I Hope Nobody Remembers Barney, But Everybody Will Remember Buddy: An Interview with Devon Hakes Ludlow on Buddy

There’s a category of media that takes juvenile gleefulness in tarnishing comforting and wholesome nostalgic imagery with violence, sex, and existential darkness. Early internet games like The Barney Fun Page or more artful works like the Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared series come to mind. Adult Swim, too, is home to many an uncanny, distorted nostalgia trip (Rick and Morty, for example, originated as a much filthier, more direct parody of Back to the Future), and there is perhaps no...