So, back in the day, you know like ten years ago, they released the Furby. Does everyone remember Furbies? The ugly little robotic creatures that pretended to be alive, were super needy, and made a lot of damn racket whenever they were awake? They get my vote for most annoying toy up until the point that Elmo started gyrating and trying to be a comedian. My sister-in-law had one, and we got to their house early one time when we were staying there, and no one was home from work yet, and we accidentally awakened her Furby. It talked for like three hours and no matter where you went in the house, you could still hear the Furby calling out for affection.
People bought these. On purpose.
We humans are strange and frightening creatures.
January 26th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
lol.
I must admit that I had one. I really don’t even know why I wanted one. I think it was probably because everyone else did, which says a lot for the marketing campaign. I always took the batteries out of mine because it annoyed me so much.
January 26th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
No joke, but I seriously think I saw one of these at a store a while back. I know that similar creatures are hanging around, they’ve just evolved a bit (although are still just as annoying)!
January 27th, 2009 at 9:24 am
They had to specifically ban kids from bringing them to high school.
And I have to say I’m a huge fan of Elmo, from back in the day when it was hard to find Elmo stuff, but I refuse to buy anything mechanized.