I want to stab the people that invented Pillow Pets because they don't make a frog one. Then, at least, I could just put myself out of my misery and buy one, but NO, my daughter wants a frog one.

Now I have to make a g*d*mn frog Pillow Pet myself. Ick.

OMG. I just googled Frog Pillow Pet and there is one! I will blow her 4 year old mind.

One day. After large amounts of alcohol are consumed. By me.

It's good to not get everything you want. But sometimes, it is good to get exactly what you want. (It was a turquoise ring, I was something like eight. My parents rock.)

I know which mall you went to because my son did EXACTLY. THE. SAME. THING.

But we held firm and he left with only Legos.

But Santa may bring him a pillow pet. God Help Us All.

You know the part where "pajamas fit right inside! perfect for grandma's house!"? Who am I kidding, of course you do! ANYWAY. My daughter "packed" for her overnight trip to my mom's by putting three pairs of icarly underwear inside her pillow duck.

I have to assume that they make those things by weaving crack into the filling because there's no other way to explain the bizarre obsession kids have with them. Both my 10 year old and my 4 year old want one. On one hand, I am very tempted to get them because I like to get my kids things that make them happy. On the other hand, could they have picked a stupider, crappier piece of crap to become enamored with? Because I think they could not have. Sigh. Guess which side will win out in the end?

(Jennie: MY MIL TOTALLY IRONS HER SHEETS. This is yet another way in which I am a terrible disappointment to her.)

Fuck me, I RUN from the Pillow Pet kiosk at the mall, because Sam points and yells at it, and she's not even exposed to the damn COMMERCIAL.

I think in this, resistance for you was futile.

I've just gone back and watched the advert, I hope they do come to the UK because I WANT ONE now!

Dude. We have TWO of those at my house right now with a THIRD on the way. I mean, it's such a simple joy, how could I say no?

DianaCLT - I hate to tell you this -- and that I totally know this already -- but Pillow Pets are machine washable. We're already had to wash Ezra's because Ceiba likes to sleep on it. Just don't put them in the dryer.

HA HA YOUR EXCUSES ARE INVALID. PREPARE TO BE ASSIMILATED.

I work next door to a mall, where I go nearly every day, and was drawn in to that very store (yes here in NJ they have an ENTIRE STORE) through a force larger than my own will. I don't have children young enough to want one of those but I couldn't resist going in and petting the...pets. They are so SOFT. They really are. Sigh.

You forgot "Adorable."

Our 2 1/2 year old is ALL THOMAS ALL THE TIME right now... and I swear, Amy, it's the hardest thing not to buy them for him, because he genuinely loves them. We walked to Babies R Us the other day for an emergency diaper purchase. We just let him carry a Percy around the store, because we felt so bad. We didn't buy though.

Very very very very cute.

My (almost) four year old daughter lost her ever-loving mind when we saw those in the mall last weekend. She grabbed onto the zebra one (with hot pink fur, nonetheless) and would. not. let. go. I explained to her that she could ask for it for her birthday which is only two weeks away and she begrudingly let go, whimpering about the thing for the next twenty minutes. You know I went right back to that kiosk and snatched that thing up. Thinking I'll earn some cool mom points for this one, provided she hasn't forgotten about this and moved on to bigger and better things like the play-doh ice cream shop or zhu zhu pets. (Yeah, my kids watch too much tv, I know.)

I too remember the pre-commercial days and then our daughter got old enough to want to watch shows on Disney XD, where they actually have REAL commercials. OMG...one day I will see her shilling for those lame products because she recites each sales pitch perfectly. And she's not merely interested in the toys. At Easter last year she began doing her Kaboom toilet bowl cleaner pitch to relatives. She started with asking her great aunt if she had ever heard of KABOOM, then followed up with, "Is your toilet bowl stained? Then you need KABOOM!" Yep..totally hilarious and completly mortifying at the same time.

They've made the rounds over here, and my kid is getting one for his birthday. The other day I had to go get some new pillows (because when a toddler pees directly onto his pillow and you wash it on your front loader, said pillow will emerge completely FUBAR) and he was excited past all reason, screaming "You get me PILLOW PET???"

Not spoiled at all!

And you know what? If my little guy could communicate well enough to tell me he wanted something like that so badly, you can bet your butt I'd get him one. Just because.

My kids are too old to be interested in them but I think they are adorable. I hate the song, though. And with the reactions of those boys, you really had no choice but to buy them. The reactions of everyone at school and your neighbors is hilarious, too.

My daughter TOTALLY wants the ladybug pillow pet too! The face on it creeps me out a little, though. They put a kiosk in our mall, too, right at the top of the escallator leading away from the play area. Evil.

I told her maybe Santa would bring one, in the hopes she'd forget about it by then. This post and comments are making me think that's not likely.

I'm glad my kids haven't asked for these (yet), but honestly, if it makes your kids so stinkin' happy, there's not a lot of harm.

My 16 yo niece sent me a text around Christmas saying morgen doesn't have a pillow pet right. ..... she does now! My 10 yo nephew thought it was the perfect gift for his cousin. .... I had never heard of them. He was right though my 7 yo looooooves it. As do her friends. ;-)

So, yeah, I have heard of Pillow Pets, but I was CLUELESS as to their mystical powers over the 5 and under crowd.

We don't have any children of our own (yet), but I do so happen to be the kind of aunt who loves buying her nieces and nephews annoying shit like this. BWAHAHAHA! Christmas is so covered this year.

Omg, Ezra looks so big in those photos!

I was cleaning up a pee-pocolypse on the couch, and commented to the 5yo that I wanted to clean it up before it stained. He told me he'd seen something on the TV that cleaned up stains, and offered to get it for me for my birthday. Go, commercialism! ;-)

My son had never seen the ad until just now. He was blown away. He began to whisper, "pillow pet". There is some kind of subliminal message going on that only children can hear. Right????

But it was all he ever wanted in the whole in tide world! C'mon, who could resist those faces?

I had never even heard of those. Then I went to Atlanta to visit a friend and her kids were all "IT'S A PILLOW! IT'S A PET! IT'S A PILLOW PET!" And I was like "what the hell are they talking about?"

And then they FINALLY got them and I was recently visiting them with their said Pillow Pets and I have to say, I want one now too.

I had a PillowPerson in the 80s and when Pier One sold smaller versions of pillow pets (at least from what those look like) my mom surpised me with one for my sister and me since she loves zebras and I still have a panda collection. We think of them as odd couch pillows and in our 20s still are amused by the velcroing in and out of them. I'm not sure I get the bad part of the pillow pets. They seem like a kind of cool kid toy--I have no children though.

I had to convince my daughters they did not want the unicorn pillow pet, because it was out of stock everywhere and the only one I could find was like $85 on amazon. We now have the dog, ladybug, and black cat. My kids have seen some commercials, but this is the only toy they constantly asked for.

I don't understand the Pillow Pet hate (though I haven't watched the commercial - maybe that will make me hate them). It's a lot more useful all of the examples of planned obsolescence my daughter needs after seeing them on TV. ("Jotz! They're so much fun! Buy the machine that makes Jotz! Of course, we'll stop selling Jotz blanks after Christmas, but don't let that stop you!")

I love Nick Jr's motto, "It's like preschool! On tv!" Speaks volumes, doesn't it?
My three year old wants a Lady Bug Pillow Pet and asked me to put it on her Christmas list. Too bad she's Jewish. :-)

Oh yeah, I'm 25, and he's 27.

That commercial haunts my dreams.
Haunts.My.Dreams.

I'm surprised I haven't seen that commercial yet, although my 22-month-old does know the "Oh yeah" portion of the Lelly Kelly shoes jingle. Gah.

We actually have a lamb pillow pet that was a gift for her 1st birthday, but she doesn't really care about it. Whatever Pillow Pet immunity she has is made up for by her addiction to Yo Gabba Gabba.

Are you kidding me? I want the panda for myself. Those are flipping awesome.

And I've been looking for a solution to my big girl in a booster seat who can no longer comfortably sleep in the car. WIN!

Most ridiculous thing ever *but* my 16 year old (yes, you read that right, one - six year old, as in about to get her DRIVER'S LICENSE) wants one SO BAD. Oh, and she wants the penguin and "claims it is the coolest invention ever because it is a pet and a pillow". Should I mention this child has five dogs?

Ooohhhh crap. We Tivo Sesame Street off of the local PBS, so I had never seen this commercial. Nor has my 20-month old. Who would go BATSHIT CRAZY for one of these, I guar-on-tee.

Dude--I hope the boys never find out about the "blanket with a head" that matched their pillow pets.... Just sayin.

I had never heard of these, and I didn't even know there was a commercial... but I do know that when I saw that kiosk at M. Mall this weekend I immediately walked up to it and tried to figure out which one my 4 month old would like. So I guess that means I am attracted to the same stuff as toddlers? My poor child doesn't stand a chance...

I love Nick Jr's motto, "It's like preschool! On tv!" Speaks volumes, doesn't it?
My three year old wants a Lady Bug Pillow Pet and asked me to put it on her Christmas list. Too bad she's Jewish. :-)

LOL! My 8 and 5 year old boys want these. Maybe for Christmas. They call me in to watch the commercial. My 5 year old also thinks we should get the thing you add water to and put in the dryer to steam out wrinkles.

hello 1977 Barbie Dream House! We just took it out last weekend for my daughter who is 8 and yesterday I have two almost 11 year olds overwhelmed with glee at getting to play with it.. Best gift ever..

You know that feeling you get when you read something and you're all OMG! I TOTALLY KNOW WHAT SHE'S TALKING ABOUT! I just had that moment. Only mine? WANTS THE PIG THE PIG THE PIG MOMMY PLEEEEEEEEEEEEASE! She even jumps at the tv when the commercial starts, face a half inch from the screen and pointer finger at the ready so that at the end she can jab the television as they pan across the WIDE SELECTION OF FULL-FACED ANIMALS and BE SURE I KNOW WHICH ONE IS THE PIG!

I never understood the inevitability of buying kids things they saw on TV, whether commercial-based or character-based, and always thought I would just avoid it altogether or resist it when it arrived. HAHAHAHA. My kid (17 months) doesn't even watch TV other than the occasional mostly ignored Thomas episode from Netflix. But he recently discovered his father's comic books, and now can identify Iron Man, Captain America (merka!), and the Hulk. And so we took him to a comic book shop, where he lost his mind. And we bought him a $15 plastic Iron Man coin bank (they didn't have any plush things, so it was the closest we could get to toddler appropriate). He sleeps with it at night. And I am eating my hat.

I had never heard of Pillow Pets until my 3-year-old nephew begged for one and I had to drive all over town since everyone was sold out of them!

My nieces and nephew have them. My children were not impressed, but I want one.

They ARE so soft!

Just FYI, there are Pillow Pets and then there are MY Pillow Pets. Not the same company. Not sure which is the knock-off. So the ladybug might be bigger in the other company's version -- our mall has a MY Pillow Pets kiosk. It's all I have seen.

My own kids just want MIGHTY BEANS MIGHTY BEANS MIGHTY BEANS, also because of lovely commercials. I do not believe they have yet spotted the Pillow Pets. Probably because they now eschew Sesame Street in favor of gems like Wizards of Waverly Place.

*waves hand*

Proud owner of two generic, mall kiosk pillow dudes as well. One turtle, one um...I'm not sure what it is. Supposedly a giraffe. Doesn't look like one to me.

My roomie at BH? Spent three days looking for the real ones. because that was what her kids wanted from NYC. Personally? I think I'll be happy that mine are in the Silly Bandz stage.

Is it too conspiracy theory to think subliminal messages are involved? Because my three year old son has never asked for anything from a commercial until he saw these pillow pets. I pretty much ignored but Grandma is here this week and she is not as strong to his suggestions that "TC could might use a pillow pet?" He also all of a sudden wants the Sea Pals paper plates that he sees on commercial. Kid, it's a plate...a plate that goes in the trash after 1 use. But he convinced Grandma to send him some when she gets home so more power to him. That Pillow Pet jingle will be in my head the rest of my work day now...sigh.

A KIOSK IN THE MALL!!! AND IT'S NOT EVEN CHRISTMAS??? DAMMIT, there's no escape. Pillow pets are the under 10 sets' equvilant to crack. I've never seen such screaming for a commercial, hell, the two year old even joined in. And OF COURSE there's a birthday coming up! YAY!