Interesting. Millenials are pushing 40 now, so not sure if we still have the angst we did as teenagers, but I’m curious what this will look like. Barney was always viscerally hated on elementary school playgrounds in the 1990s though, for reasons that I still don’t really understand today. The show was what would now be referred to as toxic positivity aimed at young children, but there were tons of shows like that, so I never really understood why Barney got all of the hate rather than the other shows with identical premises.

I guess Barney is the TV version of Nickelback. Nickelback was just one of dozens of buttrock bands from the early 2000s, but for some reason, they attracted all the hate for the entire genre. Come to think of it, Nickleback should be on the movie’s soundtrack.