Trivia / Barney's Great Adventure

• Awesome, Dear Boy: Director Steve Gomer shot the film in Montréal as he wanted to work with the Cirque du Soleil troupe.
• Banned in China: The film was banned in Malaysia only because the censors found it to be "unacceptable for children". Despite only being banned in Malaysia, the film was also never released in some other countries including South Korea and Taiwan.
• Cut Song: There was an Award-Bait Song titled "When You Kiss Me, It Doesn't Make Me Sick" that was about adult love from a child's perspective. It was going to be in the restaurant scene, but it was scrapped in favor of Barney performing "If All the Raindrops." You can listen to it here.
• Disowned Adaptation: Barney & Friends show-writer Stephen White has no love for the final film, mainly because his script was butchered into what the film became (which he also wrote, reluctantly).
• Executive Meddling: According to writer Stephen White, the film had a ton of this done to its script.^note In Gomer's defense, White's script was over 200 pages long, which would be the equivalent of a 3-1/2 hour movie. He also felt that the chase didn't have much of a purpose initially.
• Fake American: Canadians Alan Fawcett and Jane Woods play Cody and Abby's parents at the beginning.
• Pop-Culture Urban Legends: A trivia note on the Internet Movie Database claimed that Josh Radnor had an early role as a waiter in the restaurant scene. The role was actually Martin Boisvert.
• Spoiled by the Merchandise: Twinken, the creature who lives inside the egg, was spoiled by merchandise months before the movie's debut.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The film was originally set up at Geffen Pictures with Warner Bros. distributing. Unfortunately, the latter had disagreements with Lyons over marketing and the project moved to PolyGram.
  • Twinken, the koala-like Dream-Maker that hatches from the egg, was not in the original drafts of the film. The egg instead contained a lost baby bird. Barney was to return the bird to its mother, while uniting the kids' families as well.
  • Trey Parker, of all people, claimed that he had been offered to direct the film. According to him, the producers liked that he could do "funny stuff with kids" based on his The Spirit of Christmas short and were willing to pay him $1.5 million for the job. Bewildered, Parker declined.
  • BJ and Baby Bop were going to be more prominent in the film, mainly in scenes with the farmhouse attic. These scenes were cut due to, in the words of director Steve Gomer, "being too expensive."

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