Home Sweet Homes

Barney & Friends Episode
"Home Sweet Homes"
Air date	May 13, 1992
Written by	Stephen White
Directed by	Jim Rowley
About
Theme	Types of Homes for People and Animals
Characters	Barney Kathy Michael Tina Tosha Zippity the Hamster
Episode Guide
Previous	"Oh, What A Day!"
Next	"Hola, Mexico!"

"Home Sweet Homes" is the twenty-eighth episode from the first season of Barney & Friends.

Plot

Barney lectures on animals' homes based on kids' pictures. The kids also draw pictures of different kinds of houses for people.

Stories:"The Three Little Pigs"

Songs

1. "Barney Theme Song"
2. "Home on the Range"
3. "That's a Home to Me"
4. "Winter's Wonderful"
5. "If I Lived Under the Sea"
6. "The Caterpillar Song"
7. "The Frog on a Log"
8. "Brushing My Teeth" (Instrumental)
9. "My Family's Just Right for Me"
10. "I Love You"

Release

International edits

"The Frog on a Log" was omitted from international markets.

Home media

1993 VHS release of "Home Sweet Homes" titled Barney's Home Sweet Homes.

On August 25, 1993, this episode was released on home video as Barney's Home Sweet Homes; it was never released by Time Life unlike other episodes from this season.

Gallery

Scenes

Barney and the children sing "Home on the Range".

Tosha holds up a picture of a palace as everyone sings "That's a Home to Me".

The children reenact the story of "The Three Little Pigs".

Trivia

• This episode marked:
  • The final Barney & Friends episode to make use of the phrase "Shimbaree, Shimbarah".
  • The first episode in which no one hugs Barney when he comes to life.
  • The final season one episode where Tina appears without Luci.
• The guitar that Barney plays while singing "Home on the Range" is later seen in "An Adventure In Make Believe".
• When the kids are playing cowboys/cowgirls, the "Lone Ranger Theme" can be heard in the background.
• The first drawing seen on the end credits of this episode was also used for the credits sequences in seasons two and three.
• A picture from this episode would be later seen in Tosha's scrapbook in the home video Sing & Dance With Barney.
• This group of kids (Michael, Kathy, Tosha, Tina) also appears in the episodes "Red, Blue And Circles Too!" and "Hoo's in the Forest?" from season two.
• Michael wears the same outfit from "Be A Friend".
• This is the the seventh episode where Kathy is not seen with her teddy bear.
• The wolf costume that Michael wore in the "Three Little Pigs" scene was first worn by Derek for the "Little Red Riding Hood" scene in "Playing It Safe".