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In 1997, a series of talking Sesame Street character T-shirts were manufactured. Some of these included the Elmo T-shirt "Elmo's zippy new race car goes so fast! VROOM! VROOM!" and the (controversial) Cookie Monster one "Time to Truck!". The t-shirts were once sold in K-Mart stores, but are now out of print.
In 1998, a Super K-Mart in Lakewood, Colorado had pulled millions of Cookie Monster T-shirts off the shelves when many consumers complained that the soundchip attached to the T-shirt has been misheard for a curse word. However, Cookie Monster, depicted as a dump truck driver, was meant to say "Time to Truck," (though some sources say he said "Stand back. Here comes cookies. Mmmm, delicious.") but due to the improper sound file compression, the last word was reportedly misheard as "F#%K." Many parents complained that their children, wearing Cookie Monster t-shirts like this, were repeatedly pressing the button on their t-shirts and activating the soundchip, with Cookie Monster saying "Time to F#%k" and teaching kids "how to talk dirty instead of learn." As a result, Super K-Mart stores had pulled thousands of millions of talking Cookie Monster "Time to Truck" t-shirts off the shelves, leaving the Elmo T-shirt ""Elmo's zippy new race car goes so fast! VROOM! VROOM!" to be the only talking Sesame Street t-shirt left in stock.[1]
Today, there are no copies of the t-shirt available on any auction sites, and there are also no images of the t-shirt anywhere on the Internet. None of them can be found on eBay, either.