Bob's Barnraising

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## Distribution

### TV Blocks

**North America**:* **Nick Jr. (2001-04):** **Bob's Barnraising**/Square Dance Spud/Naughty Spud/Spud Goes Apple-Picking
* **PBS (2006-10):** Playing in the Rain (**Bob's Barnraising**/Lofty and the Crab/An Apple A Day/Wendy's Tennis Match)

### DVD/VHS releases

**United Kingdom**:* Naughty Spud and Other Stories
 HiT Children's Favourites 1
 Bob's Winning Team (VHS only)

**Australia**:

* Bob's Birthday and Other Stories

**United Kingdom & Australia**:

* The Complete 1st Series

**North America**:

* Can We Fix It?
* Muck's Favorite Adventures
* X-Treme Adventures!
* The Ultimate Can-Do Crew Collection
* HiT Entertainment Children's Favorites Vol. 1
* Barney: Let's Pretend with Barney (as a bonus episode)
* Pingu: Chillin' with Pingu (as a bonus episode)

**Bob's Barnraising** is the thirteenth and finale episode of the first season.

## Plot

One sunny morning, Bob is watching TV in his living room and the weather lady on TV says that heavy rain is forecast for the afternoon, which concerns Bob. He then goes out to the yard to see his machines.

At the yard, Bob's machines are waiting for Bob to tell them what they're doing that day. Bob steps out of house to greet his machines. Scoop asks Bob what they are doing that day and Bob tells Scoop that he needs him and Lofty to help him repair Farmer Pickles' old barn. Bob then receives a call from Farmer Pickles who needs help gathering and loading his harvest. Bob tells Farmer Pickles that Muck will help him with the harvest.

Bob, Scoop, and Lofty head over to Farmer Pickles' barn and Muck goes to the countryside. When Bob arrives at the barn, he sees that it is in really bad shape and that it's in danger of collapsing. Scoop asks if they can finish it by that night to which Bob responds, "We've got to, Scoop!", knowing that a storm is on its way.

In the open countryside, Farmer Pickles is loading hay bales into Travis's trailer. Muck arrives to help Farmer Pickles with the harvest, much to his relief knowing that they can get the harvest done in half the time.

Bob attempts to hammer a board back into the barn's beam. The board only stays in place for a few seconds and then falls to the ground, much to Bob's shock. He is also shocked to see that the old wooden beam is rotten all the way through. He tells Scoop and Lofty that they'll have to replace it since the weight of the hay bales will cause the barn's floor to collapse.

Muck and Farmer Pickles are still busy gathering and loading the harvest. Spud the scarecrow sees them working and decides to play little prank. Farmer Pickles puts one bale on top of another and goes to get another one. Spud takes one of the bales while no one is looking and hides in the bushes. Farmer Pickles comes back with another bale and is surprised to see only one when he sure that he put two bales in the spot. He stacks two bales on top of each other and then goes to get another one. Once again, Spud takes the bale that Farmer Pickles just placed and hides in the bushes. Farmer Pickles comes back with another bale sees that his stack was reduced to just one bale again. He suspects that something funny is going on and Spud laughs beneath the bushes. Farmer Pickles hears him and realizes that this one of Spud's tricks. Spud emerges from the bushes and tells Farmer Pickles that he'd come and help with the harvest. Farmer Pickles suggests Spud to help him load the hay bales instead of unloading them. Spud says that he saw a lot of birds in the lettuce fields and says that he should go back to his real job for scaring birds. He even pretends to scare birds but accidentally trips over one of the hay bales that he had hidden, much to Farmer Pickles' amusement.

Back at the barn, Scoop and Lofty help Bob remove the old beam. Scoop grabs the barn's floor and lifts it up slightly to hold it in place. Lofty grabs the old beam with his hook and after a few hard tugs, he pulls it out. Scoop straining to hold barn's heavy floor and tells Bob to tell Lofty to get a move on with the new beam.

Travis the tractor soon arrives at the countryside to collect his trailer. Muck and Farmer Pickles soon finish loading all of the hay bales into the trailer and Travis is hooked up. By then, the sky turns dark gray and thunder rolls. Farmer Pickles nervously looks up at the sky and is concerned if they'll make it back to the barn before the storm comes. The dark clouds and thunder also loom above Bobsville. At Bob's yard, flash of lightning frightens Pilchard and Roley and Dizzy hide under one of the sheds.

The sky is still clear at Farmer Pickles' barn, but thunder continues to roll in the distance. Bob assists Lofty putting the new beam in place and Scoop finally lets go of the heavy floor, feeling relieved and tired. Bob hammers and fixes the barns wall. Eventually, Bob drills the last board for the wall and the barn is fully repaired. Bob stomps his foot on the barn's floor to check the sturdiness of the new beam, which he calls "as solid as a rock". Suddenly, lightning flashes and thunder rolls. Bob starts counting, but says elephant(s) after each number. After saying "eight elephant(s)", lightning flashes again which startles Bob. Scoop is confused and asks Bob why he's counting elephants. Bob explains that he's actually counting how many seconds there were between the lightning flashing and the thunder rolling. He also explains that the word "elephant" only takes one second to say and that since he counted eight seconds, the storm was only eight miles away.

Farmer Pickles, Muck, and Travis hurry on their way to the barn with the harvest. Bob is still waiting for them at the barn and counts elephants in between the thunder and lightning again. This time, there were only four seconds which means the storm is getting closer. Farmer Pickles, Muck, and Travis finally arrive and together, everyone helps load the hay into the barn. After the harvest is put in the barn, Bob, Scoop, Muck, and Lofty head back to Bobsville with the lightning flashing and thunder rolling. The machines pull into their sheds and Bob shelters himself in his house.

Soon, rain starts to fall and Spud quickly runs for cover in Farmer Pickles' newly repaired barn and spends the night in there after the storm had stopped.

## Characters

* Bob
* Wendy
* Scoop
* Muck
* Dizzy
* Roley
* Lofty
* Pilchard
* Bird
* Travis
* Spud
* Farmer Pickles

## Locations

* Bobsville
	+ Bob's Yard
		- Bob's Living Room
* The Countryside
	+ Farmer Pickles' Farm

## Voice Cast

### United Kingdom & Australia

* **Neil Morrissey** as **Bob**, **Roley**, **Lofty** & **Farmer Pickles**
* **Rob Rackstraw** as **Scoop**, **Muck**, **Travis** & **Spud**
* **Kate Harbour** as **Wendy**, **Dizzy**, **Pilchard**, **Bird** & **Weather Forecast Reporter**

### North America

* **William Dufris** as **Bob** & **Farmer Pickles**
* **Lorelei King** as **Wendy** & **Weather Forecast Reporter**
* **Alan Marriott** as **Scoop**, **Travis** & **Spud**
* **Maria Darling** as **Dizzy** & **Roley**
* **Lachele Carl** as **Muck**
* **Sonya Leite** as **Lofty**
* **Kate Harbour** as **Pilchard** & **Bird** (uncredited)

### Finland

* **Timo Tuominen** as **Bob** and **Roley**
* **Antti Pääkkönen** as **Scoop**, **Lofty** and **Travis**
* **Jukka Rasila** as **Muck**, **Spud** and **Farmer Pickles**
* **Rinna Paatso** as **Wendy** and **Dizzy**

### Sweden

* **Magnus Ehrner** as **Bob**
* **Eva Gröndahl** as **Wendy**
* **Claire Wikholm** as **Scoop**
* **Björn Gedda** as **Muck**
* **Claes Månsson** as **Lofty** & **Weather Forecast Reporter**
* **Anneli Martini** as **Roley**
* **Tuvalisa Rangström** as **Dizzy**
* **Carlo Schmidt** as **Spud** & **Farmer Pickles**

## Trivia

* Some TV guide sources incorrectly list this episode airing in February 1999 for the UK.
* This episode marks the first of a few things:
	+ This episode was the first time Farmer Pickles had a ride on Muck.
	+ Lofty says "Yes we can!" for the very first time.
	+ The first appearance of Bob's drill.
* This episode was paired with *Naughty Spud* (*Season 1*) when it first premiered in North America and Latin America.
* This episode was paired with *Wendy's Tennis Court* (*Season 2*) when it first premiered on PBS in the US.
* This episode is titled, **Bob's Barn Raising** in The Ultimate Can-do Crew Collection US DVD release and on some TV guides.
* This was the Last Episode where Carlo Schmidt voices Farmer Pickles in the Swedish Dub.

## Goofs

* In the shot of Bob's machines waiting for Bob in the yard, Muck raises his/her front blade, but in the next shot, his/her blade is already back down on the ground.
* When Scoop says, "What is it, Bob?", he is seen smiling.
* When Bob stomps his foot on the barn’s floor after finishing the wall, the edge of the sky backdrop is visible in the top left-hand corner.

## Quotes

* **Bob**: One elephant, two elephant(s), three elephant(s), four elephant(s), five elephant(s), six elephant(s), seven elephant(s), eight elephant(s)... (*lightning flashes*) Whoa!
* **Scoop**: Uh, w-why are you counting elephants, Bob?
* **Bob**: (*chuckles slightly*) No, no. **UK**: I'm counting how many seconds there are between the thunder rolling and the lightning flashing. / **US**: I'm counting how many seconds there are between the lightning flashing and the thunder rolling. It takes one second to say "elephant". There were eight seconds, which means the storm's only eight miles away.
* **Scoop**: Oh... I understand!
* **Bob**: Well, the barn's ready, but where is Farmer Pickles and the harvest?
* **Scoop**: Probably stuck behind the elephants!
* **Bob**: No, Scoop...

## External Links

**United Kingdom Premieres**

* https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08pllq8 - Original UK BBC Premiere Date (BBC)

**North American Premieres**

* https://nickstory.fandom.com/wiki/Bob\_the\_Builder - US Premiere Date (Nick Jr)
* https://www.corusent.com/news/obobo-builds-a-canadian-pre-school-following/ - Canada Premiere Date (YTV Jr.)

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