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Few things are scarier than clowns, but talking dolls are in the Top Five Scariest Things EVER . Fact: Furby didn’t speak English, he spoke something called “Furbish.” And he spoke whatever that was in a robotic monotone. Proof enough that evil was afoot.
Evil Furby is evil:
“You’ll be dead by morning.” I knew it!
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Furby haunts my dreams.
my unwanted demon furby sits in a closet allll the way down stairs, facing the wall under a billion boxes….i’m still waiting for a microwave to put it in….
I was bitten by a malicious Furby once.
ITS TASTED BLOOD! RUN!
YOU’LL BE DEAD BY MORNING!!!
NO! It tasted human blood!
Hey, moi.If you don’t want your furby, then I’ll gladly take it.I LOVE furbies.I’ll tAke furbies that anyone has on here if they work and the owner doesn’t want them.
This one time I had a Furbie. One of the later, Late 1990’s models.
Once it ran dead on batteries due to utter neglect, and I was young, so I bashed it around to get it to stop spouting gibberish going on and off.
You know what it said?
I swear to god, when I stopped, it said:
“Kiss my ass!”
XD
My kids were scared of them and I’m not so sure about them either. The I think they used Furby to film “Gremlins.”
i agree. i hate that … but gizmo rules!
Mogwai > Furby.
That thing looks like one of the Gremlins. Which were aliens, right?
Spielburg’s lawyers certainly thought they looked like them. So did the judge.
Ok, time for nerd rage:
Mogwai = Cute fuzzy Gizmo creatures
Gremlin = Evil slimy creatures that are a result of improper Mogwai care
True, but the damn Furby was CREEPY!
how is this nostalgic? furby has barely even been out for 10 years…. lets add the XBOX while we’re at it if we’re going that soon lol
lol i was thinking the same thing.
Why the XBOX? Let’s start with the 1st gen. iPhone!
And I’m not really getting how Furby is a win. That thing is CREEPY.
you fool it is FRIDAY FAIL
AH! So it is.
XBOX should be the Friday Fail
NO!
Windows should be the friday fail!
Linux =WIN!
HEY! Windows is cool! I have it!
But…I loved the Furby.
Me too! I still have mine!
Me too! Just played with it a month ago while looking through old stuff – Furby is so much fun!
i knoww. i’m really tempted to pull mine out of my closet right now. i’d have to put batteries in it, since they never do go to sleep when you want them to…
Furby is niceeee! We have a new and an old and they are our friends
)
Holy crap, it’s HAPPENING! The Furbys have taken over the minds of these poor people!
*Looks up nearest nuclear incinerator to throw Furby in*
I had a furby… it would start talking in the middle of the night and wake me up.
It scared the crap out of me.
I could swear that I took the batteries out of my Furby one night, and it still talked. And it was always saying, “Ah, me no see you!” So, apparently I had a stalker Furby…
I had a furby baby that talked when it wasen’t on. I had a racecar bed at the time, and put it in the little storage space, I woke up in the middle of the night hearing it go DADA, and other things, I turned the light on, it still happened, opened the trunk, it stopped, I had moved to a different room downstairs eventually. for the rest of the time I lived in that house when I had to go to the bathroom at night I heard it talking. Eventually my cat stole it and It wound up in my parents dresser with no batteries. I still have nightmares sometimes of one flying towards me a pecking my eyes out. oof.
Yes mine too we were playing with it and it wouldnt sleep so we took out the batteries and still talked!
lol i took the batteries out of mine and it did the same thing! screw furbys they’re evilll
mine woud do the same thing, it scared me so badly! my cousin eventually threw it into a lake
Haha, I trapped mine in the kitchen cabinet.
Aw I loved my furbies. :[
Going off topic here, when I was little I saw Gremlins (the movie) and it scared me to death. I pretended like it didn’t but when ever we had a blackout and only had candles to light our house (we each got a candle, except me, i got a torch because i was not to be trusted with an open flame) I couldnt help but feel they were surrounding me, waiting to attack. the teasing from my mum (she was just joking, remember i pretended not to care about those scary things), and my brother laughing everytime i squeaked when something moved or made a sound didn’t help either.
I remember I got my first Furby on Christmas Eve. It was one of those pink baby Furbies. It talked in the trunk the entire 30-minute drive home. Later on, it just started randomly talking by itself. I took the batteries out. Bye bye Furby. :]
My first computer had a smaller processor chip in it than Furby
I loved Furbies when I first got mine (and then later the baby one). I think my mom regretted getting me and my sister them. >_>; I vaguely remember her threatening to shatter them with a hammer. Could never get them to learn either D:
This is off topic, but I remember when I was 4, I had these toy dinosaurs. One of them got into my mom’s salad, and she threatened to throw them out. All night when I heard the trash can open I started freaking out. I think I ended up burying them in the sand at a playground.
My parent got me the furby and the baby furby and later I got the shellby but the orginal furby was by far the most creepy.. I remember my dog biting it and getting shocked. It was evil….
I love the furbies! I had a few until my dad got rid of them in a garage sale. I yelled at him for a few hours and immediately got on eBay and bought several more (at his expense). I had those until my fiance at the time decided it would be a good idea to clean out some of our old junk and trashed them without even asking about them! I screamed at him for a bit, but I didn’t make him replace them because of the prices they were asking online.
I miss my furbies.
No kidding…Furby dolls are banned from secured military areas like briefing rooms and such, because of their ability to ‘learn’ and repeat things they hear.
You mean the military actually allowed Furby to attend briefings? Before they got banned for snitching that is…
Ya people at the time didn’t understand how they worked and they were afraid that they could be used as bugs or something. The NSA banned its employees from bringing them to work shortly after they were released
Where’s that Furby in a microwave video when you need it….
Ahha, here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRFEHKfRchM
I remember teaching mine to swear XD I have a regular one, a baby one, and a christmas one , there up in my sisters room, I should go get them :3
i had the christmas one, too. my grandpa ended up taking the batteries out after about a week, though, ha. creepy things.
“What’s that?”
“SHUT UP.” <- classic
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“Furby! The toy for every boy and girl who likes demonic possesion! Some say there’s a little bit of Lucifer in each one! My God, they’re right! Do not buy this spawn of Satan!”
i hated those things i had to take the battery out so i didn’t hurt it or some one else
I love furby.
You fail!
My roommate in college had one … one time he made a softcore porn video starring himself and the furby. But he seemed to have a problem with me cussing at it. I lived alone after that.
Here’s a real life Furby that’s just as demonic, without the cheesy voiceover:
Yeaaaah….I had one on Xmas of 2001. It costs about 40€…man, now it’s sucks =P
Ah, I had one and it fell on the floor and went INSANE then I took the batteries out and it KEPT GOING for like three minuets. It scared me so much.
if THIS is a blast from the PAST i feel older than i usually do… and i’m born in 1984…
I had a furby that was cow print over all and had a blue stomach. It scared the crap out of me. Once i was getting mad at because it wouldn’t turn off so I threw it down the hall. It said “Furby ouch”. I went to go pick it up and there were no batteries in it. They’d been knocked out when it hit the wall. O.O
my friends and i once made a furby into osama bin laden for a school project…
So accurate… I never had one, but I swear, THE DEVIL HIMSELF IS A FURBY!
One of my friends had her sister leave a Furby in her bedroom once without telling her… she went to go to bed, turned off the lights, and this little voice out of nowhere went, “oooh, dark!” To this day she sleeps with a light on.
I just remember always doing this:
Hey Furby!
……..
Hey Furby!
………..
HEY FURBY!
…….
Oh goddammit…… HEY FURBY!
……… Do!
Finally… Tell me a story.
……..
UGH
I loved Furby. I still have a couple out of the box and some still in their boxes. My son stole one a couple of years ago and loved it.
I loved Furbys.. in fact I bought 2 of the new ones for my daughter for Christmas. She loves them too! Not a fail!
The furby was banned on all flights by QANTAS for a long time. These days they are allowed back on board – with conditions see http://qantas.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/qantas.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=137
I think the only time a furby should be allowed on a plane is if they are to be dropped from 30k feet+ up
Those things were the shizz when I was 9! No one could ever get them to do anything terribly interesting though…
My furby would wake itself up and talk to me. I finally had to get rid of it, I was an easily startled child.
I had these when I was younger, an adult one and a baby one. For a bit I loved it, and then I turned it into an entertainment device for the family parrot when we were out of the house. The bird loved to talk, and the Furby would always hear noises, I had to replace the batteries all the time.
However my bird did learn ALOT of new phrases.
I like making them hiccup!
So I got one, and saw you can “make them talk to each other”. I saw a Halloween witch Furby on special, it was cute, so I got it. Every time I turn them both on, the 1st one would only say it was scared!
As a polytheistic pagan, I kinda take offense at that!
If you want tokill off your Furby, feed it Play-Doh. That’s what I did to “Furdy” as a kid. I kinda liked it, but… they are quite freaky.
I fed mine salt!
….
It died
These things got banned from government or other high security locations because they had a habit of repeating things they had overheard.
That’s actually urban myth (sort of). Furbies could not repeat things back.
I heard about a guy who got two furbys and sat them in front of the TV watching a porn channel all day. After a while they would make all kinds of porno noises when they were put together. I always wanted to try that for laughs.
THAT WOULD BE SO HILARIOUS!!!
If I had two Furbies, I would do that and then give them as a Christmas or birthday present to some kid!
gawd i hate Furby I want to get about 100 of them and make a bonfire with them
My friend’s son in the Navy had one in his barracks. He and the rest of the guys would knock it around and beat on it and starve it when ever it was dark in the room. Pretty soon it was afraid of the dark! If you shut the lights off in the room it would whine and make mewing sounds. Ha ha ha!
Why is that funny?
Furby was one of the biggest fails in history.
my sister and i still talk in “furbish” when were tired we say “me waloo” or how ever they said it! haha! or when were hungery we say “ah,ah,hah hungery” then “yummm”
they were kinda creapy though.
Someone put a furby in a microwave and posted the video on the internet somewhere. i thank them for finding a successful way to destroy one.
Yer all evil! Evil! I loved my furbies. I had three of them. Plus maybe 3-5 little miniature ones from Happy Meal. I never liked McDonald’s food but I collected the toys until I was like twelve! I’m a vegan now, so no more McDonald’s (eww), besides, I’m kinda less fascinated by Happy Meal toys at age nineteen ha ha.
my furby was an addict. i swear to god it used to say “me like cocaine” in a stoned voice. it was really odd.
I used to sleep over at a friend’s house every weekend when I was little. She had a Furby. We’d take the batteries out of it EVERY WEEKEND and it would STILL talk at us. I think it’s because her house was haunted. no srsly. That thing was freaking possessed.
I had a awful red and black one, and my sister a green.
they were cute during the day but at night they would make these awful noises and after the first night we put them downstairs.
every so often i’ll hear a furby noise from downstairs from a cat knocking into a box and have to go outside for a walk…
and you know, some of my friend’s furbies started saying some pretty strange stuff and you’d begin to wonder where they heard it.
I think it was a ploy to corrupt childrens minds
I always wanted one. I wanted to teach it to swear and leave it in my locker at school.
Me and my friend used to have Furbies, and they used to sing each other to sleep,but we’d get bored and lock them in a cupboard.
I remember finding out hat the little thing on their foreheads was an IR reader and you could use a TV remote to make it to all sorts of weird stuff. I used every remote I had in the house and had it singing “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” and Burping the ABC’s once…then it said “stop it” when i kept pressing buttons….
My furby would purr when you pet it, and when you stopped it would ask you to pet it again and if you didn’t, it would growl at you!!!! it scared me half to death the first time it did that!!!!
Okay so I went down into the celler and found my furby, but how do you tech it to swear?
My friend and her sister had a regular furby and a baby furby. They had heard that the furbies would talk to each other so they put them together but the furby started growling at the baby one and wouldn’t say anything to it and then once they took the baby away it said “me no like”
I took the batteries out of mine and it still talked…That and hid it in a closet with blankets covering it and refused to be in the room with that closet
I wanted a furby soo bad and when I finally got it.. it sucked and I hated it and threw it. It looked so fun in the commercials and everything. I don’t even know where it went. It was so expensive, my one had like a graduation cap and everything. But it frustrated me.
I never played with my one furby for longer than 30 minutes.
I don’t think Furby’s are old enough for anyone to be nostalgic over them. Now Scram Ball…?!? That inspires nostalgia. I wish I could find a pic to post here…
we dipped one in water, and it developed furby schizophrenia. we would sit there and listen to the two versions of itself talk to each other… creepy indeed. it had two names, two voices, everything!
I remember that everyone had a Furby. I also seem to remember that you couldn’t switch them off because there was no power switch. Is that correct or is it just my memory playing tricks on me? I remember distinctly the Furby randomly saying one of it’s weird phrases in the middle of the night. Man, that was scary when I was a kid. I ended up taking the batteries out and it never worked again (even with batteries)
My Furby spontaneously combusted whenever I turned it on. Or at least smelled that way.
thank god im not the only one that thinks those things are scary!
omg i always thot they were gonna murder me in my sleep or something. they are scary!!
Scare factor of a Clown(1-10):9
Scare factor of a Fuby(1-10):1OH MY GOD!!!! IT BIT MY ****ING ARM OFF KILL IT! KILL THE FURBY!!! OH, GODS PLEASE! CRAP! IT’S COMING BACK SAVE YOURSEL—-
They made a Furby 2, which has an off switch, thank god….
that’s a big improvement, seeing as the only way to stop one of the originals was to take out the batteries or stick it in a microwave
My little sisters used to swear! It sounded like it was saying F#ck all the time!
It creeped her out soo much i was told to take it away and tell her i’d killed it!lol!
Welllll my sister had bad luck with those..e.e;; they eventually started to smell like they were burning from their mouths.
She also got a “shelby” one of them..e.e;; and um it kept asking for moneys
Years ago, when I owned my own Furby, I had a nightmare about it. Its eyes turned red and it tried to kill me. Yep, Furbies were evil.
This is too late for this site’s target group, though. How do you have Weird Science, Koosh balls, and then Furbies? I was 20 when these came out, or somewhere close to that.
One of my friends furbys made a vomit sound, then there was somthing ornage it its mouth.
Another friend stuck her finger in its mouth and it chomed down REALLY hard and said “EWW”
I had a pink and white furby it recored every bad word my dad said! one time when I was sleeping I heard it scream I had taken the batteries out because i had an original one that wouldnt shut up when i slep and i smashed the old one but anyway, it called me a son of a $#%#$ and the i opened my closet and took it to my parents and somehow it knew it was around my parents and it closed it’s eyes. Then I took it back to my room and shoved it in my closet with no batteries and it started screaming $&#% about ten times! once again I took it to my parents and this time it said “Furby Love Daisy” in front of my mom. my mom thought it was adorable but i was scared it had never heard my name before! After that it started grawling. After that night i smashed it like the other and to this day i swear I can hear Furby Kill You. but i know its just my imagination.
omg…i remember those furbies! god they scared the crap outta me…apparently when i was little, they were the rage, and when it was my birthday, my parents got me one…when i opened the package, and saw what it was, i screamed my head off, and nearly wet myself and took off running…my parents were shocked to see how badly scared i was of it, and they returned it and got me a gi joe instead! XD
actually I gave mine a seizure once.
I tossed it to the ground once and all it would do after was blink and move it’s mouth.
When I was about eight or nine my mom got me a rainbow one for christmas.
I wanted one really badly and even though we couldnt afford it she saved up and bought me one.
It was fun for a little while.
That is till I showed it to my, at the time, 1 yr old little brother.
He flipped out. It scared him half to death. Anytime he heard it he would cry.
So, it started freaking me out. Eventually my mom got tired of it and took the batteries out. BUT IT STILL KEPT TALKING!!! Furbies are demonic!!
The batteries were out for a few days but it would still talk.
Finally we threw the little bastard away!
NO MORE FURBIES!
I gave one of our furbies some sort of handicap right after I got the supersonic mosquito repellant [those high frequency anti-mosquito gadgets], turned it on, and held it near the furby’s head.
The furby started speaking in this really high-pitched voice and acted all weird.
It was fun. xD
I had a “Furby baby”
THEY PRO CREATE!
I had a furby, and one day it started talking like its batteries were dying. So I picked it up and it started smoking. As I was taking out the batteries, it was saying ‘Come play with me’, and continued to say this as I buried it deep in my grandmothers back yard.
Mine was defetive it used to go off at like 2am, starting to sing ‘lo lee lo la!’ so I took its batteries out…
It still sang
Furby+dryer(20+min)+no batteries=Scary… Scary… Things…
Oh god…OH GOD! I have a Charcoal Furby 2. IT WOULD WAKE UP AT NIGHT. A few times, it turned itself on.
Reading this makes me want a furby so badly now. I want to watch anime and Homestar Runner with it and play video games with it and hear it say quotes. I can picture it now. “saata andagi!” “Love and peace!” “fhqwhgads!” *random Link yells and grunts*
“Great JEREORAEYUB Homestar!”
i once dismanteled a furby and hooked it up to a Fishertechnik machine that made what the furby said come out in bianary…. we removed its speaker… good times
I had a furby when i was little, it would alwayss turn on and talk at night….it was creepy. And I dropped my furby once, and It started acting weird, so I asked my dad to fix it and he changed the batteries in it and I swear it talked in spanish until I dropped it again…..creepy furby…..
1. Avoid bright light
2. Don’t feed after midnight
3. Don’t get wet
Furbys/Mogwais are some creepy bastards!!
Ohhhhdeeaar..
My furby was weird-ass. I swear it was stoned half the time. It smelt funny too. Like.. really weird.
And then my sister tried to flush it down the toilet. But my mom fished it out. It is probably sitting in storage, biding it’s time.
I swear, those things were an alien race, bastardized and trapped by toy companies.
Mine would constantly roll its eyes backwards into it’s head and flap its ears randomly with no sound. Like it was having a bad trip or something.
zomg furby’s are so obnoxious.
I was cleaning out my garage a while ago. I found my old Furby. I started playing with it since the batteries still worked. However… that night it wouldn’t shut up.
Needless to say, I stuck it in the microwave.
I don’t understand why this was a fail though…
My sister had a Furby… She only played with it a little bit, then put it in the basement and forgot about it for several months. Then we found it, tried to play with it and discovered that it had become posessed by an unholy demon! The batteries had started to run out so it was speaking in this terrifying deep voice. We tried to put it to sleep, only it wouldn’t so we got so scared we ran upstairs, hearing it talk away in its satan-voice… We made my Opa go downstairs and take the batteries out… I don’t know what happened to it, but holy geez it was scary…
I had 1 in 1990’s so did my sis they were like when they first came out omg they never shut up they were fun till you’d rollever in middle of night nd they’d keep you up for 3hrs so we resorted in removing batterys it shut my white and brown 1 up but not my lil sister’s red and black 1 with out batterys it said something in the middle of the nite i didnt care what neither did my sis(yeah we shared a room) we grabed our furbies in middle of the nite despite fact our house was next to woods we took them and put them in outside garbage can.
When these things first came out, my little sister spent $40 bucks on one. But it was sort of cute back then, although a little freaky now to look at.
interesting…although my mom got one for herself not too long ago. We never really experienced any problems with it but that was probably because it was one of the later furby 2’s. I’m wondering though if the furbies had decent sized capacitors in them then that could explain why they still talked after the batteries were removed but if not then perhaps they accidentely became high tech versions of a Ouija board or some sort similiar spiritual gateway. something to ponder…
Oh god, furbies! I used to have the CD game thing, and I don’t remember what happens on it except this part where at the end of a game or something, jewels rain down on your furby. My mom broke the CD because she was obsessed with it.
Too bad, I would have loved playing with it right now.
my cousin’s furby said “furby dead…” when you pulled the batteries out. it creeped the hell out of me.
On a side note: DO NOT get them wet or feed them after midnight.
well my furbies love me
my wife calls our cats furbies sometimes, now i know where she got the word from.
furbies were popular toy in mid to late 90’s that so many little girls once got them ended up being teriffied of them becase of things they did my word is please destroy all furbies based on experince epic fail
My furby was dropped down the stairs a lot by my brother. Eventually, it would start talking, then the voice would get stuck like a broken record, and one eye would start rapidly twitching like it was having a seizure. I wish I kept it, but I threw it out when I was a teenager.