Posted September 18, 2009

Baby Go Boom might have become a famous red plush character, too, had we not already licensed it as a doll. Boy, was that a mistake! The makers of famous red plush character toys did keep this mechanism in mind for the future. (In a novel, this might be considered foreshadowing.)

            

Rosie O’Donnell made fun of our sweet baby doll on her show, letting her mutant Chihuahua loose on it and cackling that our beautiful doll, with my daughter's voice and laugh in it, looked like it was having an epileptic fit. 

            

 

I knew in that moment that Rosie was done as a TV celebrity. She had gone over the edge, and as a result she received many complaints from organizations and individuals regarding her tasteless and crude humor at the expense of the epileptic community. 

            

To add injury to insult, in September of 2001, when Baby Go Boom first hit the shelves and was selling like hotcakes, tragedy struck our nation on the 11th day of that month. Suddenly a doll with the word ‘boom’ in her name was too painful to bear, and Baby Go Boom was done.

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