One promo on the Rosie O’Donnell show was all it took to spark Tickle Me Elmo mania. Tickle Me Elmo’s sweet voice and vibrating laugh had parents fighting in the aisles. The hottest toy of 1996 was, ...

The year is 1998. I’m 12 years old, and fond of wearing oversized sweatshirts with dalmatians on them. In Social Studies one day, my teacher, Mrs. G, tells the class about her imminent status of Best ...

Holiday shopping in Indianapolis has a unique look in 2021. As the COVID-19 pandemic lingers on, some shoppers are keeping on their masks. Many are buying online, as Cyber Monday and Black Friday ...

Have you grabbed the new TMX “Extreme” Elmo? Don’t. Ten years ago, Elmo was like a cute little kid. Tickle, tickle, giggle, giggle. Today? He’s a desperate exhibitionist heading for a breakdown.

People could certainly be loud, opinionated jerks well enough without social media. One example: The Lehigh Valley woman who took out a classified ad to sell a Tickle Me Elmo — the infamous Christmas ...

EAST AURORA, N.Y. – He's still red, fuzzy and really ticklish, but now Elmo's laughing fits have him slapping his knee, falling to the floor, rolling over and pounding his arm. Fisher-Price, a unit of ...

This is Elmo like we’ve never seen him before — and it’s terrifying. A furless Tickle Me Elmo is terrorizing the internet after the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ontario shared a now-viral ...

The quirky owlish Furby toy isn't fooling anyone at the Pentagon or at NASA. *** new Air Force memo forbids anyone to bring *** Furby into areas like this at the Cape. It's here that engineers track ...