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All members of the Wiggles, past and present, and the Wiggly Friends (from left to right): Sam, Jeff, Greg, Murray, Anthony, Emma, Lachy, Simon, Dorothy the Dinosaur, Wags the Dog, Henry the Octopus, Helm Feathersword and Shirley Shawn the Unicorn. Not pictured: Tsehay, Phillip Wilcher.

Get Fix to Wiggle
We've been ready for so long
Become Set up to Wiggle
When you jerk yous tin can't become wrong
Get Gear up to Wiggle
Wiggle volition brand you large and strong
Become Ready to Wiggle
Come on wiggle to this vocal
Jerk to this song

— "Get Set to Wiggle"

The Wiggles are an Australian children's band, founded in 1991 simply who gained international popularity during the 2000s. Greg Page, Anthony Field and Murray Cook met as early babyhood education students at Macquarie Academy in the 80s, while Field was a member of 80s stone band The Cockroaches alongside Jeff Fatt; the three classmates undertook a academy project of their own design intended to create music aimed at children with educational value, and Fatt was brought in every bit a pianist. A few years and a deal with The ABC later, and The Wiggles were born.

Over the years they accept produced over l albums and home videos, several television series and a characteristic-length film, with some other one in the works. The ABC has broadcast the majority of their shows and been in accuse of distributing all their albums and videos in Australia. In the U.s.a., the programme initially aired on Fox Family unit, then moved to Playhouse Disney, but were eventually supplanted there past the Imagination Movers, after which they moved again to Universal Kids.

Besides the band themselves, the majority of Wiggles media also includes a secondary cast of friends; Dorothy, a green-and-xanthous dinosaur daughter that eats roses, Henry, a imperial ring-conducting octopus, Captain Feathersword, a Friendly Pirate, and Wags, a large brown domestic dog. In 2019, the group added a fifth friend, Shirley Shawn the Unicorn.

It says something about the Wiggles' importance inside Australian culture that when the original yellow Wiggle, Greg Page, left the group due to an disease in 2006, it fabricated national headlines for weeks. The bulk of Australians will know at least three of their songs and sing them, besides as give yous the trademark Jerk finger pointing gesture unashamedly, an almost unique thing in the world when it comes to children's music.

After Greg's departure, he was replaced as the Yellow Wiggle past Sam Moran, who stayed until January 2012, when Greg returned. In December of 2012, nevertheless, iii of the original members - Greg, Murray, and Jeff - retired from the grouping (though they go on to be involved in the development of the band), and were replaced by three younger band members, Simon Pryce as the red Wiggle, Lachlan "Lachy" Gillespie every bit purple, and Emma Watkins as yellow, with Anthony staying.

In 2021, the same year Fruit Salad TV was released introducing a new culturally-diverse cast, it was announced that Emma would be retiring and passing on her yellow skivvy to Tsehay, who previously wore blood-red alongside Kelly (yellow), John (purple), and Evie (blue).

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Members (Founding members in bold, current members in italic):

• Jeff Fatt (Imperial) - Keyboard, squeeze box, guitar, vocals (1991-2012, 2020)
• Murray Melt (Ruddy) - Guitar, bass, ukulele, mandolin, vocals (1991-2012)
• Phillip Wilcher - Piano, vocals (1991-1992)
• Anthony Field (Blue) - Guitar, drums, vocals, violin, didgeridoo, banjo, bagpipes, trumpet, bass (1991-Present)
• Greg Page (Yellow) - Vocals, guitar, drums, keyboards (1991-2006, 2012)
• Sam Moran (Yellow) - Vocals, guitar, drums, trumpet (2006-2012)
• Emma Watkins (Yellow) - Vocals, drums, guitar (2012-2021)
• Simon Pryce (Ruby-red) - Vocals, bass, cowbell (2012-Present)
• Lachlan Gillespie (Regal) - Vocals, pianoforte, guitar, xylophone (2012-Nowadays)
• Tsehay Hawkins (Yellow) - Vocals (2022-)

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Studio discography:

• 1991 - The Wiggles
• 1992 - Hither Comes a Vocal ^note Re-issued in 1999 as "Jerk Time!", with new and re-recorded tracks.
• 1994 - Yummy Yummy ^note Re-issued in 1999, with new and re-recorded tracks.
• 1995 - Big Red Car ^notation Re-issued in 2006 equally "Here Comes the Big Blood-red Auto", with new and re-recorded tracks.
• 1996 - Wake Up Jeff! ^note Re-issued in 2006 equally "Information technology's Time to Wake Upwardly Jeff!", with new and re-recorded tracks.
• 1996 - Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas
• 1997 - The Wiggles Movie Soundtrack
• 1998 - Toot Toot!
• 2000 - Information technology's a Wiggly, Wiggly World!
• 2000 - Yule Be Wiggling
• 2001 - Hoop-Dee-Doo! It'south a Wiggly Party!
• 2002 - Wiggly Safari
• 2002 - Wiggle Bay
• 2003 - Go to Sleep Jeff
• 2003 - Whoo Hoo! Wiggly Gremlins!
• 2003 - Meridian of the Tots
• 2004 - Common cold Spaghetti Western
• 2004 - Santa's Rockin'!
• 2005 - Sailing Effectually the Globe
• 2006 - Racing to the Rainbow
• 2007 - Getting Strong!
• 2007 - Pop Go the Wiggles
• 2008 - You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
• 2008 - Sing a Song of Wiggles
• 2009 - The Wiggles Go Bananas!
• 2009 - Hot Poppin' Popcorn
• 2010 - Permit's Eat
• 2011 - Ukulele Baby!
• 2011 - It'south Always Christmas with You
• 2012 - Surfer Jeff
• 2013 - Taking Off!
• 2013 - Furry Tales
• 2013 - Pumpkin Confront
• 2013 - Go Santa Go
• 2014 - Apples and Bananas
• 2014 - Wiggle House
• 2015 - Rock & Gyre Preschool
• 2016 - Wiggle Town
• 2016 - Dance, Dance!
• 2017 - Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas ^notation Not to be confused with the 1996 anthology.
• 2018 - Jerk Pop
• 2019 - The Wiggles' Big Ballet 24-hour interval
• 2019 - Party Fourth dimension!
• 2020 - Fun and Games
• 2020 - Choo Choo Trains, Propeller Planes & Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car
• 2021 - Lullabies with Love
• 2021 - Halloween Party
• 2022 - Super Wiggles

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Tropes:

• The Ace: While every member of the band past and present is a multi instrumentalist, Anthony probably fits this trope the best. Only take a look above at how many instruments he plays.
• Added Alliterative Appeal: Dorothy The Dinosaur.
• Adult Fright:
  • Inadvertently during the Jan. 17, 2020 charity gig: Greg suffered a cardiac abort after the primary testify. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrests are extremely deadly ^note i.e., they have an 8% survival rate, and it's probable Greg was medically dead for a moment. The thought of Greg dying is fright enough for most developed fans, merely that he could have died subsequently appearing to be fine during a concert cranks it Upwardly to Eleven.
  • On Twitter and in an interview, Anthony brought upwardly that he didn't know enough CPR to have been of any assist to Greg. That brings up another Adult Fear: seeing a loved one in danger and being powerless to help.
• Alphabet Song: They have their own version of the song:

  A, B, C, D, Eastward, F, G

  H, I, J, K, L, M, Due north, O, P

  Q, R, S, T, U, Five

  W, X, Y Zed or Zee

  At present I know my ABC's

  Next time won't you lot come and sing with me

  I said the A, the A and the B, the ABC's, thank you, thanks very much, you're a beautiful alphabet

• Ambiguously Brownish: The homo Greg meets in "Desert Dreaming". He can't tell if he's "white, brown or black". Considering he's in the desert and also mentions totems, it's condom to assume the human is an Aborigine.
• Ambiguous Gender Identity: Officer Beaples is ever portrayed by a adult female but sometimes sports a mustache. She'south been referred to by she/her pronouns in the past ^note Notably in "Let'due south Go (Nosotros're Riding in the Large Scarlet Car)", with the line "We'll all exist waving to her too", only in 2020, Anthony referred to them past they/them pronouns. ^note Or, rather, the "they" pronoun. They were only referred to past a (non-)gendered pronoun once during the show in question.
• Amicable Exes: Emma and Lachy.
• Artistic License – Paleontology:
• Dorsum for the Finale: In January 2012, Greg's return to the grouping was announced with much fanfare, but for him, Murray and Jeff to announce their retirement effective at the cease of the year.
• Badass Baritone:
  • Greg counts, to the betoken where his voice is practically iconic in the Australian music industry.
  • In the current lineup, this role is filled past Simon. He's an accomplished opera singer, and boy, does he similar to show off his skills.
• Basso Profundo: Once more, Simon, near notably in "Practice the Skeleton Scat", where he lowers his voice deep plenty to mimic the sound of a trombone. "We're All Fruit Salad!" probably features his lowest recorded notes nonetheless.
• Big Damn Motion picture: The Wiggles Movie is a prime example for the band, 'cause it'southward, y'know, a band.
• Big Eater: Dorothy counts, at least towards roses. Her eponymous song describes her as such;

  I knew that if mum saw her
  She'd never permit her stay
  A dinosaur as big equally that
  Needs feeding nighttime and day

  • Anthony, whose shtick was his honey for food.
• Big Friendly Dog: Wags, of course.
• Big Guy, Little Guy: Greg and Murray were the big to Anthony and Jeff'south little. In the current lineup, Anthony, Emma and Lachy are all much shorter than Simon.
• Large Ol' Eyebrows: Greg.
• Bowdlerise:
  • The VOD version of The Original Wiggles Concert for Bush-league Burn Relief ends the concert early, omitting the encore. An case of Tropes Are Tools, every bit correct before the encore, Greg complanate from cardiac abort.
  • Unsurprisingly, and understandably, Rolf Harris' guest appearance in the YouTube upload of It's a Wiggly, Wiggly World on the band's channel was removed.
  • Subverted in their cover of "Elephant" by Tame Impala for Australian radio station triple j's weekly "Like a Version" segment: "Well, he feels like an elephant shakin' his big gray trunk for the hell of it." Understandable, given that the embrace was recorded to appeal to the Wiggles' Periphery Demographic.
• Breakout Character:
  • Helm Feathersword was supposed to be featured for a m total of one advent. His immense popularity after this one advent cemented him every bit a mainstay for the residue of the series, even outlasting most of the OG Wiggles (it helps that his official histrion since 1996 has been the always hilarious Paul Paddick).
  • Emma. Information technology's to the point where the group have reported little girls a bit outside of The Wiggles' master demographic coming to live shows dressed up as Emma. She'southward too gotten her own spinoff series, album, and merch (the latter of which is sometimes faced with Hype Backfire by parents online).
• Catechism Aperture:
  • When the Wiggles' "classic" discography ^note (i.east., the albums released earlier 2013) was released for streaming on December v, 2019, none of the albums from the Sam era were included ^note Yet, certain Sam era songs can exist heard on the 2012 compilation Hits and Rarities— most notably "Follow The Leader", "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star", "Monkey Homo", and live versions of "The Shimmie Shake" & "Dr. Knickerbocker". All the same, in November 2020, the Sam-era videos were re-released on YouTube, thus downplaying this trope.
  • Also, their cover of "Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport" was not included on said streaming-based releases of It'due south a Wiggly, Wiggly Earth due to Rolf Harris making a guest appearance on it. It was besides omitted from the live album Celebration. This version didn't feature an appearance past Harris, however.
• Carnivore Confusion:
  • Dorothy's a dinosaur, obviously a tyrannosaurus rex of sorts consummate with sharp-looking teeth, but she eats... roses. Her species has been designated as "rosasaurus".
  • While not dealing with eating but similar nonetheless, Captain Feathersword is a friendly pirate.'
• Catchphrase: Say it with me... "Beauty mate!"
• Changed for the Video: The album version of "Decorate The Tree", from Yule Be Wiggling, primarily has Dorothy singing the chorus, only when product of the video came around, the chorus lyrics were changed entirely and it was now sung by The Manzillas, the band'south in-house bankroll vocal group.
  • Australian singer Keith Urban sang pb vocals on the ring'south cover of England Swings from Let'due south Eat! Withal, Urban was away on bout when it was time to shoot its music video, then a second version was recorded for the video, replacing Keith'south vocals with Sam's.
• Clothing Reflects Personality: The colours of the Wiggles themselves; yellow = the star; red = the musician; blue = the hungry one; purple = the sleepyhead.
• Colour-Coded Characters: In the above prototype, that'due south Emma in the xanthous skivvy, Simon in the carmine, Lachy in purple, and Anthony in bluish. Greg wore the yellow skivvy until 2006 when he turned his skivvy over to Sam (and and then took it back in 2012, only to give it to Emma at the end of the yr). Murray wore cherry-red, and Jeff in imperial, until Simon and Lachy (respectively) came in during 2013.
• Comically Missing the Point: The ending of "Wake Upward Jeff/Lachy".

  Would you keep that racket down? I'one thousand trying to sleep!

• Cool Machine: The Large Red Car
• Absurd Old Guy:
  • Anthony is this as he's the only fellow member of the group to have been there for its unabridged existence, and he's also in remarkable shape for his age. Justified as the group's touring schedule requires him to be in peak physical condition.
  • Simon also counts. The man is nearing fifty and competed on Australian Ninja Warrior in 2018.
  • Jeff was arguably this for his entire run with the band as he was much older than the others.
• Cool Shades: Murray, Anthony and Jeff wearable them in the video for "Snakes (Yous Tin can Look But You Better Not Affect)" from "Wiggly Safari".
• The Embrace Changes the Meaning:
  • They've done a few covers/adaptations of songs aimed at older audiences, both written by the ring themselves pre-Wiggles and by other artists.
  • One that stands out is Monkey Human, originally washed by The Maytalls. The original version appears to be nigh a man telling someone (a girlfriend?) that he's heard rumors of her "hugging up the large monkey human" (implying cheating on the singer) although he can't ostend it. The Wiggles version, featuring Kylie Minogue, is near... an actual "monkey human".
  • Their cover of Rolf Harris' "Tie Me Kangaroo Downwards Sport" makes no mention of the dying stockman whose perspective the song was originally sung from. Every bit such, all references to death are removed and the song merely becomes most animals. They as well naturally cut the infamous "abos" ^note meaning "Aborigines" verse from the original, though Harris himself had already disowned that line by so due to information technology existence considered racially insensitive.
• Crossover:
  • The electric current lineup met none other than Elmo, Abby Cadabby and Cookie Monster in this collaboration video, where said Muppets performed "Do the Propeller" with the Wiggles.
  • Simon participated on Season 2 of The Masked Singer Australia as Puppet, making it to the semi finals.
• "Days of the Calendar week" Song: Wiggly Waffle, a daily block that aired on the then-called Sprout, started with The Wiggles singing about which mean solar day of the week it was.
• Demoted to Extra: The original 1992 video for "Dorothy the Dinosaur" was filmed around the fourth dimension Phillip Wilcher was on his way out from the band, and it shows. He more often than not just hangs around away from the remainder of the group gesturing to the audience and really doesn't seem into it. The photographic camera also seems to avoid focusing on him.
• The Dentist Episode: A side-story in the Season 2 episode "Movement" has Dorothy visit the dentist when she gets a wobbly tooth.
• Does Not Like Shoes: Anthony usually performs barefoot or in socks since he finds information technology easier to move around onstage without shoes.
• Drunkard on Milk: "Another Cuppa" is about Captain Feathersword getting addicted to Dorothy's rosy tea, and the other Wiggles persuading him to drink something else. Reminder that Captain Feathersword is a pirate, who are well-known for drinking nada merely rum.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Wiggledance! technically features the very offset appearance by Emma, as she and her sister can exist seen every bit children in the audience.
• Early Installment Weirdness:
  • The group originally had five members (including Philip Wilcher) and wore patterned shirts that bore no resemblance to their trademark coloured skivvies (except Murray's carmine polka dotted shirt). A couple of years later, Anthony donned a greenish shirt instead of his now-famous blue skivvy.
  • "Desert Dreaming", from the Wiggles' first album, is a droning spoken-give-and-take piece. The group'south later discography is far less experimental.
  • Jeff was originally the driver of the Big Red Auto when it fabricated its offset appearance in the video of the same proper noun. It was also but a cardboard cutout at the time instead of the converted Volkswagen it would be later on.
  • When the secondary cast was starting time added to the line-up, the characters were initially played by the Wiggles themselves, with Anthony playing Captain Feathersword, Murray voicing Dorothy and Jeff voicing Henry. Eventually, later Paul Paddick joined the grouping and became popular with them, he became the official player for Captain Feathersword (and remains so to this day), and more performers were brought on to portray Dorothy, Henry and Wags. In particular, Murray would only phonation Dorothy in her beginning few appearances before the character was recast to a lineup of female dancers and voice actresses.
• Everything's Better with Dinosaurs: Dorothy, of course.
• Excited Kids' Show Host: Everyone, of class.
• Excited Show Championship!: Many of The Wiggles' song and anthology titles are an example of this, notably "Wake Upwardly Jeff!" and "Hoop-Dee-Doo! It'southward a Wiggly Party!".
• Farthermost Omnivore: In the Series ii episode "Nutrition", Anthony has a dream where he eats everything, and not merely the nutrient.
• Fake Interactivity: Experimented with on occasion, especially during the early on Sam era. Yet, information technology isn't used much, with many of their shows and videos relying on sketch-based sense of humor instead. The reason backside this is that Anthony, being the band'due south co-manager (forth with his brother, Paul), believes that The Wiggles shouldn't treat their viewers like morons.
• Fatty and Skinny: Anthony was notably more corpulent than the residuum of the group for the first ten or so years of the ring's history. He's stayed in shape since the mid-2000'southward, though.
• Forgotten Theme Tune Lyrics: Once yous hear them sing "Turkey In The Straw", you'll recognize the tune that's always been instrumental in older cartoons such as Looney Tunes.
• Formerly Fat: Anthony has admitted to accept been "out of shape and very unhealthy" for much of the ring'due south history, mostly due to his poor diet which consisted more often than not of high sugar and starch foods. It fabricated it difficult for him to complete shows and was one of the main reasons he would become so depressed and disillusioned with touring. Thankfully, he changed his nutrition, began regularly working out and is now much healthier.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: A Season 4 Wigglehouse segment revolves around the Wiggles communicable "Topsy Turvy-itis", which causes them to swap personalities.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: In their cover of Duke Ellington'due south "The Mooche" from You lot Make Me Feel Like Dancing, a few posters in the background read "King Mondo", a reference to the graphic symbol from Space Dancing!
• Friendly Pirate: Captain Feathersword, who currently provides the trope image. He is e'er introduced as "Helm Feathersword, the friendly pirate", and he enjoys tickling people with his Feathersword. Aside from dressing and speaking like a pirate, he's otherwise a very overnice fellow.
• Funny Octopus: Henry the Octopus, a supporting bandage fellow member, likes to exist nether the body of water, in an octopus's garden, in the shade.
• Gentle Giant:
  • Greg is 6'4'', just like the rest of the band, is a total softie and also has one of the cleanest and near pleasant to listen to singing voices you'll ever hear.
  • Simon is just a little chip shorter than Greg and looks similar he should exist on the starting lineup for the Australian rugby squad, but in reality he is of class a big teddy comport.
  • Too, Murray, who's about half dozen'3'', would look more in line on a basketball team, merely, much like the others, is a giant goofball. This clip is plenty proof of that.
• Girlish Pigtails: Emma'southward usual hairstyle. Sometimes she switches to a Prim and Proper Bun.
• Gold Tooth: Anthony sports a rather noticeable one these days.
• Harsh Vocals: The band went almost thirty years without whatsoever of their songs featuring this... so Cookie Monster sang "Do The Propeller" with them.
• Heavy Sleeper: WAKE Upward JEFF/LACHY!
• Heroic BSoD / Heroic RRoD: Anthony had no less than three of these after Greg'due south cardiac arrest:
  • One the night of, in one case he realized how bad Greg was doing (which atomic number 82 to panic-induced convulsions);
  • I the morning after, while he was explaining to Greg what happened (inducing more convulsions); and
  • One during the next reunion concert, while the crowd was chanting in support of Greg (causing Anto to suspension down crying onstage).
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Simon, Greg, and Murray are the huge to Emma's tiny.
• Hypocritical Humour: Captain Feathersword makes fun of Anthony in the Go Santa Go music video from 2017'south "Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas" for non beingness able to do the trip the light fantastic toe associated with the song anymore because of his back. He and then tries to do information technology himself and ends up throwing his ain dorsum out in the process.
• I Am the Band: Anthony Field is this as the ring was more or less his idea, to begin with and handled all of the business side of things with his brother (and co-manager) Paul, until the latter resigned in 2020.
• I Can't Dance: Anthony's trouble for one of the side stories of the Serial two episode "Dancing".
• Idiosyncratic Wipes: Oft shows upward to transition to the next song or segment of a show.
• In the Fashion of...: "Monkey Man" was originally recorded by The Maytals, but The Wiggles clearly based their cover on the much more than well-known version past The Specials. This is fabricated clearer by the band wearing the suits and hats more often than not associated with The Specials.
• Interspecies Romance: Dorothy and Wags. They even had a nuptials (or at least a pretend wedding)... three times!
• Kent Brockman News: Network Wiggles, their third TV series, included a news segment hosted by Greg, with Dorothy acting as a field reporter, and weather by Helm Feathersword (with his "Weathersword").
• The Kiddie Ride: The Wiggles take three distinctive types of these; a carousel-type ride, ones of the Big Ruby-red Car, and i rare Dorothy-based swing ride that was produced in the late 90s.
• Large and in Charge:
  • Greg was the tallest Jerk and the atomic number 82 singer during his time in the band.
  • Subverted with the current lineup. Anthony is the clearly the i in accuse just Simon is the tallest.
• Large Ham: Being a children'southward deed, this is more than or less a requirement for the group.
  • Jeff took this trope Up to Eleven after he was woken up.
  • Simon is an opera singer, so he's naturally this.
• Last Note Nightmare: "Wiggly Medley" ends with the loud plonking of pianos and a drumbeat that sounds almost like a gunshot or an oncoming train. The reverb and the fact that this comes out of nowhere make this verge on leap scare territory.
• Live Album: The band has 2; Live Hot Potatoes! and Celebration!
• Long-Runners: Got their start in 1991, and are withal well and truly around.
• Long-Runner Line-upward: They kept the same lineup from 1992 to 2006, making them a Type four.
• Lost Phonation Plot: The principal side story of "At Play" features Dorothy literally losing her voice.
• Lyrical Cold Open up: "Hot Potato".
• Made of Iron: Greg has suffered from OI for well over a decade and had a cardiac arrest right at the end of the original lineup'southward reunion concert in 2020, but he'south still alive and boot!
• Man of a Thousand Voices: Simon displays his ability to go from bass baritone all the way up to a falsetto in "Simon's Common cold Water Blues".
• Memetic Hand Gesture: You'd be hard-pressed to find an Australian child of the nineties or later who doesn't recognize their signature pointing-wiggling.
• Metal Scream: Helm Feathersword delivers an impressively high one in "Captain's Magic Buttons".
• Mood Whiplash:
  • Happens to Dorothy in the Series two episode "Directions"; she is at Happy and Sad Street, going past either the happy or deplorable sign will cause her mood to switch to that respective 1.
  • The commencement bush-league fire relief gig in 2020. The mood went from being happy and jovial to grim and terrifying when Greg complanate.
• The Movie: A theatrically-released movie, produced in 1997, pretty much cemented them as the world's best-loved children's performers.
• Prissy Hat: Dorothy'due south white gardening hat, Henry's straw vaudeville hat and, of grade, Captain Feathersword's pirate lid.
• No Adversary: Played straight in every series.
• Noblewoman's Laugh: Back when Murray voiced Dorothy, her laugh sounded more like this than the artless giggle she'd have subsequently.
• Older Than He Looks:
  • Go back and spotter the before videos of the band from the 90s. You'd never judge that Jeff was in his late thirties to mid forties. Even today he still looks slightly younger than he actually is.
  • Paul Paddick just doesn't seem to age at all. He looks exactly the same as Helm Feathersword now as he did when he first took on the role.
• OOC Is Serious Concern: This video, hosted by Greg later his plummet at the bushfire relief concert, is incredibly sombre to drive habitation the importance of CPR and defibrillators.
• The Pirate Who Doesn't Do Anything: Captain Feathersword. He's merely a big softie who likewise happens to be the resident Barrel-Monkey. The worst he e'er gets is tickling people with his sword, which has a large bundle of feathers instead of an actual bract (hence his name). This was actually lampshaded when the band appeared on an episode of Yes, Dear.

  Jimmy: Look buddy, I'll requite you twenty bucks to get my kid onstage.
  Captain Feathersword: Ho ho! I can't have your money, sir. It wouldn't be fair! Hoohoohoo!
  Jimmy: "Fair"? You're a pirate!

• Pun: A lot of the pre-song trivia questions in 'Gear up, Steady, Wiggle' do puns on the topic of the episodes. Example, subsequently Simon turns into a duck when he drank Lachy'due south "Turn Y'all Into A Duck Drink".

  Volition Simon duck out for another cup?

  Will the Wiggles send Lachy the bill?

• Red Shirt:
  • Averted with Greg Page.
  • And, well, Murray Cook and Simon Pryce.
• Revolving Door Band: This, especially occuring so presently later on this.
• Running Gag:
  • "Oh no!" "Oh what!?" "Oh no!" "Oh what?!" "Oh no!" "Oh what?!"
  • "Huh?" "Huh?" "Huh?" "Huh?"
  • "Well, blow me downward." (Captain Feathersword gets blown down, then gets support once more.) "I gotta stop maxim that." "Y'all gotta stop proverb what?" "I gotta stop saying 'Accident me down'... Oh no!" (Cue beingness diddled down and getting upwardly again.)
  • With the new group of Wiggles, there are oft jokes about Anthony being 'onetime'. Greg gets this treatment besides during the 2017 version of Become Santa Go.
  • In TV Series 4 & 5, the Wiggles often talk about Bill O' Actually... I hateful O'Reilly.
• Self-Bankroll Vocalist:
  • Occasionally used early, as the grouping could but record vocals with the people they had hired, which at the fourth dimension was themselves. However, they by and large averted this trope for most of their history, with their in-house backing song band "The Manzillas" ^note whose members included Paul Field, Paul Paddick, pre-yellow wiggle Sam Moran, Taiwanese Wiggles member James Arthur Chen and pre-red wiggle Simon Pryce providing backing vocals on all of their albums from Wiggly Safari to Surfer Jeff.
  • Played straight with the new generation, as they've provided all of their ain backing vocals since their debut.
• Self-Deprecation: In interviews, Jeff has said that his role as the 1 who ever falls asleep and needs to be woken upwardly derives from his lack of background in early on babyhood education and that it's a way to go him involved in the shows without him actually needing to do anything.
• Cocky-Titled Album: The Wiggles' debut album.
• "Sesame Street" Cred:
  • Many prominent amusement industry figures take invitee-starred in Wiggles videos or on their numerous Television set shows, including Slim Dusty, Troy Cassar-Daley, Kylie Minogue, John Fogerty, Christine Anu, Steve Irwin, Leo Sayer, Barry Williams and many more.
  • Of course, the ring had a crossover with Sesame Street itself.
• Shave And A Haircut: The tune is oft used.
• Evidence Within a Bear witness: Series three has the Wiggles producing a show at their own TV studio, Network Wiggles.
• Signature Headgear: Emma normally wears a yellow and black hairbow. She apparently has thousands of them.
• Sitting Cutely on a Piano: At i point in the Santa's Rockin'! video, Dorothy does this on a beach chair while eating a rose. Considering that The Wiggles are Australian and that the video in question is one of their Christmas videos, the beach chair makes a lot of sense.
• The Smurfette Principle: Dorothy could have been considered this prior to Emma's arrival. As for Emma'due south grapheme, the grouping arguably downplays this trope — while Emma is the commencement official adult female to be a Wiggle (not counting the strange-language groups), she lacks the overt tokenism frequently associated with the trope. In that location have also been other recurring women in the various series, including Kylie Minogue equally an honorary "Pinkish Jerk", so Emma's arrival only really fits this trope in description.
• Snakes Are Sinister: Averted with "Snakes (You Can Wait Simply You Better Not Touch)". The Wiggles state that looking at snakes is fine, but firmly state that you lot should leave them alone and permit them get on with their twenty-four hour period. Because that Australia has some of the most deadly snakes in the world, they definitely mean it when they tell yous not to bear on them.
• Spinoff:
  • Dorothy had her ain spin-off, called... Dorothy the Dinosaur.
  • Emma got her own show in 2015, with Lachy getting his ain show a year later. The shows were chosen "Emma!" and "Lachy!"
  • There were also foreign-language counterparts of The Wiggles themselves, formed overseas (see West Declension Team).
  • At that place was besides the Wiggles-produced show The Kingdom of Paramithi, which featured many of their regulars (including Paul Paddick (best known as Helm Feathersword), likewise equally current ruby-red Wiggle, Simon Pryce) and technically counts as a spinoff.
• Spiritual Successor: In "Daniel & Molly" from Hither Comes a Song, The Wiggles' second album, the barks from the titular characters audio exactly like Wags the Domestic dog, who would make his debut a few years later. Important to note that Jeff did these barks, and he would eventually voice Wags the Domestic dog.
  • In "Leap for Southward Australia" from the same album, Anthony sings in a pirate voice that he would terminate up using when he played Captain Feathersword.
• Stage Sorcerer: Greg's shtick earlier his initital retirement was performing magic tricks, wearing the obligatory magician'southward hat and greatcoat. However, these tricks had an alarming tendency to go incorrect, especially whenever Anthony was involved.
• Straight Edge: The band seem to exist nearly every bit clean equally yous tin get, with none of them always existence linked to drugs or alcohol and likewise promoting healthy eating and fitness, especially Anthony and Simon who regularly talk virtually their workout schedules.
• Suspiciously Like Substitute:
  • From 2006 to 2012, the original Yellow Wiggle, Greg Folio, was replaced with his understudy, Sam Moran, due to Page'southward disease.
  • In the first series, Wigglehouse's door is Door, just for all serial subsequently information technology, he is replaced with the kinder Flora Door.
• Squad Mum: Dorothy is the well-nigh responsible and mature of the Wiggles cast, although equally she is stated to be 5 years former in the franchise's context, she obviously yet has her childlike moments. Despite this, information technology seems like the band has forgot about her credible age in recent years.
• Those Two Guys:
• Trademark Favorite Food: Anthony's is fruit salad ^note yummy, yummy! or apples. Dorothy's is roses.
• Unperson:
  • Founding member Phillip Wilcher only appeared on the band's beginning album and left/was kicked out soon subsequently. The band re-recorded the anthology without him later on, and there's never been any mention of him since then.
  • Sam, for a time. Upwardly until November 2020, the band only made mention of him where legally obligated to do so. Notwithstanding, as of Nov. 2020, The Wiggles are working to re-release content featuring Sam, going so far as to refer to his years with the band as the "Sam era".
• Voices Are Mental: Subverted in the Series 2 episode "The Body"; Captain Feathersword and Wags happen upon "Each Other's Voices Street", which causes them to switch voices.
• The Voiceless:
  • Wags the Dog... at least, initially. In the 2nd Television series, we can hear his thoughts (like to Garfield), near probable provided by Greg Folio, revealing him to be quite the snarker in the presence of Captain Feathersword's antics. Eventually, he was given the power to speak aloud at around the time of the fourth Television serial. Despite this, he hasn't spoken out loud since "Go Santa Get!", the commencement Christmas video of the new generation, and that was fabricated in 2013, pretty much rendering him voiceless again.
  • Officeholder Beaples doesn't speak; she only blows her whistle.
• Due west Coast Squad: There were officially licensed overseas counterparts of The Wiggles in Taiwan and Latin America, lasting between 2003 to 2007. They initially didn't final long, every bit dubbing The Wiggles' content became more convenient. Withal, the Latin American Wiggles group saw a resurrection in 2021, with the Tv set series existence uploaded alongside newly filmed video clips. The fate of the Taiwanese Wiggles is currently unknown.

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And we're all fruit salad, yummy yummy
All in the aforementioned bowl

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