Fun fact: the original intention for the show was, in fact, that no adult can see Barney period, but this was changed after it was pointed out how “stranger danger” that was.

@15oClock

9 ай бұрын

Too little, too late.

@MeonLights

9 ай бұрын

I was gonna say the line about mom not knowing the secret sounds bad...

@EALM95

9 ай бұрын

and yet 'the cat in the hat knows a lot about that' used it again

@shadow51090

9 ай бұрын

Same thing happened with Snuffleupagus. After a series of high profile and graphic sexual assaults and pedophilia, the writers for Sesame Street realized they might have been teaching children to stay silent to their parents because their parents might not believe them like the adults did whenever Big Bird tried to show anybody Snuffy (who always walked off screen when Big Bird went to get people.)

@franklewis4954

9 ай бұрын

“Hello Cody. You and I are going to have so. much. fun. together. Your parents can’t see me so they can’t call the police”

“The only thing Barney has in common with dinosaurs is that they were both put here by God to test our faith” is such a raw line

@isaiaholaru5013

9 ай бұрын

And I've lost mine

@trilobite3120

9 ай бұрын

Absolutely.

@gabe_s_videos

8 ай бұрын

Makes me laugh every time. XD

@2-Way_Intersection

6 ай бұрын

"and ive lost mine

@casteanpreswyn7528

5 ай бұрын

Legit made me think of the song "The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here".

The concept of Barney being the first imaginary friend that has persisted throughout all human history to continue being an imaginary friend and playmate to children is... oddly sweet. I mean as a kid I hated Barney as much as anyone but there's really no malice or ill-intent in him at all. I can buy him being a deathless, joyful idea of pure friendship made manifest. It almost reads like something out of Sandman.

@SebastienGendron-uk4po

8 ай бұрын

I know right, Everyone is terrified of a reality bender because they know how messed up the human psyche can be if that sort of power is obtained by a regular human being, but Barney is merely a manifestation of pure innocence and joy who simply wants to make people happy (as futile as it is for everyone else who doesn't like him). I would rather trust Barney with that kind of power instead of a human being. On another note, how do we explain the Santa Clause? The guy can travel at light speed across the globe regardless of time zones, watches people when they sleep/awake (creepy), knows whether they are bad or good, and gives people presents (does that include babies who haven't reached sapience yet?). How old is Santa Claus when you take into account Krampus's origins?

@DoubleMcZombie

7 ай бұрын

I would read Gaiman's take on Barney the Omnipresent Imaginary Friend

@kacpersobieraj5421

4 ай бұрын

Gaiman Presents: Barney THE Omnipresent Imaginary Friend.

@teekessel

4 ай бұрын

My brain couldn't correctly determine what Sandman you're talking about and first went to The Sandman by E.T.A. Hoffmann and was like, huh?

@HashiNuke

5 күн бұрын

man me a sand

I just realized, Barney is like Pennywise but feeds off joy. Like how Kirby is made of the same stuff the villains are but just good. Barney is able to conjure images from kids imaginations but uses them to create (and then feed off of) joy rather than the fear that his sibling Pennywise feeds off

@awesomefox555

8 ай бұрын

I’d like to see Barney go through an arc where he comes to terms with his fear of negative emotions

@truckercowboyed2638

7 ай бұрын

I mean not only fear, Pennywise literally kills kids for his enjoyment as well....

@truckercowboyed2638

7 ай бұрын

​​@@torazelyoh yes Pennywise vs Barney, Mortal Kombat style....to the death .... Barney uses his imagination beam to melt the face of Pennywise

@rexyht2697

7 ай бұрын

This makes me think of that idea that Mary Poppins is a good Pennywise or Pennywise after character development.

@torazely

7 ай бұрын

@@rexyht2697 Pennywise feeds on fear, Barney feeds on creativity, Mary Poppins feeds on joy. They each do what they can to induce the emotions in their targets, hence why they target children more than adults, as children are more expressive with their emotions.

"I don't believe in you." "That's okay, Cody. I believe in you." This insinuates that you don't need to 'believe' in Barny for him to exist. All that needs to happen is for Barney to be aware that YOU exist. He is not necessarily a parasite. He is a living cognito hazard that uses children as natural gateways to our reality. A truly unstoppable force of good.

@theunnamed2517

8 ай бұрын

Barney is a f*cking keter

@_PlaceHolderForNow_

8 ай бұрын

Aw shit get the SCP FOUNDATION STAT

@wieldylattice3015

8 ай бұрын

Roko’s basilisk for infants

@joshsavage007

8 ай бұрын

I needed an adult after listening to that line

@Data-Expungeded

8 ай бұрын

@@_PlaceHolderForNow_newest keter class confirmed?

The “2 dinosaur years” line implies that he’s still pretty young for whatever species he is. Implying that there’s both more like him and that they are unfathomably old

@samcass67

9 ай бұрын

It would also explain why he doesn't let the kids feel upset and explore their feelings, because he hasn't learned that skill yet either as a young god.

@CtrlAlexDelete

9 ай бұрын

This was my thought too! 2 dinosaur years implies that 200 million years is a fairly insignificant amount of time to Barney. Assuming that "dinosaur years" like "dog years" are a conversion to match an approximate human lifespan Barney has another 15-20 billion years of life.

@P3x310

9 ай бұрын

Are you implying that Barney is a young Ancient One? Now that reeks of eldrich cosmic horror and I love it.

@Irish_Enderman

9 ай бұрын

​@@samcass67"as a young god" is an amazing line

@minaashido518

9 ай бұрын

@@samcass67 Doth thou witness anus

Funny enough, I remember I was still into Barney as a kid around first or second grade. I remember asking the kids in my class if they liked Barney and they responded like “that show is for babies” I was extremely saddened by this as a seven year old So around that same night (I think), I remember I had a nightmare where Barney appeared on my television. He was all friendly and nice like normal, then he turned to me, looked me straight in the eye, and said “I am now going to steal your imagination.” After that dream, I didn’t like Barney anymore, or at least was somewhat deep in my mind terrified of him. Though I like to keep the story wholesome and say that maybe Barney did this so I wouldn’t be bullied in school. Who could say?

@wingnightbackwards

7 ай бұрын

Barney sacrificed himself for your popularity

@nyotamwuaji6484

7 ай бұрын

Now I'm picturing a Courage the Cowardly Dog villain who sucks out your imagination with a bendy straw

@vogonp4287

5 ай бұрын

​@@wingnightbackwardsA true friend.

@TahtahmesDiary

4 ай бұрын

I will always fight for Barney, it’s an excellent show for what it is, it’s just a shame that people grow out of and then turn around and hate on it faster than any other show!

@ericlooney6089

4 ай бұрын

I had a similar experience with Arthur. I was in third grade and mocked because we were too old for it, which boiled my blood because the characters in Arthur were ALSO in third grade

I never really got the Barney hate. Looking back, as a kid, he was our friend. People were just overly cynical and liked to take it out on something that brought joy. I hope he’s still bringing comfort to all the kids who need it.

The way Tom is describing the abilities of Barney is like how a scientist would describe an anomaly at the SCP Foundation.

@jackylncal7401

9 ай бұрын

Barney the Cognito-hazard

@kannonsircy7748

9 ай бұрын

Object Class: Keter

@Vulpilux

9 ай бұрын

Memes

@alistairsnowshroud8069

9 ай бұрын

Beat me to it by a mile

@antimatter7258

9 ай бұрын

because he is one

Hi, I'm a palaeontologist and the implication that Barney is a 200 million year old dinosaur sent me deep into a spiral questioning what genus of dinosaur Barney actually is. So 200Ma would be roughly the Hettangian, the earliest stage of the Jurassic period. Dinosaurs really as a clade only evolved about 230Ma (the Carnian; Mid Triassic), so the overall amount of speciation and biodiversity within the group was still relatively low compared to what the Dinosauria would eventually become. At this point, the theropods (Barney is, at least, unambiguously a large theropod) had evolved into several ground, potentially the most speciose of which were the Avetheropoda. Within this group, we first start to see the first truly big carnivores occupying apex predator niches in their respective ecosystems. Chronostratigraphically (and perhaps palaeobiogeographically), the largest and most relevant group at this time, in this niche were the Ceratosauria. Further within this group, superficial similarities with the Tyrannosauridae, i.e. short arms, can be found within the Abelisauridae. This family is also noted by the synapomorphic brachyrostran condition (indeed, Barney's face does look anteroposteriorally compressed). Furthermore, his eyebrows are quite pronounced, which is similar to the supraorbital ridges present on most ceratosaur species. Due to the time constraints, Barney would have to have evolved extremely early within the history of this family. As such, I believe Barney to be a basal abelisaurid/abelisauroid such as Eoabelisaurus or Rugops. Please note this is largely conjecture and a thought experiment and is also silly, don't be mean to me lol.

@KWBR1123

9 ай бұрын

Thank you

@isaiaholaru5013

9 ай бұрын

Bro, this is amazing. Keep up the amazing analysises Analysises? Analasees? Analysis? Anyone know the Plural? Please?

@elliot-sowdon

9 ай бұрын

Fascinating! Any idea what could be going on with Baby Bop being “3” and BJ being “7”? Actual Ceratopsidae would be less than 1 “dinosaur year” old. So do you think it’s more likely that Barney recently created them with his godlike powers? Or that they’re unfathomably old cryptids taking the form of humanoid Ceratopsidaes for some reason?

@littlelambsy87

9 ай бұрын

@@isaiaholaru5013 Analyses!

@littlelambsy87

9 ай бұрын

@elliot8757 I think it posits an interesting thought experiment. The wording is specifically 3 years, and not 'dinosaur years', so I suppose it's parsimonious and less haunting to assume that they mean years in the simple sense. My hypothesis would be that they as beings are fragments of Barney, and thus share some of his power, hence the anthropomorphism and the fact that Baby Bop is invisible, etc.

Your description of Barney's ability to manifest from seeing an image of him/an image in your mind is, canonically, how the weeping angels work in doctor who. He can even use time travel like they can and is unfathomably ancient like they are. Barney is a weeping angel

@pedrovallefin8406

8 ай бұрын

Weeping angel, smiling dinosaur, whats the difference? Same thing really. If anything, the smiling dinosaur is the more effective of the two. We are lucky it choose to take permanent residence in the minds of its prey instead of killing them via time travelling.

@nyotamwuaji6484

7 ай бұрын

Idk, id rather hang out with the weeping angels

@FormerlyEpesi

4 ай бұрын

@@nyotamwuaji6484 And you're weird for that!

@mushmello526

3 ай бұрын

Not quite, it would imply a kid would become Barney instead of just summoning hin

@andyghkfilm2287

2 ай бұрын

BARNEY IS A WEEPING ANGEL FROM IMAGINATION

You saying out loud that Barney was the First Imaginary friend dreamt up by the first creature who needed one was so powerful to me it inspired me to make a Fey creature and subsequent adventure for D&D So thanks for these videos. They're filled with charm and energy and I love them every time

@emtea9077

8 ай бұрын

Oh my god that's such a fun and terrifying idea, and super on brand for the fae in DnD XD

@torazely

7 ай бұрын

You got an idea for DND, I got an idea for SCP. Tomska out here helping all of our creativities.

Questioning the omnipotence of a purple children's dinosaur is exactly the content i expect from you TomSka

@gameznthingz

9 ай бұрын

Purple Dinosaur

@RadioballZ129

9 ай бұрын

I don’t think I will sleep tonight like is it just me or is this video terrifyingly existential, like I started questioning my and the effects the internet had on my life like Barney to these lids.

@Jerry_Freestyle

9 ай бұрын

Bruh, he almost had a mental breakdown and existential crisis talking about TRAINS!!!

@FunAngelo2005

9 ай бұрын

​@@Jerry_Freestyletalking trains too be exact

@bingbong9104

9 ай бұрын

Can’t expect anything less and isn’t great that’s the case

I was 100% expecting a “Sonic is either a god or could kill god” scenario but with Barney and i was not disappointed. Barney bless everyone!

@cubisttubist

9 ай бұрын

I'm so glad someone else got Unraveled vibes from this

@Drace90

9 ай бұрын

Agreed. So glad we finally jave a spiritual successor to Unraveled.

@Oddi0

9 ай бұрын

And I do not care if there is a difference!

@thegamerguru97

9 ай бұрын

*Sonic HAS killed gods

@decepticonleadermegatron5239

9 ай бұрын

Sonic has killed a lot of gods, and erased a whole ass game from the timeline

I have rewatched this multiple times because it is funny and it helps the channel. Now with that pathetic attempt to get anyone's attention done, I have one thing to say: Barney isn't a parasite. He is a symbiotic life form. Not like Venom or Carnage, but in the natural sense. He makes kids happy and gives them some fun memories and even some life lessons in exchange for having someone to play with. He just genuinely wants to be your childhood friend and I almost regret trying to shoot Ki blast at my Barney doll as a kid. I say almost because they obviously didn't work and at no point did he show up to tell me to stop. I think that he was just happy that I was playing with him.

@SuperPsychic101

4 ай бұрын

❤❤

I always wondered why Barney never had that big of an impact over here in Australia & then I remembered we were responsible for creating The Wiggles. We were tarnished ground for this omnipotent purple god

@ninjabluefyre3815

Ай бұрын

Dorothy is way better than Barney

@Caparo479

15 күн бұрын

@@ninjabluefyre3815 I for one doubt that barney would dance to a song about cunnilingus To explain, dorothy randomly showed up for a song at a jonas brothers concert (without explanation)

Barney saying "I believe in you" to Cody can be interpreted as a threat. It's like saying "You don't do this thing to me that makes me exist, but I do it for you" implying he can stop it and end Cody.

@potahtwah9591

9 ай бұрын

"Who is truly the imaginary friend here, Dakota? Me, or you?"

@zeroG131

9 ай бұрын

Genuinely something is spooky about the actors vocal delivery there

@ludexia5338

9 ай бұрын

I interpreted it as Barney believing that Cody can believe in him.

@TheRegularHedgehog575

9 ай бұрын

​@@ludexia5338that's probably the intention, but it's funnier to see it as a threat.

@connorbeith3232

9 ай бұрын

"And I can just as easily not, and it would be like you were never here. No one would remember who you were."

It’s oddly comforting knowing Barney may be omnipotent yet is kind and compassionate to humans.

@HappyTheFan

9 ай бұрын

Isn't that just Kirby?

@SmilingCorpse

9 ай бұрын

We are to thank our lucky stars that our purple overlord is a benevolent one.

@getthedunkon9347

9 ай бұрын

@@HappyTheFan Depends, did you give him cake?

@HappyTheFan

9 ай бұрын

@@getthedunkon9347No. I gave him a Nasi Kandar

@getthedunkon9347

9 ай бұрын

@@HappyTheFan Ok, then no. Pray

Speaking as someone who had a lot of imaginary friends as a kid, I love the interpretation of Barney being the “ultimate imaginary friend,” cuz he really is! It doesn’t make me LIKE him more, necessarily, but I feel like I get the appeal now.

Forget Film Theory, Tomska is my new go to guy for overanalysing children shows 😂

@ninjabluefyre3815

5 ай бұрын

I recommend Athena P, she does it too.

The idea of an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent dinosaur that just wants to be friends with everyone is so wholesome

@TheLichruler

8 ай бұрын

There are so many god-like beings that are thought up, and about 99% of them are either cruel, vicious, or outright evil in some way or another. Barney is that 1% that isn't such a being, and honestly, it's actually quite refreshing for there to be a concept of an immortal, all knowing, all doing being, who just wants people to be happy, and causes that happiness in the simplest of ways

@phoenixiscul

8 ай бұрын

@@TheLichruler YES! As is kirby

@CantusTropus

8 ай бұрын

I love the idea of something that at first seems like it's going to be a Dark, Edgy subverted kid's show, only for things to get double subverted and the kid's show host either proves that he's more powerful than the edgy villain, or genuinely converts the edgy villain into being a better person.@@TheLichruler

@kai_fatallysapphic

7 ай бұрын

yeah i honestly kinda have my own version of that except as a horrifying worm man that comforts the mentally ill (im mentally ill and needed a better parental figure 😞)

@WalletWorrier

6 ай бұрын

Except that he enslaves and entraps his hosts in a false, fallacious, distorted reality that is his idea of a perfect world. His subjects lose their free will and anyone who opposes him is eliminated. It's ostensibly wholesome but in reality it is one of the most horrifying concepts possible.

now i want to see tom argue that some horror creature is secretly child friendly as hell and deep dive to try make the lore secretly wholesome

@Healion123

9 ай бұрын

gotta balance it out

@daniexists6

9 ай бұрын

My guess is Chucky. He's manipulative and shitty, sure, but he was at least willing to learn not to be homophobic.

@swordforger3719

9 ай бұрын

​@daniexists6 Also I'm 99% certain Chucky has never killed a kid

@at-rexontheinternet1388

9 ай бұрын

​@@swordforger3719he sure as hell tried

@Blue-fg8vt

9 ай бұрын

​@@at-rexontheinternet1388just helping them grow.

Other people have said how barney is like an SCP, what they haven't mentioned is how, despite being a mind parasite, he requires a physical form to enter the world. This would make him much more containable as they could just round up all of the barney toys.

@acethelemon7039

8 ай бұрын

the problem is that the second someone who knows about him gets close he can just escape again and make more

@torazely

7 ай бұрын

​@@acethelemon7039Scranton reality anchor. Get a D-class in front of a screen bingewatching Barney movies in a containment cell, wait til Barney manifests, then use the SRAs to stop his ability to leave. Contained.

@acethelemon7039

6 ай бұрын

spoken like a true researcher. Hey you open for job applications?@@torazely

@AnEnormousNerd

3 ай бұрын

@@torazely This presumes that you have captured ALL of Barney, rather than just a physical manifestation of a larger entity - which is more likely imo.

@torazely

3 ай бұрын

@@AnEnormousNerd oh shit, didn't realize we were dealing with a Darkseid- type entity. That changes everything. In that case, we'd probably need the Department of Extra-Universal Affairs coordinate with alternate Foundations to place SRAs in the exact matching physical space, as well as lure the entity to that location and activate them all at the exact same universal time. No chance we get 100% coverage of the entity, but with luck, we should capture enough of him to contain a good portion of his power.

17:55 "Barney is built like a f!@# Pixar Mom... Smash." - Thomas James Ridgewell, 2023

Barney is the most dangerous memetic hazard. The SCP foundation is gonna have one hell of a time containing him.

@michealthekaminoshinagami54

9 ай бұрын

Barney is like 999, very light containment protocol, as long as they allow him to make his show, he doesn't cause a fuss.

@thecatinthehatwithabat9903

9 ай бұрын

Barney is a relative of 682 that instead of being of pissed about life he reveals in it and decided to make a children's show just to piss his brother off

@Faunadoodlez

9 ай бұрын

Oh my god this makes so much sense he really would be a scp

@Faunadoodlez

9 ай бұрын

@@thecatinthehatwithabat9903yes lmao

@onedumbgamer9672

9 ай бұрын

I also immediately thought of how Barney could be a memetic SCP

So, Barney is an abstract concept that can manifest in the physical world by infecting the minds of mortals. Barney is a Chaos God.

@zachjohnson8944

9 ай бұрын

Great, now I want Barney Possessed Marines

@toryumau6798

9 ай бұрын

@@zachjohnson8944. … Imagine… Barney’s Salamanders. The warmest and final embrace. Especially to ældar children. >)X^D

@noyz-anything

9 ай бұрын

actually chaos gods are manifestations of dimensional power that get extracted through PRAEM

@vanaheimstories7530

9 ай бұрын

Praise be the Chaos God Barney the happiest Chaos God

@ghazghkullthraka9714

9 ай бұрын

This makes Cody an inquisitor

The creepiest choice was casting Sweeney Todd to play the grandfather for some crazy reason. George Hearn is pretty much only known for scary-voiced characters, and he's been the villain in tons of popular kids shows and movies.

@user-kw7mr6xt9n

4 ай бұрын

oh absolutely lol. Barney is lucky he doesn't need a barber, I guess!

@jumpiestudios5265

21 күн бұрын

I've been looking for somebody to bring that up, cause like, didn't the actress playing the grandmother also play his wife Lucy in Sweenie Todd? I may have minor face blindness, but if it is, them having a sweet happy romance in this universe is actually really lovely on a meta level and makes me wonder whether that's the reason for his song about loving his wife?

I love that the message of the movie is that hating on a silly children's mascot who brings them joy is a little mean-spirited, and Tom took that as a personal attack, and basically did the equivalent of a youtube essayist's angry response to another youtube essayist's video.

Tomska should totally do a series on the horrors of children shows

@artyb27

9 ай бұрын

He already pretty much is

@Anonymousrando-uz9sn

9 ай бұрын

I wanna make Tom watch Courage the Cowardly Dog.

@lloydzeroa.k.aforger6990

9 ай бұрын

The ramifications of time travel and reality changing in a kids show.

@smileysatanson3404

9 ай бұрын

I think thats why he does this

@kingaiden1997

9 ай бұрын

Or Téléfrançais! And the French nightmare pineapple!

This series is rapidly turning into Unravelled but for terrifying children's shows. I love it.

@Rats_Man

9 ай бұрын

sadly without bdg too

@themightykedge2273

9 ай бұрын

"I DO NOT CARE IF HE IS GOD OR COULD KILL GOD AND I DO NOT CARE IF THERE IS A DIFFERENCE"-BDG

@kingkoopa64

9 ай бұрын

Yeah. His father died to yogi bear no wonder he's scared of them

I have to say, tomska doing critical review/dark undertone facts/theories is honestly something I would love more of. His overanalyzing of these beloved childhood properties is genuinely entertaining. Well played, sir. Looking forward to the next one he looks into. Like maybe Thunderbirds.

honestly the way Tom describes the abilities of Barney at 14:45, Barney seems somewhat akin to an eldritch horror

Tom, I can accept an explanation about the trains in Thomas the Tank Engine being able to die. I can accept the fact that the boats in Tugs are submersed and breedable, but Barney the Dinosaur being overpowered? It just feels like a stretch.

@trappedcosmos

9 ай бұрын

He isnt the only person to come to this conclusion, people like cartoon fight club have also brpight up thr fact that barney is constantly just warping reality

@andrewcavallo1877

9 ай бұрын

That’s just what Lord Barney wants you to think

@paintedgear2105

9 ай бұрын

Did you watch the video ?

@calebwashere

9 ай бұрын

@@TheClaraVita partially, but I also couldn’t believe TomSka’s claims of Barney being overpowered

@calebwashere

9 ай бұрын

@@paintedgear2105 i did, and now i feel unsafe from the sight of barney

“Am I a figment of Barney’s imagination?!” is a statement used exclusively by the people who ask the real questions.

That...that hot grease scream is just in my mind forever now. Thanks Tom. Thanks Barney.

@awesomefox555

8 ай бұрын

I mean it was from a PSA for life insurance or something so it was intentionally made to freak you out and stick with you.

@HungerGamesFan88

7 ай бұрын

@@awesomefox555 if it was the sous chef lady with the pot of boiling water, iirc it was a canadian psa warning to watch where youre going, especially when holding something that could do almost worse than kill

I can't hate Barney. I have a lot of nostalgic memories associated with him. My favorite one: We had a huge playroom filled with toys, growing up. I had three siblings, but my little sister (5 or 6) and I (10 or 11) were the oldest, so my mom told us to clean the playroom while she was gone. I hated cleaning, so I was going to trick my little sister into cleaning the whole thing by herself, by telling her to go ahead and start cleaning while I went to the bathroom real quick. Obviously, my brilliant plan was to hide in the bathroom for awhile and come back when my sister was almost done. I waited a bit, and came and peeked around the corner to make sure she was actually cleaning and not waiting on me. Instead of cleaning, she was in the floor, in the middle of the room, on her knees, holding up a stuffed Barney doll, literally crying, and begging "OH PLEASE BARNEY! COME TO LIFE AND HELP ME CLEEEAAANNN!!!WAHHH!!" That's the best I can imitate what it sounded like. It was sad, but hilarious, and I burst out laughing, blowing my cover in the process. I felt so bad she was bawling, I started cleaning, but I couldn't stop laughing the whole time, either. It made cleaning go by faster. I went through my little phase of hating Barney in the 90's when all of my school friends hated him. But honestly, me and my sister watched it together all the time, sang all the stupid songs from it, and I couldn't hate Barney after that day in the playroom. Anytime I hear the name Barney, I smile, thinking about that memory.

I remember as a little kid my dad showed me the Weird Al Jurassic Park song where Barney gets his head eaten clean off and starts gushing blood. I was at the age where my friends and I were singing all the anti-barney parodies (7 or 8 I can't remember) but seeing Barney's neck gushing blood before the dinosaur that ate it coughs the head back out rattled me to my core. I thought about how terrible it was that a character that was invented to help support children got mutilated as a joke, and it just made me feel really guilty for singing all those songs. I asked my 4 year old sister if I could borrow her Barney plush that night, so that I might offer emotional support to Barney and take comfort knowing that Weird Al was simply making a joke (as he's often known to do)

@candyghost1009

9 ай бұрын

Amazing story, I love it lol

@pumpkinpartysystem

8 ай бұрын

My most formative memory of Barney is when I was somewhere from 5-11 years old, and one of my moms was showing me random KZread videos, and not a curated selection that they had watched before, they were just going on a recommended chain. They sheltered me a lot, especially from the internet, but I knew enough about KZread and the internet that eventually we'd run into something fucked if we just kept going by random recommended videos on the sidebar, but she insisted I stay and watch it with her. So, not being allowed to leave, I just kinda hoped that she'd decide to stop, and kept trying to tell her she shouldn't keep going and she should let me leave, but she didn't seem to be comprehending a word of it, or just didn't care. We eventually ran into a video of elmo calling barney a bastard and shooting him with a sniper rifle, and only then was I finally allowed to leave, at which point I was immediately forced to get ready for bed, left to sit in the bath, and later in my bed, having an existential crisis and forever associating elmo and barney in my mind with this and only this.

@garrothhogonokami

8 ай бұрын

@@pumpkinpartysystemand that is why i instantly stole my phone back when a innocent clay-mation and ‘lets open kinder eggs or some poop’ videos my cousins insisted on watching on my phone turned into a claymation of Spiderman and fully pink Spiderman kissing and having pink Spiderman instantly get preggo proving it was Infact, a spiderwomen. I was more cringed out than scared for their innocence but I know when things start to get weird. As for Barney specifically, my only bad situation with him was when for literally zero reason, I had a dream I was trapped in the void and had him just stare at me. No words, no movement. Just a stare. Yet it creeped me out as a child.. buutt to be fair I had the literal exact same dream prob same year but of the wiggles green dinosaur.. sooo maybe my brain just hated dino mascots at the time???

@giggabiite4417

7 ай бұрын

@@garrothhogonokamiorrr... your child brain knew the truth. some instinctual understanding at the core of this purple Dino

@garrothhogonokami

7 ай бұрын

@@giggabiite4417 🥲😂😂 Scared the heck out of me until I was in high school I’ll tell you that XD

"After all, we can see that he can summon meteorites... and what happened to those dinosaurs?" What a line. Especially in the context of Barney lmao

@primrosevale1995

9 ай бұрын

Ironic considering he's canonically 200 million years old.

@andrewashby70

9 ай бұрын

I'm thinking he got his hands on black materia.

This makes so much sense. This was a very thorough deep dive into this important topic, but let me add in the one more piece of context that I thought was overlooked: “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the Kingdom of God.” - Barney, probably

LESS THAN A MINUTE IN.. and he confirms another diagnosis. Round of applause lads

I can’t wait until Tom finds the motivation to explore the strange world of Moomins. Definitely sign me up for that video.

@ninjabluefyre3815

9 ай бұрын

Let's go fill Moominvalley with crime, come on!

@CelticB

9 ай бұрын

Lmao he'll be tripping from episode 1.

@thecatbrat42

9 ай бұрын

God I love the moomins so much

@patrinizer346

9 ай бұрын

Yes.

@shadowcattt

9 ай бұрын

Oh I would love that

I like the implication that Barney is the manifestation of the concept of imaginary friends just like Sandman is the manifestation of the concept of dreams. The story that the first kid he ever was a friend of was another dinosaur is so cute and wholesome I love it.

@Darkgun231

9 ай бұрын

But that implies that Dinosaurs were sapient. And also means Barney has seen civilizations rise and fall. Truly Barney is an eldritch god.

@scottishdrunkard1845

9 ай бұрын

Z̶a̶g̶r̶e̶u̶s̶ Barney sits inside your head. Barney lives among the dead.

If Barney saying, “That’s okay, Cody, I believe in you,” means that Cody is created by Barney’s imagination, even though Cody is 100 percent physically real, could that mean Barney is some sort of Lovecraft Esc God?

31:10 So you might say....unable to comprehend, our mind would swap the visuals of god into something more comprehensible. Like, lets say.....an about 2 meter tall purple costume

Toms repeated decents into madness over childrens cartoons is my new favorite series.

@jan_Majeken

4 ай бұрын

he made an orphan. he killed all the dinosaurs. he can morph reality HOW ARE YOU NOT MAD

I'm surprised Tom could get through any part of Barney with his well-known, crippling fear of mascots.

Barney could easily be recontextualised as a horror character. Like the smile monster, only you can see him and the more you believe in him thr stronger he gets.

@Silver_wind_1987_

Ай бұрын

So Dumbed down freddy kruger?

@Techno_Bunny433

Ай бұрын

@@Silver_wind_1987_ zesty freddy kruger*

Barney is a dinosaur, from your imagination. Once he has entered your world, he will wreak all damnation.

Tom is thoroughly into his "Dissecting Children's Media" arc, and I'm HERE for it!

@chasethemaster3440

8 ай бұрын

Same

I feel like Charlie knew what was going to happen if Tom saw that movie and she still rolled with it.

@kaelendra

9 ай бұрын

Could be funny to see a video of her reacting to this vid all the same.

Barney is an immortal, omniscient, reality-bending, pocket-dimension making, time-traveling cognitohazard #Justiceforcody

I will always remember "The Purple Abyss", a website devoted to a series of short stories describing how demonic Barney is.

With how crazy these episodes get, we need a Brian David Gilbert and Tomska crossover on literally just any random topic and it'll be perfection

@cartoonishidealism582

9 ай бұрын

BDG did have a voice cameo at the start of the "What is the best asdfmovie joke" video

@AstralKat

9 ай бұрын

@@cartoonishidealism582 meven still, a full crossover episode would be amazing

@pup64hcp

9 ай бұрын

no way

When the first thing I hear is "Ignoring the signs of autism" I know Tomska made a good video

I love how Barney can easily be made into an SCP

Never expect the purple not even dinosaur looking giant mascot could be an eldridge horror and could possibly fit within the same universe as lovecraftians taking and breaking mind of many in family friendly manner

I love how Barney can be interpreted as a lovecaftain being with powers over reality beyond human understanding

Barney Thanos timestamps Reality: 13:00 Power: 17:18 Soul: 19:57 Space: 20:36 Time: 24:36 Mind: 26:16

@alechayden3504

3 ай бұрын

Dear god….

if barney manifests physically through people's imaginations, does that mean he can be in multiple places at once if different groups of people imagine him into reality at the same time?? is barney omnipresent?!

@nikkiofthevalley

4 ай бұрын

Probably, yeah.

Barney is basically one of the first ever SCPs before SCP was even a thing 😂

Whoever did the lighting in this movie needs a promotion, seriously why is it so good?? especially the barn shots

@Ioganstone

9 ай бұрын

Kinda tuned out watching the sequential scenes of Cody stroking that egg

The fact that Eddie watched it with him has me cackling. This man *does* have a child, but instead his adult friend was the one who forced him to watch Barney.

26:07 If that were Dinosaur years baby bop would be from the very end of the Carboniferous, the same time as the giant millipede Arthropleura and giant griffinfly Meganeura and long before Dinosaurs first appeared. That would also mean that B.J was from the early Cryogenian, one of the super ancient snowball earths and around the same time as the first visible multicellular life, before even eyes and plants existed.

Barney is a great old one, An eldritch abomination, From the Void it was deployed, upon our imagination! Watching you in your dreams, Savoring every nightmare scream. Thriving on your suffering, Your soul he is devouring!

things i learned from this video. 1. Tom is only 2 years older than me. 2. Elliot is a mythical creature. 3. we need to somehow send Tom a babybop plushie.

Like an episode of Defunctland and FilmTheory but with the unhinged energy of TomSka.

@ninjabluefyre3815

9 ай бұрын

Also Athena P.

@chloeburbank_

9 ай бұрын

also hbomberguy

@cubisttubist

9 ай бұрын

also Unraveled

27:34 it appears he has not recovered from the All Star references video

What if Barney was like Pennywise/IT? Their abilities are very similar in nature, with the core of their powers focusing on Belief. And if you believe in them, they have power over you, but if you don't they're extremely limited. So what if he's just the polar opposite of IT? While IT causes fear and pain, Barney brings joy and important life lessons to children. ...This makes me want to see an epic cinematic battle of Dark vs Light where Barney is protecting kids from Pennywise trying to eat them

Barney is a lovecraftian entity. He latches onto the minds of children, alters their perceptions and sanity, compels them to spread his existence, and turns perception to reality.

I love how in Tom's list of Barney Parodies, there are the expected dinosaurs, but then there's Mr. Potato.

@Drako903

9 ай бұрын

And Smoochy

I personally think barney is a thoughtform, a physical/semi-physical manifestation of a persons/group of peoples thoughts, emotions and even memories, having the ability to interact with the outside world, be it in minor or major ways, depending on the amount of power that is comes from the amount of peoples thoughts and emotions and how strong those feelings are. If he was around when dinosaurs lived, that means that there may have been dinosaurs that became sentient/self aware enough that they all had similar thoughts and beliefs that would manifest as Barney, which he would may not have been as powerful as he is now but still has a good amount of power. Probably when the dinosaurs died out and he survived, his powers for millions of years started to weaken due to not having animals that could believe in him as much as the prior species, until hominids started evolving, which the brains of each species were becoming more sapient and self aware that when the early humans encountered him, they'd worship him as a god, which meant as humans developed more, Barney grew stronger, but he wasn't wide spread, he was only in a certain part of the world, until we invented something that would make him at peak strength we see today, Radio and TV. This meant people who heard and saw him who had access to these pieces of media could further reinforce his strength, due to the power of belief and emotions, making him more and more powerful and make it more difficult for him to wiped out. He does live inside the imagination of kids and people in general, but the power he has gathered from the combined thoughts and emotions of humanity, made him into a fully physical but also extremely dangerous entity, and the memories of Barney are always there, your brain has created pathways to remember him, so he can't truly be gotten rid of. P.s. this was silly thing I just over thought about, kinda of using the idea that Niel Gaiman's American God's is based on, gods being created through the thoughts, emotions and beliefs of people. And I thought this was fun

So. Barney is able to alter someone’s perception of reality, to the point where it is difficult for even the audience to tell what’s real and what’s fake. Much of the messing around he does requires the person to know about him, he’s able to make things appear from nowhere that are very clearly tangible, and most importantly, he can *summon cosmic objects with the potential to cause real world consequence* Barney has very similar powers to fucking **Sephiroth** One-Winged Dino

32:53 Y'know, while I'm far from a Barney fan, i find it pretty wholesome that a Dinosaur from way back then got so lonely that it suddenly gained enough sentience to learn how to create an imaginary friend.

Im glad with this video, to the people that didnt know barney, they can too now finally share the haunting thoughts which include barney lucking in the shadows of them.

Barney would literally be classified as a SCP info hazard.

11:25 so.... Barney is a mandela catalog creature. Or a keter class scp (keter doesnt mean deadly. Just that he's very hard to near impossible to contain)

I can't express how much I love that while the deep dive goes into complete chaos, you still view Barney as something that is wholesome and unproblematic. I went into kindergarten around the tail end of Barneymania (early 2000's) and was actually made fun of for liking Barney because enough parents drilled it into their kids heads that Barney was a bad thing. To see millennials today absolutely dismantle that unnecessary hate makes me feel seen.

@EnzoRafaelSouzaSilva

4 ай бұрын

I was born in 2007 and still grew up watching Barney before my pre-teen years. Granted, I'm from Brazil, so maybe it's a regional thing.

@1Thunderfire

25 күн бұрын

Really bizarre when you think about it, isn't it? That people detested a fictional character who just wanted to spread joy and imagination so much that they wanted to pass down that hate and went out of their way to buy merchandise of it purely to destroy it. It definitely wasn't perfect but it didn't deserve the hatedom it got.

I used to watch Barney as a kid and now I see him occasionally lurking in dark corners. He isn't very scary, in fact I've grown pretty fond of seeing him. Its almost comforting

@RadicalGarry

9 ай бұрын

play with him

@Mcaark

8 ай бұрын

Part of me wants to laugh at this comment, the other part of me wants to hope you're not a schizophrenic in need of a wellness check.

@wieldylattice3015

8 ай бұрын

You’ve somehow made this so much worse than Roko’s basilisk because at least the basilisk leaves you alone until you die

@lavacattoonz

4 ай бұрын

that’s so sweet wth

@fitzcharles33

3 ай бұрын

He's starting to invading our reality

11:25 "Barny is a Memetic-Hazard" isn't the kind of take I was expecting, but it surprisingly tracks...

Barney is one personality shift away from being a dope horror novel

I audibly wheezed through my nose at hearing Mark's "Smash" come out of Tom's mouth. Brilliant.

@exiegelastweekgamer1571

9 ай бұрын

Is it bad that I knew he was going to make that joke?

Wait a minute... an interdimensional being that takes kids on whimsical adventures through space and reality that speaks baby.... Barney is the Doctor isn't he?

@someirishkid9241

9 ай бұрын

The secret regeneration... Now I want Tom to make a follow-up video where he gathers all the evidence that Barney and Friends is just a secret lost spin-off of Doctor Who

11:06 This whole segment, and its wording just. reminds me so viscerally of SCP for some reason. The idea of Barney literally being a cognitohazard who, once seen, can manifest to viewers to spread its influence further is so comical and also terrifying

This deep dive theory into Barney's abilities and history is so fun! I loved how absolutely mad it sounds but also makes sense because Barney is truly an omnipotent friend. #JusticeforCody #JusticeforBabyBop Baby Bop was my favorite character broo. I literally remember hugging her plush more than I have hugged Barney. I just think she's really cute TTwTT

I love the "Tom explains every little detail about a kids show" show, gotta be one of my favorite shows

@jonathanspolnicki1303

9 ай бұрын

Show

What’s really puzzling is that Barney is implied to have caused the shooting star all to win over the little boy who wasn’t having it. And it’s implied to be an eldrich rainbow creature in the beginning as far as anyone knows. Was Barney really willing to go as far as to gift an eldrich space creature to the kid so he would validate his existence?

@YurinanAcquiline

8 ай бұрын

Barney is a people pleaser. 😂

@thetwomind5912

6 ай бұрын

@@YurinanAcquilinesame tho.

Wherever you go, Wherever you may be, Barney will always be there in our minds and hearts.

"But mom has never seen him cuz she doesn't know our secret" is INCREDIBLY CREEPY OMG. The implications of Barney not letting (most) parents see him is kinda... pedo-y.

"Tom becomes a lunatic over some some children's cartoon show for half and hour" is becoming my favourite series

My daughter was obsessed with Barney! At first I was annoyed but man it kept her attention and actually taught her stuff so it grew on me. We took her to see Barney Live, named our cat Twinken after that weird egg creature and had a puppet that was the bottom of the egg plus Twinken. It was... a lot. I still sing the clean up song 😂 She's 22 now and i can't wait to show her this video!! Great job as always Tom!

Real life plot twist: Baby Bop is always standing behind TomSka, sleeps in the same bed as Tom, showers with him, she is always with him

18:00 Is that Markiplier saying smash? It sounds like him saying the word from one of his Pokemon smash or pass videos.

It was the 90s. I was too old for Barney to hop on the hate train, but he's harmless enough. You can do worse than a purple dinosaur mascot singing about love and friendship.

If The Doctor can speak baby, and Barney can speak baby, does that make Barney a Time Lord? 🤔

If Barney can time travel, doesn't that create the possibility that the reason he is older than humanity is because he is constantly traveling back in time and then moving forward linearly thus meaning at any time there could be thousands of Barneys running around at once?

"Chapter 1: world War 2: we won! Chapter 2: barney the dinosaur." That needs to be in a out of context compilation

I'm glad that infinite terrifying omnipotence aside, Tom also realized Barney is just, a lovely fella. I watched Barney a decent amount as a kid and I *never* understood the hate.

I'm always relieved to hear that I'm not the only one that finds Barney as a character very unsettling. I especially have personal discomfort from a talking Barney doll I once had in my toy box as a young chap. The thing would talk to me from my toy box in the middle of the night and it was as annoying as it was creepy.

Is there a Barney SCP? He sounds like the perfect infohazard.

I actually just tried to make believe Barney. Do not do this I am currently being held hostage please for the love of god send help.