A Florida family got an unpleasant surprise when they recently replaced the batteries of their toddler’s Elmo Knows Your Name doll. The doll began to sound like the favorite childhood plaything of Tony Soprano, telling anyone who would listen that it planned on sending 2-year-old James to sleep with the fishes.
“Kill James!” Elmo would say in his squeaky, sing-song voice. No word as to whether the doll would laugh maniacally or not.
Fisher-Price since has given the family a voucher for a replacement doll—minus, one would hope, homicidal leanings. “It’s not something you would think would ever come out of a toy,” James’ mother, Melissa, says. “But once I heard it, I was just kind of distraught.” (Fox News)