“The beginning of millennial trauma that continues to this day,” one TikTok commenter wrote NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Between a new animated kids’ show on Max and a new documentary podcast series, Barney ...

On November 27, 1997, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade became infamous for those who witnessed the chaos firsthand, thanks to a perfect storm of comically oversized balloons, brutal winds, and ...

While the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual delight, a previous "tragedy" on the parade route involving Barney the Dinosaur has resurfaced online. The incident occurred in the 1997 parade ...

It was a scene almost straight out of the 1984 film "Ghostbusters" — or maybe even "Godzilla." A giant, inflatable figure of the purple children's character Barney got out of its handlers' control, ...

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is a long-standing holiday tradition, with children’s favorite cartoon, movie and TV characters inflated to the size of office buildings and strutted down the ...

Barney towering above the parade‑goers Screengrab from YouTube video 'Thanksgiving ‘97. The Day Barney Was Killed'/Delhithecat As the 99th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade rolled through New York ...

This video may be difficult for some people to watch. On November 27 1997, America’s beloved purple dinosaur went to the ground but did not get back up. During the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in ...

NEW YORK — Alright, it wasn’t Godzilla reincarnated – but it was really dangerous. Strong wind gusts tearing across 5th Avenue made Barney the Purple Dinosaur violently twist and buck, as brave ...

Few children’s shows carry the baggage that Barney & Friends does, even now. Created as a series of videos by Dallas mom Sheryl Leach in 1988, the show was eventually discovered by Connecticut Public ...