Disclaimer: None of the characters in this story belong to me. Then again, who'd want to own Barney?

In was yet another ordinary day, only this time it was an ordinary day at Crazy Dave's house. The plants were all bored and did not know what to do. Bonk Choy was practicing his punching skills on Wall-nut, Squash was busy mumbling to himself about how his life sucks, while Peashooter and Sunflower make out behind him, and the rest of the plants were just tired out their minds.

"I know!" suggested Repeater. "Why don't we go battle zombies?"

"We already did that," said Doom Shroom. "All the zombies are dead now. We killed them all."

"Oh," said the disappointed Repeater. He loved killing zombies.

"Maybe we should ask the Imitator if he knows what we should do," recommended Iceberg Lettuce.

"You ice-for-brains!" snapped Squash. "Imitator can't talk! He's a mime!"

"Well, you don't need to use your outside voice."

"We ARE outside, you imbecile!"

"Guys, stop arguing!" shouted Jalapeno. "I see a zombie in the background! And it's a new one!"

The plants all gasp. A purple reptilian creature stood on the other side of the lawn. He had a sappy smiling face and a green underbelly.

"ZOMBIE!" screamed all the plants. Everyone began attacking the creature. Of course, everyone except Peashooter and Sunflower, who were still making out with each other.

"Stop!" pleaded the creature. "I'm not a zombie!"

The plants stopped.

"Then who are you?" asked Lightning Reed.

"My name is Barney the dinosaur! Hee, hee! I wanna be your friend!"

"Oh, great," groaned Squash. "I remember this guy from my childhood. Hated him."

"I loved him when I was a kid," admitted Torchwood. "Couldn't stand him as a teenager."

"Can we kill this guy already?" Repeater was just about ready to shoot him.

"But if you kill me, then we won't get to do all the fun things together!"

"But I don't want to do fun things," complained Squash. "I wanna murder zombies!"

"There is a thing about murdering zombies," Barney responded. "Is that it involves working together! That reminds me of a song about working together. Want me to sing it?"

"No!" shouted the plants.

"Well, no wonder you refuse to hear my songs. You all seem like an unhappy group of vegetables. Maybe you all need a hug. You!"

He pointed to Doom Shroom.

"Excuse me?"

"You look like you could use a big hug!" Barney opened his arms wide. "Want one?"

"Sure," replied the exploding mushroom. "If you want me to detonate in your ugly face."

"Ooooo!" said Barney. "That's sounds like fun! You know what else is fun? Learning new things! In fact, let's all go to ancient Egypt right now and learn about the ancient Egyptians. Here we go!" Barney began spinning around and around really fast.

"I've got a bad feeling about this," moaned Lightning Reed.