Binzy the Polka-Dot Dinosaur
Binzy the Polka-Dot Dinosaur is, presumably, a television character. In 1997, a float modeled on him popped during the Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Watching the footage that night, Gnash lamented that there was no giant gargoyle float, strongly believing that gargoyles are better than Binzy. ("Unequivocal Success")
Real World Background
Barney & Friends was an American children's television series targeted at children aged two to five. The series first aired on PBS on April 6, 1992, and features Barney, a purple anthropomorphic Tyrannosaurus rex who conveys educational messages through songs and small dance routines with a friendly, huggable and optimistic attitude. It also garnered disapproval by most older children, teenagers, young adults, television producers at Walt Disney Television Animation, and entertainment journalists who criticized it for being "saccharine", "sunshine-and-rainbows", and "one-dimensional".
True to life, at the actual 1997 Macys' Thanksgiving Day Parade, on a particularly windy day, the Barney balloon collapsed, resulting in the NYPD taking scissors to the dinosaur in order to get the erratic balloon under control. [1][2]
Production Background
In 1994, during a press conference held at the Universal Sheraton in the Hollywood Hills, Gargoyles was unveiled to the press. Reporters were stunned to pin-drop silence by the trailer and the first question asked to the show's representatives (Greg Weisman, Ed Asner, Jonathan Frakes, Gary Krisel, and Bill Fagerbakke) was if they would let their children watch it. Fagerbakke responded that when it came to his then two-year-old, he wouldn't be uncomfortable letting her watch it, saying "Anything's better than Barney!" to the laughter and applause of the reporters attending. [3][4][5][6]
According to Weisman, from that point onward, Gargoyles always had a good relationship with the press. [7]
Ed Asner incidentally provided the true voice of a Barney spoof, Georgie in the Dinosaurs episode "Georgie Must Die".
