History YMMV / BarneyAndFriends

* AdaptationDisplacement: The ''Barney & The Backyard Gang'' videos are more obscure than the TV show that succeeded it. While the videos continued to sell well in the 90's because of the success of ''Barney & Friends'', not many knew that these were what the TV show was based on rather than the other way around.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Barney himself. Does he deserve the hate many people felt for him during the period of anti-Barney humor, or is he an optimistic role model for children with no negative qualities whatsoever?

** [[https://youtu.be/kMfGZ0G57XM The song that the ending credits used from season 1-3]], [[https://youtu.be/_6LEHqed8T8 the remix]] used from season 4-6 is even catchier.

** Multiple episodes have B.J. becoming [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Captain Pickles, who proclaims to make the world "safe for pickle lovers everywhere."]]

** When asked whether Barney would ever take off during the Backyard Gang era, Bob West shrugged.

** Emilia Leonetti is an active fan who was later chosen by Bob West to become one of his digital assistants.

* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Professor Tinkerputt, even among the show's few remaining haters, for his silly, over the top behavior. Stella the Storyteller also gets this because of her calm personality and whimsical approaches she takes to situations.
** For the tiny fanbase, BJ gets this due to anyone relating him to.
** Baby Bop also gets this from the older fanbase due to being the PluckyGirl of the series and her "cutesy" way of speaking, as well as for her banter with BJ.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The Creator/HitEntertainment seasons provide quite a few points of contention for folks who grew up on the older Barney seasons from Dean Wendt's portrayal of Barney and the park set to the introduction of Riff and more conflict-driven plots.

** Kerron Stark has been an avid Barney fan since childhood and did amateur performances of the character in his teens. He is very active in the fanbase as he is a moderator-turned-admin in Barney History Fans and stars in his own show, ’’Series/MisterKsClubhouse’’.

* Emilia Leonetti is an active fan who was later chosen by Bob West to become one of his digital assistants.

* VindicatedByHistory: Since the late 2010s, ''Barney'' has gotten way less hate than it has in the past, with many now looking back on the show fondly and calling it one of PBS' best shows. When the show aired on Universal Kids, it drew in surprisingly good ratings.

* CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20110321143951/http://www.sproutonline.com/sprout/ssu/TodaysTheme.aspx?tid=friends-week-2011 This]] claims that Riff is Barney's cousin rather than Baby Bop and BJ's.

*** There's B.J.'s name in and of itself, which is an acronym for... well, guess.

** "[[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cha-cha-real-smooth Cha-Cha real smooth!]]" [[note]]A weird-looking Barney statue located at The Den and the Glen, a children's park in Scotland, is often paired with this lyric from the "Cha-Cha Slide"[[/note]]

** "[[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cha-cha-real-smooth Cha-Cha real smooth!]]" [[note]]A weird-looking Barney statue located in Scotland is often paired with this lyric from the "Cha-Cha Slide"[[/note]]

** "[[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cha-cha-real-smooth Cha-Cha real smooth!]]"

** There was also an attempt to animate a breakdancing Barney for the first usage of "Mr. Knickerbocker" in the Backyard Gang tape, "Three Wishes". Emphasis on ''attempt''. They just took photos of Barney laying down from different angles, and the end result is less than convincing since the frames would crossfade to each other instead of moving rapidly, to say nothing of the weird sound effect accompanying the "breakdancing".

** Many children were scared by the bear in "Barney's Campfire Singalong" due to the sheer UncannyValley factor of his appearance and because he appears out of the darkness of the woods.

* UncannyValley:
** [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/barney/images/0/0e/Mrmoon.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20190512005333 The Moon's face]] in the Season 12 episode "The Misbegotten Moon: A Space Adventure" and the bear who appears out of the darkness of the woods in "Barney's Campfire Singalong".
** The winking baseball during "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" in "Three Wishes".
** The winking Barney dolls and the winking donkey statue in "Rock With Barney", the latter which is sometimes said to give the Pooh doll from ''WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' a run for it's money.

** In the original three Barney & The Backyard Gang videos, Barney would close each video winking. Unfortunately, the eyelid was ''very'' blatantly drawn on. The Pooh doll at the ending of ''WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' was also done using an animated eyelid, only the Pooh doll's eyelid was better animated in comparison to the Barney doll's winking. In later videos, the wink was now downgraded to a sparkle in his eye, which continued in the television series.

* TheScrappy: Riff is this to pretty much everyone who stopped watching Barney before he was introduced in 2006.