Canadian National Exhibition

The Canadian National Exhibition is a fair held annually in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

On 25 August 2003, for the 125th anniversary of the event, Kevin Clash and Elmo made an appearance on stage to lead the "Largest song & dance routine at a single venue". An estimated 196,569 people participated for five minutes in the hokey pokey dance, setting a Guinness World Record. The previous record was 7,596 children in the United Kingdom dancing to "To The Show".

It happened simultaneous to the release of Hokey Pokey Elmo, but the media did not highlight the connection.