

Mitchell's book The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon, he notes that the program is often a target for parody and negative attacks by children of various ages, adolescents, and adults in the United States and elsewhere the notion given that the show is "saccharine", "boring", "annoying", "sugary", "dangerous" or "uneducational".

The cover of a roleplaying guidebook The Jihad to Destroy Barney (2006) depicts anti-Barney humor in the 1990s.Īnti-Barney humor is a form of humor that targets the main character Barney the Dinosaur from the children's television series Barney & Friends and singles out the show for criticism.
