Real Barney

StoryTide – Where Every Story Finds Its Voice

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00:00This is the real Barney. In 1987, David Joyner was hired to play the purple dinosaur for PBS.

00:06Former drug counselor, gentle voice, perfect for kids. Filming began in Dallas. 24 preschoolers

00:11per episode, screaming for hours. Inside the 70-pound costume, temperatures reached 120 degrees.

00:18David couldn't see through the mesh mouth, kept stumbling into children. They started crying,

00:22not happy tears, fear. They saw a giant purple thing breathing heavily, stumbling toward them.

00:27David's voice became strained, desperate. I love you. You love me, sounded like pleading. By season

00:33three, he was hospitalized twice for dehydration, started taking pills to cope with the heat,

00:38the screams. His voice cracked during songs. David died of heat stroke in 1995 during taping.

00:43They found him collapsed in the suit, surrounded by terrified children. Every Barney episode since

00:48uses his recorded vocals, a dying man's desperate attempts to make children love him.

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