"I got actual death-and-dismemberment-of-my-family emails," he says.īob West, the voice of Barney from 1988-2000, tells USA TODAY that he received threats from middle school students, which he dismissed. The show's music director, Bob Singleton, says he felt so intimidated by threats he unlisted his phone number. "I actually watched somebody eat the eyes right off of this doll." "This one doesn't have any eyes left," Fox says in the documentary, holding one of the plush victims. Travis Fox headed a Barney-bashing event at the University of Nebraska in 1993, complete with a Barney piñata and stuffed Barneys to beat with mallets. Why did Steve from 'Blue's Clues' leave?: Original host Steve Burns shares why in emotional video Death threats and the attacks on Barneyīarney was more than a (dino)sore subject. 'Community' fans will get six seasons and a movie after all, thanks to Peacock The standout moments from the stroll down Memory Lane: The documentary, directed by Tommy Avallone, traces the origins of the friendly dinosaur and examines the Barney bashing that resulted, featuring interviews with the actors who voiced and donned the purple suit, the show's crew, its former child stars – but not its most famous alumni, Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato – and Steve Burns, the former host of Nickelodeon's " Blue's Clues." "Really, nothing feels more stimulating than nursing a giant grudge," Rob Curran, founder of the I Hate Barney Secret Society, says in Peacock's two-part documentary "I Love You, You Hate Me" (now streaming). "Nothing feels more stimulating than nursing our angry temper." "Won't you say you love me too?" Not everyone did. Take the series' polarizing "I Love You" tune. For those who missed its heyday, a costumed actor taught his young friends life lessons, problem-solving skills and how to be their most "super-dee-duper" selves.īarney's Tyrannosaurus hex reportedly captured 2 million viewers at its peak in 1996-97, but enraged a segment of the population that called for his violent extinction. The green-bellied purple dinosaur modeled kindness in educational direct-to-video movies and a 1992-2010 PBS series, "Barney & Friends," aimed at kids. Sixty-five million years after the Mesozoic, we entered a new dinosaur era: Barney. In the trailer, Al Roker recalls the sensation of anti-Barney furor, and one person remembers scandalous schoolyard rumors like “Barney hides drugs in his tail.” Words flash onscreen saying, “Why does the world love to HATE?” It all sounds a bit extreme, but then again - did you ever think a Barney trailer would have the words “death and dismemberment” in it? Did you think it would end in a shooting? I Love You, You Hate Me will premiere on Peacock on October 12 in all its big purple glory.Watch Video: Summer must-watch TV includes 'GOT,' 'LOTR' spinoffs and 'Ms. And here I thought singing “I hate you, you hate me, let’s go out and kill Barney” was just a healthy way for 6-year-olds of the time to signal they were big kids now. “Barney stands for inclusion, acceptance,” says Bob West, the voice of the big purple dinosaur, ergo, the “violent and explicit” plush-Barney-bashing imagery we see in the trailer must be against those values. He’s one of a number of talking heads in the trailer for I Love You, You Hate Me, a two-part documentary “chronicling the rise and fall of Barney the dinosaur’s furious backlash - and what it says about the human need to hate.” That’s … a pretty Hannah Arendt–ish choice for this subject matter. “What color is happier than purple? No color.” This sounds like an empirical fact because Bill Nye is saying it.
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