Barney the dinosaur was an iconic icon in cchildren’s television in the 90s and 2000s, and now there’s a revealing docuseries that will reveal what was really going on while the long-running show was taped.
Everyone remembers the iconic song “I Love You, You love me” and it even launched the careers of now-famous stars like Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez.
What was really going on?
But what happened during the recording and production of the long-running show? Well, it seems like a lot happened during the Barney Phenomenon, which even included death threats against those who appeared on the show.
It helped children identify new feelings
Although the children’s television show was meant to be entertaining but educational about moral values and would also teach children how to deal with emotions and feelings along with useful information regarding parenting, it also set a precedent for a whole new era of children’s television.
All About Sheryl Leach
“Barney is all about inclusion, acceptance. You should love everyone, we all have Sheryl Leach to thank for that.”
Sheryl Leach created the show and started recording videos with the purple dinosaur for her kids, and it caught on and led to the show we all know.
Death threats and dismemberments
The “I Love You, You Hate Me” docuseries premieres October 12 on Peacock and will feature well-known television personalities such as Bill Nye the Science Guy, Al Roker as well as the people who worked on the show, including Bob West who played Barney for a time and received violent death threats against his family “They were violent and explicit, the death and dismemberment of my family,” he says in the tape -announcement. “They were going to find me, and they were going to kill me.”