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Live action television series aimed at pre-school and younger children that started airing on [[PBS]] in [[The Nineties|1992]]. Created by Texan teacher Sheryl Leach in 1987, '''''Barney & Friends''''' started out as a regionally successful home video series called ''Barney and the Backyard Gang'' before being picked up by the network for a regular series. The inspiration behind the creation was the belief that ''[[Sesame Street]]'' was [[Viewers are Morons|too complex for younger viewers]], much of the accusation being leveled at the music. Starring the title character as a friendly authority figure, a surrogate for the young girls in the form of Baby Bop, two other dinosaurs named B.J. and Riff (introduced 2006), and [[Loads and Loads of Characters|an ever-shifting cast of young kids]], its setting was once a elementary school, but now takes place in a local park. The story (such that it is) focuses largely on the importance of imagination and delivering [[Aesop|Aesops]] suitable for very young children.
The show has a mammoth amount of merchandise in dolls, clothing, blankets, CDs, and virtually everything else a kid can use. There has also been a 1998 [[The Movie|theatrically released film]] called ''Barney's Great Adventure'', countless home videos, and a touring stage act. While the figures are undisclosed, it's not unreasonable to think that it makes somewhere in the range of eight or nine digits a year.
The show is infamous for not exactly being very well-liked among older kids, adults and teenagers, to the point that [[wikipedia:Anti-Barney humor|anti-Barney humor]] became a borderline fad in [[The Nineties]]. And [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|we will say]] [[Flame Bait|no more]] about it.
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* [[Art Evolution]]: In the first few shows Barney looked [http://barney.wikia.com/wiki/Barney_Through_the_Years way different].
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* [[Dark Fic]]: ''[[Day of the Barney Trilogy|Day Of The Barney]]'' (found [http://de.jihad.net/lib/bull-dotb.txt here]), which proposes an even ghastlier [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] for Barney than the above, on top of being a...
* [[Death Fic]]: Hundreds of death fics... hundreds of them...
** Like [https://web.archive.org/web/20140910005828/http://ledmuseum.candlepower.us/fifteen/dybarney.htm this amazingly vindictive and far-too-detailed monstrosity], we'll leave it here for you to read.
* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: The point of both "The Sister Song" and "I'm Glad I Have a Brother" is that even though siblings may sometimes get on each other's nerves, they should be appreciated.
* [[Don't Try This At Home]]: Why Barney lights his own birthday candles.
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