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  • he's one killer doll, literally.

  • Welcome to watch Mojo.

  • And today we'll be counting down our picks for the top 10 Things you didn't know about, Chuckie.

  • Well, John, it's been fun, but I gotta go.

  • I have a date with six year old boy.

  • You have a date with.

  • Death for this list will be looking at the most remarkable but little known facts about everyone's favorite Good guy Dow Gone bad.

  • It's time to play Number 10.

  • Chuckie went live on SNL Live from New York.

  • It's a murderous Tao.

  • While not the night's celebrity host, our musical guest, Chuckie, sure made his presence felt in the 1998 episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live.

  • Well, you know what it is that the first president to, uh, get a little something on the side during a promotional tour for Bride of Chucky, the demented Dow crashed S and L's Weekend update with Colin Quinn to chime in on the Bill Clinton Monica Lewinsky scandal.

  • That was, of course, before he tried to stab Quinn with the butcher knife.

  • Chuckie didn't get to inflict any damage, but he did unleash some pretty damning threats at the host.

  • Busy for this.

  • You can make this guy out of here.

  • I'll find a way to get you.

  • And as random and bizarre appearance says this WAAS how many other horror icons could say they made it onto Studio eight H and Rockefeller Center number nine?

  • Chucky had a feud with Britney Spears in one of the strangest celebrity feuds ever, Britney Spears had a beef with Chuckie and company over a sequence in Seed of Chucky that sees a Britney lookalike made a fiery roadside demise.

  • Good night.

  • Me and the pop star can't made it clear that they wanted nothing to do with the film and made the filmmakers at a disclaimer to TV ads stating that Spears doesn't appear in the movie.

  • Unsurprisingly, the songstress would later ignore studio invite to screen the feature with Chucky himself.

  • What is surprising, though, is that a pop singer at the height of her career could have it in for a maniacal movie doll on Lee in Hollywood Number eight.

  • The good Guys dolls were originally bleeders.

  • We've seen all the dolls that cry, crawl and giggle, right?

  • Heck, there are even some that eat and, uh, go to the bathroom on their own.

  • Well, as it turns out in the original script, Chuckie's line of good guy dolls were going to have an even more bizarre feature bleeding when they got cut, meaning kids everywhere would have the good fortune of taking care of their dollars by applying bandages to their bloody abrasions.

  • Funds stuff right?

  • With the original working title at the time being, bloody boy Chuckie would most certainly have gotten his Frankenstein face makeover a lot sooner.

  • As for all that blood, well, here's to hoping the bandages weren't to be sold separately.

  • Tells it.

  • You've seen dolls that pee.

  • This one bleeds.

  • Number seven.

  • Chuckie went C G I free in his early films.

  • In a world where filmmakers use CG I for pretty much everything, it's both surprising and impressive to know that the early child's play movies required zero computer wizardry in They're bringing their curse Doll toe life scenes featuring Chuckie talking, moving and is often the case killing were done by means of animatronics, puppetry or, in some instances, with real life actors.

  • I don't believe it, I just don't believe.

  • In fact, one of Chuckie's early stand ins was John Franklin who'd starred in the equally creepy Children of the Corn just a few years earlier.

  • Can you imagine the horror movie credit he must have gotten for having small town child murderer and psychotic killer doll on his acting resume?

  • He wanting to Now look I number six.

  • Chucky took his mother's life with eight films to his name, Chuckie has amassed a pretty significant kill count.

  • However, his most shocking killing doesn't take place on screen, but rather the page in the official novelization of child's play to author Matthew J.

  • Costello wrote some bonus material that flushed out Chucky's back story.

  • One particularly shocking passage describes how he strangled his own mother.

  • It revealed that Chuck and a pretty awful upbringing, thanks in part to a cruel mother now please.

  • One last time with Chucky relentlessly teased about his mother's dwarfism, the future lakeshore Strangler eventually found his first victim in his own home.

  • Yeah, our guest is Chuckie was never big on the whole Mother's Day thing.

  • Growing up, Chuckie is a toy, Okay, it broke.

  • I saw him.

  • Number five.

  • Chuckie's look was based on my body doll.

  • After all, it's often been stated that Chuckie was inspired by the 19 eighties phenomenon that was the Cabbage Patch.

  • Kids.

  • You can adopt your very own Cabbage Patch kid family, kids, babies, boys, girls and new patch puppies.

  • But anyone is familiar with that other eighties doll for boys.

  • My buddy could see that there had to be some influence there, too, Who has a special buddy, your little boy to pal around with.

  • Hasbro has.

  • This is my buddy, a tough little guy with a great look so your little boy can play rough with them, or been quiet time with them and take it with him everywhere he goes.

  • Well, Child's play director Tom Holland would later say that my buddy doll did indeed serve as inspiration for Chuckie's appearance.

  • Given the colorful striped shirt and overalls, we don't know how anyone I could not see the similarities.

  • Tell me how he works.

  • Okay.

  • Hi, I'm Andy.

  • What?

  • Hi, I'm Chucky and I'm your friends at the end.

  • Plus the 2019 child's play reboot even renamed their line of dolls to be called Buddy.

  • What more proof do we need?

  • Chucky is our buddy on May be enough.

  • Number four Chuckie got his name from three famous criminals.

  • We all know Chucky as well, Chucky.

  • But before he got cursed into doll form Chuckie roam the streets of Chicago under his full name, Charles Lee Ray, I got you.

  • Hey, I thought.

  • These aren't just random names, however, as each one is inspired by a distinctly terrible murderer.

  • His first name, Charles, refers to Charles Manson, the notorious cult leader who masterminded many murders in the late sixties way incredible brutality of the savage, nightmarish murders here with his middle name, Lee is influenced by Lee Harvey Oswald, responsible for the assassination of JFK.

  • Then Mrs Kennedy lean forward and kissed the flag on her husband's casket.

  • Mother and daughter Rose walked slowly, then with a mental dignity back to their places.

  • And lastly, Ray comes from James Earl Ray, who famously shot civil rights hero Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

  • So when it comes to Shakespeare's question, what's in a name?

  • For Chucky?

  • The answer is a lot.

  • Number three Chucky movie crossovers are possible.

  • Freddie fought Jason.

  • Welcome to my aliens battled predators.

  • Even Frankenstein's monster faced off against the wolf man.

  • So why can't Chuck you get in on a slasher showdown.

  • Well, it turns out it is totally in the realm of possibility.

  • For starters, the opening sequence in The Bride of Chucky proves that the Chuckster indeed exists in the same universe as other iconic horror figures.

  • The scene at the Lock Port Police Evidence Depository briefly shows objects belonging to a who's who of movie monsters, including Jason's Hockey Mask, Freddy's Glove, Leather Faces Chainsaw and Michael Myers.

  • Mask Plus Child's play Writer Don Mancini has revealed that he has a concept that sees Chuckie find his way to Elm Street and meet Freddy Krueger.

  • Talk about a killer crossover Number two.

  • Chuckie almost got his voice from John Lithgow.

  • Sorry, Mark Hamill.

  • But for many, Brad Dorf is the quintessential voice of Chucky.

  • Yes, like the good old days, Nothing like a strangulation to get the circulation going.

  • And with seven movies voicing the devious dowel under his belt, it's hard to imagine anyone else providing these acid tongue quips with such precision.

  • There is no God, but it was almost not to be, as John Lithgow, perhaps the best known for his role on Third Rock from the Sun, is said to have been considered for the part lift.

  • How would, of course, go on to lend his voice toe other characters, most notably Lord Farquaad and Shrek.

  • Gingerbread Man.

  • But for all his work and accolades over the years, we're still happy.

  • It was Dorf who got the chance to slay the role for us, long as he did.

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  • Number one.

  • There was almost a Chucky theme song who doesn't like a good theme sewn.

  • Ensure that your Children will always okay, probably Chucky.

  • Then it's perhaps a good thing that the theme commission for the first child's play film was ultimately axed.

  • Created by Simon Stokes and Joran Zetti, the song featured cheerleader vocals and all the eighties keyboard audiences could handle.

  • Theo was originally going to be played over the movie's end credits.

  • Luckily, the producers came to their senses and chose to ditch the song in fear that it made their stab happy killer doll seems silly.

  • You don't say.

  • But, hey, if you ever want to hear Chucky bust outta wrap, then have at it.

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