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"The Queen Of Make-Believe" is the first episode of the first season, as well as the series premiere of Barney & Friends.
Plot[]
It looks like rain. But Min has decided to become the Queen of Make-Believe. Suddenly, it looks like lots of fun! With Barney leading his friends on a romp of games, songs, and activities. They put on a pretend tea-party, build a robot with boxes, they even create some special "stretching exercises" for the imagination. Pretending, make-believing, or imagining - children learn it's always called fun.
Poems: "The Anything String"
Songs[]
- "Barney Theme Song"
- "Old King Cole"
- "Old King Cole" (Reprise)
- "If All the Raindrops"
- "I'm A Little Teapot"
- "The Barney Bag"
- "I'm a Little Robot"
- "Animal Parade"
- "The Rocket Song"
- "I Love You"
Production[]
This was the first Barney & Friends episode to be filmed. Filming for this episode began occurring on October 15, 1991 in ColorDynamics in Allen, Texas.
Release[]
Broadcast[]
In international dubs and co-productions, the songs, "I'm a Little Teapot" and "I'm a Little Robot" (which share the same tune), were not sung, rather cutting to Michael (or a another cast member in non-dub versions) coming out of the robot.
Adaptations[]
Baniwa Chingudeul[]
- A cloud silhouette of Barney doesn't appear in this version while a cloud silhouette of a turtle does.
- "What I Want to Be" and "Laugh With Me!" replace the two former songs: "I'm a Little Teapot" and "I'm a Little Robot".
- The Anything String is not used in this version.
- Barney and the kids get scared by the thunder when they were looking at rain through the window unlike in the original version.
- The kids don't dress up as animals during "Animal Parade" in this version.
Home media[]
This episode was released on VHS by Time Life.
Gallery[]
Behind the Scenes[]
Scenes[]
Trivia[]
- This episode marked:
- The first episode written by Stephen White.
- The first time the "Barney Theme Song" and "I Love You" are sung with the current lyrics.
- The first appearances of Min and Shawn.
- The first television appearances of Michael and Tina.
- The first appearance of the season 1 Barney doll.
- The first appearance of the official season 1 Barney costume.
- The first appearance of "The Barney Bag".
- The first appearance of the Barney Says segment.
- The first time Michael and Tina appeared without Luci.
- This is also the first time they appear without Derek since his debut in Waiting for Santa.
- The first appearance of the Season 1 School Set.
- Despite being listed as a song on the back of Time Life version of the VHS cover, the song, "Yankee Doodle", is not featured in this episode.
- Shawn would later wear the same shirt in "Happy Birthday, Barney!".
- Tina would later wear the same shirt in "Alphabet Soup!" and "1-2-3-4-5 Senses!".
- Michael would later wear the same shirt in "Let's Help Mother Goose!".
Goof[]
- When Barney sings the line, "We're a happy family", in "I Love You", Michael and Tina are seen lip-synching to the song.



