The Wiggles' Big Birthday! is the thirty-seventh Wiggles video special released on June 30, 2011 (Murray's 51st birthday). This video was made to celebrate The Wiggles' 20th anniversary with favourite songs sung in concert from their 2009 Big, Big Show In The Round and 2010 Greatest Hits In The Round tours.
Overview[]
Happy Birthday, everybody! It's a Wiggly party where you get the presents and we've invited some of our favourite friends around for some fun. Laugh with Captain Feathersword, Murray and Dorothy in Wiggly Joke Time. Then there's the world's most famous weatherman, Al Roker, singing the new Wiggles song Thank You, Mr. Weatherman! Country superstar Troy Cassar-Daley sings I Love It When It Rains and Gotha from Elcho Island sings Ngalmam Djangu Godku Yumarrku (We Are All in God's Family) in her indigenous language. Finally, see some of your favourite Wiggles songs live in concert! Hip, hip hooray, it's time for The Wiggles' Big Birthday!
Song List and Segments[]
Song List[]
- Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car (Live)
from The Wiggles Big, Big Show In The Round - Thank You, Mr. Weatherman! (featuring Al Roker, AUS only)
- Rock-A-Bye Your Bear (Live)
from The Wiggles Big, Big Show In The Round - Captain Feathersword Fell Asleep on His Pirate Ship (Quack Quack) (Live)
from The Wiggles Big, Big Show In The Round - Ballerina, Ballerina (Live)
from The Wiggles Big, Big Show In The Round - Wake Up Jeff! (Live)
from Greatest Hits In The Round - Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, Turn Around (Live)
from Greatest Hits In The Round - I Love It When It Rains
from Dorothy the Dinosaur! TV Series 2 - Jack And Jill (Live)
from Greatest Hits In The Round - Fly Through The Sky (Live)
from Greatest Hits In The Round - Fruit Salad (Live)
from Greatest Hits In The Round - Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star (Live)
from Greatest Hits In The Round - Ngalmam Djangu Godku Yumarrku (We Are All In God's Family)
from Dorothy the Dinosaur! TV Series 2 - Five Little Joeys (Live)
from The Wiggles Big, Big Show In The Round - The Shimmie Shake! (Live)
from The Wiggles Big, Big Show In The Round - Follow The Leader (Live)
from The Wiggles Big, Big Show In The Round - Romp Bomp A Stomp (Live)
from The Wiggles Big, Big Show In The Round - Shaky Shaky (Live)
from The Wiggles Big, Big Show In The Round - Murray's Guitar Saved The World (Live)
from The Wiggles Big, Big Show In The Round - Dr Knickerbocker (Live)
from Greatest Hits In The Round - It's A Wiggly Circus (Live)
from The Wiggles Big, Big Show In The Round - Hot Potato (Live)
from The Wiggles Big, Big Show In The Round
Segments[]
- Wiggly Joke Time with Captain Feathersword
- Anthony meets some ballet dancers
- Wiggly Bloopers! (Part 1)
- Wags and Fairy Clare with a Teddy Bear
- The Beachside Musical Landscape
- Wiggly Joke Time with Murray
- Wiggly Bloopers! (Part 2)
- Who am I? Anthony is King
- Wiggly Joke Time with Dorothy
- Wiggly Bloopers! (Part 3)
- Anthony meets some guitarists
- More Wiggly Joke Time with Captain Feathersword
- The Circus Musical Landscape
Plot[]
The Wiggles introduced themselves and celebrating their big birthday. There will be lots of singing, dancing, performing songs from live in concert and meeting Al Roker. There's more birthday surprises such as a documentary, bloopers, skits and lots more. Let's all celebrate The Wiggles' Big Birthday! The opening sequence it shows their names in a picture holding streamers & balloons, while Swim Like A Fish instrumental track is playing in the background. Then, The Wiggles Logo is shown, but the video title comes up.
Song 1: Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car (Live)
Song 2: Thank You, Mr. Weatherman!
Murray is playing guitar and Jeff is playing keyboard. They're going to paint a circus picture. What music will they need for clowns. As they play clown music, the clowns appear. What else they need? Trapeze artists. Let's all say "trapeze." Murray plays a sliding tune on his guitar and the trapeze artists appear. What else do they need. A ringmaster! Jeff plays circus music and a ringmaster is drawn in. Murray thanks everyone for painting the picture.
Song 20: It's A Wiggly Circus (Live)
More coming soon!
Trivia[]
- This is the last Wiggles video to feature Sam in the US to date as it was released after It's Always Christmas With You! in the USA while vice versa in other countries.
- The concert footage was filmed in 2009 and 2010 while the rest was filmed in 2011.
- The Wiggly Guitar backdrop from TV Series 5 returns in this video during segments & introductions.
- Anthony's wife Miki Field is seen in the video as a Wiggly Dancer.
- This DVD won a National Parenting Publication Award 2012 Honors in the USA (highest rank award)
- This is the last Wiggles concert video featuring Sam as the Yellow Wiggle, as well as the only concert video from his era to feature an accompanying album.
- This is the last Wiggles video that sees Jeff playing the guitar, as seen in Murray's Guitar Saved The World.
- The style of this video would later be used in Wiggle Around Australia.
- The American DVD was pressed on March 7, 2012, eight and a half months after it released in Australia and four months before its American release.
- This is the first Wiggles concert video of the 2010's.
- This is the first Wiggles concert video to be distributed by nCircle Entertainment.
- Everybody Clap! Everybody Sing! has a disclaimer box in the special features section about the content including the mention of death and 9/11 in it that may upset younger children.
Goofs[]
- Although the US release cuts out Thank You, Mr. Weatherman!, Al Roker is still featured in the end credits.
- During the song It's A Wiggly Circus when Ringo The Ringmaster says, "Feast your eyes on the center ring," the captions says Murray is saying that line.