As a kid, it was fun to pretend Barney was a real dinosaur and Sesame Street‘s Big Bird was an actual gigantic bird, but now that we’re adults, we know the harsh reality — that those ...

maybe we can take some selfish regional pride in Barney. Here was a character so universally popular that he briefly supplanted Mickey Mouse and Big Bird in children’s fickle hearts, while also ...

Video of a 1990s University of Nebraska event in which college guys smashed dolls and staged a fight in which Barney was beaten up by Big Bird (the organizer’s own childhood favorite ...

“With our modern take on Barney, we hope to inspire the next generation to listen, care, and dream big,” Fred Soulie, senior vice president and general manager of Mattel Television, sai ...

Barney mania was under way ... observing that characters like Bert, Big Bird, and Cookie Monster, vividly distinct in personality, suggest to kids “other ways of seeing themselves.” ...

“With our modern take on Barney, we hope to inspire the next generation to listen, care, and dream big,” Fred Soulie, senior vice president and general manager of Mattel Television, sai ...

Barney, the polarizing purple dinosaur who was a mainstay of many millennial upbringings, is making a triumphant return to TV screens next year — but this time, he'll be animated. Mattel Inc ...