{"id":1704968,"date":"2022-10-21T03:03:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T07:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704968"},"modified":"2022-10-21T03:03:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T07:03:58","slug":"new-barney-docuseries-isnt-about-love-or-hate-but-why-a-purple-dinosaur-cant-replace-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-barney-docuseries-isnt-about-love-or-hate-but-why-a-purple-dinosaur-cant-replace-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"New \u2018Barney\u2019 Docuseries Isn\u2019t About Love Or Hate, But Why A Purple Dinosaur Can\u2019t Replace Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-barney-docuseries-isnt-about-love-or-hate-but-why-a-purple-dinosaur-cant-replace-parents%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704968&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Barney the dinosaur alongside a TV-14 rating seems like a joke. But Peacock\u2019s new documentary \u2014 which earns the rating because of \u201cviolence, coarse language, and dialogue\u201d \u2014 is anything but.<\/p>\n<p>For the audience who grew up with the show \u201cBarney &#038; Friends\u201d and, years later, dusted off old VHS tapes for their kids to watch, \u201cI Love You, You Hate Me\u201d starts as a letdown. The audience might have been happy with a straight historical dissection<strong> <\/strong>of the popular children\u2019s show, but apparently, the spectacle of violence and hatred is catchier for a wider audience.<\/p>\n<p>The two-part miniseries, directed by Tommy Avallone, hinges on the dark history lurking behind the sunny world of the popular children\u2019s series. The trailer and the documentary\u2019s first few minutes grab the viewer\u2019s attention with footage of people beating plush purple dinosaurs and burning old VHS tapes of the show.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the series progresses, however, it becomes clear that the focus on \u201cBarney bashing\u201d isn\u2019t just for clicks. To delve into Barney\u2019s history, we learn it\u2019s impossible to ignore the ugly side. As the internet took off in the 1990s, anti-Barneyism became almost as big as the show itself, from major news headlines of attacks on people dressed as Barney to lawsuits over copyright infringement.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, the docuseries doesn\u2019t hide the fact that those directly involved in the show\u2019s production endured harassment and experienced tragedy. Even the show\u2019s creator, Sheryl Leach, who declined to do any interviews for the series, was plagued by Barney-related controversies.<\/p>\n<p>Given the stark contrast between the show\u2019s message of unconditional love and the vehement backlash it received, the docuseries asks a simple question: How could anyone hate a character as loving as Barney? A few nods to historical context offer some explanation: The \u201990s cultural obsession with cynicism and irony clashed with the innocence and perpetual smiles on the show, so adults could only see it as, at best, annoying and, at worst, insulting or dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>The film also glosses over what is probably the most straightforward explanation for why people hated the purple dinosaur: \u201cBarney &#038; Friends\u201d wasn\u2019t made for \u201990s adults; it was made for preschool children \u2014 and they loved it. Adults could kick and scream all they wanted, but the show was a great success.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, the docuseries doesn\u2019t stop there. Its golden insight stems from the stories of those who started loving \u201cBarney\u201d and then fell into dark places because of it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Several former child actors admit that after leaving the show, they resorted to drugs, alcohol, or violence to fit in and avoid the \u201cBarney kid\u201d label. Parents who once found the friendly purple dinosaur the perfect form of child entertainment turned against him once they felt they had to compete with him for their child\u2019s attention. And in the most dramatic scenario, Patrick Leach, whose mother created the show specifically for him, grew up to commit a violent crime that earned him a 15-year prison sentence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Given these tragedies, the series<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While any child can do with or without simulated love on a screen, no child can do without the irreplaceable love of a parent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":930,"featured_media":1704971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/930"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1704971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}