Play for Exercise!

Barney & Friends Episode
"Play for Exercise!"
Air date	September 11, 2002
Written by	Michael Anthony Steele
Directed by	Fred Holmes
About
Theme	Exercise for Health
Characters	Barney Baby Bop BJ Beth Whitney Scott Jordan Melanie Jenna
Episode Guide
Previous	"Red, Yellow and Blue!"
Next	"Come Blow Your Horn!"

"Play for Exercise!" is the eighth episode of the seventh season of Barney & Friends.

Plot

Scott, Beth, and Whitney enjoy playing catch with the ball, as well as leapfrog, but they're surprised to learn from Barney that they are exercising while they play. Soon, more children join them for a game of jump rope. Baby Bop loves dancing and skipping - and she thinks she will like hang gliding when she grows up, and BJ loves basketball. But everyone loves giggling and wiggling as they sing "The Giggle, Gaggle, Wiggle Dance". A rain shower moves the fun and games indoors, and the kids learn that you can have fun while you exercise indoors as well. Barney invites the TV viewers to run in place with him and reminds everyone of the importance of stretching. When BJ's stomach growls, Barney uses snack time as a good time to learn about eating healthy foods. Good food, good exercise, and good friends like Barney make every day a healthy one!

Ending Intervals: Have a Ball and Cover Your Sneeze, Please

Songs

1. "Barney Theme Song"
2. "Jack Be Nimble"
3. "Exercising, Won't You Come and Join Me?"
4. "The Gaggle, Giggle, Wiggle Dance"
5. "What Can We Play on a Rainy Day?"
6. "Run, Run in One Place"
7. "Growing Big and Tall"
8. "Snackin' On Healthy Food"
9. "Do Some Exercise"
10. "I Love You"

Release

Home media

This episode was featured in the home video, Shake Your Dino Tail!.

Gallery

Behind the Scenes

Scott, Whitney, and Beth having their faces touched up on the set of this episode, "Play for Exercise!"

Trivia

• Working Title: "Exercise Is Fun!"
• The footage of "Do Some Exercise" was used in the promo, Barney… A Helping Hand For Growing Children.
• This episode marked:
  • The only appearances of Jordan, Melanie, and Jenna.
    • Prior to appearing as Jordan in this episode, Laryssa Bonacquisti appeared as a cameo in the video, Let's Go to the Zoo.
  • The first episode to be written by Michael Anthony Steele.
• Footage of this episode was included in one of Jimmy Kimmel's segments of Unnecessary Censorship.
• During "What Can We Play on a Rainy Day?", when Whitney sings the line "Pretend we're on a raft on the ocean", her voice is being lip-synched by an unknown singer.
• The book, Barney's Magical Picnic, can be spotted a few times during the songs, "The Gaggle, Giggle, Wiggle Dance" and "Run, Run in One Place".
• This group of children (Scott, Whitney, Beth) appeared in "It's Hot! It's Cold!".