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7	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, [[PowerPerversionPotential the proper limits of the toy are pushed almost immediately]], to the point of near improbably ad infinitum.
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9	This trope deals with the toys that can be bent to [[HehHehYouSaidX swear or say otherwise inappropriate things]].
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11	When the batteries run down, see ElectronicSpeechImpediment.
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13	!!Examples:
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19	* In the ''Film/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).
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25	* At the end of his book ''Masters of VideoGame/{{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]].
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30	* [[Music/{{Eminem}} Slim Shady]] has claimed that at age five he was using Teddy Ruxpin to "play X-rated tapes".
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35	* On ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'', Strong Bad had Bubs make [[RobotMe a crude robot version of himself]] out of an old Speak and Spell and an empty box of Grape-Nuts, according to the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "personal favorites". The "Grape-Nuts Robot" was shown saying "Now spell: double deuce" [[note]]"Double deuce" being slang for FlippingTheBird with both hands[[/note]] 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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40	* Platform/YouTube personality Jaxen Ross specializes in destroying children's toys. One of his most viewed videos is [[https://youtu.be/qFBHpYPkmVI Word Whammer Destruction 2]], where he tries to spell inappropriate words like "sex" using a Word Whammer. He spliced two clips together to make it seem like it really did. He later destroys the toy when it fails to say other inappropriate words.
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45	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{MAD}}'' sketch "Rejected WesternAnimation/ToyStory3 Characters", one of these characters was Speak N' Swear, a literal interpretation of this trope.
46	-->'''Boy:''' "How do you spell 'house'?"
47	-->'''Speak N' Swear:''' "How the BLEEP should I know?"
48	* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' has a quick sketch about a man playing with a See [='n=] Say in a store. When it lands on the [[VisualPun rooster]], it says, "YourMom says [''gargling noises''] cuz my cock's in her mouth. Get it kid? My cock in her mouth. [''makes more gargling noises'']"
49	* Played for laughs on an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
50	-->'''Krusty's Speak & Say:''' "S is for [[ShiksaGoddess Shiksa]]! S, H, I...uh, think there's a T in there somewhere..."
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56	* The TropeNamer: the Texas Instruments Speak and Spell. Due to its British accent and faulty sound card, words can be heard inappropriately.
57	* The Leapfrog Alphabet Pal Caterpillar 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... [[DevelopersForesight except Leapfrog had swear words in mind when they designed it.]] If you want to make it sound out the F word 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:
58	-->'''[Pressing F]:''' Fuh
59	-->'''[Pressing U]:''' Uh
60	-->'''[Pressing K]:''' giggle That tickles! K.
61	** You can still make it say "I see you pee", "You be in pee" and "I see a titty."
62	* The original Toys/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, and then only when he speaks.
63	** A similar talking doll, Cricket, had no such limitations.
64	* At one time, one could find Toys/GIJoe action figures with voice chips that said things like "Yo Joe!", "ATTAAACK!", and "Vengeance is mine!", and {{Franchise/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.
65	** Referenced in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Lisa asks her friends whether there isn't something wrong with what their talking [[BlandNameProduct Malibu Stacy]] dolls say[[note]]referring to the terribly sexist and demeaning phrases[[/note]]. One girl responds, "There's something wrong with what ''my'' Stacy says"; when she pulls the string, we hear "[[ComicBook/SpiderMan My spidey sense is tingling -- anybody call for a web-slinger?]]"
66	* The [[Series/SesameStreet Tickle Me Elmo]] doll is a talking doll that shakes and giggles when you touch it in several ways. Just ripe for abuse.
67	** And then there's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6MhR1S1SlY this video]] of Elmo being humped by a talking Tigger toy.
68	** Someone decided to see what would happen if he set an Elmo on fire. The results are very, very unsettling. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYGhmJD9LKc Watch]] [[SchmuckBait at the risk of not sleeping tonight.]]
69	** In 2006, [[http://www.clickorlando.com/news/5784303/detail.html a talking Elmo book was somehow programmed to say, "Who wants to die?"]]
70	*** He's actually saying, "Who has to go [to the bathroom]?" but it doesn't sound like it.
71	*** 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 [[/note]]
72	** Another Elmo doll, which could be programmed with the child's name, had a defect that [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=mEwqdlg_ZnY caused it to say "Kill James"]]. What it was actually supposed to say is "tell James".
73	* When the movie ''Film/SpiderMan2'' 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.
74	** 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.
75	* Mike Mozart, that toy review guy from [=YouTube=], LOVES this trope and exploits it in many of his videos. 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.
76	* ''Series/{{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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