Tickle Me Elmo, without fur

April 13, 2017 2:12 PM

Here's what that looks like. [via Elite Daily]
posted by numaner (37 comments total)

Needs “HappyApril” tag.
posted by Going To Maine at 2:23 PM on April 13, 2017 [2 favorites]

Not Safe For Life
posted by kmz at 2:25 PM on April 13, 2017 [4 favorites]

Ah, the bones of my nightmares, brought to life.
posted by sleeping bear at 2:26 PM on April 13, 2017

I think William Burroughs coined the phrase, "vertiginous retching horror" in anticipation of exactly this.
posted by Token Meme at 2:33 PM on April 13, 2017 [6 favorites]

It's like the rotting corpse of the TV show Oobi has torn its way out of its grave.
posted by sgranade at 2:35 PM on April 13, 2017 [3 favorites]

Coincidentally, that is exactly how I look without the fur and minus the giant googly eyes. And we both hate Mr. Noodle.
posted by Keith Talent at 2:37 PM on April 13, 2017

Kill it with fire.

Wait... wait, no. That's not better. Not better at all.
posted by Phobos the Space Potato at 2:41 PM on April 13, 2017 [17 favorites]

At first, I was scared. But then it endeared itself to me: so awkward, so naked, so unequipped to handle the complex difficulties of life.

Protect it.
posted by meese at 2:42 PM on April 13, 2017 [16 favorites]

It's OK, all Ken has to do is slip a pipe bomb it's abdomen, then Barbie can lure it into a hydraulic press...
posted by happyroach at 2:51 PM on April 13, 2017 [5 favorites]

That's the worst thing I've ever seen.
posted by holborne at 2:52 PM on April 13, 2017

PtheSP, that is genuinely one of the most disturbing things I've seen in a long while... and will be seeing in my sleep for weeks.
posted by stanf at 2:53 PM on April 13, 2017 [1 favorite]

Talk about being 'blinded by science', my corneas are well seared after that - shouldn't have scrolled down, but I am a masochist. In my restless dreams, I will see those denuded demons. Good times!
posted by Amor Bellator at 2:57 PM on April 13, 2017 [1 favorite]

For some reason this doesn't creep me out or hit my uncanny valley or anything. I think I'm becoming ..

Acclimated.
posted by penduluum at 3:05 PM on April 13, 2017 [5 favorites]

Phobos the Space Potato: oddly enough, that awesome video actually cleansed my visual palate, if you will. I laughed right along with/at Flaming Elmo harder than socially acceptable. Hm, maybe I am also a bit sadistic...
posted by Amor Bellator at 3:06 PM on April 13, 2017

I would trade many blankets for an Elmo pelt. So red. So soft. So newly quiet.
posted by Capt. Renault at 3:40 PM on April 13, 2017 [15 favorites]

I knew that was gonna be nightmare fuel.

I clicked anyway.
posted by soundguy99 at 3:44 PM on April 13, 2017 [3 favorites]

Technically, that is a TME without skin. Go shave one, and I wait here for you.

Go on now.
posted by GenjiandProust at 4:07 PM on April 13, 2017 [5 favorites]

For some reason, I clicked on it expecting to see what Elmo would look like without fur. That's not what I got.

Protect it.

With fire, maybe.
posted by Cat Pie Hurts at 4:19 PM on April 13, 2017 [3 favorites]

Thanks for the nightmare fuel, you eponysterical son of a bitch.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 4:27 PM on April 13, 2017

It's alive!
posted by maxwelton at 6:03 PM on April 13, 2017

Oh come on, we don't look so hot dancing without our skin either.
posted by gwint at 6:07 PM on April 13, 2017

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared episode 7?
posted by isthmus at 6:11 PM on April 13, 2017 [1 favorite]

I knew it was gonna be bad...

But this is much worse than I had imagined.
posted by InkDrinker at 6:15 PM on April 13, 2017

So, my 9yo son was just looking over my shoulder.

"'Tickle Me Elmo Without Fur'?" He said.

"Yeah. Want to see it?"

"Sure."

*clicks link*

"Oh... Nonono."
posted by Big Al 8000 at 6:22 PM on April 13, 2017 [3 favorites]

Second creepiest thing about Elmo since the whole, you know, molesting of children case.

(Too soon? I call statute of limitations.)
posted by rokusan at 7:23 PM on April 13, 2017

Aw - so cute!
posted by 41swans at 8:16 PM on April 13, 2017 [2 favorites]

Touch it bring it play it watch it turn it leave it start format it.
posted by 4ster at 8:32 PM on April 13, 2017

Oh god, the rattling of its bones.
posted by doift at 9:07 PM on April 13, 2017 [2 favorites]

I have no fur skin, but I must scream...
posted by blue_beetle at 9:18 PM on April 13, 2017 [1 favorite]

funzo no
posted by ostranenie at 9:45 PM on April 13, 2017

Greg Nog have you considered a career in hairless cat pornography?
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 9:53 PM on April 13, 2017 [1 favorite]

It's like a soulless version of Grover.
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 11:32 PM on April 13, 2017

Well, that was true even with skin.
posted by ooga_booga at 11:53 PM on April 13, 2017 [1 favorite]

i am in public and cannot stop laughing
posted by wibari at 12:25 AM on April 14, 2017

"Where Elmo's eyes don't go, a part of him is hovering... It's a nightmare that he'll never be discovering..."
posted by saulgoodman at 6:48 AM on April 14, 2017 [1 favorite]

oh wow Phobos that's a whole new level of nightmares.
posted by numaner at 8:50 AM on April 14, 2017

Now I want to peel the fur off of the Rock-A-Fire explosion and load it with a Cannibal Corpse file.
posted by sourwookie at 5:55 PM on April 14, 2017 [1 favorite]