# Chicken Dance Elmo - I Want You! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 8, 2002, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-dance-elmo-i-want-you/135819 "2002-11-08T02:08:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-dance-elmo-i-want-you/135819/1 "2002-11-08T02:08:49Z")
[Chicken Dance Elmo](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/baby/B00005YXV2/ref%3Dbr%5Ffq%5Fba%5Fabl%5F1/002-8494145-5916015) you have been warned - you are mine! All mine! No child shall have you! Mine! Mine! Mine! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-dance-elmo-i-want-you/135819/2 "2002-11-08T03:54:57Z")
Gerk! Elmo is a horrible little creature - singlehandedly responsibly for sending the once great and funky _Sesame Street_ down the toilet into cutseyland. Give me Oscar any day. I’d buy an Electric Fence Elmo though. Or maybe a Coke-snorting Messed-Up Elmo. The Bert is Evil people got it wrong, I tells ya! ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-dance-elmo-i-want-you/135819/3 "2002-11-08T05:10:40Z")
\<\< groans \>\> Oh gawwwwwd, is it Christmas already? Am I the only one who remembers the Tickle Me Elmo hysteria? Leechbabe, honey, you gotta get a grip, dearie, it’s just a _toy_, okay? They make 'em in factories by the millions, stuff the ugly little arms and legs with plastic fuzz, put a fifty-cent noisemaker inside, and announce to consumers that it’s the next “hot ticket Christmas present”. By March 1 they’ll be on the “30% off” table at Kay-Bee. Resist this evil you must. To the Dark Side turn not. ---
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-dance-elmo-i-want-you/135819/4 "2002-11-08T05:43:07Z")
But, but he’s _soooooo_ cute. I want them ALL!! ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-dance-elmo-i-want-you/135819/5 "2002-11-08T12:34:35Z")
_Elmo wants to be a chicken Elmo wants to be a chicken Elmo wants to be a chicken Bawk Bawk Bawk Bawk!_ I’m almost ashamed to asmit that when shopping for a birthday present for my little neice I spent roughly 15 muntes playing with the Elmo Chicken Dance toy. I look pretty hot doing the dance, too. ---
**Author:** ![unixrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3ec8ea/32.png) [@unixrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unixrat)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-dance-elmo-i-want-you/135819/6 "2002-11-08T18:07:15Z")
Is this really a toy? We’ve been dissing it at work, especially the hype surrounding it. What does it ‘do’, exactly? The ‘Chicken Dance’? And that’s fun, how again? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-dance-elmo-i-want-you/135819/7 "2002-11-08T18:41:51Z")
I’ve been waiting for an Elmo thread so I could post a link to this picture, which was someone’s response to all of the bunny-fur clad bimboi at SCA events everywhere: [Sufficiently wrong.](http://www.marwick.eastkingdom.org/images/Pennsic%20Pictures/elmo.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-dance-elmo-i-want-you/135819/8 "2002-11-08T23:08:35Z")
Anyone else get the image of Elmo at a wedding? _Da na na na na na na; Da na na na na na na; Da na na na na na na; pock pock pock pock!_ Next up: Macarena Elmo. ---
**Author:** ![tritone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@tritone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tritone)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2002, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-dance-elmo-i-want-you/135819/9 "2002-11-09T14:43:15Z")
**leechy** , I haven’t yet seen Chicken Dance Elmo, but I am a huge fan of Tickle Me Elmo (though I don’t own one). When he first came out, my friends and I used to go to the toy shops in town where they had squillions of the things lined up on the shelves, and tickle them all at once and watch them giggle 🙂 However, I am seriously lusting after a similar sort of toy - the Bear in the Big Blue House that sings and does the cha-cha. He is way cool. My little two-year-old cousin has one, and every time I go to her place I come perilously close to commiting the heinous crime of stealing toys from a child… ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-dance-elmo-i-want-you/135819/10 "2002-11-11T20:24:31Z")
Elmo and the Chicken Dance??? It’s two…two…two horrors in one! ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-dance-elmo-i-want-you/135819/11 "2002-11-11T21:06:03Z")
Elmo and the Chicken Dance??? It’s two…two…two horrors in one! ---
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-dance-elmo-i-want-you/135819/12 "2002-11-12T01:45:00Z")
**Ethilrist** that is a very scary picture and almost put me off Elmo for life!!! ---
**Author:** ![F.Prefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cc9497/32.png) [@F.Prefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.Prefect)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-dance-elmo-i-want-you/135819/13 "2002-11-12T03:34:35Z")
We have it, my 2 year old cousin loves it, she’s about the cutest thing jumping up and down and flapping her arms. Though any other time it’s playing I have the urge to pluck and roast it. Guilty confession, not only do I do the chicken dance with my little cousin but I hum it often throughout the days.