It's a Wiggly Wiggly World!

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Released	July 25, 2000 (VHS) January 22, 2002 (VHS) April 26, 2005 (DVD) June 14, 2005 (DVD) September 12, 2005 October 9, 2007 (DVD re-release) 2010 (exact date unknown)
Written by	The Wiggles
Directed by	Chisholm McTavish
Video Special Guide
Previous	Captain Feathersword the Friendly Pirate (2000)
Next	Hoop-Dee-Doo it's a Wiggly Party (2001)

It's a Wiggly Wiggly World! is the ninth Wiggles video special released on July 25, 2000. This is also the first Wiggles special to feature major guest stars, such as Slim Dusty, Christine Anu, Rolf Harris, Kamahl, Tim Finn, Jimmy Little and Atsuko Arai.

This video is the last video of the Wiggly World era, as it marks the latest appearance of several of its distinguishing elements.

Overview

Join the fab-four of fun, The Wiggles, and their special friends in a Wiggly World of music. Sail with Tim Finn and Captain Feathersword on the high seas of fun, dance with Dorothy the Dinosaur and Slim Dusty, move to the sounds of the Torres Strait with Christine Anu, take a Morningtown Ride with Jimmy Little, hear Dorothy sing for the first time ever with Kamahl then enjoy a taste of Japan with Atsuko Arai. So come along with us. It's a world of music, dancing and fun for everyone. It's a Wiggly Wiggly World!

Filmed

January 1999 (Starry Night)

December 1999 (Studio and Green Screen)

Songs

Note: All songs are taken from the album It's a Wiggly Wiggly World!, except where noted otherwise.

1. In The Wiggles' World
2. Here Come The Wiggles
3. In The Big Red Car We Like To Ride
4. I Love To Have A Dance With Dorothy (featuring Slim Dusty)
5. Taba Naba (featuring Christine Anu)
6. Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport (featuring Rolf Harris) (removed from later releases)
7. Sing With Me (featuring Kamahl)
8. Hey, Hey, Hey We're All Pirate Dancing
9. Another Cuppa
10. Starry Night (new song)
11. Six Months In A Leaky Boat (Wiggly Version) (featuring Tim Finn)
12. One Little Coyote
13. Blow Me Down
14. Let's Go (We're Riding In The Big Red Car)
15. Morningtown Ride (featuring Jimmy Little)
16. Haru Ga Kita (featuring Atsuko Arai)

Deleted Song

1. Porcupine Pie

Plot

The video intro is the opening of TV Series 2. The difference is instead of The Wiggles appearing in front of Wigglehouse, they're in space floating in front of the Wiggly Wiggly World! with the video title.

• Song 1: In The Wiggles' World

The Wiggles magically appear and then introduce themselves and ask if they want to meet their friends Captain Feathersword, Dorothy, Wags and Henry.

• Song 2: Here Come The Wiggles

Driving in the Big Red Car, Greg sits in the yellow seat and watches the road. Anthony sits in the blue seats and likes to eat crackers. Jeff sits in the purple seat and will try to stay awake if you can help him. Murray asks can you guess what seat he sits in? That's right, the red one and he likes to play his guitar. So why don't we go for a ride in the Big Red Car.

• Song 3: In The Big Red Car We Like To Ride

Greg introduces Slim Dusty in the next song.

• Song 4: I Love To Have A Dance With Dorothy - featuring Slim Dusty

The Wiggles and Mascots dance in a barn while Slim Dusty plays guitar from the rafters. Murray introduces Christine Anu who talks about the Taba Naba song which comes from the Eastern Torres Strait and is sung in the Meriam Mir language. Taba Naba translates to "Let's go to the reef and have a good time".

• Song 5: Taba Naba - featuring Christine Anu

Greg and Christine sit with a bunch of kids to do the dance while the other three Wiggles play guitars. Anthony introduces Rolf Harris. Rolf has a wobble board, which makes a wobbly sound when you shake it. He wrote the next song.

• Song 6: Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport – featuring Rolf Harris

The Wiggles dance around while Rolf uses the wobble board. Greg introduces Kamahl. He and Dorothy will sing together for the first time.

• Song 7: Sing With Me – featuring Kamahl (with a small twist of an ending walk from We Go Together)

Each of the Wiggles visits Captain Feathersword and shows off a silly wiggly dance. Captain has one too and demonstrates: "Do the dance, do the dance, do the pirate dance!" Let's all do pirate dancing!

• Song 8: Hey, Hey, Hey We're All Pirate Dancing

Greg says we have a problem. Captain Feathersword can't stop drinking rosy tea from Dorothy. To show how addicted he is, Captain asks Greg a bunch of questions like: What's letter comes after S? What do you put a golf ball on? What do you eat scones and jam with? The answer of course is Tea!

• Song 9: Another Cuppa

Murray talks about the time when he once spoke about the stars. Flashback – Murray looks in the sky and wants to serenade them.

• Song 10: Starry Night

He wishes he could see his favourite constellation the Great Guitar. And then he's able to spot it. Murray marks he always wanted to play with the big stars. Greg introduces Tim Finn, who's from New Zealand. He wrote the next song for the Captain.

• Song 11: Six Months In A Leaky Boat (Wiggly Version) – featuring Tim Finn

Murray and Greg make animal sounds and they guess what they are.

• Song 12: One Little Coyote

The Wiggles and the pirate dancers greet Captain Feathersword. Murray remarks how everyone's there to dance with him. Well, blow me down. Murray blows him down. Captain says he plays that game all the time, so it's time to play it.

• Song 13: Blow Me Down

Jeff introduces the next song.

• Song 14: Let's Go (We're Riding In The Big Red Car)

Jeff introduces Jimmy Little and asks what his favourite song, which is the next one.

• Song 15: MorningTown Ride – featuring Jimmy Little

The Wiggles introduce Atsuko and she's from Nara City in Japan. She wears a kimono. They sing Haru Ga Kita which means Spring Has Come.

• Song 16: Haru Ga Kita – featuring Atsuko Arai

The Wiggles say goodbye as the credits roll up in front of "Wiggly Wiggly World" planet, with the theme song playing.

Album

The "It's A Wiggly Wiggly World!" album was released on March 20, 2000.

Trivia

• This video was released in the US under the name "Wiggly Wiggly World!", though the video (and later the DVD menus) retains the original title.
• This video was most likely filmed after The Wiggly Big Show Tour and Carols in the Domain in 1999.
• This video marks:
  • The first Wiggles video to feature duets with celebrities.
  • The second time Jeff plays Höfner bass guitar, after the 1998 re-recording of Yummy Yummy.
  • The last video for Henry's 4th costume.
  • Many songs in this video contained sound effects and/or spoken lines like Here Come The Wiggles, Blow Me Down, One Little Coyote and I Love To Have A Dance With Dorothy.
  • The first time The Wiggles had the rights to release their cover songs in North America, previously, they recorded covers of Raffi songs, but they were removed on every North American release except TV Series 1.
  • The last appearances of Leanne Halloran as Officer Beaples, until The Original Wiggles Reunion Show For Bush Fire Relief, the Irish Dancers from the Halloran School of Dance to date and The Wagettes until Top of the Tots.
  • Anthony returns to playing the drums since Wake Up Jeff! in 1996, 4 years before.
  • The first time Dorothy the Dinosaur sings. She would continue to sing in other future Wiggles content.
  • The Wiggles' last time to use Takamine acoustic guitars from their previous content in most of the 90's.
    • Beyond this, this is the only time they use the Black Takamine EF341SC Guitar.
    • This is also the last time they use the original Red Starry Guitar from the previous three years of use since Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas
      • Starting from their next video, All electric and acoustic guitars manufactured by Maton would be used for concert tours and video content from that point on.
        • Although in the concert tours, the bass guitars, and some electric guitars are still manufactured by Fender.
  • The first video to have Murray's short haircut.
  • The second video where every song has an intro, the first was Yummy Yummy from 1994.
  • This is not only the last video to have Leeanne Ashley play Dorothy the Dinosaur, but it was Dorothy's last time wearing her original white sunhat, her hat would get an update with a black outline to look more cartoonish and would be used from 2001 onwards.
  • Porcupine Pie was originally supposed to appear on this video, but it was cut from the final version.
• Anthony's belt breaks at the end of "Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport". Although, the rest of the video, his belt was fixed.
• Fans consider this video a direct-to-video TV Series 2 special or finale, due to its use of the same motif/location and the theme song appearing as the intro, likewise, this is The Wiggles' first video to be based on one of their TV Series.
  • In addition to "In The Wiggles' World", "Starry Night" is taken directly from the episode "Play" (though the audio was re-done) and is introduced as a flashback to it.
  • Bloopers from this video are seen in Wiggly TV, alongside bloopers from TV Series 2.
• Captain Feathersword had more songs than any other Wiggly Friend in this video.
• Murray's daughter, Georgia Munro-Cook can be seen in "Taba Naba", "Hey, Hey, Hey We're All Pirate Dancing" and "One Little Coyote".
• Human Nature, who did the backing vocals and sound effects in "One Little Coyote", do not appear in the video, As a result, a version with new backing vocals and sound effects by The Wiggles and their own musicians was used.
• The ending scene audio from Yummy Yummy is reused at the start of the end credits.
• The background for the intro to "In The Big Red Car We Like To Ride" is a frame from "Counting & Numbers", with a shovel seen in the car.
• The UK release of The Wiggly Big Show uses this video's name and contains Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport from this video.
• Slim Dusty's wife Joy McKean, Christine Anu and Jimmy Little later appear in a bonus feature on the 2005 DVD.
• John Alexander was credited as "Pat Alexander" on I Love To Have A Dance With Dorothy.
• This video title was a reference to the 1963 movie "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World".
• This video was uploaded on YouTube starting January 30, 2020 as part of the Classic Wiggles series with "Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport" cut out due to controversies surrounding Rolf Harris since 2014.
• This video was unlikely to have a remake due to controversies surrounding Rolf Harris as well.
  • The video was uploaded again as a full-length video on July 16, 2021.
    • To cover up the transition for "Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport", the colour transition from The Wiggles Show! was used (albeit cropped to 4:3)
• The background music in some of the prologues were originally from The Wiggles Movie.
  • Mrs Bingles Theme was heard in the prologues to Here Come The Wiggles and Another Cuppa.
  • Magic Club Music was heard in the prologue to Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport.
  • The Dockyard was heard in the prologues to Hey, Hey, Hey We're All Pirate Dancing and Blow Me Down.
  • Let's Have A Party (Instrumental) was heard in the prologue to Morningtown Ride.
• On the Australian 2005 DVD when you select "Play" on the menu, Wiggles Videos Preview plays at the start.
• On VHS releases, the Wiggly Wiggly World Planet is shown in the end credits, and on DVD releases, it just shows a different background with stars and the credits are in a different font.
  • An explanation of this video's credits for the DVD release being edited and changed is that the contact information for Gaffney International Licensing and The Wiggles live shows as well as the "OzeMail Competition Winners" were removed. But you can only see the start of the first release's credits for about 0.50, before the new credits fade in and then at the end it fades out to see the Wiggles website link and the Bee and Flower endboard, This could be probably due to the defunction of OzeMail Internet around that time.
• This is the last video to use the Hofner Bass until You Make Me Feel Like Dancing in 2008.
• Here Come The Wiggles was first performed at The Wiggly Big Show Tour and Carols in the Domain in 1999 before it was performed in this video.
• The footage of Slim Dusty was later used in Duets in the new version of I Love To Have A Dance With Dorothy.
• The events of Taba Naba in this video was later mentioned in Wiggle Town! in 2016.
• The set in this video was adapted from The Wiggly Big Show Tour.
• This is Emma Ryan's last video until The Emma! & Lachy! Show.
• The Australian DVD has an opening animation on the main menu, whereas the North American and Hong Kong DVD does not.
• This is the first Wiggles video to have Ben Murray as a Wiggly Dancer.

Goofs

• Murray is seen playing the acoustic guitar in "Haru Ga Kita", but the music has no guitar whatsoever.
• The credits for In The Wiggles' World list only The Wiggles, though John Field did write it.
• The back cover for the HIT Entertainment VHS and DVD release does not say that Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport features Rolf Harris, This was fixed on the back cover for the 2007 Warner Home Video DVD release.
• On the back cover of the North American VHS, The Wiggles logo is absent.
• On the Hit Entertainment DVD disc, it says "2004" even though it was released in "2005" meaning the disc was produced in 2004 but wasn't released until a year later.
• The Hong Kong copy recycles the menu from the Warner Home Video DVD.

Videos

Classic Wiggles- It's A Wiggly Wiggly World (Part 1 of 4) - Kids Songs

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Classic Wiggles- It's A Wiggly Wiggly World (Part 2 of 4) - Kids Songs

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Classic Wiggles- It's A Wiggly Wiggly World (Part 3 of 4) - Kids Songs

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Classic Wiggles- It's A Wiggly Wiggly World (Part 4 of 4) - Kids Songs

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The Wiggles - It's a Wiggly Wiggly World! 🌎 The Original Wiggles Kids TV Full Episode

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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)