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, ...

It was two decades ago this holiday season that parents across America were fighting each other over a little red creature with a tickling fetish. During the months leading up to Christmas 1996, the ...

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 ...