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Subscribe to RSSThey play. They giggle. But, then, say some angry consumers, the You and Me Play and Giggle Triplet dolls say "OK, crazy b****."
The adorable-looking dolls, clad in their pajamas with matching nightcaps, make babbling sounds and move their heads and are made exclusively for the Toys "R" Us brand, reported NBCPhiladelphia.com on Monday. The store defended the product and said what customers claim they are hearing is a misunderstanding.
"Obviously we would not sell a doll that uses profanity. What you’re hearing is just baby babble...There are no plans to pull it off the shelves," Toys “R” Us spokeswoman Jennifer Albano told the NBC Philadelphia's Lu Ann Cahn.
Read the full story on NBCPhiladelphia.com
But others disagreed. An Oaklyn, N.J., grandmother, Pauline Davis, had bought the Giggle Triplets as a last-minute gift on Christmas Eve and was appalled when she got home to test out the dolls before giving them to her grandchildren, the website reported.
“I'm stunned ... There’s no mistake about it. The baby does use the B-word that ends in H,” Davis said.
Davis called up the Cherry Hill, N.J. store where she bought the dolls. The store apologized to her, Davis told NBC Philadelphia.
"They were appalled," Davis said. "But it still doesn't change things. Who released this doll?"
NBC Philadelphia went to the Cherry Hill Toys "R" Us to test out the dolls and found them on sale, all saying the same thing. Toys "R" maintained the toy wasn't using profanity, and said they had no plans to take it off shelves.
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Oh Hell people, if "Crazy Bitch" offends you, just give them kiddies a couple years and hear the filth that comes out of their mouths!
I don't know how many times I've seen a "mother" talking on her cell phone, child in hand, saying stuff like "Oh no that mother f'er didn't", and F this and F that. So, don't get offended when some doll says something that could be interpreted as Crazy Bitch. You're kids already know every curse word you've taught them!
@Todd: you ain't too bright, i see. no worries. just curious, did you take a tally of parents talking on the phones, to see how many were cussing? or did you just see it once and assumed that every parent in america gets on the phone and starts cussing like a sailor?
Eltex, if you're going to call someone out on their intelligence, at least form your sentences properly with correct capitalization and punctuation.
I wonder if this is the same woman who thought the bunny's leg in the school book picture was the creature's penis. Some people just have a lot of imagination. Unless her grand children were quite familiar with the term, I seriously doubt they would hear what she supposedly heard.
@Todd-651965 I TOTALLY agree. You stated this very well. I'd also like to add that I'm sure people are hearing what they THINK is profanity when it is not. But even if it was ..they have the choice of simply NOT BUYING THE TOY. Lack of sales will fade it away. And you are correct in saying some kids know AND use this kind of language because they hear it from family and other's around them. I too, have seen mother's and father and other's using this kind of foulness around kids and then now (when they THINK they've heard profanity from a doll) they act offended? PLEASE!! I'd say to people like that..HIPPO MUCH??
Todd, that is so true.. I see it all the time.. What's worse is when you see a mother yelling at her child to 'Shut the f**k up' because the kid is crying and won't stop.. Nothing surprises me anymore.. I did some volunteer hours at an elementary school in college and you wouldn't believe the stuff coming out of these little 2nd and 3rd graders mouths.. They not only knew every curse word in the book, but knew exactly how to use it and what it meant.
ATTENTION MSNBC: B-word? It's BITCH. This is a news site, not Dora the Explorer. I realize most readers are immature, but most are of legal age. Don't go dumbing America down any more than it is.
this reminds me of the telly-tubby that said "bite my butt"...
Todds right, just stand in any given store that's got a lot of people, wait a bit and I can guarantee that you'll hear at least 5 people on their cell phones or talking to someone and using words like that or worse. Jeeze, I've seen some parents talk to their kids like that in public. One woman in a store calling her little daughter a stupid bitch for dropping a jar of apple sauce. It was ridiculous and unnecessary.
As for grandma, is she the ONLY one that's complained? She seems to be the only one quoted in the article and from her attitude according to the article, she's just looking for attention and an excuse to complain.
I'm developing a toy soldier that cusses like a drunken sailor, it's called Reality GI Joe and I got it's entire vocabulary from five year old children.
Obviously Todd-651965 is not nor ever has been a parent.
Michael Anderson-1130906:
Be careful with that, wouldn't want to offend any servicemen with words like BITCH or POOPY.
@ Todd Its not the fact that it offends us as parents it the fact that it is sold in a toy store for children. I do not nor have I ever cursed in front of my children. There are some parents out here that have some sense and it seems like you condone things like that. I would never buy anything like this for my children and CaerRaven she is not the only person that has complained
Guess the time is right. Someone go out an make a Rap Doll with all the vocabulary. Toys R Us will sell it for you now.
Same lady saw jesus in the peanut butter on her toast.
oh hell, I "am" a parent and I want one. It is what it is, interpret it how you may. If you buy it for your child and you don't make an issue out of what is probably baby babble the child is no more the wiser no matter how much profanity is used at home the child is not going to pick out or pinpoint this one word if you don't make a fuss over it.....
The doll was probably telling it like it is.
TODD, I can just see it now....
Grandmaw gets the doll home and pulls and thinks she hears something off colored.... She pitchest the doll across the room and looks at her grown up daught and says....
"Did you hear that Shlt, Who the F*ck is the Fu*kin idiot that put a piece of shlt like that on the market to sell to little inocent children... That As$ Hole should have his balIs Cut off and shoved up his A$$... Ypu can bet you A$$ I am going to call that company and give them a piece of my Fu*kin mind... The nerve of them Basterds... Oh Suzie, you look so pretty in your new dress" LMAO
Ahhh....finally a doll that speaks the truth.
Eltex
well, i would have to say with todd getting a 40 out of 46 in agreement.... he is a lot more right than you think you are.
Google V-tech phone.
We have it; if you press 5 3 9 3 faster and faster it sounds like mother f cker.
And 4 2 repeatedly sounds kinda like bullsh!t.
Amazing how people will make a big deal over a little thing like that! Kids are going to quickly pick this sh*t no matter what!
That doll is a racist - that was cussing in Ebonics if I ever heard it. Little white trash bitch!
My son and his friends abused his Peewee Herman doll in ways that made what the real Peewee did look tame...lol. Must not have harmed himself too much - he's in Med school now....maybe you over protective parents should let your kids cut loose once in awhile instead of always seeing the worst in everything.
Funny how they won't print the word bytch, but play it for you to listen to.
No, you and the 40 out of 46 are the ones who are wrong. Very wrong. And you've just shown that the filthy majority of posters on this liberal trash heap website have no sense of decency or honor.
Just because SOME parents have mouths that deserve to be washed out with lye soap--even if it is MOST parents (which I seriously doubt)--there is no excuse for marketing a product for children that produces profanity.
If we are indifferent to THIS kind of thing, we are only a step away from the morality of the jungle--in which case it's also okay with you if someone blasts you off the face of the Earth when YOU talk like that.
If that many parents SAY they hear the word, then the toy SAYS the word. I work with audio. I know when I hear embedded messages in "sound effects." It is certainly easy enough to do. Whether it's a music synthesizer or the recording of a jet taking off, it's a trivial matter to superimpose a radically transformed recorded sound such that the mix, even though severely altered audio, is still recognizable as speech to the close listener. If the parents say the word is there, the word is there. And if it is, then the company putting out the doll has stepped over the line, even if that IS the way all you red/yellow/green/purple/black/white trash with the morals of sharks and hyenas do speak to each other at home.
Those of you making excuses for Todd and collapsing Eltex show only that most of the participants in this website are overwhelmingly immature middle-school failures with no sense of decency.
When it's your turn to cry, you can cry me a river. And you can pardon me if I spit in your direction while you're at it.
Sadly, this was probably someone's idea of a joke. Not funny.
Making excuses for me John? I doubt it. Put your tin foil hat back on your head because the government is bombarding you with secret messages.....
I believe it is you who are the immature middle-school failure with no sense of decency, not most of the people in this website. You are the one who is trying to trample free speech with your "conservative" opinion about what people are saying. You know nothing about conservative values and ideas.
Eltex, you are suspended for a day for violating rule # 1 of the Code of Honor.
@John-3078515... It seems like you are an intelligent man in some regard. So it surprises me you came up with such a response.. I also do not swear around my son nor do I provide an environment encouraging anything like that, but really John? How's the universe looking in your self-righteous bubble? Since you 'work' in audio; I'm sure it is sound proofed with optimal acoustics so that your messages of zealous self-righteous babble can blast and reverberate in your kid's ears...This is America, people can market a toy that says a masterful foul and profane performance and it is perfectly fine and allowable. That is what makes this place incredible. It is your responsibility as a parent to not buy the product - same for other parents. I don't need you, the government, or toy stores deciding on what my kid hears or acting as the 'parent police'. And one more thing John - "a step away from the morality of the jungle" because some toy doll utters what could be construed as the word 'bitch'? Please just stop, you are the type of indignant person who has the audacity to assume you are better than everyone else. Romans 3:23-24 "...for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus..."
Dolls: That crazy B***H thinks we are saying B****H. Aint that a B***H?
Haha, a relative showed me this the other week with a set they bought. We all had a good laugh, but I guess some people are little more tightly wound up (baby word in question)'s.
I had a colorant I was selling that had an improper pigment grind (left little dots of color in white due to too coarse of grind). The manufacture's rep told me " Our products are perfect, you're not seeing what you're seeing". Needless to say I no longer buy this companies product.
But this takes the cake. "Our child's dolls don't swear, you're not hearing what you're hearing" What a load of B.S. Glad there are no Toys R Us stores within a few hundred miles of me!
Your own complaint is genuine. Taking the words of strangers in a news article however, is the epitome of stupidity.
Official spokes doll of Buckcherry?
Epic comment Robin Steele. HAHA
Buckcherry rocks! Kind of...
Robin Steele:
Your comment is the only worthwhile reason for Buckcherry to exist :D
What's a Buckcherry?
I live a sheltered life - never heard a Brittney Spears song either (that I know of).
It ain't easy keeping the stupid that exists out there at bay.
Took me 8 years to figure out what an Andrew Dice Clay was...lmao.
Eugene, I must agree with you wholeheartedly. I once was with this chick who used that as her Myspace music, and believe me on these 2 points: the song fit her like a glove and it wasn't long before I couldn't stand the sound of either of them! (BTW I was never on myspace, she did not comprehend the concept of how to turn down the volume on her PC)
I don't like Buckcherry as a general rule, but I do like their song "Sorry". Drainbamage (sounds like the kind of screen name my dad might make up!), Buckcherry is a rock band that has a hit song called "Crazy Bitch," which is what these baby dolls are rumored to say.
Last time I checked, they have dolls set up in the store to play with and test. If you bought one without hearing what it says, then your an idiot anyways.
"You're"... The pot shouldn't be calling the kettle black.
Depending on the doll, it may have quite a large vocabulary built-in. It's possible phrases pop up randomly, so you could "test" a doll and not hear what some idiot thinks is an offensive word.
Can you say Furby - things are more trainable than most humans.
LOL. Reminds me of when my cousin's kid was trying to say "truck". Instead, he would say the f-word. It was awesome, especially since every time he saw a truck he would scream it, even in public.
hahaha. I have a friend whose child had the same trouble saying 'Thank you'. The 'th's sound like 'f's.
My nephew used to do stuff like that! This was back when the movie Lilo & Stitch came out.. The poor kid couldn't say Stitch to save his life LoL That was one of his favorite movies, but everytime he tried to say Stitch, it came out the B-word.. He would say it and we would bust of laughing and he would stand their puzzled trying to figure out what happened!
When my cousin was little, she had trouble saying "S", it would come out "SH". One of her favorite words was "sit".
I have a dog named Venus, and our 2-year-old next door neighbor had a terrible time pronouncing it. "Look mommy! It's Penis! Look look Penis!" The mom couldn't stop laughing to correct the little girl.
My daughter when very young she called trucks frucks and if you were not lsitening closely it sounded like something else. It was funny though because we were on a bus going through a constuction site so there was a lot of frucks thereLOL. I listened and maybe it says that but I doubt it was meant too. Put the doll away if you do not want your child to play with it. Simple problem solved.
My sister and her husband woke up one morning several years ago to find their daughter, around 4 years old at the time, up watching TV. They found out that she had a habit of getting up in the middle of the night to watch TV.
When they asked her what she had been watching, they were horrified when she told them - "aw, I watched a great movie... It was called 'Dicks and Dikes!'"
My sister just about freaked out. She told me that they didn't even think that they had channels that would show that sort of thing. Then my niece told them "yeah, it was a really funny movie too. I like it when Dick trips over the foot stool!"
THEN it dawned on them - "Dicks and Dikes" was Dick Van Dyke.. She had been watching the old "Dick Van Dyke Show" re-runs Nickelodeon used to show late at night!
That was quite a few years ago and I still think it's pretty funny, the initial shock that it caused my sister and her husband. When the shock wore off after they realized what had really happened, they they thought it was hilarious too.
That's odd, in the photo the doll doesn't really have an ethnic appearance.
Sooooo...only ethnic people swear? Here's a swear word for ya- you're a dumb @$$.
Yup, ignoring this author.
dirtydog : sure it does, white trash.
Perhaps, she's related to you?
Hearing is somewhat subjective, especially on what is likely a highly compressed audio sample. Like most of our senses they are far from perfect and our brains do a lot of work post-processing the raw input and combining it with other sensory information. It's quite possible that the majority of individuals don't hear this phrase, or wouldn't unless someone pointed it out to them and then they started to look for it. Once we seek the pattern then that is all we will find.
For example I once worked for a company that routinely did auto-dialer messaging campaigns. Once we got a complaint that one of the messages contained a threatening phrase. No one in the company could perceive this, even after it was pointed out, but over the next few days we got more and more similar complaints, so the message was eventually changed. It was probably the result of the right combination of voice compression, phone speakers and hearing artifacts that some people would hear a different series of words.
In this case I think it's fairly obvious that Toys 'R Us had no intention of slipping swear words into a toy, and until someone looked for the pattern and started to point it out to others I doubt anyone would've noticed it at all. Having not heard the recording or seen the toy I couldn't say definitively but I bet that it is probably a stretch and something that a child would never identify. Like rock and roll records played backwards, the message will be there if you want it to be. Expecting Toys 'R Us to carry out an extensive and expensive recall over mass-hysteria isn't very reasonable.
And no, I don't work for Toys 'R Us nor any toy manufacturer/retailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSDYTYbXuUY
Agree, but would think a 'test' panel, if one was used, surely would have seen the, uhmm, possibility of ... oh never mind..lol. My bad.
Now that I have heard it, there is no mistaking the word at the end - it is the "B-Word" as people are calling it. Thank you for posting that link.
Having said that, will a child pick up on the word and is it any worse than what they are hearing these days is another question. Times have changed and the norms of our generation are not longer applied. Children today are exposed to a lot harsher language at a younger age and it is accepted by their parents so I can see a grandparent being shocked, but is this the times we are living in? I post the question without comment.
A couple of years ago there was a baby doll that clearly said "Islam is the light". And yes, I heard it myself. Now there is a baby doll which supposedly curses.
Has anyone considered that the factory workers in China, who probably make less money in a week than the retail price of one doll, are having a laugh at our expense? Who could blame them?
it took me listening to it a few times to hear the full phrase "ok crazy bitch"...
it sounded like Ms. Swan from Mad TV saying it...and that just made it hilarious!
I dont think a kid would have "heard it" and "figured it out"...so mostly, we the adults...are bringing this to the kids attention.
how many of us listened to certain songs as kids, and loved them...and as adults heard them again, or re-read the lyrics and wondered how on earth DIDNT WE have a clue what that song was REALLY about? because as kids, our minds arent automatically going "there".
Jessica, that is a very interesting point.
Adults hear and see things from an adult perspective. As a kid I would sit with my mom and listen to the radio, and she would suddenly change the station. I couldn't figure out why, especially when I had already heard the song before with my dad (it was "Cowboy", by Kid Rock). When I listen to the song now I know exactly what the lyrics mean, but at the time I didn't have a clue. The only part in that song that made any sense to me was "I wanna' be a cowboy, baby", and then the various parts about heading out west, riding at night, etc. Everything that would be frowned upon by parents (ex: "paint his town red, paint his wife white") went over my head. There were words in the song that I had never heard before, and my mind replaced the lyrics with something I knew; "west coast p***y" became "west coast party", and that's what I thought the lyrics actually were.
A kid that's young enough to play with that doll won't hear the word "bitch" unless they've heard the word enough to actually recognize it as a word. Most likely, if they do happen to hear something other than 'baby babble', it'll be along the lines of "crazy ditch", "clay ditch", "crazy bit", etc. Honestly, I heard "cray-eee-bick", which, if you listen to it enough and look for cuss words, kind of sounds like "crazy bitch".
People hear what they want to hear. Welcome to the land of the easily offended. Anyone else smelling a lawsuit? Merry Christmas.
That's such a farce. Just a troll with a bad hearing aid battery grubbing for Post Xmas money. It happens every year. The only word I can make out is "OK"...the rest is all left to the imagination. I think I heard "OK, gimme all your hooch"
I give the manufacturer the benefit of the doubt, but the company's Q.C. (Quality control) is very, very, sloppy as it sounds too close, far to close, to saying the "word"
Are these the same crazyass people who hear ominous and/or "obscene" messages from talking dolls every year at this time? Has anyone checked to see if they all use the same water system? Sheesh.
All your pipples are moreons.....
-----da baby union
Maybe the doll doesn't always say the phrase Crazy B*tch, maybe the doll is selective and just calls em like she sees em!
No, I don't hear "OK, crazy b-tch", but I do distinctly hear "Paul is dead".
To show people how suggestion can lead to hearing different things, I went from hearing "OK, crazy b***h" to "Paul's dead, crazy b***h" after reading savoir's post. I'm not sure if I would have heard the "crazy b***h" part if I had not seen the article before listening to the video.
Oh oh, look out, it's that bitchin' babe knocking your socks off with profanity! Really, isn't there something decidedly more important to concern ourselves about other than a babbling baby doll? Remember the attack on the "TeleTubbies" because some closet gay politician thought they were promoting homosexuality? We do not need meddling politically correct pundits to steer our moral compasses. This is just plain stoooopid, biotch!!
I LOVE it! One of the funniest things this year! Ahahahaha!
That would have been a great present for Michelle Bachmann.
Why bring politics into it? I just don't understand. I heard "crazy bitch" but may not have if I hadn't already been told. If it sounds like that to someone who purchased it then take it back or toss it. Why the big deal?
Maybe get two and send one to Christine O'Donnell. She'd probably hear the "w" word. :-)
Toys-R-Us may be right that it's "only babble", but when you rely on CUSTOMERS to buy you're stuff, you're better off NOT essentially telling them to "just get over it". Geez, people act like you HAVE to shop with them.
The doll is definitely saying the "b" word. But I think its so funny!!! Kids today see and hear so much more on television so leave the damn doll alone!
The "B" word that ends in "H"? Oh you mean BITCH?
I'm leaning towards buying a fewof these, now. Sounds like Toys R Us will be the one cleaning up in after Christmas cash after this!
Um, what would it sound like if you played it backwards?
Sounds a lot like " booger".
"Okay , crazy bitch, take the damn thing back for a refund if you don't like it".
Keep it, and one day it might be worth enough to send your kid to college.
Only if there's a recall.