Ernie Feels “Great!”
Posted on July 27, 2006 - Filed Under Humor, Life
We purchased a Sleep N Snore Ernie doll for Travis when he was a little boy thinking it was cute. When you squeeze him he says "I feel great!" in his little Ernie voice.
Fast forward to the present day where everyone in the house is now terrified of Ernie because Ernie is possessed. Ernie stopped talking years ago and we thought it was because the batteries had finally died. Out of the blue last year Ernie started to speak again, but it was always in the middle of the night.
Ernie had been stuffed into the back of Travis’ closet at this point, and was never taken out for any reason. Out of the blue, in the middle of the night we would hear a random "I feel great!" which would strike fear into Travis.
I finally pulled Ernie out of the closet and put him in the basement thinking we’d never hear him again but Ernie had other plans. Another year passed without a peep from Ernie until I was in the basement one day insulating some pipes when I hear a garbled "I feeeeeel greeeeat!". I almost pooped my shorts.
I dug Ernie out expecting to find his eyes glowing like Satan and him saying something like "I’m going to eat your face!" in his sweet little Ernie voice. Again, Ernie had gone silent once I had him in my hands and no matter what I tried I could not get him to speak. I decided to keep Ernie in the basement and did not want to alarm the boys because they were already terrified of him.
The past few years we have tried to play jokes on each other with Ernie because it’s creepy, funny and we are all genuinely afraid of the damn thing… except for Toni.
The progression on the upstairs baby room was going smooth until one day I happened upon Ernie sitting on the shelves near the unassembled crib. I asked Toni why Evil Ernie was on display and she informed me that he is going to be in the baby room once our baby is born.
Now there is just no way I am going to allow this to happen. Even the boys are pleading with her to remove Ernie from the house with suggestions of burning him, throwing him in the trash or possibly leaving him on a street corner in the North End of Tacoma. Toni is putting up a fight saying that Ernie is part of our tradition and he MUST be introduced to the new baby. Arrrggggghhhh!! This must not happen!
I’m going to upload a video later today that shows you how terrified we are of Evil Ernie.
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I wonder why he doesn’t go through the singing/snoring bit when he talks. He just says “I feel great.” And it’s always when someone is asleep. My supervisor at work had the same experience with his son’s S&S Ernie.
How did you know that my blog referred to your blog?
Google Analytics!
So it looks like this is just a general S&S Ernie product feature, or they are all possessed.
Of course! Google Analytics.
Well, great to meet you, Dave. Alexander is a cutie pie.
I should’ve asked you this first but I hope you don’t mind that I linked to your Ernie entry. If you do, just let me know and I’ll take care of it.
Nice to meet you too Alice. I’m glad you linked to me, no need to ask first!
Alex gets the good looks from his mother. :)
Your daughter is so cute in the Peking Duck pictures!