Piano
Some goddamn toys turn on by themselves in the middle of the night, that’s good enough material for a horror movie.
Montreal! I’ll be at the Salon du disque et des arts underground (Under the Snow) this weekend! It’s inside Saint-Denis church’s basement. It’s free, come see me!
Still better than Legos in the night.
We have the dog guitar version of that, and we had some friends who had the cat piano. I feel like a grouch if I speak too ill of them, but man, they can be obnoxious! Especially when they’re on the “animal noises” setting rather than just tones. And they do make a noise before they turn themselves off, which I dislike, because I’m usually glad when the kids move on to another toy. But then, like an hour later, all of a sudden you hear the little bark and dog whine before it goes off, and they remember it’s there. They are cute, though.
We had a v-tech ball for my oldest son and the thing was horrid. Middle of the night music, silent light flashing, but the absolute worst was when the batteries were going down. The happy little tunes were more the stuff from horror movies at 3 a.m. Mr. Ball met with an untimely trip to the local thrift store, post batteryectomy of course.
At least its no Tickle me Elmo…
We have one of those large minion toys. I’ll be in a deep sleep only to be startled awake by “BANANA!!”
My kids daughter had a talking pikachu doll that would go off randomly even though it was only supposed to when you squeezed its hands. We were coming home later one night and then walked in…the things eyes glow red when it talks and because the batteries were low its voice was kind of deep saying”Pikaaaaaaaa chuuuuuuuuuu sitting on the couch looking towards the door we can in with all the lights off…that thing was fucking terrifying.
I’m pretty sure we had an Elmo and an Ernie that would do this and it terrified me as a child.