When Howard Stern did his radio show in Washington D.C, he, being a huge fan of Petey, appeared on an episode in blackface, and was very nervous about it, but Petey went along and thought it was funny, saying "You know he's a cracker the way he says, Signify," which is what Stern kept repeating. A clip of this opened the Howard Stern show in the mid 1990's (and Stern spent the next twenty minutes discussing it) while he was making Private Parts, but his guest spot on Petey's show never made the cut.