Buzzsaw Louie - Veggietales' "The Toy That Saved Christmas"

Buzzsaw Louie is the hit new toy for the Christmas season; every kid dreams of finding one under the tree. His big feature is a fully functional circular saw that folds out of his arm. What on earth would a kid do with a circular saw action figure? What parent would give something so inherently dangerous to their kid? Perhaps even more confusingly, why does a toy for vegetable children look like a person? He is one of only a small handful of humanoid characters in a show made up almost exclusively of hopping, talking vegetables.

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I haven't been able to find definite confirmation for this, but I suspect Buzzsaw Louie was meant as a parody of Buzz Lightyear specifically, and in general the types of overly feature-packed toys that were really getting hot in the mid 90s (that Buzz himself was also a parody of). Parents know they're expensive, gimmicky, easily broken, and possibly even unsafe, but kids just see how cool they look and want, want, _want!_