īarney served in the United States Navy Reserve for a short time, as a submariner on the USS Jebediah with his own mother as his superior officer, although he briefly served in the U.S. Burns caused Moe's Tavern to close down and was shot later, Barney became a major suspect for shooting Burns after Burns blocked the sun (despite his easygoing nature, Barney apparently carries around a derringer at all times). Barney is seen driving his plow as the Plow King again in several occasions. Homer ends up saving Barney, they become friends again and team up, only to find the snow melting (after Homer comments "When two best friends team up, not even God himself can stop them." To which a voice from the sky replies "Oh, no?" and promptly beams down a ray of light to melt the snow), and Homer's truck repossessed. Homer eventually fools Barney into traveling to "Forbidding Widows' Peak" to plow through the snow for a $10,000 bill, but is caught in an avalanche. He took away all Homer's customers and earned the key to Springfield (which was taken away from Homer). "We've been looking for a project to do together for a while," he explained. He even got Linda Ronstadt to sing on his commercials. Plow business to have his own snow removal service, calling himself the Plow King and buying a snow removal truck much bigger than Homer's. Black also hired Barney to act like Krusty the Clown for the campers at Kamp Krusty saying that Krusty has larangytis and a bad back(meaning he won't be saying or doing anything), although Bart was not fooled by his attempt at defaming Krusty (as Barney was poorly disguised as Krusty), and also ends up confirming Bart and the rest of the campers suspicions of Black just "slapped a clown suit on some wine-o" by answering that he is "Krunchy the Clown," as well as declaring for Krusty's return (or as he calls him, "Krunchy") īarney was inspired by Homer's Mr. Barney showed his artistic side again when he won top prize at the Springfield Film Festival for his moving documentary about his life as an alcoholic, unfortunately titled "Puke-a-hontas". Later on, with Homer, he was a member of The Be Sharps barbershop quartet, in which his stellar Irish singing voice was discovered. He used to have blond hair, but later dyed it brown.
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He took to drinking after his high-school sweetheart Chloe Talbot left Springfield to become a successful TV reporter.
He was Harvard-bound until Homer introduced him to beer on the night before they had to take the SATs. Barney once had a near-death experience in which he expects to be reunited with "my loved ones, my dad, and that plant I never watered, " perhaps implying that he did not get along with his father, though this line could also be interpreted as Barney reuniting with his "loved ones: my dad and that plant I never watered." Īs a teenager, Barney showed much potential. His father, Arnie Gumble, died in a 1979 parade float accident along with Sheldon Skinner, Iggy Wiggum, Etch Westgrin, and Griff McDonald, all of whom had served in Abe Simpson's WWII squad, the Flying Hellfish. Inc., an educational publishing company owned by her father-in-law.Barney was born on April 20, sharing his birthday with Adolf Hitler. Leach, who lives in the Dallas area, also had the connections to bring Barney to life, having worked in sales and marketing for D.L.M. The Barney concept is the brainchild of Sheryl Leach, a former inner-city elementary school teacher and marketing executive who recognized a void in the market for video programming directed at preschoolers. The true cuddly origins of Barney & Friends were explained in a 1992 Chicago Tribune article:
That version was accompanied by a disclaimer noting that the referenced entries "are all urban legends. If they acted bad then he would slice their necks and throw their bodies in a nearby river. He would force them to be happy, otherwise he would rape and kill them. He would lure in little kids and kidnap them. He dressed up in a purple dinosaur costume everyday and went to the park. The earliest iteration of this story we could uncover was posted to the WattPad web site in a collection of "urban legends":īarney is supposed to be "happy, fun, and appealing to younger ones." Right? Well it's not.īack in the 1930's, there was a man named Barney.
We found no record of a man named "Barney" who dressed up in a dinosaur costume and kidnapped children in the 1930s, much less anything referencing the dinosaur character's having been (absurdly) based on such a person.
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