Lol dude! No freakin' way! Seriously?

[SSLFan]

http://barney.wikia.com/wiki/Barney_Live_(2010)

It seems VEE Corporation (the company that produces Sesame Street Live) is set to produce a new Barney tour that starts this fall. All I can say is: WOW. It's odd since Barney and SS basically used to compete back in the day and now VEE is "helping the enemy" sorta speak, lol. I'm kinda mixed about this. On one hand I REALLY want to see how this will all work out since VEE always put on good shows but it's kind of weird since well, it's Barney and he & SS have had some history together if you know what I mean.

It shall be interesting to see.

 

[Drtooth]

I still can't get over the fact people are still actually watching Barney. I mean, it's like if people were still listening to Milli Vanilli not to be ironic. Wow. And the worst part of it is, he's not the worst kid's show out there anymore either.

 

[D'Snowth]

I stopped watching Barney YEARS ago... like when they gave that show the "Around the Corner" treatment - new sets, new kids, new puppet characters, etc.

Of course even before then I didn't watch it too awful much anyway.

 

[mr3urious]

Barney should have went extinct a long time ago.

 

[D'Snowth]

I like how Caroll Spinney refers to him as "A certain purple dinosaur who became popular later, I won't mention by name".

 

[Drtooth]

My secret shame is I didn't even hate Barney when he first came to PBS... in fact, I gotta admit, I liked him to an extent (to the extent that it was a kid's show and I had a baby sister at the time). But after a short while I realized what a cheap, lazily made show that really performed to a upper middle class demographic. Not to mention the cultist mentality of the show, where kids are just obsessing over a single character (something I feel Elmo's World is dangerously close to). At least opposed to Sesame Street's lower middle class inner city community setting. There's just so much I hate about the show now that I'm older and wiser.

But still... compared to say Super Why or something, it's not even that bad. Unlike Super Why, at least Barney doesn't look like an ugly CGI bug.