List of The Wiggles References in Live-Action Television

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Throughout the years since its American television debut in 1999, The Wiggles has been referenced numerous times in various live-action television shows. Here's a work-in-progress list of them.

3 News

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30 Rock

• In the episode "Meet the Woggles!", Jack's mother becomes seriously ill, forcing him to confront his feelings for her. Jenna dates a member of a children's musical group, The Woggles. Tracy laments that his son will attend college. (YouTube)

Are We There Yet?

• In the episode "The Second Black President Episode", Martin says he will attend The Wiggles live with his date Megan at the Boise Amphitheatre for 25% off after Nick offers him another coupon book.

Arrested Development

• In the episode "The Ocean Walker", the song "Hot Potato" (specifically the version from LIVE Hot Potatoes!) is played in the stair car. (YouTube)

Big Time Rush

• In the episode "Big Time Bad Boy", Kendall challenges a rapper/former child star named Wally, aka "WayneWayne" to a Bad Boy Off to see who stays in Big Time Rush. Kendall eventually wins the battle, and WayneWayne is later put into a band called The Ziggle Zaggles by the end of the episode. They can be seen again in the episode "Big Time Jobs".

Celebrity Name Game

• TBA (YouTube)

The Chase Australia

• In the 2016 episode, Jenni is asked a question about the skivvy colours usually worn by the group during her Cash Builder round.
  • When they face off, Shane and the Chaser are asked about the type of animal by the character named Wags.

The Chaser's War on Everything

• In Season 1, Episode 6, during the segments, Julian Morrow and Craig Reucassel talk about the inherence of drugs in the music industry. A parody of the music video "Where's Jeff?" plays, The Wiggles played by Morrow (Blue), Reucassel (Red) and Andrew Hansen (Yellow) in their 1997-2001 skivvies with a clip of Chas Licciardello (Purple) doing some drugs. (YouTube)

The Checkout

• In Season 1 Episode 4, during a segment on funeral plans, a section on pre-paid funerals shows a Wiggles-themed funeral with the pallbearers dressed like members of The Wiggles while carrying a casket that looks like the Big Red Car. At the same time, "Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car" plays in the background. A corpse dressed up in a yellow skivvy pops up from the casket and states he specifically said someone shouldn't be here. We cut to reveal he's talking about Dorothy the Dinosaur, who's in the audience sobbing. (YouTube)

The Chris McCausland Show

• TBA (YouTube)

Comedy Inc.

• In the episode "Full of Beans", a parody of Anthony's Workshop (the set is similar to Series 3), Anthony with some kids doing some painting their favourite wiggle, but they paint inappropriately, like Anthony smoking drugs, Murray with a prostitute, and Captain Feathersword at the gay bar.
  • In another segment of Anthony's Workshop, Anthony with some kids doing some painting, this time three of them painting some charts; it showed a line chart showing the growth of earning The Wiggles Enterprises the last fiscal year, another was a pie chart that showed the religious distribution of merchandise and franchise of The Wiggles for the capital of basis, and the last one is a bar graph that the income in millions of pair territory that The Wiggles concert tours that have covered. One shows Ben, who painted a house, a car and a plane. Ben said he could get a car, a private jet, and many homes. Anthony is very impressive to see all the paintings and wave goodbye to the viewer.
    • In the last spoof skit, when Anthony, Greg and Murray ask the viewer why they call the "Wiggles", Murray says, "Because we have worms in our bottoms!". Anthony suggests we can wiggle them out and dance to it. After that, Anthony acknowledges that they used to be The Cockroaches for the same reason, but Greg tells Anthony to shut up about the pre-Wiggles, and Murray agrees with him. He tells them because Jeff had nightmares again, Jeff is sleeping while having nightmares about some cockroaches in his buttocks and screams to get them out. The Wiggles wake Jeff up just in time, and he gave wiggled his fingers and a thumbs-up. (YouTube)

The Coronation Street

• In Episode 7112: Part 2, When Eddie tries to propose to Anna by wearing a red polo-neck top and black pants, Anna doesn't, and she refers to him as looking like one of The Wiggles. (YouTube)

The Crazy Ones

• In the episode "Sydney, Australia", TBA (Instagram)

Dancing with the Stars (Australia)

• In Season 4 of Week 3, Kostya and Luda performed the tango, and the music played "Wags The Dog, He Likes To Tango" while performing.

Dos y Dos

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The Ellen DeGeneres Show

• The original packaging of the Wiggling Dancing Guitar, the US Sailing Around the World CD, the Let's Spend the Day Together book and the US Hoop-Dee-Doo it's a Wiggly Party DVD is seen in a prize pack. (YouTube)

ER

• In the episode "Fear", Ray Barnett tells Tamira that she was a fan of The Wiggles.

Fat Pizza

• In the episode "Road Trip Pizza", Pauly recounts a story to Sleek about his past involvement in a children's band known as The Giggles. However, The Giggles subsequently ousted Pauly from the group, rebranding themselves as The Wigglies. (YouTube)

The Footy Show

• The Footy Show did a parody of The Wiggles called The Wobbles, where they performed classic nursery rhymes relating to Australian Rugby League. (YouTube)

  

• It was also parodied in the 2007 AFL Grand Final episode as "Some Sort Of Kid's Group Parody Thing", where the members sing Ow Ow, Bugga Bugga, Broke My Leg, which is a parody of "Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car". (YouTube) (Note: The widescreen version is LOST)
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Full Frontal

• In a 1996 episode, During a segment spoofing The Movie Show with Margret Pomeranz and David Stratton, Margret and David announced that The Wiggles made a movie. The clip starts with The Wiggles, played by Shaun Micallef (Yellow), Glenn Butcher (Red), Ross Williams (Turquoise) and Eric Bana (Purple) in the Wigglehouse were boring, and Dorothy the Dinosaur tried to communicate with the group by pointing at the calendar says May 6 so that will remember her birthday but when The Wiggles does remember the day but they doesn't know, much anger to Dorothy when she slammed the calendar on the floor and walks away. The Wiggles had an idea and decided to make a song about it. When Greg (Shaun) said Dorothy was here and continued singing, they didn't know because Dorothy had axes, and then she killed the groups by throwing on them, two of them (Ross and Eric) on the heads, one (Shaun) in the chest and one (Glenn) on the crotch. The clip ends with Dorothy covering the dead Wiggles with purple cloths. (YouTube)

Glee

• In the episode "The Power of Madonna", Rachel says she hypothetically went to a Wiggles concert with her family.

Good Luck Charlie

• Charlie and PJ's favorite show is called The Gurgles, which is a show about colorful singing shapes.

Hard Quiz

• In a 2021 episode, there was a category about The Wiggles. Jake, one of the contestants is a huge Wiggles fan, and was dressed like his favourite Wiggle, Greg. Jake also has a collection of Wiggles CDs, books, and even handmade coloured skivvies. (YouTube)

Harry's Practice

• In Episode 89, the Yummy Yummy 1994 video is seen playing on TV.

Heartbreak High

• In the episode "The Feelings Pit", When Sasha tells Joji Obah she had a sex dream about Dorothy the Dinosaur, she likes to "Romp Bomp A Stomp" that dinussy.

Hi-5

• In day 3 of Season 1's "Love Week", a girl wearing a Dorothy the Dinosaur T-shirt can be seen in the children's framework segment, while cutting a heart shape out of red playdough with a cookie cutter. (YouTube)
• During Nathan Foley's segment Shapes in Space from the last day of Season 4's "Energy Week", he dances like the fruit salad and does the wiggly fingers gesture. (YouTube)

Connections

• Nathan performed as one of the opening acts at the Original Wiggles Bushfire Relief shows. (YouTube)

Hollywood Squares

• In the episode "Dynamic Duo", the host Tom Bergeron asks Miss Piggy and Kermit a question about the Wiggles: "Anthony likes to eat, Greg is a magician, Murray makes faces, and Jeff falls asleep a lot. Who are they?" Piggy quips, "They sound like four big-time losers if you ask me", while Kermit says "I think that's Martin Mull's other four blowup dolls", referring to Peggy, a doll brought by Mull to the show. Kermit ultimately gives the correct response of "The Wiggles". (YouTube)

How I Met Your Mother

• In the episode "Best Prom Ever", Marshall says that the 88 are "The Wiggles" of wedding bands.

Jeopardy!

• The Wiggles were answers to these Jeopardy! questions:
  • Toddlers worship Greg, Murray, Jeff & Anthony, this singing & dancing quartet (November 22, 2005)
  • These Aussie kids' performers kept making fruit salad after the retirement of original member Greg Page (April 23, 2012)
  • Hope at least 1 of you has a toddler! This Sydney group entertains the tots with songs like "Hot Potato" & "Fruit Salad" (November 24, 2015)
  • Here's the current lineup of this group that's been entertaining kids the world over nearly 30 years (May 18, 2020)
  • Toddlers worldwide know this group sang, "Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car" on their TV show (July 11, 2022)

KTVI

• A parody of the documentary E! True Hollywood Story, Tim Ezell as Malachi as a fifth wiggle wears a black skivvy. An edited clip of Wiggle Bay that featured Malachi on it. (YouTube)

Gallery

An edited scene of the US Trailer

Connections

• Tim Ezell was a close friend of Anthony Field.

Last Man Standing

• In the episode "House Rules", Kristin tells her mother she is moving to Kyle's because Boyd likes his apartment, and Boyd thinks his roommates are The Wiggles.

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

• In a 2022 episode, John Oliver says, “Is it? Is it, though? Because that seemed pretty reasonable to me. It’s not like that reporter asked, ‘Mr. Governor, why do you think The Wiggles had Princess Diana killed?’ That is a strange question. There was no Big Red Car near the scene”. (YouTube)

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

• In a 2020 episode, Stephen Colbert says, "Did they think we wouldn't notice when they replaced Greg Page with that turtleneck wanna Wiggle Sam Moran? This is the real stuff from back in the day when The Wiggles walked off stage to honey dip groupies riving in piles of cocaine! Hot potato, hot potato, cold spaghetti, cold spaghetti." (YouTube)

Mad TV

• In Season 11, Episode 22, the segment is about five dancing coloured skivvy people called The Ring-A-Rounds, which teaches kids the lighter side of distressing adult issues. The group members are Little Pie (Yellow), Barry (Orange), Nicky (Purple), Kenny (Blue), and Tommy (Red). It's similar to the early five members of the group but with coloured skivvies (Not to be confused with Al Roker or Lee Hawkins wearing the orange skivvy). (YouTube)

Millionaire: Hot Seat

• In the 2017 episode, during the Fastest Finger First rounds, a question was asked about the children's franchise in which Wags the Dog is a character.

Mind of Mencia

• In the episode "Bouncin' at Club Carlos", at the start of the skit, The Preacher confesses his sins to Jesus in front of the crowds, and he mentions he watched 'The Wiggles' while masturbating, and then Jesus showed him up.

Modern Family

• In the episode "Two Monkeys and a Panda", Manny has a new girlfriend, who is 13 months younger than him. He feels a connection with Jay, as they are now both involved with younger women. He tells Jay that he made a joke about 'The Wiggles' to Chloe, his girlfriend, but it went over her head.
• In the episode "Mistery Date", Mitchell tells his father Jay, that he picked up his diaper bag, which has an insulated pouch that keeps a bottle of Prosecco cold for the entire Wiggles concert.
• In the episode "The Help", Pepper says, "You plotted against me" to Mitchell and Cameron and right after says "I bet that isn't even an Wiggles song".

Mr. Show with Bob and David

• In the episode "Flat-Top Tony and the Purple Canoes", the band was called Indomitable Spirit. It's about a group of disabled members, but Bob Odenkirk interrupted the show with one of his arms missing. He tells the audience he's one of the group members back then. It called it Flap-Top Tony and the Purple Canoes. The group kicked him out because his arm was lost. At the same time, he hunted for poontang, but it wasn't true, the real reason he was kicked out for being terrible for drumming with his one arm.

My Name Is Earl

• In the opening scene of the "Pilot", "The Monkey Dance" is playing on the car stereo. Greg Garcia who produced on the show behind on "Yes, Dear" that also featured The Wiggles. (YouTube)

Neighbours

• In the "Episode 4450: The Two Doctor Karls", the song "Vegetable Soup" plays in the background while Sindi Watts babysits Ben Kirk.

Connections

• The Wiggles made guest appearances on both episodes 3896 and 3897.

Orange Is the New Brown

• TBA (YouTube)

OutDaughtered

• In the episode "A Thanksgiving Miracle", the Rock and Roll Drum can be seen on the shelve.

Parks and Recreation

• In the episode "Farmers Market", one of Andy's bandmates says, "We're not the Wiggles!"

Portlandia

• In the episode "Squiggleman", TBA (YouTube)

Psychoville

• In the Halloween special, Mr. Jelly finds that the knockoff DVDs he bought were actually kids shows rather than the horror films he paid for. One of the DVDs is The Wiggles, which he says is "worse than Exorcist II".

Raising Hope

• In the episode "Romeo and Romeo", a Little Tikes Big Red Car can be seen.

Reba

• In the episode "Couple's Therapy", Jake isn't happy to be made to watch The Wiggles with his niece Elizabeth. His sister Kyra teases him by saying she has a Barney tape that they can watch.

Connections

• Reba McEntire met The Wiggles and Barney (as mentioned) backstage at Barney's Musical Castle.

Scrubs

• Dr. Cox offhandedly mentions that, because of the sacrifices he's made for his son, he's seen the band live in concert twice.
• While Turk and J.D. play with their kids at the park, J.D. (acting as his son Sammy) says that Sammy and Izzy (Turk's daughter) should hit up a Wiggles concert. (YouTube)

Connections

• John C. McGinley, Dr Cox's actor, has been a long-time friend of The Wiggles, seeing them in concert several times over the years and appearing in their 2011 documentary Everybody Clap! Everybody Sing!.

Shameless

• In the episode "El Gran Cañon", it is suggested to plop Liam down in front of The Wiggles so he will be good.
• In the episode "The Two Lisas", when Kevin comes and argues with Veronica about not nursing her kids, he snaps at her and says she missed The Wiggles. (YouTube)

Six Feet Under

• In the episode "Singing for Our Lives", Maya listens to "Henry the Octopus" as Nate and Brenda argue about Maggie and Quakerism.

Spicks and Specks

• During a discussion on backmasking and supposed "satanic messages", Adam Hills jokes that "Hot Potato" is Slayer's "Angel of Death" played backwards.

Studio C

• In a 2014 episode, a logo similar to The Wiggles Show! logo can be seen in the music video titled Kids Should Love Money. (YouTube)

Supernanny

• In the episode "The Douglas Family", 2 printed-out of "Colour-in Online: The Big Red Car" pages are seen on the wall.
• In the episode "The Facente Family", Tristin is holding a "Sailing Around the World" DVD.
• In the episode "The Weinstein Family", The Wiggles Musical Guitar is seen on the floor.

Teachers

• In the episode "Face Your Peers", Mrs Adler joins a children's music group Wiggle Bops and is too ashamed to tell the other teachers. Ms Watson and Ms Bennigan find their classes passing notes, which causes a rift in their friendship.

Tosh.0

• In the episode "Ice Cream Truck Guy", during the 20-second comments skit on the 'a child at the church' video, Tosh describes it as it looks like they are hiring The Wiggles as the "Praise Band" is really paying off.

Two and a Half Men

• In the episode "Is There a Mrs. Waffles?", Artie discusses the success of Mr. Waffles' performance and mentions The Wiggles should kiss his "pasty white tushie." (YouTube)

This Hour Has 22 Minutes

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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

• In a 2015 episode, during an interview with actress Ruth Wilson, she reenacted the death scene from Platoon when she was eight with the soundtrack played. Jimmy joked that every kid had the The Wiggles and the Platoon soundtrack. (YouTube)

The Upside Down Show

• At the start of the episode "Art Museum", David presses the "Wiggle" button, which made Shane run around, making the wiggly fingers gesture as he does it. (YouTube)

Victorious

• In the episode "The Diddly-Bops", Henry, the young son of Sikowitz's college roommate, is a fan of the Wagafuffles and wants them to perform at his fourth birthday party.

The West Wing

• In the episode "Privateers", Josh Lyman sarcastically refers to First Lady Abigail Bartlet's ancestor, a privateer, as "Captain Feathersword."

Wild 'n Out

• A four-gangster rapper group is called The Wiggers, but one of the members is white instead of purple. (Dailymotion)

Yes, Dear

• In the episode "Make Every Second Count", at the beginning of the episode, Sammy Warner watches Yummy Yummy, and the song "The Monkey Dance" is played on TV. Later, the song "Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car" played on TV and later, "The Monkey Dance" while Sammy and Dominic dance to it, the bobbleheads of Greg and Jeff can be seen on the table and the kids holding the Murray and Anthony bobbleheads in this scene.
  • Later, Jimmy Hughes and Christine Hughes take the kids to the concert to see The Wiggles.

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