Peacock has launched the trailer for his or her upcoming two-part docuseries exploring the hit kids’s present Barney & Associates.
The upcoming docuseries, titled I Love You, You Hate Me, might be exploring the darkish aspect and all the backlash the present, created by Sheryl Leach, confronted after its premiere in 1992.
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Based on Peacock, I Love You, You Hate Me will observe “the rise and fall of Barney the Dinosaur’s livid backlash — and what it says concerning the human must hate. From Barney-bashing to frat events to homicidal video video games, one thing in American society broke into one million items, and it’s by no means been put collectively once more… or is that this simply who we had been all alongside?”
“As [Sheryl’s] beloved character was heading into the stratosphere,” Al Roker says within the trailer, “folks couldn’t settle for that this was only a present. And so, let the bashing start.”
The “bashing” got here within the type of folks violently destroying Barney merchandise together with spreading lies, together with one declare that the actors within the barney go well with used to cover medicine in costume’s tail.
Former Barney performer Bob West additionally recalled the dying threats he and his household obtained.
“They had been violent and express, dying and dismemberment of my household,” Bob recalled. “They had been gonna come and discover me, they usually had been going to kill me.”
I Love You, You Hate Me is ready to premiere on October 12 on Peacock.
