The year is 1998. I’m 12 years old, and fond of wearing oversized sweatshirts with dalmatians on them. In Social Studies one day, my teacher, Mrs. G, tells the class about her imminent status of Best ...

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 1996 was, ...

Holiday shopping in Indianapolis has a unique look in 2021. As the COVID-19 pandemic lingers on, some shoppers are keeping on their masks. Many are buying online, as Cyber Monday and Black Friday ...

It was two decades ago this holiday season that parents across America were fighting each other over a little red creature with a tickling fetish. During the months leading up to Christmas 1996, the ...

The quirky owlish Furby toy isn't fooling anyone at the Pentagon or at NASA. *** new Air Force memo forbids anyone to bring *** Furby into areas like this at the Cape. It's here that engineers track ...

This is Elmo like we’ve never seen him before — and it’s terrifying. A furless Tickle Me Elmo is terrorizing the internet after the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ontario shared a now-viral ...