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Mike Im aware of some that are not inapropiate but rather dangerous from Gilbert Company created "toys" with hazardous materiales like The Atomic Lab that had radium and other radioactive elements and one you can make blowing cristal with high temperatures. 😮
If I remember correctly I believe there was a giant inflatable bouncy house Pikachu pretty sure it was in Japan and where you would come out made it look like Pikachu was giving birth to you
the trouble is parents who are sexualising innocent toys! So you have to ask about their mental condition! you know its mainly fundy christians in the usa whos children have an extremely high teen age pregnancy rate and std rate!
In the 2000s there was a caterpillar learning toy with letters on its feet. The letters made the sound and if you played them fast enough it would say words. Of course the first thing we did as parents was try all the curse words. They later recalled it and changed it to laugh when you tried to do this.
If a child that age KNOWS the swear words to type in why is that an issue? Clearly they don't live in a polite environment to begin with so them swearing would be the parents fault, the toy doesn't encourage it. You said its to learn to spell? Why the worry over a kindergartener typing in a swear word that they can't spell, and have never heard of? Why not instead, if they DO type in a bad word, explain WHY that word is bad and that while anyone CAN do something, they shouldn't?
@@SpyricaDragoste That's very good reasoning, but in practice, a lot of the times when little kids get into some word they're not supposed to say or hear they just get SO caught up in that word in particular that they practically start chanting it and going into giggle fits about it. They do it until they get tired of it, then start ranting all over again a short time later. They miss the message entirely because they're so caught up in the naughty word and how fun it is to say and would force it out of a toy over and over. Then, on top of that, they'd show it to all their little friends, too, to impress them. Of course, you can BEAT the child to stop this, but not every parent wants to resort to that in the draconian way you have to to nip that behavior in the bud quickly. Even if the parent uses spanking as discipline a lot doesn't mean they want to do it for that or have a bought a toy that basically demands they beat their child to stop the behavior it brings about. Your suggestion is still the best response, but it can take A LOT of repetition to get that lesson to finally sink in, and with some kids they really only stopped saying the word(s) because they finally overplayed the joke long enough to stop. Also, even if your house is clean, everyone else's may not be, so your child will pick up a naughty word from someplace else.
Especially the bratze dolls, like…I get it, but…cmon! They’re just dolls. I didn’t have any as a kid, but I remember seeing them around, especially on TV
Keep in mind that I am 61, when I was little, I got a pair of toy guns made by a company called Johnny Eagle. They had spring loaded shells with plastic bullets and they actually fired.
Mama was adamant that we not have "guns" of any kind. She said that when you point a weapon at someone intending to "kill them," it planted bad impulses and thoughts in our heads. I'm 66 years old and am still nervous about guns!
I’m 65 and we played war and “cowboys and Indians” because that is what we saw on tv all day long. Lord forgive us, we didn’t know better as young kids on an isolated farm. 🙄 😔
I'll be seventy in a few months and I loved those. Ours weren't Johnny Eagle, they were spring-loaded and fired a plastic bullet. My brother and I each got a Civil War playset for Christmas when I was about seven or eight. They had a revolver, a rifle, and a hard plastic cavalry saber. We spent many happy hours dueling and firing from ambush. We knew better than to shoot each other, or anyone else, with real guns, which we had access to. We weren't that stupid.
@@judipierry549 There's nothing to forgive. The Lord is not against weapons of protection, “Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.” Luke 22:36
So you got screwed up by NOT getting the toy? TBH, If I had kids, I'd rather train them on real guns so as to NOT train them to think guns are toys you can point around for shits n giggles.
Would I be enraged?? Nope, would I laugh, yup. But I definitely would be careful what I purchased. I Also think most kids would not have the same thoughts, they see the toy as a toy, It's the adults that are offended. 😅
okay, i am so tired of adults bashing on growing up skipper!! 🤬 i was 10 when skipper came out, and i absolutely loved playing with her!! she went from childhood to teenhood, which allowed me to act out possible scenarios for myself. because her body changed, she could wear different styles in each incarnation, to go with her new imagined activities. she was actually one of my favorite dolls, and that's the real measure of a toy's success to me..... how much kids enjoyed it. ☺️
Besides, I don't think it was discontinued because of any uproar, Mattel even made another version of the doll for My Scene. I think the Skipper just fased out like all special dolls
I never once considered my Barbie as a goal for my looks. It’s a doll. Just like the Cabbage Patch Kids. I didn’t think about looking like them either. This whole idea is preposterous. I never owned any of these but I did own a creepy ventriloquist doll called the Willie Talk doll. I don’t remember what he said but I hated that thing. I threw it away. It came back. I found it in the attic at the bottom of a tall bin. That freaked me out. I threw it away again and watched the garbage men take it this time. Look it up. If you ever do a video of truly unsettling toys, he’s got to be in there. I am empathic. My house was haunted. That was the only toy I got feelings of terror from looking at it.
I had Growing Up Skipper when I was 8 and she was cool AF. Nothing wrong with her at all. It’s dirty minded adults that put all these sexual interpretations on toys.
@@erinwilliams7889 If I saw one of those dolls again, I'd probably throw up. I don't know how I'd handle that situation. I'd probably bring him to a shop and get rid of him and just pretend I don't know what happened to him. I hate those dolls! There's no way in hell I'd ever live with one again. Here's some ~HUGS~ to get through those times.🥰
We had some of the best, most dangerous & inappropriate toys ever in the 60's. What's a little lead paint and sharp metal (erector set, anyone?) between friends, right?
Homemade Rootbeer bottled in old beer bottles. + in the back if my dads old pickup 8-9 years old drinking from the beer bottles. Nobody cared way back then. :) So much fun back then.
As a child of the sixties, I would have loved to have played with the Batman water-gun when I was little. I don't believe that we were so obsessed with "toy anatomy" back then as we seem to be now. Perhaps we were better able to distinguish real concerns from those issues that were in the long run, not all that relevant.
Woke movement equals the cray baby movement. Make a fuss of everything and ignore real issues like gas prices, rent and illeagals crossing the border stealing our medical benefits and adding to the homeless population.
The Barbies mentioned were perfectly harmless. Even Oreo Barbie came in a white version as well, and was not intended to insult anyone. A Growing Up Skipper is cute! And a pregnant Midge is just like playing Mom!
In the 1990s my mother sent my daughter the pregnant Barbie from Australia. We are not as hung up on things like that. Also when we lived in New Zealand, in the 1970s, I had one of the black dolls, they were called Golly Wogs. I also had a Topsy Tervey doll, she was black on one end, and white on the other. Depending on which way you flipped her dress, it uncovered either, the black or white side. Once again, certain countries do not take such offense, not even the native people that they are modeled after. It is sad how we get offended for certain ethnic groups, who they themselves were not offended, and actually had these toys themselves.
@tolfan4438 America is an immature and flawed culture that sadly, influences millions. Never forget that "Americans" are actually other ethnics from Europe that immigrated to the north American continent and almost wiped the natives of their land.
@@tolfan4438we have a horrible history with racism. The movie Quigley Down Under, with Tom Selleck, is a very good depiction. The part where you are right👍, is that we got a handle on that much quicker than the United States.
@@vaderladylmy son and I were just talking about, how we get offended for others, who are not even offended about the subject themselves. It's absolutely nuts. 🤯🤷
Saw a low of gollywogs here in Australia growing up (late90s/early00's), never got told a single word of context around them, just saw that it was a small doll. Never thought any more of it than that.
People who aren’t racists tend to not see it. It’s people who are offended for others (who themselves probably aren’t offended) that make these claims, probably cause they themselves harbor those ideas and are trying to prove otherwise. Social justice warriors.
i think theres racist undertones with the doll, but out of context there seems to be nothing wrong with it. wonder if we dont see casper dolls these days cause kkk?
Okay, I admit it: My poor innocent brain didn't understand the "Oreo" doll at first; all I saw was a doll wearing a cute costume with our favorite cookies on it. Then your explanation sunk in and I just went, "oh, shit!" That isn't the first time I had to have something spelled out to me. Years ago there was a picture of a fortune cookie that mentioned watermelon and fried chicken, and I didn't understand that, either.
Honestly part of me embrace the idea of learning children the fact that the primary function of breasts actually are to feed our offspring and nothing to be ashamed of.
i think the main problem is the targeted age of the children. theyd just be mimicking an action they cant understand yet. thats my opinion though - could be wrong.
I have never laughed so hard in my life. I wonder if some of these toy designers had penile envy when they made these toys. Did they even think when they were making them? Thanks for the laugh Mike.
SNL had a skit where Jane Curtain interviewed a sleazy marketer about controversial toys. One of them was "Bag of Glass," which had sharp pieces broken glass inside a thin cellophane bag. Many of these real toys are just as awful. Good research, Mike. And I share your exasperation.
It's even more fun that she was in 3rd Rock from the Sun with John Lithgow. John Lithgow was in a movie called Santa Claus the Movie. He played a character named BZ, who at the beginning was on trial for BZ Toys doing similar things. Sometimes my brain meshes those two scenes together lol.
🖐 oh I had a good one... one year for Christmas, I got a Jar Jar Binx lollipop. You pushed a lever on the part you held and his mouth opened up and his tongue came out. That was the lollipop part you sucked on! Thanks mom!! 😂 I have no idea where she got it from. We didn't even think about how inappropriate it was until years later when I found it. (Cause I saved it and didn't eat it)
I had a maze in the 90s that instead of a ball bearing that you skilfully tilt the maze to get it to the middle, it had mercury. Now I was careful with my toys and didn't break them but not all kids were... mercury is toxic.
So why is a little girl breastfeeding so different from giving a baby a bottle? There's nothing sexual about feeding a baby. You're sexualizing the most natural thing in the world.
Remember that this channel is aimed at US Americans. Known across the Internets world as the biggest prudes around. So, they will take offence at anything remotely nude but will happily promote guns to children of all ages.
Me too! I couldn’t help but try to peek under the rubber skin. I also once dissected an old broken articulated Barbie to see how the hip joints and click knees worked.
I had a Golli Wog doll as a kid, I'm 52 years of age. I never saw anything wrong with the doll nor did my parents put any racial connection to it either. It was just a doll to me, a doll I loved and slept and brought everywhere with me.
In that time & place, yes, where no one was hurt by it. It's wonderful to have fond memories🙂 I'm in my 50s as well. There are tv shows I loved as a child that I can't watch now because I understand things differently as an adult. Today, some things that were innocent & good to us are hurtful & have different connotations. It's sad, but I'm glad that we can look back happily, yet be aware & mutually respectful today.
@@echognomecal6742 It's that sort of stupid sentiment that does the most harm. Everyone is so precious you can't say or do anything in case some uptight idiot gets triggered. If it was innocent in the seventies it still is. The perceptions are purely political and agenda driven and not based in objective reality.
@@echognomecal6742 Save your platitudes. I do recognise the changes and they are not all good. And yes stupidity triggers me. Are you ok with stupidity being embraced? Does hearing you are a bad person for believing in crazy things like Everything is not racially motivated and women have vaginas men have penis's? Men can get pregnant apparently and drag queens twerking in front of pre pubescent children is a good thing? Grow a brain, Peace.
Omg they had an E.T. toy chest when I was a kid I remember going to a dentist office and seeing that thing and it's creeped the shit out of me and gave me nightmares.
Great video! But when I was a little girl, me and my little brothers had that ET Finger and I am not kidding when I say that not once did we, or our friends or cousins, ever associate it with anything sexual. NEVER. Maybe we were too young and naive. We only saw it as a cool toy. I have never seen the entire hand version of it, LOL. I also had the Growing Up Skipper. I was like 4 or 5 years old. And even though when I grew older, the doll gave me a chuckle, I have to say it was never an issue when I was a 5 yr old playing with it. It was never something "sexual". I do recall my parents giggling over it, saying things to their friends like look at this doll, look what she can do! But as a kid, I didn't think about that at all, she was just another one of my Barbies really.
Poo Dough! When I was in college my friends and I created a product we called Turdz. It was basically no bake chocolate oatmeal cookies shaped to resemble various types of animal droppings. We included marshmallow fluff into the recipe, and varied the amount in order to get different consistencies. We had deer Turdz, moose Turdz, bear Turdz, dog Turdz, cat Turdz, and people Turdz. The kids we shared them with loved them. Their parents, not so much.
14:04 To be completely fair I'm 31 years old and I'm biracial and I called myself oreo all the time.Up until I found out it was a racial slur last year and even then I still call myself it because I'm in oreo.Have black half white, So i'm gonna give them a pass on this one And honestly , I think people are being a little bit too sincere with this one.
As soon as I saw the title I knew that "Rad Repeatin' Tarzan" would be on here somewhere 😂 Also, thank you for making a funny list, today is a tough day for me and I needed to have a laugh.
I haven’t heard the term Oreo in so long I was confused at first when you brought it up and then I was like oh ya I haven’t heard that since the early 2000s
There was a series of models available in the late 60s/early 70s made by the iconic model company Aurora. They featured a mad scientist and his chamber of torture. They included a "victim" figure that was a scantily clad woman in a cage that you could take her in and out of. So she could be tortured using various devices in other sets. I came from Akron and I thst there at least tv ads featured a local psychologist who ran the local Child Guidance Center. A real child therapist who called these toys healthy because they allowed children to express their repressed anger. This is all true and can be easily varified on the internet. I actually both recall them from that time and have seen them at vintage toy shows.
Could it be possible that "Baby's first baby" was inspired by the Star Trek episode "The trouble with Tribbles" ? The tribble is a fuzzy creature that multiplies rapidly and it was discovered they are born pregnant.
In most of these cases,it's the adults dirty minds and insecurities that caused trouble. I always liked the jams branded golliwog and was quite offended when it was virtually banned because of ridiculous wokies.
The US seems to have dirty adult minds when it comes to kids toys, kids do not see the world the same including toys. Trying to hide the normal human body functions is rather immature.
Just because a toy (or anything else) can cause allergic reactions in one group of people, doesn't mean it should be be denied to anyone else. otherwise, all wheat, peanut, shellfish (and so on) products would be totally banned. Poo Dough might be dangerous to people with wheat allergies, but it is NOT dangerous to anyone else!
Man, I nearly died laughing with those Batman water guns. Dang! Of several toys I could understand it was a kind of mistake, but how that one came through.
I blame adults for their sick minds thinking these toys are sinister, in kids minds they are just fun to play with 🤣 But seriously, yeah, it's not a good look. btw, in the 60's, robertsons Jam had a golliwog as their logo, didn't make us racist.
I don't think we ever owned the Skipper doll that grew breasts; but I do remember the commercials for it. As for the Bratz dolls, one of my co-workers has those dolls for daughter. She calls them her daughter's "hooker" dolls.
Well, the poo doh would have been a big hit at our house. We have a "hide the poo" game. It's important to note, that everyone in our home, at the time were all adults😂 the idea is to hide the fake poo in someone else's belongings. Often, there shoes. I was shopping for groceries one day, and found it in my wallet 😂😂😂
@@merrileeheard3889 That would be so fun. My cousin's girlfriend got me addicted to the one mobile game called I Want Watermelon, it's basically Tetris with fruit. It's ridiculous but so fun
The Golliwog doll was here in Australia too including Golliwog chocolate biscuits made by Arnott's. I loved my Golliwog. How is it racist? And what about Raggedy Anne that is racist too. In fact all dolls are racist and should be banned. People need to grow the fuck up and get over themselves.
I guess anything that reminds them of racist propaganda from.... When were Mistral shows still popular? Well there is a lot of hate and division going around where folks are holding up the sins of the past as an excuse to hate on anyone who they see as the descendants of the perpetrators...
Do you think you could not put an artist mannequin in your thumbnail, especially when I didn’t actually see it in the video? Granted, they aren’t all that accurate but those wooden doll things are from art stores
Little girls try to mimic their mom's breastfeeding their baby siblings as young as the Toddler years. It's a natural mimic, just as toddlers are also interested in helping clean up or helping cook. Little girls hold their dolls up to their chest when Mommy feeds the baby. It's part of learning and understanding.
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I remember seeing commercials marketing many of the dolls when I was a kid during Saturday morning cartoons. I also remember over hearing the girls' at school talking about how awesome the dolls were. I just thought of the dolls as weird and boring. Being a boy back then, I would much rather play with stompers.
Im surprised that you didn't mention the "Joey" doll. It was the cutest toy that was to represent Gloria's baby boy from the sitcom "All in the Family". The little fellow was displayed in his box with everything that God would grace a child with upon his birth. I loved it!
My Aunt's Nigerian friends helped to collect the tokens from Robinsons Jam and Marmalade for the kids, one of them had a collection of the pins and a Golly in his car, He never had an issue, If anything he was quite proud of his collection and would swap doubles with the kids.
I’m old enough to have actually owned Growing Up Skipper when I was 8 years old, and neither then or now did I see anything the least bit inappropriate about her (and neither did my parents, who were older and the same age as most of my friends grandparents.) She was a really interesting doll with an unusual gimmick that both increased the play value and made young girls aware that changes would happen to their bodies when they hit puberty, and only the most repressed, pearl clutching, closed minded fuddy duddies could find anything scandalous in that. There was nothing wrong with pregnant Midge either- how is it that kids can see their moms & teachers & aunts & whoever be pregnant IRL, but having a pregnant doll for them to play with is somehow going too far? And Bratz? I’m honestly sick to fucking death of sour faced adults slut shaming fashion dolls for *looking like how older teen girls and young adult women actually dress IRL*. People can stuff those old fashioned attitudes right up their Victorian prude snoots. And to be honest, there lies the REAL problem with most of these toys- prudish adults giving their own false sexually explicit interpretations that came out of their own dirty minds to a bunch of poorly designed toys that are laughable, but IN NO WAY inappropriate for children to play with. The only ones that were actually problematic were the one that could cause allergic reactions (and for that reason ONLY), and the racist golliwogs, which were just rehashed designs from a highly racist past. No, the Oreo Barbie WASN’T racist, she was a product tie in (Mattel has done DOZENS), and you completely failed to mention that she was a WHITE doll as well, exactly like Mattel released all their Barbies back then- the same character/outfit, one white, one Black.
It’s funny how boys dolls- excuse me, ACTION FIGURES - can be sold wearing skin tight painted on superhero outfits that leave nothing to the imagination, in loincloths and leather body harnesses (He Man and similar), no shirt at all, whatever- and NOBODY has a problem with male dolls dressing (or UNdressing) that way, but have a fashion doll wear makeup or a miniskirt and people lose their goddam minds.
Honestly I don't see a problem with it either. As a kid I would have loved it because I always had to put a tiny doll under Barbie's shirt when she was pregnant. This doll would have made it much easier 🤣
What’s the problem with this doll? Any kid with a younger sibling has seen their mother pregnant, also aunts, friends’ mothers etc. It’s a normal part of life.
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Mike Im aware of some that are not inapropiate but rather dangerous from Gilbert Company created "toys" with hazardous materiales like The Atomic Lab that had radium and other radioactive elements and one you can make blowing cristal with high temperatures. 😮
I didn’t get to see the chopped up bloody Barbie! You didn’t show her 😢! Oh and you standing in front of woody looks like you’re wearing a hat 😂
@@gbear2253 maybe for UA-cam restrictions, you know they're really silly with some topics
If I remember correctly I believe there was a giant inflatable bouncy house Pikachu pretty sure it was in Japan and where you would come out made it look like Pikachu was giving birth to you
the trouble is parents who are sexualising innocent toys! So you have to ask about their mental condition! you know its mainly fundy christians in the usa whos children have an extremely high teen age pregnancy rate and std rate!
In the 2000s there was a caterpillar learning toy with letters on its feet. The letters made the sound and if you played them fast enough it would say words. Of course the first thing we did as parents was try all the curse words. They later recalled it and changed it to laugh when you tried to do this.
My daughter had this toy! It was made by Leapfrog. Our version was before it was fixed. HAHA!
If a child that age KNOWS the swear words to type in why is that an issue? Clearly they don't live in a polite environment to begin with so them swearing would be the parents fault, the toy doesn't encourage it. You said its to learn to spell? Why the worry over a kindergartener typing in a swear word that they can't spell, and have never heard of? Why not instead, if they DO type in a bad word, explain WHY that word is bad and that while anyone CAN do something, they shouldn't?
@@SpyricaDragoste That's very good reasoning, but in practice, a lot of the times when little kids get into some word they're not supposed to say or hear they just get SO caught up in that word in particular that they practically start chanting it and going into giggle fits about it. They do it until they get tired of it, then start ranting all over again a short time later. They miss the message entirely because they're so caught up in the naughty word and how fun it is to say and would force it out of a toy over and over. Then, on top of that, they'd show it to all their little friends, too, to impress them. Of course, you can BEAT the child to stop this, but not every parent wants to resort to that in the draconian way you have to to nip that behavior in the bud quickly. Even if the parent uses spanking as discipline a lot doesn't mean they want to do it for that or have a bought a toy that basically demands they beat their child to stop the behavior it brings about.
Your suggestion is still the best response, but it can take A LOT of repetition to get that lesson to finally sink in, and with some kids they really only stopped saying the word(s) because they finally overplayed the joke long enough to stop. Also, even if your house is clean, everyone else's may not be, so your child will pick up a naughty word from someplace else.
We had got that for my son when he was young, we always tried punching in bad words ( not in front of him though) lol .
Yeah, some of these are pretty bad....but some of them....its the parents who need to get a grip.
Thank you! Granted, the 9/11 toy apparently came with no warnings, but for most of them *if you don't like it, don't buy it!*
Here here
I take it the pun was unintended....or not
Yes, absolutely. Mama should get a grip on that Harry Potter broom that vibrates.
:)
Especially the bratze dolls, like…I get it, but…cmon! They’re just dolls. I didn’t have any as a kid, but I remember seeing them around, especially on TV
“Is that a rocket launcher in your pants or are you just happy to see me “ is my new pickup line xD
Keep in mind that I am 61, when I was little, I got a pair of toy guns made by a company called Johnny Eagle. They had spring loaded shells with plastic bullets and they actually fired.
Mama was adamant that we not have "guns" of any kind. She said that when you point a weapon at someone intending to "kill them," it planted bad impulses and thoughts in our heads.
I'm 66 years old and am still nervous about guns!
I’m 65 and we played war and “cowboys and Indians” because that is what we saw on tv all day long. Lord forgive us, we didn’t know better as young kids on an isolated farm. 🙄 😔
I'll be seventy in a few months and I loved those. Ours weren't Johnny Eagle, they were spring-loaded and fired a plastic bullet. My brother and I each got a Civil War playset for Christmas when I was about seven or eight. They had a revolver, a rifle, and a hard plastic cavalry saber. We spent many happy hours dueling and firing from ambush.
We knew better than to shoot each other, or anyone else, with real guns, which we had access to. We weren't that stupid.
@@judipierry549
There's nothing to forgive. The Lord is not against weapons of protection,
“Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.”
Luke 22:36
So you got screwed up by NOT getting the toy?
TBH, If I had kids, I'd rather train them on real guns so as to NOT train them to think guns are toys you can point around for shits n giggles.
Hey Mike, love your content! had to pause the show to comment that it looks like you are wearing Woody’s hat where you are standing! Too funny!
I was gonna comment on that too lol
same!
You think it was intentional? Funny either way
Yes, It was definately intentional😅
Now I can’t unsee it. Lol
Some of these make the Santa's reindeer that pooped chocolate candy look tame.
Would I be enraged?? Nope, would I laugh, yup. But I definitely would be careful what I purchased. I Also think most kids would not have the same thoughts, they see the toy as a toy, It's the adults that are offended. 😅
EXACTLY!!
okay, i am so tired of adults bashing on growing up skipper!! 🤬
i was 10 when skipper came out, and i absolutely loved playing with her!!
she went from childhood to teenhood, which allowed me to act out possible scenarios for myself.
because her body changed, she could wear different styles in each incarnation, to go with her new imagined activities.
she was actually one of my favorite dolls, and that's the real measure of a toy's success to me.....
how much kids enjoyed it. ☺️
I have to agree with you on this one I think it’s educational
Besides, I don't think it was discontinued because of any uproar, Mattel even made another version of the doll for My Scene. I think the Skipper just fased out like all special dolls
Yep, this video is an adult point of view, with dirty minds 😅😂 Although some toys were indeed questionable, seeing it as an adult 🤔
I agree!! I had a Growing Up Skipper. I loved her!
I still have mine
I never once considered my Barbie as a goal for my looks. It’s a doll. Just like the Cabbage Patch Kids. I didn’t think about looking like them either. This whole idea is preposterous. I never owned any of these but I did own a creepy ventriloquist doll called the Willie Talk doll. I don’t remember what he said but I hated that thing. I threw it away. It came back. I found it in the attic at the bottom of a tall bin. That freaked me out. I threw it away again and watched the garbage men take it this time. Look it up. If you ever do a video of truly unsettling toys, he’s got to be in there. I am empathic. My house was haunted. That was the only toy I got feelings of terror from looking at it.
I had Growing Up Skipper when I was 8 and she was cool AF. Nothing wrong with her at all. It’s dirty minded adults that put all these sexual interpretations on toys.
My mom found a Willie Talks at an auction and bought it. Now he sits in the living room and stares at me when I go visit.😂
@@erinwilliams7889 That is horrifying, lol!
@@TheDisneylover23 what’s worse is that my 4 year old knows I don’t like him, and she chases me around the house saying “Willie is looking at you!”
@@erinwilliams7889 If I saw one of those dolls again, I'd probably throw up. I don't know how I'd handle that situation. I'd probably bring him to a shop and get rid of him and just pretend I don't know what happened to him. I hate those dolls! There's no way in hell I'd ever live with one again. Here's some ~HUGS~ to get through those times.🥰
We had some of the best, most dangerous & inappropriate toys ever in the 60's. What's a little lead paint and sharp metal (erector set, anyone?) between friends, right?
Yep! I grew up in the 1960s too and everything was metal and fairly sharp, especially if you get hit in the head in it.
I bet playing with that ET finger would feel out of this world lol
Homemade Rootbeer bottled in old beer bottles. + in the back if my dads old pickup 8-9 years old drinking from the beer bottles. Nobody cared way back then. :) So much fun back then.
As a child of the sixties, I would have loved to have played with the Batman water-gun when I was little. I don't believe that we were so obsessed with "toy anatomy" back then as we seem to be now. Perhaps we were better able to distinguish real concerns from those issues that were in the long run, not all that relevant.
Woke movement equals the cray baby movement. Make a fuss of everything and ignore real issues like gas prices, rent and illeagals crossing the border stealing our medical benefits and adding to the homeless population.
I laughed nearly all the way through this one but I genuinely nearly choked to death on my toast seeing the Tarzan video 😂
Would of been even funnier if he made the Tarzan yell.😂
Bratz and Barbies are fashion dolls. They are fantasy. I loved playing with Barbie and I never thought I was supposed to look like one.
Exactly.
The Barbies mentioned were perfectly harmless. Even Oreo Barbie came in a white version as well, and was not intended to insult anyone. A Growing Up Skipper is cute! And a pregnant Midge is just like playing Mom!
A pregnant doll would be great for a little girl whose mother is pregnant. I like her
Baby's First Baby!??? Yikes!
Where you're standing it looks like you're wearing Woodys hat😂
Yee haaa
I noticed that, too! I wonder if that was done on purpose.
Lol i just noticed that after reading
In the 1990s my mother sent my daughter the pregnant Barbie from Australia. We are not as hung up on things like that. Also when we lived in New Zealand, in the 1970s, I had one of the black dolls, they were called Golly Wogs. I also had a Topsy Tervey doll, she was black on one end, and white on the other. Depending on which way you flipped her dress, it uncovered either, the black or white side. Once again, certain countries do not take such offense, not even the native people that they are modeled after. It is sad how we get offended for certain ethnic groups, who they themselves were not offended, and actually had these toys themselves.
America has a racial history much different than yours.
@tolfan4438 America is an immature and flawed culture that sadly, influences millions. Never forget that "Americans" are actually other ethnics from Europe that immigrated to the north American continent and almost wiped the natives of their land.
Only in America they are over sensitive for just about anything.
@@tolfan4438we have a horrible history with racism. The movie Quigley Down Under, with Tom Selleck, is a very good depiction. The part where you are right👍, is that we got a handle on that much quicker than the United States.
@@vaderladylmy son and I were just talking about, how we get offended for others, who are not even offended about the subject themselves. It's absolutely nuts. 🤯🤷
Saw a low of gollywogs here in Australia growing up (late90s/early00's), never got told a single word of context around them, just saw that it was a small doll. Never thought any more of it than that.
kids don't. It comes from the cynical adults who grew up straight into judging others
I actually think the dolls are pretty cute lol am I weird? 😂
People who aren’t racists tend to not see it. It’s people who are offended for others (who themselves probably aren’t offended) that make these claims, probably cause they themselves harbor those ideas and are trying to prove otherwise. Social justice warriors.
i think theres racist undertones with the doll, but out of context there seems to be nothing wrong with it.
wonder if we dont see casper dolls these days cause kkk?
Same. I was born in 1972 and I always saw a golliwog as a toy, not a representative of a human being. In fact I wish I still had mine.
Okay, I admit it: My poor innocent brain didn't understand the "Oreo" doll at first; all I saw was a doll wearing a cute costume with our favorite cookies on it. Then your explanation sunk in and I just went, "oh, shit!"
That isn't the first time I had to have something spelled out to me. Years ago there was a picture of a fortune cookie that mentioned watermelon and fried chicken, and I didn't understand that, either.
Oreo sounds like what I recall Coconut was. I remember some students in the 1990s used the term Coconut to mean what you explained Oreo to mean
Honestly part of me embrace the idea of learning children the fact that the primary function of breasts actually are to feed our offspring and nothing to be ashamed of.
Teaching not learning!!!!!!
@@jaray2555 Yes, You are right, English is not my native language.
While it’s the primary function, it’s not the only function. Should we have penis toys since its primary function is urinating?
i think the main problem is the targeted age of the children. theyd just be mimicking an action they cant understand yet. thats my opinion though - could be wrong.
I love that it looks like Woody's hat is on Mike's head!❤
The Oreo Barbie doesn't look that bad, except for the name part. She's a doll wearing Oreo merchandise.
I have never laughed so hard in my life. I wonder if some of these toy designers had penile envy when they made these toys.
Did they even think when they were making them?
Thanks for the laugh Mike.
😂
SNL had a skit where Jane Curtain interviewed a sleazy marketer about controversial toys. One of them was "Bag of Glass," which had sharp pieces broken glass inside a thin cellophane bag. Many of these real toys are just as awful. Good research, Mike. And I share your exasperation.
And “Invisible Pedestrian” made out of big black trash bags.
Irwin Mainway! Johnny Switchblade Action Punk!
@@normamarotta7765 New GI Joe War Criminal from Hasbro! Mi Lai villagers included.
@@normamarotta7765 😂😂😂😂😂
It's even more fun that she was in 3rd Rock from the Sun with John Lithgow. John Lithgow was in a movie called Santa Claus the Movie. He played a character named BZ, who at the beginning was on trial for BZ Toys doing similar things. Sometimes my brain meshes those two scenes together lol.
🖐 oh I had a good one... one year for Christmas, I got a Jar Jar Binx lollipop. You pushed a lever on the part you held and his mouth opened up and his tongue came out. That was the lollipop part you sucked on! Thanks mom!! 😂 I have no idea where she got it from. We didn't even think about how inappropriate it was until years later when I found it. (Cause I saved it and didn't eat it)
From walmart for sure😂😂
do you now have a tongue sucking fetish because of this toy.
i bet not
Saw those at Walmart with my mom! We both looked at each other and said "What the hell?" once we realized the 🍭 part. 😅
why would they make you french kiss Jar Jar Binx 💀
I spit my drink out when he showed the punisher shape shifter 😂 WTH were they thinking ?
Designers had a penis complex. True for most of the toy makers on the list.
😂😂😂😂😂
i grew up in the years of lawn darts
I still have a set in my garage.
Me too, and I can proudly say that I never impaled my brother with a lawn dart! 😂
Me too, and when you tired of the game you just throw them at each other....:)
@@fuzzywolf63 “PETAH ARE YOU PLAYING LAWN DARTS IN THE ATTIC AGAIN?!”
Same here. And clearly we all died horrible deaths.
I don't understand why the wooden mannequin was put for the video's front cover. But it's not a toy, it's used as an artistic tool for poses.
I had a maze in the 90s that instead of a ball bearing that you skilfully tilt the maze to get it to the middle, it had mercury. Now I was careful with my toys and didn't break them but not all kids were... mercury is toxic.
So why is a little girl breastfeeding so different from giving a baby a bottle? There's nothing sexual about feeding a baby. You're sexualizing the most natural thing in the world.
Remember that this channel is aimed at US Americans. Known across the Internets world as the biggest prudes around. So, they will take offence at anything remotely nude but will happily promote guns to children of all ages.
You forgot the Evil Stick! And the vintage Barbie Sleepover Set with weight loss idea books that read “don’t eat”
“Don’t eat.” 💀
Am I the only one who thinks Mike purposely lined his head up to fit in Woodys hat?
I had the growing up Skipper when i was younger, it didn't scar me, in fact i was more curious how they made it work more than anything.
Me too! I couldn’t help but try to peek under the rubber skin. I also once dissected an old broken articulated Barbie to see how the hip joints and click knees worked.
@@jankk are you still curious how things work? I am
That growing doll is a smart idea. Whats the problem? 🤔
@@Altinget they considered it sus and is rather macabre due to the arm thing
I had a Golli Wog doll as a kid, I'm 52 years of age. I never saw anything wrong with the doll nor did my parents put any racial connection to it either. It was just a doll to me, a doll I loved and slept and brought everywhere with me.
I'm a '71 boy too. I loved my Golliwog we had them here in OZ as well as biscuits.
In that time & place, yes, where no one was hurt by it. It's wonderful to have fond memories🙂
I'm in my 50s as well. There are tv shows I loved as a child that I can't watch now because I understand things differently as an adult. Today, some things that were innocent & good to us are hurtful & have different connotations. It's sad, but I'm glad that we can look back happily, yet be aware & mutually respectful today.
@@echognomecal6742 It's that sort of stupid sentiment that does the most harm.
Everyone is so precious you can't say or do anything in case some uptight idiot gets triggered.
If it was innocent in the seventies it still is. The perceptions are purely political and agenda driven and not based in objective reality.
@@daveredd9832 What a shame you feel the need to be so rude, not recognize change, & are so triggered.
Feel better, peace.
@@echognomecal6742 Save your platitudes. I do recognise the changes and they are not all good. And yes stupidity triggers me. Are you ok with stupidity being embraced? Does hearing you are a bad person for believing in crazy things like Everything is not racially motivated and women have vaginas men have penis's? Men can get pregnant apparently and drag queens twerking in front of pre pubescent children is a good thing?
Grow a brain, Peace.
Love the juxtaposition of Woody’s hat!
I dunno _how_ I didn't see that when I watched this vid! Too funny! XD
I just realized that! It’s too funny!
My "Tickle Me Mike Estrin" is a very inappropriate 😂
Omg they had an E.T. toy chest when I was a kid I remember going to a dentist office and seeing that thing and it's creeped the shit out of me and gave me nightmares.
Great video! But when I was a little girl, me and my little brothers had that ET Finger and I am not kidding when I say that not once did we, or our friends or cousins, ever associate it with anything sexual. NEVER. Maybe we were too young and naive. We only saw it as a cool toy. I have never seen the entire hand version of it, LOL.
I also had the Growing Up Skipper. I was like 4 or 5 years old. And even though when I grew older, the doll gave me a chuckle, I have to say it was never an issue when I was a 5 yr old playing with it. It was never something "sexual". I do recall my parents giggling over it, saying things to their friends like look at this doll, look what she can do! But as a kid, I didn't think about that at all, she was just another one of my Barbies really.
Seems to me that many of those toy makers ought to be creating adult toys.
But you have a way of making it hilarious!
Pee and poo toys are not for me
The 3M #25 are funnier
Exactly!!! Sexy toys for perverted adults!!!
Poo Dough! When I was in college my friends and I created a product we called Turdz. It was basically no bake chocolate oatmeal cookies shaped to resemble various types of animal droppings. We included marshmallow fluff into the recipe, and varied the amount in order to get different consistencies. We had deer Turdz, moose Turdz, bear Turdz, dog Turdz, cat Turdz, and people Turdz. The kids we shared them with loved them. Their parents, not so much.
That’s hilarious 🤣
My heart-sister got the Nimbus 2000 as a Yule present when she was in her 50'sf and we never thought of those uses for it.
I would totally buy the Poo Dough for my husband! 41 year old kid LOL 🤣
hahahahah! Me too! I bought my husband this absolutely wretched "fart" spray. omg, the smell...!!! Anyway, he LOVED it!
@@neverthesame7887 i play with the real thing
I remember seeing those at Wal-Mart and buying them as gag Christmas presents, the kids loved them.
My husband & I saw it at Walmart and wanted to get it for our niece as a Christmas gift but then we just forgot to go back and get it lmao.
@@jankk well i guess you were shit of luck. ha ha
14:04 To be completely fair I'm 31 years old and I'm biracial and I called myself oreo all the time.Up until I found out it was a racial slur last year and even then I still call myself it because I'm in oreo.Have black half white, So i'm gonna give them a pass on this one And honestly , I think people are being a little bit too sincere with this one.
25 extinct animals next plz also keep up the good work mike😊.
As soon as I saw the title I knew that "Rad Repeatin' Tarzan" would be on here somewhere 😂
Also, thank you for making a funny list, today is a tough day for me and I needed to have a laugh.
Oh god I want to see the Outtakes to this video.
I haven’t heard the term Oreo in so long I was confused at first when you brought it up and then I was like oh ya I haven’t heard that since the early 2000s
Still sold here in South Africa, I've got some in my biscuit tin right now.. maybe its biscuit time.
14:48 i don’t know how you even got through this one 😂😂
There was a series of models available in the late 60s/early 70s made by the iconic model company Aurora. They featured a mad scientist and his chamber of torture. They included a "victim" figure that was a scantily clad woman in a cage that you could take her in and out of. So she could be tortured using various devices in other sets. I came from Akron and I thst there at least tv ads featured a local psychologist who ran the local Child Guidance Center. A real child therapist who called these toys healthy because they allowed children to express their repressed anger. This is all true and can be easily varified on the internet. I actually both recall them from that time and have seen them at vintage toy shows.
Looked it up, they looked neat, kind of like movie diorama.
Could it be possible that "Baby's first baby" was inspired by the Star Trek episode "The trouble with Tribbles" ? The tribble is a fuzzy creature that multiplies rapidly and it was discovered they are born pregnant.
I think I found what I would like to start collecting inappropriate uncalled for toys. It’s either that or vintage ancient medical equipment.
The Pooh doll kinda makes you wonder what the source of Wheaties is
I bet she did love the broom 😂
Ah come on now, Tarzan was having a drink, they just forgot the cup 🤣
I haven’t seen List 25 in a long time. Mike, you’ve lost so much weight. Great work.
There's a L25 video where he talks all about his time away including the loss.
In most of these cases,it's the adults dirty minds and insecurities that caused trouble. I always liked the jams branded golliwog and was quite offended when it was virtually banned because of ridiculous wokies.
Welcome back, Mike.😉
Thanks? LoL Been back for over a year now.
The ability to say this script with a straight face Lmao
Pure talent
The US seems to have dirty adult minds when it comes to kids toys, kids do not see the world the same including toys. Trying to hide the normal human body functions is rather immature.
Just because a toy (or anything else) can cause allergic reactions in one group of people, doesn't mean it should be be denied to anyone else. otherwise, all wheat, peanut, shellfish (and so on) products would be totally banned. Poo Dough might be dangerous to people with wheat allergies, but it is NOT dangerous to anyone else!
I love watching Mike get more and more embarrassed.
Man, I nearly died laughing with those Batman water guns.
Dang! Of several toys I could understand it was a kind of mistake, but how that one came through.
I blame adults for their sick minds thinking these toys are sinister, in kids minds they are just fun to play with 🤣
But seriously, yeah, it's not a good look.
btw, in the 60's, robertsons Jam had a golliwog as their logo, didn't make us racist.
I don't think we ever owned the Skipper doll that grew breasts; but I do remember the commercials for it. As for the Bratz dolls, one of my co-workers has those dolls for daughter. She calls them her daughter's "hooker" dolls.
Well, the poo doh would have been a big hit at our house. We have a "hide the poo" game. It's important to note, that everyone in our home, at the time were all adults😂 the idea is to hide the fake poo in someone else's belongings. Often, there shoes. I was shopping for groceries one day, and found it in my wallet 😂😂😂
😂🎉
That's very funny. I would have loved to be there doing that
@@dakotakulha8376 It's totally ridiculous and SO much fun! I'm considering giving my grandkids rubber poo for Christmas so the tradition can carry on!
@@merrileeheard3889 That would be so fun. My cousin's girlfriend got me addicted to the one mobile game called I Want Watermelon, it's basically Tetris with fruit. It's ridiculous but so fun
What really sucks is that when I describe the reason that I think a toy is inappropriate, everybody else thinks I'M a pervert.
The Fr-ooze Pop belongs in Spencer's. 😂
Not everyone has a perverted mind
I actually still own my Growing Up Skipper doll... yeah. It was hideous then it's still hideous today.
Wolverine rocks lmao!!! Just fun for us parents that kids shouldn't know of. That'd be how I looked at that kind of stuff
It just proves that adults and parents are perverts and think that way, more than kids do.
💯 this
The Golliwog doll was here in Australia too including Golliwog chocolate biscuits made by Arnott's.
I loved my Golliwog.
How is it racist? And what about Raggedy Anne that is racist too.
In fact all dolls are racist and should be banned.
People need to grow the fuck up and get over themselves.
I guess anything that reminds them of racist propaganda from.... When were Mistral shows still popular? Well there is a lot of hate and division going around where folks are holding up the sins of the past as an excuse to hate on anyone who they see as the descendants of the perpetrators...
Minstrel Shows were popular from some point in the later part of the nineteenth century until around the end of vaudeville in the 1920s.
Do you think you could not put an artist mannequin in your thumbnail, especially when I didn’t actually see it in the video?
Granted, they aren’t all that accurate but those wooden doll things are from art stores
Little girls try to mimic their mom's breastfeeding their baby siblings as young as the Toddler years. It's a natural mimic, just as toddlers are also interested in helping clean up or helping cook. Little girls hold their dolls up to their chest when Mommy feeds the baby. It's part of learning and understanding.
And yet we have a poo emoji stuffed toy that many adults own XD rofl They don't even look THAT different!
Because the world has gone to shit.
1:18 The bear is HILARIOUS. The could have at least made it a tail for the cat.
Eyyoo! It's been a bit, glad to see ya keeping up with the informative content! Much love. There was a Winnie the Pooh toy at one point in my life and if you squeeze it enough... it sounds like he's taking enough.. yea 😅😅 2.5+ Million subs!? Love to see it
Thank you for the laugh down memory lane. Yes, I owned a couple of those toys, but I'm not saying which ones. 😊
Nice hat Mike, oh wait that’s woody’s lol😂
You left off “Lil Johnny Bag-O-Glass” 😂
i was distracted during the whole video laughing at you wearing woody hat!!!
I remember seeing commercials marketing many of the dolls when I was a kid during Saturday morning cartoons. I also remember over hearing the girls' at school talking about how awesome the dolls were. I just thought of the dolls as weird and boring. Being a boy back then, I would much rather play with stompers.
Great video!
At 1:01 I think the cat had a pleasant little night out.
and then he took a branch from a tree which got stuck between his legs
😅Haaa Pocket rocket ... Is that a rocket in your pocket ....
The Wolverine Hammer re-inflate is Deadpool giving Logan CPR.
The Conspiracy Theorist wants to say, 🧐"No wonder there's so much Ambiguity nowadays.🤔"😉
Im surprised that you didn't mention the "Joey" doll. It was the cutest toy that was to represent Gloria's baby boy from the sitcom "All in the Family". The little fellow was displayed in his box with everything that God would grace a child with upon his birth. I loved it!
My Aunt's Nigerian friends helped to collect the tokens from Robinsons Jam and Marmalade for the kids, one of them had a collection of the pins and a Golly in his car, He never had an issue, If anything he was quite proud of his collection and would swap doubles with the kids.
I had no idea their was a 9/11 attack toy at all?!😳🤨🤔🧐😳
2:44 why is it that 20 years ago and nobody had gluten allergies at all? Where the hell did that shit come from?
Sensitive minds. It’s like how many times people think they’re sick, but it’s just a case of mind over matter.
Enriched, bleached flour.
I love the fact that your head is perfectly lined up under Woody's hat
I’m old enough to have actually owned Growing Up Skipper when I was 8 years old, and neither then or now did I see anything the least bit inappropriate about her (and neither did my parents, who were older and the same age as most of my friends grandparents.) She was a really interesting doll with an unusual gimmick that both increased the play value and made young girls aware that changes would happen to their bodies when they hit puberty, and only the most repressed, pearl clutching, closed minded fuddy duddies could find anything scandalous in that. There was nothing wrong with pregnant Midge either- how is it that kids can see their moms & teachers & aunts & whoever be pregnant IRL, but having a pregnant doll for them to play with is somehow going too far? And Bratz? I’m honestly sick to fucking death of sour faced adults slut shaming fashion dolls for *looking like how older teen girls and young adult women actually dress IRL*. People can stuff those old fashioned attitudes right up their Victorian prude snoots. And to be honest, there lies the REAL problem with most of these toys- prudish adults giving their own false sexually explicit interpretations that came out of their own dirty minds to a bunch of poorly designed toys that are laughable, but IN NO WAY inappropriate for children to play with. The only ones that were actually problematic were the one that could cause allergic reactions (and for that reason ONLY), and the racist golliwogs, which were just rehashed designs from a highly racist past. No, the Oreo Barbie WASN’T racist, she was a product tie in (Mattel has done DOZENS), and you completely failed to mention that she was a WHITE doll as well, exactly like Mattel released all their Barbies back then- the same character/outfit, one white, one Black.
It’s funny how boys dolls- excuse me, ACTION FIGURES - can be sold wearing skin tight painted on superhero outfits that leave nothing to the imagination, in loincloths and leather body harnesses (He Man and similar), no shirt at all, whatever- and NOBODY has a problem with male dolls dressing (or UNdressing) that way, but have a fashion doll wear makeup or a miniskirt and people lose their goddam minds.
This one was great 👍👍👍👍
My niece literally has the full dimensions of a Bratz Doll. Are you trying to shame women with naturally occurring supermodel frames?
@mediaplagueHe is saying it is unrealistic, though some teenagers/ young women do have those proportions it is not the norm.
Some of these toys are worth lot money now .
Back in the 60s myself and my friends all had the Batman squirt guns. Lmao.
My daughter got the pregnant Barbie when she was like 8. She wanted to be an obstetrician. I didn't make a big deal out of it, she loved it.
Honestly I don't see a problem with it either. As a kid I would have loved it because I always had to put a tiny doll under Barbie's shirt when she was pregnant. This doll would have made it much easier 🤣
What’s the problem with this doll? Any kid with a younger sibling has seen their mother pregnant, also aunts, friends’ mothers etc. It’s a normal part of life.
Nothing wrong with her at all. Only close minded prudes who see dirty sexual innuendos everywhere had a problem with her.
@@jankk Facts
@@jankkyou’re dumb if you think being pregnant isn’t sexual innuendo. Children shouldn’t be sexualized or introduced to sex.