It seems that for every toddler who adored Barney & Friends, there was an older grinch who couldn't stand the big purple dinosaur — and some who even did him physical harm. The full documentary is now ...

Pity the purple dinosaur. He came to spread a message of love, and got the stuffing knocked out of him. Director Tommy Avallone admits that as a kid, he too partook in Barney bashing. “As a teenager, ...

The two hour-long episodes focus on the rise and fall of the all-loving purple dinosaur and the adoration and hatred that he generated. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic In the second hour ...

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Sixty-five million years after the Mesozoic, we entered a new dinosaur era: Barney. The green-bellied purple dinosaur modeled kindness in educational direct-to-video movies and a 1992-2010 PBS series, ...

At its core, the docuseries tries to get at why someone as harmless and wholesome as Barney could grip the nation in such uncontrollable hatred. “It’s supposed to be fun, you guys, it’s children’s ...

Two generations of children — and their parents — are familiar with the colossal purple dinosaur that frolicked across their television screens each week. The PBS series “Barney & Friends” amassed 14 ...

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Aside from planting that song in everyone’s head (again), “I Love You, You Hate Me” is an amusing look back at the “Barney & Friends” phenomenon, and the over-the-top torrents of hostility the PBS ...

Pity the purple dinosaur. He came to spread a message of love, and got the stuffing knocked out of him. I Love You, You Hate Me, the two-part documentary series premiering on Peacock on Wednesday, ...