TV Woman

This style is ridic-dic-diculous, yes yes. On February 7, 2023, creator Alexey Gerasimov posted a short video to YouTube. Built in Source Filmmaker using Half Life assets and a TikTok mashup of Timbaland's "Give It To Me" and Biser King's "Dom Dom Yes Yes," the 11-second video currently has a Michael Bay movie adaptation in production. The internet is a hell of a drug. Skibidi Toilet seems like a weird property, but anybody who grew up watching Kenan Thompson wear a raincoat, sit in a bathtub, and offer to slap you with his spicy burrito doesn't get to say anything about how "weird" some new kids' property is. Same goes for a chihuahua eating kitty litter. Or anything at all done by Sid and Marty Kroft. Oh, you don't understand the popularity of a short, fast-paced clip of a person in a strange situation making silly faces and saying silly sounds? Skill issue. For a series that originally didn't have any dialogue beyond those song lyrics, Skibidi Toilet is unexpectedly lore-rich. It starts out as a tale of military escalation, with new weapons, tactics, and even factions being introduced as it goes along, with the balance of power tipping back and forth accordingly. First the toilets were just opposed by the Cameramen, then came the Speakermen, and finally the TV Men. And, with them, the TV Woman. This figure represents TV Woman's original design. She wears a fashionable black coat with a quilted pattern on the front flap, a purple turtleneck, black gloves, black leggings, and black boots with purple sections at the top. And of course, her head is a TV. An old-fashioned CRT TV, with knobs to tune the channels and a small "rabbit ears" antenna sticking out the back. They've even sculpted the expression on her screen! Yes, the TV Men pull a "Tele-Viper" by having things appear on the front of their face. TV Woman has a few ones she uses regularly, but this one is ">w<." It would have been cool if they'd found a way to make swappable screens - you know, like, make it a removable piece that could slide out and flip around to show a different expression or a blank screen or one beaming out one of her colored energy attacks. They also could have given her the energy blades she uses in a fight, but she doesn't actually get any accessories - her only play feature is articulation. But hey, we like articulation, so that's not necessarily bad! The Skibidi Toilet toys are made by a company called Bonkers Toys, who seem to do a lot of YouTube-related things, but have never done action figures before. So for a first-time release, TV Woman is great! She's got a balljointed head, swivel/hinge shoulders, swivel biceps, double-hinged elbows, swivel/hinge wrists, a balljointed chest, swivel waist, balljointed hips, swivel thighs, double-hinge knees, and swivel/hinge ankles. No shins? There's such a thing as copying Hasbro too closely. The joints are a little wobbly (particularly the hips and chest), and the elbows don't look great (like NECA's sometimes did), but again: this is a company's first attempt at doing articulation like this, so we can forgive some flaws at this stage. Thanks to her antennae, TV Woman stands 6⅜", but that doesn't make her a 6" scale toy. You've got humans, who are human size, and they come up to the shoulders on a regular Cameraman; Cameramen come up to the shoulders of a regular TV Man; TV Woman is about the same size as a regular TV Man (if not taller), so an adult human would be about the height of her belt, meaning this toy is closer to being in scale with GI Joe or Star Wars than Marvel or DC. Of course, none of the other figures in this series worry about that, either - they're all just 6" tall. Because nobody is going to care that much, and a brand new company was not going to make an 8½" tall TV Woman just to be "show accurate." The packaging is pretty nice. It's a smallish window box with one angled panel to make it more visually interesting on the store shelf, and its graphics are mainly done in red, yellow, white, and black. Other than the cross-sell images on the back of the box, none of the art shows TV Woman, which is not a choice you would expect. Still, the design shows off the figure inside well enough. Though, since all four of the toys in Series 1 are primarily black, they can get a bit lost, tonally, among all the black and red; a paler color for the insert beind the figure's tray might have made them "pop" better? Skibidi Toilet has 78 episodes now, and they keep getting longer (most recent one is 13 and a half minutes), but you can still catch up on the entire thing in just a few hours. I know, I did so I could write this review. If you think all the series is is a head popping out of a toilet and scat-singing at you, you'll be surprised when you start to feel bad for generic suit bodies with machines for heads, or worried about their survival from one episode to the next. These figures aren't going to win Toy of the Year or anything, but they're decent offerings even if you don't care about the show they come from, and they're more than we expect from a new company. -- 08/07/25 What's the stupidest thing you ever watched as a kid? Tell us on our message board, the Loafing Lounge.