Bob Singleton said he received e-mails “threatening me and my family with horrible, horrible death and dismemberment and terrible things.”

Generations of children, their parents and their grandparents have all run screaming from the room when the sickly sweet strains of Barney’s “I Love You, You Love Me” ooze out of televisions and iPads.

The music director on Barney & Friends has claimed he received death threats over the show's catchy tunes that he helped create for the popular children's show

There were certain things, certain messages that people would send that were pretty threatening,” Bob West shared.

One of the things kids loved — and parents perhaps tolerated — about Barney & Friends were the catchy tunes the purple dinosaur and his friends would sing. Believe it or not, the songs about friendship,