“They were gonna come and find me, and they were going to kill me. I Love You, You Hate Me examines what makes people (men especially) so hostile to a childrens dinosaur. One person recounted rumors that, “Barney hides drugs in his tail.” Bob West, one of the performers who played Barney, remembered death threats. “They were violent and explicit, death and dismemberment of my family,” he said. This included playground chants - this author recalls, “I hate you/ You hate me/ Let’s get together and kill Barney” - but the fallout extended to the performers on the show. I hate you, you hate me, Barney have me HIV, with his big purple dick, so I shot him in the head, now that fucking Barney’s dead. In the two-part Peacock documentary series I Love You, You Hate Me, we revisit the genesis of Barney and watch in astonishment as a great American success story turns dark and sour, not only. Former Barney David Joyner added ,”As beloved character was heading into the stratosphere, people couldn’t accept that this was just a show. Mine was: i love you, you love me, let’s hang Barney by a tree With a bullet in his head and a knife in his back, Aren’t you glad that Barney’s dead Edit: thanks for the award. “It just exploded nationwide,” one woman said. I Love You, You Hate Me chronicles the spectacular rise and suffocating backlash to an early ’90s children’s sensation. Everyone wants the purple dinosaur to go extinct in the new trailer for I Love You, You Hate Me. The two-part docuseries about the dark side of Barney & Friendswill debut October 12th on Peacock. Barney, the harmless, ever-so-lovable purple dinosaur who is the star of the highest-rated public TV show for children in the United States, Barney and Friends, becomes a fierce object of hate. We sat down with cast member, Andrew Olsen, from the new documentary series, 'I Love You, You Hate Me' to talk about the hatred that surrounds Barney the Din.
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