Mark Johnson Williams, the creator of Tickle Me Elmo, was mistakenly investigated as the Unabomber due to coincidences aligning with the FBI profile, but he was cleared after Ted Kaczynski’s ...

but when toy manufacturer Tyco obtained a license to produce new Sesame Street toys, Dubren was asked to apply what he came up with to an Elmo doll. It was an instant success, and Tickle Me Elmo ...

They landed on a less aggressive Tickle Me Elmo to add to Tyco’s line of Sesame Street toys. In October 1996, the toymaker sent 200 Tickle Me Elmo dolls to Rosie O’Donnell’s hit talk show.

Aaron Karo’s “Tickle-Me-Elmo” is a script about the toy that saved Sesame Street, shocked Wall Street and delighted the nation. Alyson Weaver Nicholas’ “Little Black Dress” imagines ...