Talk:Barney & Friends

HIT?
What, no mention of the fact that the company that owns Barney started out as the international distribution arm of The Jim Henson Company? They didn't create the purple beast (they bought the original Dallas-area producers), but there is something of a Muppet connection because of that. (HIT is now a unit of Mattel, in case anyone didn't know that, but they are a part owner of Sprout alongside Sesame Workshop, NBC and PBS),