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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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They were stunned and appalled... I'm really surprised nobody was "outraged". That seems to be the in word.
I am outraged they were merely stunned and appalled. Happy now?
OMG - I want one!
I find it hilarious that people are offended by "swear" words when there just words. The only reason people are offended is because they are told they are bad when growing up when in reality no one really knows why the are bad >_>
The word in question simply means a female dog. Not even a "swear" word, really.
Yep... heard it again... sure did
Delightful... i MUST have one of those.
Didn't these people try it in the store first. Even if they shopped on line, never buy things blindly. If you do, be prepared for the worst.
It is quite simple. The infant is merely agreeing to an invitation to visit Crater Beach.
NOT! Who cares? Get a life you people who are looking for trouble. Those who commented that 1) save the damn thing and cash in on eBay later; 2) dirty talk is in the mind of the individual; 3) you don't like it, return it; 4)learn how to spell, capitalize, and punctuate, restore a bit of my faith in humanity, if not the country. Now, get on the phone and order a copy of the New York Times (paper deliivery) for daily delivery and do something with your brains.
What I find funny is that Toys 'R' Us does not give an explaination of what the doll ACTUALLY is saying.
So saying crazy is babbling?
That's right, bitch.
@ Tim W: You made coffee come out of my nose!
"The B word that ends in H"
Gee, I know there's some people out there with questionable sanitary procedures, but to get all up in arms over the word Bath? Really? Maybe you should take a hint, sweetheart.
I wonder how much the blood sucking attorneys are going to come away with on this one?!! I almost gaurantee that the kid would have never heard what it's grandma heard, sheeeesssshhhh, another easy buck from finding loopholes in our constitution!!
Can just picture the following scenario:
Mom: Clean up your room.
Kid: OK, crazy b***h
WHAP!
Kid: Whaaa! If dolly can say it why can't I?
Life as a Toys R Us kid....
ROFLMAO!!!!Now thats funny! OH CARP! WAIT!! I am not condoning encourageing childabuse. It was just a clever comment.
She's not saying CRAZY B... IT SOUNDS MORE LIKE PLAYING IN A BIT but kid has a lisp and sound like bitsh...listen to the words.....
This could have been someone's revenge on the company. Wouldn't be the first time something like this has happened.
I work at Toys R Us and we (the workers) have known about this swearing doll for months, we just laugh and keep on working.
Ok, now that you've all calmed down go back and listen again. As a Mother, Foster Mother , Childcare Provider, Grandmother and someone who has also heard the suggested phrase and the Muther phrase ,Iny ask that you listen again. To me it is a toddler saying "ok, a tiny bit" Sounds like that other Gramma better clean up her mind.
not saying b...t...c word kid that recorded it has a lisp and it sounds like it but it"s ....bit....with lisp sounds like ...bitsh......take the wax out of your ears.....
Sounds like "Send money to the Catholic Church" to me. Strange....
After hearing about this, and not believing it (after all I went through this with the red Teletubbie doll 15 or so years ago and heard nothing)... I even had my 5-year-old daughter with me. After setting it off, my daughter (whom I hadn't told about the issue) said, "Daddy, she said a bad word!"... Of course she kept playing with it to see if it would again.
Not all kids use foul language, I haven't used anything past a very, VERY rare "damn" even around them. They have however heard many through their mother's side of the family. My son CAN tell me all of the curse words, and yet never wants to. He doesn't like the way the sound when they are used. Kids nowadays CAN CHOOSE NOT TO CURSE if they have an example of not doing it. Many parents try not to around their kids but do it when they don't think their children can hear them. I applaud the attempt, but they still do. If you just cut cursing out they won't curse either.
As for the doll... yeah it might create a few problems. Now that ToysRUs took a stand, they can't pull it even if they realize it says it (as all the employees at my local stores said they heard it say "Bitch" as well). If they'd checked it out and pulled it when they first heard the report, they could have saved face and say that they pulled it simply because of customer concerns... Too late for that now.
I'm a twentysomething college student who was raised not to swear, but of course I heard pretty much every swear word possible at school, first in high school and now in college. In fact, I took a Shakespeare course in high school and when we read Othello our teacher told us that the word "zounds" used in the book was considered a curse word in Shakespeare's time because it was a contraction of the phrase "Christ's wounds". Guess what happened next? That's right, all of us started using "zounds" in situations where we would normally say something like "@!$%#" or "@!$%#" because that way we could swear without anyone else knowing we were swearing! I personally try to limit my swearing to times when I can't think of another word or when I'm trying to make more of an impact-or of course, when I get mad-and try not to do it around my parents out of respect for them.
I'd KEEP IT. F88K yeah!! Collector Item right in your hands. Wish I'd kept that piece of crap Matel "Vacu Form" toy! I once had a "Hop A Long Cassidy" wrist watch too. It got lost or somebody took it. Don't know which. "Crazy b***h" isn't so bad. What if it said, "Hey motherf*cker, whussaap!?"
How about the "Thing Maker"? Remember that one? It was basically a hot plate, and you squeezed this plastic goo into a metal mold and put it on the hot plate until the goo was solid, and then stuck it in a tray of cold water to release it. I had one of those when I was like 7 years old. Could make all kinds of freaky stuff: stick on scars, shrunken heads, bugs, snakes, etc. Now it would be called "Lawsuit In A Box"!
This is so ridiculous. Obviously, Toys "R" Us would not be selling a baby doll that said the B-word. It's garbled and kind of sounds like the B-word so the grandma is overreacting. This kind of thing has happened before. Back in 2006, it was a singing Bratz doll that had people up in arms over "So Cute" sounding like "F*** You".
I played this for my husband, over and over and he heard something completely different. Then I told him what the story was all about and he was dumbfounded... saying, "whaaat??!!" But after telling him and then playing it again, "Ok, crazy b****" was then all he could hear. So the toy company is correct apparently - we hear what has been suggested!
Lzrdsgal I don't think you work at toysrus you could be sued for slander so shut up....
I don't think she is saying "you crazy bitch" if you listen closely she asks...do you like Gordon Lightfoot"//
I listened to the sound bite a several times and I don't really hear it. But then on the show Ghost Adventures I never hear what the ghost says either; until they say and repeat it over and over.
The old lady just heard what she wanted to hear to get her 5 minutes of fame.
Just like when my daughter and I were at the local Kroger's when she was little and a fire truck went by, I know what I heard then; the F was very pronounced!
We can't protect our children from everything. They are gonna hear profanity, hate, ignorance you name it in the "real world". But what we can do as parents is monitor that which comes into our home. That being the case this doll would not be welcomed into my home. Children are a lot smarter then adults give them credit for. They will pick up on this and play it over and over again.....then invite friends to do the same! That's a risk I'm not willing to take.