LIVE Hot Potatoes!

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Released	January 11, 2005 (VHS/DVD) March 2, 2005 (DVD) March 3, 2005 (VHS) October 9, 2007 (DVD re-release) July 14, 2008 (DVD) June 16, 2009 (DVD)
Written by	The Wiggles
Directed by	Paul Field
Video Special Guide
Previous	Santa's Rockin'! (2004)
Next	Sailing Around the World (2005)

LIVE Hot Potatoes! is the nineteenth Wiggles video released on January 11, 2005 in North America, and on March 2 the same year in Australia. This is the third concert special, after The Wiggly Big Show.

Overview

Come and join the fab four of fun, The Wiggles for a fantastic Wiggly concert performance.

Production

It was filmed at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on December 20, 2003 during the Lights, Camera, Action! tour. The beginning scenes (linking footage) with the Wiggles driving, as well as the clips on the boat were filmed in Sydney in April 2004.

Songs

1. Overture
2. Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car (seen in Making Pies, Bill the Billycart and Learn About Animals)
3. Rock-A-Bye Your Bear (seen in A Wiggly Mystery, S.S. Feathersword, and Picking Flowers)
4. Let's Wake Up Jeff!
5. Jeff's Favourite Instrument
6. Let's Wake Jeff Up Again!
7. Would You Like To Meet a Friend of Ours? and Anthony's Musical Walk
8. Lights, Camera, Action, Wiggles! (seen in Dorothy's Ballet, S.S. Feathersword, The Train Dance and Bailamos!; also plays instrumentally during the end credits)
9. Jeff's Somersaults and Handstand!
10. Hoop Dee Doo (seen in Making Pies)
11. Dorothy The Dinosaur and Collecting Roses
12. D.O.R.O.T.H.Y. (My Favourite Dinosaur) (seen in When We Were Young and I Count 1-10)
13. Roses for Dorothy and a gift from Japan!
14. Rolling Down The Sandhills/Running Up The Sandhills (seen in Wiggly Friends and Jack in the Box)
15. Jeff and Dorothy's Announcement!
16. Can You (Point Your Fingers And Do The Twist?) (seen in When We Were Young and Jack in the Box)
17. Butterflies Flit
18. Greg's News
19. Captain Feathersword's Wiggly Weather!
20. Jeff's Lost and The Jeff Balloon!
21. Where's Jeff? (seen in Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock and Help Find Jeff)
22. Play Your Guitar With Murray (seen in Friendly Feathersword Crew and Paint a Portrait)
23. The Monkey Dance (seen in Kangaroo Dance, Paint a Portrait and Picking Flowers)
24. We're Dancing With Wags The Dog (seen in Kangaroo Dance and Fruit Salad)
25. Central Park New York (seen in Prehistoric Party)
26. Here Come The Reindeer (seen in Help Find Jeff)
27. Santa Claus and Christmas Fruit Salad!
28. Fruit Salad (seen in Shiver Me Timbers and Bow Wow Wow)
29. Quack Quack (chorus only; seen in Shiver Me Timbers, Bow Wow Wow and Learn About Animals)
30. Opera Singing Tenors and Trumpet Voluntary!
31. Eagle Rock (seen in Eagle Rock!)
32. The Wiggly Orchestra!
33. I Wave My Arms And Swing My Baton (seen in I Swing My Baton and Fruit Salad)
34. Hot Potato
35. Anthony and Greg's Announcement!
36. Wiggly Christmas Medley (seen in Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock and We're Taking a Trip Across the Sea)
37. Farewell

Plot

More coming soon!

Trivia

An example of the borders used in TV Series 4

• Anthony doesn't play any instruments in this video.
• The first Wiggles screener DVD to be released in the United States.
• This is the first Wiggles concert video released in the USA and Canada.
  • It's also the first one released on DVD in any country. Likewise, it was the last Wiggles concert video to be released on VHS.
  • This is The Wiggles' fifth video that was released in North America before Australia.
• An early cut of the video was used on the American screener DVD. The Overture was featured in its entirety, whereas in the final version it was cut short and clips of The Wiggles in the Big Red Car and Anthony's boat and The S.S Feathersword were played over most of what remained. The credits were also not present. The music mix differed from the final album and video releases, most notably Greg's lead vocals are more clear during parts with heavy backing vocals. There were also additional dialogue tracks during the songs such as Murray wishing everyone "Merry Christmas" during Wiggly Christmas Medley. This version was also used in TV Series 4, as well as a promo for the American DVD/VHS release, as both use this earlier audio mix. Some backstage audio can also be heard at the end of the Wiggly Christmas Medley.
  • Despite the unfinished version was used for the American screener DVD, the final version of the special was completed in post-production on September 15, 2004.
• This is the last Wiggles video to be filmed and released in 4:3 full-screen. Because TV Series 4 was shot/released in 16:9 widescreen, when footage from this video was used, they were given a curtain border on the sides, similar to how Wiggle-coloured borders were later used in Hot Potatoes! The Best of The Wiggles. Footage from this video has been cropped to widescreen in various places such as an SBS Viceland interview with Murray Cook.
• This is Greg Page's favourite Wiggles concert video.
• This is the first Wiggles HIT Entertainment DVD to have Motts being advertised in the inserts.
• The part with Greg saying "Merry Christmas Everybody!" before Christmas Medley was later used for a radio commercial
• Songs from this video can be seen in TV Series 4.
  • Butterflies Flit and Hot Potato are the only song clips from this video to not appear in TV Series 4.
• Jeff reveals that his favourite instrument is the drums even though it's the accordion and keyboard. Anthony typically played drums around this time, and Henry the Octopus (named after Cockroaches drummer Tony Henry, who plays the drums in this video) was originally conceived to be a good drummer with his eight arms. This may make him the third character whose favourite instrument is the drums, though neither of the other characters has stated this.
• Get Ready To Wiggle, Wobbly Camel, Weather, Weather, Weather and the News Theme make cameo appearances during "Greg's News".
  • Additionally, Music With Murray is briefly played prior to Play Your Guitar With Murray.
• This is the last Wiggles video until The Emma! & Lachy! Show to be released in a standard-sized DVD snap case.
• This is the third-to-last Wiggles concert video to be released on VHS in Australia. Not only that, this is the last Wiggles AUS VHS to have the original G classification rated, before the updated classifications showed up.
• This is the first Wiggles concert video to use the 2001-2007 skivvies, the only other was Wiggledancing! Live In The U.S.A. (both versions).
• This video was named after a song from Yummy Yummy.
• During D.O.R.O.T.H.Y. (My Favourite Dinosaur), the Moguel Family make cameos in the audience.
• The Wiggly Telephone makes a cameo in "Greg's News."
• Footage from concerts in Perth, Adelaide, Wollongong, and Melbourne are shown in a bonus feature on the DVD. The same feature reveals that Ross Wilson (King Mondo) was at one of the Melbourne concerts during this tour to perform Eagle Rock.
• The US 2007 DVD re-release disc art features promo pictures of Dorothy the Dinosaur and Captain Feathersword from Getting Strong!.
• The song list order on the back cover is different than in the video, highlighting some of the more popular tracks first. The US screener DVD is the only one that gets the song listing correct.
• The US DVD back cover says that it runs 140 mins, despite the running time actually being 77 minutes. This is because it's counting the special features in the running time.
• In the booklet that came with the Santa's Rockin'! US VHS/DVD release, the working title at the time was "Wiggle all the Way Live!"
  • This started the rumor that the footage from the "Santa's Rockin'! tour" was used instead of the 2003 concert footage, but it was later debunked when the Sydney concert footage was filmed in December 2004 which wouldn't be enough time to edit and release it before January of 2005.
• On the American DVD disc, the copyright date said 2004 when it was released in 2005, This is because the video was made and prepared for release in late 2004, despite being filmed in 2003.
• On the screen monitors during Eagle Rock, a scene from Space Dancing! is seen.
• The American Screener and Hong Kong DVDs do not contain any menus or special features.
• In the audience, a boy is seen wearing a Space Dancing! t-shirt.
• This video is yet to be uploaded on YouTube as part of Classic Wiggles, although Hot Potato has been uploaded as part of a compilation video and Fruit Salad was uploaded individually in January 2021, along with many other versions of Fruit Salad to celebrate 30 Years of The Wiggles.
• Revised credits are used for Rock-A-Bye Your Bear (adding Murray Cook and Jeff Fatt's names).
• The opera version of Quack Quack that Captain Feathersword, Sam, and Dom sing is set to the tune of "Nessun Dorma".
• The VHS & DVD inside cover advertises the following videos:
  • Left side
  • Wiggle Bay, Whoo Hoo! Wiggly Gremlins!, Space Dancing!
  • Right side
  • Wiggly Safari, Hoop-Dee-Doo it's a Wiggly Party, Top of the Tots
• In the end credits, the instrumental version of Lights, Camera, Action, Wiggles! plays for an extended time.
• Near the end, when Anthony says, "Well, everybody, we're almost at the end of the show. We've got one more big song and dance to go.", it is a rhyme.
• This is the last concert video to be released in Australia that features Greg Wiggle until Celebration!.
• The Australian and UK DVDs have an opening animation on the main menu, whereas the North American DVD doesn't.
• This is the only concert video to be released in Hong Kong that features Greg Wiggle.
• The instrumental version of Let's Have A Party plays when the Wiggles say goodbye to themselves.
• In this special, Anthony says, "Well, everybody, we're almost at the end of the show. We've got one more big song and dance to go." as a rhyme.
• The Wiggly Christmas Medley is the only song that the children and their parents in their seats dance to.
• In this special, three of the Wiggles were introduced, except for Greg.
• When Greg comes through the blue curtains on the count of three, the C note plays.

Goofs

• The UK DVD back cover listed 16:9 as the aspect ratio, when it was actually 4:3.
• During their performance of D.O.R.O.T.H.Y (My Favourite Dinosaur), It showed that Murray is collecting roses for Dorothy the Dinosaur while they are not performing due to the mistake during its post-production.
• In the epilogue, Greg and Anthony switch places, most likely due to a mistake in post-production where the footage switches to a different performance.
• Anthony's 1999-2001 brown hairstyle is photoshopped on the cover despite him having black hair in the video.
• The copyright screen says "2004" rather than "2005", meaning the video was finished in late 2004 but pushed to be released in early 2005.
• In the song credits, Anthony Field and Greg Page's names are missing in Play Your Guitar With Murray in the DVD Booklet.

External links

• Live Hot Potatoes! on Wikipedia
• Live Hot Potatoes! on Imdb

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)