Wiggle Pop! is the fifty-eighth Wiggles video special that was released on November 7, 2018 in Australia and New Zealand and in North America on April 16, 2019.
Overview[]
Put Wiggle Pop! on and the dancing fun is non stop! Wiggle Pop! is the Wiggle entertaining and child friendly tribute to some of their favorite Pop, Country and Folk artists over the years!
Songs[]
- H.O.L.I.D.A.Y
- Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle
- Mr Pop
- Turkey in the Straw
- Shoulder Pop (Australian/New Zealand version only)
- Today
- The Giraffe
- Londonderry Hornpipe
- The Dance Of The Scottish Horses
- Spotted Cars
- Basil the Cat
- Australia
- Who Stole The Cookie From The Cookie Jar?
- When A Prince Meets A Princess
- Dolls And Fairies On Parade
- So Many Colours To See
- I Love To Go To Mexico
- Surfer Bop
- Paddy The Piper
- Tiptoe Through The Tulips
- Super Anto
- Play the Bass Guitar
- Yalo Yalo
- Tribute To Bert Kaempfert
- Fruitie In My Hat
- Fire Truck Rolling
Plot[]
The video starts, when Mr Pop instrumental track playing in the background. It shows a purple background with sparkles on it. Then, a 4 color stripes are sliding in and their names are shown during the opening sequence.
Emma comes out and introduced herself, Anthony comes out and introduced himself, Simon comes out and introduced himself and Lachy comes out and introduced himself. The Wiggles wiggled their fingers together. Emma was so excited that she can't wait for a holiday. Anthony can't wait for the holiday that he gets to play bagpipes and eat lots of Fruit Salad. Emma can't wait for the holiday that she can dance. Simon can't wait to get on a holiday that he gets to eat lots of Pappadums and sing opera. Lachy can't wait for the holidays either when he's sleeping for the holidays. Oh, no! They spotted something that he's asleep. Simon suggested that when they count to three, and say "wake up, Lachy!" Lachy wakes up, that he is ready for the holiday.
Song #1: H.O.L.I.D.A.Y
Simon introduces Captain Feathersword that he is gonna show some dances in 3 words. Captain dances the tango, tango, tango. Captain dances the ballet, ballet, ballet. Finally, Captain tries to Wiggle, Wiggle Wiggle. But, his wiggling motion didn't work. So Simon asked Captain helped to show everyone that he can wiggle. It worked!
Song #2: Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle
Lachy dressed up as a chef and brings a bag of popcorn, because it's it's Popcorn Party Day. He gives some popcorn kernels to Simon and Emma. Until, they seemed to be very strange that the popcorn didn't pop. What to do? What kernel we do? Emma finds out that she picked up her keypad to dial Mr Pop, to come over here by singing a song. Until, Anthony as Mr Pop arrived that the popcorn didn't pop. Everybody took out their hand and pop into their mouth at the same time so the popcorn will pop.
Song #3: Mr Pop
Song #4: Turkey in the Straw
Song #5: Shoulder Pop (Australian/New Zealand version only)
Lachy counts to three and tells us something about going to do today. Lachy answered that he is gonna do today to enjoy.
Song #6: Today
More coming soon!
Production[]
In April 2018, Paul Field revealed in an interview that The Wiggles will begin production on a new album and video. "Wiggle Pop! will feature original Wiggles words and songs and each song will be a homage to great musical artists from the past."[2] Filming began in mid-May, following Emma's recovery from Endometriosis surgery and before the American Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle! Tour. Production stills and behind the scenes videos began being posted on The Wiggles' social media accounts, which showcased The Wiggles dressed as artists like The Beatles, The Beach Boys, David Bowie (as Ziggy Stardust), Willie Nelson, Prince and Madonna.
It was thought it would be released in the United States and Canada close to its release in Australia, as Paul Field commented "Our releases are now synced worldwide so that no Wiggle fan across the planet has to wait any longer." While the album was released within weeks of the Australian counterpart, North American fans had to wait 5 months before the video was released.
In the same interview, Paul Field announced the tie-in Wiggle Pop! Big Show tour.
TV Airdates[]
- May 24, 2019 (Treehouse TV)[citation needed]
Trivia[]
- This is the last video before Shirley Shawn was introduced as a Wiggly friend.
- This is the first Wiggles release to be mostly themed after paying homage to popular artists.
- This marks the third time that The Wiggles directly homage The Beatles, after their appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show" were referenced in The Shimmie Shake! music video from You Make Me Feel Like Dancing and their "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" cover was referenced for the cover of Let's Eat!.
- In the song "Australia", Anthony wears his 2007 skivvy to match the footage in the dancing section taken from It's Always Christmas With You!.
- The 2009-2015 ABC Kids logo is used after the rating instead of the ABC DVD logo.
- This is also the final ever Wiggles video to use the 2009 ABC For Kids logo.
- A trailer on YouTube Movies is actually the music video of "H.O.L.I.D.A.Y".
- The effects in the trailer looked exactly similar to the Nursery Rhymes 2 song title cards, just recoloured.
- A promotional video for the USA Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle! Tour was filmed during the production of this video, with Lachy dressed as Uncle Sam, Anthony as Willie Nelson (playing Turkey in the Straw on banjo) and Emma and Simon as turkeys.
- "Shoulder Pop" doesn't appear in the North American version. This removal resulted in a number of other edits:
- The intro is edited to replace Lachy's photo with one from "Fruitie In My Hat".
- The closing scene is not included (due to it referencing "Shoulder Pop"). "Fire Truck Rolling" instead transitions to the end credits.
- "Shoulder Pop" is not listed in the credits and the backgrounds are edited to remove clips of its music video.