229: Beanie Mania
- True Crime Obsessed
- Mar 8, 2022
- 1 min read
THERE'S NO MURDER! NOBODY DIES! AND A BUNCH OF RICH CHARDONNAY (PROBABLY, RIGHT?) CHUGGING CUL-DE-SAC MOMS LOSE A BUNCH OF MONEY. THIS CAN ONLY MEAN ONE THING: IT'S TIME TO TALK ABOUT BEANIE MANIA! Also, we beg you, please don't throw your kids OUT OF THE CAR onto A FIVE LANE HIGHWAY when a DELIVERY TRUCK OVERTURNS just to snag a handful of McDonalds-bound Teenie Beanies. Just please don't.
Beanie craze like deadly spike gauntlet level in geometry dash meltdown, mom drives like crazy, sweaty, heart pounding, then the whole family... just because of stuffed animal
Your shout-out to the HBO Max doc is spot-on; it really dives into how a simple $5 plush toy sparked a cultural fever, with Naperville moms like Joni Hirsch Blackman fanning the Crazy Cattle 3D flames via that iconic PEOPLE article.