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Friday Videos Love Potty Time
by SB Sarah | by SB Sarah | October 30, 2009 | Friday at 2:50 pm | 22 CommentsPotty training isn’t easy. But it’s also not meant to be vaguely creepy either.
Filed: Friday Videos, General Bitching
Tagged: videos, make the burning stop, elmo
Kathy said on 10.30.09 at 03:09 PM • [link]
We have this on VHS for when my children were vaguely interested in using the potty. And I couldn’t watch it after a couple of times due to the creepy factor, but mainly because I couldn’t buy that Elmo’s father had a mustache. 70’s porn anyone???
CourtneyLee said on 10.30.09 at 04:40 PM • [link]
This DVD actually did help my daughter get interested in the potty, so I can forgive the creep factor for that alone. But she did request it so much that, after I decided that it had done all the good it was going to do, the disc had to go to the great DVD player in the sky.
didnt23: I didn’t watch that show 23 times. It ended up being a lot more than that. *headdesk*
Beadgirl said on 10.30.09 at 04:56 PM • [link]
I just can’t escape Elmo’s Potty Time, can I? Did the Beadboys put you up to this?
Cara McKenna / Meg Maguire said on 10.30.09 at 05:17 PM • [link]
Hoo, baby, I got that beat! Check THIS out!
molly_rose said on 10.30.09 at 05:38 PM • [link]
That video was so wierd, I couldn’t even finish it.
At Cara: I Never, and I mean Never, want to see my poop *wink* at me. lol.
Maggie P. said on 10.30.09 at 05:45 PM • [link]
I find Elmo very disturbing. this is a representation of why.
Cara McKenna / Meg Maguire said on 10.30.09 at 05:52 PM • [link]
I know, Molly, it’s mad creepy. There’s got to be some hygiene issues at stake when you make number-twos that cuddly and approachable.
Angela James said on 10.30.09 at 05:54 PM • [link]
We have this on DVD. Brianna used to love it. I think I’m immune to any creep factor when it comes to talking puppets at this point. Unless someone starts talking about plushy love. Then I’m creeped out.
You know, for some reason I never thought that was Elmo’s father, but was his grandfather. I wonder why I thought that?
Meezergrrrl said on 10.30.09 at 06:18 PM • [link]
I have 3 dogs and a 20 year old cat who has decided that cat potty training rules no longer apply to her (and luckily, a strong baby gate between the dogs and said cat’s lair). We don’t need no creepy videos! Every day is a potty training adventure ‘round here.
But really, the talking toilet? That just brings back bad overnight camp memories of the toilet monster who lived in the lake, and only ate campers who had to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night.
**shivers**
Liz said on 10.30.09 at 06:51 PM • [link]
we used to make my cousin watch the potty training tapes when she was little because she didn’t want to be potty trained. This one always creeped me out…not quite sure why though.
Cara McKenna / Meg Maguire said on 10.30.09 at 06:57 PM • [link]
Oh, plenty of reasons, Liz. I’ll start with the sproing sound effects at the beginning and the tiny man in the beret and suspenders, watching the proceedings from the edge of the tub. Thumbs up, indeed!
jarant said on 10.30.09 at 08:51 PM • [link]
@ Kathy - yes, YES! on the 70’s porn. “Dad Elmo” looks less like a dad and more like the creepy visiting uncle. Please don’t entrust potty training your child to creepy visiting uncle.
Liz said on 10.30.09 at 10:43 PM • [link]
thank you ,Cara! so glad i am not the only one creeped out by that! nobody else saw how weird that video was…and this wasn’t even the whole thing.
Liz said on 10.31.09 at 12:04 AM • [link]
found the whole video of the clip i added earlier…it is even creepier than i remember it being.
Wendy said on 10.31.09 at 01:40 AM • [link]
Am I weird because this doesn’t creep me out at all? The only thing I didn’t like was the rather constant throaty chuckle coming from Elmo as dad sang. I especially liked, “Now where did your mother put that air freshener?” :-D
AM said on 10.31.09 at 02:02 AM • [link]
@Wendy - it was weird like all Elmo videos but there was nothing in it that creeped me out, too. I spent most of the video thinking how hard it must be to come up with 3 verses making using a potty sound like fun. (Maybe the creep factor came from pun of Potty Time=Party Time??)
Spam word - average49 - oh boy, I have 13 years to work up to average.
Sycorax said on 10.31.09 at 02:52 AM • [link]
I hate Elmo. I like Old Skool Sesame Street, before he dominated the show.
quichepup said on 10.31.09 at 03:01 AM • [link]
Liz, my son loved the Potty Time video. It didn’t help with potty training but he loved the music. I couldn’t get “She’s a Super Duper Pooper” out of my head for almost a year. I haven’t seen it in almost 20 years and now it’s back in my head.
Madd said on 10.31.09 at 03:03 AM • [link]
That clip wasn’t the least bit creepy to me. The Man bought that video for our daughter, but she wasn’t interested, despite the fact that she is generally pro-Elmo.
Suze said on 10.31.09 at 03:29 AM • [link]
Hee! I liked that it was Anime Tiger Dad’s job to handle the poopy cleanup on that Japanese clip. The end of it though, with the real kid? Made me cringe a little bit.
Elysa said on 10.31.09 at 03:56 AM • [link]
Sycorax, my mother hates Elmo as well. As a retired teacher, she is convinced that he is responsible for today’s kids being so loud and shrieky. I’m not fond of him either, but it’s mostly because he seems to have replaced Grover.
JamiSings said on 11.02.09 at 01:23 AM • [link]
That was so creepy I think I just went into early menopause. I’m so glad I don’t have kids so I don’t have to be subjected to that.
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