The New Barney 2.0

Who knew that a giant child-like dinosaur would turn 20 years old? And at that, could theoretically legally drink starting next year?

Oh yes my friends Barney turns 20 this year!

Times flies when you’ve never seen an episode and have no idea the show still runs daily on PBS! And nevermind, that there’s million of pre-schoolers who would immediately correct me my “horrible” oversight.

I just assumed he finally dove into a deep depression like the poor guy who created Coke II.

 

But obviously these current photos show my horrendous mistake.   

Let’s just indulge for a moment what took place when he was “born” in 1988:

·        Iran-Contra Affair

·        Michael Dukakis was the Democratic nominee for president

·        The Last Emperor won nine Oscars

·        Singer Sonny Bono was elected mayor of Palm Springs

·        Summer Olympics were held in Seoul, South Korea

·        NASA resumed shuttle flights after the disastrous Challenger explosion

·        The Iraq-Iran War ends – look it up kids

·        L.A. Dodgers win over the Oakland A’s in the World Series

·        Daddy Bush wins over Dukakis for president

·        Pan-Am Flight 103 was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland killing 270 people

·        Benazir Bhutto was sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan

·        Sammy Davis, Jr. and Roy Orbison both died

·        Actor Michael Cera, singer Rhianna, Rumer Willis and Brooke Hogan were all born…

…as well as some big purple bumbling, dumb-sounding dinosaur children worldwide love to this day. Twenty years later!

Now if I could only get in on the cash cow that his show still generates!