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Hot Potatoes! The Best of The Wiggles (2014) is an update to the 2010 video special of the same name and the forty-fifth Wiggles video special.
Overview[]
The most successful children's entertainment in the group in the world has 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. They have set records for their sold out performances everywhere from Madison Square Garden in New York, to the Hammersmith Apollo in London, to their home in Australia. Their songs are instantly memorable and get you wiggling in seconds! Those same songs have seen music royalty line up to record music with the fab four of fun! We've picked the best for you to listen to, but to snap it up as this DVD will go like... HOT POTATOES!
Song List[]
- Hot Potato
from Yummy Yummy (1998) - Can You (Point Your Fingers And Do The Twist?)
from Here Comes the Big Red Car - Do the Propeller!
from Taking Off! - Monkey Man
from The Wiggles Go Bananas! (Toots and the Maytals cover) - Rock-A-Bye Your Bear
from Wiggle Time! (1998) - Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car
from Toot Toot! (1999) - Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
from Pumpkin Face - You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
from You Make Me Feel Like Dancing - Wake Up Jeff!
from It's Time to Wake Up Jeff! - Captain Feathersword Fell Asleep on His Pirate Ship (Quack Quack)
from The Wiggles TV Series 1, originated from Wiggle Time! (1998) - Ready, Steady, Wiggle!
from Furry Tales - Getting Strong!
from Getting Strong! - Wiggle Bay
from Wiggle Bay (14:9 aspect ratio albeit covered by 4:3 coloured borders) - The Monkey Dance
from Yummy Yummy (1998) - Everybody, I Have a Question
from Go Santa Go! - Get Ready To Wiggle
from Wiggle Time! (1998) - The Shimmie Shake!
from You Make Me Feel Like Dancing - Go Santa Go
from Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas - Dorothy (Would You Like To Dance?)
from It's Time to Wake Up Jeff! - Ooey, Ooey, Ooey Allergies!
from Ready, Steady, Wiggle! TV Series 1 - Ooh It's Captain Feathersword
from Wiggledancing! Live in Concert - Dressing Up
from Whoo Hoo! Wiggly Gremlins! (14:9 aspect ratio albeit covered by 4:3 coloured borders) - Murray Had A Turtle
from Pop Go The Wiggles! - Michael Finnegan
from Apples & Bananas - Move Your Arms Like Henry
from Toot Toot! (1999) - Lights, Camera, Action, Wiggles!
from Whoo Hoo! Wiggly Gremlins! (14:9 aspect ratio albeit covered by 4:3 coloured borders) - I'm Dorothy the Dinosaur!
from Dorothy the Dinosaur's Party - Simon Says
from Taking Off! - Do The Owl
from Wiggly Safari - Play Your Guitar With Murray
from Hoop-Dee-Doo it's a Wiggly Party - I've Got My Glasses On!
from Taking Off! - Hot Poppin' Popcorn
from Hot Poppin' Popcorn - Rockin' Santa!
from Santa's Rockin'! (16:9 aspect ratio) - Here Come The Chicken
from Racing to the Rainbow - Say the Dance, Do the Dance
from Furry Tales
Plot[]
More coming soon!
Trivia[]
- This video marked:
- The fourth video to be released the year after the album came out.
- The second video to use the Coloured Borders.
- However only one is used this time but the only one to use the second borders is Here Comes a Bear which they ripped from the 2010 version.
- The first remake video of the 2010's.
- "Fruit Salad", "Wiggly Party", "Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport", "The Zeezap Song", "To Have A Tea Party", "Dr Knickerbocker", "Over In The Meadow" and "Wags The Dog Is Chasing His Tail", all of which appeared in the 2010 version, are removed and replaced by new songs. In the case of "Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport", it's obviously due to controversies surrounding Rolf Harris in recent years. "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" is also replaced with a newer version.
- New prologues were filmed featuring the current generation for various songs. Like the 2010 version, Do The Owl's original prologue appears, making it the only one to feature an original Wiggle (Jeff) and to feature a guest (the late Steve Irwin).
- This is to date the only current generation video to feature multiple instrumental songs throughout the entire end credits and the first Wiggles video in general since since The Wiggles' Big Birthday! Previously, Celebration! began its credits with one short instrumental before switching to a normal song and later in 2017, Wiggle Around Australia and Nursery Rhymes (DVD version) did the same.
- This video along with Duets are the only Wiggles Australian DVDs of the third lineup not to be re-released in a standard DVD case in 2018.
- Each of the current Wiggles mentioned the former Wiggles at the beginning of this video, Simon mentioned that Murray was the first red Wiggle, Emma mentioned that Sam and Greg were the first yellow Wiggle (Sam was the second yellow Wiggle while Greg was recovering his illness for five years) and Lachy mentioned that Jeff was the first purple Wiggle.
- Production for this video took place in September 2013.
Goofs[]
The original song titles for "Quack Quack", "The Monkey Dance", "Go Santa Go!" and "Move Your Arms Like Henry"
The original transitions for "Can You (Point Your Fingers and Do the Twist?)", "Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car", "Quack Quack" and "Play Your Guitar with Murray"
- The Australian DVD once again lists the bonus clips from 1993 as being from 1991. The 2014 US DVD from NCircle marks the only release of either version to get the year correct on the cover, though the menu (as it is the same as the Australian version) retains the mistake.
- The opening credits show clips of "Wake Up, Lachy!" and "Henry's Dance", though neither appears in the video.
- Like the original, some song title cards aren't properly covered up by the new ones. While the title cards for Hot Potato and Play Your Guitar With Murray were fixed, Quack Quack's song title is even more visible than in the 2010 version and the original song titles for The Monkey Dance, Go Santa Go and Move Your Arms Like Henry can also briefly be seen.
- Once again, I'm Dorothy the Dinosaur! is credited as being from Dorothy the Dinosaur's Party, despite it being the version that appears in Dorothy the Dinosaur's Memory Book and the 2nd TV Series.
- Likewise, the version of You Make Me Feel Like Dancing that appears here is credited to its eponymous video, despite it being the version that appears in Wiggle and Learn.
- Likewise, the version of I've Got My Glasses On! that appears here is credited as being from Taking Off!, despite it being the version that appears in Ready, Steady, Wiggle!
- In the prologue of Hot Potato, Emma says, "Before I was the yellow Wiggle there was Sam and Greg," but Greg was the first yellow Wiggle and Sam was the second.
- The subtitles for the video name Greg as the singer of Hot Potato in the opening credits, despite the fact Lachy sings the song in that particular sequence.
