History Trivia / BarneysGreatAdventure

* SpoiledByTheMerchandise: [[spoiler: Twinken, the creature who lives inside the egg]], was spoiled by merchandise months before the movie's debut.

** Twinken[[spoiler:,the koala-like Dream-Maker that hatches from the egg,]] was not in the original drafts of the film. The egg instead contained a lost baby bird. Barney was to return the bird to its mother, while uniting the kids' families as well.

** Twinken[[spoiler:, the koala-like Dream-Maker that hatches from the egg,]] was not in the original drafts of the film. The egg instead contained a lost baby bird. Barney was to return the bird to its mother, while uniting the kids' families as well.
** '''[[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone Trey Parker]]''', of all people, claimed that he had been offered to direct the film. [[https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/south-parks-evil-geniuses-and-the-triumph-of-no-brow-culture-65739/ According to him]], the producers liked that he could do "funny stuff with kids" based on his ''WesternAnimation/TheSpiritOfChristmas'' short and were willing to pay him $1.5 million for the job. Bewildered, Parker declined.
** BJ and Baby Bop were going to be more prominent in the film, mainly in scenes with the farmhouse attic. These scenes were cut due to, in the words of director Steve Gomer, "being too expensive."

* PopCultureUrbanLegends: A trivia note on the Internet Movie Database claimed that Josh Radnor had an early role as a waiter in the restaurant scene, which has since been debunked

* ExecutiveMeddling: According to [[WordOfGod writer Stephen White]], the film had a ton of this done to its script.[[note]]In Gomer's [[https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-look-back/barneys-great-adventure-AwDgJKqX3kl/?fbclid=IwAR1_DlUi_E-vOjIN67VpyeWTxg8h-P3e5H77NPTUaax6hkzexm3hhsrVbOo/# defense]], White's script was over ''[[UpToEleven 200 pages]]'' long, which would be the equivalent of a 3-1/2 hour movie. He also felt that the chase didn't have much of a purpose initially.[[/note]]

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $15 million. US box office, $12,218,638. This is mostly due to parents not finding taking their kids to see Barney on the big screen worth the money when they could just show it to them on television for no charge. The film also received Razzie nominations... [[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike because it starred Barney]].

* AwesomeDearBoy: Director Steve Gomer shot the film in Montréal as he wanted to work with the Creator/CirqueDuSoleil troupe.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $15 million. US box office, $12,218,638. This is mostly due to parents not finding taking their kids to see Barney on the big screen worth the money when they could just show it to them on television for no charge.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $15 million. US box office, $12,218,638. This is mostly due to parents not finding taking their kids to see Barney on the big screen worth the money when they could just show it to them on television for no charge. The film also received Razzie nominations... [[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike because it starred Barney]].

** [[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone Trey Parker]], of all people, claimed that he had been offered to direct the film. [[https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/south-parks-evil-geniuses-and-the-triumph-of-no-brow-culture-65739/ According to him]], the producers liked that he could do "funny stuff with kids" based on his ''WesternAnimation/TheSpiritOfChristmas'' short and were willing to pay him $1.5 million for the job. Bewildered, Parker declined.

* CreatorKiller: The failure of this film as well as ''Film/TheBigLebowski'' (Both were successful on video and gained CultClassic status over the years, but moreso in the case of ''The Big Lebowski'') convinced [=PolyGram=] that the film business wasn't worth staying in, and was sold to Seagram later that year. The following year, Seagram shut down [=PolyGram=] Films.

* ExecutiveMeddling: According to [[WordOfGod writer Stephen White]], the film had a ton of this done to its script.

** [[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone Trey Parker]], of all people, was offered to direct the film. [[https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/south-parks-evil-geniuses-and-the-triumph-of-no-brow-culture-65739/ According to him]], the producers liked that he could do "funny stuff with kids" based on his ''WesternAnimation/TheSpiritOfChristmas'' short and were willing to pay him $1.5 million for the job. Bewildered, Parker declined.

** The film was originally set up at Creator/GeffenPictures with Creator/WarnerBros distributing. Unfortunately, the latter had disagreements with Lyons over marketing and the project moved to [=PolyGram=].

** An apocryphal story claims that [[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone Trey Parker]], of all people, was offered to direct the film.

** BJ and Baby Bop were going to be more prominent in the film, mainly in scenes with the farmhouse attic. These scenes were cut due to, in the words of the director, "being too expensive."

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $15 million. US box office, $12,218,638. You can "thank" the show's hatedom and critics who (somewhat reluctantly) helped them trash the film for this.
* CreatorKiller: The failure of this film as well as ''Film/TheBigLebowski'' (Both were successful on video, with ''Big Lebowski'' becoming a CultClassic) convinced [=PolyGram=] that the film business wasn't worth staying in, and was sold to Seagram later that year. The following year, Seagram shut down [=PolyGram=] Films.

** Of all people, '''[[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone TREY PARKER]]''' (yes, ''[[WesternAnimation/SouthPark that]]'' [[Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice Trey]] [[Theatre/TheBookOfMormon Parker]]!) was offered to direct. One can only dream of what that would have been like.

** Twinken[[spoiler:, the koala-like Dream-Maker that hatches from the egg,]] was not in the original drafts of "Barney's Great Adventure". The egg instead contained a lost baby bird. Barney was to return the bird to its mother, while uniting the kids' families as well.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Twinken[[spoiler:, the koala-like Dream-Maker that hatches from the egg,]] was not in the original drafts of "Barney's Great Adventure". The egg instead contained a lost baby bird. Barney was to return the bird to its mother, while uniting the kids' families as well.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $15 million. US box office, $12,218,638. You can thank the show's hatedom and critics who (somewhat reluctantly) helped them trash the film for this.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $15 million. US box office, $12,218,638.

* CreatorKiller: The failure of this film as well as ''Film/TheBigLebowski'' (Both were successful on video, with "Big Lebowski" becoming a CultClassic) convinced [=PolyGram=] that the film business wasn't worth staying in, and was sold to Seagram later that year. The following year, Seagram shut down [=PolyGram=] Films.

* BannedinChina: The film was banned in Malaysia only because the censors found it to be "unacceptable for children". Despite only being banned in Malaysia, the film was also [[NoExportForYou never released in some other countries including South Korea and Taiwan]].