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A mother of three took to social media to warn other parents after she heard the suggestive words sung by a singing Jack-o-lantern toy she bought for her children.
'Parents listen carefully to this before buying the viral Jabberin' Jack pumpkin for your kids,' the woman whose username is @glow.up.between.naps said in a viral TikTok.
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username → see → TikTok
'Listen to his song they slipped in... and by the way, it gets worse as it goes along,' she said before showing a clip of the creepy Halloween decoration.
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she → listen → decoration
Jabberin' Jack is a 12-inch plastic Jack-o-Lantern sold as Halloween decor at all major retailers.
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Jack → sell → retailers
A projector and a speaker system inside of the pumpkin give it an animated 'face' and the ability to 'sing' a recorded set of songs and tell scary stories for 80 minutes.
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Jabberin' Jack's jazzy jive starts out fairly innocuously, a slow ballad about trick or treating and scary pumpkins sung by a male voice with a smooth cadence.
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jive → start → cadence
The slow yet zestful tone takes on a different meaning when the singing pumpkin's lyrics devolve into debauchery.
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lyrics → take → debauchery
'Do I look mesmerizing in the light?' Jabberin' Jack asks of its listener while a syncopated mellow tune plays out, 'this villainous facade is just because I’m shy.'
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I → look → listener
Social media users pointed out the suggestive lyrics of a song sung by a widely available Halloween decor Jack-O-Lantern after a mother of three made a viral TikTok video sharing her concerns with others
The ballad continues: 'Come closer, I have a kiss for you, and it tastes like pumpkin pie.
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it → point → pie
'We’ll be wicked for one night, morbid and nefarious
'And when the sun goes down, ’til morning it will just be us.'
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it → go → morning
At this point of the tune, the suggestive nature of the song still holds a bit of plausible deniability.
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nature → hold → deniability
But concerns really arose among social media users due to the last few lines of the song, which are:
'I’ll fill you full of fright.
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Social media users agreed that the innuendos in those lyrics were undeniable and absolutely inappropriate for children.
'They tried to sneak that song in there,' the woman who made the original viral video said in a follow-up.
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The woman said her concern stems from the fact that the song is impossible to isolate on its own, as it's third on the crude pumpkin's set list and there's not an option to skip to it, meaning it's easy for parents to miss it if they aren't constantly supervising their kids.
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She said it took some time for her to even hear the song herself, as her son always restarted the toy and never let it play out to get to the offensive tune.
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it → say → tune
'It was really difficult to find.
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You have to go to the third song,' the woman said in the second TikTok.
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According to a comment she left on her original video, the woman's grandmother bought it for her kids from QVC.
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Jabberin' Jack's description on the QVC website states that the toy 'features three character themes: Spooky, Traditional, and Funny, plus bonus animated scenes.
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Some reviews of the product have also picked up on the suggestive themes hidden in the toy's '80 minutes of non-stop content.
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'He isn’t geared toward children and the jokes are very lame.
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Even his songs could be cute and fun for kids but they are not,' reviewer Kim9918 wrote on QVC's listing of the pumpkin.
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Jabberin' Jack is manufactured by Mindscope and is available for purchase at most major American retailers such as Amazon, Walmart, QVC, Target and Home Depot.
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It states that the product 'automatically lights up and talks when trick-or-treaters walk by,' which implies that the targeted audience includes children as it's an activity mainly done by and associated with kids.
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The Daily Mail has reached out to Mindscope for comment.
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