Trivia / Okaasan to Issho

• Acting for Two: Princess Spoon's Swing Kitchen has two voice actors, which are Keiko Han and Toshihiko Seki. The former voices all female characters and the latter voices all male characters.
• Breakaway Pop Hit:
  • "Dango San Kyoudai", the biggest-selling Japanese CD single of all time, came from an animated short on this show.
  • "Dokonoko no Kinoko", a song from the show about a mushroom wanting to leave the forest and go on an adventure (set to traditional Russian folk music), became a hugely popular hit and charted on the regular Japanese music charts. It was even sung live by the hosts on NHK's New Year's Eve special (one of the most watched shows of the year in Japan).
• Breaking News Interruption:
  • The June 18th, 2018 broadcast was interrupted for news coverage of a major earthquake in Osaka during the part where the hosts ask "Minna genki?" ^note  which translates into "How is everybody doing today?" to the viewers at home. The interrupted episode would be rerun a week later.
  • The April 13, 2023 broadcast was interrupted during the Fantane! segment for a J-Alert that a missle from North Korea was heading towards Hokkaido.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes:
  • While the animated shorts have home video releases, they do not get re-released after a series ends its airing. Used copies of home video releases are expensive to buy. There are videos of the animated shorts on video-sharing websites but most of them were removed by NHK. Fortunately, there was a rerun of old animated shorts in 2010 and 2011.
  • The segments involving the costume characters have not seen home media releases since the Gu Choko Rantan era. Some of the releases of the stage shows contain the songs from these segments as bonus features, but if one wants to see them in full, off-air recordings are the only option.
• Kids' Meal Toy: McDonald's sold a Galapico Puu-themed set in 2019 to promote the DVD and Blu-Ray release of Okaasan to Issho The Movie: The First Big Adventure, most of which were based on various skits from the show. On weekends during this promotion, a set of cards were given out that taught kids the moves to "Bunba Bon!", the then-current exercise.
• Missing Episode: As with other television shows at the time, most 1960s footage of the show are considered lost, due to tapes being reused for another recording since they were expensive. Despite this, there are few surviving clips from the decade, which can be seen in the NHK Archives.
• Referenced by...:
  • Life Lessons with Uramichi-Oniisan revolves around the life of its titular character as he works on a very Okaasan to Issho-esque Show Within a Show called Together with Maman, which shares many similarities with the real show, like having hosts which specialize in songs and exercise routines, having similar set designs and having costumed mascot characters.
  • Inai Inai Baa! referenced the Fantane! segment of the show during the "Poupo's I Can Do It!" segment "Chirarin Po". In the segment, Poupo and friends have a toy that looks similar to Yakoro in color and shape.
• Similarly Named Works: Both this show and Inai Inai Baa! have a song called "Kaze no Ohanashi". While the names are identical, the music and lyrics are different for both.

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