Elmo Finally Snaps; Tries to Kill Dallas Children

[Space Chief]

http://www.local6.com/news/5784303/detail.html

I guess Elmo DON'T LIKE THIS!
:evil: :evil: :evil:


A mother in Dallas is one of several parents complaining about a new interactive book for toddlers in which Sesame Street character Elmo asks "who wants to die?" according to a Local 6 News report.
Family members said 16-month-old Miranda Boll's new book, "Potty Time With Elmo," was supposed to teach an interactive lesson using voice commands.
However, when the book's buttons are pressed, it reportedly says something it is not supposed to -- "who wants to die?"
"It's a sick joke," mother Angela Bolls said. "If it's a joke then it's a bad one, you know? And it's not necessary. It's inappropriate."


Bolls said she checked another copy of the same book and found that it says something completely different; "Who wants to try to go potty?"


The company that makes the book said it has had several complaints concerning the book, according to the report.

At last, Elmo reveals his plan to sacrifice children to the Idol of the Ziox to summon up an army of invincible warriors.

And in related news:
Family Finds Raw Meat Instead Of iPod Inside Sealed Box (http://www.local6.com/news/5710517/detail.html)

[Brettfern]

Oh my goodness..

[Youko Recca]

This reminds me of the Angel episode, "Smile Time". They said that many complaints were filed on this, so you have to wonder how this certain message was implanted in all of them. But more importantly, you have to think about how many of those kids behind those complaints discovered the message by themselves. In a dark, secluded room. How creepy would that be? Or, has been?

[Dark Fact]

I'm willing to bet that "Who wants to die" was really just a glitch and was supposed to sound like "Who wants to try". Anyways, I still find this funny as hell because I always thought Elmo was some form of spawn of Satan.

[True Noir]

Holy crap. This is funny.

I'm willing to bet that "Who wants to die" was really just a glitch
Suuuure....:p

[Gatomon41]

Funny, yet distrubing.

[Natey]

Finally elmo is revealed for who he is. this is LMAO funny

[Bubblegum Girl]

Man that's funny. :p

Taken from a Simpsons episode: "Elmo knows where you live." - Elmo

[ThePeterNetwork]

I think Elmo has been tickled one time too many. :shrug:

[stargirl]

Laugh all you want, guys, but I don't think it's funny.:sad: This is disturbing and inappropriate for any child.:mad:

But I should warn every TZ member this: if you have a younger sibling and he or you are just about to read a book, I recommend your parents check it for any wrong language like Elmo's. That'll keep better safety of children.;)

[Frank Castle]

That's some scary ****. I pray that no other child has found that line in their book.

[AdamYJ]

That's scarier than that whole thing with the monster at the end of the book. At least in that case, it just turned out to be Grover.

[New Noise™]

Funny, yet distrubing.
Yeah, I totally agree.

[G. Wen]

Whoa, parnets are pissed over a book? If I were I mom, and I heard that glitch, I'll just switch that book for a new one at the store, and explain to my kids that the voice was broken so it couldn't say "try" properly. But let's just coddle the kids and spoil them rotten, because that how you prepare the future generation for the real world. Yeah, I'm mad at this news, but not because of the voice glitch error.

[Elven Moon]

Elmo knows where you live!

[Scythemantis]

Laugh all you want, guys, but I don't think it's funny.:sad: This is disturbing and inappropriate for any child.:mad:
First of all, it IS funny.

Second, if you think that any child would ever be affected by this, then you clearly have no experience with kids and have no idea how they think.

...Extremely young children take everything around them at face value. They wouldn't see anything wrong with this, and they wouldn't comprehend it as anything threatening. They would almost universally interpret it as an honest, innocent question i.e. "why would anyone want to die?" and would never even stop to think that this is an unusual thing for Elmo to say. It would certainly never put any morbid thoughts into their heads.

Can't you remember thinking this way yourself? It's UNIVERSAL, and I can't be the only one here who's memory goes back to age one.

And you know that any child who is old enough to understand how bizarre it is would simply find it much funnier than any of us adults do.

This is just another case of paranoid, melodramatic parents flipping out over something that has no effect on their child either way. Sometimes I think parents need a day care all their own.





.......I remember reading "there's a monster at the end of this book" when I was two and being sorely disappointed that it was just grover. I was honestly expecting something more along the lines of Godzilla or Dracula. Ah well, Count Von Count is still my hero.

[Weatherman]

"Who wants to try to go potty?" sounds alot scarier to me than "Who wants to die?"

[Martianinvader]

They played it on the radio today, and it's even funnier heard than spoken about. :D

[g_UnIt_GaNsTa]

Not surprising.

[sag_2002]

LOL, I heard about that on Keith Olbermann's "Worst Persons in the World" segment on Monday. Scary. :evil:

[Delia]

Thread title very misleading. :evil:

I was expecting to see some costumed character from a stage show going bonkers

[Dark Fact]

LOL, I heard about that on Keith Olbermann's "Worst Persons in the World" segment on Monday. Scary.
So Elmo is the worst person in the world? :) That wouldn't surprise me! :D

[EinBebop]

Just saw this on Fox News... apparently, the fallout from this scandal was too much for Elmo to handle, and he has taken his own life.

http://pages.sbcglobal.net/ein/elmo.jpg

[Dark Fact]

As someone who can't stand Elmo, that has to be one of the greatest pictures I've ever seen! :D

[Wanted]

Just saw this on Fox News... apparently, the fallout from this scandal was too much for Elmo to handle, and he has taken his own life."Who wants to die?" was funny, but that was just hilarious!

[Chris Wood]

Wait, I thought Bert was the evil one? I suppose it's no surprise that Elmo is in the devil's employ.

[MahouShoujo13]

That's very disturbing. It either could be a glitch, it was supposed to be something else but was misheard, or someone thought it was a joke just to put that line in and mess with a bunch of parents. And I thought the title meant that an idiot in an Elmo costume just went out and started chasing kids with a knife. :shrug:

The Elmo hanging himself picture is very funny...but I think that's just a doll hung from a window still and staged to look like a suicide.

[EinBebop]

..I think that's just a doll hung from a window still and staged to look like a suicide.Ya think? :rolleyes:

Wait... ElMO FAKED HIS OWN DEATH?!?!?! This story just keeps getting more shocking! :eek:

[ShinjiFanGirl]

Whoa, parnets are pissed over a book? If I were I mom, and I heard that glitch, I'll just switch that book for a new one at the store, and explain to my kids that the voice was broken so it couldn't say "try" properly. But let's just coddle the kids and spoil them rotten, because that how you prepare the future generation for the real world. Yeah, I'm mad at this news, but not because of the voice glitch error. The child in the story was 16 months old.

Hey let's send toddlers to war, can't have them growing up coddled and taken care of.

[Chris Wood]

Wait... ElMO FAKED HIS OWN DEATH?!?!?! This story just keeps getting more shocking! :eek:

HaHa!! So where is he now then? My guess is he's hiding out in Oscar's can while he waits for the insurance check to clear.

[Squall]

Whoa, parents are pissed over a book? If I were I mom, and I heard that glitch, I'll just switch that book for a new one at the store, and explain to my kids that the voice was broken so it couldn't say "try" properly. But let's just coddle the kids and spoil them rotten, because that how you prepare the future generation for the real world. Yeah, I'm mad at this news, but not because of the voice glitch error.

You make an excellent point. We've had two generations of Americans now who were coddled and spoiled as kids, both at home and especially at school, and look at the effect it's had on our society. And if you think that Seasame Street's creators will have a tough time dealing with parents like this one over this glitch, imagine what our poor teachers go through in the public school system every day - it's ten times worse.

Ultimately, it's turning our society into one where where freedom of speech disappears, as those with the most political clout get to decide what everyone else is allowed to say, in public and in private; and where college degrees, despite costing more money and time than ever, are meaningless because they're virtually guaranteed (even Bachelor's degrees in college don't impress employers anymore, due to lawsuits keeping students in class and grade inflation). If you think it's bad now, just wait 20 more years. You'll be afraid to go out in public and say anything because someone within earshot might hear it and be offended...

[G. Wen]

The child in the story was 16 months old.

Hey let's send toddlers to war, can't have them growing up coddled and taken care of.

There's a HUUUUUUGE difference between explaining glitches to kids, and sending them off to war where they can get killed. First of all, no kid will die, or want to die, because they heard Elmo mispronounce try. If a kid is disturbed by it, parents only have to say, "Oh, the speaker is broken so Elmo can't talk correctly. We'll go to the store and switch it for a new one." Most kids are highly intelligent, and will understand. Also, if the kid is only 16 months old, I highly doubt (s)he'll understand the glitch, or even remember it.

You very well know when I talked about coddling kids, I was talking about parents who overprotect their kids from everything, like speaker glitches. I don't even believe in spanking kids, so I really don't believe in sending them off to war. But nice personal attack anyways.:yawn:

[Shawn Hopkins]

He's saying "Uh oh, who wet the bed?"

[SilverKnight]

You make an excellent point. We've had two generations of Americans now who were coddled and spoiled as kids, both at home and especially at school, and look at the effect it's had on our society. And if you think that Seasame Street's creators will have a tough time dealing with parents like this one over this glitch, imagine what our poor teachers go through in the public school system every day - it's ten times worse.

Ultimately, it's turning our society into one where where freedom of speech disappears, as those with the most political clout get to decide what everyone else is allowed to say, in public and in private; and where college degrees, despite costing more money and time than ever, are meaningless because they're virtually guaranteed (even Bachelor's degrees in college don't impress employers anymore, due to lawsuits keeping students in class and grade inflation). If you think it's bad now, just wait 20 more years. You'll be afraid to go out in public and say anything because someone within earshot might hear it and be offended...You've offended me. I'm going to stop talking to you.

Oh and by the way, that nice little rant of your has absolutely zippo to do with the topic at hand. I believe the soap box for why society is falling apart is over that way. >points< Either stow it or rant about it somewhere else where it has some passing relation to the original post. Thanks.

In any case, the 'glitch' sounds very odd. I don't think the issue is of people coddling their children so much as being disturbed personally that something like that would show up in a children's book. Hearing that would probably disturb me more than it would my kid, but then I grew up on the era of Chuckie, so all that stuff weirds me out.

Furthermore, I'd like to take a moment to point out that 'a lot of people complaining' doesn't equate to 'OMG PEPOLES R BABIES, SOCIETY SUX!1!' A lot of people complaining are a lot of people complaining, and I've seen a lot of people complain about a lot of things dumber than this. If I hadn't already lost faith in the majority of humanity, I doubt reading that article would have sent my opinion of the world spiraling down the crapper, because honestly, I have more important things to do. You wanna talk coddling and being too easily offended, getting offended at other people getting offended over something you find trivial is the most asinine concept in the history of stupid ideas, and it makes no shred of sense whatsoever.

But who knows. Maybe I'm missing something.

"Elmo knows where you live."

[Scythemantis]

The Elmo hanging himself picture is very funny...but I think that's just a doll hung from a window still and staged to look like a suicide.

Newsflash: elmo isn't real. I'm *pretty sure* everyone can tell the picture is a joke someone set up.

If you're not just joking here, Mahou, you scare me.

[Squall]

You've offended me. I'm going to stop talking to you.

What made you think I was talking about you personally? Besides, I've never spoken to you before.
But, as you wish.

[PowerZord]

I know it's wrong, But I can't stop laughing everytime I think of this.

I'm talking to a friend of the phone and it goes like this:

Me: Hey, do you know who's elmo from Sesame street/plaza sesamo?

She: Yeah.. the cookie eater one?

Me: I just read here that in a Potty training book.. *I burst out laughing while trying to explain her*

She: But Don't laugh, Just tell me what is it.

Me: I'm reading here that the book instead of saying: "Who wants to try" it saying: "who wants to die?" *i burst out laughin again*

She: I still don't get it..

[Fresh V]

Well, this is interesting. This might lead to Elmo getting imprisoned. But he shoulda known better. I can't understand why he would record his voice saying "Who wants to die?". It could be a glitch, but maybe someone's trying to frame him. Damn, this incident will greatly reduce Elmo's sales.

Anyway, there's no doubt Elmo's gonna be put on trial. I know Elmo, personally. He's a really great guy once ya get to know him. I am positive that he did not do this. I hope he can pull through and try to find the guy who framed him. If he really did say "Who wants to die?" on purpose, I don't know what to say. I can't believe Elmo would say that.

And that picture of Elmo hanged is not funny. Taking an Elmo doll and hanging him, making it look like Elmo actually died. But that doesn't fool me. It's clearly a doll, not the real Elmo.

So, if Elmo gets put on trial, all the best of luck to him. We believe in you, Elmo.

[Simpler Simon]

If that was the real Elmo hanging in that pic...wouldn't his face have turned cookie monster blue by now?

But seriously, wouldn't this just put the blame on whoever voices Elmo, or can pretty much anyone do that job with a little helium and voice distortion?

[SilverKnight]

What made you think I was talking about you personally? Besides, I've never spoken to you before.
But, as you wish.It's called 'sarcasm', Squall. It's a tool I use quite often. Please acquaint yourself with it.

[Dark Fact]

Elmo getting put on trial? He's got friends in high places people!

Rosie 'O' Donnel...hello? ;)

[Squall]

It's called 'sarcasm', Squall. It's a tool I use quite often. Please acquaint yourself with it.

Ah, yes - 'sarcasm'. I once had a case of that, but I took some antibiotics, and in a week, it was gone! :p OK, really, I'm usually very good at picking out sarcasm, but that one slipped by me. :sweat:

[Scythemantis]

The golden rule of the internet has always been to read things as sarcasm first, absolutely everywhere, no matter what someone is talking about.