Some also suspected that David Joyner, who played Barney, struggled with substance abuse on set. "My favorite [was] asking… ‘There’s an urban legend that you hid so much cocaine in your tail ...

David Joyner looked back on some of the hate he received as the benevolent Barney, recalling the time he learned that the Ku Klux Klan had banned their children from watching the program after ...