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Barney Fife was the bumbling, lovable, Walter Mitty-ish deputy sheriff on the 1960s TV comedy The Andy Griffith Show. As played by Don Knotts, Fife was the overeager sidekick to sheriff Andy Taylor (played by series star Andy Griffith). The show was set in the fictional small town of Mayberry, North Carolina. Sheriff Andy had warmth and horse sense, but Barney was insecure, blustery and excitable --- so comically unreliable that the sheriff would only let him carry one bullet, which Barney kept tucked in his breast pocket. The Andy Griffith Show ran from 1960-1968 and Barney Fife was a regular until 1965, when Don Knotts left the show to pursue a movie career. Barney made occasional guest appearances on the show after that, and reappeared in the 1986 TV movie Return to Mayberry.
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The name "Barney Google" is familiar to anyone who ever watched a TV retrospective of comic strips — he's the guy with the "goo-goo-googly eyes" in the 1923 Billy Rose song they always play in such retrospectives. Many newspapers use his name in the title of one of their comic strips. And in 1995, he was honored by the U.S. Postal Service in its "Comic Strip Classics" series of commemorative stamps.
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Barney has two famous songs, both of which corrupt the youth and help to undermine good American values. It is your job as a good Colberican to give Barney a good wag of the finger whenever he appears on your television singing this stuff.
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A six-foot purple dinosaur, Barney stars in the children's TV show Barney and Friends. The character got his start in 1987 in direct-sale videos created by Dallas teacher Sheryl Leach. The tapes caught the eye of the Public Broadcasting System, who put Barney and Friends on the air in 1992. The big purple dinosaur quickly became a public phenomenon, joining Mister Rogers and Jim Henson's Muppets as PBS stars. Barney is a cuddly Tyrannosaurus Rex; he often is joined by his chums Baby Bop (a baby Triceratops) and her brother B.J. (a Protoceratops).
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Barney is ... in the first episode after Half-Life 2, Episode One. Alyx and Gordon encounter him in an apartment complex along with some resistance fighters, looking a little worse for wear. His stubble has grown, his hair is somewhat ratted, and there's a patch of blood on his forehead. He provides Freeman with his iconic crowbar, as he already did in Half-Life 2, and comments amusingly that he can't carry many more of these. After splitting up, they regroup back at the train station, where Barney has brought the last of the resistance and citizens of City 17. He is then seen leaving the city on a train, while Gordon and Alyx act as a diversion so he and the rest of the evacuees can escape safely.
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The first Barney home videos were released in 1988. Leach organized a sales team (dubbed “Mom Blitzers”) to sell the videos to toy and video stores across the country. In 1991, a Barney video was rented from a Connecticut video store for four-year-old Leora Rifkin, the daughter of Larry Rifkin. Rifkin happened to be the executive vice president of programming for Connecticut Public Television. Rifkin’s daughter’s enchantment with the video led to a phone call to Leach inviting her to put Barney on public television.
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