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Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell

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9 feature instances
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Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell	type	FeatureClass
Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell	label	Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell
Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell	page	InappropriateSpeakAndSpell
Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell	comment	Young children get many toys designed to help them learn to speak words and spell them out. These skills are very important to a maturing child, so the toys are helpful. In the hands of a teenager or adult, however, the proper limits of the toy are pushed almost immediately, to the point of near improbably ad infinitum. This trope deals with the toys that can be bent to swear or say otherwise inappropriate things. When the batteries run down, see Electronic Speech Impediment.
Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell	fetched	2024-03-10T20:30:32Z
Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell	parsed	2024-03-10T20:30:32Z
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Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell / int_1c1fb5a5	type	Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell
Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell / int_1c1fb5a5	comment	In the Child's Play movies, Chucky the doll (a battery-powered, talking "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 going berserk when Andy's mom threatens to throw him into the fireplace if he didn't talk (thereby proving her suspicion that the doll was sentient).
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Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell / int_261c8d3f	type	Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell
Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell / int_261c8d3f	comment	Referenced in an episode of The Simpsons: Lisa asks her friends whether there isn't something wrong with what their talking Malibu Stacy dolls saynote referring to the terribly sexist and demeaning phrases. One girl responds, "There's something wrong with what my Stacy says"; when she pulls the string, we hear "My spidey sense is tingling -- anybody call for a web-slinger?"
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Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell / int_46518682	type	Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell
Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell / int_46518682	comment	The Tickle Me Elmo doll is a talking doll that shakes and giggles when you touch it in several ways. Just ripe for abuse. And then there's this video of Elmo being humped by a talking Tigger toy. Someone decided to see what would happen if he set an Elmo on fire. The results are very, very unsettling. Watch at the risk of not sleeping tonight. In 2006, a talking Elmo book was somehow programmed to say, "Who wants to die?" He's actually saying, "Who has to go [to the bathroom]?" 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 with the defect that may cause the book to say something that sounded like "Squashed bananas up your ass" instead of a chant that went "Asante sana, squash banana, wewe nugu mimi hapana". note "Thank you very much, squashed banana, you're a baboon and I'm not" in Swahili Another Elmo doll, which could be programmed with the child's name, had a defect that caused it to say "Kill James". What it was actually supposed to say is "tell James".
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Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell / int_5d4da197	comment	When the movie Spider-Man 2 was released, Toy Biz released a 18 inch Spider-Man action figure with over 67 points of articulation, including all his individual fingers. Of course, this caused many pranksters to make him flip the bird, and put him in many other inapropriate positions like gang signs. People also made several other Marvel action figures with individual articulated fingers flip the bird, such as The Thing from Marvel Legends Legendary Riders series, the Haslab Galactus, Marvel Legends Hasbro Series 1 Blob Build-A-Figure, Savage Dragon from the Legendary Comic Book heroes series, Rhino from the Marvel Legends Fearsome Foes gift pack, Spider-Hulk from Spider-Man Classics toyline and Super-Poseable Spider-Man from the Spider-Man 2 toyline.
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Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell / int_6274efe4	comment	In the MAD sketch "Rejected Toy Story 3 Characters", one of these characters was Speak N' Swear, a literal interpretation of this trope.
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Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell / int_9e6d1645	type	Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell
Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell / int_9e6d1645	comment	Teletubbies has two such incidents involving its dolls. One Tinky Winky doll ostensibly said "I got a gun!", but it was actually "Again, again!". A Po doll was thought to have said a homophobic slur along with "bite my butt", but she was actually saying "fidit", which means "faster" in Cantonese, a language that Po speaks on the show, and the second phrase was actually gibberish.
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Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell / int_b5a087d7	type	Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell
Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell / int_b5a087d7	comment	Robot Chicken has a quick sketch about a man playing with a See 'n Say in a store. When it lands on the rooster, it says, "Your Mom says [gargling noises] cuz my cock's in her mouth. Get it kid? My cock in her mouth. [makes more gargling noises]"
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Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell / int_e25322af	comment	On Homestar Runner, Strong Bad had Bubs make a crude robot version of himself out of an old Speak and Spell and an empty box of Grape-Nuts, according to the Strong Bad Email "personal favorites". The "Grape-Nuts Robot" was shown saying "Now spell: double deuce" note "Double deuce" being slang for Flipping the Bird with both hands in an easter egg, and in an episode of Marzipan's Answering Machine Strong Bad tries (and fails) to get the robot to say "Kiss my butt".
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Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell / int_e5d5d23c	type	Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell
Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell / int_e5d5d23c	comment	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 say "phuk the manager" on a loop.
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Doom (Video Game)	hasFeature	Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell / int_e5d5d23c

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell	processingCategory2	Subverted Innocence
Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell	processingCategory2	Toy Tropes
Bride of Chucky / int_1bf1e5a4	type	Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell
Child's Play / int_1bf1e5a4	type	Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell
Child's Play (Franchise) / int_1bf1e5a4	type	Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_1bf1e5a4	type	Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell
MAD / int_1bf1e5a4	type	Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell

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