A Very Merry Christmas is a 2011 direct-to-video Barney Home Video clip show that was released on October 11, 2011. Featuring newly written scenes directed by Steven Feldman and written by Charlotte Spivey, this video features scenes from the tenth and eleventh seasons of Barney & Friends alongside footage from the previous two Barney & Friends Christmas videos Barney's Night Before Christmas and Barney's Christmas Star. This was the fifth Christmas special in the Barney franchise respectively following Waiting for Santa, Barney's Night Before Christmas, Barney's Christmas Star, and "Gift of the Dinos" / "A Visit to Santa".
Plot[]
Barney and the kids are decorating the caboose for Christmas. Barney explains the concept of "Snowflake Buddies", in which one chooses a paper snowflake, and gives the person who's name is written on the snowflake a gift. Baby Bop then arrives with a long Christmas wish-list, so Barney and his friends explain to her that Christmas is also about giving. Later, the group decides to write Christmas cards to their friends, as well as Santa Claus. Later, they act out a Christmas story of "The Nutcracker".
Cast[]
- Barney (Voice: Dean Wendt, Costume: Carey Stinson)
- Baby Bop (Voice: Julie Johnson, Costume: Lauren Mayeux)
- BJ (Voice: Patty Wirtz, Costume: Jerad Harris)
- Joshua (Jaren Lewison)
- Maddie (Jaden Roberts)
- Travis (Brenden Stanton)
- Barney (Voice: Dean Wendt, Costume: David Joyner / Carey Stinson)
- Baby Bop (Voice: Julie Johnson, Costume: Jeff Ayers)
- BJ (Voice: Patty Wirtz, Costume: Kyle Nelson / Jeff Brooks)
- Riff (Voice: Michaela Dietz, Costume: Adam Brown)
- David (Emilio Mazur)
- Hannah (Marisa Kuers)
- Jackson (Daven Wilson)
- Kathy (Kaitlin Lindley)
- Keesha (Mera Baker)
- Laura (Julia Nicholson)
- Marcos (Jeremy Becerra)
- Megan (Lacy Cavalier)
- Melanie (Kelly Eichenholz)
- Nathan (Preston Falconer)
- Olivia (Brenna Demerson)
- Rachel (Hunter Pecunia)
- Robert (Angel Velasco)
- Ryan (Reese Wilson)
- Sadie (Cosette Goldstein)
- Sophie (Camille Goldstein)
- Stephen (Chase Gallatin)
Songs[]
- "I Love the Holidays"
- "It's C-C Cold BRRRR!" (Scene taken from "Winter")
- "If All the Snowflakes" (Scene taken from "Winter")
- "Ten Little Snowflakes" (Scene taken from "Winter")
- "Winter's Wonderful" (Scene taken from "Winter")
- "My Dreidel" (Scene taken from "Gift of the Dinos")
- "Oh Christmas Tree" (Scene taken from "Gift of the Dinos")
- "Jingle Bells" (Scene taken from "Gift of the Dinos")
- "It's Snowing!" (Scene taken from "A Visit to Santa")
- "We're Writing a Letter to Santa" (Scene taken from "A Visit to Santa")
- "Santa's Wrapping Crew" (Scene taken from "A Visit to Santa")
- "Look into Santa's Book" (Scene taken from "A Visit to Santa")
- "Christmas Is Our Favorite Time Of Year" (Scene taken from Barney's Night Before Christmas)
- "It's Twinkle Time"
- "March of the Toys" / "The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy"
- "We Wish You a Merry Christmas"
- "I Love You"
Production[]
Filming[]
Filming for A Very Merry Christmas occurred in mid-October 2010 at HIT Entertainment Studios in Carrollton, Texas. A Very Merry Christmas was one of three videos filmed during this month, with the others being I Can Do It! and I Love My Friends. Given that all three videos were clip shows, they shot fast.
Release[]
Home media[]
A Very Merry Christmas was released on DVD and Digital HD and On Demand on October 11, 2011 by HIT Entertainment and Lionsgate Home Entertainment. The DVD release was suggested at a retail price of $14.98. The DVD contained a bonus feature titled "Barney's Christmas Carols" which was a sing-along of "Jingle Bells", Christmas Is Our Favorite Time Of Year", "If All the Snowflakes", "Oh Christmas Tree", and "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" from the video. The Digital HD and video on demand (VOD) version contained a bonus episode, which was the episode "Glad to Be Me"[1] from season ten of Barney & Friends.
A Very Merry Christmas would later be re-released in November 2015 through HIT Entertainment and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. It would later be re-released again by the respective studios the following year in October 2016, but with new artwork on the cover. On July 3, 2018, the video was re-released again, reverting back to the original DVD cover, but being released this time by 9 Story Media Group and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
Releases[]
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Gallery[]
Behind the scenes[]
Trivia[]
- This video marked:
- The final video directed by Steven Feldman.
- Scenes from Barney's Christmas Star and Barney's Night Before Christmas feature Dean Wendt's Barney voice dubbed over the original ones.
- Joe Phillips, the music director of this video, makes a cameo appearance in the crowd.
Characters[]
- This video marked:
- The final appearance of Joshua.
- The only appearances of Maddie and Travis, and the only time they appeared with Joshua.
- However, none of Maddie's and Travis' names are mentioned in this video. And even before Maddie and Travis appeared in this video, the actors, Jaden Roberts and Brenden Stanton, were seen in some of the interstitials of season fourteen.
Songs[]
- After not being used for fourteen years, the song, "It's Twinkle Time", returns in the new content of this video, since the album, Happy Holidays Love, Barney.
- Unlike Barney's Christmas Star and "Gift of the Dinos" / "A Visit to Santa", the new content for this video uses the regular version of "I Love You", rather than the Christmas version of that song.
- Unlike other Barney Christmas specials, the "Barney Theme Song" is omitted as the video has its own intro whose background music is a shortened instrumental arrangement of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas".
References[]
- ↑ Join Barney™ On A Magical Adventure To Santa’s Workshop In This All-New Holiday Special! Retrieved October 11, 2023