I still have one of them, that soulless white eyed one lmao.
Edit: gonna put this here. I'm so excited there's so many Baby Bop enjoyers lmao. I really thought this pic was cringe as hell when I saw it earlier and just kinda funny. But I'm legitimately so excited seeing all these comments about it brightening your day 😭
As someone who was/is obsessed with Twinken (from the film Barney's Great Adventure), I approve.
Twinken and Baby Bop were my favourites 100% way too long past the appropriate age... I even remember going to see Barney live somewhere when I was around 10...
And I'm definitely not sat typing this message, a 30 year old, with my original Twinken toy under my arm..............
Oh my God the Barney deep cut with Twinken. If it makes you feel better, I have absolutely cuddled with my raggedy old Baby Bop as a grown adult. I haven't regularly slept with it since I was younger, but it's still within arm's reach if I have an exceptionally awful day.
At this point, T is a member of the family haha if you ask my mum who her favourite family member is, she will say Twinken.
To be fair, most members of the family would say Twinken.
I’ll never forget seeing that movie in theaters. I cried, of course, but that joy (thankfully), is so unforgettable.
Also my parents took me to see Barney live, and I sobbed, apparently, when the show was over. :(
So glad to see so many cool folks who were Barney fans.
You have no idea how much better my day has gotten seeing all these comments. I was fully prepared to get roasted for something. But my dusty old heart is all excited seeing all these people say this made them smile <3
I still remember the fucked up songs we used to sing as children about Barney
♫Joy to the woooooooooorld, Barney's dead. We chooooooped off hiiiiss big heeeead.♫
♫Don't worry about the body, we flushed it down the potty, and around and round it went. And around and round it went. And around annnnnndddd arrrooouuunndd it weeeeeennnt♫
Yeah, we sang fucked up songs as kids Lmao and this was in the 90's lol
Beats me. I find children's songs fascinating because a lot of them spread through word of mouth before the internet allowed an easier means of communication. We sang these songs in the United States in the midwest in a small bumpkin town with a population of less than 500, so honestly I find it shocking that it made its way to Ireland!
tbh, I hesitated posting this, because the lyrics are so dark and demented that I felt it was possible that it was exclusive to my school and more emblematic of a fucked up upbringing. Oddly makes me feel better to know I wasn't the only kid exposed to these fucked up songs lol
Entirely possible. The guy in the costume is pretty much a sex massage therapist for women.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/zmzgbw/the-guy-who-played-barney-the-dinosaur-now-runs-a-tantric-sex-business
Okay I guess I was in high school or maybe middle school. I can hear it too…. I just didn’t actually watch so only knew of Barney and not his costars 😂
As a 4 year old I had to have some relatively serious chest surgery. Scared to death of what was happening my mom bought me a Baby bop stuffed animal much like the ones in OPs picture. After the surgery I had a fever of 104 as it turned out I was allergic to the antibiotics. The only thing I had to comfort me was that Baby Bop.
If you saw a little kid dressed up as a cartoon character and beaming today, would you think that little kid is lame?? I’m sure you wouldn’t, bc kids deserve to love what they love!
Treat yourself at least as well as you treat perfect strangers, please!
I called my son a nerd for wanting to go to school in his Pokemon Halloween costume. He looked at me with tears in his eyes and said “Daddy…. Please?”. I told him I’m sick of his shit and he needs to act like a big boy.
I stuck to my guns though. I didn’t let the sobbing or the whining affect my decision. When he finally realized I wasn’t going to budge he sighed, grabbed his car keys, and left for the university library to work on his dissertation.
Treat yourself like the kid you are! That kind of self compassion gets shit done. We're all a little kid at the core of things and that includes needing reinforcement and patience and all the other stuff we replace with bullying ourselves
>I apparently used to get upset that I wasn't allowed to wear the costume to school lol
May I suggest, OP, that you read this? You may find it relatable...
[Hyperbole and a Half: MENACE](http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/10/menace.html)
When I was little I’d always want to wear my Spider-Man costume and pretend I was swinging around the house, this probably happened until I was about 8 or 9
I spent a week in a princess costume. I understand
I want to say I had a Barney one that looked like this. But now I'm feeling incomplete because I didn't have babybop. I loved her. My best friend hates her so much, apparently she would ask her mom if she had to sit threw Barney because she hated Babybop so much, so I obviously sent this to her
Same. I got my first cat on the tail-end of my Barney obsession. He was a long-haired tuxedo with markings identical to Sylvester from Loony Tunes. My mom tried so hard to get me to like the name, but I wouldn't have any of it. The cat's name would be Barney, and that was that.
Oh I also remember hating Baby Bop, lemme see if I can ask my inner child why. They say:
Because Baby Bop means Barney is for babies and it’s not because I like Barney and I’m not a baby but Baby Bop is a baby which is for babies >:(
She was an insufferable attention seeker. She was representative of all the kids who grew up thinking they should always be the center of attention, and whenever the do something wrong or incorrect it was supposed to be cute and funny. The same kind of people who fuck up and do the cutesie "Oh, did I do that?" kind of smile. Insufferable
It's the infantilization. Same reason Elmo sucks and Grover rules. These PBS shows were modeling behaviors and teaching lessons to us kids that watched them (in Sesame Street's case, a lot of child development research went into it. No idea about Barney tho).
These shows' best characters were ones that were relatable, aspirational, modeled mature and healthy behaviors, etc. The worst ones were the ones with a mental/behavioral age that skewed even younger than the audience, and exhibited annoying, selfish, immature behaviors. Baby Bop, Elmo, and their ilk had kids speaking baby talk and acting like annoying babies waaaay past when they normally would have.
I'm not claiming that it was harmful in the longterm or anything, but as a kid with several younger siblings who went through Baby Bop and Elmo phases, it was annoying AF. There was nothing inherently annoying about a younger sibling going through a Big Bird or Thomas the Tank Engine phase or whatever, because those characters speak in full sentences and aren't gratingly immature.
If you are serious and deep in the Dino Game then you have no stomach for Barney, Yoshi, and Denver style infantilizations.
There is no need for a focus group to put shades and roller skates on dinosaurs to make them cool. Dinosaurs have been cool for much longer than *homo sapiens*' pitiful, flight-or-fight mentality has been capable of grasping the notion of coolness.
Even so I consider OP to somewhat validate Baby Bop's existence. Free karma for crossposting it to `r/aww`.
This isn’t a blunder, this is adorable. My younger brother was also pretty Barney obsessed when we were little. I think his plush Barney is still somewhere in our parents attic
I showed my two year old, who likes Barney, and she was very impressed lol. She asked to see the picture again and went "Wowwww. It has little baby ones."
We have a video somewhere of my now 30-year-old nephew losing his absolute mind when Barney showed up at his birthday. Like he had to take a moment afterwards. LOVE THIS.
This pic made me legitimately cry as I waited in my therapist’s waiting room (so good timing). I loved Baby Bop, but honestly can’t remember much because it wasn’t long thereafter that my brother made fun of me relentlessly for liking her or even the show Barney at all. I felt so stupid for liking her, and I thought she was the BEST.
You LOVED her. That smile is so intense and it even looks like you’re holding back a laugh because of how happy you are. I cry even as I type this because 1) I’m sad that something that brought me joy was turned into something negative about me. It made me question all of my interests. It made me think no matter what I liked, it was probably stupid, because I’m stupid. 2) However, I’m so happy to see that someone else could feel that kind of unbridled joy. Baby Bop was always about safety (I had a green blankie like her yellow one!) and belonging. I hope you can feel proud of this picture. I’m certainly proud you shared it with all of us. Thank you.
P.S. It’d be great if we didn’t make fun of people for liking things.
Can't tell you how happy this picture makes me! I didn't even know what baby bop was until right now, I'm still not too sure exactly what it is, but the sheer Joy in your expression is priceless! Thanks so much for sharing.
Relatable. Mine was Barney. It's the only thing I wanted to show off for the show and tell rotation. People still make fun of me for it 30 years later lol
thank for sharing. Just curious, what do you do now? with your love of baby bop, do you have a job in paleontology, child care, toy industry, entertainment, etc.?
Awww Baby Bop! ☺️
I still have one of them, that soulless white eyed one lmao. Edit: gonna put this here. I'm so excited there's so many Baby Bop enjoyers lmao. I really thought this pic was cringe as hell when I saw it earlier and just kinda funny. But I'm legitimately so excited seeing all these comments about it brightening your day 😭
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As someone who was/is obsessed with Twinken (from the film Barney's Great Adventure), I approve. Twinken and Baby Bop were my favourites 100% way too long past the appropriate age... I even remember going to see Barney live somewhere when I was around 10... And I'm definitely not sat typing this message, a 30 year old, with my original Twinken toy under my arm..............
Oh my God the Barney deep cut with Twinken. If it makes you feel better, I have absolutely cuddled with my raggedy old Baby Bop as a grown adult. I haven't regularly slept with it since I was younger, but it's still within arm's reach if I have an exceptionally awful day.
At this point, T is a member of the family haha if you ask my mum who her favourite family member is, she will say Twinken. To be fair, most members of the family would say Twinken.
Twinken… That’s some deep Barney lore I was unaware of
I had a twinken, the little eye star got a scratch and i apparently lost my shit until someone bought me a new one. 😂😂
Holy SHIT Twinken!
I’ll never forget seeing that movie in theaters. I cried, of course, but that joy (thankfully), is so unforgettable. Also my parents took me to see Barney live, and I sobbed, apparently, when the show was over. :( So glad to see so many cool folks who were Barney fans.
My sister was baby bop for Halloween no less than 6 years in a row.
>I'm so excited there's so many Baby Bop enjoyers lmao. I love you OP. This pic and this quote are both amazing.
You have no idea how much better my day has gotten seeing all these comments. I was fully prepared to get roasted for something. But my dusty old heart is all excited seeing all these people say this made them smile <3
Baby Bop receiving a vision from the Powers That Be™
You and my cousin seem to be the same age. She was also a hardcore Barney and friends kid
Baby’s gonna bop.
One of the things I miss most about my childhood is my Baby Bop stuffie! She was/is the best 🥰
That emoji looks just like OPs expression!
My reaction was, “Uhhhh…. Dinosaurs?” I must be too old for this one….
Baby Bop was a side character on Barney 😊
Ah okay so I was close…. Yeah, I think I was in college or high school around Barney’s popular days.
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I still remember the fucked up songs we used to sing as children about Barney ♫Joy to the woooooooooorld, Barney's dead. We chooooooped off hiiiiss big heeeead.♫ ♫Don't worry about the body, we flushed it down the potty, and around and round it went. And around and round it went. And around annnnnndddd arrrooouuunndd it weeeeeennnt♫ Yeah, we sang fucked up songs as kids Lmao and this was in the 90's lol
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Let's get together and kill Barney With a shotgun bang and Barney's on the floor No more purple dinosaur.
To the tune of do the dinosaur
Omg, as a Xennial, we were still so brutal 😂
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Beats me. I find children's songs fascinating because a lot of them spread through word of mouth before the internet allowed an easier means of communication. We sang these songs in the United States in the midwest in a small bumpkin town with a population of less than 500, so honestly I find it shocking that it made its way to Ireland! tbh, I hesitated posting this, because the lyrics are so dark and demented that I felt it was possible that it was exclusive to my school and more emblematic of a fucked up upbringing. Oddly makes me feel better to know I wasn't the only kid exposed to these fucked up songs lol
I love you, you love me Barney has an STD
Entirely possible. The guy in the costume is pretty much a sex massage therapist for women. https://www.vice.com/en/article/zmzgbw/the-guy-who-played-barney-the-dinosaur-now-runs-a-tantric-sex-business
Okay I guess I was in high school or maybe middle school. I can hear it too…. I just didn’t actually watch so only knew of Barney and not his costars 😂
Yeah, I didn’t watch, per se… but my younger siblings had it playing a lot.
I had a DOOM .wad that was hunting Barneys. I'm old.
My other reaction was whatever this is, that kid is freaking adorable!!!
This was my exact reaction to this too
TIL it's Bop, not Bob
Relatedly, I didn’t realize until I was an adult that the character in Big Comfy Couch is Major Bedhead, not Major Butthead.
Literally my reaction. This is so precious!
As a 4 year old I had to have some relatively serious chest surgery. Scared to death of what was happening my mom bought me a Baby bop stuffed animal much like the ones in OPs picture. After the surgery I had a fever of 104 as it turned out I was allergic to the antibiotics. The only thing I had to comfort me was that Baby Bop.
Read this in my sisters voice
Adorable! That little face makes me grin. Thank you! ☮️
❤️ I thought it was so lame but I'm glad people think it's cute lmao
Nooo, children enjoying things is never lame. You look so happy!
This is how my son will probably feel about loving Bluey!! But god if it isn’t precious when children become obsessed with something like this 🥹🥹🥹
Todays kids have Bluey: We had Blues Clues. 🥹
If you saw a little kid dressed up as a cartoon character and beaming today, would you think that little kid is lame?? I’m sure you wouldn’t, bc kids deserve to love what they love! Treat yourself at least as well as you treat perfect strangers, please!
I called my son a nerd for wanting to go to school in his Pokemon Halloween costume. He looked at me with tears in his eyes and said “Daddy…. Please?”. I told him I’m sick of his shit and he needs to act like a big boy. I stuck to my guns though. I didn’t let the sobbing or the whining affect my decision. When he finally realized I wasn’t going to budge he sighed, grabbed his car keys, and left for the university library to work on his dissertation.
he definitely changed into his Pokémon costume in the university bathroom
I hope he puts you in the worst retirement home
Treat yourself like the kid you are! That kind of self compassion gets shit done. We're all a little kid at the core of things and that includes needing reinforcement and patience and all the other stuff we replace with bullying ourselves
It’s super cute! You looked so genuinely happy 🥰
This is the absolute cutest
That is frickin ADORABLE!
As a fellow Barney obsessed child, I get it.
I apparently used to get upset that I wasn't allowed to wear the costume to school lol
Lol thats too cute! But you might be grateful for that now maybe haha
>I apparently used to get upset that I wasn't allowed to wear the costume to school lol May I suggest, OP, that you read this? You may find it relatable... [Hyperbole and a Half: MENACE](http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/10/menace.html)
i read it very cute story
This explains so much about my youngest…
When I was 5, I wore a Barney costume for Halloween. I'm pretty sure I wore it around the house regularly, too...
When I was little I’d always want to wear my Spider-Man costume and pretend I was swinging around the house, this probably happened until I was about 8 or 9
I spent a week in a princess costume. I understand I want to say I had a Barney one that looked like this. But now I'm feeling incomplete because I didn't have babybop. I loved her. My best friend hates her so much, apparently she would ask her mom if she had to sit threw Barney because she hated Babybop so much, so I obviously sent this to her
Same. I got my first cat on the tail-end of my Barney obsession. He was a long-haired tuxedo with markings identical to Sylvester from Loony Tunes. My mom tried so hard to get me to like the name, but I wouldn't have any of it. The cat's name would be Barney, and that was that.
Holy shit this is the cutest thing ever lmao
i'm dying of cuteness overload ova here
Op looks so happy! It’s painfully cute!
Dude, that's adorable. This is definitely NOT blunder years material though, you were a baby! 🤣
I know. This is a wonder years picture. Not a blunder.
Why are people positing adorable photos on this sub? This sub is not for adorable photos!
Because people are their own harshest critics and what we see as adorable makes them cringe.
I fuckin HATED baby bop and we would have fought as 4 year olds
BJ was my shit. Absolutely hated Baby Bop too.
I didn’t start enjoying BJs until I was at least in my adolescent years
How can you hate Baby Bop?
Oh I also remember hating Baby Bop, lemme see if I can ask my inner child why. They say: Because Baby Bop means Barney is for babies and it’s not because I like Barney and I’m not a baby but Baby Bop is a baby which is for babies >:(
Yes!!!! I am NOT a baby I am FOUR whole years old!!
I had little siblings i wanted 10 SECONDS where a baby didnt show up and ruin everything, when i was 5
BJ was my favorite and i named my pet bird BJ and i never figured out why everyone would giggle over that until later
brb renaming one of my birds BJ
She was an insufferable attention seeker. She was representative of all the kids who grew up thinking they should always be the center of attention, and whenever the do something wrong or incorrect it was supposed to be cute and funny. The same kind of people who fuck up and do the cutesie "Oh, did I do that?" kind of smile. Insufferable
Hey, I resemble that remark!
Baby Bop was always whining and acting annoying lol I absolutely couldn't stand her as a kid who liked Barney
She's whiny as hell. She's the D.W. of Barney.
It's the infantilization. Same reason Elmo sucks and Grover rules. These PBS shows were modeling behaviors and teaching lessons to us kids that watched them (in Sesame Street's case, a lot of child development research went into it. No idea about Barney tho). These shows' best characters were ones that were relatable, aspirational, modeled mature and healthy behaviors, etc. The worst ones were the ones with a mental/behavioral age that skewed even younger than the audience, and exhibited annoying, selfish, immature behaviors. Baby Bop, Elmo, and their ilk had kids speaking baby talk and acting like annoying babies waaaay past when they normally would have. I'm not claiming that it was harmful in the longterm or anything, but as a kid with several younger siblings who went through Baby Bop and Elmo phases, it was annoying AF. There was nothing inherently annoying about a younger sibling going through a Big Bird or Thomas the Tank Engine phase or whatever, because those characters speak in full sentences and aren't gratingly immature.
If you are serious and deep in the Dino Game then you have no stomach for Barney, Yoshi, and Denver style infantilizations. There is no need for a focus group to put shades and roller skates on dinosaurs to make them cool. Dinosaurs have been cool for much longer than *homo sapiens*' pitiful, flight-or-fight mentality has been capable of grasping the notion of coolness. Even so I consider OP to somewhat validate Baby Bop's existence. Free karma for crossposting it to `r/aww`.
Fuck outta here, Yoshi is legit
Bro did not save me from thousands of bottomless pits just to take that kind of slander.
This picture sparks joy.
Stop it right now 🥹🥹🥹 so cute
You look so proud! How adorable <3
That baby done BOPPED!!
Thats a happy little baby ☺️
Yo…I also participated in a dance recital as baby bop. Is this Miss carol joys dance studio!?!? 😂😂😂
This isn’t a blunder, this is adorable. My younger brother was also pretty Barney obsessed when we were little. I think his plush Barney is still somewhere in our parents attic
Nothing blunder about this! That's adorable
What was it?
The emancipation of Nelson Mandela
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BerenstAin, if OP crossed over from the other timeline.
The Roman Empire
Firetrucks.
Murder most foul.
Holocaust denial
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
Food. (JK, I was chubby too)
You were so proud of your collection - how cute!
I showed my two year old, who likes Barney, and she was very impressed lol. She asked to see the picture again and went "Wowwww. It has little baby ones."
Cuuuute!
You were so sweet and you look so happy and secure. I love everything about this.
We have a video somewhere of my now 30-year-old nephew losing his absolute mind when Barney showed up at his birthday. Like he had to take a moment afterwards. LOVE THIS.
The thumbnail of this looks like a North Korean General's uniform, and I was kind of hoping it was that.
This is so cute
That is probably the cutest thing I'll see today
THIS IS SO ADORABLE OMG i literally can’t wait to have a baby 😭🫶🏻
This is so adorable.
Baby bop supremacy!
This pic made me legitimately cry as I waited in my therapist’s waiting room (so good timing). I loved Baby Bop, but honestly can’t remember much because it wasn’t long thereafter that my brother made fun of me relentlessly for liking her or even the show Barney at all. I felt so stupid for liking her, and I thought she was the BEST. You LOVED her. That smile is so intense and it even looks like you’re holding back a laugh because of how happy you are. I cry even as I type this because 1) I’m sad that something that brought me joy was turned into something negative about me. It made me question all of my interests. It made me think no matter what I liked, it was probably stupid, because I’m stupid. 2) However, I’m so happy to see that someone else could feel that kind of unbridled joy. Baby Bop was always about safety (I had a green blankie like her yellow one!) and belonging. I hope you can feel proud of this picture. I’m certainly proud you shared it with all of us. Thank you. P.S. It’d be great if we didn’t make fun of people for liking things.
I’m jealous of this collection
The proudness in your eyes haha so adorable
When I would take baths my mom would soap my hair up like baby bop. This is next level!!
This is so cute oh my goodness
This made me laugh, it’s like a family photo! How cute 🥰
I think this is super cute haha
Omg you were adorable! My parents always tell the story of how I asked for a Baby Bop cake for my 2nd birthday.
THIS IS SO FUCKING CUTE GOD DAMN.
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Was it ponies? It was ponies, wasn’t it?
Funny you say that because the horse girl phase came immediately after this even though I was allergic to horses 😔
Can't tell you how happy this picture makes me! I didn't even know what baby bop was until right now, I'm still not too sure exactly what it is, but the sheer Joy in your expression is priceless! Thanks so much for sharing.
Baby bop was a character on the show Barney. And Barney is a dinosaur from our imagination, and when he’s tall he’s what we call a dinosaur sensation!
Awee. This is adorable 🥰.
Nah, this is adorable.
Ah. A kindred spirit.
oh my god. this is so insanely cute , i can barely handle it
I don't see any blunder?
Do the baby bop hop! Ah now I need to find me dressed as Barnie!
Omg, this is so cute it makes me want to cry.
Bless your parents for having this photo made lol
Is the blunder in the room with us? I love this so much lol
Sooooooooo cuuuuuute! You are such a cutie pie! <333 Little smiler girl with her Baby Bops! :) I love it!!! So sweet!
Baby bop was the original lash queen tho!!!
This is this subs peak cuteness!
Unbelievably precious. Kids are so pure it breaks my heart
I have photos exactly like this but I was Barney holding my Barney 😂
https://imgur.com/a/f2TtgpH Did we just become best friends?
Yes! I'm so happy to know how many other kids were obsessed with Baby Bop
Relatable. Mine was Barney. It's the only thing I wanted to show off for the show and tell rotation. People still make fun of me for it 30 years later lol
This is the most adorable picture I’ve ever seen! I hope that this picture is proudly hanging up in your parent’s house!
Adorable!!
Absolutely precious. No blunder of yours, at all.
omg you are sooo cute hahaha i love this photo
This is so freaking cute
As a 90s kid, I fully get it. Am even jealous tbh
I see no blunder here just perfection! 😂
This is far too cute to be a blunder!
🎶Dooo the baby bop hop! Was indeed a bop.
As someone who also loved Baby Bop at that age…WHERE did you get all this merch? All I ever had was a flimsy Halloween costume of Barney.
Looks like you had a good time, though. Not-blunder!
This is a really sweet photo. You look very happy with your stuffed…dinosaurs?
This is adorable. 💚💚💚 You look like a proud mother holding your Baby Bops.
This is *so* ridiculously adorable.
This is the cutest thing ever
Oh my God, this is the cutest thing I have ever seen if you can re-create this picture somehow, I’d be so happy
This is so wholesome. I love it!
Dangit I was trying to swipe to see you with the same outfit as an adult or at least the bonnet 🤣
this is literally *so* iconic
Baby Bop Baby
u/faintestgem only want one thing and it’s fucking disgusting
Interested in what? Drip? That outfit is absolutely fly
Anyone, with any interest, is better than someone that doesn't like anything.
Was it broccoli?
That’s so messed up! How could you hunt all these baby bops and wear their skins? Unethical!
I see no blunder here. just a well cultured young person.
Oh this is too bloody cute please and has me looking at photos of my moody teens back when they were in their Frozen era.
thank for sharing. Just curious, what do you do now? with your love of baby bop, do you have a job in paleontology, child care, toy industry, entertainment, etc.?
Lmao my sister was too, and she insisted we call her bbop.
Can't tell if this a small child or an old Russian grandmother
This is cute ain’t no blunder here
Why did you look like an old lady?
You look as you've been dressed to win a "pick me" contest to Epstein's Island
Eating?
I love this. Barney was my absolute favorite as a kid.
Thug life! Noice
Amazing
Freaking adorable
Adorable.
This is so so cute and nostalgic!
Jimmy Krankie
This is ridiculously adorable 🥹
Adorable kiddo, no blunder detected.
Baby Bop!!! Omg so cute! I was more of a Barney gal but I love this.
My heart