A look back at Tickle Me Elmo Tickle Me Elmo drove kids crazy and their parents crazier. From store mobs to scalpers, here’s how WNYW covered the fad back on December 18 and 24 of 1996.

Tickle Me Elmo’s sweet voice and vibrating laugh had parents fighting in the aisles.

Tickle Me Elmo’s sweet voice and vibrating laugh had parents fighting in the aisles.

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 ...

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In this experiment, we see increasing voltages applied to a Tickle Me Elmo toy. A TikToker named "Lord of Nerds," who has 164K followers and loves to show toys under high voltage, posted the video ...

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The Tickle Me Elmo craze during the 1996 holiday shopping season was echoed in the movie "Jingle All the Way." The demand for the toy brought out greed in some individuals.

Tickle Me Elmo. With Black Friday only eight days away on Nov. 29, 1996, shoppers who had an eye on Elmo were certainly not prepared for the Schwarzenegger-esque battle that awaited them.

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“Tickle Me Elmo is a study in mob mentality,” toy buyer Stephen Sandberg told The Wall Street Journal in 1996. “I couldn’t get my retailers to buy Elmo in October.