Barney's Adventure Bus (1997-2000 VHS)

Release Date
September 2, 1997

Running Time: 47 Minutes

Print date: March 25, 1998

Number: 23

1997-1998 VHS

 * 1) Waiting For Santa (1997 VHS) (1997 Reprint Version) (September 23, 1997)
 * 2) Groundling Marsh’s Merry Merry Marshland (1997 VHS) (October 28, 1997)
 * 3) Barney’s Good-Day Good Night (1997 VHS) (November 4, 1997)
 * 4) Barney in Outer Space (1998 VHS) (March 17, 1998)
 * 5) Barney’s Big Surprise (1998 VHS) (May 19, 1998)

Characters

 * Barney
 * Baby Bop
 * BJ
 * Chip
 * Keesha
 * Kristen
 * Robert
 * Scootles
 * Pony

Songs

 * 1) Barney Theme Song
 * 2) It's a Beautiful Day
 * 3) The Land of Make-Believe
 * 4) The Wheels on the Bus
 * 5) Let's Go on an Adventure
 * 6) Happy Dancin'
 * 7) Castles So High
 * 8) The Doors on the Bus
 * 9) Make the Dough
 * 10) Nothing Beats a Pizza
 * 11) The People on the Bus
 * 12) Get Along Little Doggies
 * 13) Home on the Range
 * 14) Turkey in the Straw (Barney's Version)
 * 15) The Wheels on the Bus (Reprise)
 * 16) The Elephant Song
 * 17) The Popcorn Song
 * 18) The Baby Bop Hop
 * 19) Our Friend BJ Had a Band
 * 20) The People on the Bus (Reprise)
 * 21) I Love You

Synopsis
The video begins with four kids - Chip, Keesha, Kristen, and Robert - meeting at the school playground. Chip explains that today is a special day - it's not someone's birthday; it's not a special holiday. It's Saturday, which means they could play all day. So the kids sing, "It's a Beautiful Day", as they play together.

Later on, they play dress-up. Kristen and Robert are playing as the king and queen, Keesha is playing cowgirl, and Chip is playing pizzeria worker. Barney then turns from a plush dinosaur to real life! The kids explain to him that they're playing pretend, which leads to Barney singing "The Land of Make-Believe", a song about anything imaginary that could happen if they pretend, with the kids joining him in.

Barney wants to play dress-up, too, so he puts on a certain hat, and asks the kids to guess what he's pretending to be. Is he a policeman? An airplane pilot? A taxi driver? Nope! He is a... bus driver! And he wants to take them on an imaginary trip, so he turns a toy bus into a real life-size bus, and everyone hops aboard. The kids requests Barney to take them to their respective destinations: Just when the bus is about to drive off, with Barney and the kids singing "The Wheels on the Bus", Baby Bop and BJ appear, yelling at the bus to come back. Barney tells them that nobody misses the Imagination Bus. Baby Bop wants to take the bus somewhere where she can see an elephant, and BJ wants to go where he can play in a band. Barney accepts the requests, before he asks the two young dinos to sit down, buckle up, and away they go!
 * Kristen and Robert want to go to a royal castle.
 * Keesha wants to go to a western corral.
 * Chip wants to go to a pizzeria.

On the way to their first stop, Barney, Baby Bop, BJ, and the kids sing "Let's Go on an Adventure". After the song, Baby Bop asks if they're they yet. Barney explains, "Almost. In fact, we're there... right... now!" The bus pulls up in front of the castle and everyone hops off.

In the castle area, King Robert and Queen Kristen are unhappy. Royal Crier Keesha, brings in the Royal Fool Barney. He says that when he's sad, he'd do a little "Happy Dancing", which he does for the sad king and queen, but it doesn't work. Queen Kristen explains that their royal pet cat Scootles wandered to the top of the castle tower and is afraid she can't come down. Luckily, the brave knight Sir Chip comes to the rescue.

As the knight makes his way to the top of the tower, he barely notices something coming down the stairwell. Back on the castle grounds, Scootles has safely made it down from the tower. As Chip reaches the top, he looks around, but doesn't see the cat anywhere. King Robert tells him that Scootles has saved himself. Disappointed, Chip comes down from the tower, and says that maybe they could put an elevator in there, because that tower is high. This leads to everyone singing "Castles So High".

The bus's next stop is a pizzeria - Barney's Peppy Purple Pepperoni Pizzeria. Barney teaches the kids how to make a special kind of pizza, but first they have to "Make the Dough", as they sing it. When the dough was finished, Chip tosses it up and down, making it round. Robert wants to try it, but however he tosses it so high it ends up stuck on the ceiling. Everyone decides to get the toppings while they wait for the dough to come down. Everyone, that is, except for Robert, who is waiting in place, until the dough falls onto his face. Now, all the toppings are out, and Barney, Baby Bop, BJ, and the kids sing "Nothing Beats a Pizza", as they top the pizza with pizza sauce, cheese, pineapples, peanut butter, pepperoni, peppers, and pickles! After the pizza is all cooked, the gang sits at a table and is each served a slice.

The bus's next stop is a western corral - Barney's Rocking Horse Ranch. Everyone appears dressed as cowboys, but they're missing just one thing: a hat! Barney makes everyone's hats appear, but Chip's hat (literally a ten-gallon hat) appears to be too big. So, Barney makes it fit perfectly. Everyone sings "Get Along Little Dogies" as they dance cowboy-style. Next, Barney teaches the kids how to lasso. Barney's magic lasso brings in a real live pony. Baby Bop and BJ bring in country music instruments: a fiddle, a harmonica, and a washboard, so that the gang would have a band. They perform "Home on the Range", and next "Turkey in the Straw".

The bus's last stop is a circus. Barney, as a ringmaster, welcomes the audience to Barney's Super-Dee-Duper Circus, and brings in the first act: Ellie the Elephant! Barney, Baby Bop, BJ, Chip, and Keesha sing "The Elephant", as Ellie the Elephant dances around the ring. By the song's end, the elephant is revealed to be Kristen and Robert in disguise.

Barney asks the gang if they'd like some popcorn. Baby Bop asks what popcorn is. The kids explain that it's a snack that you see and hear and smell and best of all, taste! BJ appears with a popcorn cart. Everyone sings "The Popcorn Song" and BJ serves them popcorn.

For the next act, Barney introduces Baby Bop, who serves as a tightrope walker. Baby Bop points out that there's just one problem: the rope is too high. She asks Barney to make it lower, so Barney instructs some "gentlemen" to lower the tightrope until it hits the ground. Baby Bop thinks it's just right and goes to walk the tightrope on the ground. BJ asks Baby Bop to hop her way through. This leads to everyone singing "The Baby Bop Hop", as Baby Bop hops her way through the tightrope.

Now, BJ is the only one left whose request hasn't happened yet. Barney understands that BJ wants to play in a band. BJ says his band will have a guitar, a drum, a cymbal, and some bells. Barney accepts and makes BJ into a one-man band with a guitar, a drum with a cymbal attached, and bells on his wrists, and everyone sings "Our Friend BJ Had a Band".

The bus has made it back to school. Everyone thanks Barney for the wonderful imaginary trip. Baby Bop and BJ have to go home, now. They say goodbye and disappear. Barney and the kids then sing one last song: "I Love You". Afterwards, Barney says goodbye to the kids as they leave. But Kristen stops and turns around to see Barney, changed into doll form. She walks up to the plush purple dinosaur, still wearing his bus driver hat, and says "And you were the best bus driver I ever had, Barney." She kisses him and then walks off as he winks at the audience, ending the video.