History WMG / BarneyAndFriends

This is why the kids and adults almost never leave (depending on the season/video) their backyards, the school or the park without using their imaginations, and why the kids are imagining Barney, Baby Bop, B.J., and Riff ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Stella the Storyteller, and Professor Tinkerputt]]) in the first place. Barney and his friends distract the kids with fun games to take their minds off the madness occurring the ruins of society nearby.

This is why the kids and adults almost never leave the school or park without using their imaginations, and why the kids are imagining Barney, B.J., Baby Bop, Riff, Stella the Storyteller, and Professor Tinkerputt in the first place.

This is why the kids and adults almost never leave the school or park without using their imaginations.

* Either that or [[InterspeciesRomance their parents are different species]].

It's the only explanation as to why 2 dinosaurs of 2 different species are siblings. Riff was also possibly adopted as well to explain how he is their cousin.

It's not obvious, because he focuses so much on everyone else. But there are enough slip-ups in his behavior where he doesn't quite feel right, where his cheer seems forced, to imply that it's an act he's putting on for the benefit of everyone. In fact, the reason he hangs around and encourages kids so much is that it helps him avoid depressive thoughts.

The children get to have a lot of things, and some props just appear without Barney magic-ing them into existence. Whenever their parents need to show up, they appear out of thin air. Grandpa from the ''Great Adventure'' film is a crime lord who has Barney, Baby Bop, BJ, Riff, the kids' parents, Stella the Storyteller and her cousins, and even a NASA astronaut on his pay roll to please the children at the school (plus he might also be a wizard or warlock who created the Barney doll for that reason). Barney and co. distract the kids with fun games (like in the "Barney's universe is shrinking" theory) whilst Grandpa and the other crime syndicate members run a LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub in the school's basement. In addition, Grandpa had some grunge kids on his payroll to start the anti-Barney humor thing just to distract people from learning the truth about Barney. Also, Grandpa and Grandma are the parents of the mom from the early ''Backyard Gang'' videos, and she too is a powerful crime figure.

The children get to have a lot of things, and some props just appear without Barney magic-ing them into existence. Whenever their parents need to show up, they appear out of thin air. Grandpa from the ''Great Adventure'' film is a crime lord who has Barney, Baby Bop, BJ, Riff, the kids' parents, Stella the Storyteller and her cousins, and even a NASA astronaut on his pay roll to please the children at the school (plus he might also be a wizard or warlock who created the Barney doll for that reason). Barney and co. distract the kids with fun games (like in the "Barney's universe is shrinking" theory) whilst Grandpa and the other crime syndicate members run a LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub in the school's basement. In addition, Grandpa had some grunge kids on his payroll to start the anti-Barney humor thing just to distract people from learning the truth about Barney. Also, Grandpa and Grandma are the parents of the mom from the early ''Backyard Gang'' videos, and she too is a powerful crime figure.

* Well, Barney Goes To The Doctor did pop up whenever I looked up Series/DoctorWho on Netflix after it was removed, so,,,

* Isn't at least Babybob being his daughter confirmed? Barney and the Backyard Gang in Concert had Barneyes magicing her into existence.

All he wants to have a family of his own. Barney is basically the embodiment of imagination itself and therefore gets to see a lot of families in his 200 million year long career. But he also sees a lot of kids who are sad and one could argue that he sees kids who are suffering from neglectful families. Barney appears to children because he wants to let them know that someone loves and cares. This goal though very hard to achieve as there are so many suffering kids in the world. So BJ and Baby-Bop are created within the minds of children when Barney is unavailable. But once they were created, the imaginations of children started to imagine all three of them together. Even though this means that the three will be constantly busy entertaining children from around the world, Barney is okay with this because he finally has a family of his own to love.
** Is this a tearjerker yet?
** Barney has SeenItAll.

The children get to have a lot of things, and some props just appear without Barney magic-ing them into existence. Whenever their parents need to show up, they appear out of thin air. Grandpa from the ''Great Adventure'' film is a crime lord who has Barney, Baby Bop, BJ, Riff, the kids' parents, Stella the Storyteller and her cousins, and even a NASA astronaut on his pay roll to please the children at the school (plus he might be a wizard or warlock who created the Barney doll for that reason). Barney and co. distract the kids with fun games (like in the "Barney's universe is shrinking" theory) whilst Grandpa and the other crime syndicate members run a LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub in the school's basement. In addition, Grandpa had some grunge kids on his payroll to start the anti-Barney humor thing just to distract people from learning the truth about Barney. Also, Grandpa and Grandma are the parents of the mom from the early ''Backyard Gang'' videos, and she too is a powerful crime figure.

The children get to have a lot of things, and some props just appear without Barney magic-ing them into existence. Whenever their parents need to show up, they appear out of thin air. Grandpa from the ''Great Adventure'' film is a crime lord who has Barney, Baby Bop, BJ, Riff, the kids' parents, Stella the Storyteller and her cousins, and even a NASA astronaut on his pay roll to please the children at the school (plus he might be a wizard or warlock who created the Barney doll for that reason). Barney and co. distract the kids with fun games (like in the "Barney's universe is shrinking" theory) whilst Grandpa and the other crime syndicate members run a LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub in the school's basement. In addition, Grandpa had some grunge kids on his payroll to start the anti-Barney humor thing just to distract people from learning the truth about Barney. Also, Grandpa is the mom of the mom from the early ''Backyard Gang'' videos, and she too is a powerful crime figure.

My theory is that Stella the Storyteller was intended to be a part of the wrap-arounds for a ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'' dub Lyrick was planning. Her door was intended to be an Anywhere Door, and the suitcase was originally intended to contain Doraemon's gadgets. When Lyrick couldn't make an agreement with Creator/TVAsahi in time, the plan was scrapped and Stella was imported into ''Barney & Friends'' with all the ''Doraemon'' references either eliminated or changed.

Barney ate them. That’s right. [[FridgeHorror Baby Bop and BJ have unwittingly befriended their parents’ murderer]]. It’s possible that Barney ate Riff’s parents as well.

* Barney could have been lying when he said that. Also, considering the fact that the cast of kids changes each season, I wouldn't be surprised if he DID eat them. Although maybe some of them still left on their own accord, which might explain why were able to make guest appearances in later seasons.

Barney ate them. That’s right. [[FridgeHorror Baby Bop and BJ have unwittingly made friends with their parents’ murderer]]. It’s possible that Barney also ate Riff’s parents.

2018 will be the 30th anniversary of Barney, and there will be a special with the original backyard gang, clips from the early years, and the introduction of some of their kids onto the show.

** From "Barney's Magical Musical Castle" after the kids hear a scary noise.

-->Darek: "What if it's a scary monster?"

[[WMG:Barney is the [[RiseOfTheGuardians Guardian of Imagination]] who left the others to do his own thing.]]

The little toy is an idol, which the kids chant and dance around to reveal the true form. Barney only [[FridgeHorror acts nice to convince the kids to give him their souls.]]