Barney's Fun & Games is a Barney Home Video that was released on May 21, 1996.
Plot
It's games galore as Barney, Baby Bop, BJ, and their friends try to activate Barney's spectacular Game Machine. Apparently, it's empty, and needs to be filled with lots of playthings before it will work. The group collects toys from games they've played and adds them to the Game Machine until it explodes into action! The most fantastic game board appears and allows the children and dinos to participate in the best game day every!
Cast
- Barney (Voice: Bob West, Costume: David Joyner)
- Baby Bop (Voice: Julie Johnson, Costume: Jeff Ayers)
- BJ (Voice: Patty Wirtz, Costume: Jeff Brooks)
- Kristen (Sara Hickman) (debut)
- Min (Pia Manalo)
- Jason (Kurt Dykhuizen)
- Jesse (Dean DeLuna) (only appearance)
Songs
- "Barney Theme Song"
- "My Family's Just Right for Me"
- "Games"
- "Hippity Hop to the Barber Shop"
- "That's Hats"
- "Help Protect the Earth"
- "The Barney Bag"
- "A Tisket, A Tasket"
- "Number Limbo"
- "Carnival of Numbers"
- "Silly Sounds"
- "Roll Over"
- "The Airplane Song"
- "My Yellow Blankey"
- "I Love You"
Gallery
Releases
Screener Copy
Original Release (1996)
UK Release (1997)
Australian Release
German Release
Spanish Release
Singaporean and Malaysian VCD Release (1999)
Thai VCD Release
Scenes
Barney, BJ, and the children play with hats.
Barney and the children look through The Barney Bag to help them make beanbags.
Everyone's amazed that the school playground turned into a giant game board.
Barney and his friends play and sing "Number Limbo".
Barney and his friends sing "A Carnival of Numbers".
Barney and his friends make and sing "Silly Sounds" with a giant tape recorder.
It's time for takeoff as Barney and his friends play with airplanes!
Barney and his friends sing "I Love You" as they've reached the end of the game.
Production
Production for this video took place in January 1996.
Trivia
- This video marked:
- The final time Barney and the kids (along with BJ and Baby Bop) sang both verses of the song, "I Love You". Starting with Barney's 1-2-3-4 Seasons, Barney singing the first verse by himself was made permanent.
- The first Barney Home Video to feature The Barney Bag. The next one would be Barney's Good Day, Good Night.
- The first video to contain clips of the video during the opening which would later be seen on several subsequent Barney Home Video releases.
- The first appearance of the 1996 BJ costume.
- The tape recorder Min uses to record Baby Bop's voice is a Playskool PS-475 Boombox Radio Tape Recorder.
- The early prints featured the The Baby Bop Hop listed on the back cover but it was not sung in the video. When the tape was reprinted in 1998 it was later removed from the song list. When the VHS was re-release in 2000, the song was put back in the song list.
- On the cover of the Spanish dub of this video (La Maravilosa Máquina de Juegos (The Marvelous Game Machine)) it incorrectly lists "The Baby Bop Hop" (or Saltando con Baby Bop) on the song list (Presumably a goof on Tycoon's (The at the time Spanish distributors) part since the dub came out a few years after the video got produced and released)
- The cover spines in the early prints have the 1995 Barney Home Video Logo while later reprints uses the 1996 logo.
- The Carnival of Numbers scene with the ball toss carnival game is exactly the same as the most recent arcade redemption game from Leisure and Allied Industries (LAI) called Hyper Pitch. This Hyper Pitch game describes as a player tosses a baseball as fast as he/she can and try to aim as closer to the bullseye as possible for higher points.
Characters
- This video marked:
- The only appearance of Jesse.
- The first appearance of Kristen, and the only time she appeared with Min and Jason.
- The final regular appearance of Min, until she returns in the 10th anniversary special, Sing and Dance with Barney, and Read with Me, Dance with Me.
