Editing Barenaked Ladies (section)

===Return to independence (2004–2008)===
[[File:Kevin Hearn with fellow Barenaked Ladies, Steven Page (left) and Ed Robertson (right).jpg|right|thumb|alt=Hearn, in the center, is playing an electric mandolin|Page, Hearn and Robertson live in 2005]]
The band's next album was ''[[Barenaked for the Holidays]]'', released on 5 October 2004. It was their first independent record since ''The Yellow Tape'' and the first album recorded at Fresh Baked Woods, Page's recently-completed farmhouse studio. The band established the Desperation Records label for this album.<ref name="Blue Room 20 Years">{{cite web |url=http://attblueroom.com/music/mediaplayer.php?pid=115007 |title=attblueroom.com |website=Attblueroom.com |access-date=2017-04-17 |archive-date=December 13, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071213212436/http://attblueroom.com/music/mediaplayer.php?pid=115007 |url-status=usurped }}</ref>

They taped a January 2005 television pilot for a variety show, tentatively entitled ''Barenaked Ladies Variety Show'', which was rejected by the [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] network.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2004/music/markets-festivals/fox-loves-the-ladies-1117911041/|title=Fox loves the Ladies|first=Josef|last=Adalian|date=September 28, 2004|website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|access-date=April 17, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210042547/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117911041.html?categoryid=16&cs=1|archive-date=February 10, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref> Later that year, they were asked to write music for the [[Stratford Festival of Canada]]'s musical production of [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[As You Like It]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/90670.html |title=Playbill News: Heigh-Ho! Pop Group Barenaked Ladies Will Score Shakespeare's as You Like It |access-date=2007-11-17 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071213213131/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/90670.html |archive-date=December 13, 2007 }}</ref> Page wrote most of the music (Shakespeare had provided lyrics in the play), and the band recorded it for the actors to sing over.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.canadianshakespeares.ca/multimedia/audio/bnl_asyou.cfm|title=As You Like It|website=Canadianshalespeares.ca|access-date=April 17, 2017|archive-date=December 19, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181219000242/http://www.canadianshakespeares.ca/multimedia/audio/bnl_asyou.cfm|url-status=live}}</ref> The recording (with Page's vocals) was available on CD from the festival and on the band's website. On 2 July, they participated in the [[Barrie, Ontario]] [[Live 8 concert, Barrie|Live 8 concert]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.555902 |title=CBC.ca |website=CBC.ca |access-date=2017-04-17 |archive-date=July 3, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070703001621/http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2005/07/02/live8barrie.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Barenaked Ladies performing on-board Ships and Dip III cruise in 2008.jpg|thumb|alt=The band onstage, with Page playing guitar in the center|The band performing on its 2008 Ships and Dip III cruise]]
The band released ''[[Snacktime!]]'', an album of original material for children, on 6 May 2008. The album contains artwork by Hearn in its [[liner notes]], which is also available in hardcover-book form with a CD included. The album was promoted with a series of television and in-store appearances at bookstores in Toronto and the US northeast and West Coast. They cancelled appearances at several Disney Music Block Party concerts after Page's arrest for cocaine possession.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bnlmusic.com/default2.asp |title=BNL :: Barenaked Ladies Official Website |access-date=2008-07-16 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080716111048/http://www.bnlmusic.com/default2.asp |archive-date=July 16, 2008 }}</ref> Robertson [[Ed Robertson#Plane crash|crashed his single-engine plane]] in August, and his mother died that December.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.legacy.com/TheStar/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=121430975|title=Death Notices – Robertson, Wilma|date=December 16, 2008|access-date=2008-12-17|work=Toronto Star|archive-date=October 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201007213858/https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thestar/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=121430975|url-status=live}}</ref>