39,327
edits
Inappropriate Speak and Spell: Difference between revisions
m
Mass update links
prefix>Import Bot (Import from TV Tropes TVT:Main.InappropriateSpeakAndSpell 2012-07-01, editor history TVTH:Main.InappropriateSpeakAndSpell, CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported license) |
m (Mass update links) |
||
Line 5:
When the batteries run down, see [[Electronic Speech Impediment]].
{{examples
* The original [[Teddy Ruxpin]] talking teddy bear used animatronics which told the story on the audio cassette put into his back. Teddy would play ''any'' tape you put into him, but his mouth and eyes would move only when you used one of his approved story tapes, and then only when he speaks.
** A similar talking doll, Cricket, had no such limitations.
Line 16:
* Several years ago, one could find [[G.I. Joe]] action figures with voice chips that said things like "Yo Joe!", "ATTAAACK!", and "Vengeance is mine!", and [[Barbie]] <s>action figures</s> dolls with voice chips that said things like "Let's go shopping!", "Math is Hard!", and "Will we ever have enough clothes?" Inevitably, the Barbie Liberation Front went to Toys R Us, bought a bunch of each, and swapped the voice chips between the Joes and the Barbies. ''And then returned them all to the store.'' One may logically presume that [[Hilarity Ensued]].
** Referenced in an episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'': Lisa asks her friends if there isn't something wrong with what their talking [[Expy|Malibu Stacy]] dolls say<ref>referring to the terribly sexist and demeaning phrases</ref>. One girl responds "There's something wrong with what ''my'' Stacy says"; when she pulls the string, we hear "[[Spider Man|My spidey sense is tingling -- anybody call for a web-slinger?]]"
* In the ''[[Childs Play (Film)|Childs Play]]'' movies, Chucky the doll [a battery-powered, talking [[Irony|"Good Guy"]] doll] is possessed by the spirit of a serial killer. One can only imagine the inappropriate things he was saying to Andy, but onscreen we see and hear him [[Cluster F
* The Tickle Me Elmo doll is a talking doll that shakes and giggles when you touch it in several ways. Just ripe for abuse.
** One variant I have seen is an Elmo in shackles and ball-gag. When it is activated, it appears to struggle with it's bonds and mumble behind the gag. Yes, that sounds horrible, but a muppet in bondage gear is just funny squared.
Line 24:
*** He's actually saying "Who has to go [to the bathroom]?" [[Mondegreen|but it doesn't sound like it]].
**** It was a chip manufacturing defect. However, many sound books do go berserk when their battery is run down, either starting to sound demonic, or cut off the speech halfway through. The latter can cause the book to say some pretty shocking things. Oh, by the way, said Elmo book was from the same publisher as the infamous Lion King sound book. You know, the one with the defect that may cause the book to say something that sounded like "Squashed bananas up your ass" if you time your button presses right.
* Mike Motzart, that toy review guy from YouTube, LOVES this trope and exploits it in many of his videos. Some of the exploits demonstrated have been fixed by toy manufacturers in subsequent revisions. His Leapfrog table exploit only worked on older models featuring the character "Lily" which had a compartment flap that came off very easily, said exploit involved removing the flap and toggling a switch rapidly to result in something that sounded like a [[Cluster F
* [http://www.ebaumsworld.com/audio/play/80510840/ The demonic Furby]
* At the end of his book ''Masters of [[Doom]]'', David Kushner told of how his local Chuck E. Cheese had computers that spoke, but were programmed to reject swear words. He then set it up to [[Cluster F
* Played for laughs on an episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'':
{{quote| '''Krusty's Speak & Say''': "S is for [[Shiksa Goddess|Shiksa]]! S, H, I...uh, think there's a [[Getting Crap Past the Censors|T]] in there somewhere..."
| |||