“He’s trying to climb the counters to get it” so this toy started making death threats and you kept it? This is the kind of person who died first in a horror movie
She needs to hide it somewhere else when the kid isn’t paying attention! She wants her son to stop saying the phrase so she keeps making it say it in front of the kid?? Moms a little weird
May be the toy recorded the first words it heard from the running TV in the background (coincidentally a crime thriller?). Look how EVP devices behave and what psychologists tell about people interpreting the recordings.
I like how she says she doesn’t want her son to hear the phrase yet she continued to press the Elmo in the presence of her son many times to show the news crew.
@@AlPootis Watch the video again. The doll is supposed to be one that can remember names. Why people always attach dirty or sinister messages to Elmo toys is beyond me, except that the idea of a kid-friendly character saying them makes such urban legends irresistible.
@@Spartan_Rage7 but I always heard it "yeah,James" and nothing else to the point where I was wondering what the hell is the threat they are talking about. maybe they misheard it and thought it was a threat ?
My younger brother had a furby that talked like that. The thing had a major attitude problem. It even turned on one time with no batteries in it. It was like something straight out of a horror movie.
LOL I was wondering if maybe they'd been watching Kenan & Kel: You know, that episode where someone introduces Kel to James 🤔 "James, Kel" "Kel, James"
My theory when this came out i think is that it was a Voice box malfunction like when they said that It had no battery i bet she hit the voice box so then the string in the voice would go forward not backward so when it says "hi james" its sounds like "kill james"
I think the doll was saying "Hell, James," because the disc was broken, I believe it's the cause of it being interrupted during the "Hello, James" quote.
@@helpabrothawithasubisaiah5316 it’s a cheap Elmo toy. It’s more believable the toy just broke and is making a sound that vaguely sounds like it’s threatening to kill someone then some random mom taking time out of her problably busy day to reprogram a kids toy AND somehow get audio of Elmo threatening to kill her son to use. Sure, she could’ve used some voice mixing software but this was the 90s. People are retarded if they believe it’s more likely someone would reprogram a kids toy in the 90s over a kids toy just being a shitty kids toy.
@@grovnargaming2387 There’s no need to be like that. There’s been some unfortunate politicizing of Elmo and other characters recently but the boy does not view him through that
Now if somebody will do something about the laughing baby dolls that are always switched on. They really creep you out somebody could use them for a car or burglar alarm just not late at night on the toy aisle you are sweeping up.
Fun Fact: there's an Elmo potty training book that has the feature where if you press a certain button with a picture make sound but one of the buttons was supposed to have Elmo say "Let's try and use the potty" but some copies most likely due to a malfunction has Elmo say "HA HA HA who wants to die?".
Put it on 0.25 and at @1:24 and it's saying tell James, not kill james. The toy batteries probably needed changing for a long time and plus the toy might be mess up bc kid's always throwing their toys around.
I never believed this story at all. I wonder if she sent it back so they could test it and determine how it was actually done. If it had to be programmed by the parent to say James, they could have said "kill james" as a name. I'd love to know what they toy manufacturer learned. Was is it done by a consumer or a disgruntled employee. An employee would never know where the doll ended up to put James name in there. Plus, if the batteries were completely dead and taken out, you would think it would erase the data and make someone enter a new name.
After the battery switch, Elmo’s program for word selection gets messed up. I have a feeling that was why the doll began to say that phrase. Toys are supposed to function normally with new batteries, not mess up the program for word selection.
I remember having one of those as a kid. My mother said that the Elmo doll would go off every night going "It's time to play *cue my name here* " and even when she took out the batteries it was still doing it. I'm glad I didn't miss it lol
😆 We had a doll like that: a clown named "Happy Hal" but the laugh did sound possessed! 😳 One day when it was going off by itself, my mom finally took the voice box out (which we later used to terrorize each other) 🤣
Reporter: "Elmo doll she bought for her two year old is now making death threats." Me: chuckles Reporter:" she's not laughing" Me: laughs hysterically 💀💀💀
For the people wondering what it said, he said “kill james!” But don't worry on the end they figured out it had a chip and it actually says hello james
the issue in all this is elmo didn't say kill james , or anything bad, that lady heard what she wanted to hear, its the result of the makers cutting corners, so naturally the audio is very poor because it was made very cheap to make
If my grandma ever saw toys on the news and be explained about darkness/evilness types,she would be like: *alright throw those toys out,I don't care if they ain't bad*
I love how fisher price just doesn’t care until the news gets involved
Elmo toy: *threatens to kill a two year old*
fisher price: I sleep.
The news: *talks about it*
fisher price: Hol’ up
Elmo: Kill Ted
Fisher Price: Eh Imma sleep.
News: Ey wake up it's sayin Kill Ted
Well it's bad publicity so they have to do something about it
Yep
tbh, if someone called about that, I wouldn't believe them
Elmo knows your name doll? Nobody thought that was creepy...
You plug it in ti the comouter
Probably gonna say innapropiate things next
+Justin.R Gaming Play I'm not amused.
:)
i love your file picture
"2 year old James loves Elmo"
*Proceeds to show him violently throwing Elmo to the ground*
So Elmo was just retaliating.
Elmo is just getting his revenge
They loved the news attention 😂
@Peter John YTP Oh. Oh no. I think i will be going to hell now bye y’all.
The news loves being ironic I guess.
"Hey your toy is malfunctioning and is making death threats"
Fischer Price: *It wasn't a malfunction.*
r/holup
Karma.
lol
@@D2UbleDibs r/Ihavereddiy
@@menoislucky8179 what is “reddiy”
If that happened after she changed the batteries, she may have just accidentally switched the doll to "Evil". Set it back to "Good".
Medium
Tree house of horror xD
But it was made by Fisher Price, not Krusty the Clown.
Toy story reference?!?!
Why didn't the mom from Child's Play think of that?
“He’s trying to climb the counters to get it” so this toy started making death threats and you kept it? This is the kind of person who died first in a horror movie
FR
She’s hoping for a payout. Without the proof then no money so she won’t throw it out
@@audreyramsey982 that and it’s really funny. I’d definitely keep it as a funny little memento.
She needs to hide it somewhere else when the kid isn’t paying attention! She wants her son to stop saying the phrase so she keeps making it say it in front of the kid?? Moms a little weird
This sounded like the plot of the original Child Play’s movie.
The teens that snuck into your house last night know how to program
😂😂
Yes
Stacksmashing?
LMAO
Don't sleep on Computer Nerds
You made a purchasing mistake, you bought the Emo doll.
Who got an emo doll? All I see is an Elmo doll.
Did you pherhaps misspelled 'Elmo'.
GhastmasterSky {LUKE} it was a joke
Zombie Oshawott they didn't know😰
Nope, she set the doll's switch on evil.
@@error2205 whooosh
Elmo: Kill James
News Reporter: What Was That?
Elmo: *K I L L J A M E S*
😝
Elmo : *stares at the camera*
Elmo : Remember kids
*Elmo is ALWAYS watching you*
*evil elmo laughing*
YOU ARE NOT WATCHING ME, ELMO!!!!! YOU WILL NOT BE WATCHING US!!!!!!
@@speedtracker9556 stfu
@@Opana223 calm down Jeez
@@speedtracker9556 Are you five?
Calm down would ya
Later that day little James had choked many other kids named James until he was the only James in his neighborhood.
Josh fight in a nutshell
I read this in a voice of the narrator of Caillou LMAO
James killed james
Natural selection
og josh fight
If Elmo is saying "Kill James" I'd be more concerned about who has been in the house that would say such a thing for Elmo to hear.
You figured it out. Mom was plotting something. Found out elmo knew. Decided to blame fisher price.
May be the toy recorded the first words it heard from the running TV in the background (coincidentally a crime thriller?).
Look how EVP devices behave and what psychologists tell about people interpreting the recordings.
Is it a coincidence that they had a 007 movie marathon the night before? I think not.
"Here's your problem, someone switched this thing to evil"
"I'm Krusty the Clown and I don't like you" 🤡
I still say that's what happened to Lore.
"That doll is evil, eeeeeevvillll I tells has"
"Grandpa you said that about all the toys"
"I know, I just wanted attention"
@@pi_beta7306 "I'm krusty the clown and I'm going to kill you"
@Olivia 757 Simpsons.
"she doesn't want him to hear what the toy is saying"
*proceeds to play it multiple times in front of son*
😆
Yes lol
That bitch set that up. I am nearly certain
@@rinabitoni3746 I seriously think so too
@@rinabitoni3746 .
I like how she says she doesn’t want her son to hear the phrase yet she continued to press the Elmo in the presence of her son many times to show the news crew.
0:59 looks like Elmo was attempting to act upon his threat
Lol XD
😅😅😅
Bruuu😂
LOL
UNDERRATED
If I found out a doll I owned made death threats I would like it better.
'Wow! It makes death threats? I love it!'
You should buy Chucky instead 😆
Scare the shit out of my enemies
Right 😆
FUCK HELL YEAH
Ohh hell yeah I love when my 2 year old gets death threats 🙄
“Kill James!”
I’m no toy expert, but I’m pretty damn sure that isn’t a malfunction.
What is it then
An objective
Elmo must really have it in for James Bond.
Lmfao
James bond killed elmos uncle
Lmaooooooo
Me: *get’s an Elmo knows your name doll*
Also me: *inputs my name as kill dolphin*
Elmo: kill dolphin
007 Sesame Street
".....shes not laughing "
But I am 😆
That's literally what I said when I heard that
“She’s not laughing”
Me: “Well that sounds like a personal problem”
At least im not the only one then.
IKR lmao 😝
@@ChaosMyth1012 lmao exactly
The mom said she was disappointed the toy was saying “Kill James” like I would be shocked asfff
Imagine your name is “James” and what would you do if that Elmo doll is making death threats on you?
It could just as easily have been saying, "tell James" as "kill James."
Yeah I don't hear the "Kill James"
Now that you pointed it out, I can hear it. It was probably meant to say Tell.
Makes sense.
@@AlPootis Watch the video again. The doll is supposed to be one that can remember names. Why people always attach dirty or sinister messages to Elmo toys is beyond me, except that the idea of a kid-friendly character saying them makes such urban legends irresistible.
Why would it say tell james tell him what to kill
**elmo says something inaudible**
**Zooms into Elmo's face**
"What was that?"
Ngl I still don't know what he's saying xD
Oh what the hell.. now I hear it lol, pretty creepy if you ask me.
@ManlyFashion it's saying "Kill james"
He's saying kill james
@@Spartan_Rage7 but I always heard it "yeah,James" and nothing else to the point where I was wondering what the hell is the threat they are talking about. maybe they misheard it and thought it was a threat ?
My younger brother had a furby that talked like that. The thing had a major attitude problem. It even turned on one time with no batteries in it. It was like something straight out of a horror movie.
"your toy is making death threats to my son"
Fisher price: understandable, have a nice day..
Can I speak to your manager?
🤣🤣🤣
@@martingardner9124 Bigbird is the manager
Somebody probably got ahold of the voice chip
Ikr
@SCP-049 gotta clutch up in the gulag for the team
True but I wonder who would prank a child like that
Or maybe the mother is just a Karen
Mhm
Fun fact: Tickle Me Elmo also caused someone to get mauled by a monkey
Travis the tree rat!
@@nickyblue4866 yep
You can't just tell us and not give us the video to it
@@boogiesarcade, its called Travis the Chimpanzee on Wikipedia, its also on SSSniperwolf's 911 call vid
@@jonthegamerboy ok
This looks and feels straight out of the onion
I hope they kept that particular Elmo doll for when their kid grew up. That's quite a souvenir!
Elmo: Kel James
People: IT SAID "KILL JAMES"
Yow ching?
LOL
I was wondering if maybe they'd been watching Kenan & Kel:
You know, that episode where someone introduces Kel to James 🤔
"James, Kel"
"Kel, James"
@@serart41 right?!! I literally had no idea of what it said!! YOW CHING is EXACTLY what it SOUNDED like!
I heard tell James
0:54 Kill James? WHAT WAS THAT!
😏
COW JAMES
Loud james
Had an elmo in the mid 90s that said F$cK Elmo, supposedly it was suppose to be saying hug elmo...but that's not what I heard
@@charliepastrami2813 Lol I want a elmo toy that says that 😂 that would be hilarious
I hear "Tell James"
These people have wild imaginations
Same. Definitely not a death threat.
thats not even a sentence tho
I heard draw James but eh I guess we all different
I said kill
I mean
I love that the title for this is just "Elmo's Death Threat"
This kid is probably 14 or 15 now
0:28 Does anyone spot the “Sing and Dance with Elmo’s Greatest Hits” toy that innocently said “beat up Elmo” in 2007 in that collection of toys?
lol he was tired of himself
No
0:23 he loved Elmo
Proceeds to throw it on the ground
I had that toy!! Wtf??
The name of this toy, "Elmo knows your name" is already terrifying enough.
It was sposts to say "hi (the kids name) and NOT kill (the kids name)
...
Supposed xD
o
My theory when this came out i think is that it was a Voice box malfunction like when they said that It had no battery i bet she hit the voice box so then the string in the voice would go forward not backward so when it says "hi james" its sounds like "kill james"
hi six years later
I shouldn’t have smoked before this 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😭😭 I’m dying.
I'm smoking hash right now hahaha
Y’all shouldn’t smoke
@@MrTroutBum I’ll tell you what, I’ll quit right now…if you never say y’all ever again
Oh
Lol
don’t ya just love it when youtube recommends a video 13 years after it was posted? cause i know i do.
Same lol but this video is nostalgic because I found this vid in 2010
I think the doll was saying "Hell, James," because the disc was broken, I believe it's the cause of it being interrupted during the "Hello, James" quote.
I agree with you
This reminds me of da chucky movie when Andy and chucky met. Remind y'all of dat 😂🤣
Yup
Yup
“His real name is Charles lee ray!” “He said that she was a real bi*ch and got what she deserved!” Yup, sounds familiar
I know right!
yea
“They didn’t even sound concerned”
I don’t think they should because of the straight up bullshit this woman’s saying
Yeah the doll can be programmed this appears to be a giant troll lol
@@helpabrothawithasubisaiah5316 it’s a cheap Elmo toy. It’s more believable the toy just broke and is making a sound that vaguely sounds like it’s threatening to kill someone then some random mom taking time out of her problably busy day to reprogram a kids toy AND somehow get audio of Elmo threatening to kill her son to use. Sure, she could’ve used some voice mixing software but this was the 90s.
People are retarded if they believe it’s more likely someone would reprogram a kids toy in the 90s over a kids toy just being a shitty kids toy.
@@ImranKhan-ty9ij you must not understand the art of trolling lol
@@ImranKhan-ty9ij they even offered her a new one and she refused
@@ImranKhan-ty9ij ok you could have made this a short paragraph. Didn't have to turn it into an essay. Just saying
It's the "Elmo Knows Your Name" doll. It's programmed to know that the childs name is James.
But it's not programed to send death threats to its owner
Yeah no shit I watched the video
@@Is_kitten I posted this 8 years ago dawg
@@Is_kitten 8 years ago
Probably trying to say something else but has a faulty chip.
Purple Piano it's saying " Hey james"
After all these years of being punked Elmo finally hit his breaking point. Watch out all you children out there.
I legit thought this came from The Onion at first because it's so random.
Seems like something they'd do
this is not creepy elmo its bad elmo elmo is going to jail for 5.9 years
Ok I'll never come here ever again
@@ARJUN_2009_ZOOMER aw, why? Are you scared of big bad Elmo? Lol 🤣🤣 okay 😁😁😁😆😆😆😆😆🤣.
Walter Szewczyk oooh are u scared of your math teacher lol😂😂😂😂😭
The fact that 2008 was 13 years ago and I actually remember this on the news I was 8… miss how the news looked then
I just realized this was 13 years ago 🤣🤣 the James kid is as old as me now
Edit: how did this get 105 likes lol
Frrrr
Same. I “heard” he still has that Elmo doll
@@dagamerd9440 "and he's not laughing"
@@Someone-zf6tr nope
You mean he's ALWAYS been as old as you...
If it's more than 10 years old and looks like it was filmed with a potato for a camera, it's quality content.
14
she doesn't want to reprogram it because she knows it's probably worth a ton of money now.
Uh oh! I think Elmo wants to kill James Bond! o_o
😂
@@miabyd5079 and now he is dead rip
welp, looks like he did
Noo he doesn’t like 007 on the N64 and James Bond 007 on sega sg1000
lol
I had heard this story from a friend about 4 years ago. I never thought it was actually real until this happened to pop up into my recommended.
The fact this kid is 16 or 17 right now
I hope he's ok
If he’s even around
Today he’d likely be 17 or 18 or maybe 19
God it’s so cute how much he loves Elmo 💖
V ᴇ ʀ ʏ-
@@George-y1e1m yesss
@@grovnargaming2387 There’s no need to be like that. There’s been some unfortunate politicizing of Elmo and other characters recently but the boy does not view him through that
@@grovnargaming2387 oh ok haha
Natalists are so fuckin weird
the elmos are evolving, they are starting to become sentient. Elmo knows you killed his brothers and now he is coming after you
This kid now hates all Elmo dolls. He has developed an extreme fetish for SpongeBob dolls!
Now if somebody will do something about the laughing baby dolls that are always switched on. They really creep you out somebody could use them for a car or burglar alarm just not late at night on the toy aisle you are sweeping up.
I KNEW ELMO WAS EVIL ALL ALONG!!!
To be honest I dumped them all in holy water before they bought them
If I couldn't I would burn it
@•Mr Moe• this was a 10 year old comment lol
You sad this comment when I was 1🥺
Damn you made this comment when I didn't even exist yet
This has got to be one of the funniest fucking malfunctions I've ever seen
I honestly thought this was the Onion the entire time
Fun Fact: there's an Elmo potty training book that has the feature where if you press a certain button with a picture make sound but one of the buttons was supposed to have Elmo say "Let's try and use the potty" but some copies most likely due to a malfunction has Elmo say "HA HA HA who wants to die?".
Mmmm diabetes
The fact that the name of the talking doll is "Elmo Knows Your Name" would be enough to make me feel like there was a hit out on me...
Elmo made that threat himself it was not a mess up
Elmo, what are you hiding?
ELMO!!
I love how Elmo talks in the 3rd person even in RUclips comments
Put it on 0.25 and at @1:24 and it's saying tell James, not kill james. The toy batteries probably needed changing for a long time and plus the toy might be mess up bc kid's always throwing their toys around.
also the captions
Wow. This is almost as crazy as those who claim they hear messages when they play a song backwards.
Also Elmo's Potty Time Book had a malfunction and instead of saying "Who has to go potty?" It said, "Ha ha, who wants to die?"
This comment is 10 years old, but I want to correct you.. I am resisting the urge.
you wrote that 10years ago
I never believed this story at all. I wonder if she sent it back so they could test it and determine how it was actually done. If it had to be programmed by the parent to say James, they could have said "kill james" as a name. I'd love to know what they toy manufacturer learned. Was is it done by a consumer or a disgruntled employee. An employee would never know where the doll ended up to put James name in there. Plus, if the batteries were completely dead and taken out, you would think it would erase the data and make someone enter a new name.
Oh my God, James is now like 15 or 16, time goes by fast.
James never got to grow up. Elmo's death threat was carried out.
She probably went on a computer and renamed the name to “kill James”.
Yeah,she probably did it for attention.
Or it’s an elaborate way of punishing her child.
@rightwing bi girl (inactive) bro the kid is like 3yo he doesn’t know how to read probably
0:42 kill james?
After the battery switch, Elmo’s program for word selection gets messed up. I have a feeling that was why the doll began to say that phrase. Toys are supposed to function normally with new batteries, not mess up the program for word selection.
Bro, I wish I was that kid. Kid living his best life with Elmo.
how does batteries turn elmo into a murdering machine
2008: Elmo knows your name
2021: Elmo knows where you live
You know why in 2008 was people upset with “Killer elmo on the loose”
I remember having one of those as a kid. My mother said that the Elmo doll would go off every night going "It's time to play *cue my name here* " and even when she took out the batteries it was still doing it. I'm glad I didn't miss it lol
Yup it's possessed
😆
We had a doll like that:
a clown named "Happy Hal" but the laugh did sound possessed! 😳
One day when it was going off by itself, my mom finally took the voice box out (which we later used to terrorize each other) 🤣
didnt my pal scout/violet have the same feature
Where is this kid now?
Reporter: "Elmo doll she bought for her two year old is now making death threats."
Me: chuckles
Reporter:" she's not laughing"
Me: laughs hysterically 💀💀💀
All dislikes are from Elmo's alt accounts.
Indeed
Hold up if this was in a battery change... what was recorded in those new batteries before
I keep laughing like a hyena because the captions are just saying yeah when Elmo says that phrase! I'm a horrible person!
Don't worry I'm the person who laughed when someone had a heart attack because of shoveling snow
This was news in the 2000s never thought I’d miss it
“Elmo knows where you live!”
SHEEEEEEEEESH! Those Elmo slippers are fire, he got the 💧
For the people wondering what it said, he said “kill james!”
But don't worry on the end they figured out it had a chip and it actually says hello james
some people take shit too far i stg, thank you for the update lmao
the issue in all this is elmo didn't say kill james , or anything bad, that lady heard what she wanted to hear, its the result of the makers cutting corners, so naturally the audio is very poor because it was made very cheap to make
This is the origin of... “Lalalala.. Elmo’s world “
I think that toy is haunted
Rino Fuka oh I thought it was cell james
Ya
If my grandma ever saw toys on the news and be explained about darkness/evilness types,she would be like:
*alright throw those toys out,I don't care if they ain't bad*
“but yesterday’s battery switch appears to have taught Elmo how to make death threats”
They recalled this and replaced it with "Elmo knows where you live"
I'm surprised that this isn't from The Onion and this is real!👍
What was Elmo saying?
I couldn’t understand what offensive word he was saying
I wouldn’t want my Elmo saying Gayle King either.
It sounded like it said
“Kill James..”
What
Yes it sounded the same to me
yes because it did and seven year olds shouldn't have a RUclips account
That's not Elmo homie that's the next Chucky
1:54 Elmo raising dominance
RUclips: *recommends news from 13 years ago*
600K people: hmmm interesting
Whatever Elmo is saying he's putting it in the form of a question. So he's questioning it...not making the threat! Sheeesh!
If elmos gives me death threats ill love him forever