Austin Powers Tiff

From USA Today, June 23 1999


Tamatha Brannon of suburban Atlanta said Tuesday that she has
filed an obscenity complaint against Toys'R'Us because her
11-year-old son picked up an Austin Powers doll that asked, "Do
I make you horny, baby, do I?" Exposure to the doll forced a
vocabulary word on her son "that he otherwise would never have
known to ask," Brannon says. McFarlane Toys, maker of the doll,
says the shipping of a version of its Austin Powers toy intended
for specialty stores, not mass-market retailers such as
Toys'R'Us, was "an isolated event of human error." The version
that Toys R Us carries instead asks, "Would you fancy a shag?"
Shag is British slang for sexual relations.


This really isn't that unusual of a story, except the part where
they say what the Toys'R'Us model says. Is there really that
much of a difference?!