The video aired on PBS in 2000, being the fifth of only eleven Barney Home Videos to be televised on that network. After the song, everyone helps BJ blow out the candles, including the audience, given the massive size of the cake. After doing the music for the attraction A Day in the Park with Barney, Joseph Phillips was approached by Sloan Coleman to do the music for the tour of Barney's Big Surprise. A retail version of the album was released on May 6, 1997 (the same day as Barney's Musical Scrapbook). The voice of Professor Tinkerputt was done by Blas García as well, while Barry Pearl would still be on stage.

Barney: Now, that I know you're happy, it would make me very happy for you to meet some brand-new friends. Franks was the understudy for Barney's voice in any event the audio for the show would stop working.From the totally tee-riffic treehouse to Tinkerputt's toy factory, this is one celebration full of fun and music you won't soon forget. Professor Tinkerputt proceeds to ask if anyone else came with the dinosaurs, in which Barney lets him know that the audience is behind him. Barney then suggests that Mother Goose introduce herself to the audience as they might not know her.

From 1996-1997, some performances would feature the costumes based on the season three Barney costume and the 1996 Baby Bop and BJ costumes, but sometimes they use the 1995 Baby Bop and BJ costumes on the tour.

BJ discovers that the reason Professor Tinkerputt didn’t get him a red scooter is because that’s what Barney and the others got him.