It's Raining, It's Pouring...

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Barney & Friends Episode
"It's Raining, It's Pouring..."
Air date	July 27, 1995
Written by	Mark S. Bernthal
Directed by	Bruce Deck
About
Theme	Things to do on a Rainy Day
Characters	Barney Baby Bop (cameo) BJ Carlos Jason Min Tosha Tomie dePaola
Episode Guide
Previous	"At Home With Animals"
Next	"Camera Safari"

"It's Raining, It's Pouring..." is the fourteenth episode from the third season of Barney & Friends.

Plot

The kids are playing outside with the parachute, until it starts to rain and they have to go inside. Barney decides to help them get ideas to come up with. Carlos and Min suggest that they take turns telling stories with the parachute. Later, Tomie DePaola pays everyone a visit to read them his new book, and he even shows them how to draw one of his characters. Later, the children discover that you can still find fun things to do on a rainy day, even though you can't play outside.

Stories: "Camping on a Dark Night"/"The Lonely Little Number"/"The Little Boy Couldn't Fall Asleep"/"Charlie Needs a Cloak"

Songs

1. "Barney Theme Song"
2. "Ring Around the Rosie"
3. "What Can We Play on a Rainy Day?"
4. "Scary Stories"
5. "Number Limbo"
6. Sheep Medley: "Little Bo Peep"/"Little Boy Blue"
7. Rain Medley: "Rain, Rain, Go Away"/"It's Raining, It's Pouring"
8. "Min's Circus Dance (Entrance of the Gladiators)”
9. "I Love You"

Release

Broadcast

On the PBS Pledge Drives for this episode, "What Can We Play on a Rainy Day?" and "Min's Circus Dance" were edited out.

Gallery

Behind the scenes

David Voss with Barney and the kids on the set of this episode "It's Raining, It's Pouring...".

Scenes

The children play with a parachute outside the school.

Barney and the children pretend the parachute is a tent.

Tosha tells the story of "The Lonely Little Number".

Barney and his friends sing and play "Number Limbo".

Min pretends to perform in a circus.

Trivia

• This episode marked:
  • Another time something happens to the Barney doll before coming to life.
  • The second appearance of Tomie dePaola on Barney & Friends.
  • The first time Tomie dePaola and BJ appeared together.
  • The only time Tomie dePaola appeared with Min, Carlos, and Jason.
  • Stella the Storyteller is briefly mentioned in this episode.
  • Baby Bop's shortest appearance in an episode.
  • The only time "Number Limbo" was sung without Baby Bop.
• This episode is a little similar to the season 6 episode, "Stick With Imagination!". In this episode, instead of a stick, Barney and the kids use a parachute.
• Juan is mentioned in this episode.
• The poem read by Tosha was later adapted into the book, Barney's Number Friends.
• Although Baby Bop and BJ appear in this episode, they do not appear together onscreen.
• Although Baby Bop appears in this episode, she does not sing any songs in this episode.
• Min sings the same verse in "Scary Stories" that she did in "A Camping We Will Go!"

Goofs

• At the end of playing “Ring Around the Rosie” with the parachute, Barney got stuck under the parachute when he appeared.
• A tarp can be seen outside the window when Barney and the kids were hiding in the parachute.