{"id":81221,"date":"2022-09-29T01:26:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T01:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/barney-docuseries-trailer-shows-dark-side-of-popular-kids-series\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T01:26:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T01:26:01","slug":"barney-docuseries-trailer-shows-dark-side-of-popular-kids-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/barney-docuseries-trailer-shows-dark-side-of-popular-kids-series\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Barney’ Docuseries Trailer Shows Dark Side of Popular Kids Series"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tThe core message of the immensely popular \u201cBarney and Friends\u201d kids show was to spread love and kindness to one another, but the trailer for a new Peacock docuseries highlights the idea that America was not so eager to accept that message.<\/p>\n

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\tIn the trailer for the upcoming two-part docuseries \u201cI Love You, You Hate Me,\u201d multiple talking heads, from Bill Nye the Science Guy to NBC’s Al Roker, share stories of how quickly the world turned against the friendly dinosaur, rejecting its values \u200b\u200bof inclusion and respect. Bob West, a Barney performer who stepped into costume for the happy purple dinosaur, shared that death threats were made against his entire family. \u201cThey were violent and explicit, death and dismemberment of my family,\u201d he says in the trailer. \u201cThey were gonna come and find me, and they were going to kill me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tMuch of the dialogue in the trailer surrounds the show’s creator, Sheryl Leach, who developed the show in 1992 alongside Kathy Parker and Dennis DeShazer after initially creating home videos of the Barney character for her children. A spliced \u200b\u200bstring of dialogue from multiple interviews in the trailer underscores the general purpose of the Barney character: \u201cBarney stands for inclusion, acceptance. You should love everyone, we all have Sheryl Leach to thank for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tThe Peacock docuseries was first announced in November of last year and hails from Scout Productions, the producers of \u201cQueer Eye.\u201d The two-part documents are set to premiere Oct. 12 on the streamer.<\/p>\n

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\tCheck out the full trailer below.<\/p>\n

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