Toot Toot!

***Toot Toot!*** is the fourteenth Wiggles Experience video special released on August 13, 1989.

## Overview

Driving in The Wiggles Excperience's Big Red Car is a lot of fun – you can hear The Wiggles singing Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car wherever they go. But what happens when the Big Red Car doesn't start?

## Production

The video was filmed from February – April 1988.

The song segment for “Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car” was filmed in February 1988 behind a green screen. The outside scenes were filmed in March 1989, and then the studio scenes were filmed in April 1988 (where most of the filming took place).

## Plot

Intro - A red dot on the yellow part of The Wiggles logo is shown that flashes with a pop sound as when they say Toot. After that, The Wiggles Experience writing comes up and then the names appear sliding through the centre and then The Wiggles appear through a rainbow circle by doing "Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car (Karaoke)" and then the title appears after.

The Wiggles Experience introduce themselves and they're sitting in the Big Red Car. They put on their seat belts and are ready to go. Madeline says, "1, 2, 3, start the engine, Janelle!". Janelle turns the ignition but there's a sputtering sound. She tries again but the car sputters again. She says it won't start. Mitchell asks if there's no Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga. Janelle says that they'll have to fix the Big Red Car. Joshua gets out and says it's a nice day for a walk, maybe they can meet their friends Captain Feathersword, Wags, Henry and Dorothy. Joshua tells everyone to "walk this way" as he leaves. The Wiggles Experience get out of the Big Red Car and follow him, all walking in the same way.

* **Song 1** - Look Both Ways

Wags joins the Wiggles Experience to help get the Big Red Car started. He has goggles and a drill. Madeline says we'll leave him to it and when they come back it should be fixed! Mitchell asks how long it will take. Wags woofs five times. The Wiggles Experience interpret that as five minutes and reply with a "Beauty, Mate!" They say goodbye to Wags and run off. Wags does some drilling, then tries to push the car to see if he fixed it, but it's no use. He kicks one of the wheels, but hurts his toe as he bounces around barking in pain.

* **Song 2** - John Bradlelum

After the "John Bradlelum" song, The Wiggles Experience roll down the hill and back up again while some piano music plays in the background.

* **Song 3** - Head, Shoulders, Knees And Toes

Mitchell asks Wags if he had any luck with the Big Red Car. Wags sadly responds by shaking his head. Anthony says not to worry since he tried his best and they can fix the car later. Mitchell feels hungry, so does Wags and Mitchell says, that the viewers are hungry too, so let's get some beautiful food.

Foodman flies around and introduces himself. He hopes the Wiggles are eating good food.

* **Song 4** - Food Food Food (Oh How I Love My Food)

Captain Feathersword arrives and hails the audience. He sees the Big Red Car, but no Wiggles. Maybe he should drive the car to The Wiggles? He gets on board and buckles up. He gets ready to ride and hums the Toot Toot song in falsetto. But the car continues to just sputter. It isn't working. Maybe he can fix it? He heads to the back of the car and tries to do some stuff, but something explodes briefly in the back and Captain stands up with a face full of black soot. Oops. He concludes he should fix pirate ships before laughing nervously and leaving.

* **Song 5** - Go Captain Feathersword, Ahoy!

Janelle is dirty after trying to fix the Big Red Car. Joshua notices that and tells Janelle to clean up and have a bath and they'll think of a way to get the Big Red Car going again. Janelle looks at his sooty face and hands and agrees. Jeff hands him some rubber duckies to take with him.

* **Song 6** - Bathtime - Janelle sings on top of a yellow soap bar. The bottom half of the screen is distorted to emulate water. The female kid dancers are dressed as yellow ducks.

Janelle is sitting in the car, same problem. She tells everyone the car's still not toot toot chugga chugging. She thinks about folks who could fix the car. Maybe a baker? Joshua disagrees, saying that bakers bake bread. Janelle suggests a cowboy? Madeline arrives in a cowgirl hat, saying cowboys *and* cowgirls are too busy minding the cattle to come and fix the car. Janelle considers a doctor, maybe a vet? Mitchell arrives with two dogs and says that vets look after puppies and are too busy to fix the car. The puppies are licking Mitchell while he talks and he giggles at the same time. Janelle replies they need someone who can fix the car, but who? Madeline has an idea; a mechanic. Janelle praises Madeline for the idea and then gets everyone to follow him in search of a mechanic as they do the Wiggle Groove.

* **Song 7** - Do the Wiggle Groove

* **Song 8** - Dorothy The Dinosaur (Tell Me Who Is That Knocking?)

Anthony comments how the words "Balla Balla Bambina" mean to ask the little girl to dance. We'd love not just Amy (the girl next to Anthony) to dance, but everybody to. He says a phrase in Italian.

* **Song 9** - Balla Balla Bambina

* **Song 10** - I Climb Ten Stairs

* **Song 11** - Heartbreak Hotel

Madeline is with some kids who are at a table decorating paper cut-outs of Henry the Octopus that are glued onto a stick. Louis is colouring Henry's head with purple chalk. Tara has done some different coloured squiggles for Henry's "eight legged-pants". Gabrielle colours Henry's legs purple. Emily colours Henry's legs different colours. She holds up the stick and shows Madeline her octopus. After praising each of the kids, Madeline holds up his cut-out and comments that you can shake the stick. Henry's legs move up and down and 'round and 'round and ‘round.

* **Song 12** - Move Your Arms Like Henry

The Wiggles stand around the Big Red Car. Jeff is in the front and he's fallen asleep. Murray comments there's no sign of the mechanic. He, Greg and Anthony start singing a quacking tune unenergetically. Jeff snores. The other three just stand there bored.

* **Song 13** - Silver Bells That Ring In The Night

Madeline is on the phone with Officer Beaples. She thanks her and hangs up. Madeline has some good news and bad news. The Wiggles ask what is the bad news. Madeline replies the mechanic will still be a while. The Wiggles ask what is the good news? Madeline replies that Officer Beaples invited them to the police ball. Officer Beaples arrives and gives them a set of uniforms. Officer Beaples blows her whistle and them does a tango. Mitchell interprets that as Wags will be attending. Let's all go, this we've got to see. They tango off the scene.

* **Song 14** - Wags The Dog, He Likes To Tango

* **Song 15** - We're Dancing With Wags The Dog

* **Song 16** - Officer Beaple's Dance

* **Song 17** - Zardo Zap

The Wiggles flap back to their car. Mitchell says they had lots of fun here. Janelle says there is still no sign of the mechanic, but then there's a sound of a panel closing from behind the car. After each of the Wiggles give a "Huh?" in sequence, the mechanic named Max appears from behind the car and announces that the car is ready. Mitchell asks what was wrong with the car. Max the mechanic gives some complicated answer that confuses the Wiggles, saying that the Crankin' shaft was disconnected from the Cam shaft which disconnected the defibrillator, causing the gozontropy distributor to shut down and the car couldn't move along at all. they again each give a, "Huh?" He then says it's all right and then says there's one more thing it needs. The car runs on music, so they'll need to sing a song to get it going. Mitchell calls everyone to sing and make music.

* **Song 18** - Let's Have A Ceili

The Wiggles are gathered with everyone from the previous dance. They thank everyone for their help singing and dancing. The Big Red Car should be charged up now, so they'll see you next time. Wiggles, to the Big Red Car!

* **Song 19** - Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car

"The End..." title comes up and then the credits come up with "Zardo Zap" for background music while they show bits of clips from the songs in the video in slow motion.

## Album

The "*Toot Toot!*" album was released on March 12, 1989, with the original cover, which shows The Wiggles Experience in the Big Red Car driving through a field of flowers with Dorothy The Dinosaur. Later that year during the filming of the video, the cover was redesigned, with The Wiggles Experience and their friends and the Big Red Car, which was also used as the front cover on the video.

### CD-only Songs

* Henry the Octopus (Seen in Everybody Wiggle! (1989)
* Captain Feathersword Fell Asleep on His Pirate Ship (Seen in Everybody Wiggle! (1989)
* Rocket
* Wah Hoo Hey, I'm Combing My Hair Today

## Trivia

* This is one of the two pre-productions made for TV Series 2, the other is The Wiggles Experience in Disneyland.
* This video was most likely filmed from March-April 1989.
* The Wiggly Mascots receive new costumes in this video although Henry has his previous costume in "Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car".
* The prologues of each song take place in The Wiggles' garage. In the re-release, the prologues take place outside.
* This is the first video to feature only one Wiggle in a song shown in Bathtime (Janelle), although in "Ding Dong Merrily on High" shown in *Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas* where The Wiggles Experience are nowhere to be seen.
* This is the only time we see the inside of the Wigglehouse garage.
* This is the last time The Wiggles played the red Takamine guitar until they got their own studio in 2006. The guitar also later returned in *Duets*.
* This is the last Wiggles video to end with the Roadshow Entertainment logo.
* This is the first Wiggles VHS release in which the label on the tape has its own different coloured label rather than a white label like other ABC/Roadshow tapes.
* This is The Wiggles Puppets' first appearance.
* When filming the music video for "Food Food Food (Oh How I Love My Food)", the song was played in slow-motion to lip-sync to and was sped up to normal speed in editing to make it look faster than it really is.
* The cheerleaders are basically wearing shirts of the same colour as the Wiggles and the males are wearing black shorts and the females are wearing matching flowy dance skirts. They also appeared in The Wiggly Big Show.
* Reused props from *Everybody* *Wiggle!* and *Yummy Yummy* appear in Dorothy The Dinosaur (Tell Me Who Is That Knocking?), Balla Balla Bambina and Let's Have A Ceili.
* Captain Feathersword sings "Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car" in falsetto during the prologue to Go Captain Feathersword, Ahoy!, before the actual song starts A painting of the Wiggles from "Wiggles Opera" is shown in "Dorothy The Dinosaur (Tell Me Who Is That Knocking?)".
* This is the second time Greg plays the red Takamine acoustic guitar seen in Balla Balla Bambina. The first was *Wake Up & Dance!*
* On the UK "Big Red Car" release, the dedication is cut out.
* Songs from this video can be seen in TV series 1 and 2.
* The 1989 video was uploaded on YouTube starting August 13th, 2019 as part of the Classic Wiggles series and on the WildBrain's channel starting February 24th, 2022.
* In the 1998 version of "Do the Wiggle Groove", a graphic is seen above the Wiggly Group and Dancers but in the credits, it is not seen since it's actually from an unedited version.
* The Wiggles Experience' faces used on the flag transition are taken from a photo promoting their first TV series, which would eventually appear on the cover of *Wiggly TV*.
* The 1989 release was released in markets outside Cowell and uploaded on YouTube as part of Classic Wiggles. Clips of the 1989 release were also included on *Hot Potatoes! The Best of the Wiggles* video in 2010 and 2014 and *We're All Fruit Salad!: The Wiggles' Greatest Hits* in addition to being used as flashback footage in The Wiggles Experience Reunion Show.
* The cheerleaders' shirts could be recycled from the ones worn by The Wiggles Experience in Wiggling Out!.
* This is the last time that Mitchell played Foodman until Ready, Steady, Wiggle! (TV Series 5 & 6).