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, ...

The laughing, vibrating toy became a sensation, and caused a serious uproar -- and fights -- just in time for the hottest shopping season of the year. The Tickle Me Elmo craze during the 1996 holiday ...

For the children who grew up during the 1990s, the days and weeks before Christmas were dominated by thoughts of Ninja Turtles, Power Rangers, and Super Nintendos. And their parents worried about ...

People could certainly be loud, opinionated jerks well enough without social media. One example: The Lehigh Valley woman who took out a classified ad to sell a Tickle Me Elmo — the infamous Christmas ...

ROCHESTER — In the 1996 holiday movie "Jingle All the Way," rival fathers Howard Langston and Myron Larabee — played by action star Arnold Schwarzenegger and comedian Sinbad, respectively — fight over ...

If you hadn't noticed by now, Elmo is rapidly on his way from being a creepy laughing toy -- and annoyingly difficult to find during the holidays -- to being a full-fledged creepy robot... and even ...