Talk:Slappy the Dummy

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Summaries

Someone please help this article. (I.e. wrighting more summaries for it.)—The preceding unsigned comment was added by TheTroupe667 (talk) 22:07, 8 January 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Cleanup

The Night of the Living Dummy II section needs some cleanup. Specifically this part:

"Slappy, in a fit of rage, knocks out both girls and proceeds to fondle their supple breasts. He takes out his wood and slaps Amy with it until she is reduced to a bloody pulp. He takes his bloody wood and impregnates Sara with his dummy spawn. Nine months later, at the conclusion of the novel, Slappy's child explodes forth from Sara's abdomen and feasts on her head"

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.71.184.41 (talk) 20:40, 17 May 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Third entry and categories

I added back to the Night of the Living Dummy III entry that was deleted a while back (it wasn't displaying right & instead of fixing it, someone just removed it). I also added all the currently existing categories this article used to be in (they were lost when people vandalised the page because they were deleted along with the vandalised text instead of the vandalism being reverted). SNS 20:31, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Chuckie

Since Stine clearly stole the idea for slappy from the evil doll "Chuckie" of the Childsplay series, this surely deserves a mention.--86.148.190.222 18:42, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, it doesn't, because Stine didn't steal the idea. Tell me the similarities. Was Chuckie carved from a coffin? Can he spew green slime from his mouth? Was he created by Jared Julian? If you read the card in his pocket that says 'Karru Marri Odanna Loma Molonu Karrano,' will he come to life? Is he a ventriloquist's dummy? Mack-the-random 23:37, 1 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The similarities are that they are both evil dolls. That's enough to discuss the two characters as being similar, although not enough to make it clear that the idea was stolen. These questions are about fairly superficial details. It would be interesting to know if the Chucky stories influenced the Slappy stories, or vice versa, since there is significant overlap in their releases. Complex.confusion (talk) 05:53, 26 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If I had to draw comparisons with earlier works, I would look at the 60s Twilight Zone episode Caesar and Me, personally. Slappy looks far more alike to Caesar than to Chucky. 64.228.89.160 (talk) 09:11, 19 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Separation

I don't believe there is a seperate article for Night of the Living Dummy 2 and 3. Should there? The first one has its own page. I have both books, and could provide information on the books (ISBN, release date, etc.). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.11.58.206 (talk) 22:22, 2 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot 21:07, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sources to use, from the AFD discussion

[The] character has even been spoofed by The Onion, which even The New York Times linked to as well as School Library Journal, has an official webpage with reliable information, and is signigicant enough of a character to have been made into a replica and to have a book with his name in the title (obviously reviews of the book would address the character). Thus, multiple appearances in the books, an actual ventriloquist doll, an official web page, being spoofed by a major "news" source, etc. all suggest notability. You can also find out of universe commentary on the character in interviews with CNN and in reviews of the books that can be used to expand the article as well. Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 20:10, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Added to talk. Neıl 龱 14:06, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Youtube "Slappy Kids"

You kids who keep talking about your Youtube accounts should stop. You shouldn't even be editing wikipedia, because it's you kids who vandalize and praise themselves. Stop this crap.

On the appearance section

Add this on the appearance section: "Slappy made his guest appearance on the Fox Kids Saturday Morning Lineup with the feature episode "?" on November 8 or 16, 1996." Pumpie (talk) 00:26, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Notable appearances

Shouldn't we just say "appearances" ? Are there some non-notable appearances excluded from the table or something? I'd want to see everything however minor noted, personally. 64.228.89.160 (talk) 09:09, 19 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a real dummy of Slappy? 124.184.235.157 (talk) 13:30, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]