Barneyesque

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1. Resembling or characteristic of Barney from the American children’s television series Barney & Friends, a purple anthropomorphic Tyrannosaurus rex who conveys educational messages through songs and small dance routines with a friendly, huggable and optimistic attitude.

   When it comes to grading papers, the color red is out. Now in vogue: the very Barneyesque shade of purple.

   2006, Michael Smerconish, “Seeing Purple”, in Muzzled: From T-Ball to Terrorism—True Stories That Should Be Fiction, Nashville, Tenn.: Nelson Current, →ISBN, page 60

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   It’s strange what a few red and white candy-cane fashioned posts can do for a campus. And how easily a carousel lined with big plastic Barneyesque dinosaurs can enliven a normally adult space.

   1998 April 16, Young Chang, “If you build it… they will come”, in The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, volume CII, number 24, Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University, →OCLC, page B1

   Marylen Costumes […] Offers a big selection of somewhat “Barneyesque” designs and a reasonably serious T. rex.

   1999, John C. Fredriksen, Dino-Guide: The Saurian Source Book (Reference Books for School and Public Libraries; 1), Salem, Mass.: Dollar Scholar Press, →ISBN, page 30, column 2

   So for a couple of years I spent lots of time leafing through children’s picture books. And I discovered that the great majority were mediocre or worse—banal, treacly, shallow, half-assed, depressingly Barneyesque.

   2001, Istvan Banyai, − = + [Minus Equals Plus], New York, N.Y.: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., →ISBN, page 3

   I ALWAYS THOUGHT THE commercials for Death to Smoochy were baffling. They primarily feature Robin Williams bibbling around in his pixieish way, slamming into walls and jumping on some guy. Why, I wondered, are they advertising it like this when they’ve got an obvious high concept to push: a disgraced children’s entertainer loses it and decides to kill his replacement, a guy in a cute Barneyesque rhino costume?

   2002 April 4–10, Stephen Notley, “That’s funny? New comedies grope for the funny bone”, in SEE Magazine, number 436, Edmonton, Alta.: Gazette Press Ltd., →ISSN, page 26, column 1

   DEATH TO SMOOCHY ◆ (108 mins., R) Set in the Barneyesque world of children’s television, this comedy of backstabbing overkill tells a moldy-oldie, not-nearly-as-nasty-as-it-thinks-it-is joke.

   2002 April 12, Owen Gleiberman, “The Week”, in Entertainment Weekly, number 648, New York, N.Y.: Entertainment Weekly Inc., →ISSN, page 52, column 2