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Barney may love you.

And you may love Barney.

But no one loves getting his or her head stuck inside a Barney costume. That’s just #RealTalk.

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And it’s something Darby Risner now knows all too well.

This native of Trussville, Alabama found a Barney head at a friend’s house on Saturday night and thought she could have some fun by scaring her friends.

Just imagine how you’d react if you walked into a room and Barney was suddenly there, annoying theme song spewing from his lips.

We can understand where Darby was coming from.

Shortly after putting the Barney costume on, Risner told a local ABC affiliated that the head "wobbled and scooched down," covering her shoulders just above her elbows making it look as if she had "short little Barney arms."

She could not get it off.

"All the girls started trying to pull it off, but it wasn’t budging," said Risner.

"I started getting a little claustrophobic and felt like it was kind of closing in."

In the end, her friends even tried rubbing Vaseline all over her arms, but the attempt proved to be unsuccessful.

Fortunately for Risner, one of her pals had a boyfriend in the Trussville Fire department.

So they drove over to the fire station and asked some professionals for assistance.

"Soon enough, we saw a group of young girls waddling with one who had a Barney head stuck on her," Trussville Fire Department Lt. Vince Bruno told ABC.

He added that this was a "first" in his 33 years on the job. To which we reply: d’uh.

After numerous failed attempts at pulling the Barney head directly off, Bruno explained how they began making "release cuts" into the head, which then allowed it to "slide right off" of Risner’s body.

And, after all of this effort and teamwork… FREEDOM!

Here is your look at a Barney-free Risney.

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