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Elmo's Era Over?

by Lenore Skenazy, Posted Feb 19th 2010 1:00PM

Tickle Me Elmo was always a lie. You didn't tickle him. You pressed a button in his hand and he laughed his furry little bottom off. He was the iconic toy of the decade and now that decade is dead. Whatever he does next -- dance, doodle, drink -- ...
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The new Furby?

by Sandy Maple, Posted Jun 15th 2007 1:32PM

Remember the Tickle Me Elmo craze of 1996? That giggling red monster was at the top of children's Christmas lists everywhere. Toy stores couldn't keep Elmo in stock and this led to fist fights and injured Wal-Mart workers as parents desperately tried ...
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For anyone who hates Tickle Me Elmo

by Jonathon Morgan, Posted Jan 9th 2007 9:27AM

I've yet to figure out why Elmo is so universally loved by children. It's like his image somehow infiltrates the amniotic fluid, passed from mother to fetus so the baby arrives already obsessed with the giggling little furball. We'd avoided Elmo in ...
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