Barney, the polarizing purple dinosaur who was a mainstay of many millennial upbringings, is making a triumphant return to TV screens next year — but this time, he'll be animated. Mattel Inc.

Fans rush the field at the Illini's 16-6 win over Michigan on Oct. 29, 1983. Vice President of News Michelle and Chad Wills With Mike White’s Rose Bowl Illini headed back to campus for a 40-year ...

The story goes back at least as far as 1983 in the following Kaus piece in The New Republic (not on Google): There I was, moping in my beer, because Barney's Beanery (a famous old hangout on Santa ...