Joe Scruggs: Live Deep in the Jungle (1997 VHS)

Release Date: March 11, 1997

List Price: $19.99

Running Time: 51 Minutes

Print date: 58th day of 1997 (February 27, 1997)

1997-1998 VHS

 * 1) Barney's Sense-Sational Day (1997 VHS) (January 14, 1997)
 * 2) Barney's Colors and Shapes (VHS) (March 18, 1997)
 * 3) Barney’s Camp WannaRunAround (1997 VHS) (July 8, 1997)
 * 4) Barney's Adventure Bus (1997 VHS) (September 2, 1997)
 * 5) Barney: Waiting For Santa (VHS) (1997 and 1998 Reprint Versions) (September 23, 1997 and September 29, 1998)
 * 6) Kids for Character: Choices Count! (1997 VHS) (October 14, 1997)
 * 7) Shelley Duvall's Mother Goose Rock N' Rhyme (1998 VHS) (June 16, 1998)
 * 8) Annie Oakley (1998 VHS) (June 16, 1998)
 * 9) Casey at the Bat (1998 VHS) (June 16, 1998)
 * 10) Davy Crockett (1998 VHS) (June 16, 1998)
 * 11) Johnny Appleseed (1998 VHS) (June 16, 1998)
 * 12) Barney's Halloween Party (1998 VHS) (August 18, 1998)
 * 13) Groundling Marsh: It's A Wonderful Marsh (1998 VHS) (September 8, 1998)
 * 14) Barney's Good Clean Fun (1998 VHS) (November 3, 1998)

Synopsis
As the concert begins, an announcer introduces Joe Scruggs in Concert. Joe Scruggs enters the stage and sings "Deep in the Jungle" with three monkeys and a crocodile. After the song, Joe notes that the crocodile wasn't actually harming the monkeys; he took them to charm school, where they learn to end their monkey business.

Joe begins his second song "Old MacDonald". Pete Markham assists him with three See-'N'-Says. When they sing about the duck, a live duck appears. Next, he sings "Rock-n-Roll MacDonald" based upon the previous song, about the eponymous farmer who sold his farm and decided to become a rock-n-roll star.

Next, Joe explains that Old MacDonald gave up his career as a rock-n-roll star and decided to become a wildlife zoologist. Upon that he sings "Jungle Joe", about a man by that name who owns a wildlife park and a bunch of different animals he has in a different size, for example "Big lion, little lion, little lion, big lion, fat lion, thin lion, thin lion, fat lion."

Next, Joe leads the audience to "Put Your Thumb in the Air". He asks them to put their thumb in the air and leave it on their head, followed by a bunch of silly things where he asks them to put their parts.

Joe then encounters two psychic earmuffs-wearing Colorful Cockatoos from Caracas. He sings "Bahamas Pajamas" (which Joe titles as "Love in the Bahamas"), as the cockatoos repeat his every line in rhyme, causing the audience to have a laughing fit. Next, Joe and Pete perform "The Bicycle Song" as they try out different sounds of bike bells and horns, and end with a siren. Next, Joe performs a song with a Playskool Musical Busy Box - "Busy Box Band". As Joe sings, he makes different noises on the box.

For the next song - "Talking Toybox" - Joe warns the audience that it might be scary, but it's going to have a happy ending. In the song's story, the main character (played by Joe) hears a scary noise coming from the toy box. He calls for help and his parents come to wonder what it's about. His mom opens the box and discover that it's a doll that needs batteries. As the character's parents turn out the light, the toy box ends with a cheerful "I love you. Night-night!"

In "Goo Goo Ga Ga", Joe takes a car ride with a baby through a deep spooky forest, where he encounters a witch, a troll and an alligator.

For one final song, Joe sings "Swing Low Saint Mountain" (a.k.a. "Flying Round the Mountain"), a mix of three different songs sung in counterpoint - "Coming Round the Mountain", "When The Saints Go Marching In" and "Swing Low Sweet Chariot". Pete Markham, Jeanie Runion and the audience join in. Joe divides the audience into groups and leads them to do the actions for each song. After that, the announcer introduces the show's cast during the curtain call.

During the credits, the audience meets up with Pete and the crocodile puppet.