Back in the late 1960s, about three decades before the public sevice announcements, the possibility of a house hippo was a real concern for residents in the area where I grew up. The local zoo had one which escaped its confines multiple times, making the national news and resulting in local safaris.
The Log Driver's Waltz is one of many Canadian animated shorts from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). They hold an archive of all the best animations, shorts & feature film productions, an absolute treasure trove of Canadian culture.
Black Flies was definitely my favourite!! Always the black flies no matter where you go, I'll die with the black flies picking my booooones, in North Ontar-io-io, In North Ontariooooo
@@K1ddkanuck Black flies were my nemesis. I grew up in the city, but as soon as school let out, I was "down home" in the country. Black flies love me. The last time my father and I went fishing, way out in the back country (New Germany, 70s), we parked the car on the shoulder, and made our way down to the brook (fishing trout). I got a spot, he moved upstream a bit for his. Five minutes later, I yelled out, "Dad, I can't see!" The black flies had got me, eyes swelled up so bad there was no carrying on. Haha, forgot the Muskol. :) PS... Nova Scotia
He's Bud the Spud from the bright red mud ... and he's from Prince Edward Island! Loved Stompin' Tom, and also his song "C-A-N-A-D-A". He is a true Canadian icon. And no, I'm not from PEI. ;)
The littest hobo was about a german sheppard who wandered and help people (kids) and then move on...every week he'd be in different place helps a new family...
🎶"Here's a voice. It keeps on calling me. Down the road that's where I always be. And every stop I make, I make new friends Then I turn around and I'm gone again. Maybe tomorrow I want to settle down Until tomorrow the whole world is my home"🎵
Kids shows typically run 22 minutes for every half hour, that left 8 minutes for commercials so to pad the run times and make things a little more educational, they'd play a Heritage Minute or PSA as part of the 8 minute block.
@@BarronessM I think it was a broadcast requirement for children's shows. I'm almost 60 so will acknowledge memory recall isn't as sharp as it once was.
Hinterland Who's Who is a series of short videos that would be shown during commercial breaks. Each one briefly describes a Canadian animal, where it lives and it's lifestyle.
I mean I love them too but too 5 in the entire world? They haven’t had any impact on any country other than Canada. I’m very proud of them though and consider them amongst the best Canadians of all time
Any "Top 5" is obviously open to individual opinions, and time-frames. Who would you personally put as the Top 5 from the last 50 years? (Then removes America's MLK Jr and Lincoln from consideration) I will expect Nelson Mandela is in that grouping.
@@kenlowe-ca Donald Trump. Jk jk jk haha. Good question I’m thinking about it. I can’t say I have any names that immediately jump to mind but I’m also not great at thinking on my feet.
@@Foxtrotalex Name 5 others in modern times who exhibited the strength of character that Terry and Rick did. Add the sheer desire to help others, not benefit themselves. Not people who were heroes in war or any other adrenalin-fed act. And don't EVEN mention Armstrong, the cheater. Waiting ...
@@noadlor Ah, but conspiracies are not found on tv, just the approved narrative. As someone who learned critical thinking skills, I am sad to see that they are sadly lacking in younger generations. smh
Body break, Canadian heritage moments, hinterland who's who, don't put it in your mouth, play safe, and the house hippo all played essentially like commercials.
To build on this, the global tv clip where Jordan Witzel discusses “swinging” as Participaction’s activity of the day is a classic 😂 th-cam.com/video/ayVYxJppXg0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=hKNooUvIpaWuNJCi
I've seen Aussies and people from other countries react to our classic PSAs and I've heard how brilliant they were and how they do such a good job of appealing to children of different age groups - never have I heard anyone else call them weird. Canada was brilliant at creating beautiful, memorable, intelligent films that we are still remembering 30, 40, 50 years later - all being broadcast regularly on TV between shows (including the fitness series Body Break).
To answer your question about where we seen all these: Public television. CBC used to be very popular in every household because it would play all Canadian content, and you didn’t need to pay for cable to get it. I remember visiting my grandmother deep in the forests of NB far from modern infrastructure, and playing with the antennas on top of her wooden television set to pick up the only two channels she could get, CBC and its French equivalent. It had public service announcements, music(I love the log drivers Walt’s), and lots of educational children’s content. Sadly as cable grew we were able to get more and more American media, and by the time satellite came around we had so many channels to choose from that less and less people were watching CBC, except for hockey and the national news. Today, most of CBC’s viewership is still news and sports, but they still make content that often gets picked up by Netflix(like Anne with an E). The younger generation simply doesn’t watch cable TV anymore.
We still watch mostly CBC for "The Nature of Things", "Land and Sea", "Still Standing", "Marketplace", "Heartland", "Dragons' Den", "Family Feud Canada", "The Fifth Estate", "The Passionate Eye" and "When Calls the Heart". For me, the most iconic theme music was the intro to the "Hinterland Who's Who" vignettes.
Oh, they made a newer series about Anne!? I'm there, must check that out. I am old, and yeah, first I had the books. Then, we got the Anne of Green Gables series and those that followed. One book of L.M. Montgomery's that I loved as a young person, was The Blue Castle. Wonder if a film adaptation has ever been done? Perhaps years ago, dunno.
@@valwhelan3533 Want one also. Never saw (or remember seeing the commercial) as I was already an adult - but have seen them in these reviews. Adorable.
Log driving was a thing back in the day (not 100% sure when they stopped but I remember it when I was a kid in the 1970s) it was quicker (and in some cases cheaper) to dump the logs into the river and drive them down river to the mill. Can not remember what they did on the big rivers but on some smaller rivers they used to have men that would walk on the logs as they where going to the mill and they kept the logs in tight with spiked poles. Its very cool watching them. There used to be contests at small town fairs in BC back in the 1970s.
It's part of our history, and our culture. Don't let "them" erase it! Down east, we have lobster fishing, kitchen parties, fiddling and many other things. Keep our culture alive. Celebrate and enjoy others. This is the Way. The Canadian Way.
@@jennifermarlow. Sounds like you are from Prince Edward Island or Newfoundland. In BC we have salmon and fake crab (not to mention moose, elk, and bear); music? personal taste out west.
@@jennifermarlow. or, instead of making it 'us and them', we can welcome people, teach them the culture, invite them to kitchen parties, and actually try to carry on the traditions instead of going "they're our traditions and they wouldn't understand". My brother in law, though we don't currently see eye to eye due to the same divisional stuff I'm arguing against, came to Newfoundland not even knowing English. After he lived with my family awhile, yeah, he's got an accent but he's as bayman as they come. Even down to politics. He had childhood stories of hard work, losing people to war, helping family and friends, family problems, etc. All stuff that should resonate with anyone. He wasn't a stranger, and we didn't treat him like one. Even today, we have our persona issues, but he's a Newfoundlander. He's just an idiot.
@@sandrajewitt6050 I remember those Body Break commercials. I was a young child about 6 or 7. I asked my mother "Mommy?, why is that lady wearing her underwear over her bathing suit?" LOL. At the time, I didn't have a clue it was an exercise outfit for women lol
I died a little on the inside when he only played the 'theme song' vid and not one of the many of the psas where Hal and Joanne touted the benefits of being active. And again when he only played the Hinterlands Who's Who theme. And the audacity to stop The Log Driver's Waltz so early into the song! Totally missed out on the rest of the story there.
In our school, we followed the Terry Fox run while it was happening, and made plans and such for his eventual run through Winnipeg. I was in a school running club. The day he announced he had cancer again, and would not be able to continue, was a very hard day for me. When he died, we mourned his loss, and ran in his name.
I love your channel so much, you always bring a smile to my face. You missed the main part of the friendly giant where he would talk to the other characters on the show. House hippo was such a great commercial. It could really be applied to young and old on social media today
Hmmm, where's Rusty (whistles) ... I use the Friendly Giant's whistle to let the blue jays and other birds know it's peanut time! Thought you'd enjoy that. :)
The good thing about the theme song for hockey night is that it was the same for ''la soirée du hockey'' so French and English Canadians share that memory. Also on the French side there was ''bobino'' a children TV show and ''Les belles histoires du pays d'en haut''
I had completely forgotten about the log drivers waltz. It was something like the heritage minutes that was pretty much just what you saw in the the clip to show people a bit of the history of forestry
I love how all these are pretty much from my generation (x) and totally ingrained in my memory. Almost gets me teary-eyes hearing them all again. If you haven't played the theme song for Littlest Hobo yet, you owe it to yourself. I'm going to add another one to the list: The Raccoons
Log Drivers Waltz is iconic to the Ottawa River. Quebec and Ontario. Logging was a huge industry many years ago and the way they got the logs to the mills they were floated down the rivers with Loggers keeping them from hanging up.
Yes of course I remember house hippos, going on the first Terry Fox memorial run with my hubby and four boys , 1yr old, 2 1/2 yr old, 5 yr old and 6 yr old , one in a stroller, one on hubbies shoulders, one walking with us and the oldest actually running . The log drivers waltz, Azstar , liked littlest Hobo too. Heritage minutes on tv, body break too. I don’t believe it I knew hockey night in Canada too , amazing 🎉
The Heritage Minutes were shown on TV between shows. So was Hinterland Who's Who, which were short vignettes (about the same length as the Hefitage Minutes) to educate people about Canadian wildlife.
@@kathyd456 It's strange how annoying that 4 dollar recorder is now but when you hear the Friendly Giant play it, its not annoying at all. It's sounds beautiful lol 🥲🙂
The video you reacted to previously was a different House Hippo one. This is the main one. I'm still getting caught up on your old posts and enjoying them very much.
I was 7 when Terry did his run. I remember there being updates on the news as to where he was in his run. I also remember being taught all about him in school and being a part of the first Terry Fox Run.
The house hippo commercial is more relevant now than ever. Think about what you are being shown, and look into it. Don't just believe. In the early 90's it was aired. A Canadian nostalgia for me the the old Hockey Night in Canada theme 🎺
This commercial was absolutely on TV here in Canada. I was a child then, and I'm in my 40s now... so, yeah a while ago lol. But I remember it well, and anyone my age who is asked about it surely does too! It's iconic for Canadians. It was well done for the time, and it certainly made you question, which was of course the point. And in terms of PSAs of course I also began to hum that tune as soon as you read "don't you put it in your mouth." We all loved that one up here too!
Most of them are pre-2000, so I didn't know them. But for me, there are still many. And the most recent one that I remembered, is the Yop Ye Mama commercial
The House Hippo was a commercial to make young people think and question what they see and are told. The Log Drivers Waltz, Body Break and Heritage Minutes were/are used as commercials. The Littlest Hobo and Friendly Giant were childrens TV shows.
Got my popcorn, waiting to see if he airs the burnt toast moment... Also the House Hippo commercial may have been remastered in 99, but it aired in the 80's as well. All of these appeared in between Sesame Street, Mr. Dressup, Friendly Giant, Polka Dot Door, and the various other shows in that 8 am to noon programming block.
I never met an American with so much interest in Canadian nostalgicism such as you, Buddy. Thank you for your videos! 😊 I remember the House Hippo commercial as a child 😊. One of my favourite commercials when I was a child of the age of 7. I'm 41 now.
In elementary school we would have music class where we were introduced to a bunch of Canadian music, especially by a musician named Michael Mitchell. He sang about the history of Canada and its culture. That's at least where i learned the song the Log Driver's Waltz.
@@richelles441 The puppets were cute in their own way lol 🎵 "Don't you put it in your mouth (don't you put it in your mouth) Don't stuff it in your face (don't stuff it in your face) Though it might look good to eat (though it might look good to eat) Like a muffin or a beet (like a muffin or a beet)🎶
For those not in the know (I didn't see any comments)... Rivers used to be one of the primary way to move timber from forest to mill. Log drivers got them there.
Tyler, In September 2001 (before 9/11) I took a tour of the CBC studios in Toronto and right in the lobby was the set from the Friendly Giant, right down to the little furniture. I will remember that day always. When I was a child you ran to the living room when you heard "and there's that big boot, now look up, wayyy up." I friend of mine who was raised in Quebec and didn't know any English watched this show and learned her first English words from watching the Friendly Giant
The house hippo ads were the forerunner to the popular Republican term "the fake news" (even though it's Canadian!). It was a way to get Canadians to think about the stories they saw on TV, and to question whether they were true or false. I think this ad is still on our TV channels. The Heritage Minutes are still shown, FYI, since you are reacting to them as well. And yes the Log Drivers Waltz was on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, one of our major television networks. Yup, that was the short and sweet theme to the Hinterlands Who's Who. Cheers from 🇨🇦.
Oh totally saw this commercial, the house hippo was about not believing everything you see and hear, probably most of us Gen x totally have that ingrained in our DNA from that commercial 😊 Actually all of it is ingrained, the hinderland ones had us running to see what animal they were featuring... And it was a sign our shows would be coming back on after😁😂 Watch the littlest hobo please❤
The Log Driver's Waltz was a short made by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and was played on CBC-TV, the public broadcaster. Another animated short was "The Cat Came Back" (personal fav) that was also nominated for an Oscar. The Friendly Giant was my favorite half-hour as a child. Every weekday. He had friends, Rusty the Rooster and Gerome the Giraffe. He is one of the most beloved figures in Canadian TV.
The Friendly Gian was a wonderful children's show. It was only 15 minutes long, and featured great children's storybooks, and fantastic music, often classical music. It was two actors, it featured the actor who was the Giant, a pappeteer, a recorder, books, and some recorded music. It was a core part of children's programming in Canada for a couple of generations. The Log Driver's Waltz was produced by the Canadian Film Board, and it was showed in almost every Canadian elementary school in the 60's and 70's (you should watch the whole thing smetime.)
In the sixties for Expo 67 we had Bobby Gimby ( trumpet play) who became the Pied Piper of Canada. Since it was Canada’s centennial he wrote a song calling it Canada. He travelled across Canada visiting as much school as possible to lead all the students in a walk while singing his song. Before his arrival the whole school learned the song gathering in the gyms. When he arrived at the school I was in the whole school gathered in the gym sitting on tye floor waiting for him. Then in he comes playing the trumpet and we all get up and follow him while singing. It was a real treat and something to remember. What was so neat was that his trumpet was covered in jewels and he wore a costume with a cloak. It was an exciting year for everyone.
Log drivers waltz, and the various PSAs were on tv between shows. I remember seeing them (and the Friendly Giant) as a kid. I am surprised no one mentioned "The Hilarious House of Frightenstein"
My core memory is playing road hockey in the winter and when a car goes by reaching under the back fender and being pulled along on the snow. Dangerously fun!
Heritage Minutes ran regularly on TV starting in 1991. They ran on TV , radio, and movie theatres until the early 2000's. They have been revived, new ones are being produced and are now running regularly again on TV, and of course on TH-cam.
Log Drivers waltz is now stuck in my head again. Competing with the theme from Friendly Giant and Littlest Hobo! This was a really good reaction! Lots of great memories!
One of my favorite things from TV from my childhood when I was little I use to look for a house hippo then as I got older and saw it and I fully understood the point I was so upset like I thought I had a cute hippo in my house you know how many peanut butter toast and sandwiches I had so it would have crumbs to eat lol o 2 be young again
The Log Driver's Waltz was a short film made by the National Film Board of Canada. A lot of them were shown on TV to promote Canadian culture, they were shown in conjunction with the Heritage Minutes.
Core memories? Being able to go Snowmobiling every winter, on my own snowmobile, starting when i was 8 or 9.(rode on friends and families machines before that) Growing up on *The Bruce Peninsula.* (Many, many, memorable moments back in those days, directly linked to spending my formative years there)
I'm 57 and I still want my house hippo. I thought I had finally completely gotten the "don't put it in your mouth" song away. Thanks for that. I think it proves the PSA's from our childhood were actually quite effective. The PSA's and heritage minutes were on TV often during Saturday morning cartoons. No remotes so you just watched commercials when they came on.
The Simplicity of the house hippo video shows how much times have changed, back when it came out you were pushed to use critical thinking and ask questions. Now you're expected to do as you're told, don't ask questions, and just comply.
This was when the lady was having brain surgery and she could smell burnt toast. It kind of freaks you out if you smell burnt toast after seeing this commercial.
FYI we had "Canadian content" requirements for broadcasters (way back before internet days!) So shows like Friendly Giant and Littlest Hobo fit the requirements.
Hey there Tyler, thanks for another great video, brought back a bunch of great memories from my childhood. Here's a fun fact for those of that don't know Hal & JoAnne from Body Break appeared on Amazing Race Canada and btw they still look the exact same as I remember watching 30+ years ago. I used to love The Friendly Giant, my mom plays the theme on accordion. Hockey Night In Canada theme song, wow, every time it aired..mostly Saturday nights we'd run into the living room to see our beloved hockey team play...usually Toronto Maple Leafs.
The house Hippos was a campaign to bring awareness to "fake" in advertising.
They warned us on fake news before it was a thing.
Back in the late 1960s, about three decades before the public sevice announcements, the possibility of a house hippo was a real concern for residents in the area where I grew up. The local zoo had one which escaped its confines multiple times, making the national news and resulting in local safaris.
You can call your guinea pig a house hippo
@@kengray9652 "critical thinking skills" being touted decades ago.
Some people missed the lesson.
😶
and yet me and my friends spent so long looking for it because we thought if there was a "documentary" (ad) on it it must be real.
Did anyone else die inside when he stopped the Hockey Night in Canada song before it finished. LOL
For me it was him stopping the log riders waltz.
I most certainly did 😭
Yup… seems almost as sacrilegious as when CBC decided to stop paying the rights for the song and let it go. 😢
Yes, I died a little... it was so exciting to hear, pumps ya up.
@petra_kalbrain4426 Did they not sell it to TSN? They use the song
The Log Driver's Waltz is one of many Canadian animated shorts from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). They hold an archive of all the best animations, shorts & feature film productions, an absolute treasure trove of Canadian culture.
One can even access all of it for free on the NFB site. Of course lots on TH-cam as well
Like heritage minutes, worthy of it's own series...
Black Flies was definitely my favourite!! Always the black flies no matter where you go, I'll die with the black flies picking my booooones, in North Ontar-io-io, In North Ontariooooo
THE CAT CAME BACK!!!!
@@K1ddkanuck Black flies were my nemesis. I grew up in the city, but as soon as school let out, I was "down home" in the country. Black flies love me. The last time my father and I went fishing, way out in the back country (New Germany, 70s), we parked the car on the shoulder, and made our way down to the brook (fishing trout). I got a spot, he moved upstream a bit for his. Five minutes later, I yelled out, "Dad, I can't see!" The black flies had got me, eyes swelled up so bad there was no carrying on. Haha, forgot the Muskol. :) PS... Nova Scotia
It can not be Canada with out the house hippos running around somewhere.
Plus most of the stuff was on TV in between shows and some was TV shows back in the 80's and 90's
We had it in french Hippo des familles, I think
Its true. The hippos are everywhere. As they should be.
I just heard one under the kitchen table and the cat came out of there like her tale was on fire. Yup they are still around. 😂😂😂😂
True
Stompin Tom Connors " The Hockey Song" is iconic!
They still play it at Leaf games 😂
You make me feel old at 41 lol 😅
It's a "Sudbury Saturday Night "
He's Bud the Spud from the bright red mud ... and he's from Prince Edward Island!
Loved Stompin' Tom, and also his song "C-A-N-A-D-A". He is a true Canadian icon. And no, I'm not from PEI. ;)
@@LiberateAlberta1907 S'okay, I have 25 years on ya ... eat that good Alberta beef, and live a long, healthy life, son! From Nova Scotia, take care.
The littest hobo was about a german sheppard who wandered and help people (kids) and then move on...every week he'd be in different place helps a new family...
🎶"Here's a voice. It keeps on calling me.
Down the road that's where I always be.
And every stop I make, I make new friends
Then I turn around and I'm gone again.
Maybe tomorrow I want to settle down
Until tomorrow the whole world is my home"🎵
I loved that show as a kid; still do, actually.
@@basshead2003 I wanna be 7 years old again lol
Loved the theme song.
Like Quantum Leap. Only a dog. And not travelling through time. XD
House hippo needs to make a comeback!
💯
Definitely!
All the PSAs and heritage minutes were played during peak hour commercial breaks, I remember them from Saturday morning cartoons.
Kids shows typically run 22 minutes for every half hour, that left 8 minutes for commercials so to pad the run times and make things a little more educational, they'd play a Heritage Minute or PSA as part of the 8 minute block.
This hour has 22 minutes 😂
@@BarronessM I think it was a broadcast requirement for children's shows. I'm almost 60 so will acknowledge memory recall isn't as sharp as it once was.
Hinterland Who's Who is a series of short videos that would be shown during commercial breaks. Each one briefly describes a Canadian animal, where it lives and it's lifestyle.
As a kid, i found those capsules eminently fascinating; the fact they ran well into the 80's speak to their charm and relevance.
Oh tes and I loved the interlude music.
Thank you, I knew I recognized the sound but I couldn't figure out the context
*log drivers waltz. had no clue what it was, no memory.. but when u played it i remembered all the words! crazy xo
Terry Fox and Rick Hansen.
Both easily in the top 5 of inspiring men worldwide, in my opinion.
I mean I love them too but too 5 in the entire world? They haven’t had any impact on any country other than Canada. I’m very proud of them though and consider them amongst the best Canadians of all time
Any "Top 5" is obviously open to individual opinions, and time-frames.
Who would you personally put as the Top 5 from the last 50 years?
(Then removes America's MLK Jr and Lincoln from consideration)
I will expect Nelson Mandela is in that grouping.
@@kenlowe-ca Donald Trump. Jk jk jk haha. Good question I’m thinking about it. I can’t say I have any names that immediately jump to mind but I’m also not great at thinking on my feet.
@@Foxtrotalex Name 5 others in modern times who exhibited the strength of character that Terry and Rick did. Add the sheer desire to help others, not benefit themselves. Not people who were heroes in war or any other adrenalin-fed act. And don't EVEN mention Armstrong, the cheater.
Waiting ...
The closing theme to "The Raccoons": Run With Us
Calm. Peaceful. Serene.
That is, until BERT RACCOON WAKES UP!
House hippo: don’t believe everything someone tells you or you see on TV …. Nowadays it would include the internet. Perhaps they should revive this.
Obviously the warning didn't work. Look how many fell for conspiracies and propaganda and acting crazy.
They should revive it. I think it would make fans of " influencers" take pause
@@noadlor Ah, but conspiracies are not found on tv, just the approved narrative. As someone who learned critical thinking skills, I am sad to see that they are sadly lacking in younger generations. smh
They did! "House Hippo 2.0" which is about real vs fake online.
th-cam.com/video/5R_tOSRynZU/w-d-xo.html
Nowadays it's TRUST US BRO, we're the news, we wouldn't lie to you!
Body break, Canadian heritage moments, hinterland who's who, don't put it in your mouth, play safe, and the house hippo all played essentially like commercials.
The Body Break commercial unlocked a memory for me I didn't know I had
It was the couple that made the commercial, Hal and Joanne.
To build on this, the global tv clip where Jordan Witzel discusses “swinging” as Participaction’s activity of the day is a classic 😂
th-cam.com/video/ayVYxJppXg0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=hKNooUvIpaWuNJCi
Doo do, body break
I loved the friendly Giant ,Jerome the Giraffe and Rusty The Rooster .
still do and almost 60
I'm going to have the intro tune playing in my head all day now 🤣
I do Rusty's whistle, and the blue jays know it's peanut time! :) Still love the Friendly Giant.
That was part of my morning routine when I was a kid....watching Friendly Giant and then Mr. Dressup!
@@karenschneberger2655 and Capitan Kangaroo. Before school it was JC Patches
Terry Fox shook my hand going through between stewiake and subbie Nova Scotia Canada
I've seen Aussies and people from other countries react to our classic PSAs and I've heard how brilliant they were and how they do such a good job of appealing to children of different age groups - never have I heard anyone else call them weird. Canada was brilliant at creating beautiful, memorable, intelligent films that we are still remembering 30, 40, 50 years later - all being broadcast regularly on TV between shows (including the fitness series Body Break).
Body Break! Memory unlocked.
You don't give some of these enough of a chance. I love the log driver's waltz.
He might have been trying to avoid copyright strikes.
To answer your question about where we seen all these: Public television.
CBC used to be very popular in every household because it would play all Canadian content, and you didn’t need to pay for cable to get it.
I remember visiting my grandmother deep in the forests of NB far from modern infrastructure, and playing with the antennas on top of her wooden television set to pick up the only two channels she could get, CBC and its French equivalent.
It had public service announcements, music(I love the log drivers Walt’s), and lots of educational children’s content.
Sadly as cable grew we were able to get more and more American media, and by the time satellite came around we had so many channels to choose from that less and less people were watching CBC, except for hockey and the national news.
Today, most of CBC’s viewership is still news and sports, but they still make content that often gets picked up by Netflix(like Anne with an E). The younger generation simply doesn’t watch cable TV anymore.
We still watch mostly CBC for "The Nature of Things", "Land and Sea", "Still Standing", "Marketplace", "Heartland", "Dragons' Den", "Family Feud Canada", "The Fifth Estate", "The Passionate Eye" and "When Calls the Heart". For me, the most iconic theme music was the intro to the "Hinterland Who's Who" vignettes.
@@lacteur1 Yes, and the voice narrating the episodes. It was all very interesting and at the same time very soothing.
House Hippo applies to today's INTERNET !!!!!! 👍🏿👍🏽👍✌🖖🍁🌻💛💙🇺🇦
Oh, they made a newer series about Anne!? I'm there, must check that out. I am old, and yeah, first I had the books. Then, we got the Anne of Green Gables series and those that followed. One book of L.M. Montgomery's that I loved as a young person, was The Blue Castle. Wonder if a film adaptation has ever been done? Perhaps years ago, dunno.
@@glennstach4439 And the "NEWS". Sadly.
5% of me, dearly wanted the house hippo to be real as as child.we
5% of me doubted, 95% of me believes in them completely and still wants one :D
Still want one - am 70s yr old
@@valwhelan3533 Want one also. Never saw (or remember seeing the commercial) as I was already an adult - but have seen them in these reviews. Adorable.
Guinea pigs make great house hippos
I saw a hairless breed of guinea pig at the pet store once, i swear it’s the closest thing to a house hippo we will ever see
Log driving was a thing back in the day (not 100% sure when they stopped but I remember it when I was a kid in the 1970s) it was quicker (and in some cases cheaper) to dump the logs into the river and drive them down river to the mill. Can not remember what they did on the big rivers but on some smaller rivers they used to have men that would walk on the logs as they where going to the mill and they kept the logs in tight with spiked poles. Its very cool watching them. There used to be contests at small town fairs in BC back in the 1970s.
As a kid in the 70s I was told my great uncle (& others) had been a log driver. Timmins area.
The Fraiser around the GVA was always full of them when I was growing up there in the 2000s.
It's part of our history, and our culture. Don't let "them" erase it! Down east, we have lobster fishing, kitchen parties, fiddling and many other things.
Keep our culture alive. Celebrate and enjoy others. This is the Way. The Canadian Way.
@@jennifermarlow. Sounds like you are from Prince Edward Island or Newfoundland. In BC we have salmon and fake crab (not to mention moose, elk, and bear); music? personal taste out west.
@@jennifermarlow. or, instead of making it 'us and them', we can welcome people, teach them the culture, invite them to kitchen parties, and actually try to carry on the traditions instead of going "they're our traditions and they wouldn't understand".
My brother in law, though we don't currently see eye to eye due to the same divisional stuff I'm arguing against, came to Newfoundland not even knowing English. After he lived with my family awhile, yeah, he's got an accent but he's as bayman as they come. Even down to politics. He had childhood stories of hard work, losing people to war, helping family and friends, family problems, etc. All stuff that should resonate with anyone. He wasn't a stranger, and we didn't treat him like one. Even today, we have our persona issues, but he's a Newfoundlander. He's just an idiot.
Body Break wasn't one commercial. Hal & Joanne had a series of them. All about the benefits of exercise.
@@sandrajewitt6050 I remember those Body Break commercials. I was a young child about 6 or 7. I asked my mother "Mommy?, why is that lady wearing her underwear over her bathing suit?" LOL. At the time, I didn't have a clue it was an exercise outfit for women lol
I died a little on the inside when he only played the 'theme song' vid and not one of the many of the psas where Hal and Joanne touted the benefits of being active. And again when he only played the Hinterlands Who's Who theme.
And the audacity to stop The Log Driver's Waltz so early into the song! Totally missed out on the rest of the story there.
@@KahlanAmnellCMI wanted to see hal and joanne
It was cool seeing them return to compete on Amazing Race Canada
The Littlest Hobo was our version of Lassie.
I loved watching Littilest Hobo!
For the even younger children there was Hammy Hamster.
In our school, we followed the Terry Fox run while it was happening, and made plans and such for his eventual run through Winnipeg. I was in a school running club. The day he announced he had cancer again, and would not be able to continue, was a very hard day for me. When he died, we mourned his loss, and ran in his name.
House Hippos was the first lesson in media literacy for many of us (49 years old).
The Shawinigan Handshake of Jean Chretien
oh you are just a kid!
@@joeydepalmer4457 ✊🏻❤
As a 23-year-old adult now, I am still salty at the fact that house hippos aren't real😢😂😂😂
Yes; I'm turning 49 in a few weeks
Polka Dot Door. A TV Ontario 1970s masterpiece. 😂
All this stuff was what our tv stations used to fill time between shows that didn't fill the whole 30 minutes. They put PSAs instead of more ads.
Loved the log driver waltz too growing up. Second one is correct
I loved the house hippo as a child it was back in the early 80s I think. We need this commercial even more now with all the fake stories being put out
I love your channel so much, you always bring a smile to my face. You missed the main part of the friendly giant where he would talk to the other characters on the show. House hippo was such a great commercial. It could really be applied to young and old on social media today
Hmmm, where's Rusty (whistles) ... I use the Friendly Giant's whistle to let the blue jays and other birds know it's peanut time! Thought you'd enjoy that. :)
The good thing about the theme song for hockey night is that it was the same for ''la soirée du hockey'' so French and English Canadians share that memory. Also on the French side there was ''bobino'' a children TV show and ''Les belles histoires du pays d'en haut''
"The Tommy Hunter Show" every Friday night
And "Don Messer's Jubilee".
I still have to see the episode with teenage Shania Twain
I had completely forgotten about the log drivers waltz. It was something like the heritage minutes that was pretty much just what you saw in the the clip to show people a bit of the history of forestry
I love how all these are pretty much from my generation (x) and totally ingrained in my memory. Almost gets me teary-eyes hearing them all again. If you haven't played the theme song for Littlest Hobo yet, you owe it to yourself.
I'm going to add another one to the list: The Raccoons
Log Drivers Waltz is iconic to the Ottawa River. Quebec and Ontario. Logging was a huge industry many years ago and the way they got the logs to the mills they were floated down the rivers with Loggers keeping them from hanging up.
The one everyone needs to watch is Wayne and Shuster the Shakespearean baseball skit.
Man, I didn't get all the jokes from Wayne and Shuster as a kid, but I wanted to. Those guys were killer funny.
Every elementary school has a Terry Fox run every year.
And highschool
Yes. House hippo commercial was a big Saturday cartoon commercial in the 90s
Yes of course I remember house hippos, going on the first Terry Fox memorial run with my hubby and four boys , 1yr old, 2 1/2 yr old, 5 yr old and 6 yr old , one in a stroller, one on hubbies shoulders, one walking with us and the oldest actually running .
The log drivers waltz, Azstar , liked littlest Hobo too. Heritage minutes on tv, body break too. I don’t believe it I knew hockey night in Canada too , amazing 🎉
The Heritage Minutes were shown on TV between shows. So was Hinterland Who's Who, which were short vignettes (about the same length as the Hefitage Minutes) to educate people about Canadian wildlife.
We could use a return of house hippos ads to get people to question what they hear online...
They made a new one sometime in the last few years, for the digital age
At 35 this was my childhood.. loved this commercial, thank you for that little blast from the past!! 🤘 your videos are deadly!! 👍
"Look waaay up and I'll call Rusty"
So nostalgic, and it's like a warm blanket to hear the theme played. 😊🧡
@@kathyd456 It's strange how annoying that 4 dollar recorder is now but when you hear the Friendly Giant play it, its not annoying at all. It's sounds beautiful lol 🥲🙂
As kids, my sister and I used to scream for joy when the Logdriver's Waltz came on. The song can stay in your head for hours!
It's one of those things that I enjoyed watching every time it came on.
The video you reacted to previously was a different House Hippo one. This is the main one. I'm still getting caught up on your old posts and enjoying them very much.
i saw many heritage moments on the tv all the time growing up and even at the movie theater
The Heritage minutes were shown during commercials and so was Body Break
Thank you for the memories 🎉
I was 7 when Terry did his run. I remember there being updates on the news as to where he was in his run. I also remember being taught all about him in school and being a part of the first Terry Fox Run.
The house hippo commercial is more relevant now than ever.
Think about what you are being shown, and look into it. Don't just believe. In the early 90's it was aired.
A Canadian nostalgia for me the the old Hockey Night in Canada theme 🎺
Grew-up watching the Beachcombers! or The Forest Rangers?😀👌👍✌
My friends used to laugh hysterically at The Forest Rangers.
This commercial was absolutely on TV here in Canada. I was a child then, and I'm in my 40s now... so, yeah a while ago lol. But I remember it well, and anyone my age who is asked about it surely does too! It's iconic for Canadians. It was well done for the time, and it certainly made you question, which was of course the point. And in terms of PSAs of course I also began to hum that tune as soon as you read "don't you put it in your mouth." We all loved that one up here too!
The “don’t you put it in your mouth” was a PSA about telling kids not to do drugs. It still makes me laugh 32 years later.
"if you don't know what it is, don't put it in your mouth" is an excellent rave motto
House Hippo taught me a very valuable lesson do not believe everything you hear on TV! Been very helpful over the last few years!
I remember some TV channels not being 24 hours and they would open with O Canada in the mornings
Most of them are pre-2000, so I didn't know them. But for me, there are still many. And the most recent one that I remembered, is the Yop Ye Mama commercial
The House Hippo was a commercial to make young people think and question what they see and are told. The Log Drivers Waltz, Body Break and Heritage Minutes were/are used as commercials. The Littlest Hobo and Friendly Giant were childrens TV shows.
Got my popcorn, waiting to see if he airs the burnt toast moment...
Also the House Hippo commercial may have been remastered in 99, but it aired in the 80's as well.
All of these appeared in between Sesame Street, Mr. Dressup, Friendly Giant, Polka Dot Door, and the various other shows in that 8 am to noon programming block.
I never met an American with so much interest in Canadian nostalgicism such as you, Buddy. Thank you for your videos! 😊
I remember the House Hippo commercial as a child 😊. One of my favourite commercials when I was a child of the age of 7. I'm 41 now.
TH-cam pays Tyler more than a few $$$ to run these "reactions." so there's that.
In elementary school we would have music class where we were introduced to a bunch of Canadian music, especially by a musician named Michael Mitchell. He sang about the history of Canada and its culture. That's at least where i learned the song the Log Driver's Waltz.
I remember all of it. I feel old now
I remember seeing house hippos on TV.
Awww!!! That "Don't u put it in ur mouth" commercial was almost over...
ya it really gets good at the end
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The puppets were cute in their own way lol
🎵 "Don't you put it in your mouth (don't you put it in your mouth)
Don't stuff it in your face (don't stuff it in your face)
Though it might look good to eat (though it might look good to eat)
Like a muffin or a beet (like a muffin or a beet)🎶
For those not in the know (I didn't see any comments)... Rivers used to be one of the primary way to move timber from forest to mill. Log drivers got them there.
They stopped doing that for environmental reasons.
Tyler, In September 2001 (before 9/11) I took a tour of the CBC studios in Toronto and right in the lobby was the set from the Friendly Giant, right down to the little furniture. I will remember that day always. When I was a child you ran to the living room when you heard "and there's that big boot, now look up, wayyy up." I friend of mine who was raised in Quebec and didn't know any English watched this show and learned her first English words from watching the Friendly Giant
When you said “make me want a House Hippo”, I yelled at my screen “that was me!!!”😂😂😂😂😂😂
lol. House Hippos...I STILL WANT ONE!! It was late 80s and early 90s.
The house hippo ads were the forerunner to the popular Republican term "the fake news" (even though it's Canadian!). It was a way to get Canadians to think about the stories they saw on TV, and to question whether they were true or false. I think this ad is still on our TV channels. The Heritage Minutes are still shown, FYI, since you are reacting to them as well. And yes the Log Drivers Waltz was on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, one of our major television networks. Yup, that was the short and sweet theme to the Hinterlands Who's Who. Cheers from 🇨🇦.
Oh totally saw this commercial, the house hippo was about not believing everything you see and hear, probably most of us Gen x totally have that ingrained in our DNA from that commercial 😊
Actually all of it is ingrained, the hinderland ones had us running to see what animal they were featuring... And it was a sign our shows would be coming back on after😁😂
Watch the littlest hobo please❤
The Log Driver's Waltz was a short made by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and was played on CBC-TV, the public broadcaster. Another animated short was "The Cat Came Back" (personal fav) that was also nominated for an Oscar.
The Friendly Giant was my favorite half-hour as a child. Every weekday. He had friends, Rusty the Rooster and Gerome the Giraffe. He is one of the most beloved figures in Canadian TV.
And now the cat came back song is stuck in my head 🤪
And you can go and watch all the NFB stuff from over the years online. There are hundreds of videos on their site.
@@Zlata1313 Well, you could have a worse ear worm, like ... (I will spare you) :D
@@RyguyAB It's a wonderful resource! Thank you. x
Not long ago I actually came across my homemade stuffed sock Monkey from the 60's. He now sits in a chair in the living room.
I'm having a mandala effect moment right now, I could have sworn I saw the house hippos ad long before 1999.
Me too!
The Friendly Gian was a wonderful children's show. It was only 15 minutes long, and featured great children's storybooks, and fantastic music, often classical music. It was two actors, it featured the actor who was the Giant, a pappeteer, a recorder, books, and some recorded music. It was a core part of children's programming in Canada for a couple of generations. The Log Driver's Waltz was produced by the Canadian Film Board, and it was showed in almost every Canadian elementary school in the 60's and 70's (you should watch the whole thing smetime.)
In the sixties for Expo 67 we had Bobby Gimby ( trumpet play) who became the Pied Piper of Canada. Since it was Canada’s centennial he wrote a song calling it Canada. He travelled across Canada visiting as much school as possible to lead all the students in a walk while singing his song. Before his arrival the whole school learned the song gathering in the gyms. When he arrived at the school I was in the whole school gathered in the gym sitting on tye floor waiting for him. Then in he comes playing the trumpet and we all get up and follow him while singing. It was a real treat and something to remember. What was so neat was that his trumpet was covered in jewels and he wore a costume with a cloak. It was an exciting year for everyone.
Romper Room when she used to look through the racket and say your name..... creepy af lol
I'd forgotten about Romper Room! I enjoyed that show.
It was a mirror! :)
@margaretjames6494 honestly she said my name in like '89 and I've been terrified since never watched it again... lol
@@DwaynesWorld007
Me looking through the mirror 30 years later:
"I see Trudeau. I see Singh. I see Freeland. I see Canada in destructive mode"
@@DwaynesWorld007 She said my name in 91. I'm 41 now and I still get nightmares lol
Log drivers waltz, and the various PSAs were on tv between shows. I remember seeing them (and the Friendly Giant) as a kid. I am surprised no one mentioned "The Hilarious House of Frightenstein"
I loved that show! It was impressive that they had Vincent Price in it...I love the ending.
@@susanmacdonald4288 and Professor Julius Sumner Miller. Educational and fun.
My core memory is playing road hockey in the winter and when a car goes by reaching under the back fender and being pulled along on the snow. Dangerously fun!
Heritage Minutes ran regularly on TV starting in 1991. They ran on TV , radio, and movie theatres until the early 2000's. They have been revived, new ones are being produced and are now running regularly again on TV, and of course on TH-cam.
Heritage Minutes ran on TV WAAAAY before 1991, my youngster! Maybe they were brought back then. I watched them back in the 70s or early 80s for sure.
I believe the long drivers waltz was a heritage minute. it’s a beloved one.
National Film of Canada.
Part of a series of shorts, aired on CBC, like heritage minutes.
Log Drivers waltz is now stuck in my head again. Competing with the theme from Friendly Giant and Littlest Hobo! This was a really good reaction! Lots of great memories!
Terry Fox ran past my grandma's house and she add a photo of him on her Buffet from that day.
Body break definitely another fun memory growing up
One of my favorite things from TV from my childhood when I was little I use to look for a house hippo then as I got older and saw it and I fully understood the point I was so upset like I thought I had a cute hippo in my house you know how many peanut butter toast and sandwiches I had so it would have crumbs to eat lol o 2 be young again
Awwww that's super cute
The Log Driver's Waltz was a short film made by the National Film Board of Canada. A lot of them were shown on TV to promote Canadian culture, they were shown in conjunction with the Heritage Minutes.
I was really enjoying this. I wish he kept going.
Core memories?
Being able to go Snowmobiling every winter, on my own snowmobile, starting when i was 8 or 9.(rode on friends and families machines before that)
Growing up on *The Bruce Peninsula.*
(Many, many, memorable moments back in those days, directly linked to spending my formative years there)
Loved watching the friendly giant ❤
Learned so much in one min with tge heritage mins as a commercial
I'm 57 and I still want my house hippo. I thought I had finally completely gotten the "don't put it in your mouth" song away. Thanks for that. I think it proves the PSA's from our childhood were actually quite effective. The PSA's and heritage minutes were on TV often during Saturday morning cartoons. No remotes so you just watched commercials when they came on.
I can put my arm back on you can't so play safe. Another great commercial. Commercials were cool back then.
The Simplicity of the house hippo video shows how much times have changed, back when it came out you were pushed to use critical thinking and ask questions. Now you're expected to do as you're told, don't ask questions, and just comply.
AGREED !!!
In between episodes of duck tails and rescue rangers, you would get a heritage minute about brain surgery...
i used to get the brain surgery thing from 1. Teacher, 2. Best friend, 3. Girlfriend, 4. Army NCO, and 5. Boss (and thats the ones I remember).
This was when the lady was having brain surgery and she could smell burnt toast. It kind of freaks you out if you smell burnt toast after seeing this commercial.
FYI we had "Canadian content" requirements for broadcasters (way back before internet days!)
So shows like Friendly Giant and Littlest Hobo fit the requirements.
I remember waking up, turning on the tv and the Canadian Anthem started playing with a nice animated video
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And it would be played again at the end of the day...remember when stations didn't run 24/7?
@@susanmacdonald4288 I was too young to stay up that late haha
@@SebCroteau and I never got up that early, lol!
This Comercial(house hippos) is Burnt Into my core memories
Hey there Tyler, thanks for another great video, brought back a bunch of great memories from my childhood. Here's a fun fact for those of that don't know Hal & JoAnne from Body Break appeared on Amazing Race Canada and btw they still look the exact same as I remember watching 30+ years ago. I used to love The Friendly Giant, my mom plays the theme on accordion. Hockey Night In Canada theme song, wow, every time it aired..mostly Saturday nights we'd run into the living room to see our beloved hockey team play...usually Toronto Maple Leafs.
I suggest you check into the Rhinoceros Party which existed from 1963 to 1993 in Canada
I wish they woudl come back.
Don't you stuff it in your mouth commercial I loved watching! I still know all the words by heart at 47