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"Certain kids got along with other kids and they were just two of those that really clicked.

"Very early on, you could just tell, they clicked," director Fred Holmes said. They become fast friends not on the show, but while waiting in line to audition. And it turns out that Selena and Demi were buddies in practically no time. International Business Times caught up with some of the people who worked on the Barney & Friends set at the time to get the scoop about working with the two at the beginning. Yep, all the way back to when they were wee kids on Barney & Friends back in 2002, just a mere.15 years ago.

But it turns out that their connection goes back even further. Rogers." They are much better than this baloney.Both Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato have mega-successful careers, and it's been amazing seeing how their friendship has grown since their Disney Channel days. (rubbing it in hands) But now it feels scratchy!" (surprised/delighted even beyond usual "Barney" standard) "This chair is hard!!!! But the cushion is soft!!!!!!!!" So if you want a good educational show for your kids, turn on "Sesame Street" or "Mr. Except for one notable exception, the "5 Senses" episode, which contained lines such as the following (all said in amazed tone of voice): "This rock is smooth.but it's hard!" (banging on sand) "This sand is hard.

And the lines are not unintentionally hilarious enough to inspire a chuckle in a cynic like me. The dialogue is so banal that I can't see how even the cast members believe any of this junk. It's as if they can't imagine so much as a rock without saying, with Barney's instruction, the magic words "Shimberee, shimberah, shimberee, shimbeRAAAAHHHH!" (3) The show's methods of teaching lessons to the 2-to-5-year-old crowd are really lame. (2) I know that using one's imagination is important, but here, Barney needs to tell them to imagine. If this were real life, the kids (or, should I say, teens) would throw stuff at Barney and laugh, instead of sitting in awe while he teaches them the difference between indoor and outdoor voices. There are too many things wrong with this show for me to discuss here, so I'll just say my favorite ones: (1) All the kids look like they are (and they probably are) preteens and teenagers, and this dopey purple idiot is teaching them things like the alphabet, counting, colors, shapes, and everything else every 5-year-old should know. "Barney and Friends," the notoriously stupid kids' show about a big cuddly purple dinosaur who makes kids use their imaginations, has been the brunt of so many jokes since it started airing (my favorite spoof of it was Animaniacs' "Baloney & Kids," in which Baloney, the numbskull orange dinosaur, is taunted and has anvils dropped on his head).