Joking around with your friends and a stuffed Barney head: hilarious. Getting trapped inside that Barney head for 45 minutes: not hilarious at all. Darby Risner, a 15-year-old girl from Trussville, ...

Darby Risner had worn the Barney head before, in seventh grade for a character dress-up day at school, back when the fuzzy purple dinosaur costume still had its full matching suit, before the arms on ...

“Barney came out on television when I was just 10 years old, and I admittedly didn’t understand him,” the director, Tommy Avallone admitted. “As a teenager, for one of my birthdays I asked my aunt to ...