The Great Barney tragedy of Thanksgiving 1997

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No_Meaning_4831@reddit

I was there that year it happened. I was just a kid. But I’ll never forget that parade….. also I was standing on one of those plastic crates so I could see better. I stepped off of it for a few seconds and this old women stepped up on it and refused to get off. Fucken bitch.

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

If it's any consolation she was probably hated by many, is dead now, and when one more generation passes, she'll never be remembered ever again. ✊️

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Foreign_Town6853@reddit

Who are we talking about? I already forgot! Oh the woman we hate. I hope with every step she takes in the dead of night a Lego inflicts a tiny amount of pain to her soul for posting up on that milk crate. May the odds never be in her favor on Thanksgiving day

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ken830@reddit

We're immortalizing her right now.

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No_Meaning_4831@reddit

That does make me feel better.

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jazzbot247@reddit

I was a little kid when Santa dropped his pants at the finale of the Thanksgiving parade. It was the first time I watched the parade, and the next year I expected him to do it again. When it didn't happen I lost interest in the parade.

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Righteous_Babe_98@reddit (OP)

Okay I didn't know about that somehow... holy shit that's hilarious. "Ooop! Santa's lost his trousers!"

https://youtu.be/S9ageNCXP_M?si=h-Cu6W7TyyQICXzA

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SqueezeBoxJack@reddit

i vaguely remember Sha-Na-Na from re-runs but was the whole 50's things big in '79? That dude in the biker jacket with the helmet pomp seems both out of place and not.

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RogerClyneIsAGod2@reddit

I love the fat guy, smoking, taking that last drag, as he gets in front of Santa to escort him inside then PANTS ON THE GROUND!!

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Any_Positive1617@reddit

You're on the naughty list aren't you? 😑 Having a peek at Santa's package! 🤣🤣🤣

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slappy_mcslapenstein@reddit

Who remembers the old I internet video game where you just shot Barney? It was a simpler time. Pepridge Farm remembers.

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nudave@reddit

Omg yes this was a thing. What was it? Is there still a copy somewhere??

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prizewinning_toast@reddit

Oh, the humanity!

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my_little_throwny@reddit

That seems like a good job for a really fat person.

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Pyrite13@reddit

I keep hearing Theoden shouting "BRING IT DOWN! BRING IT DOWN!"

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CoffeePieAndHobbits@reddit

Forth Eorlingas! DEATH!!

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Gloom_Pangolin@reddit

DEAAAAAATTTTHHHH!

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my_little_throwny@reddit

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icanhascheeseberder@reddit

The podcast "Well There's Your Problem" has an episode about the Macy's day parade. I hate to spoil it for anyone but those balloons have killed a lot more people then you'd expect.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VbkNOnX-PUQ

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redditcreditcardz@reddit

Play it at 2x-4x speed. Much funnier

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HowOtterlyTerrible@reddit

I had forgotten all about this.

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sterbo@reddit

Closest we ever came to actually fighting a tyrannosaur in the middle of Manhattan

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Brewmeister83@reddit

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Character-Solution-7@reddit

At the height of his popularity, Barney became a true menace to society

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NotYourSexyNurse@reddit

My brother loved Barney for years. I thought his years of loving Thomas the Train were far less annoying.

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NotYetHun@reddit

NO! The best parade moment was in 2008 when NY got rickrolled:

duck://player/ejkTQ51b1Zo

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catjuggler@reddit

I’m convinced that hoping for this kind of shit is the reason people watch the parades lol

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Geigo@reddit

Police wouldn't do that to a white Dino!

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GrungeCheap56119@reddit

This is hilarious. I was half expecting to see at least one person fly through the air.

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ConcreteKeys@reddit

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doyoulikemyladysuit@reddit

I was on the side of the street the cameraman is on, at the corner of the cross street behind Barney. It was an epically hilarious scene for a 14 year old!

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BlacksmithThink9494@reddit

I have never watched that parade in my life. But they handled this really well.

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ArenSteele@reddit

This one was pretty good https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/wk2WUfmim9

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TrixieLaBouche@reddit

In a 1994 episode of Friends they say that "Underdog got away" did that really happen too?

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Slippery-Pete76@reddit

Coming in second was the Woody Woodpecker disaster

https://i.redd.it/2hza18l44u3g1.gif

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Buttercreamdeath@reddit

I remember part of this. The poor people trying to hold Barney down. The parade camera cut away to other parts of the parade but it delayed the whole thing.

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