History YMMV / Barbie

%%** A notorious 1965 "Slumber Party" Barbie doll came with a scale permanently set at 110 lbs and a book titled "How to Lose Weight," with the back reading simply "Don't Eat!"

* HoYay: The direct-to-video movies deserve [[HoYay/Barbie a page all their own]].

* HilariousInHindsight: Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. Coincidentally enough, a certain [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Roberts Barbara Roberts]] took up politics and was governor of Oregon for a time. Barbie Roberts' political career (as President of the United States no less) wasn't so far-fetched after all.

* CultClassic: Not the doll-line itself, [[CashCowFranchise obviously]], but the Direct-To-DVD movies have a solid following of nostalgic fans, due to the surprisingly good writing. Even some of the latter movies have their fans, in fact, it's outright hard to find a Barbie movie without fans.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Maureen [=McCormick=], AKA [[Series/TheBradyBunch Marcia Brady]], appeared in a few Barbie commercials during the 1960s.

* ''YMMV/BarbieInAChristmasCarol''

* ''YMMV/BarbieInAMermaidTale''

* ''YMMV/BarbieAPerfectChristmas''

* EarWorm: Fashion! Fashion! Fashionistas!

* HoYayShipping:
** Barbie and Ken with Raquelle and Ryan, respectively.
** As mentioned, depicting Barbie as a LipstickLesbian isn't unknown. She usually gets paired up with her buddy Teresa. Some of the direct-to-video films make them easily shippable as well.

!![=YMMV=] for the 1991 video game:

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[https://youtu.be/kG5F1DwiNYw The music for the Underwater Level]] is rather enchanting.
* MostAnnoyingSound: The noise heard whenever you jump has irritated plenty of gamers.
* NightmareFuel:
** In the Underwater Level, both the appearance and the sound of the jellyfish gives an ominous feel, especially if it clings onto you (it's most likely to appear if you backtrack for any reason such as going the wrong way in the maze, but also [[StalkedByTheBell if you go to slowly in the level.]]) Also, that same noise is heard if you fall during the Jukebox Level.
** When trying to dissolve the ice cream sundae scoops in the Soda Shop Level, at one point, the melting chocolate gets smaller and the cherry spins inside of it in an unnaturally ''off'' way.
* SoOkayItsAverage: The game clearly wasn't going to set the video game world on fire, it's still considered a basic but decent platformer (and with some considering it the best ''Barbie'' video game.)
* ThatOneLevel:
** The water fountain/jumping fish levels during the Shopping Mall Level are rather tedious (and begs the question, "If Barbie can't get wet ''here'', then how is she able to be fine in the Underwater Level?") This scenario is also repeated in the Soda Shop Level with the flipping french fries level.
** Inside the Jukebox takes precision jumping and patience (with at one point you have to keep jumping on a rotating platform in order to wait to continue the level), and if you fall off, you have to start all over again.

%%** A notorious 1965 "Slumber Party" Barbie doll came with a scale permanently set at 110 lbs and a book titled "How to Lose Weight," with the back reading simply "Don't Eat!"

** Skipper, too.
** Raquelle.

** Barbie being an orphan is exceedingly common.

* PortmanteauCoupleName: The term hasn't become official yet, but some fans refer to them as, "Karbie."

** A notorious 1965 "Slumber Party" Barbie doll came with a scale permanently set at 110 lbs and a book titled "How to Lose Weight," with the back reading simply "Don't Eat!"

* LGBTFanbase: 1993's infamous "Earring Magic Ken" was discontinued due to accidentally looking too much like a CampGay stereotype. It was also the best selling Ken doll in the franchise's history specifically ''because'' gay men brought so many of him.

* AmericansHateTingle: Barbie is simply disliked by a lot of Japanese fans, due to her grown-up nature, compared to the 11-year old Japanese doll, Licca-Chan, but in America? She still goes toe-to-toe with Creator/{{Mattel}} to this day. She's fared slightly better as a fashion label over there, but not by much.

** "Tutti" being a childhood nickname for Stacie. Whatever happened to her twin Todd is rarely discussed.

** Infamously in the 90s, "Teen Talk Barbie" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSL2-rbE9AM caused this]] due to its controversial line involving math. The actual line is "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO0cvqT1tAE Math Class Is Tough!"]].

* UnfortunateImplications: The 2013 Barbie book ''I Can Be a Computer Engineer'' was [[http://pamie.com/2014/11/barbie-fucks-it-up-again/ accused]] of teaching girls not to pursue technological careers, but rather that they should always get men to solve their problems, then take credit for their work. Amazon and Mattel respectively responded to the controversy by ceasing all direct sales of the book, and [[https://www.facebook.com/BarbieNAD/posts/362944293876701 promising]] to write stories with an "empowered" Barbie.