Ellis Weiner

Ellis Weiner (born October 31, 1950) is an author and humorist who has previously worked as an editor of National Lampoon and a columnist for Spy Magazine. His humor has appeared in publications such as The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. Weiner is also known to write for children's television, in which he's written for Reading Rainbow, Bear in the Big Blue House, Shining Time Station, The Puzzle Place and Barney & Friends. Weiner penned the episode "Tea-riffic Manners" for Barney & Friends, which was his only contribution to the series.

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Barney & Friends[]

Weiner was invited to write for Barney & Friends during the seventh season of the show. While he was there, he was showed the head of Baby Bop. Afterwards, he was given an episode assignment in which he thought was good, and handed it to the head writer at the time, Stephen White. White questioned if Weiner had enough time to write the episode as Weiner had a difficult time writing for the series, as he couldn't get his writing to be simple enough for the series. Weiner desired to write more for the series, but he was unable to do so given that his writing couldn't fit with the series at the time.^[1]

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