Every parent has one character they can no longer hear without wincing: preschool icons, puppets and a certain purple dinosaur.
1BarneyThe purple Tyrannosaurus rex of Barney & Friends, whose 'I Love You' song ran on PBS from 1992.1000pts
2Thomas the Tank EngineThe cheeky blue engine of the Island of Sodor, forever causing confusion and delay.846pts
3Dora the ExplorerThe bilingual adventurer who waits in silence for viewers to shout the answer.621pts
4Oscar the GrouchThe Sesame Street grump who lives in a trash can and hates almost everything.538pts
5TeletubbiesThe four TV-bellied toddlers of Teletubbyland, famous for saying 'Again! Again!'440pts
6Big BirdSesame Street's eight-foot yellow bird, a fixture of the show since 1969.440pts
7PikachuThe electric Pokémon who can only say its own name.440pts
8DipsyThe green Teletubby with the spike antenna and a hat he refuses to take off.440pts
9ElmoSesame Street's red monster who talks about himself in the third person.323pts
10SpongeBob SquarePantsBikini Bottom's relentlessly cheerful fry cook and his signature laugh.323pts
11Cookie MonsterThe blue Sesame Street monster who shouts 'Me want cookie!'0pts
Photo credits
- Barney — D@LY3D, CC BY 2.0
- Thomas the Tank Engine — Dennis G, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Oscar the Grouch — Montclair Film Festival, CC BY 2.0
- Teletubbies — Elliott Brown, CC BY 2.0
- Big Bird — Amin, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Pikachu — Yoshikazu TAKADA from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0
- Dipsy — Stuart Mudie, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Elmo — Timothy Krause, CC BY 2.0
- SpongeBob SquarePants — Yuri Samoylov, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Cookie Monster — Tyler Merbler, CC BY 2.0
Comments 1
Barney is a Tyrannosaurus rex, on PBS since 1992, and this is the one list where being a dinosaur does not help: https://youpick.best/articles/t-rex-ranked-many-ways
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ypb-teamSep 28
