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Well, if you Deconstruct it and take a good look at it, the entire point of that show is that a bunch of kids have an unhealthy obsession with a toy - an inaminate object - that somehow, possibly through the dark arts, transmutes itself into a giant sentient stuffed dinosaur. These kids don\'t appear to have any parents, and if they do, their parents don\'t seem to have any qualms about letting them devote their entire existence to this EldritchAbomination disguising itself as a happy purple dinosaur. If we\'re to believe the theme song, which states that Barney comes \
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Well, if you Deconstruct it and take a good look at it, the entire point of that show is that a bunch of kids have an unhealthy obsession with a toy - an inaminate object - that somehow, possibly through the dark arts, transmutes itself into a giant sentient stuffed dinosaur. These kids don\\\'t appear to have any parents, and if they do, their parents don\\\'t seem to have any qualms about letting them devote their entire existence to this EldritchAbomination disguising itself as a happy purple dinosaur. If we\\\'re to believe the theme song, which states that Barney comes \\\"from [their] imagination\\\", who\\\'s to say the kids aren\\\'t just totally insane and hallucinating the entire thing? How do we know it\\\'s just simple children\\\'s make-believe games? For all we know, they could have such traumatic lives that their only outlet of peace and tranquility is to imagine themselves engaging in \\\"fun and games\\\" with Barney.
As for Barney himself, the thing is a \\\'\\\'dinosaur\\\'\\\' that resembles a LighterAndSofter caricature of a tyrranosaurus rex - if he were in any way realistic, he\\\'d be trying to eviscerate the kids and devour their bloody remains, not teach them about love and happiness; which in itself is a little creepy. Isn\\\'t Barney\\\'s \\\"fondess\\\" for the kid a little suspicious? It seems to me like he\\\'s trying to intoxicate and indoctrinate the poor children with his talk of love - kind of like a crazy cult leader subtly manipulating the kids\\\' minds and earning their trust. And that huge, disfiguring smile...maybe Barney is a StepfordSmiler who\\\'s only pretending to enjoy his tormented existence of humouring the children, and is constantly subject to AndIMustScream-style imprisonment in his stuffed toy form; or maybe that\\\'s his SlasherSmile and he really does want to capture and consume the kids he\\\'s lulling into a false sense of security?
As for Barney himself, the thing is a \\\'\\\'dinosaur\\\'\\\' that resembles a LighterAndSofter caricature of a tyrranosaurus rex - if he were in any way realistic, he\\\'d be trying to eviscerate the kids and devour their bloody remains, not teach them about love and happiness; which in itself is a little creepy. Isn\\\'t Barney\\\'s \\\"fondess\\\" for the kid a little suspicious? It seems to me like he\\\'s trying to intoxicate and indoctrinate the poor children with his talk of love - kind of like a crazy cult leader subtly manipulating the kids\\\' minds and earning their trust. And that huge, disfiguring smile...maybe Barney is a StepfordSmiler who\\\'s only pretending to enjoy his tormented existence of humouring the children, and is constantly subject to AndIMustScream-style imprisonment in his stuffed toy form; or maybe that\\\'s his SlasherSmile and he really does want to capture and consume the kids he\\\'s lulling into a false sense of security?
