Barneyesque

English thumb|Barney at a show in Qatar Etymology From en Barney esque. Adjective Resembling or characteristic of Barney from the American children’s television series Barney & Friends, a purple anthropomorphic Tyrannosaurus rex who conveys educational messages through songs and small dance routines with a friendly, huggable and optimistic attitude. en Young Chang If you build it… they will come w:The Johns Hopkins News-Letter CII 24 Baltimore, Md. The Johns Hopkins University 16 April 1998 B1 https://archive.org/details/news-letter-1998_102_24/page/1/mode/1up 920697650 It’s strange what a few red and white candy-cane fashioned posts can do for a campus. And how easily a carousel lined with big plastic Barneyesque dinosaurs can enliven a normally adult space. en John C. Fredriksen Dino-Guide: The Saurian Source Book Reference Books for School and Public Libraries 1 Salem, Mass. Dollar Scholar Press 1999 30 https://archive.org/details/dinoguidesaurian0000fred/page/30/mode/1up 2 0-9674856-0-6 Marylen Costumes Offers a big selection of somewhat “Barneyesque” designs and a reasonably serious T. rex. en w:Istvan Banyai − + [Minus Equals Plus] New York, N.Y. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 2001 3 https://books.google.com/books?id=vShQAAAAMAAJ&q=%22depressingly+Barneyesque%22 0-8109-2990-2 So for a couple of years I spent lots of time leafing through children’s picture books. And I discovered that the great majority were mediocre or worse—banal, treacly, shallow, half-assed, depressingly Barneyesque. en Stephen Notley That’s funny? New comedies grope for the funny bone SEE Magazine 436 Edmonton, Alta. Gazette Press Ltd. 4 April 2002 10 April 2002 26 https://archive.org/details/seemagazine436/page/n25/mode/1up 1 1196-5347 I ALWAYS THOUGHT THE commercials for Death to Smoochy were baffling. They primarily feature Robin Williams bibbling around in his pixieish way, slamming into walls and jumping on some guy. Why, I wondered, are they advertising it like this when they’ve got an obvious high concept to push: a disgraced children’s entertainer loses it and decides to kill his replacement, a guy in a cute Barneyesque rhino costume? en w:Owen Gleiberman The Week w:Entertainment Weekly 648 New York, N.Y. Entertainment Weekly Inc. 12 April 2002 52 https://archive.org/details/entertainment-weekly-648-2002-04-12-star-wars-c/page/52/mode/1up 2 1049-0434 DEATH TO SMOOCHY ◆ (108 mins., R) Set in the Barneyesque world of children’s television, this comedy of backstabbing overkill tells a moldy-oldie, not-nearly-as-nasty-as-it-thinks-it-is joke. en w:Michael Smerconish Seeing Purple Muzzled: From T-Ball to Terrorism—True Stories That Should Be Fiction Nashville, Tenn. Nelson Current 2006 60 https://archive.org/details/muzzledfromtball00smer/page/60/mode/1up 1-59555-050-X When it comes to grading papers, the color red is out. Now in vogue: the very Barneyesque shade of purple. en Marrit Ingman Little Man w:The Austin Chronicle 25 51 Austin, Tex. The Austin Chronicle Corporation 21 July 2006 18 August 2006 84 https://archive.org/details/The_Austin_Chronicle-2006-08-18/page/n83/mode/1up 3 1074-0740 This Wayans farce [Little Man] is about a diminutive ex-con (Marlon [Wayans], whose face has been digitally superimposed upon the body of a little person) who poses as a foundling baby in order to retrieve a stolen diamond. He lands on the doorstep of a Buppie couple (Shawn [Wayans] and [Kerry] Washington) who takes him in despite the protestations of cranky Pops ([John] Witherspoon). They take him to the park, they have a birthday party with Rob Schneider (playing a schlub in a Barney[-]esque suit), and various dads get hit in the crotch again and again. en w:Becky Garrison Jesus Died for This? A Satirist’s Search for the Risen Christ Grand Rapids, Mich. w:Zondervan 2010 24 (Holy Land Happenings) and 133 (Holy Hippies) 978-0-310-29289-0 “See how we all get along.” / Despite this repeated Barneyesque mantra, I got the clear sense this was not much more than a well-rehearsed beauty pageant. Karl Barth had it right when he summarized his teachings with the simple yet profound statement “Jesus loves me, this I know.” Before anyone starts accusing this German heavyweight of becoming more Barneyesque than Barthian (hard to do when Church Dogmatics weighs in at a hefty fourteen volumes!), he’s not doing some happy-happy-joy-joy devotional dance. Rather, he’s revealing the power of the resurrection, the transformative love of the risen Christ that no earthly power can destroy. en w:Robert Schnakenberg Dinger The Underground Baseball Encyclopedia: Baseball Stuff You Never Needed to Know and Can Certainly Live Without Chicago, Ill. w:Triumph Books 2010 80 https://archive.org/details/undergroundbaseb0000schn/page/80/mode/1up 978-1-60078-331-9 The Barneyesque beastie [Dinger] (whose purple hue derives from the [Colorado] Rockies’ team colors and not from the then-popular TV dinosaur) began to court controversy from the very beginning. en Anna Beresin; Julia Bishop Conclusion: Covid in a Play Frame Anna Beresin; Julia Bishop Play in a Covid Frame: Everyday Pandemic Creativity in a Time of Isolation Cambridge, Cambs. w:Open Book Publishers 2023 441 https://archive.org/details/7958d750-15e3-4f45-aefa-f25016b7dada/page/441/mode/1up 10.11647/OBP.0326.20 978-1-80064-891-3 We wondered if people would be puzzled by a book about a deadly virus and play, although those we approached understood the concept of the book intuitively. Yet, a romanticized ‘Barneyesque’ view of play remains primary, that play is a nicety, a simple extra. Related terms en Barney-style en eponyms