History Main / InappropriateSpeakAndSpell

* Mike Motzart, that toy review guy from Youtube, LOVES this trope and exploits it in many of his videos.
** To be fair tho, some of the exploits demonstrated have been fixed by toy manufacturers in subsequent revisions. His Leapfrog table exploit only worked on older models featuring the character "Lily" which had a compartment flap that came off very easily, said exploit involved removing the flap and toggling a switch rapidly to result in something that sounded like a ClusterFBomb. Newer models featuring the character "Dot" are unaffected as said flap is now molded in and is impossible to remove without breaking it off by force.

** Someone decided to see what would happen if they set an Elmo on fire. The results are [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel very, very unsettling.]][[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYGhmJD9LKc Watch]] [[SchmuckBait at the risk of sleeping tonight.]]

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT9FkIGyM4I This person]] managed to get his Speak and Spell to say "bloody hell".
* Several years ago, one could find GIJoe [[strike:dolls]] action figures with voice chips that said things like "Yo Joe!", "ATTAAACK!", and "Vengeance is mine!", and {{Barbie}} [[strike:action figures]] dolls with voice chips that said things like "Let's go shopping!", "Math is Hard!", and "Will we ever have enough clothes?" Inevitably, the Barbie Liberation Front went to Toys R Us, bought a bunch of each, and swapped the voice chips between the Joes and the Barbies. ''And then returned them all to the store.'' One may logically presume that HilarityEnsued.

** A similar talking doll, Cricket, had no such limitations. This Troper will attest firsthand that she looked like she was having an apoplectic fit when you put in an [[{{Ptitlepr8pusaj}} N.W.A.]] tape...

-->'''Krusty's Speak & Say''': "S is for Shiksa! S, H, I...uh, think there's a [[GettingCrapPastTheCensors T]] in there somewhere..."

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.

* 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 [[ClusterFBomb say "phuk the manager" on a loop]].

* The Leapfrog Alphabet Pal Catterpillar has 26 feet, each with a letter of the alphabet on it, and one of its settings is to make the letter sound of the foot you press. You can use this to sound out almost any word you want... except Leapfrog had swear words in mind when they designed it. If you want to make it sound out the word "shit" for example (or ''most'' swear words) it will decide you are tickling it halfway through and then go on to say the next sound, so it's like this:

** A similar talking doll, Cricket, had no such limitations. This Troper will attest firsthand that she looked like she was having an apoplectic fit when you put in an {{NWA}} tape...

* The original TeddyRuxpin talking teddy bear used animatronics which told the story on the audio cassette put into his back. Teddy would play ''any'' tape you put into him, but his mouth and eyes would move only when you used one of his approved story tapes.

** To be fair tho, some of the exploits demonstrated have been fixed by toy manufacturers in subsequent revisions. His Leapfrog table exploit only worked on older models featuring the character "Lily", newer models featuring the character "Dot" are unaffected as said flap is now impossible to remove without breaking it off by force.

* [[http://www.ebaumsworld.com/audio/play/80510840/ The demonic Furby]]

One variant I have seen is an Elmo in shackles and ball-gag. When it is activated, it appears to struggle with it's bonds and mumble behind the gag. Yes, that sounds horrible, but a muppet in bondage gear is just funny squared.

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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 an teenager or adult, however, the proper limits of the toy are pushed almost immediately, to the point of near improbably ad infinitum.

* The original Teddy Ruxpin talking teddy bear used animatronics which told the story on the audio cassette put into his back. Teddy would play ''any'' tape you put in him, but his mouth and eyes would only move when you used one of his approved story tapes.
* The Leapfrog Alphabet Pal Catterpillar has 26 feet, each with a letter of the alphabet on it, and one of its settings is to make the letter sound of the foot you press. You can use this to sound out almost any word you want... except Leapfrog had swear words in mind when they designed it. If you want to make it sound out the word "shit" for example (or MOST swear words) it will decide you are tickling it halfway through and then go on to say the next sound, so it's like this:

* In the ''ChildsPlay'' movies, Chucky the doll (a battery-powered, talking [[{{Irony}} "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 [[ClusterFBomb 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).

* Several years ago, one could find GIJoe [[strike:dolls]] action figures with voice chips that said things like "Yo Joe!", "ATTAAACK!", and "Vengeance is mine!", and {{Barbie}} [[strike:action figures]] dolls with voice chips that said things like "Let's go shopping!", "Math is Hard!", and "Will we ever have enough clothes?" Inevitably, the Barbie Liberation Front went to Toys R Us, bought a bunch of each, and swapped the voice chips between the Joes and the Barbies. ''And then returned them all to the store.'' One may logically presume that HilarityEnsued.

* Several years ago, one could find GIJoe [[strike:dolls]] action figures with voice chips that said things like "Yo Joe!" and "ATTAAACK!", and {{Barbie}} [[strike:action figures]] dolls with voice chips that said things like "Let's go shopping!" Inevitably, somebody went to Toys R Us, bought a bunch of each, and swapped the voice chips between the Joes and the Barbies. ''And then returned them all to the store.'' One may logically presume that HilarityEnsued.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT9FkIGyM4I This person]] managed to get his Speak and Spell to say "bloody hell".

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 an teenager or adult, however, the proper limits of the toy are pushed almost immediately.

This trope deals with the way speaking toys can be bent to swear or say otherwise inappropriate things.

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