Hot Potatoes! The Best of The Wiggles

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Released	March 4, 2010 March 22, 2010 July 6, 2010 September 18, 2012 (re-release)
Written by	The Wiggles
Directed by	Paul Field
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Previous	Hot Poppin' Popcorn (2009)
Next	Let's Eat! (2010)

Hot Potatoes! The Best of The Wiggles is The Wiggles' first compilation video special, containing some of their best songs. It was released in 2010, with a second, updated version released in 2014. It is the thirty-fourth video overall.

Overview

The most successful children's entertainment group in the world has finally released a collection of their most loved songs, Hot Potatoes! The Best of The Wiggles. The Wiggles' songs have drawn millions of people over the years to see their live concerts. The New York Times called The Wiggles, "the band that rocks the cradle" and this is certainly true.

Songs

1. Hot Potato
   from Yummy Yummy (1998)
2. Can You (Point Your Fingers And Do The Twist?)
   from Here Comes the Big Red Car
3. Fruit Salad
   from Yummy Yummy (1998)
4. Rock-A-Bye Your Bear
   from Wiggle Time! (1998)
5. Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car
   from Toot Toot! (1999)
6. Wake Up Jeff!
   from It's Time to Wake Up Jeff!
7. Wiggly Party
   from Hoop-Dee-Doo it's a Wiggly Party
8. Captain Feathersword Fell Asleep on His Pirate Ship (Quack Quack)
   from TV Series One
9. Wiggle Bay
   from Wiggle Bay (14:9 aspect ratio albeit covered by 4:3 coloured borders)
10. The Monkey Dance
    from Yummy Yummy (1998)
11. Get Ready To Wiggle
    from Wiggle Time! (1998)
12. Go Santa Go
    from Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas
13. Dorothy (Would You Like To Dance?)
    from It's Time to Wake Up Jeff!
14. Ooh It's Captain Feathersword
    from Wiggledancing! Live in Concert
15. Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport
    from It's a Wiggly Wiggly World!
16. Dressing Up
    from Whoo Hoo! Wiggly Gremlins! (14:9 aspect ratio albeit covered by 4:3 coloured borders)
17. Move Your Arms Like Henry
    from Toot Toot! (1999)
18. Lights, Camera, Action, Wiggles!
    from Whoo Hoo! Wiggly Gremlins! (14:9 aspect ratio albeit covered by 4:3 coloured borders)
19. Do The Owl with Steve Irwin
    from Wiggly Safari
20. The Zeezap Song
    from Space Dancing!
21. Play Your Guitar With Murray
    from Hoop-Dee-Doo it's a Wiggly Party
22. Rockin' Santa!
    from Santa's Rockin'! (16:9 aspect ratio)
23. To Have A Tea Party
    from You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
24. Here Come The Chicken
    from Racing to the Rainbow
25. Getting Strong!
    from Getting Strong!
26. Murray Had A Turtle
    from Pop Go The Wiggles!
27. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
    from Pop Go The Wiggles!
28. I'm Dorothy the Dinosaur!
    from Dorothy the Dinosaur's Party
29. You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
    from You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
30. Dr Knickerbocker
    from You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
31. The Shimmie Shake!
    from You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
32. Over In The Meadow
    from Sing a Song of Wiggles
33. Wags The Dog Is Chasing His Tail
    from The Wiggles Go Bananas!
34. Monkey Man
    from The Wiggles Go Bananas! (Toots and the Maytals cover)
35. Hot Poppin' Popcorn
    from Hot Poppin' Popcorn

Plot

Sing and dance with the Wiggles as they perform their most loved songs in Hot Potatoes: The Best of the Wiggles. The Wiggles have drawn millions of people over the years to see their live concerts, setting records for their sold out performances everywhere from Madison Square Garden in New York to the Hammersmith Apollo in London. Sing your favourite songs along with the original foursome and then more recent hits with the brand new Wiggles cast!

Production

Production for this video took place in July 2009.

Trivia

• This video marked:
  • The first compilation video.
  • The first video to feature the Coloured Borders.
  • The last video to have it's disc have realistic artwork.
    • In addition it's also the last video to have realistic disc artwork until It's Always Christmas With You!
  • The third video to be released the year after the album came out, after Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas and Yule Be Wiggling. This makes it the first non-Christmas video to get this treatment.
  • The first video of the 2010's.
  • The last appearance of the 1997 Wiggles logo. (The current logo does appear on the DVD menu.)
• For the first time, Anthony breaks character and states that Maria is his daughter, and Clare as his niece, in the prologue to "Getting Strong!" He also appears with Antonio in the prologue for "Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car", though he doesn't mention he is his son.
• This video also appeared in The Wiggles: Big Big Surprise!
• Sam sings "Ooh It's Captain Feathersword", though in the album it is Greg's original version.
• As a tribute to Steve Irwin, they used the original prologue of "Do The Owl" taken from Wiggly Safari instead of filming a new one.
• The Wiggles' first video, Wiggle Time! from 1993, is indirectly mentioned by Anthony in the prologue of "Getting Strong!"
  • Greg is also mentioned in the opening and closing scenes of this video.
• "Hot Poppin' Popcorn" wasn't included on the original CD, because the album it originates from wasn't out yet.
• "Rockin' Santa!" appears in widescreen for the first time, as its original DVD appearance was cropped to fullscreen.
• The song clips of "Wiggle Bay", "Dressing Up" and "Lights, Camera, Action, Wiggles!" are from the currently in use 14:9 ("halfway widescreen") masters of Wiggle Bay and Whoo Hoo! Wiggly Gremlins! (albeit covered up by the 4:3 colored borders).
• This is the first video that features clips from the Greg era are taken straight from the final edits of video and TV Series releases.

Goofs

The original Big Red Car and SS Feathersword banner titles can be spotted in "Hot Potato" and "Quack Quack" and the original transition can be spotted in "Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport".

The original transitions can be spotted in "Can You (Point Your Fingers and Do The Twist?)", "Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car", "The Monkey Dance", "Dorothy (Would You Like to Dance?)", "Play Your Guitar with Murray" and "Here Come the Chicken".

• The 1993 bonus clips are mistakenly dated 1991 on the DVD covers and menus.
• The opening credits show clips of Jeff and Greg from the 1994 version of "The Monkey Dance", while the version that plays in the video is the 1998 version. This was fixed in the updated version.
• In the end credits, a clip of Greg from the 1998 version of "D.O.R.O.T.H.Y. (My Favourite Dinosaur)" is shown, though that song does not appear in any form. The 1994 version can be heard in the DVD menu, however, meaning it likely was going to be included but dropped from the final video.
• Despite the new song title cards being used to cover up the original ones, some can still be seen. Just before the song title comes up for "Hot Potato", you can see the front of the original Big Red Car banner title enter the screen and the fast red planet transition is seen in Play Your Guitar With Murray. They're fixed in the 2014 version. Also, if you look very closely during "Quack Quack"'s song title, you can see the top of Captain Feathersword's Pirate ship gliding across the screen, as it was taken from TV Series 1, and the sparkles can be seen in "Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport".
• In the prologue of Getting Strong, Anthony said that Claire was 2 years old when the Wiggles released their first video even though she was actually 4 years old at the time.
• "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" is credited as being from the video of the same name, but it is actually the version used in Wiggle and Learn.
• On the NCircle Entertainment rerelease cover, a layer of the feathers from Captain Feathersword's hat can be seen next to Wags.

References

The Wiggles Videography Murray, Jeff, Anthony and Greg (1993-2006, 2012, 2018) Wiggle Time! (1993) • Yummy Yummy (1994) • Big Red Car (1995) • Wake Up Jeff! (1996) • Wiggledance! (1997) • Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas (1997) • Wiggle Time! (remake, 1998) • Yummy Yummy (remake, 1998) • Toot Toot! (1998) • The Wiggly Big Show (1999) • It's a Wiggly Wiggly World! (2000) • Hoop-Dee-Doo it's a Wiggly Party (2001) • Yule Be Wiggling (2001) • Wiggly Safari (2002) • Wiggle Bay (2002) • Space Dancing! (2003) • Whoo Hoo! Wiggly Gremlins! (2003) • Top of the Tots (2004) • Cold Spaghetti Western (2004) • Santa's Rockin'! (2004) • LIVE Hot Potatoes! (2005) • Sailing Around the World (2005) • Here Comes The Big Red Car (2006) • It's Time to Wake Up Jeff! (2006) • Splish Splash Big Red Boat (2006) • Wiggledancing! Live In The U.S.A. (2006) • Racing to the Rainbow (2006) • Surfer Jeff (2012) • Celebration! (2012) • The Wiggles Reunion Show (2018) Feature Film The Wiggles Movie (1997) Spin-Offs The Dorothy the Dinosaur and Friends Video (1999) • Captain Feathersword the Friendly Pirate (2000) Other Dorothy the Dinosaur Goes to Hospital (Promo video, 1999) • Bonus Sampler Video (Promo video, 2004) • 15 Years of Wiggly Fun! (Documentary, 2006) Murray, Jeff, Anthony and Sam (2007-2011) Wiggledancing! Live In Concert (2007) • Getting Strong! (2007) • Pop Go The Wiggles! (2007) • You Make Me Feel Like Dancing (2008) • Sing a Song of Wiggles (2008) • The Wiggles Go Bananas! (2009) • The Wiggles Big, Big Show! (2009) • Hot Poppin' Popcorn (2009) • Hot Potatoes! The Best of The Wiggles (2010) • Let's Eat! (2010) • Ukulele Baby! (2011) • The Wiggles' Big Birthday! (2011) • It's Always Christmas With You! (2011) Other On The Road With The Wiggles (Documentary, 2008) • Wiggle Treats! (Promo video, 2011) • Everybody Clap! Everybody Sing! (Documentary, 2011) Anthony, Lachy, Simon and Emma (2013-2021) Taking Off! (2013) • Furry Tales (2013) • Pumpkin Face (2013) • Go Santa Go! (2013) • Hot Potatoes! The Best of The Wiggles (new version, 2014) • Apples & Bananas (2014) • Wiggle House (2014) • Rock & Roll Preschool (2015) • The Wiggles Meet The Orchestra! (2015) • Wiggle Town! (2016) • Dance Dance! (2016) • Wiggle Around Australia (2017) • Duets (2017) • Nursery Rhymes featuring CinderEmma! A Musical Fairytale! (2017) • Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas! (2017) • The Best of The Wiggles (2018) • Nursery Rhymes 2 (2018) • Wiggle Pop! (2018) • The Wiggles' Big Ballet Day! (2019) • Party Time! (2019) • Fun and Games (2020) • Choo Choo Trains, Propeller Planes & Toot Toot Chugga Chugga Big Red Car! (2020) • We're All Fruit Salad!: The Wiggles' Greatest Hits (2021) • Lullabies with Love (2021) • Halloween Party (2021) YouTube videos Nursery Rhymes (2016) • Emma's Bowtiful Ballet Studio (2017) • Nursery Rhymes 2 (2018) Spin-Offs Dial E For Emma! (2016) • Lachy! (2017) • The Emma! & Lachy! Show (2018) Anthony, Lachy, Tsehay and Simon (2022-present) Super Wiggles (2022) • Wiggly Nursery Rhymes (2022) • Fruit Salad Big Show (2022) • The Sound of Halloween (2023) • The Sound of Christmas (2023) Dorothy the Dinosaur (2007-2012) Dorothy the Dinosaur's Party (2007) • Dorothy the Dinosaur's Memory Book (2008) • Dorothy the Dinosaur Meets Santa Claus (2009) • Dorothy the Dinosaur's Rockin' Christmas (2010) • Dorothy the Dinosaur's Travelling Show! (2011) • Dorothy the Dinosaur's Beach Party! (2012) More from The Wiggles ABC For Kids Video Hits (1991) • Video Hits Volume 2 (1992) • Live In Concert (1993) • Featuring Banana Holiday and Lots of Other Great Songs (1994) The Kingdom of Paramithi Cinderella Pantomime (2011)