Tear Jerker / Barney & Friends

For a series that's (in)famous for featuring a very cheerful dinosaur (along with three smaller cheerful dinosaurs) teaching children how to be polite and care for one another, the show has moments that make people tear up.

The Whole Series

• For those who are not desensitized by the song, "I Love You" can be a tearjerker. Especially the arrangement used in Seasons 7-13.
• Take straight from the Heartwarming Page. The song Someone to Love You Forever. Taken up to eleven in Barney Live in Concert: Birthday Bash, notably for one who watched the series as a kid.
• The song It's Good To Be Home.

The Backyard Gang

• Tina saying goodbye to Moonkin in Three Wishes.
  • Also, "Friends Are Forever". This song is sung by Michael and Amy's mother and is about how friendships will last forever, when they're make-believe. This is a heartwarming/tearjerker song because it portrays the almost sad idea that a friend may eventually leave. That's why imagination and pretend is so important because your make-believe friends will last forever. This also shows that it is okay to feel sad if you lose and miss something when it has to go and/or come to an end. But it may make you feel better by getting a new thing if you lose or miss an old one. Moreover, an old/previous thing's memory -even if you lost and missed it- comes back elsewhere in a new form. This is how we can make up for the loss of an old thing if we miss and lose it.
  • This was the last episode of the set at the time, so it wasn't clear that Barney would ever come back.
  • A minor one, but even the kids saying goodbye to Barney (before he turns back into a doll) is also a bit tearjerking.
• Derek making a wish for new friends in Waiting for Santa.
• Tina getting lost in the forest in Campfire Sing-Along.
• Barney's big speech in the end of Barney in Concert counts as both this and heartwarming. Several kids in the audience look close to tears.

Season One

• In the episode "Caring Means Sharing", Baby Bop having a tummy ache from eating all "the cookies from the cookie jar." She hides under her blanket and cries in pain until the others cheer her up with a song.
• Poor Tina having no luck in the majority of the episode, "Oh, What a Day". At one point, she's on the verge of crying.
• At the beginning of the episode, "Hop to It!", Tina is sad when she can't do a basketball trick as well as her older sister. She sings a short sad song to the Barney doll, before he comes to life.
• Kathy has her share of these moments as well:
  • Her feeling bad that her family is too small in the episode "My Family's Just Right for Me".
    • Also the fact that Kathy has no father who is seen or mentioned can come off as this.
  • Her fear of going to the doctor at the beginning of "Doctor Barney is Here".
  • In Barney's Birthday Episode ("Happy Birthday, Barney"), she doesn't have anything to give to the purple guy, so she tries to give him her beloved teddy. Based on her friends' shocked reactions, does this remind you of anything?
• Even if it is brief, Barney shows a little bit of sadness around the beginning of "Let's Help Mother Goose" when he and the kids discover that a bookworm has chewed away all the pages.
  Barney: There goes Humpty Dumpty, and Little Boy Blue, and Jack & Jill... (sighs)

Season Two

• Baby Bop briefly losing her "blankey" in "My Favorite Things"
• "Grandparents Are Grand" has Tina missing her abuelo, who lives far away. We even get a close-up of her sad face, as she looks at Kathy and Derek with their grandparents.
• Tina breaking her arm and getting a cast the day before the events of "Red, Blue, and Circles Too!"
  • Also, when she briefly gets hurt while spinning a hula hoop on her already-broken arm.

Season Three

• "Someone to Love You Forever" in the episode "A Welcome Home". Enough said.
• The very last appearances of Tina and Derek in the episode "On the Move".
  • Also, the new kid Kenneth missing his friends from his older home.
• "Hats Off to BJ": BJ getting upset when his hat gets lost after being blown away in the wind and landing on a mail truck can be this for anyone who has lost a favorite thing of theirs that they can not/do not want to live without. The kids try to find a replacement hat and even make one from materials in the Barney Bag to try to cheer up BJ. It's a good thing his hat was found and returned to him by the mailman at the end of the episode.

Season Four

• Baby Bop and BJ's feud in "Oh Brother, She's My Sister" for anyone who has a sibling. Them making up with each other in the end can result in Tears of Joy for some.

Season Five

Season Six

• "It's Home to Me" was the 15th episode aired, but the final episode filmed. As such, it was the final time on set for Marisa Kuers (Hannah) and Bob West (the original voice of Barney). West has since said that filming this episode was an "emotional" time for him.

Season Seven

Season Eight

Season Nine

Season Ten

Season Eleven

• "A Pot Full of Sunshine": Baby Bop finds a flower to raise. The next day, it dies in the autumn frost. Barney comforts her with a song called "When Tomorrow Comes," that shows saying goodbye to people and things that have died or otherwise gone away is part of growing. Barney and co. then help her feel better by simply telling her (in song) they'll always be by her side.

Season Twelve

Season Thirteen

Barney's Great Adventure

• Cody refuses to believe in Barney or his magic and when they have a heart to heart talk, Barney seems almost sad that such a young kid is so skeptical. It suddenly becomes heartwarming when Cody admits Barney's a pretty cool dinosaur in the end.

Other Media

• From Sing and Dance With Barney:
  Michael: We think you're a Super Dee Duper friend to all of us, too, Barney.
  Linda: That's right!
  Michael: From the oldest...
  Linda: ...To the youngest!
  All Present (except Barney): You can always count on us!
  • It's especially a tearjerker when you realize how suddenly it seemed that they grew up.
  • Even more so, because it's the last special to feature a Backyard Gang member (Michael).
• In the video "Let's Play School", Baby Bop gets saddened when hearing the kids sing "Today We Can Say" about what they learned due to the fact that, unlike them, she is not old enough for school. Fortunately, it doesn't last long as Barney, BJ, and the kids decide to play school with Baby Bop and allow her to be the teacher.