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 **Airdate** | August 7, 1998 (AUS)
 **Tracklist** | Hot Potato
Teddy Bear Hug
 **Approx. Running Time** | 18:47 (OG Wiggles)
20:14 (TS1CBS)
 **Next** | “Murray's Shirt”

**Foodman** is the 2nd episode of TV Series 1.

## Contents

* 1 Song List
* 2 YouTube description
* 3 Synopsis
* 4 Plot
	+ 4.1 Kindergarten Text Types
	+ 4.2 Wigglehouse
	+ 4.3 Wiggly Trivia
	+ 4.4 Henry the Octopus Puppet Show
	+ 4.5 Captain Feathersword's Pirate Show
	+ 4.6 Wiggly Chase Scene
* 5 Alternate titles
* 6 Trivia
	+ 6.1 Goofs
* 7 Video

## Song List

1. Hot Potato from Yummy Yummy
2. Teddy Bear Hug from Yummy Yummy
3. D.O.R.O.T.H.Y. (My Favourite Dinosaur) from Yummy Yummy

## YouTube description

Greg, Anthony, Murray and Jeff are getting ready to eat some Mashed Banana, Cold Spaghetti and Hot Potato! Foodman, the Hungry Hero comes by to make sure the food The Wiggles eat is healthy. Learn about the Moon and the stars with Henry the Octopus and the sea creatures. Help Captain Feathersword and Wags the Dog batten down the hatches aboard the Good Ship Feathersword before a howling windstorm hits port!

## Synopsis

Anthony watches a TV show about a superhero, which inspires him to pretend to be one. Dorothy brings a rose petal cake and Anthony wants everyone to eat healthy. Since making sure everyone eats healthy is his superpower, Anthony cuts Dorothy a tiny slice of Dorothy's dessert. Then hypocritically, Anthony eats up all the cake, causing him to get a tummy ache. He dreams of Foodman wanting Anthony to eat healthy again so Anthony learns his lesson. They also sing about Hot Potatoes, Cold Spaghetti and Mashed Bananas.

## Plot

Series Intro

Fade Transition

**Song 1**: Hot Potato (from Yummy Yummy (1998 video))

Flower Transition

### Kindergarten Text Types

Kids make a collage out of paper clothes and different things, including cutting out green legs.

Star Transition

### Wigglehouse

The episode starts off with Murray serving peas on the Wiggles' plates one at a time. Greg asks Murray if he can hurry up because he's very hungry. Murray responds that Anthony hasn't arrived yet, then Greg tells him that since Anthony eats so much, the others never get enough to eat and that this is an opportunity for the Professional Wiggles to have a good meal without Anthony eating it all. Murray then asks what Anthony is doing and Jeff answers with watching a television show about his favourite superhero. Anthony is imitating the moves Foodman is making on TV (not shown in episode). Anthony then wonders how great it would be to be a superhero like Apple Boy or Fruit Salad Man. He loves food! That's it! He's Foodman! Anthony later returns to the table and starts acting like a superhero. Starting off with calling the other Wiggles "citizens", then he praises Murray's choice of serving peas and Murray, sounding confused, thanks him. Greg then asks him what's up and he goes to a spot in Wigglehouse, spins around a few times, and ends up in a superhero costume and replies "I'm Foodman!" and the others reply with "Foodman?" Then Anthony goes "That's right Foodman. Able to eat tall sandwiches with a single bite, faster to the table than a speeding train, I am Foodman, the hungry hero!"

### Wiggly Trivia

* Will Foodman save the day?
* Do the Wiggles need saving?
* If not, can he save himself?

We later come back to the scene where Murray is serving peas (just like before) and Foodman comes in and takes a piece of bread that was on Jeff's plate and gives some positive features and gives permission to serve it. Then Dorothy comes in carrying a cake and greets the Wiggles. Foodman asks her what she has and she replies with "It's a special cake. Yummy for my tummy Anthony, Yummy for my tummy!" Anthony then asks her if she was planning to eat the whole thing and then he cuts only a small slice for her leaving Dorothy a little sad saying, "If you say so". Foodman later comes back to the table, Jeff falls asleep, and Greg finally replies that he's not hungry anymore and that the food is already cold. Foodman then suggest to heat the food up. Murray loses track of counting and has to start again like he did in the beginning and Greg rushes to his room with Murray coming after him. Foodman, now free of anyone in the room starts eating Dorothy's cake and then he enters a dream surrounded by food then the real Foodman replies that he eats sensibly and that Anthony will get a stomach ache from eating the cake. Anthony replies that his stomach does hurt and Greg, Jeff, Murray and Dorothy wakes him up then tells him he was having a bad dream. Anthony then says it was a terrible dream and made his tummy hurt then Greg replies it wasn't his dream that upset his stomach. Then Anthony says he ate the cake so Dorothy wouldn't have tendency to eat too much and Greg then tells him he ate the entire cake and that he isn't really a superhero. Then Anthony decides that it's not a good idea to eat too much, then he asks Dorothy about the type of cake she made and she replies with "Rose Petal Cream Cake!" and Anthony gets surprised and asks if the cake was made of roses and Dorothy replies with "My favourite food!" which leaves Anthony moaning while Dorothy and the other Wiggles laugh.

Red & Purple Transition

* **Song 2**: Teddy Bear Hug (from Yummy Yummy (1998 video))

Snail Transition

### Henry the Octopus Puppet Show

Henry the Octopus tells his friends about outer space.

### Captain Feathersword's Pirate Show

Captain Feathersword tries to set the pirate cartwheel record when a storm arrives. The howling winds make his voice high pitched. Wags uses a fan to return Captain's voice to normal, but then the storm comes back. This time, Captain hides behind Wags so the wind can't change his voice again. It works, and the storm heads out to sea. Captain continues trying to set the record, but he accidentally cartwheels off the deck.

* **Song 3**: D.O.R.O.T.H.Y. (My Favourite Dinosaur) (from Yummy Yummy (1998 video))

Paint Rollers Transition

### Wiggly Chase Scene

The Tennis Ball Chase: The Wiggles are playing tennis when the ball is thrown high into the air. Captain Feathersword comes by on his bike and catches the ball in his mouth. The Wiggles, Henry, Wags, Officer Beaples, and Dorothy chase after him.

## Trivia

* When the Wiggles pledge allegiance to Foodman, they are humming the melody to "Fruit Salad".
* This episode marks the first appearance of Foodman.
	+ He appeared again in Toot Toot!. In Cold Spaghetti Western and Hot Poppin' Popcorn, he is played by Paul Paddick.
* Anthony transforms into Foodman by spinning around. This is a reference to how Diane Prince transforms in the 1970's Wonder Woman TV series.
* Foodman says he is "able to eat tall sandwiches with a single bite" and "faster to the table than a speeding train". These are references to the Superman phrases "able to leap tall buildings in a single bound" and "faster than a speeding bullet" respectively.
* This episode was released on the TV Series 1 Collector's Box Set as a 20-minute version, which has "Teddy Bear Hug" and the Wiggly Trivia removed.
* In the PVD, the song "Hot Potato" is duplicated in different versions.
* Dorothy is absent in the Taiwanese version.
* Teddy Bear Hug is absent on the Box set due to a copyright claim by Raffi, the person who originally wrote this song as well as others. This also happened on the Classic Wiggles version of the episode due to them reusing the same master created for the TV Series 1 Collector's Box Set. The song, however, was seen when the series aired on Playhouse Disney in the USA and on Nick Jr. in the UK
* The music that plays when Dorothy appears is the same tune that plays in *The Wiggles Movie* when she is welcomed at her birthday party.
* On November 1st 2020, the episode was uploaded on The Wiggles' YouTube channel.

### Goofs

* On the TV Box set Version, you can hear the Wiggly Trivia music for a split second before it cuts to the next scene.
* The fade effect for "D.O.R.O.T.H.Y. (My Favourite Dinosaur)" is briefly seen.
* In later versions, the first five seconds during the second part of the Wigglehouse segment were cut off.

## Video

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