The 1990s were Weird

The BrainFood Show

Cloud10

Education, History

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Anybody reading remember the film Jingle All The Way, you know the one where Arnold Schwarzenegger body checks his way through a crowd of harried single mums, is an accessory to a bomb threat and physically assaults like 4 retail workers, all for the chance to get his hands on that year's hottest toy? Of course you do. That film is great. Okay so let’s talk about the time all of that happened for real, here in our world. Only instead of a turbo-tastic action figure with Booster accessory (don’t worry, there’s always plenty of Boosters left) we’re talking about a foot tall vibrating Elmo plush. This is the story of Tickle Me Elmo and how the cutesy red muppet indirectly caused a whole heap of problems including, as alluded to, a bomb threat, irate mob bosses and even an Elmo-knapping. Author: Karl Smallwood Editor: Daven Hiskey Host: Simon Whistler Producer: Samuel Avila Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:20.3	Anybody watching this from another film, Jingle all the way? Is that with Tim Allen?
1:25.6	You know the one where Arnold Schwarzenegger body checks his way through a crowd of harried single mums is an accessory to a bomb threat and physically assaults like four retail workers all for the chance to get his hands on that year's hottest toy? I do remember this. It's not with Tim Allen. Is it with Tim Allen and Arnold Schwarzenegger? I don't think so. Of course you do. That film is great.
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