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#hyrule warriors #i'm glad people are realising fi is goated

Did anyone ever like attempt to document and compile the variations of Barney the dinosaur murder ballads across the elementary school system in the early 2000s. Like legit it has always fascinated me as a phenomena and I would love to know if there were like traceable regional variations or what.

taraxippos

Looking at the tags so far I’m kind of fascinated by how much the ‘I Love You’ parodies vary in their phrasing/murder weapons but the ‘Joy to the World’ ones are nearly identical

karvina

here is my collection of barney murder songs as they appeared in the notes and comments of this post at about 4 pm pacific 7/25, somewhat arbitrarily color coded to show similar memes. it appears that "baseball bat and 2x4" is the mode configuration but there is so much variation that that exact phrasing only makes up a small part of the set. if i knew more about statistical modeling i would turn this into some kind of data tree that shows which phrases are most likely to follow other phrases.

thewitchway

My brother was young enough to be in elementary school during the Barney days.

He came home siging:

I hate you, you hate me, we need psychotherapy...

linnealurks

My children's version, circa 2006:

I hate you, you hate me

Let's go out and kill Barney

With a big shotgun, shoot him in the head

Bang bang bang, now Barney's dead

beggars-opera

But what about:

On top of Old Smokey

Where the skies are so blue

I shot Barney's head off

With my .22?????

beggars-opera

#okay i want to know what the global spread of this is#because we were singing this in New Zealand#not pre-internet but like#my family did not have a home computer when i was singing this

Most definitely this was happening pre-internet. I grew up during the early, all-encompassing boom of this character in the mid 1990s, and if I remember the height of Barney hatred peaked roughly 1st-2nd grade, 1997 or so. And we weren't the first, I'm sure.

#the version I heard was about the tellitubbies #it went #i hate you you hate me #let's all go and kill dipsy #with a stab in the back and a bullet in the head #sorry lala dipsy's dead