Fred Penner's Place - Nick Knacks Episode

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Nickelodeon had found a couple of real gems among Canadian preschool television, it only makes sense that they go to that well again. Meet Fred Penner, folk musician who loves sandwiches. Join him through the hollow log for a day of songs to make you feel confident in yourself.
"He just couldn't stay away: Long after beloved children’s show was cancelled, Fred Penner’s career is still going strong"
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[@sapphyreblayze]

I've been binging Nick Knacks these past few days only for you to go and drop a new episode! Insanely perfect timing. Just wanna say this is one of my absolute favourite series on youtube and you deserve far more views, the amount of research you put into each video is staggering. Edit: Wonderful video, as per usual. It really is sad how 99% of this show is just *gone*. Fred Penner seems like such a lovely guy, and something that he poured years of his life into, that was part of so many kids childhoods, deserves to be better preserved. It really does go to show how ephemeral media can be, even in the digital age - that seems to be something of a reoccurring theme in Nick Knacks (especially in the earlier episodes), and it's such a shame.

[@starpetalarts6668]

This is how I started as well.

[@KaiserBeamz]

This really takes me back to the time when acoustic folk music was pretty much the "default" type of childrens music. The pre-Wiggles era if you will.

[@andrejg4136]

Yeah as someone who grew up in the 90s acoustic guitar was coded as being either for 1) Children's Music or 2) (Tryhard) Artsy College Hipsters.

[@WinkDaMan07]

This was my favorite show back then, plus I was a huge Raffi fan when I was little!

[@derick-smith]

I'm 37 and I've been playing the guitar for most of those years. I think Mr. Penner played a big part in pulling me to the instrument. It's such a huge part of my life and it might not exist if Fred Penner. Thanks Fred!

[@janedoe3043]

I remember looking for a tree trunk during my youth that led somewhere like this show had.

[@montgoja]

Thanks for validating my fuzzy memories of "that guy who crawled through a log on Nick Jr." all those years ago! Great video!

[@zackfitzlive3723]

Fred Penner is an icon!!! Thanks for the history of the show. I am a huge fan and always will love his music. Cheers to you!!!

[@Feelthefelt]

My mother took my sister and I to a live Fred Penner concert in either 1989 or 90. I remember this because we waited for an hour in line to meat him with what I was sick with what turned out to be a fever. That log that enters into is forest wonderland will always be magical to me.

[@esperderek5383]

As a Canadian who grew up in the right timeframe Fred Penner absolutely was a big part of being a kid at that time, particularly this show. It's stunning to me how few copies actually appear to exist considering the sheer number of episodes were made and how long the series lasted for.

[@NicoAnimation]

I hope Fred Penner sees this video! Thankfully he's still with us.

[@sherridavis5744]

I remember this it was at one time my favorite TV show when I was a kid

[@thesmileyemo]

I got to see Fred Penner live in 2013 when he was doing a tour of 18+ shows at Canadian universities. It's kind of weird sitting in a bar, drinking a beer while Fred Penner is a few feet away but the show was amazing and everyone got into it and was singing along.

[@RealFutureEmperor420]

Your videos make me remember things trapped deep inside my soul prism. I appreciate every moment spent watching something about my entertainment from the innocent days. Being a kid from the US, I'm sure very few of us here remember Fred Penner, but I always will. Nick Jr for the win

[@VahanNisanian]

I watch blameitonjorge, who is heavily invested in lost media, and I don't recall him mentioning this show. It definitely seems like a worthy candidate for that kind of media.

[@tgrady153]

Great video! I grew up in Canada watching Fred, and took my daughter to see him twice last year. I still have several of his books, most of his CDs and 2 of his home videos. My daughter is now 3 and asks to watch “Ped Pennra” at least once a week. It’s cool to see with the Paw Patrols and Mickeys Clubhouses these days that shows like Fred Penner’s Place and Mr. Dressup (another Canadian classic - Amazon just released a great documentary on him) still hold the same level of interest for todays generation.

[@Grover1234]

I did grow up watching "Fred Penner's Place" during my time as a kid and into my teen years. Yes I watched when I was 13. I'll always enjoy the intro to the show. That music is in graved into my head. I love the mouth harp noise you hear during it. Makes me think of Snoopy playing it. I too have some episodes taped from Nick Jr. but not to sure which ones you have. Would be neat if you had a few I didn't have and I had a few you didn't have. Then we could easily start on a Lost Media page for his show. The one thing I'm looking forward to is the next episode......Eureeka's Castle! Now that's my jam during the late 89 and into the early 90's. I love what you are doing and keep up the great work. Can't wait!

[@JPOmare]

Thank You Sooooooo Much! for Years I thought this was called Payton's Place. No Wonder I kept getting no search results! but thanks again! Now I know I didn't imagine this series!

[@masonl87]

This show WAS my young childhood. I even vaguely recall seeing Penner live at some sort of festival in Chicago. Wish I could remember more about it.

[@bakomusha]

When the video started I was like, "Why does that name sound familiar?" bu then I saw the guy with the backpack and memories unlocked that I had deeply forgotten! Every thing is just hitting all the neurons and I'm like 'How did I forget this!?" The Elephant Show, Fred Penners Place, Underneath The Umbrella Tree, and up next Eureka's Castle, we are now into my earliest memories of cable television. According to my folks we didn't have cable till 1990, and I do vaguely remember being exited for use to get it, so I guess my memories of Sesame Street are older.

[@TankHammer]

My biggest lasting impression of this show was how much I enjoyed the set. I always wanted to find a clearing in the woods that matched his with a little secret storage shelf for his guitar.

[@FreezingInfernos]

Oh hey, a show I have nostalgic memories of from up here in Canada! Great episode. The lack of surviving episodes/clips is quite shocking, though. I actually have an old VHS somewhere in the basement with a snippet of a random episode of the show, where it's a song about ringing bells. It is absolutely buck wild to me to think that one random song I taped in like ,1992 is probably a tiny gold coin of lost media.

[@mattmcconnell4814]

As a kid without cable from the backwoods of Canada, this show is part of some of my earliest memories. I probably haven't heard the theme song since I was 8 but I remembered it. I have enjoyed seeing pop area turn the 10,000 watt bulb of their analysis onto something I feel deeply connected to.

[@BIGWAYNE918]

Aye !!!! Now this def takes me back!

[@Starhound]

This and Eureeka's Castle.. the two kids shows I loved more than Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street, and I ADORED those shows. Hearing that so much of this show is lost hurts, a lot. So many memories of waiting for Fred to crawl through the log, SWEARING that it was "Fredbird" not "Wordbird" (I don't know, I was a kid!), humming along with the theme song. But the rest of it is fuzzy, and I wonder if it was cause the show was so music focused. I remember segments, skits, but music, as much as I love it, you remember the music and not always the scene around it.

[@poetrycomix5831]

We're finally at the point in Nick Knacks where you're covering programs that I have hazy childhood memories of. While binging through the series, I kept thinking "I vaguely recall watching a singalong show about this beard guy in the woods. I wonder what that was all about." So hey, thanks for giving me a name and some footage to go along with the fuzzed-out preschool images.

[@doryna_sira]

Fun fact: Fred Penner had his own planetarium show! "In My Backyard" was made for pre-K to kindergarten and is a lot like the show. Fred talking and singing about all the things he can see from his backyard. Very basic stuff like ladybugs, seasons, constellations, etc, but perfectly appropriate for his audience. There was also a character, Arnie the Arrow (i.e. the planetarium operator using a special cartoon pointer) who would help Fred count the ladybugs, point out planets, and things like that. I used to help run this show at our local science museum, so yes, I got to be Arnie. It looks like it was reissued in the 2010's with updated artwork and facts (RIP Pluto), so there might still be a few museums showing it, especially since there isn't a lot of planetarium stuff for the little ones.

[@jccw227]

Yay!!! Eureeka’s Castle is next! I’ve been waiting for this one! Also, I still enjoy “The Cat Came Back”.

[@meghangriesemer1129]

Memory unlocked. I used to love Fred Penner's Place. Now all I remember is the cat came back song

[@digamejh]

1:46 I was aging out of the Nick Jr. demographic by this time, but that promo is burned into my brain.

[@Lynn17]

Awww, hearing the theme song is bringing back all sorts of memories. I'd forgotten about the puppets besides Georgio, though. This was such a simple and wholesome show and it's one of the many reasons I grew up loving folksy tunes. (My mother's taste in music being another one.) Edit: The sandwich song! I remember a bouncier cover of that on some album whose name I forget but Fred's sounds nicer, lol. Edit ii: Well that sucks that the show's got no home media presence. I kind of had an underlying feeling since it's a slightly lesser known gem of Nick Jr., but still. :( This is the kind of show I'd love for my niece to be able to watch.

[@newstarcadefan]

I grew up with this, and Eureeka's Castle (which lasted a long time on Nick Jr then).

[@itsmeshaunna]

I really loved Fred Penner's Place but I was so little when I watched it that as I grew older I wondered if I imagined it because no one ever talked about it. I wish more was freely available to watch. Thanks for the video.

[@meghanallen1554]

Did we grow up in the same household? Fred Penner was my very first concert, I was in the front row and he looked right at me. I love that he gave that moment to me, it was so special! I was partial to "Ghost Riders in the Sky" myself.

[@mr.tomraypaz6085]

I so remember Fred Penner’s Place! Loved that show. Seeing the opening sequence to the show brought back fond memories.

[@Amaterasu1982]

Thanks for coming out with this video. Fred penned is preforming in a festival tomorrow and this brought a lot of good memories. Can’t wait to see him live.

[@EvaFull]

Once “The Cat Came Back” started playing @9:00 minutes, I had a serious memory overload of my preschool & kindergarten days from the early-mid 80’s. 😳 EDIT: Even more came back seconds later when you briefly played “Sandwiches”.

[@patteroast]

Oh wow same, my jaw was on the floor once that song started, although for me it's one of my only childhood memories of my mother's record collection during my preschool years at the very start of the 90s.

[@Terraraptor1]

My girlfriend is having a nostalgic exsistential crisis over learning about the guy who wrote the sanwiches song. This is amazing, we never knew he had all this going on.

[@EBTheOriginalMaster]

Funny that you brought up Under The Umbrella Tree is because Defunctland did a DefunctTV episode on that show.

[@TheEman590]

I was fortunate to have Disney Channel back when it was a premium cable network, so I watched Under the Umbrella Tree quite a bit. It was a good show, Iggy was my favorite. I watched Fred Penner, too, usually during the summer or sick days as a kid.

[@kapiteinfox3142]

As a US/Canadian border kid, empathy oozing CBC kids shows are my jam. I always appreciated that it never felt like Penner was talking down to you. You were just existing in his "place". To this day, I still remember a quote where he got a letter from a kid asking "why do people stop growing when they're grownups?" And Fred's response was "Oh (insert kids name here). Adults and kids both grow, just in different ways. When you're a kid you grow like this (does a hand motion for getting taller). But adults grow like this (mimes his gut growing out sideways)." There was just enough cheekiness that you felt like you were part of the club.

[@ivane5110]

I never heard of him (he was quite a bit after my time, so its no reflection on him), but his show reminds me of ones that were a staple of my childhood. Its wonderful to see one of the kids who grew up on him be able to spotlight him so well. Good for both of y'all. Hope his old works come to light again.

[@casualcausalityy]

He crawled through a log to get into his camp every episode, so many of us as kids dreamed of having our own secret camp in the forest

[@pronkb000]

I was getting past the Nick Jr. stage when that block came into prominence, but I do remember liking this show more than Sharon, Lois, & Bram. As you said, it never condescended to its viewership and I felt like I was actually learning things--and not just hard facts, either.

[@technicolordreamer]

Fred Penner kind of feels like a more musical Mr. Rogers type. Sad to hear there's not more available from him, but at least we have the fuzzy memories. Enjoyed hearing your personal memories. I'll have to look up that sandwich song. I remember Holly from Under the Umbrella Tree. I'm so excited for the Eureeka's Castle episode. That may be the earliest Nickelodeon show that I truly can recollect.

[@ZoogWeekendz]

Who’s excited for the next video about Eureeka’s Castle?

[@TheEman590]

I know I am. It was on for a full hour at one point, usually at 11 in the morning. Nickelodeon original programming was heating up after the success of Double Dare and I was loving it

[@EvaFull]

I popped hard when that announcement was made at the end of video.

[@CinnamonGrrlErin1]

I can't wait to see all the comments from people surprised that RL Stine was a writer on it lol

[@maieen2665]

@@CinnamonGrrlErin1 well now you spoiled the surprise! 😛 In all seriousness, that’s a cool piece of trivia.

[@The_Jimplication]

I've been trying to remember what the name of this show for almost thirty years.

[@CartoonsAndGameShows]

Lovee these deep dives into the history of childrens programming. I especially love hearing the production details. Honestly, I was born in 1990 so I honestly just 'MISSED' having Fred Penner as a part of my childhood. But I can certainly appreciate what he's done. That and it was nice to see Holly Laroque mentioned. I'm sure a lot of people my age remember seeing her on 'Under the Umbrella' tree when Disney Channel played it here in the States. Definitely remember seeing a decent amount of Canadian kids shows as a child.

[@casualcausalityy]

As a kid Fred Penner had the coolest hideout, and he always seemed like a genuinely nice, happy dude

[@christopherjudge1138]

Even Fred Penner's Palace couldn't hold a candle up high for You Can't Do That on Television. Don't Just Sit There or Out of Control!

[@victorhiggins9636]

Love your work

[@jamesmoss3424]

I remember watching Fred Penner's Place when I was a kid and it's still good today. 😀👍

[@nicksullivan4994]

Nick Jr. had so many Cool Logos back Then!❤️📺🎶👍🏻

[@burningdust]

I grew up watching Fred Penner’s place on CBC. Fond memories and as a kid had no idea he lived in the same city. Many years later as an adult I saw him at a grocery store. It was absolutely surreal.

[@GiovanniPeluso]

This is great! Nice work.

[@rosecoloredtimes]

This guy seems like a solid dude and I’m glad I was exposed to him as a child 😊

[@darklotus5309]

Do you know Prince was on the freaking muppets one time? Boy Nickelodeon really dropped the ball 😂

[@Benny_Frank]

SO excited for the Eureeka's Castle episode!

[@CinnamonGrrlErin1]

Great timing! I just finished rewatching the whole NK series a few minutes ago. My third go around; this has become pure comfort watching for me, even more then the original shows in a few cases.

[@MissAshley42]

This was one of the few Nick Jr. shows that I just couldn't bring myself to watch as a then pre-teen. Between the singing and Penner's big friend's dad energy, I branded the show as "too kiddy" in my mind. Looking at it now, though, I definitely appreciate Penner's warmth and caring. Also, the idea of the music industry going after children's shows suddenly makes Kidz Bop make depressing sense. A sincere TV offering that wishes to nurture kids and just happens to use pop music covers? "Can't have that," says the music industry. "How about you stop so we can instead capitalist this up a bit for $19.99 a CD?"

[@KennyEpstein]

If you can. Can you please try to upload some Nick Jr episodes of Fred Penner's Place if possible?

[@mightyfilm]

Well, at least the Lost Media Wiki somehow managed to find a Vic's Vacant Lot. I wonder if there's going to be an addendum video about that. As for this show, give it a day or two. There will no doubt be an article about it through notice of this video.

[@doryna_sira]

That's awesome! It looks like a little bit of Reggie Jackson's World of Sports was also re-discovered.

[@mightyfilm]

@@doryna_sira Aparently, I was wrong. No one started up a Penner's Place article yet.

[@stephenholloway6893]

He ended up making a part 2 like Hocus Focus and By The Way due to a lack of footage in the original episode. Or in the case of By the Way, no footage.

[@mightyfilm]

@@stephenholloway6893 Yeah. I saw it when he released it. Wonder if he found out about it from my comment or someone mentioning it somewhere else online.

[@markdoublea84]

Excellent presentation on Fred Penner’s Place, Greg. I don’t recall watching his show on Nick, but I have heard some of his songs. A bunch of his albums are available for streaming on Spotify and elsewhere. And hey, I also like Raffi. In regards to the guest Canadian children’s performers who appeared on Penner’s program, I wonder if Charlotte Diamond was ever seen on the show one time. She’s one of my favorite children’s singers next to Raffi, of course. Once again, good work on the Nick Knacks episode on Fred Penner.

[@angry_wizard]

One of my earliest memories is being taken to a Fred Penner concert at Hamilton Place when I was three. The guy is a legend.

[@mikesilva3868]

Saw this show on nick when I was 7 in 1991 until I was 9 in 1993 good tv series 😇

[@OreoBrawl]

A nice companion video to Defunctland’s Under the Umbrella Tree video

[@beipiaosaurus]

One thing I find interesting is that Nick Knacks, DefunctTV and Toy Galaxy each do retrospectives on old kids shows, but have their own niches that don't result in much overlap (so far it's only Toy Galaxy also covering Double Dare and DefunctTV covering Legends of the Hidden Temple and Oobi which will be on Nick Knacks eventually).

[@Martialartfruituser]

GAHHHH! This is hitting me the hardest in the nostalgic feels right now. I remember this so hard.

[@Fribee83]

"It ended in '97-", I had no idea the ran until so recentl-oh...it's 2022...that's 25 years ago....shit I'm old.

[@chrisjt86]

This is deeeeeep in my 4-year-old memory, along with Slim Goodbody, the Letter People, Special Delivery (the show, not Penner's album) and such.

[@MissAshley42]

I only recently discovered the identity of the Letter People through a coworker. I remembered part of the Mr. M song for decades, but I never knew the whole crew was called "the Letter People" until a few months ago. With this knowledge in tow, now I kinda want to track down a vintage inflatable Mr. M like the one I saw in kindergarten.

[@pawsnpipes7493]

Great episode!

[@gatorboymike]

I never watched this show, but when I was a kid, I had plenty of encounters with harmless, wholesome children's entertainers just like Fred Penner. There's really nothing bad you can say about them.

[@casualcausalityy]

Fred has similar energy to a Mr. Rodgers or Bob Ross. Just a really kind positive guy and his secret camp in the woods was so cool to a six year old

[@Cinderspider]

I’m so excited that you’re covering the stuff I’m starting to remember not from watching but my older cousins house having old tapes of an episode here or there that got burned into my memory ever since!

[@Hewylewis]

Yay, Eureka's Castle's next! As for Fred Penner, his show kinda reminds me a bit of Under the Umbrella Tree, only more educational and musical. I guess it's the puppets and the fact it's Canadian. LOL

[@sarahmcmann5253]

I’m excited for Eureka’s Castle too… also I’m a big fan of your videos

[@cmstrike]

Fred crawling through the log used to scare the living crap out of me as a kid. I used to run out of the room. I have no idea why.

[@carmineknight9123]

New Nick Knacks! Celebration time! I'm too young for this show, but even my Canadian wife can't remember if she's seen it, surprisingly.

[@nathanspradlin8570]

The only thing I remember about Fred Penner's Place was the intro.

[@TheEddieJ1984]

This too, could never remember the name of the show either, just that show the dude is wandering thru the woods in the intro lol

[@michaelmiller4457]

amazing work as always! thank you for all you do

[@BokBarber]

This one scrapes on the walls of the back of my earliest memories. I have the vaguest, haziest recollection of that blue girl puppet, but it's all like a dream. I would've been barely 3 years old when this went off the air.

[@jaydenmontgomerysvhsarchiv5057]

i loved your vid on looney tunes i thought i was really good! nice work man! keep up the good work.

[@bullmonty764]

So, with Nick Knacks now a fair way's through 1989, and with an episode on Nickelodeon Studios happening, what do y'all think the 100th episode will be? My money's on Ren & Stimpy

[@PKSandman]

My bet on #100 is Rugrats as its the show that had the most impact on Nick in 1991.

[@Justin-Hill-1987]

@@PKSandman The Rugrats had such a huge impact on much of Nickelodeon's golden age, that it got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame by the early 2000s...

[@kootunesscrewy]

It's best if he just did a whole talk about Nicktoons in one video and how Nick influence television animation from being aired on the big three. This history is mostly about Nickelodeon prior to 1991, lol.

[@fanmaxis3004]

What was the actual reason Fred Penner place was canceled? That didn't seem to be addressed

[@TheBronyBraeburn]

Canadian import shows are the best. It honestly surprises me when I learn a childhood show was not Canadian.

[@williamcrowe2576]

I could be wrong, but I'm sure one of the covers sung on Fred Penner's Place was "Somewhere Out There" from An American Tale.

[@JimmySand9]

I cannot believe I have absolutely zero memories of this.

[@JerryD9000]

I wasn't a HUGE fan of this show, but I did learn some great classic song lyrics from it that have stuck with me to this day. The 'I love a parade' song in that first TV spot is a perfect example.

[@michaelfeeney6108]

I could never remember the name of the show. I was born in late 86 and live in the states, so my window was that short 4 years from 89-93. In the mid 2000’s I was a fan of a movie/tv website who had a writer who could provide you the name of things you couldn’t remember based on very little. I told him ‘kids show early 90s maybe late 80s, puppets, dude crawls through a hole in a tree’ and he got it. I haven’t forgotten since!

[@starpetalarts6668]

I also like the Sandwiches song, when I was a child I sang that song 24/7 for a long time. My parents thought it was my own song... I did the same thing with the Mario Sunshine song and they wrongfully thought I wrote my own music.

[@JamesLewis2]

I wasn't aware that any of the tunes in Super Mario Sunshine had lyrics.

[@starpetalarts6668]

@@JamesLewis2 I was singing the TV Spot song that starts: "the world is a special place, cherish life don't let it waste..."

[@TonyGearSolid]

We didn't get cable until the early-mid 90s, so a lot this stuff has been new to me, but I'm pretty sure I would've loved this guy when I was a kid. I do have some very very vague memories of The Cat Came Back, so it's likely I had his music or at least a version of this song played to me in my Pre-K - early elementary school days.

[@jorgerosado2087]

What a wholesome piece. Hope we find some more footage someday. Also Nicky looks like Clifford from Muppets Tonight. Just look at the mouth and hair.

[@MikeLovesRabbit]

hell yeah, more imported canadian shows

[@apbuitron]

I don’t remember this show, sadly I think I just missed it by a year or so. But this video was engaging and informative as every single one in this series is.

[@shmikex]

It's a shame there wasn't more sharing to Canadian and American shows (heck English language shows in general).

[@meeting_meghan]

My brother & I have some full & partial episodes of Fred Penner's Place that were recorded on VHS tapes, but don't have them digitized. One has a first nations man (whose name I cannot think of right now) and another has Holly Laroque in a different episode than from the clips showed here. It really is sad that many Canadian children's tv show episodes: Fred Penner's Place, Under the Umbrella Tree, Mr Dressup, ect. have become lost media.

[@pronkb000]

I knew from Twitter that you had found about 9 episodes of this show out of the 700-some that aired, so I figured it wouldn't be too quick to put this one together...but dang, is this the quickest turnaround time in Nick Knacks history?

[@samrtnr97]

Definitely not since the early days when Greg was regularly doing about two Nick Knacks episodes a month

[@andyhaywire]

Fred Penner has been appearing as an occasional guest star on a recent Canadian television series called Miss Persona. There are episodes on KZbin as well as on Peacock in the US and Amazon Prime in Canada.

[@joni-leesmith3991]

Omg I totally forgot about this show I watched it all the time along with Mr Dressup and many other Canadian and American children programs

[@jonhester8909]

Ninety-six episodes in three months?! And I thought James Brown was the hardest working man in showbusiness. It's a shame most of those episodes are lost. I too have fond memories of that show. I'd watch it before heading to kindergarten. They don't make them like that anymore.

[@bradp1103]

I remember this show from Nickelodeon as a kid. Very sad that almost 99% of this dude's major career project is just gone.

[@MattyHervey]

Wow, they used to play that version of the Cat Came Back and Sandwiches on Kids America/Small Things Considered. I never knew who that was until now.

[@ininja32]

I actually do remember the show, he was born to do one thing in this world, entertain children. That I will respect.

[@samwill7259]

I have a question for you I'm not totally sure how to phrase. You've taught me so much about Nickelodeon, I was never aware that there WAS much of a pre-nicktoons era to the network at all (my only knowledge was a vague outline of You Can't Do That on Television, I'd never even HEARD of Pinwheel before, being born in 2000 will do that to you). So here's the possibly awkwardly phrased question: Do you think that this pre nicktoons content will still make up the "meat" of the show after you've reached the post nicktoons era? There's just so much fun, obscure stuff here that I've never heard of that I can't imagine there are as many wonderful stories to tell and corners to excavate, heck I'd be hard pressed to imagine there are more nick shows AFTER nicktoons than before. Just a question I wanted to ask about how you view your channel and this show. Keep up the good work!

[@JamesLewis2]

FWIW, the channel ran for 12 years before Nicktoons (14 if you count its time as Pinwheel), which premiered about 30 and a half years ago. I suspect that the density of obscure content will decrease, but not by more than half. I am about two and a half years older than the host of Nick Knacks and vaguely remember a few shows from the 1990s that didn't last long, like Bing.

[@Furore2323]

Ooooooh... SANDWICHES.

[@SketchBud]

The song "The Cat Came Back" would later be adapted as an animated short by The National Film Board of Canada.

[@meyerj75]

Not surprising "Dusty's Treehouse" was mentioned around 17:00 as Fred Penner's Place was almost a Canadian version of the former or the precursor.

[@JamesLewis2]

That remark on the show's lost-media status is probably why this episode was released so quickly.

[@meaninglez100]

Man, I remember all these songs but had no idea they where from the same guy