In the background of a scene Action Dan is seen violently twisting his foreskin in a repeatedly motion. Many parents complained and said that there children were traumatized after witnessing this scene. Later that year a lawsuit was filed against Whip Cracking Productions, even though the claimant lost. To avoid further controversy Oakie's Outback Adventures was Quietly removed from store shelves. Making it a very obscure and hard to find movie.
In a 2011 photoshoot with GQ Australia, Troy Dann noticeably appeared with a large bulge in his trousers.
A section of the DVD special features, titled "Oakie Babies", featured a slideshow of the actors as babies, with renders of the characters beside them. The slideshow contains what was previously thought to be a piece of sought-after lost media, the Terry "Leapfrog video".