Mass Debate: Teddy Ruxpin vs My Pet Monster (Cooler 80s Toy?)

On this week's episode, it’s plush-on-plush carnage as Jed and JT try to stuff each other over which 80s icon was the cooler toy: Teddy Ruxpin or My Pet Monster? Jed rolls in hard on Team Ruxpin, calling him “the animatronic king of the toy aisle”, a storytelling legend with more charm than a Care Bear on quaaludes. But things take a hard emotional turn when Jed reveals he never actually owned a Teddy Ruxpin, tearfully confessing his childhood was filled with bootleg bedtime hugs from a stuffed sock stitched together by his nanny. JT counters from Team Monster, arguing My Pet Monster was the blue-furred underdog of childhood trauma, ugly enough to make any kid feel quite dashing by comparison. He paints Teddy as a bougie Pooh Bear knockoff, floating around in his airship like a rich kid who only played cassette tapes from NPR. As the sobs clash with sarcasm, Moderator Kirk tries to hold the threadbare argument together while Hung Juror Kraig slowly handcuffs himself in solidarity with the Monster. It’s prestige vs punk rock, circuits vs chains, and a whole lotta unresolved toy store trauma on this cuddly, chaotic episode of Mass Debate!