Pollo....

A new Elmo controversy has taken place.

(forgive me... I'm watching super Chicken at the moment)/

A new report of a muffled comment made by an Elmo toy has surfaced. Recently, an Elmo singing toy that croons the song "Shout!" garbled it's lyrics in a violent matter.

This time the owner of the toy could have sworn she heard Elmo sing "Beat up Elmo! " and "pull your fur out!"

Once again, the compression of sound files was it's undoing.

But seriously... who would have guessed a high pitched voice singing against loud music compressed into a small file would ever have any sound distortions.

Fisher Price, the Maker of the toy had this statement:

"You can clearly hear that Elmo isn't singing this at all! In fact what he's really singing is 'MRRRMMPHHHmmmpRhhh Mmpprrrppphhmmm Mrrppphmmm Elmo Mrrrphhhffff ffffffmmmmmppp mpomfoppf!'"

Okay, i made that last one up!

[Mecha Cow]

Wait, Elmo sings the Tears for Fears song?

[RaphistheBest]

This reminds me of the controversy with the Po dolls from that one show. Hmm..what was it? Teletubbies?

[RAM BAM]

Maybe its more backwards masking. At face value it may just be muffled
but there may be a hidden occult message!:D :D

[Drtooth]

Apparently, the woman who bought the toy didn't read the warning lable on it...

"Do not opperate toy under influence of packing your ears with cotton balls"

[KROW]

I really don't think anyone needs subliminal lyrics as a reason to tear apart an Elmo doll. That bastard's annoying enough as it is.

[Time Mistress]

Hey, don't forget Elmo and original movie Splinter are voiced by the same guy. Kevin Clash rocks! So that means Elmo also rocks, sorta.;)

[Drtooth]

I really don't think anyone needs subliminal lyrics as a reason to tear apart an Elmo doll. That bastard's annoying enough as it is.


It actually wasn't a Doll... just some weird large plastic figure that had a boom box that plays old pop songs with the word "elmo" super imposed into the lyrics.

And I agree... Kevin Clash is DA MAN.... Dude played Baby Sinclair, Elliot Shag, Clifford, AND SPlinter...

[Dr. Doom]

Won't somebody PLEASE think of the CHILDREN?!

[Drtooth]

A new wrinkle in the case has surfaced.

Apparently this particular toy is in part of a massive recall of toys tainted with Chinese lead paint.

SO guess what folks. Parents are more worried about garbled lyrics from a fuzzy low quality voice box than they are about their kids getting lead poisoning and becoming slow.....

[Katie]

HA! My friend got one of those elmo dolls for her kid...I swear to God...that thing made random noises all the time. one night it wouldn't shut up so she took the batteries out. Damn thing STILL made noises.

we called it the possessed Elmo and she threw it away. I half expect the thing to show up on a door step one day gigling its stupid head off.

[Drtooth]

Reminds me of the defective Furby that someone I knew had. Instead of actually talking, it just made off pitch beeping noises. It cracked me the hell up.