Barney the singing-and-dancing TV dinosaur is cheerful and loving. He represents kindness, fun, discovery, safety and other worthy values. Little kids — particularly preschoolers — love him. Then why ...
Barney’s story starts in late 1987 in Allen, Texas. At the time, a former teacher named Sheryl Leach had a two-year old son, Patrick. She struggled to find videos that held his attention. “I was a ...
What made Barney, the purple dinosaur and nineties kids’-TV sensation, so infuriatingly loathsome? Was it his doofy voice and inane giggle, coming at you like a low-watt Pillsbury Doughboy? His ...
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