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The Godlike Powers of Barney The Dinosaur

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Published 31 Jul 2023

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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@sorio999 months ago 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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@leightonpetty48179 months ago 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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@DeadButterflyProductions9 months ago The concept of barney being the first imaginary friend that has persisted throughout all human history to continue being an imaginary friend and playmate . ...Expand 767
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@coolgreenbug75519 months ago 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 . ...Expand 348
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@phoenixiscul9 months ago The idea of an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent dinosaur that just wants to be friends with everyone is so wholesome. 519
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@lolidk1899 months ago 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 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 didnt 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 wouldnt be bullied in school. Who could say?. ...Expand 275
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@nateharvey13009 months ago The 2 dinosaur years line implies that hes still pretty young for whatever species he is. Implying that theres both more like him and that they are unfathomably old. 1770
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@Mental-Autopsy9 months ago 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 . ...Expand 86
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@KH12foreve9 months ago 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. . ...Expand 131
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@kingbubbles94619 months ago 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 so thanks for these videos. They' re filled with charm and energy and i love them every time. ...Expand 156
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@CamKoudo9 months ago Forget film theory, tomska is my new go to guy for overanalysing children shows. 53
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@naomiwalton93965 months ago 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 . ...Expand 11
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@littlelambsy879 months ago Hi, i' m aand 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. And perhapsthe largest and most relevant group at this time, in this niche were the ceratosauria. Further within this group, superficial similarities with thei. E. Short arms, can be found within the abelisauridae. This family is also noted by the synapomorphic brachyrostran condition (indeed, barney' s face does lookcompressed) 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 basalsuch 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. ...Expand 2279
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@MasterArchfiend9 months ago 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 . ...Expand 59
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@WenderPottery9 months ago 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_videos9 months ago 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 rea id="hidden13"lly is! It doesnt make me like him more, necessarily, but i feel like i get the appeal now. ...Expand 53
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@linusrawles66169 months ago I audibly wheezed through my nose at hearing mark' scome out of tom' s mouth. Brilliant. 45
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@extraram8968 months ago 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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@scottishsquid9 months ago Questioning the omnipotence of a purple children' s dinosaur is exactly the content i expect from you tomska. 3948
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@animationtime72659 months ago 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 . ...Expand 25
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@billybrainless40078 months ago 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 . ...Expand 41
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@gilbertotabares81969 months ago 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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@assailant87229 months ago 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_Owen7 months ago 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, . ...Expand 11
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@OfficialMomiaTV9 months ago 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 . ...Expand 309
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@TheArgusApocraphex19 months ago That. That hot grease scream is just in my mind forever now. Thanks tom. Thanks barney. 13
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@danielsej30419 months ago honestly the way Tom describes the abilities of Barney at , Barney seems somewhat akin to an eldritch horror 16
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@badadvicejoe62037 months ago If barney saying, thats okay, cody, i believe in you, means that cody is created by barneys 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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@CMUrecyclemania20089 months ago 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 let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of god. Barney, probably. ...Expand 7
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@genkoti9 months ago " i don' t believe in you. "
okay, cody. I believe in you. "
this insinuates that you don' t need to 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. ...Expand 518
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@lordnord89349 months ago 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 . ...Expand 13
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@HiperPivociarz8 months ago 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 . ...Expand 6
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@Techno_Bunny4339 months ago Barney could easily beas 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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@prettybadcontent83019 months ago 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. Hes like a benevolent thanos. 11
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@gaygayhomosexualgay9 months ago 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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@TheOnlyRealTatertot9 months ago Its oddly comforting knowing barney may be omnipotent yet is kind and compassionate to humans. 1483
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@katswarrior8 months ago Less than a minute in. And he confirms another diagnosis.
round of applause lads. 6
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@ikustoceol8 months ago Barney is an immortal, omniscient, reality-bending, pocket-dimension making, time-traveling cognitohazard
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@whatshouldmynamebe9879 months ago 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 . ...Expand 9
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@crafts-or-crafts9 months ago 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.
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 .. ...Expand 7
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@apocolototh19489 months ago 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 .. ...Expand 4
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@koibowmo9 months ago 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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@cocobutter31759 months ago 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 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. ...Expand 6
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@joekaput7478 months ago 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 . ...Expand 4
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@rachelfrater66237 months ago 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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@luigiymario2xd6 months ago Barney is basically one of the first ever scps before scp was even a thing. 4
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@hydrex68199 months ago 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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@PoisonousPen9 months ago This is the most tomska video that ever tomskad and im here for this series. 4
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@patrickfiller51979 months ago Very much enjoying tom turning random characters into scps. This is a fun format. 3
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@_awaken9 months ago it appears he has not recovered from the All Star references video 4
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@bathilra53649 months ago I am thoroughly enjoying this series of analyzing the lore of children shows. 4
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@mistahad34516 months ago 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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@louconnolly29079 months ago 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_David9 months ago Bro, that we won! Won me over. Subscribed.
barney was pretty op pulling stuff out of nowhere indeed. 1
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@trilobite31209 months ago 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. .. ...Expand 4
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@ohno69199 months ago I cannot express how much i enjoy this genre of tomska videos. 5
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@midigan6517 months ago Wherever you go,
wherever you may be,
barney will always be there in our minds and hearts. 2
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@ethribin41889 months ago 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) .. ...Expand 5
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@Alsang_9 months ago This series is rapidly turning into unravelled but for terrifying children' s shows.
i love it. 469
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@zipperozicvideodump4 months ago 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 .. ...Expand
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@joshuabrand1117 months ago 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!. ...Expand 2
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@DeathnoteBB8 months ago I used to lovebarneys great adventure as a kid. I was so into barney and basically obsessed with the movie. 2
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@rozieredz7 months ago I love how barney can easily be made into an scp. 3
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@Batman-rl1ph9 months ago 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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@blacksoul90029 months ago 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-noguera35009 months ago Sounds like barney would make a great warlock patron. Or at the very least some kind of abyssal horror. 3
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@plagueisthewise25808 months ago Barney is one personality shift away from being a dope horror novel. 3
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@DraconicDuelist9 months ago "Barney is built like a f!@# Pixar Mom. Smash." - Thomas James Ridgewell, 2023 3
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@XzyroKyxala5 months ago 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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@eMinorV17 months ago 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. 3
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@nofoodbeforebed9 months ago " after all, we can see that he can summon meteorites. And what happened to thosewhat a line. Especially in the context of barney lmao. 208
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@driveghost19967 months ago 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 . ...Expand 4
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@nathangoedeke6944 months ago 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 . ...Expand 1
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@cielthefangirl28767 months ago 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-theeyeoftwighlight23273 months ago Description of Barney at around makes him sound like a goddamn memetic scp 1
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@Blackfangable4 months ago 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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@slendertv36169 months ago Am i a figment of barneys imagination? Is a statement used exclusively by the people who ask the real questions. 197
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@TheGamingManiacDS9 months ago A day at the beach is chronology the first episode, because that is where Michael and Amys friends first met Barney 2
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@LordBroccoli329 months ago So. Barney is able to alter someones perception of reality, to the point where it is difficult for even the audience to tell whats real and whats fake. summon cosmic objects with the potential to cause real world consequence
barney has very similar powers to fucking *sephiroth*
one-winged dino. ...Expand 3
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@carlwheezerofsouls32735 months ago Barney is a dinosaur, from your imagination. Once he has entered your world, he will wreak all damnation. 2
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@oke5189 months ago 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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@jakeeynick13699 months ago
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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@JkKru9 months ago I cant 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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@ravendembinski48275 months ago 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-Orion9 months ago Tomska will be like " barney is
and then he' ll help fund don' t hug me i' m scared. 1
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@azimuth68558 months ago 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. .. ...Expand 2
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@theoverseer64948 months ago I personally think barney is a thoughtform, amanifestation of a persons/group of peoples thoughts, emotions and even memories, 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. ...Expand 3
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@BMTLAIG4 months ago I love these eddache style over thinking kind of videos! I hope you make more.
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@kai_37889 months ago 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. . ...Expand 170
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@FatNinjaWalrus7 months ago 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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@TheTwistedKris8 months ago Barney would literally be classified as a scp info hazard. 2
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@namelessnavnls80609 months ago " 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-Vicky169 months ago 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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@wolfbd59503 months ago That oil scene is so viscerally upsetting - that is no joke actual nightmare fuel.
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@Fishbiene9 months ago 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-kw7mr6xt9n3 months ago 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.) .. ...Expand
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@mandmaofficial9 months ago Im so glad this is finished after the last month tease! 1
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@KyleJBAwesomeness-OfficialChan8 months ago 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 nooo- 1