![]() ![]() This is also the last time I Love You was sung at the beginning.Although the cover and tape label call this video "Barney's Campfire Sing Along", the actual title is just simply "Campfire Sing Along".This is also the first video to show a Barney doll without yellow toes.This episode is the only episode (from 1990) that uses the Barney doll from the opening.Barney starts a fire by using the Indian Stick Trick The is the fourth episode where Time Lapse is used.This is the first time for the Barney doll to have a star twinkle on his eye at the end of an episode.He replaces Adam, as the actor that played Adam fell ill. This is Jeffrey's only appearance in the series.The Bear ( Philip Parker (costume), Bob West (voice)).Barney ( David Voss (costume), Bob West (voice)).After the trip is over, Tina wakes up and realizes it was all just a dream - and a magical one at that. Back at the campfire, songs are sung around it and everyone learns how to make S'mores. They even explore a cave where a bear lives. Thanks to Barney's advice earlier of "Stay where you are, hug a tree and blow your whistle," everyone finds Tina and they continue onto more campfire fun. In the mist of things, a storm comes around and Tina gets lost in the woods. Barney takes the gang through different fun experiences from pitching tents, having a snack, and much more. After Tina falls asleep, she dreams about a camping trip with Barney and the rest of the Backyard Gang. (Available from most distributors.After listening to a story about camping read by her mom, Tina wishes that she could go camping someday. If you're uncertain, check one out and decide for yourself. Either these people don't know diddly about children's video, or I've missed the boat entirely. ![]() To be fair, the Barney series has received kudos from TV Guide, Redbook, and Video Review, among others. Now Mattel makes no bones about the fact that its shows are there to sell toys-but even they wouldn't be this brazen. The beginning is an unadulterated ad for a "Barney" plush toy for a mere 20 spot. (One has to wonder if the "teaching" is being done with telepathy-but again, it's just laziness it's as if the sharing of a new song were a vestigial limb of reality that the glitzy producers forgot to lop off.) For my money, the series reaches its zenith at the opening of Barney Goes to School, the newest entry. At least once or twice in each show, one of the gang will offer to "teach" a new song to rest of the gang members-whereupon the entire group springs into song with oodles of choreography thrown in to boot. He also laughs after virtually everything he says, no matter how mundane-and this seems to be his primary function: a walking "laugh track." All of the programs are overproduced to the point of confusion. ![]() Throughout the three programs, the grating Barney drops a few pearls of wisdom: the basic message being to beam out love undiscerningly-it doesn't matter whether your love signal strikes another human being or a rock. If your child is afraid of camping than he needs this tape in this adventure Barney and the backyard gang goes camping,but while their on their trip Barney and the gang goes inside a cave and meets a sleepy bear,tina gets lost and she blows her whistle so the gang can find. I'm sure you can figure out what the other two tapes are about from the titles. ![]() (This is a trademark of the series then kids seldom do for themselves-Barney is the ultimate fantasy provider.) Next, the kids take a hike (at about the same time, my kids also took a hike, looking for something better to do), stopping every so often to burst into "spontaneous" lip-synched songs about turtles, frogs, and ants, using traditional tunes with new lyrics. He wiggles his tail, and presto!, the kids have camping outfits, supplies, etc. In Barney's Campfire Sing-Along, the "backyard gang" (whose most notable attribute is that they are a meticulously, even mathematically, chosen cross-section of the ethnic population) join barney on a soundstage which is supposed to represent a natural environment but looks just like a soundstage. Correction: the format is imaginatively lazy. Not, that's not fair many excellent programs feature a simple format. The format for each of the Barney programs is simple. Barney, the "magic" dinosaur, by way of contrast is a thundering bore. Shari Lewis is a veritable sparkplug of imagination and infectious enthusiasm which easily carries over to young and old, alike. In the sing-along category, which these three programs belong to, I'm not ashamed to admit that I have enjoyed such jewels as The Animal Alphabet and Lamb Chop's Sing Along Play Along. ![]()
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