How The Wiggles Experience came to be

This is a child-friendly, Wiggles Experience-style theory by Mitchell Mallee on what happened throughout the past 50+ years as a celebration of a quarter-century of the band's existence. This material could also be suitable for an official Wiggles Experience's home-release video.

## Story

### The Crickets

In 1951, in Emerald City, a group of young brothers with the surname "Nerville" formed a band called "The Crickets". Also involved was Mitchell's best friend, Joshua Taylor-Beckett. They performed songs together and made records. However, the band eventually broke up when Ben Henry David, their drummer, moved away to Logrant.

### Meeting

In March 1962, Eric, Mitchell, Joshia, and a young 2-year-old girl Janelle Senreich who is graduated at Golden Bear Preschool, were sitting at the picnic table for lunch when Janelle’s friend, Madeline Richardson, came with an exchange student from the USA. His name was Zachary Alexander. Madeline even stated that her sister is a number one Crickets fan and as Madeline stated, "her bedroom is full of Crickets merchandise from ceiling to floor from window to door". Joshua and the Nerville brothers even signed Louise's sister's copy of the **Fingertips** record.

### Formation

July 1963, Joshua had later lost interest in music when he became more into architecture. He got a call from Mitchell, who wanted to record a children's record with Janelle, Madeline and Zachary. Eric was more busy with fixing his grades. Joshua was about to hang up when he decided to just go over there and hang out with his friends. Joshua then found it to be a lot of fun.

### Meeting Dorothy

A nearby scientist was doing an experiment to bring a dinosaur into the present day, and brought in a dinosaur egg which instead teleported to Mitchell's Place. The dinosaur was a foot tall and its species appeared to have flowers as its primary source of nutrition. It could oddly speak like a human.

On February 11th, 1965, the band was at Mitchell's place rehearsing for an upcoming school dance when Mitchell thought he had heard a rustle. He looked out the window to see a little green dinosaur with yellow spots, eating Mitchell's mum's roses. Mitchell wanted to get a closer look at it so he lured the dinosaur into the garage with a rose. The Wiggles Fans checked the dinosaur to discover it was female. Madeline named it "Dorothy" after one of the main characters in her favorite classic movie from 1939, "*The Wizard of Oz*", since the red of roses reminded Louise of the ruby slippers. Her mother and father saw "*The Wizard of Oz*" in the cinema back in 1939.

Mitchell and Dorothy really loved each other, but he couldn't let his mum find out about the little green dinosaur. He kept Dorothy in his closet and constantly kept buying rose seeds. Mitchell's mum eventually found Dorothy in his closet. She wouldn’t let her to stay and telephoned the dog catcher. He came over to investigate, and was so shocked to see Dorothy that he fell down, scared of the prehistoric creature. Due to the dog-catcher's unsuccessful attempt, the police and animal patrol got involved. After A LOT of arguing with the authorities, Mitchell’s mum allowed Mitchell to let Dorothy stay. Dorothy and The Wiggles Experience loved playing with each other and turned the escapade into a song for kids.

### Jason's Sleeping habits

As Joshua was becoming more and more busy with the band, he often got very sleepy. So Janelle, Mitchell and Madeline would constantly have to wake him up. This would happen at least 15 times a week. Joshua's teacher and co-students would also have to do the same.

### Zachary's Departure

Since Zachary was just an exchange student, he had to go back to his own country in January 1969.

In March 1969, Janelle, Mitchell and Madeline and Joshua decided to make themselves look like a different band. To make them still the same band, the decided to wear plain shirts of different colors. Janelle chose yellow, Madeline chose red, Joshua chose purple, and Mitchell chose green.

### Meeting Henry

Shortly after graduating, on a hot sunny day, The Wiggles Experience were hanging out at Joshua's place when Joshua noticed some strange splashing in his wading pool. Out came a purple octopus with red and blue checkered pants! The octopus apologized for intruding and introduced himself. His name was Henry. He and his school of fish needed a place to spend for the holiday.

The Awake Wiggles Experience came over to see Henry the Octopus, who invited them into the pool. The Wiggles Experience, still confused, took off their shoes and socks and rolled up their pants before stepping into the wading pool, which seemed to have no floor. Somehow, The Wiggles Experience were able to collect the oxygen from the water and leave behind the rest; as well as coming out of the pool 100% dry.

The Wiggles Experience had a phenomenal time with their new octopus friend and his underwater school. They sang songs, they danced, and enjoyed Henry's octopie.

### The First Video

The Wiggles Experience then decided that they should make their own video featuring their songs so that kids could watch them whenever they wanted (Since VidSpace and YouTube weren't invented yet). They even invited their nieces and nephews over as well as their dinosaur, pirate and octopus friends.

### Meeting the Captain

While The Wiggles Experience were hanging out at Emerald City Beach one day, close to Henry's real home, a pirate ship came all of a sudden. Mitchell smelled the seafood on the pirate ship and went on board as soon as the coast was clear. Madeline, Janelle, and Joshua chased after him, but they ran into a pirate. The pirate had a sword with magenta feathers instead of a violent metal blade. He tickled Madeline, Janelle, and Joshua, and then introduced himself. His name was "Captain Feathersword". He taught the three how to do a pirate dance. Mitchell was able to sneak some seafood off of the S.S. Feathersword undetected before the Captain left.

### The Big Red Car

The Wiggles Experience needed some way to get around the isle. What other way is there than road? The Wiggles traveled to a car dealership back in Emerald City and found an interesting looking car that could fit up to 7 people. Since it was big and red, Mitchell decided to name it the "Big Red Car". It was also decided since Joshua loved to drive, he could be the driver of the car as long as he drank enough caffeine with sugar first to keep him awake and travel safely along the road. Joshua was indeed the official driver of the Big Red Car. Sometimes just The Wiggles Experience would drive around in it, sometimes the Wiggly Friends would join too.

### A new world

The Wiggles needed a new place to live. They couldn't just live in their houses with their places. Captain Feathersword couldn't just live on his boat. There needed to be a widespread for everyone. The houses in Cowell looked boring.

The Queen of The Rainbow visited The Wiggles Experience one day and took them to a special isle she created just off the coast of Emerald City Beach. The portal was just a rainbow. The Wiggles, Captain and Dorothy all moved there. They named it "Wiggles World". There were also some wacky roads and the intersection of Wiggle Town's only two streets, Back to Front street and Upside Down Street, was in the very center of the town making everything opposite. What a crazy place!

Dorothy had her own house with a large space behind for a garden. There were also pre-planted roses in pots. Captain Feathersword even had his own dockyard. The Wiggles were even given their own house.

The front door however, was grumpy, mean and rude. However, he was slightly friendly. The Wiggles Experience introduced themselves and Door gave them all questions as a test before he let them in. The tests were:

1. What are the tubes in your lungs called? Bronchioles!
2. How many octaves between the first and sixth strings of a guitar? 2!
3. If the circumference of a circle is 20pi, what's the area? 100 pi!
4. What's 563.89 divided by 87.3? 6.45922107675!
5. What's the password? Silly Shorts!

The Wiggles Experience passed and entered the house. It was amazing.

### Meeting Wags

At night, as The Wiggles Experience were sleeping, there was some loud barking going on. Madeline went to inspect and found a brown human-sized dog. Using technological skills that she learned as a child, Madeline made an English-Dog translator and found out that the dog's name was Wags and that he needed food. Madeline ran in and back out with bones from the chicken wings from Onestop Takeaway The Wiggles Experience had for dinner. Wags thanked Madeline and the five became good friends ever since.

(Note: Wags the Dog first appeared in 1972 at wiggles concerts)

### Dorothy's 5th Birthday

The Wiggles Experience decided to do something very special for Dorothy's 5th Birthday. They rented a huge circus tent to hold the party in, while Captain Feathersword's crew made Dorothy's cake (rose-flavored, naturally). When the special day arrived, The Wiggles had a morning performance at Mrs. Bingle's Primary School in Tawaranobe. Dorothy was also there, and asked her best friends, The Wiggles Experience, if they knew what special day it was. To keep her party a secret, they came up with all sorts of silly answers to tease her such as "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Christmas Day", and "Chinese New Year". Dorothy sadly walked away as she believed that everyone had forgotten her birthday.

Unfortunately, Janelle's magic wand ended up getting stolen (and broken) by a wacky magician named Wally, who needed it to win a magic competition. Dorothy chased after Wally, and had an adventure as she taught him that the power of friendship was more important than a magic wand. That night, Wally ended up winning the competition with Dorothy's help, and planned on giving his prize to Mitchell. Little did he know, the winner of the competition also got to perform at a special party. Whose party was it?? Why, Dorothy's party, of course! When they arrived at the circus tent, all of Dorothy's friends greeted her, and explained that they pretended not to know it was her birthday because they wanted to keep the party a surprise. It turned out that losing the wand was no big loss, as Janelle already had 77 other wands. The Wiggles Experience and Dorothy celebrated for hours afterward, even waking up nearby farmers with their singing!

### Wake Up, Joshua!

During a concert, Janelle has the audience Wake Up Joshua, but Joshua fell into a deep sleep. Madeline decided to get help from the audience. A little boy in the front row suggested to sing a song to wake Joshua up. The Awake Wiggles Experience sung the catchphrase and raised their arms, resulting in Joshua waking up for one second and then going back to sleep each time. They then decided to make up a song and go freestyle as they sung in hopes of waking their purple friend up. It was sort of nerve-wrecking since they had to do it while hundreds of people were watching and they had to make the whole song up as they went. Joshua was finally awake at the end of the song. Luckily, an audience member taped The Wiggles' extreme challenge and sent a tape to the band so they could sing it whenever Joshua was in that deep of a sleep.

### Renovation

In 1987, The Wiggles were growing sick with the disrespect of a mean Door. They also had ideas to customize the house. And so they did. They also changed the front door which is now female and her attitude is the opposite of the old door. Her name was "Flora Door".

### Big Changes

In October of 1995, Mitchell decided he didn't like his green shirt, so he switched to a regular blue. In October of the same year, The Wiggles Experience decided that the logo needed to be changed. Joshua designed the logo and The Awake Wiggles Experience agreed upon it. In fact, they liked it so much Maria decided to get skivvies with the logo on them as well as belt buckles. And so it was arranged. The Wiggles Experience had a new format for their outfits.

In Early-1997, The Big Red Car was brought back to the dealership in Emerald City, Cowell. Janelle was the new official driver due to being better at driving and Jason could take his naps so that everyone would be safer on the road than before. (Since Joshua once got the original car into an accident and into the water, and his license got suspended by Police Officer Beaples.) The Wiggles Experience even got their seats coloured so they would know where they would sit. Yellow for the driver's seat, green for shotgun, purple behind the driver, and red next to purple. This also doubled for the fact that Madeline could have her guitar neck sticking out and not bother anyone if she were to hit them on accident.

### Massive increase in Fame

In around 2002, after a lot of touring around the world, The Wiggles became extremely famous all across the world. In 2003, They as well did a TV Series where the camera was allowed to point off-set as the series was Studio Themed.

### Janelle's First Official Departure

After experiencing a lot of health issues in touring, from a massive amount of dancing, Janelle had to leave the band for a while. Her doctor told her that if Janelle got enough rest, she should be able to rejoin the band in at least five years. Sandy, who had filled in for Maria before, did so again due to a lot of overwhelmingly positive reviews from the audiences the first time.

While recovering, Janelle met The Oak Ridge Boys and became very good friends with them. They all soon became best of friends by 2010.

### Janelle's temporary return

After following doctor's orders, Janelle was well recovered and could wiggle as well as she used to, but around the 2002-2006 era. Since returning to the band would make a majority of the fans happy, Janelle was given back the yellow skivvy. Sandy agreed that she should leave the band since there were other things she wanted to try. Now she can perform with Joshua, Mitchell, and Madeline.

### Surfer Joshua!

One day at the beach, Joshua released a nice genie from an old bottle and was granted three wishes. Joshua decided that some food would help to make him figure out his wishes. Mitchell could easily agree. After a lot of food-related singing and dancing, Joshua wished to travel to Cotuí, Rome and Paris. Dorothy, Wags, Captain Feathersword and Henry even joined The Wiggles Fans and the genie on the adventures.

When Henry wished for Joshua to be a professional surfer, Gino was hesitant due to grant Joshua all three of his wishes at first and thought Joshua was wishing to be good at surfing. Gino decided to negotiate with the rules and grant Henry's wish.

As a reward to The Wiggles Experience for taking him around the world, Gino gave The Wiggles updated skivvies, which were two V's on the neck.

### Generation End

Even though Sandy was happy to back in the band that made her famous, Maria missed the people he bonded with while Sandy filled in in 2006-2012. In 2012, Madeline had become good friends with her spouse Gracie Buschmann and she wanted to hang out with her. Jason wanted to go back into architecture. This meant that the three Wiggles would have to leave the band. But first, they wanted to say goodbye to all the fans around the world so they planned one last tour before retirement.

Three musical helpers of The Wiggles Experience volunteered to step in for Joshua, Janelle and Madeline. Their names were Zacky, Lisa and Lucy. They went on that same tour as "The Wiggles Experience in Training". Mitchell however decided to stay in the band that he "created".

Louise and Jason still work for the band, but they are no longer official members.

### Meeting Shirley Shawn

In 2019, Mitchell introduced her in a video on The Wiggles Experience's VideoSpace and LifeConnect, where he called her a "scrumptious unicorn".

### Today

Mitchell, along with Lucy and the wed couple continue to do what The Wiggles Experience did for the past 50+ years with their dinosaur, octopus, unicorn, pirate and dog friends!