r/LittleKidsMedia

So I remember in the cartoon there was a purple monster girl who has like a yellow dress with red stripes and she also had a red nose I remember it was like a show about a purple monster who draw anything and it came to life I remember one episode she drew a bat but the bat​ had a problem because it's bro or sis was making too much noise I remember watching this cartoon in like 2020 I think as a kid

Name your favorite Canadian kids tv show!

I mean what happened to all the classic shows like Little Einsteins and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Imagination Movers Jake and the neverland pirates all that stuff I mean I know times change it's just it dosen't feel like Disney Junior anymore I don't know it anymore it's like it's a completely different channel now who agrees with me

I honestly don't know.

I have a question about the later seasons of Barney. I did not know where else to post this, but here. Most of the Barney subreddits don't get much traction, but as an Autismo, I just need to know.

So, for these seasons, I know they brought on a lot of changes, too many to list, but one that has always questioned me is why they would start having him sing "I Love You" by himself to the audience without the kids or other dinos. Why did they make this change? I have tried doing research, as other changes of this show(Why the show was shortened to 15 minutes overseas in Season 9, and why they added the white void segments in those episodes, why they phased out the kids in Season 10, why they made Season 12 a Let's Go theme, etc.), they have given reasons as to why they did them. But for this one, I do not know the exact reasons. If I search it up, I do not really find much, but AI just regurgitates what I have just said about the show changes around this time. But, I have some reasons/theories for why they made this change, unless some do not know. I also do not know why in some episodes of season 9/10, either he sings it by himself or with the kids, 11 they brought it back to have him sing with the other characters, changed it to being Barney solo in 12, and then the other characters altogether in 13. So, my reasons:

1. This was a way to get Barney antis and Barney bashers to become fans. Now, by the 2000s, when these seasons took place, all the 90s Barney bashing from making websites shitting on Barney's existence to adults going to kids' toy stores to take Barney toys and rip them apart in front of everyone was probably long gone. But, I think kids were still singing on the playground and classroom anti-Barney parody songs(I Love You and Joy to the World changed to be about how Barney sucks and all). I remember kids still doing that even after the show was canceled in 2010, but it was still rerun and known by people(I am revealing my age here). So, I probably think one of the reasons why Barney was so despised was because of how big this song was, and maybe by only having him sing it, they felt that some would like Barney all of a sudden. This is because in some of these episodes, the kids say goodbye to Barney before he starts singing, and maybe it is the show trying to show us that even the kids do not like the song and find it annoying, just like you, the TV viewer at home.

2. This was more of Barney trying to adapt to a 2000s kids' TV format. This one is a long one, but hear me out. Of course, once something becomes popular, shows start to re-enact what makes it popular. So, when Barney was a hit in the 90s, I think kids' shows started to adapt what made it work, such as having stuffed animals come to life or having a mix of costume characters and live-action kids, music-based programming. I think I Love You had a hold on this era of kids TV that other kids shows in the 90s started having Goodbye songs(Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, Elmo's World, Bear in the Big Blue House, Out of the Box, Book of Pooh, etc.) Again, Barney was not the first; I mean, Mr. Rogers came first(RIP), but with him popularizing the concept, you see where this goes. I think one difference with some of these shows is that it is just the main character singing the song, not with other characters. So, when the show came back in the 2000s and saw what they should do to adapt to the new kids' show climate, they probably saw this as something to change, especially considering how some parents and critics felt that these Barney-inspired shows were better than Barney himself(Maybe the bashing was still there?). 

3. Speaking of Barney trying to adapt to the 2000s kids-show climate, there are 2 other things I feel worth noting that they made that I kind of dislike. The first is what I call music-video formatting. This is because the songs they would sing in the show would start to randomly interleave clips of kids in real life, something that a lot of these Barney-inspired shows did to separate themselves from Barney in the first place. It got repetitive since the show would use the same songs a lot, or use the same clips recorded in 2002 all the way in 2009. No kidding. It was not just from these seasons(7-13), but one episode from 2009 reused footage from an old Barney home movie, or how some episodes from 2008 reused footage from BJ and Baby Bop doing things with real-life kids for songs from 2004/2005. Again, Barney was never like this, and if you guys wanted to make preschool TRL, you should have just done so when MTV was still playing music videos in the 90s when you all first came out. It is the 2000s, and the digital music plant seeds have been planted now. Also, what I am even mad about is that towards the end of the 2000s, most of these shows stopped doing this live-action intersplicing. Hence, it just felt outdated by then, as well as the Barney concept of costumed characters and kids singing and dancing together for 30 minutes about life or what have you.

4. The other change I dislike is the fourth-wall breaking. Now, Barney "kind of" did fourth-wall breaking, I mean, he does wink at the audience at the end of the episode, and the Barney says segment exists. But again, those are at the end of the episode, when all is said and done. The kids, dinos, or other characters do not know they are on TV; they only imagine. Now, I am not referring to the Season 9 white void segments (Although they do not help). Still, episodes in Seasons 10-13 where Barney will randomly make an aside to the audience(You can play with us too), he will ask the audience a rhetorical question(What about you? What (INSERT TOPIC HERE)? - Usually a cue for the next music video in the episode), greet the audience in Season 10(In this season, they literally forget that you have to bring Barney to life when you need help with your imagination; he isn't going to spawn on his own. The theme song says this: maybe in these episodes, he comes to life off-camera, but still. Live shows made you bring him to life with your imagination, so no excuses really.) When he waltzes into the park like he owns the place(Maybe he does, hence why he has it be empty at the end of the episode for him to sing to us), and also one episode where he is playing Hide and Seek with some kids in Season 10, and asks us to help find the kids(Literally pulling a Dora card on us.) Again, maybe this was done because of Dora being popular and making every kid's show break the fourth wall(Do you see the house?). But, it just showcases how Barney is still somewhat the same show from the 90s in its thematic concepts, just with some unnecessarily added bells and whistles to make it like any other generic 2000s kids shows to copy trends instead of setting them as he did for kids TV back in 1992. 

5. I know I have said a lot, but I thought of one more reason just now. I know that the show's budget decreased throughout the mid-to-late 2000s, with the show's touring popularity declining(Going from arenas to theaters to Canada mall parking lots for your 20th anniversary tour), episode cuts, reviews, and such, so maybe the kids and dinos not being able to sing I Love You with Barney was a cause of all this? Again, take a look at the CGI butterfly from Pandora's Box episode, see how many songs and clips are reused in the home movies and episodes from 7-13, or how in seasons 10-13, when they go "somewhere" or tell a story-within-a-story, it is either just the park or a lazy backstage setting(I know, I know, imagination. Please think about what you used to do and then compare it to this. The crappy video game settings from your 4 Seasons Day home video should not be your inspiration, rather Imagination Island in and of itself.)

PS: I also know the Hollywood writers took over the show towards the tail-end, so did they think that the song would sound better solo Barney, or did they want it like that? You know, maybe that is the reason.

I wanna find fellow fans =)