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Tickle Me Kevorkian?!?

A less emotionally loaded answer to this mess is that the word 'die' is a corrupted end of the sentence that should come out as 'try and go potty' and the recording stops there. Maybe someone passed this thing through a strong magnetic field and fritzed the recording?

Maybe someone passed this thing through a strong magnetic field and fritzed the recording?

Darn good point!!!

My name is Talking Tina, and I don't like you.

I have two talking star trek action figures that I've had since I was a kid, one of them Captain Picard and one Will Riker. Captain Picard says "Damage Report" and "Engage" and Will Riker says "Shields up" and "Red Alert." However if you press their buttons quickly you can get Picard to say "Damnit engage!" and Riker to say "Shit Red Alert!" Two of the best toys I ever had.

Yes, there isn't really a lot of difference between "try" and "die", especially if the recording got mangled a bit towards the end.

Personally, I find the concept of "Potty Time With Elmo" equally as disturbing as death threats from Elmo.

Better than those damn Bert and Ernie dolls I had as a toddler. Couldn't keep them apart.

My friend got a screwed up furbie for Christmas:

Friend: "I love you, Furbie"

Furbie: "Me no like you."

I've noticed a lot of toys with batteries failing knock off parts of sentences or phrases...or sound like they're underwater. I just replace the batteries, and once again our home is filled with the sweet sounds of, "Wooohooohooohoo!!! THE WONDERFUL THING ABOUT TIGGERS!!" played over and over and over again.

"Status: Either a prank or a manufacturing defect"

or a way to get money. Google "how to hack elmo"

My name is Talky Tina, and I don't like imposters...

I vote for demonic possession.

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,47368,00.html
It seems Elmo could be worth a lot of money...

I'm leaning towards Maegan's answer on this one. I collect books like those, and they do play interesting sounds when the batteries run dry. Those books do sometimes arrive at bookstores with already weak batteries (or it would be abused in bookstores enough to have the batteries grow weak by the time someone pick it up). If they picked it up on eBay, chances are it would be played with enough to have a weak battery too.

Would be very funny if it's true.

I used to have a kiddie cd player thing that would say over and over when there was no disk, "please insert disk." When the batteries ran down, it said "please insert piss."

http://www.mysimon.com/Elmo_Has_a_Potty_Mouth/4050-11029_8-6395370.html

great gift! haha

Here is a link for the book for sale on ebay!!
Can you believe that people are going crazy for it!!!

It reminds me of this legend:
http://snopes.com/disney/films/rafiki.htm

Its not fake you morons

Copy the link its an mp3 of what it says

My nephew had it before they brought it back to the store

Sorry here..........

http://www.myfilestash.com/userfiles/Symbios/Tobey/Who_Wet_The_Bed.mp3

You folks are all speculating on this thing without having seen the book. I have the book. Every other button works fine so it's not the battery. And it's certainly not the word 'try' with the end of the sentence cut off. It took us a little time to figure out what it said, but if you look at the context of the sound within the text of the book, then you'll realize that this woman is just over reacting and the recording is actually saying, "Uh Oh, who has to go?" but of course, Elmo, not having teeth or a tongue and a bunch of fur surrounding his mouth has never been known for good pronounciation, so it's just hard to understand.

The button in question is supposed to be pressed whenever the child sees a picture of Elmo's little doll, 'Baby David' in the text of the book.

It's pressed in the following context:

Text "Do you have to use the potty, Baby David?"
Sound "Uh Oh, Who has to go?"
Text: "You do? Let's go!"

This woman is just looking for a lawsuit.

It reminds me of the weird al song, 'furby prank call'. I find it a bit funny, is that twisted?

My son had a possessed "Tickle Me Elmo." He would start giggling when no one was near him. It had new batteries so I know it wasn't almost dead batteries. We ended up putting it in a closet and giving it away later.

I work for the company that produced this. This was a manufacturing error. Somehow the sound file was compressed. The reason all of the books don't say the same thing is because the problem was caught, but then the printer mistakenly distributed some of the defective books. I have one sitting on my desk, and I think it's hilarious...

We've got the book and I can tell you it is not weak batteries, all the other keys work fine. It is entirely obvious that some employee somewhere along the line is playing a prank.

On review it does clearly sound like "who has to go" when you are listening for those words. You can listen to it repeatedly and clearly hear EITHER phrase depending on what you are expecting. Interesting. On other sites the correct books seem to say "who wants to try to go potty", was this what "who has to go" was changed to so there would be no remote way of getting to "who wants to die"?
Why can't the makers just tell us what was the text supposed to be? Not sure what error and comprimised really means.

If you're refering to J's comment, he didn't say "compromised." He said "compressed," if that helps.

this kinda reminds me of a story in the news where one of those teletubbie dolls (the big purple one) said something like "I got a gun"

Hey lets go shoot mommy!

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