Eleanor ''Nora'' Beady (née Goldner) is the main antagonist of the Barnyard franchise, appearing in both the film Barnyard and the Back at the Barnyard TV series. She’s the Barnyard's next door neighbor, Nathan Beady's wife, Snotty Boy and Phlegmy Boy's aunt and Snotty Boy's mother's sister.
Early Life
Appearance
Nora is a short, overweight woman, with dirty blonde hair, a mole and olive green eyes. She wears a blue dress with a floral pattern, a white apron, pink flower earrings, peach colored cat eyed glasses, pink beaded bracelet, pink lipstick, pink nail polish and hot pink high heels which hide her bunion infested feet.
On one occasion, she did wear a light green button down shirt with navy blue jeans which revealed her huge butt.
When she works out she wears a pink one piece bodysuit, white pantyhose, light pink leg warmers and her hot pink high heels.
Episode Appearances
Season 1
- The Good, the Bad and the Snotty
- Escape from the Barnyard
- Cowman and Ratboy
- Saving Mrs. Beady
- Hypno-A-Go-Go
- Fowl Play
- Lights! Camera! Moo!
- The Big Barnyard Broadcast
- Dead Cow Walking
- Cow's Night Out
- Big Top Barnyard
- A Tale of Two Snottys
- The Chronicles of Barnia
- Barnyard Idol
- Otis vs. Bigfoot
- Cowman: The Uddered Avenger
- School of Otis
- Otis for Mayor
- Save the Clams
- Adventures in Snotty Sitting
Season 2
- Lord of the Beavers
- Little Otis
- Snotty and Snottier
- The Barn Buddy
- Too Good to be Glue
- It's an Udderful Life!
- Mrs. Beady Takes a Holiday
- Clown and Out (mentioned)
- Plucky and Me
- Beady and the Beasts
- Aliens!!!
Trivia
- Nora is often thought to be the secondary antagonist of the film. though she plays the main antagonist in the show.
- Denzel Crocker (From The Fairly OddParents) share many similarities:
- 1. Both are the antagonists of their series.
- 2. Both have obsessions of proving things that don't exist in real life (Crocker with Fairies & Nora with animals that talk and make things like humans)
- 3. They're humiliated when the evidence goes away.
- 4. Both are adults.
- 5. Both wear glasses.
- Despite trying to proof Otis and his friends are talking animals, she like all other humans fall for the Barnyard’s human disguises.
- Nora Beady has some similarities as Mrs. Gladys Kravitz from the 1964 sitcom BeWitched.
- 1. Both characters are suspicious about their neighbors and are constantly trying to prove to the police that they’re strange.
- 2. Both characters have been affected by their neighbor’s antics.
- 3. Both characters try to tell their husbands about what’s going on but they don’t believe them or don’t listen to them.
- 4. They constantly spy on them.