Yummy Yummy is the second Wiggles video, featuring Anthony's dad John Patrick Field playing John the Cook. It was originally released in October 1994.
It, along with its 1993 predecessor Wiggle Time!, was remade in 1998. Because of this, the original version was never given a DVD release. However, on June 14, 2018, it was uploaded on The Wiggles' YouTube channel in 4 parts to launch the Classic Wiggles playlist. On December 4th, 2023, the video was uploaded again as a full version.
Overview[]
Get set for a deliciously good time with The Wiggles! Now firmly established as absolute favourites with the kids, The Wiggles have a feast of fun and games in their second video. Captain Feathersword, Henry the Octopus, Vanessa the Dancer and of course, Dorothy the Dinosaur join in to make this a truly yummy video treat.
Songs[]
Songs are taken from the album Yummy Yummy except where noted otherwise.
- Hot Potato
- Shaky Shaky
- Teddy Bear Hug (new song) (cut from the 2023 full length YouTube upload due to licensing reasons)
- D.O.R.O.T.H.Y. (My Favourite Dinosaur)
- The Box of Mystery
- I Am A Dancer (new song)
- Crunchy Munchy Honey Cakes
- Numbers Rhumba (cut from the 2023 full length YouTube upload due to licensing reasons)
- Joannie Works With One Hammer (new song)
- The Monkey Dance
- Henry's Dance (new song)
- Walk
- Dorothy's Birthday Party (Short Story)
Plot[]
Opening - The opening is a slow-motion clip from "D.O.R.O.T.H.Y. (My Favourite Dinosaur)" where The Wiggles are dancing while Dorothy is walking across with her mower by pulling in the Yummy Yummy title out. While the intro plays, the intro to the song "Get Ready To Wiggle" plays along with Anthony Field saying "Everybody listen up! Let's get ready to wiggle!".
The Wiggles introduce themselves and John the Cook. Murray asks what John has and he replies that he has some cold spaghetti. Anthony picks up some wiggly spaghetti with a spoon, shaking it. John also has mashed bananas; Greg picks up a bowl of bananas and mashes some with a fork. John also has hot potatoes. Murray picks up one potato but it's hot! He juggles it, passing it to Jeff, who passes it to Anthony, who passes it to Greg. Greg puts the potato back on the dish and says it's time to sing a song about hot potatoes, cold spaghetti and mashed bananas. He says to watch out for Captain Feathersword in case he comes by and takes the food.
- Song 1: Hot Potato
Greg remarks that Captain Feathersword sure was tricky, since he tries to take the food. Now we're going to do a song about shaking. First, let's get into our shaking clothes. 1, 2, 3. Greg snaps his fingers and The Wiggles are now wearing colourful sports jackets.
- Song 2: Shaky Shaky
In the end, they have to get back in their Wiggle clothes. They count to 3 and Greg snaps his finger and they all got back into there Wiggle clothes.
The Wiggles are with kids and Henry the Octopus. Greg tells everyone that Henry the Octopus is here and he tells everyone again to say hi to Henry. They greet Henry and he says "Hi, everybody" back. Murray asks what Henry is holding. Henry says that he is a teddy bear hugging his favourite teddy bear and he loves hugging his teddy bear. Murray suggests that let's all sing a song about teddy bears.
- Song 3: Teddy Bear Hug
Anthony talks about Dorothy the Dinosaur while Jeff is tricking him to be wearing a Dorothy tail and hat.
Magic Greg does a magic trick from the box of mystery. For the music, Jeff plays the keyboard, Anthony plays a Fender bass guitar and Murray plays an acoustic guitar.
- Greg's Magic Trick: The Box Of Mystery Trick
Dorothy is dancing with Vanessa the dancer and she had her pink shoes on to do a song about doing a ballet dance.
- Song 6: I Am A Dancer
The Wiggles and John the Cook are making crunchy munchy honey cakes. Captain Feathersword was helping as well.
- Song 7: Crunchy Munchy Honey Cakes
Murray is playing a game with kids to show what number Murray is holding up.
- Song 8: Numbers Rhumba
Anthony is at the workshop room with three kids and they are making clay to mush and hammer.
- Song 9: Joannie Works With One Hammer
After the song, Jeff dreamed that he was a monkey. And The Wiggles woke him up and then he started to act like a monkey.
- Song 10: The Monkey Dance
Captain Feathersword was trying to dance like Henry when Murray and Greg tells him what's going on? But he told them that he forgot how to do it. So they asked Henry if he can teach Captain Feathersword to dance with The Wiggles.
- Song 11: Henry's Dance
And after when he danced, he took a bow and his pirate hat fell off and when he picked it up, his feathersword fell. After Greg thought of an idea, to put the hat back on his head by jumping into the air and it worked.
Greg tells everyone that there are different types of ways to move while the other Wiggles do the actions.
- Song 12: Walk
The Wiggles and the others watch a videotape on TV all about Dorothy's birthday party.
Dorothy's Birthday Party[]
The Wiggles are gathered at a table. Greg, Murray and Anthony introduce themselves. Oh no, Jeff's fallen asleep. 1, 2, 3, Wake Up Jeff! Jeff wakes up. Anthony says it's a special day today; it's Dorothy the Dinosaur's birthday. She's turning five so let's have five claps for Dorothy. They all clap five times. Greg says it's a surprise party so be very careful not to tell her. We've got presents here. Anthony says "Oh no!" and states he forgot to get Dorothy a present. He will get a hat and decorate it and he runs off.
Greg says that we've got the presents, and our friend Lucy FixIt is helping us decorate. They greet Lucy, who says, "Hi everyone." So now the only thing they haven't thought about was the birthday cake. Jeff will make a cake, and he heads off. Murray has the invitations, and hands ones to Greg and Lucy. He says there's one for Captain Feathersword, one for Jeff and one for Anthony.
Jeff arrives with the cake but Greg says Dorothy is coming, so hide the cake and the presents. Greg reminds everyone to not tell Dorothy about the surprise.
Dorothy arrives. She asks if they know what special day it is today? Jeff answers it's her birthday and everyone tells her Happy Birthday Dorothy. Dorothy thanks everyone, but then asks if they're going to give her a birthday party? Greg replies oh, no, no, they aren't while the others make shushing gestures. Dorothy droops a little and says how sad. She's going to go to the garden and fall on the roses there. Greg comforts her. Dorothy asks for a handkerchief. Greg reaches in his pocket and pulls out a white handkerchief but as Dorothy takes it, the handkerchief is actually a string of handkerchiefs leading to a pair of underwear? Oops, Greg takes back the handkerchiefs and quickly leaves.
Dorothy leaves. Greg comes back, excited that they kept the secret. They notice someone coming; it's Captain Feathersword. Murray gives Captain an invitation. Lucy shows Captain the decorations, the presents and the cake. Greg tells Captain not to eat any since it's for Dorothy.
As Lucy, Jeff and Greg gather at the presents to look at the birthday card, Murray asks the audience if they can tell him if Captain Feathersword tries to eat the birthday cake. What? He's eating the birthday cake. They look over at the cake, but Captain has hidden behind it. Lucy says he isn't eating it and they continue. Captain stands up with icing on his face and continues eating. Greg asks, "Are you sure?" They have one more look and this time they catch Captain in the act. Murray asks if he's eating Dorothy's birthday cake. Captain denies it but Greg points out the icing on his face. Captain says he won't eat anymore.
Greg and the others will continue with the birthday card; he tells Captain see you at the party, but Captain goes back to the cake and then picks it up and takes the whole thing away. He's doing what? Oh no, the cake is gone. Did Captain take it? Oh, he did. Jeff offers to make another one but it's too late; what to do? Lucy has an idea: Captain likes parties and music, so if we start the party, he'll hear the music and bring the cake back. They call Dorothy inside.
Dorothy arrives and they say Surprise, it's your birthday party!
They sing Dorothy's Birthday Party.
Captain Feathersword arrives during the song wearing a big hat on his head.
Captain remarks what a great party. Greg asks where the cake is. Captain says he doesn't know. Greg and everyone else says "Oh yes, you do." Captain replies, "Oh no, I don't." They reply, "Oh yes, you do." Captain replies quickly, Oh no, I don't." Lucy says that the cake is underneath the Captain's hat. Captain takes off his hat and indeed the cake is there. He places it on the table. Captain says he needs to get back to his ship to mop the deck, hoist the mainsail and all that pirate stuff. He wishes Dorothy happy birthday and says goodbye. It's time for them to open the presents. Jeff got Dorothy a picture book. Murray gives Dorothy a necklace. Anthony arrives with a food plate that he decorated. Dorothy thanks everyone and Greg thanks everyone after that. Everyone waves goodbye.
The Wiggles and the others are falling asleep and Jeff tries to wake them up. Jeff said, "They always do this", but it doesn't matter. It is always Jeff that falls asleep, isn't that right?
In the end credits,"Fruit Salad" plays as the closing music.
Album[]
The "Yummy Yummy" album has 21 tracks that featured songs and poems.
CD Cover
CD Songs[]
- Fruit Salad (Heard in the credits but was in Wiggle Time! (1993))
- Willaby Wallaby Woo
- Come On Let's Jump (in Furry Tales)
- Fais Do Do
- Ponies (on Wiggle Time! (1998))
- Shake Your Sillies Out
- Would You Giggle
- Butterflies Flit (on Wiggly Safari sung by Dorothy)
- Where Is Thumbkin
- Veil
- Yawn Yawn Yawn (on Episodio 14)
Trivia[]
- The video was first uploaded in fragmented parts on The Wiggles' YouTube channel as part of Classic Wiggles series from June 14th to August 5th of 2018. It was later uploaded in full with Teddy Bear Hug and Numbers Rhumba removed on December 4th, 2023 to promote the upcoming limited-edition Vinyl release of the album.
- Wags the Dog is the only main character that doesn't appear in this video & the previous one. He does, however, appear in the next video.
- At most of the time in the video, Anthony wears a turquoise shirt. In "Henry's Dance", Anthony wears a white skivvy to prevent the turquoise shirt from turning invisible underneath the chroma key screen. Another thing in this song is that white outlines are seen around The Wiggles, including Murray.
- This was the first video to have a chroma key background (Henry's Dance).
- This is the first video that they have a helper for Anthony to play as Captain Feathersword.
- In the case, John Field helps out, he would later help out again to play the Captain in the next video along with Paul Field, and was put on a regular basis in late-1995 when Paul Paddick took over the role.
- This is also the first video to have Anthony and Captain Feathersword appear on-screen together.
- This is the second and last video that shows merchandise in the credits.
- This is the first video not to have Jeff fall asleep at the beginning.
- In "Shaky Shaky", Anthony plays a Fender Telecaster electric guitar that is later played by Murray in Big Red Car. In "Greg's Magic Show: The Box of Mystery" and "I Am A Dancer", he plays the same Fender guitar. In "Dorothy's Birthday Party" Murray plays a Fender Stratocaster which appears in this video and Wiggle Time! (1993 video). Murray plays a Double Bass in the same song.
- This is the first video to be awarded as 'Highest Selling Children's Video' at the AVSDA Awards.
- "Hot Potato", "D.O.R.O.T.H.Y. (My Favourite Dinosaur)", "The Monkey Dance" and "Dorothy's Birthday Party (Short Story)" were filmed in early 1994, which shows Greg wearing black shoes, plus the exact same Set used which doesn’t appear anywhere else in the Video. The rest such as "Shaky Shaky" and "The Box of Mystery" was filmed later that same year, which shows Greg wearing black boots with yellow laces.
- This is the first video where The Wiggles introduce themselves. Murray and Anthony are also mentioned by name for the first time. In Wiggle Time!, only Jeff and Greg's names were mentioned. In their 1992 album Here Comes a Song, Greg's name is mentioned in the song "Lechoo Yeladim". He is also the first Wiggle to have his name mentioned.
- On the cover of the video, Murray plays the Charvel TX Custom electric guitar and Jeff plays the accordion even though neither instrument is used in any song of this video.
- This is the first video to have time-lapse. (Crunchy Munchy Honey Cakes).
- This is the only appearance of Anthony's White Skivvy.
- When The Wiggles are singing "Dorothy's Birthday Party", Jeff's skivvy becomes untucked. He fixes this afterwards. This is the first time for Jeff's skivvy to be untucked and then fix it again.
- When Anthony comes back with the present for Dorothy his shirt is untucked.
- Some of the songs in this video have the left and right audio channels reversed as listed.
- In this video, it is revealed that Dorothy's favourite colour is pink.
- The Singaporean VCD abruptly ends after the main credits.
- This was the first appearance of the "Oh no! Oh what?" gag (seen during the Dorothy's Birthday Party segment).
- The undies scene was made into a meme in 2022. [citation needed]
- In the 2023 full upload of the video, Teddy Bear Hug and Numbers Rhumba were cut out due to royalty concerns.
- This also applies to releases on streaming platforms such as HappyKids, The Wiggles (AVOD app), FilmRise, Pluto TV, and The Roku Channel.
- During Teddy Bear Hug, a Care Bear can be seen on a shelf in the background. A Wile E. Coyote plush can also be seen during the song.
- This is the first appearance of the Wiggly Fingers gag.
- This is the second time a kid plays an instrument, The first was in the previous video.
- The audio mix is made up of mono track panned slightly to the left or right on all versions.
Goofs[]
- Jeff, Anthony and Greg's names are listed in Dorothy's Birthday Party.
- During the intro of Teddy Bear Hug the actor's skin under Henry's Tentacle is visible.
- The boom mic can be seen above Greg in the beginning of "Shaky Shaky" before they change. Same thing happens in the beginning of Crunchy Munchy Honey Cakes, which the boom mic is seen moving at the top right corner when Jeff is speaking.
- On the 2004 Singaporean VCD, it lists the 1998 video's songs on the back cover but it actually has the 1994 video.
- Wags the Dog is seen in the thumbnails of parts 2 and 3 despite him not appearing until the next video (Big Red Car).
- In Dorothy's Birthday Party (Short Story), where Emma Buter voices Dorothy, whenever Dorothy speaks, microphone pops and static are occasionally heard.
- On the HappyKids and FilmRise prints of the video, the credits still lists Teddy Bear Hug and Numbers Rhumba despite them being cut out due to music licensing issues.
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