Toys that should not exist

[naomikritzer]

Remember Baby Alive? It was this doll that was made in the late 1970s or early 1980s; it ate and pooped. You could change its diaper. It is possible that it even got a diaper rash. I was kind of fascinated by this doll, though my mother (sensibly enough) reacted to my tentative interest by saying something along the lines of, "Are you INSANE? Why on EARTH would anyone want to change poopy diapers unless they were at least getting a real baby out of the deal?"

So today I ran across a link to Barbie and her pet dog, Tanner. You can feed Tanner dog biscuits! And then he poops them out. And Barbie can clean them up with the pooper-scooper. And then you can feed them to him again!

I'm going back and forth between thinking that this is the most appalling thing ever marketed to children and thinking that Kiera and Molly would find this toy screamingly funny. Also, this seems like a Barbie with potential for cross-gender appeal.