[7] After the series' cancellation in 1997, Penner admitted to being a "little bit lost" in the succeeding years as he continued to perform at concerts and give keynote speeches, but was waiting for the "next big thing to come along".

He has performed several sold-out concerts at universities and pubs across the country, and receives positive reactions and feelings of nostalgia from the overwhelmingly millennial audiences.

[1][3] The series was created in the mid-1980s by its eponymous namesake Fred Penner, who viewed it as an opportunity to "[provide] an alternative to advertisement-and violence-filled programming" for children.

Aside from the variety of puppets that shared the screen with Penner, a number of special guests appeared on the show throughout its run, including Holly Larocque as the character she portrayed on Under the Umbrella Tree,[8] another CBC children's television series that aired during the 1990s.

The sequence shows Penner walking along a beach and into a forest, observing several wild animals in their natural habitat, and eventually crawling into a hollow log and exiting out the other side, where he introduces himself and greets the viewer.

[1] Fred Penner's Place was abruptly cancelled in 1997 shortly after management changes at the Children's and Family Programs division of CBC Television.