The Best Episodes of Barney & Friends
Every episode of Barney & Friends ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Barney & Friends!
Barney & Friends is an American children's television series aimed at children from ages 2 to 5. The series, which first aired on April 6, 1992, features the title character Barney, a purple anthropomorphic Tyrannosaurus rex who conveys educational messages through songs and small dance routines with a friendly, optimistic attitude.
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Barney & Friends" is "It's Your Birthday, Barney!", rated 7.6/10 from 23 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "It's Your Birthday, Barney!" aired on 5/12/2004 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Sweeter Than Candy: Greece".
7.6/10 23 votes#1 - It's Your Birthday, Barney!
Season 8 Episode 18 - Aired 5/12/2004
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- 7.6/10 15 votes
#2 - Sweeter Than Candy: Greece
Season 13 Episode 5 - Aired 9/11/2009
Barney, Baby Bop and BJ are helping the kids get ready for a school play. Barney tells everyone that putting on shows began in Greece. Of course, the little dinos and kids want to visit the country, so off they go! While there, they meet some Greek friends and decide to put on a play in an amphitheatre. Barney knows a great story that originated in Greece called “King Midas.” By the end of the day, everyone has learned that wanting too much is not a good thing, especially BJ!
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6.9/10 17 votes#3 - May I Help You?
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1993
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6.5/10 19 votes#4 - Look at Me, I'm Three!
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 10/8/1993
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- 6.5/10 16 votes
#5 - Squares, Squares Everywhere
Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 5/7/2004
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6.4/10 31 votes#6 - The Queen of Make-Believe
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/6/1992
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.
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6.4/10 18 votes#7 - A Very Special Delivery
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 10/20/1993
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- 6.4/10 12 votes
#8 - Easy, Breezy Day!
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 12/8/1997
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6.4/10 12 votes#9 - Tea-riffic Manners
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 9/4/2002
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6.3/10 12 votes
6.2/10 18 votes#11 - My Family's Just Right for Me
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/7/1992
It's the eve of ""Family Night"" at school. A super time for Barney & Friends to celebrate all those wonderful folks (and even pets!) at home. With paintings, books, songs, and dances. There's just one glitch to the gala; Kathy's not sure her ""small"" family measures up. It's just her Mom, her grandmother and herself. But after Barney gets through with his fun and games, the children realize that a family is defined by love, not by size.
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6.2/10 17 votes#12 - Hop to It!
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/9/1992
When Tina and Luci are playing basketball, Tina is disappointed when she can't play as well as her older sister or the other big kids. Barney stops by to show Tina all the great things she can do with exercise. Barney and the kids play games and sing songs about exercise and find out how fun it is to learn about their bodies. With new found energy and confidence, Tina ends up playing basketball as well as the others.
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6.2/10 23 votes#13 - Happy Birthday, Barney!
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 4/21/1992
It's Barney birthday and everyone is excited about throwing him the best party ever, using classroom materials and their imagination! Barney teaches his friends about birthday customs around the world and that receiving gifts is not the most important part of birthdays.
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- 6.2/10 10 votes
#14 - Way to Go!: A Travel Adventure
Season 12 Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/2008
Daniel explains to Barney, Baby Bop, BJ, and the kids how he and his family will use different modes of transportation on their cruise vacation. With a little imagination, Barney, Baby Bop, BJ, and the kids use boxes to build some cars, a plane, a bus, and a cruise ship.
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- 6.1/10 11 votes
6.0/10 25 votes#16 - Numbers! Numbers!
Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 9/20/2002
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5.8/10 14 votes#17 - Eat, Drink and Be Healthy!
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/10/1992
Barney and his friends discover they have plenty of ""food for thought"" as they learn about nutrition. Discovering the four food groups and the importance of eating healthy snacks allows Barney, Baby Bop and their friends to have fun together. An imaginative rhyming story tells about the perils of being a picky eater. A friend of Barney's sings a humorous song about meals that would ""bug"" most diners. Special songs and lyrics reinforce the lesson that eating healthy foods is the right thing to do.
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5.8/10 17 votes#18 - Our Earth, Our Home
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 4/23/1992
The school's ""Earth Week"" has Barney and his friends all abuzz about things they can do to protect the earth. Through fun-filled songs, the children learn the importance of recycling... how to make new things out of old...how to conserve water, air and land clean. The children form a ""trashcan"" band performing a silly symphony song and do a skit about Johny Appleseed. Sharing and caring for the earth become a ""fun thing"" to do.
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- 5.8/10 10 votes
#19 - It's Tradition
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/26/1997
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- 5.7/10 10 votes
#20 - A Picture of Health
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/1997
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- 5.7/10 10 votes
#21 - Play Ball!
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/1997
Barney introduces the kids to his Vend-O-Ball Machine. He tells them they can press any of the yellow buttons because they dispense various types of balls, but nobody is to press the red button on the bottom, because it has a problem. The kids take turns pressing the buttons and learn about different ball activities such as bowling and golf. Scooter, curious what will happen if one presses the bottom button, asks Baby Bop to do so, and it dispenses so many balls, all the kids come to clean up, and Scooter apologizes for causing the chaos.
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- 5.7/10 10 votes
#22 - A Different Kind of Mystery
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/1/1997
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- 5.7/10 10 votes
#23 - All Mixed Up
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 12/9/1997
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- 5.7/10 10 votes
#24 - Come Blow Your Horn!
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 9/12/2002
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- 5.7/10 11 votes
#25 - Shapes
Season 10 Episode 7 - Aired 9/21/2006
At the shapes carnival in the park, Riff is upset that his good lucky medal is gone. Barney and his friends set out to help him find it.
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