 In the "South Park" episode "Red Sleigh Down", Cartman spends nearly the entire episode trying to get on Santa's nice list, so that he can receive a HAIBO robot doll for Christmas, in reference to the robot dog craze of the early 2000s started by AIBO.At the episode's conclusion, Stan, Kyle, and Cartman all receive their own HAIBO dog.HAIBO is not a parody of AIBO, which is a robot made for adults and wasn't sold in stores.