02/06/2005: Four Cool Dolls!
Happy birthday to you. Here’s a look at four great dolls, forever changing the stereotypes surrounding their kind of toys. You’ve got the Enemy Visitor doll from V, a big potato, Archie Bunker’s grandson and Steve freaking Urkel. It’s like everything you’ve ever wanted for your birthday. The V doll is particularly awesome, so much so that I’ll start the bidding at 5,000 bucks and tell all interested parties to e-mail me with their chosen form of escrow. Back to my booze in the blender, but not before…
A New Survey! You’ve got one week to live. What’s your plan?
Discussion Thread: 96 comments
FIRST POST!!!!
Posted by
The Manimal @ 02/06/2005 9:19 PM EST
I had the V doll. Still do, somewhere actually. That thing rocks, but it was so hard to fit him into playtime with the other toys, what with him being Godzilla sized and all.
Posted by
Brandon @ 02/06/2005 9:21 PM EST
The one week to live plan would involve lots and lots of sex. After that, probably some drinking and watching movies, then more sex.
Could you tell I was excited? Never thought this would happen.
Happy birthday. Ah 26, seems like only yesterday I was taking your training wheels off.
"Sunrise, sunset…"
And, the Manimal’s hometown getting a decent shoutout for the Superbowl. The kid who did the coin toss wore a NORMANDY jersey. I am a Normandy Atlethic Association alum myself. 1987 Pop Warner: The Normandy Giants.
I will post later when I have actually read the article.
Posted by
The Manimal @ 02/06/2005 9:23 PM EST
Too bad you don’t have the Urkel commercial complete with the Urkel rap.
One week to live: I would probably plan something elaborate only to watch it pissed away in SIMPSON dvds. Oh yeah, tell my family I love them….
Posted by
The Manimal @ 02/06/2005 9:27 PM EST
I SO need to get one of those Urkel dolls. And, thanks for reminding me about the old "Couch potato".
Anyway, If I had a week to live, I’d say goodbye to everyone I care about. Then, leave an outline to finishing the storylines in my two comic-book series(as well as the rights), to an artist friend of mine. And finally, read X-E until I drop.
Hah, and who says dolls are just for girls? Or kids, for that matter? Or weird old guys?
One week to live. Lessee. I’d distribute my toys among my friends [I'd rather be around to see them enjoy them, y'know?] and convince my girl to marry me. Yeah, for a week. S’better than dying all cold and alone and the like. Wait, it’s summer here. So much for the cold. My shirt is freakin’ soaked.
Alright, a new post!
Posted by
Dean @ 02/06/2005 10:24 PM EST
Reason number 5,784 I love this site: literally two days after I buy a talking Ernest doll on eBay Matt posts this article.
One week to live…yikes. Let’s see here, I’d need a couple cans of silly string, a bunch of candy, a yoyo, a jar of pickles and probably my MST3K DVDs. I don’t really know what I’d do, but at least that’s a start. Oh, and of course I’d want my wife with me (it’s always good to write stuff like that just in case she looks over my shoulder while I’m typing).
Posted by
Lucien @ 02/06/2005 10:38 PM EST
Well, I’m one of three, lets see how many people out there know about Flabber also.
Posted by
Kevin @ 02/06/2005 10:48 PM EST
happy birthday matt!
Posted by
cale @ 02/06/2005 11:01 PM EST
One week left to live?
I spend every waking moment trying to avoid exposing my eyeballs to more doll wang.
as sad and pathetic as it might be, I’d quit my job and just watch my favorite movies, read a few of my favorite books and play through Super Metroid one last time.
In all honesty, I actually would go to Disneyland. And maybe swim in the ocean. And for what it is worth, I too recognize Flabber from Big Bad Beetleborgs. It was probably the most memorable Power Rangers rip-off, what with a werewolf, vampire, and a 70’s pimp ghost thing helping the kids out. But the best Power Ranger rip off title would have to be The Tatooed (sp?) Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills. (yes it actuallt DID exist.)
Posted by
Ed @ 02/06/2005 11:07 PM EST
I’d probably try to make other peoples life miserable by reminding them how in a week i’m going to die and how they have to be nice to me exactly because of that.
Then, I’d eat all the candy my body can get without puking my eyeballs out, play The Legend Of Zelda once more and just to go with a pompous endind, I’d probably kill myself the 6th day just to prove matt’s prediction of it being a week was wrong…
Posted by
melonian @ 02/06/2005 11:32 PM EST
Hey Matt, Happy Birthday. Mine is actually on the 5th of this month. Loved the Toyfare article and I hope there’s more to come
Posted by
Tom H @ 02/06/2005 11:39 PM EST
Cry a whole bunch, if you want the honest answer. Sit around and eat fried and cheese covered food. Go to Disneyland. Run up a bunch of gambling debts.
Happy birthday again!
Posted by
squee4242 @ 02/06/2005 11:42 PM EST
My brother has one of those Couch Potatoes. He got it at a flear market a couple years ago. It’s actually in pretty decent shape. I wonder how much they’re really worth..
Posted by
Jim @ 02/06/2005 11:52 PM EST
Great article, Matt! Top rate!
If I had a week to live, I would give my goodbyes to my family, jump in the car, and go to as many places I’ve never been to as time allows. New York City, here I come!
Great article Matt once again, even so I have to admit that I still have that Urkel Doll. After many years of thinking about feeding it to the dog, I still managed to keep it in mostly good shape (glasses are gone to the land of lost toys).
So many years of "Got any cheese", "No sweat my pet", and "Did I do that" drives a person mad…
Posted by
Rirse @ 02/07/2005 1:20 AM EST
Hey matt today is my birthday also, man growing up I hated hearing "YOU HAVE THE SAME BIRTHDAY AS PRESIDENT REAGAN" every damn year
Posted by
Chris @ 02/07/2005 1:38 AM EST
That couch potato is so frigg’n sweet. If I had a whole bunch of them, I’d pile em all up on the floor next to the bed. Then I’d start doing flips off of the bed. They look pretty sweet.
Posted by
Eddie Lightning Frog @ 02/07/2005 1:41 AM EST
also sex
Posted by
Max Jenius @ 02/07/2005 2:14 AM EST
Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday! Whoopdie-doo! Whoopdie-doo! May your day be pleasant! Open up your present! Just for you! Just for you!
The first person to name what great series that song came from wins what’s in this box.
*holds up large box with a huge red question mark printed on the front*
Posted by
Mars @ 02/07/2005 2:34 AM EST
Happy B-day, Matt! Congrats, and don’t ever grow up for real.
You’re right= I forgot I owned a Couch Potato doll until this article. We used it to play Hot Potato, but mostly just threw it at each other.
One week to live? Hmmm..l’d leave Korea, head back to Canada and get all the family and friends together with me for a week of my favorite movies (They can’t complain- even if it’s "Little Monsters"!), favorites music (all 80s greats), fave foods + booze (finally= guilt free indulgence!!) and fave people- with a possible road trip thrown in- nothing beats a good road trip!!:)
Posted by
Muppet Baby @ 02/07/2005 6:34 AM EST
OK, one week to live? Well, there’s a girl I like, whom I’m fairly certain likes me. I’ll go tell her that I want her bad and that I’m dying. She’ll feel so bad that there’s no way I’llbe dying a virgin, lol.
Naw. But there really is a girl, that I kinda like and who may like me, and I’m really gonna talk to her a little more heavily this week, and hint at the fact that I like her.
Posted by
Nate @ 02/07/2005 7:24 AM EST
Oh, by the way, that Joey Stivic doll is just too funny.
Posted by
Nate @ 02/07/2005 7:26 AM EST
I like those couch potatoes.
Posted by
Pigleg @ 02/07/2005 7:33 AM EST
Mars- Garfield and Freinds. Binky the clown sang it, and Garfield hated his ass. I would too. I fucking hate clowns!
Posted by
Nate @ 02/07/2005 7:35 AM EST
One week to live? I certainly wouldn’t be answering surveys!
Just ridin’ ya! Happy Belated Birthday, Matt.
It’s a toss-up: kidnap Orlando Bloom, or steal the best-lookin’ horse in the world and ride 24-7. Or, wait until the week is up, realise I’d proved everybody wrong and snigger to myself. I snigger to myself a lot anyway.
I just realised: I don’t smoke, drink, or have sex with strangers (er. or anyone, to be gushingly pathologically honest. Just so Kingklash can’t tease me, either); what’s killing me then? Lol.
PS Happy Birthday, Matt, and don’t go too crazy. . . all those Congo gorillaz could be bad for your health 
Posted by
eminentfreak @ 02/07/2005 9:13 AM EST
Well, thank you for traumatizing this twelve-year old boy for life. I swear, after5 seeing that doll, I feel compelled to gouge my eyes out with a flaming spork.
Posted by
TOM @ 02/07/2005 9:53 AM EST
Matt- I’ve heard of Flabber, but Jesus, a DOLL? Madness.
Also, who else caught American Dad after the Super Bowl? There were Hostess refs galore, including a joke that involved Choco-Diles.
Posted by
Behonkiss @ 02/07/2005 10:09 AM EST
Joey Stivic’s balls really freaked me out. Thank goodness that stupid Urkel doll doesn’t have ‘em, or does it . . . bwahahahahaha.
Posted by
Pedro @ 02/07/2005 10:33 AM EST
I also remember Beetleborgs and Teenage Alien Fighters.
Happy Birthday Matt.
That Stivic doll sort of reminded me of the controversy a few years ago when they released some anatomically correct dolls. The difference: They were of adult males and were supposed to be for gay people.
I remember a game show from around the same time called Couch Potatoes hosted by Marc Summers.
One week to live?- Pig pout on junk food. Sort of what I do now.
Posted by
JLAJRC @ 02/07/2005 10:35 AM EST
Man, Beetleborgs! I had forgotten about that show. Alright, If I had a week to live…
Quit my job
make a will
call evryone i know
ditto on the fried cheese covered food
not tell anyone
Posted by
Scott @ 02/07/2005 12:00 PM EST
Matt -
Are you going to let us know who Flabber was? I googled him, but couldn’t find any pictures.
Posted by
Joe in OH @ 02/07/2005 12:17 PM EST
Depends on what is killing me. Rabies, or any similar horrible affliction? Make out a list of my enemies, then start biting. But I have seen my death, and it involves a busload of female clowns, a tube of toothpaste, life-size costumes of Giant Robo and Big O, and for some reason, Marc Summers. But, none of those is what actually kills me.
I remember the Joey doll. Even back then, the fact that it actually hit the shelves was a small wonder. Looking back on it, I knew it was a publicity stunt. Not quite as funny as the Skipper doll with growing breasts, but a good entry into doll history anyway.
Posted by
kingklash, too strange to live, too odd to die. @ 02/07/2005 12:24 PM EST
Great article, Matt…can’t believe they had a doll based on Archie Bunker’s Grandson. That’s messed up..
Oh, and if I had a week to live, I’d spend it with my family and my fraternity brothers.
Posted by
Cameron T. @ 02/07/2005 12:24 PM EST
Flabber is the Elvis-ish ghoul from Beetleborgs.
Posted by
Matt @ 02/07/2005 12:26 PM EST
One week to live, eh? Spend a day in seven different countries, maybe… that’d be amazing. Or, maybe I’d just eat some candy and watch old episodes of Family Double Dare until I expired like milk.
It really just depends - am I just going to drop dead suddenly but peacefully? Hope so. Quit my job, say goodbye to people I know and make the many apologies that must come along with that, then go to Ireland, England, and Japan, and the western US. Learn to ride a horse while shooting arrows like a ninja.
Posted by
Jessica @ 02/07/2005 12:55 PM EST
Happy Birthday Matt! Good to know you watched the Simpsons after the Super Bowl and got my real name, Jeff Albertson.
Posted by
The fat guy formerly known as Comic Book Guy @ 02/07/2005 1:07 PM EST
Matt’s Fireball Island article was Farked yesterday.
Posted by
Pedro @ 02/07/2005 1:11 PM EST
With one week left to live, I’d grab all the girls that I’m currently interested in to travel and see as much as I can in one week, with drinking and sexual relations taking place during the evening hours.
I’d drink cristal and eat that old ass box of C3P0’s since I was gonna die anyways. I think thats how Marlin Brando died
Posted by
dr mindbender @ 02/07/2005 1:57 PM EST
I actually had (and probably still have burried in my parents basement) that archie bunker grandson doll, being a boy, my mother used it to teach me and my older brother the joys of potty training. interesting what articles about old dolls makes a person remember.
Posted by
Gene @ 02/07/2005 2:28 PM EST
Happy Birthday, Mr. C!
Posted by
kingklash @ 02/07/2005 2:35 PM EST
I had actually sent the following links to someone a few weeks back.
Ed:
Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters (USA Network)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126175/
http://www.dicentertainment.co...oed_teenage_alien_fighters.swf
Younger Lawrence brother/Tim Curry voice fans:
Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad (Syndicated)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108944/
http://www.dicentertainment.co...rhuman_samurai_cyber_squad.swf
Posted by
ME @ 02/07/2005 2:37 PM EST
i definately had that Couch Potato doll, as well as the female version. ah memories….
Posted by
Emily @ 02/07/2005 3:09 PM EST
With one week left to live, I’d rob a bank, buy as much cheese doodles as humanly possible, write up a will stating that I need 2 coffins, one with me and one filled soley with cheese doodles, and that they need to be buried one on top of the other, with the doodles on top, so that the doodles might fall through on my skeleton…
Oh yeah, and Big Bad Beetleborgs rocked.
Posted by
AJ @ 02/07/2005 3:42 PM EST
Look up "Heavy Armor B-Fighter" and "Gridman" in your favorite Sentai database. Only TTAFfBH was fully original, not action scenes from a Japanese show. That’s a show that deserves a second chance, along with M.A.S.K.
Posted by
kingklash @ 02/07/2005 4:27 PM EST
First of all, Happy Birthday, Matt. Hope you enjoyed yourself and remember most of it in the morning. 
I pre-date "All In the Family" and am not a big sci-fi fan except for "Star Wars." I do, however, vaguely recall seeing the Couch Potato doll in novelty stores. My family didn’t have cable by the time Urkel had fully taken over "Family Matters." Even so, I’ve never forgotten that doll, mostly in the big toy stores up north.
As for the survey, if I had a week, as corny as it sounds, I’d spend it with my family and friends.
Posted by
starwenn @ 02/07/2005 6:14 PM EST
One week? I’d splurge and buy my gf (soon to be fiancee- Shhh!) a ring. Not really sure why, I guess I would feel like it’d be a shame not to.
I’d go someplace tropical w/ her for a few days then hang out the last days. Then leave my vast fortune to Matt so he can continue doing X-E FOREVER!
Posted by
ANdrew @ 02/07/2005 6:31 PM EST
Farked again. At least this time it’s not one week late.
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1342647
Posted by
Pedro @ 02/07/2005 6:55 PM EST
I Remember having one of those Urkels he use to come to the sit-ins. I remember I ripped open his head and stuffed cotten in it. I also use to power slam it alot. I hated that lil thing I still have it its sitting under my bed now half a head and all. He dosent have any fingers either and half a shoe but its all good he still comes to bro. Percy’s sit-ins well got to go good day all.
Posted by
JAM-- @ 02/07/2005 7:14 PM EST
That Tattooed Teenage… trailer cracked me up. If I didn’t know any better I would have thought it was some SNL Power Rangers spoof.
i’m surprised you didnt include the Pee Wee Herman doll in this article.
Posted by
Dan @ 02/07/2005 8:31 PM EST
I know Matt touched on it a bit in the article, but really… toys based on All In The Family??? Was All In The Family popular among five year old girls or something? On the bright side, the packaging was neat, with Archie on the front and the whole thing about it being "physically correct". Hate to see a physically incorrect baby boy.
Posted by
Destro @ 02/07/2005 11:55 PM EST
The scariest dolls of all time: ("Teenage Mutant Ninja"?) New Kids On The Block Cabbage Patch dolls.
Argharghargh! Almost as bad as the cartoon!
Dolls: just say AarghaarghpleasenonononoUGH! 
Posted by
eminentfreak @ 02/08/2005 2:41 AM EST
What cracks me up is that they needed the trademark™ symbol next to "Did I do that?" on that Urkel box.
Almost as stupid as the Buffer brothers copyrighting "Let’s get ready…(deleted out of fear of the Buffers’ Lucas-class lawyers.)"
Hey, I had one of those Urkel dolls. Good times.
Happy belated birthday Matt!
Posted by
J-Dog @ 02/08/2005 10:35 AM EST
The Joey Stivic doll looks uncircumsized.
Posted by
David @ 02/08/2005 11:04 AM EST
Another thing I’d probably do is start smoking cigarettes again. Hell, you only die once, so you might as well enjoy it.
Posted by
Nate @ 02/08/2005 11:48 AM EST
That Joey Stivic doll creeps me out a little. Maybe I’m just a bit too uptight about that kind of thing… I used to watch Family Matters all the time when I was a kid and I had never seen that doll before. It’s actually kinda neat.
Anyway, if I had a week to live I would say goodbye to my family, coworkers and friends and then I’d get all my money together and see how far I can travel by foot/jaywalking (it may be dangerous, but who cares? I wouldn’t be around for long anyway) before dying. Anyone who wanted to come could join me, although I don’t think I would ask anyone directly.
Posted by
AnarchicCasualty @ 02/08/2005 11:50 AM EST
According to James Bond, You Only Live Twice.
Once when you are born,
And again when you die.
I read the book.
Posted by
kingklash @ 02/08/2005 11:53 AM EST
The only doll I will admitt to having as a male would the ultra-powerful Gorzak. I dont know if anyone would remember this behemoth but this warrior of death had it all. He could turn right, turn left, walk, and chop his axe all by the sound of your voice. He could also bellow out a battle cry that consisted of "RAAARGH" or "ARGHHH"! I still have this spawn of Satan’s trinkets and I will keep him forever. Alas, I lost his chains that he breaks free from during his battle chop action!
Posted by
Alex @ 02/08/2005 12:14 PM EST
"Couch Potato" comes from a comment that Princess Diana made in the mid-80s about people watching too much TV. She was either on some kick about geting people off their asses and exercising more, or she was making a point about not giving into the pressures of a public that obsessed about watching her life unfold on television. Whatever the case, the name caught on but instead of motivating people to get up and do something, it caused people to merely embrace the notion, hence a goddamn toy line based on it.
The worst part about the series of events is that it created another example of a kind of people I can’t stand… Gimmick Whores. Some douche spot-welded to his recliner/couch/whatever that sits there with a Couch Potato doll because "it’s so them" drives me insane.
The latest incarnation of this type of person could be seen by the thousands just the other day when so many people wore Super Bowl XXXIX t-shirts to the actual Super Bowl. What are they proving? "I’m here….Just like you….It’s the Super Bowl today, you know?" Mind numbing.
Posted by
spmal1@verizon.net @ 02/08/2005 1:20 PM EST
I believe when Ken and Barbie were first released, both of those dolls were anatomically correct. I am not real sure about the testicals/testis but I do know that either the following year or a couple years after, thier current nudered state came to be.
Posted by
jason @ 02/08/2005 1:31 PM EST
wow thats so wrong
The creator of the Barbie doll actually ‘borrowed’ the idea from a doll she found in Germany, called the Lilly doll. Lilly was the main character in a raunchy comic strip and the doll was meant as a gag gift for men. It’s creepy how much the original barbie doll looks like this thing. Though I never heard about the anatomically correct thing.
Posted by
squirrel-chan @ 02/08/2005 2:15 PM EST
Happy B-day Matt!
for those who wonder about the Flabber doll:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA...#038;rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
Posted by
Jordy @ 02/08/2005 3:53 PM EST
Happy birthday Matt
Posted by
Well @ 02/08/2005 7:39 PM EST
I think the my last wish during my last week to live would be an X-Entertainment that celebrates the holidays in December, not February
From Bill Bryson’s "Made In America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States":
"America was well on its way to becoming a nation of couch potatoes, though that expression would not, of course, be used for many years. (Its first appearance has been traced to the rather unlikely forum American Banker magazine of December 30, 1980, but the context suggests that it was already current, at least in California.)"
He cites Safire’s "Coming to Terms".
Posted by
Marchant @ 02/09/2005 4:36 AM EST
Some other theories:
http://www.filtersmag.com/Discussion/messages/1972.html
http://www.filtersmag.com/Discussion/messages/1851.html
Posted by
Marchant @ 02/09/2005 4:43 AM EST
If I had one week to live, I would go out in style. I would buy myself a Couch Potato doll, feed my Archie-Kid-Doll-With-A-Package, and squeeze the head off my Erkle doll.
Posted by
Pfft... @ 02/09/2005 8:00 PM EST
Happy b-day bro. Just celebrated mine on the 8th. 29 years. Whoa. Keep up the excellent work on this site.
Posted by
Another Matt @ 02/10/2005 10:51 AM EST
I can’t believe they made Flabber. 
I feel suicidal when I remember watching that show.
Posted by
dfgdfg @ 02/11/2005 10:12 AM EST
BeetleBorgs, probably the worst kids show ever. Matt should do an article on it.
Posted by
Dan @ 02/11/2005 3:57 PM EST
I am really really really really bored. So I clicked all the names in this blog that have links and will no proclaim that Mr. Mr. Mr. site is quite enjoyable and worth of your attention anytime, not just when your bored. One reason I have made this official statement, his site has Pooch Patrol!
Posted by
Kennef @ 02/11/2005 3:59 PM EST
I still have my ‘V’ doll and he on my shelf. Still looking as good as ever. I also wondered why there wasn’t any more toys from this show. They could of have several figures just like they do for Star Wars (all the outfits for Diana alone! If you count the series after TFB). Maybe if the remake of ‘V’ ever gets off the ground, they will make toys for the new show, and then make the older figures into toys.
One week to live….I’d try and read as much as I could, and watch any movies that I’ve put off watching. And maybe end a few lives of those who have pissed me off.
Posted by
MLD @ 02/11/2005 7:44 PM EST
What does this make me…#7 to remember Big Bad Beetleborgs (as well as the following season: Beetleborgs Metallix)?
And it was so much a ripoff of Power Rangers, they were both distributed by Saban at the time, so you can tell obvious similarities to both series. I even swear that the old costumes for Beetleborgs were used in later episodes of Power Rangers (especially the one with all of the Red Rangers, the villains’ costumes were all from that show)
Posted by
Invader Norbert @ 02/12/2005 1:15 AM EST
I always got creeped out by the V show. I wish I would’ve picked up a V doll now, though. But, being the poor kid I was, I could only have what could be purchased with what I made selling cheese during lunch.
Posted by
Cammioh @ 02/12/2005 6:51 PM EST
Wow I never knew the phrase "Did I do that" was trademarked. I don’t see how that is possible. I think I’m going to trademark the word "the" and "a". Everyone will be paying mad royalties to me!!!
Posted by
phunqsauce @ 02/13/2005 2:58 PM EST
Hi, I just found this site and it is AWESOME! I was drawn in when looking for the original Lucky Charm line, and then found the greatness of Swirly Whale. Yeah, the dolls are great too. I want a V doll now. Hummm. Next stop, ebay.
If I had one week to live… I don’t know, can you drop me by the liquor store so I can start planning?
Posted by
Phrankey @ 02/13/2005 3:15 PM EST
Ah yes I remember that "Great Power Rangers Clone" flood that gave birth to Beetleborgs Super Human Samurai Syber Squad and that GOD AWFUL Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighter. I actually got kinda fond of SHSSS for a while becuz in the hour betwen waking up and catching the cheese wagon there was very little else on since at that point most of my TV networks had started to phase out there weekday morning cartoon line ups. TTAF was horrible I have no idea what USA was thinking when they came up with that turd. I rememeber that the acting and special effects were so shitty that it made the first season of power rangers look like it was written by shakespeare and had its SFX done by ILM.
Incidentally I did have a Couch Potato tho I have no idea what happened to him. The V and Joey dolls were before my time so I had no idea they even existed…and in the case of the latter I wish to the gods that were still true >_<
Posted by
The Krypt Angel @ 02/14/2005 12:47 PM EST
With one week to live i would have sex with every fine girl possible, and probably impregnate all of them. The future is full of me.HAHAHAHAHA. And I would spend the last day of my life playing Nintendo, and with my last breath I would finally beat Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. That’d let me die happy I think. I know its a little late but I just bought the Super Mario Brothers Board game on ebay, I can’t wait for it to arrive.
Posted by
LoneWolf @ 02/15/2005 11:38 AM EST
That Joey Stivic doll is frightening. And its face actually reminds me of a doll I had as a kid, but she was fortunately sewn together with underwear permanently on. I never saw the fun of dolls that piss themselves. And if realism was what they were going for, why not a doll that pukes and shits as well. Good Lord.
If I was going to die in a week, I would need to rob a bank- or perhaps mug Paris Hilton- so I could have enough money to take the whole family to Disney World. And, once there, when I kicked the bucket I would volunteer to be the thousandth happy haunt in the Haunted Mansion.
Posted by
JG @ 02/15/2005 2:44 PM EST
Did I really read that entire article all the way down to the revised Urkel grade, only to be deprived of a shot of the logo that warranted the change?
Thanks be to Google: http://www.vintagelane.com/ima...s_doll_in_box_talking_doll.JPG
Posted by
my moustache @ 02/15/2005 6:57 PM EST
Oh my god, that doll was anitomically correct???! Now, that is scary!!! They could NEVER get away with that now. Could you imagine?????
My mom’s parents and grandmother loved Steve Urkel!!!! I think my cousin (who’s 15 now) got one of those dolls when she was 1 yr. old. I think one of my cousins gave it to her. I wonder if she still has it.
That "V" doll was cool!!!!!! Lizard face and funky tounge!!!!!!!!! We’d have a field day at work with that one, particularly the lizard tounge!!!!!!!
I remember Couch Potato, but what the hell is a Flabber doll?? Someone wanna clue me in?
Great article, Matt!!!!
Posted by
Allison @ 02/17/2005 9:26 AM EST
My boyfriend says to me "No sweat my pet" all the time, then he does his hysterical Pee-Wee Herman impression. Because I’m a sucker for anyone who can do Pee-Wee.
I can’t believe I just admitted that.
Posted by
Allison @ 02/17/2005 9:29 AM EST
I couldn’t see the Urkel thing you were talking about on the box….is that because I am retarded?
Posted by
fatretard @ 02/17/2005 3:53 PM EST
I couldn’t see the Urkel thing you were talking about on the box….is that because I am retarded?
Posted by
fatretard @ 02/17/2005 3:53 PM EST
My cousin STILL has a Couch Potato somewhere in his house.
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