"As [creator Sheryl Leach's] beloved character was heading into the stratosphere, people couldn't accept that this was just a show. And so, let the bashing begin," former Barney David Joyner says.

The Barney Bean Show was a late afternoon children's television program on WYTV-TV in Youngstown, Ohio. Each show, Barney Bean would draw a picture which started with a child's initials.