What is wrong with Barney and Mr. Rogers?

This might sound trite and childish, but I think about this sometimes and it doesn't make sense. Ever since I was in elementary school, kids were ripping on Barney as a homosexual pedophile disgusting beast. I think most of us have heard the caricature of his song: "I love you, you love me, Barney has the HIV." Mr. Rogers gets something similar, being considered a wimpy goody-goody two shoes that's made entirely of bull$hit. They're not "cool." Well, wtp is "cool?" I am 28, so I am thinking about wife, kids, etc. And now I am thinking -- what would I want them watching? Barney and Mr. Rogers, or Anna Nicole Smith, P Diddy or some Super Bowl "wardrobe malfunction" starring Justin Timberlake.

I don't really consider Barney a homo pedo anymore, now that I've seen all the alternatives.

What about you?

[color="#000080"] Ask DualReaver about it.

I guess a purple dinosaur that's friends with the kids just automatically triggers the pedophile idea. [/color]

I was always down with Mr. Rogers. Watched him all the time. Downright wholesome. Barney... eh. Creepy. Not necessarily homo, I just don't think he clicked at all with the macho ideal that starts to hit the moment you have start to have a group of peers in school. Barney didn't homo the world, the world homo'd Barney. The same could be said for Mr. Rogers, but I'm down with Mr. Rogers. And I just don't like Barney.

[COLOR="Green"]Barney was mainly disliked for his overly large use of the words "friendship" and "love." They're perfectly fine for young kids.

Except me. I'm the Barney exception.[/COLOR]

I've got an army, and you've got Barney
I've got a shot gun, and you don't got one
If you don't get off, I'm going shoot you~
Singing this land was made for me not you.

[video=youtube;XaI5IRuS2aE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaI5IRuS2aE[/video]

In my defense I was in fifth grade. Singing mandatory monotone songs repetitively gets to you after doing it over three years in elementary school.