After These Messages: Teddy Ruxpin and Puppy Surprise with Christa Carmen

Welcome to our first After These Messages episode! In these episodes, we watch and discuss commercials from the past, often related to the movies we watched, or chosen by one of us or our guest. This time we’re in for a wild ride with some of Christa Carmen’s favorite childhood toys, Teddy Ruxpin and Puppy Surprise.

The spoooooky Teddy Ruxpin commercial with a Dracula and Frankenstein theme

The show and tell classroom with mean kids who are too snobby for teddy bears

New Teddy Ruxpin Instruction Video

Puppy Surprise from 1992

UK video comparing 90s version and 2015 version of Puppy Surprise

Puppy Surprise sleepy version

And then Christa told us all about how she and her sister used to play Littlest Pet Shop with LIVE BIRDS! And we have pictures to prove it! How fun is that?

Image description: Christa’s Parakeet Cashiers at The Littlest Pet Shop

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Image Description: Tiny Christa and her sister, playing with their birds!

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