The Elmo says hundreds of phrases, adding in the child’s name like those insidious form letters we get proclaiming “Yo-Yo! You’ve just won...”
So if it originally said “Hello James” when you squeezed its hand, I can see how it got corrupted and said “ell James” which in Elmo’s voice could sound like “Kill James.”
Or something like that. As I said, there’s probably a little recessed master reset button in the battery compartment, the kind you need a straightened paperclip to hit, then just reload the software and be done with it.
Oh yeah, that’s not as financially rewarding as suing Fisher-Price can be.
It’s because the Elmo toys are made in China. Bloody ChiComs.