One promo on the Rosie O’Donnell show was all it took to spark Tickle Me Elmo mania. Tickle Me Elmo’s sweet voice and vibrating laugh had parents fighting in the aisles. The hottest toy of ...

And their parents worried about finding a Furby and the Tickle Me Elmo dolls which started a craze ... took toy store managers by surprise in 1993. A year later, in 1994, they were even more ...

It was 1996, the Christmas shopping season had not yet started, but it was increasingly clear to young parents that the hot toy that year was Tickle Me Elmo. The toy version of the popular Muppet ...

Aaron Karo’s “Tickle-Me-Elmo” is a script about the toy that saved Sesame Street, shocked Wall Street and delighted the nation. Alyson Weaver Nicholas’ “Little Black Dress” imagines ...

Yet, no one saw it coming. "It," of course, was Tickle Me Elmo, a laughing, vibrating replica of the Sesame Street character who had a habit of referring to himself in the third person.

And their parents worried about finding a Furby and the Tickle Me Elmo dolls which started a craze ... took toy store managers by surprise in 1993. A year later, in 1994, they were even more ...