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The Godlike Powers of Barney The Dinosaur

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I love you... Please spare me... https://surfshark.deals/tomskafriends - enter promo code TOMSKAFRIENDS for 3 months extra for free! Tom takes a deep dive into the Barneyverse to assess the godlike powers of your favourite purple pariah. Join our Patreon to get early access and extra content http://patreon.com/TomSkaAndFriends Edited by @ItsElliotGough Research assistance by @HedgeOnStage and @eddache Make-up by @magicianbelle Special thanks to @ashens Music: Unseen Horrors by Kevin Macleod Merch (http://sharkrobot.com/asdfmovie) Twitter (http://twitter.com/thetomska) Tumblr (http://thetomska.tumblr.com ) Reddit (http://reddit.com/r/tomska) P.O. Box! Thomas "TomSka" Ridgewell Suite 62 81 Lee High Road Lewisham SE13 5NS United Kingdom 0:00 Introduction 2:10 World War Two 2:14 The origins of Barney 4:37 Surfshark Ad 5:35 More origins of Barney 8:51 Barney's Great Adventure 11:05 Barney can manifest in the real world 12:51 Barney controls your perception of reality 15:24 Barney is imperceptible 19:52 Barney can take you to other dimensions 24:18 Barney is immortal 26:17 Barney can control your mind 29:55 Barney can control... Everything 32:07 Conclusion 34:47 Outro

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@sorio99قبل 9 أشهر 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. 3519
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@leightonpetty4817قبل 9 أشهر “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 1465
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@DeadButterflyProductionsقبل 8 أشهر The concept of Barney being the first imaginary friend that has persisted throughout all human history to continue being an imaginary friend and playmate id="hidden2" class="buttons"> 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. ....وسعت 767
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@coolgreenbug7551قبل 8 أشهر 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 id="hidden3" class="buttons"> 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 ....وسعت 348
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@phoenixisculقبل 9 أشهر The idea of an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent dinosaur that just wants to be friends with everyone is so wholesome 519
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@lolidk189قبل 8 أشهر 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 id="hidden4" class="buttons"> 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? ....وسعت 275
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@nateharvey1300قبل 9 أشهر 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 1770
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@Mental-Autopsyقبل 8 أشهر 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 id="hidden6" class="buttons"> doctor who. He can even use time travel like they can and is unfathomably ancient like they are. Barney is a weeping angel ....وسعت 86
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@KH12foreveقبل 9 أشهر 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. id="hidden7" class="buttons"> 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. ....وسعت 131
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@kingbubbles9461قبل 8 أشهر 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 id="hidden8" class="buttons"> 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 ....وسعت 156
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@CamKoudoقبل 8 أشهر Forget Film Theory, Tomska is my new go to guy for overanalysing children shows 53
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@naomiwalton9396قبل 4 أشهر 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 id="hidden9" class="buttons"> brought joy. I hope he’s still bringing comfort to all the kids who need it. ....وسعت 11
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@littlelambsy87قبل 9 أشهر 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 id="hidden10" class="buttons"> 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. ....وسعت 2279
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@MasterArchfiendقبل 8 أشهر 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 id="hidden11" class="buttons"> 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. ....وسعت 59
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@WenderPotteryقبل 9 أشهر 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 108
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@gabe_s_videosقبل 8 أشهر 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. ....وسعت 53
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@linusrawles6616قبل 9 أشهر I audibly wheezed through my nose at hearing Mark's "Smash" come out of Tom's mouth. Brilliant. 45
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@extraram896قبل 8 أشهر 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 14
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@scottishsquidقبل 9 أشهر Questioning the omnipotence of a purple children's dinosaur is exactly the content i expect from you TomSka 3948
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@animationtime7265قبل 8 أشهر 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 id="hidden15" class="buttons"> enter the world. This would make him much more containable as they could just round up all of the barney toys. ....وسعت 25
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@billybrainless4007قبل 7 أشهر 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 id="hidden16" class="buttons"> childhood properties is genuinely entertaining. Well played, sir. Looking forward to the next one he looks into. Like maybe Thunderbirds. ....وسعت 41
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@gilbertotabares8196قبل 9 أشهر 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. 21
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@assailant8722قبل 9 أشهر 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. 9
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@U_N_Owenقبل 7 أشهر 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, id="hidden19" class="buttons"> and he's been the villain in tons of popular kids shows and movies. ....وسعت 11
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@OfficialMomiaTVقبل 9 أشهر 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 id="hidden20" class="buttons"> me exist, but I do it for you" implying he can stop it and end Cody. ....وسعت 309
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@TheArgusApocraphex1قبل 8 أشهر That.that hot grease scream is just in my mind forever now. Thanks Tom. Thanks Barney. 13
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@danielsej3041قبل 8 أشهر honestly the way Tom describes the abilities of Barney at , Barney seems somewhat akin to an eldritch horror 16
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@badadvicejoe6203قبل 6 أشهر 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? 7
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@CMUrecyclemania2008قبل 8 أشهر 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 id="hidden23" class="buttons"> was overlooked:
“Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the Kingdom of God.” - Barney, probably ....وسعت 7
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@genkotiقبل 9 أشهر "I don't believe in you."
"That's okay, Cody. I believe in you."
This insinuates that you don't need to id="hidden24" class="buttons"> '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. ....وسعت 518
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@lordnord8934قبل 9 أشهر Heck. I think our dimension was very lucky to not been fully invaded by this parasite. if at most the only dimension to not be invaded, as TomSka said id="hidden25" class="buttons"> "90s our personalities could revole around hating" I believe all of our hate either scared Barney the parasite away or our collective hatred gathered up and formed a protective barrier around our dimension stopping Barney from being about to leech off of us and our dimension. The fact we know about him I'd say is the aftermath of an attempted "infection" of our dimension that was soon either destroyed or forced out of our dimension leaving only remnants of what could have happened. ....وسعت 13
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@HiperPivociarzقبل 8 أشهر 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 id="hidden26" class="buttons"> a personal attack, and basically did the equivalent of a youtube essayist's angry response to another youtube essayist's video. ....وسعت 6
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@Techno_Bunny433قبل 8 أشهر 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. 6
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@prettybadcontent8301قبل 8 أشهر So Barney is basically if John Hammond spliced Raptor DNA with the DNA of both Freddy Krueger and Scarlet Witch.
Edit: Barney is the most powerful purple character in media history. He’s like a benevolent Thanos. 11
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@gaygayhomosexualgayقبل 8 أشهر 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 4
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@TheOnlyRealTatertotقبل 9 أشهر It’s oddly comforting knowing Barney may be omnipotent yet is kind and compassionate to humans. 1483
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@katswarriorقبل 7 أشهر LESS THAN A MINUTE IN.. and he confirms another diagnosis.
Round of applause lads 6
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@ikustoceolقبل 7 أشهر Barney is an immortal, omniscient, reality-bending, pocket-dimension making, time-traveling cognitohazard
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@whatshouldmynamebe987قبل 9 أشهر You should do one on Scooby and the Mystery Crew. At least in the original show, they exhibit lots of supernatural abilities. Scooby can manifest objects id="hidden31" class="buttons"> into reality, the entire crew randomely teleports at certain points, they never age past 18-20, Shaggy and Scooby can eat impossible portions, and Scooby can talk. Also, the whole thing with them randomely finding mysteries and being in a world where people disguise crime with ghostly activity? Kinda fishy. Government psyop, a collective dream of some old god (Scooby)? Maybe Scooby is a man suffering from trauma, reliving his younger years in a fantastical way to avoid the present (maybe a senior detective!?!??!!??) Who knows. ....وسعت 9
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@crafts-or-craftsقبل 8 أشهر 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 id="hidden32" class="buttons"> an omnipotent friend.

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 ....وسعت 7
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@apocolototh1948قبل 8 أشهر 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 ....وسعت 4
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@koibowmoقبل 9 أشهر 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! 470
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@cocobutter3175قبل 8 أشهر 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. id="hidden34" class="buttons"> 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. ....وسعت 6
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@joekaput747قبل 8 أشهر I just find it kind of funny that the guy who played the grandpa, George Hearn, was also the first replacement for Sweeney Todd on Broadway, and played id="hidden35" class="buttons"> the same character during the (relatively) short national tour it went on after closing. And was absolutely terrifying in the role. ....وسعت 4
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@lavasharkandboygirl9716قبل 9 أشهر did Tom just unconsciously make a pun 5
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@rachelfrater6623قبل 6 أشهر 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?! 4
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@luigiymario2xdقبل 5 أشهر Barney is basically one of the first ever SCPs before SCP was even a thing 4
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@hydrex6819قبل 9 أشهر The way Tom is describing the abilities of Barney is like how a scientist would describe an anomaly at the SCP Foundation. 899
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@PoisonousPenقبل 8 أشهر This is the most Tomska video that ever Tomska’d and I’m here for this series 4
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@patrickfiller5197قبل 8 أشهر Very much enjoying Tom turning random characters into SCPs. This is a fun format 3
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@_awakenقبل 8 أشهر it appears he has not recovered from the All Star references video 4
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@bathilra5364قبل 8 أشهر I am thoroughly enjoying this series of analyzing the lore of children shows 4
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@mistahad3451قبل 6 أشهر I remember meeting Tomska at London ComicCon in July and him telling me that this was his next video - I couldn't have been more prepared.
I AM NOW NO LONGER PREPARED 1
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@louconnolly2907قبل 9 أشهر 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 540
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@SENOR_Davidقبل 8 أشهر Bro, that “we won!” Won me over. Subscribed.
Barney was pretty OP pulling stuff out of nowhere indeed. 1
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@trilobite3120قبل 8 أشهر 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. ....وسعت 4
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@ohno6919قبل 8 أشهر I cannot express how much I enjoy this genre of TomSka videos 5
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@midigan651قبل 7 أشهر Wherever you go,
Wherever you may be,
Barney will always be there in our minds and hearts. 2
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@ethribin4188قبل 8 أشهر 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) ....وسعت 5
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@Alsang_قبل 9 أشهر This series is rapidly turning into Unravelled but for terrifying children's shows.
I love it. 469
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@zipperozicvideodumpقبل 3 أشهر 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 ....وسعت
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@joshuabrand111قبل 7 أشهر Barney is a great old one,
An eldritch abomination,
From the Void it was deployed, upon our imagination!
Watching you in your dreams, id="hidden41" class="buttons">
Savoring every nightmare scream.
Thriving on your suffering,
Your soul he is devouring! ....وسعت 2
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@DeathnoteBBقبل 7 أشهر I used to love Barney’s Great Adventure as a kid. I was so into Barney and basically obsessed with the movie 2
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@rozieredzقبل 7 أشهر I love how Barney can easily be made into an SCP 3
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@Batman-rl1phقبل 8 أشهر I'm so glad that we all have Tomska here to warn us about eldritch horrors like this one. I'm sure Barney won't do anything bad to him. 3
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@blacksoul9002قبل 9 أشهر Barney is the most dangerous memetic hazard. The SCP foundation is gonna have one hell of a time containing him. 430
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@michaelvillar-noguera3500قبل 9 أشهر Sounds like Barney would make a great Warlock Patron. Or at the very least some kind of abyssal horror. 3
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@plagueisthewise2580قبل 7 أشهر Barney is one personality shift away from being a dope horror novel 3
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@DraconicDuelistقبل 8 أشهر "Barney is built like a f!@# Pixar Mom. Smash." - Thomas James Ridgewell, 2023 3
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@XzyroKyxalaقبل 5 أشهر The bit with "your dad" made me sub immediately. Normally I skip over the sponsor ads, but that one had me rolling.
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@eMinorV1قبل 6 أشهر Idea: Why not do an analysis video on Cat In The Hat? There's a film, some cartoons and several stories about the character and the absolute Loki-like powers he possesses are.limitless. 3
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@nofoodbeforebedقبل 9 أشهر "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 208
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@driveghost1996قبل 7 أشهر 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 id="hidden45" class="buttons"> 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 ....وسعت 4
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@nathangoedeke694قبل 3 أشهر I used to watch the VHS of Barney's big adventure routinely as a child while getting my hair cut. I had no idea as a kid that the creature at the end id="hidden46" class="buttons"> was a marketable plushie, but more than anything I wanted to own a car that had a full fast food kitchen in it. Now THAT's what I wanted to buy! All of Barney's magic and whimsey took second place in my mind to whatever witchcraft enabled someone to make a burger, fries and milkshake in the drivers seat of their own car! I barely even remembered the rest of the movie after seeing that one, magical scene. ....وسعت 1
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@cielthefangirl2876قبل 7 أشهر I saw Barney live once, he was preforming at a mall. I was also in pre school when I was told a scary story of how he murdered a kid in some hotel room. Lmao I loved horror even at age 3 3
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@shen-theeyeoftwighlight2327قبل 2 أشهر Description of Barney at around makes him sound like a goddamn memetic scp 1
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@Blackfangableقبل 4 أشهر 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 1
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@slendertv3616قبل 9 أشهر “Am I a figment of Barney’s imagination?!” is a statement used exclusively by the people who ask the real questions. 197
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@TheGamingManiacDSقبل 8 أشهر A day at the beach is chronology the first episode, because that is where Michael and Amy’s friends first met Barney 2
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@LordBroccoli32قبل 8 أشهر 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 ....وسعت 3
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@carlwheezerofsouls3273قبل 4 أشهر Barney is a dinosaur, from your imagination. Once he has entered your world, he will wreak all damnation. 2
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@oke518قبل 8 أشهر I live for your deep dive videos. Someone has to do it and at least you go 110% every single time. I doubt it would work with a lesser person 3
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@jakeeynick1369قبل 9 أشهر
What if that crazy bird lady was trapped in that pocket dimension as a child and grew up in there 3
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@JkKruقبل 9 أشهر I can’t wait until Tom finds the motivation to explore the strange world of Moomins. Definitely sign me up for that video. 311
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@ravendembinski4827قبل 5 أشهر I was watching this again with headphones cos most of the Barney footage is really quiet…. And then I finally noticed the axe of the green Bionicle on the shelf in the background and I WANT IT!!!
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@SpaceShip-Orionقبل 8 أشهر Tomska will be like "Barney is terrifying"
and then he'll help fund Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 1
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@azimuth6855قبل 7 أشهر Holy jesus fuck that cut to the kitchen scene at . When I was younger my brother was cooking potatoes to make mash and the handle was over the front of the oven so when he knocked it the whole thing tipped over his chest, this shit gave me flashbacks. This is why I wear heavy duty oven mitts and a thick ass apron whenever I'm cooking being burns from boiling water and oil are no joke. ....وسعت 2
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@theoverseer6494قبل 7 أشهر I personally think barney is a thoughtform, a physical/semi-physical manifestation of a persons/group of peoples thoughts, emotions and even memories, id="hidden53" class="buttons"> 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'is based on, gods being created through the thoughts, emotions and beliefs of people. And I thought this was fun ....وسعت 3
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@BMTLAIGقبل 4 أشهر I love these eddache style over thinking kind of videos! I hope you make more.
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@kai_3788قبل 9 أشهر 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. id="hidden54" class="buttons"> The story that the first kid he ever was a friend of was another dinosaur is so cute and wholesome I love it. ....وسعت 170
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@FatNinjaWalrusقبل 7 أشهر Barney is a dinosaur and a memetic cryptid,
He spreads knowledge of himself to strengthen his existence
*discordant marching flute* 1
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@TheTwistedKrisقبل 7 أشهر Barney would literally be classified as a SCP info hazard. 2
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@namelessnavnls8060قبل 8 أشهر "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. 2
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@HK8-Vicky16قبل 9 أشهر You know what i really want to see?
Matpat/Tomska collab theory video.
Please.
I really desperately want this now. 1
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@wolfbd5950قبل 2 أشهر That oil scene is so viscerally upsetting - that is no joke actual nightmare fuel.
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@Fishbieneقبل 9 أشهر So, Barney is an abstract concept that can manifest in the physical world by infecting the minds of mortals. Barney is a Chaos God. 228
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@user-kw7mr6xt9nقبل 3 أشهر careful saying that, Tom. That old man is Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street!
(It's George Hearn, who was in the filmed production with Angela Lansbury.) ....وسعت
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@mandmaofficialقبل 9 أشهر I’m sooo glad this is finished after the Last Month tease! 1
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@KyleJBAwesomeness-OfficialChanقبل 8 أشهر TomSka: I hate Baby Bop from Barney & Friends
PBS, NBC, Cartoon Network, Hit Entertainment, Mattel and Nelvana: So you have chosen death.
TomSka: OH GOD NOOOOOOOO- 1