Wiggle & Learn (TV Series 9)

**Wiggle and Learn** is the name of the Wiggles Experience's ninth TV Series.

Filmed primarily in 2007, the series first premiered in Canada on Treehouse TV in August 2007, in Australia on ABC1 in October and in Cowell on CTC Kids in November 2007. The Series was dubbed in many Languages, for example in Spanish-speaking parts of Latin America, the series is called "Wiggle y Aprende" and in Portuguese-speaking Brazil, the series is called "Wiggle e Aprenda".

To find out about the original version that was filmed in 2006 with Janelle Senreich as the yellow Wiggle.

## Episodes

1. Move and Groove - **November 5, 2007**
2. Musical Landscape - **November 6, 2007**
3. Wiggle Dance - **November 7, 2007**
4. The King of Swing - **November 8, 2007**
5. Bailar y Cantar - **November 9, 2007**
6. Barnyard Boogie - **November 12, 2007**
7. The Bobby Bounce - **November 13, 2007**
8. The Black Velvet Band - **November 14, 2007**
9. Fun in the Sun - **November 15, 2007**
10. My Fair Lady! - **November 16, 2007**
11. So Early in the Morning - **November 19, 2007**
12. Soy Capitan! - **November 20, 2007**
13. Together We Live So Happily - **November 21, 2007**
14. Oh, Captain! - **November 22, 2007**
15. The Biggest Smile of All - **November 23, 2007**
16. The Queen of the Land - **November 26, 2007**
17. Get the Rhythm of the Hips - **November 27, 2007**
18. Hear the Drumbeat - **November 28, 2007**
19. Teddy Bear Teddy Bear Touch the Ground - **November 29, 2007**
20. Meadowsweet and Lady Smocks - **November 30, 2007**
21. Ding, Ding, Dong! - **December 3, 2007**
22. Buzz, Buzz, Buzz - **December 4, 2007**
23. Shall We Dance? - **December 5, 2007**
24. Dance This Way - **December 6, 2007**
25. Kittens and Mittens - **December 7, 2007**
26. Surf, Sand and Sun - **December 10, 2007**

## Format

### Intro/Credits

Each episode begins with the song Wiggle and Learn almost exactly as it appeared on the Getting Strong! DVD a year prior. A shortened version of Goodbye From The Wiggles plays over the end credits of every episode.

### Songs

Songs from the videos Getting Strong!, Pop! Go The Wiggles Experience!, You Make Me Feel Like Dancing and Sing a Song of Wiggles appear in the series. No new music videos or concert footage are filmed for the TV series, although some brief songs are performed in segments, such as Dorothy performing Get Ready To Wiggle in Murray Had a Turtle.

### What Happens Next? It's Up to You!

A segment featuring The Wiggles Experience, usually joined by Captain Feathersword often playing a game, doing a challenge, or playing pretend. They often need assistance from the audience, at which point one Wiggle sings a song to the tune of First In Line to ask for help. The same Wiggle also introduces and ends each segment with a similar song. These segments usually take place at Wigglehouse or Captain Feathersword's Dockyard.

### Dorothy and Wags

Dorothy the Dinosaur visits Wags the Dog at his home, where she helps him with problems, teaches him and plays with him (sometimes all at once), such as when they pretended to drive different vehicles to teach him homophones like how an airplane can "soar" but isn't "sore" and a car is for "braking" not "breaking". A Wiggle or one of their other friends sometimes introduce the segment, but never appear.

### Paint a Picture with Music

Madeline and Joshua use their instruments to create musical landscapes. For example, when painting a beach scene, Madeline uses his guitar to imitate seagull sounds and when painting a farm scene, Jeff uses his keyboard to make the sound of cows mooing. Mitchell Wiggle introduces each segment.

### What's in the Letterbox?

After the postie delivers the mail, a Wiggle checks the letterbox to find a letter or present from one of their friends, as they try to guess who it's from or who it's for with the help of the audience.

### Dressing Up with Mitchell

Mitchell wears a new costume and has another Wiggle or Captain Feathersword try to guess what it is, who usually have incorrect answers.

### The Three \_\_\_\_\_\_\_

Mitchell introduces us to three characters, such as Guitarists, Gentlemen and Cowboys, not realizing that one of them is Captain Feathersword in disguise.

### Interstitial Scenes

There are a number of brief scenes featuring no dialogue that appear between segments to fill the running time. These include one or more Wiggles playing a song on their instruments as another one comes in to finish the song when they get stuck and Wiggly Dancers dancing to a short tune.

### Other

Some episodes include scenes that do not belong to recurring segments. Some of these include Captain asking The Wiggles Experience and their friends what their favourite numbers are and The Wiggles giving Wags a new bone toy after he loses one he's buried. Two episodes feature Henry, after a visit to Wigglehouse, travelling to Gawa and learning about their culture.

## Version Differences

The 11-minute Versions are either split versions of the 22-minute ones, or the 22-minute versions are combined versions of the 11-minute ones, depending on which was made first. However, unlike Series 4 & 5, the episode order between the 2 versions is shuffled. For example, We Feel Like Dancing (Ep. 1) and Over in the Meadow (Ep. 4) of the 11-minute versions make up "Move and Groove" (Ep. 1) of the 22-minute versions.

Also unlike the previous Series, there are some major differences between the full 22-minute versions and the split 11-minute ones, such as songs or segments being added or taken away between these two versions to fit the proper running time (splitting 22-minutes into 11 means adding the Intro and Credits a second time). One example of a change is the song Pussycat, Pussycat, which appears in Madeline Had a Turtle (Ep. 7 of the 11-min. Versions), replacing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star in the 22-minute version "The King of Swing" (a combination of it and Who Am I?, Ep. 6). Pussycat, Pussycat never appears in the 22-minute version and it's currently unknown if 11-minute episodes beyond Ep. 18 include any other songs or segments not seen in the 22-minute versions, which there are known to be some based on blooper reels. Like TV Series 3, most of the segments are separated in both 11-minute and 22-minute versions as exclusives.

## Background Music

Like TV Series 4 and 5, the background music of the series consists of instrumental versions of their songs, usually recorded in the late 1990s and earlier in the 2000s. These songs typically have sections looped in order to fit a longer segment. In Dance This Way, the instrumental to I Can Do So Many Things is heard with its original ending, which is unique as the vocal album track fades out earlier.

Sometimes, the instrumental recordings are new, like in the Dorothy and Wags segment from The Queen of the Land which includes a re-recording of I Look In The Mirror from the 1971 album Here Comes a Song. Other notable instrumental re-recordings are Numbers Rhumba, based on its 1976 version (heard in Bailar y Cantar) and We're All Friends, based on its 1971 version (heard in Wiggle Dance). These newer instrumentals were likely created for international versions of The Wiggles (such as the Taiwanese and Latin American groups, as well as other-language dubs of the original group) as evidenced by the presence of other instrumentals known to be made for this purpose, such as Wake Up Joshua! (heard in Teddy Bear Teddy Bear Touch the Ground) & Blow Me Down (heard in Musical Landscape).

The instrumental rendition of Watching The Waves created as background music for Getting Strong! appears in Surf, Sand and Sun (the original is also heard in Shall We Dance?). However, the similar Haru Ga Kita instrumental from that video never appears in the series.