He says he now recognizes how his own insecurities and teen angst fueled the film. Avallone recalls doing it for the laughs.
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The movie was of him beating me up as Barney, and if you watch the beginning of “I Love You, You Hate Me,” episode 1, there’s a quick snippet of it.” “When I was a kid, my friend Timmy and I made a short movie that aired at our local movie theater,” he says. “But that was a dangerous slope.”Īlthough not so proud of it now, Avallone was decidedly on the Barney-bashing side back in the day. “Many people thought, ‘By hating Barney, I can fit in and be cool,’” says Avallone. Among them, the I Hate Barney Secret Society was started by a father, interviewed by Avallone, who was disturbed by his daughter’s obsession with Barney’s joyful tunes and upbeat messages. At its peak in 1996-97, the show reportedly captured 2 million viewers, apparently including the haters.īy then, groups dedicated to the extinction of Barney had taken root. “Barney & Friends” is also credited with launching the careers of child stars Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez. The 2-part film features interviews with the show’s cast and crew as well as other stars of the ’90s, including Bill Nye the Science Guy, NBC’s Al Roker and Steve Burns, the former host of Nickelodeon’s “Blue’s Clues.” It incorporates archival footage from the PBS series, which began airing in 1992.Īs Avallone points out, the singing and dancing dinosaur that came alive only in children’s imaginations was a hit with its intended audience – preschoolers. But different to other shows, Barney inspired hate rather than love.” Rogers or Blue’s Clues, Barney connected kids to education and taught life lessons in the simplest form. “Barney started as a home videotape, very DIY, meager budget, and 4 years later, it’s on PBS and on top of the world. “In the documentary, we talk about where hate comes from, why we can’t accept love sometimes, and what all this hate says about us,” says Avallone. Streaming on Peacock, the docuseries “ I Love You, You Hate Me,” is Avallone’s attempt to make sense of the Barney-bashing phenomenon, and to show how it was a precursor to the internet trolling so common today.
“And she was right – we’re in that future now.” “At the end, the newscaster was like, ‘that’s the future of our country right there,’” Avallone says. It showed college students gleefully destroying stuffed Barney dolls, ripping the stuffing out of them, and even setting the T-rex toys on fire. It was of a Barney-bashing event on a college campus in the mid ’90s.Īlthough the footage was old, it struck a nerve, says the Haddon Heights resident. Filmmaker Tommy Avallone’s inspiration for making a movie about Barney, the big purple dinosaur meant to spread love and kindness, was a flashback post on social media.
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