Retro fridays and barney the purple dinosaur

Barney could also be baby's first edgy idea. See once us kids got to a certain age, we thought we were cool for bashing barney or that it made us cool. "Barney's for babies" was the common quote you would hear on the playground by kids that were too cool for school. While they were right, barney was also a integral part of our childhood learning experience. Barney taught us numbers and the alphabet and how to be nice to each other(which didn't work) and to share and help others and not be selfish

"barney is a dinosaur and I don't know the rest of the words" I can still hear that theme song in my head often. Barney was on pbs every day at various times throughout kid friendly times and sometimes at night. It seems like every kid in the 90's grew up with barney then his popularity petered out in the 00's and then tried a reboot CGI series then stopped. I'm not sure barney re runs are still on anymore. The only way to get your fix is through youtube or old vhs tapes

For a brief moment in time, barney captivated us and we couldn't ask from more from a big purple dinosaur