"Buddy" review — Children’s TV riff is a lurid nightmare
“Here’s the knife. It’s nice to share!” If you were anything like me, as a child of the 00s and 2010s, you may remember singing the dark, violent, and sadistic parody of the “I Love You” song from the children’s television program Barney & Friends . “Love” was replaced with “hate,” with the promise to finally, permanently do away with the purple dinosaur. “With a great big hug and a kiss from me to you” was replaced with the words “With a baseball bat and a 4x4,” exploring how these children were going to perform their vile deed. It was an endless source of amusement, especially when the lyrics were compared to the other variations of the same violent delights that popped up at other schools, as no one sang the same methods of murder. There was no greater joy than snickering at the violent destruction of childhood icons. An iconoclastic attitude towards Treehouse television programming, if you will. Perhaps we can view this as the adolescent mind forcefully shedding off the skin of...
