“Barney’s dead! He’s dead! YEAH!” Another kid agreed: “That was cool!” AP reported that 1997 wasn’t the first year in which beloved characters met their doom either. Sonic the ...

This week, TikTok account @onlyninetieskidsknow posted a vintage clip of the Barney balloon in the 1997 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade careening out of control over Manhattan’s Sixth Avenue ...