The Wiggles - It's a Wiggly Wiggly World!

**Written by**
 **Director by**
 **Producer by**
 **Running Time**
 **Distributed by**
 **Country**
 **Previous Video**
 **Next Video**

"**It's a Wiggly Wiggly World!**" It is the ninth Wiggles video, released on July 25, 2000. This is also the first Wiggles video to feature major guest stars, such as Slim Dusty, Christine Anu, Rolf Harris, Kamahl, Tim Finn, Jimmy Little and Atsuko Arai.

## Synopsis

The Wiggles sing an assortment of songs with their friends from all over Australia.

## Song List

Note: All songs are taken from the album It's a Wiggly Wiggly World!, except where noted otherwise.

1. In The Wiggles' World
2. Here Come The Wiggles
3. In The Big Red Car We Like To Ride
4. I Love To Have A Dance With Dorothy
5. Taba Naba
6. Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport
7. Sing With Me
8. Hey, Hey, Hey We're All Pirate Dancing
9. Another Cuppa
10. Starry Night (new song)
11. Six Months In A Leaky Boat (Wiggly Version)
12. One Little Coyote
13. Blow Me Down
14. Let's Go (We're Riding In The Big Red Car)
15. MorningTown Ride
16. Haru Ga Kita

## Plot

The video intro it is the theme of TV Series 2. The difference is instead of The Wiggles appearing in front of Wigglehouse, they're in space floating in front of the Wiggly Wiggly World! with the video title.

* **Song 1:** In The Wiggles' World

The Wiggles magically appear and then introduce themselves and ask if they want to meet their friends Captain Feathersword, Dorothy, Wags and Henry.

* **Song 2**: Here Come The Wiggles

Driving in the Big Red Car, Greg sits in the yellow seat and watches the road. Anthony sits in the blue seats and likes to eat crackers. Jeff sits in the purple seat and will try to stay awake if you can help him. Murray asks can you guess what seat he sits in? That's right, the red one and he likes to play his guitar. So why don't we go for a ride in the Big Red Car.

* **Song 3**: In The Big Red Car We Like To Ride

Greg introduces Slim Dusty in the next song.

* **Song 4**: I Love To Have A Dance With Dorothy - featuring Slim Dusty

The Wiggles and Mascots dance in a barn while Slim Dusty plays guitar from the rafters.
Murray introduces Christine Anu who talks about the Taba Naba song which comes from the Eastern Torres Strait and is sung in the Meriam Mir language. Taba Naba translates to "Let's go to the reef and have a good time".

* **Song 5**: Taba Naba - featuring Christine Anu

Greg and Christine sit with a bunch of kids to do the dance while the other three Wiggles play guitars.
Anthony introduces Rolf Harris. Rolf has a wobble board, which makes a wobbly sound when you shake it. He wrote the next song.

* **Song 6**: Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport – featuring Rolf Harris

The Wiggles dance around while Rolf uses the wobble board.
Greg introduces Kamahl. He and Dorothy will sing together for the first time.

* **Song 7**: Sing With Me – featuring Kamahl

Each of the Wiggles visits Captain Feathersword and shows off a silly wiggly dance. Captain has one too and demonstrates: "Do the dance, do the dance, do the pirate dance!" Let's all do pirate dancing!

* **Song 8**: Hey, Hey, Hey We're All Pirate Dancing

Greg says we have a problem. Captain Feathersword can't stop drinking rosy tea from Dorothy. To show how addicted he is, Captain asks Greg a bunch of questions like: What's letter comes after S? What do you put a golf ball on? What do you eat scones and jam with? The answer of course is Tea!

* **Song 9**: Another Cuppa

Murray talks about the time when he once spoke about the stars. Flashback – Murray looks in the sky and wants to serenade them.

* **Song 10**: Starry Night

He wishes he could see his favourite constellation the Great Guitar. And then he's able to spot it. Murray marks he always wanted to play with the big stars. Greg introduces Tim Finn, who's from New Zealand. He wrote the next song for the Captain.

* **Song 11**: Six Months In A Leaky Boat (Wiggly Version) – featuring Tim Finn

Murray and Greg make animal sounds and they guess what they are.

* **Song 12**: One Little Coyote

The Wiggles and the pirate dancers greet Captain Feathersword. Murray remarks how everyone's there to dance with him. Well, blow me down. Murray blows him down. Captain says he plays that game all the time, so it's time to play it.

* **Song 13**: Blow Me Down

Jeff introduces the next song.

* **Song 14**: Let's Go (We're Riding In The Big Red Car)

Jeff introduces Jimmy Little and asks what his favourite song, which is the next one.

* **Song 15**: MorningTown Ride – featuring Jimmy Little

The Wiggles introduce Atsuko and she's from Nara City in Japan. She wears a kimono. They sing Haru Ga Kita which means Spring Has Come.

* **Song 16**: Haru Ga Kita – featuring Atsuko Arai

The Wiggles say goodbye as the credits roll up in front of "Wiggly Wiggly World" planet, with the theme song playing.

## Album

   The "It's A Wiggly Wiggly World!" album was released on March 20, 2000.

## Trivia

* This video was released in the US under the name "Wiggly Wiggly World!", though the title card in the video (and later the DVD menu) retains the "It's a Wiggly Wiggly World!" title.
* This video marks
	+ The first Wiggles video to feature duets with celebrities.
	+ The second time Jeff plays Höfner bass guitar, after Yummy Yummy.
	+ The only appearance for the Black Takamine EF341SC Guitar.
	+ The last video for Henry's 4th costume.
	+ Many songs in this video contained sound effects and dialogues like Here Come The Wiggles, Blow Me Down, One Little Coyote and I Love to Have a Dance with Dorothy.
	+ The first time The Wiggles had the rights to release their cover songs in North America, previously, they recorded versions of 4 Raffi songs, but they were removed on every North American release except TV Series 1.
	+ The last appearances of Leanne Halloran as Officer Beaples, until The Wiggles Reunion Show for Bushfire Relief, the Irish Dancers from The Halloran School of Dance to date and The Wagettes until Top of the Tots.
	+ Anthony returns to playing the drums since Wake Up Jeff! in 1996, 4 years before.
	+ The first time Dorothy the Dinosaur sings. She will continue to sing in other future Wiggles content.
	+ The Wiggles' last time to use Takamine acoustic guitars from the previous 90's content and the original Red Starry Guitar from the previous three years of use since "Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas"
		- Starting from their next video "Hoop-Dee-Doo: It's a Wiggly Party", All electric and acoustic guitars manufactured by Maton will be used for concert tours, video/DVD content and TV series from that point on.
			* Although in the concert tours, the bass guitars are still manufactured by Fender.
	+ The first video to have Murray's short haircut.
	+ The second video where every song has an intro, the first was the original Yummy Yummy from 1994.
	+ The last video to have Leeanne Ashley play Dorothy the Dinosaur. Not only that, this is also the last time Dorothy uses her original white floppy hat, her hat will get an updated with black outline to look like cartoonish and will be used for live tours, video and television content from 2001-onwards.
* Anthony's belt breaks at the end of Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport. Although, the rest of the video, his belt was fixed.
* Fans consider this video a direct-to-video TV Series 2 special or finale, due to its use of the same Wiggles World motif/location and the In The Wiggles' World theme song appearing as the intro, likewise, this is The Wiggles' first video to be based on one of their TV Series.
	+ In addition to In The Wiggles' World, Starry Night is taken directly from the episode Play (a.k.a. Playtime) (though the audio was re-recorded) and is introduced as a flashback to it.
	+ Bloopers from this video are seen in Wiggly TV, alongside bloopers from the TV Series.
* Captain Feathersword had more songs than any other character in this video.
* Murray's daughter, Georgia Munro-Cook can be seen in Taba Naba, Hey, Hey, Hey We're All Pirate Dancing and One Little Coyote.
* Human Nature, who recorded harmony backing vocals and wild west sounds in the album version of One Little Coyote, do not appear in the video.
	+ As a result, new backing vocals and sound effects were recorded by The Wiggles and their musicians.
* The ending scene dialogue from Yummy Yummy (1998 version) is reused at the start of the end credits.
* The background for the intro to In The Big Red Car We Like To Ride is a still from Numbers & Counting, with a red shovel from that episode seen in the car.
* The UK release of the Wiggly Big Show uses this video's name and contains Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport taken directly from this video.
* Slim Dusty's wife Joy McKean, Christine Anu and Jimmy Little later appear in a bonus feature on the 2005 DVD.
* John Alexander was credited as "Pat Alexander" on I Love To Have A Dance With Dorothy.
* This video title was a reference to the 1963 movie "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World".
* This video was uploaded on YouTube starting January 30, 2020 as part of the Classic Wiggles series with Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport been cut out due to controversies surrounding Rolf Harris in recent years since 2014.
	+ The video was uploaded again as a full-length video on July 16, 2021.
		- To cover up the transition for Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport, the colour transition from The Wiggles Show! TV Series 5 can be seen (albeit cropped to 4:3)
* The background music in some of the prologues (i.e. Let's Have a Party (Instrumental) in the prologue to Morningtown Ride) were originally used in The Wiggles Movie.
* On the Australian 2005 DVD when you click Play on the menu, Wiggles Videos Preview was reused from the original 2000 VHS, before the video starts.
* This video was filmed most likely around end of 1999, after their success of The Wiggly Big Show Tour and Carols in the Domain.
* On VHS releases, the Wiggly Wiggly World Planet is shown in the end credits, and on DVD releases, it just shows the space background with stars and shows the 2003 style-credits in the different font.
* This is the last video to use the Hofner Bass untill 2008's You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
* Here Come The Wiggles was first performed in The Wiggly Big Show Tour and Carols in the Domain 1999 before it was performed in this video.
* The footage of Slim Dusty was later used in Duets 2017 DVD for the new version of I Love To Have A Dance With Dorothy.
* The events of Taba Naba in this video was later mentioned in Wiggle Town! in 2016.
* The set in this video was adapted in The Wiggly Big Show Tour.

## Goofs

* Murray is seen playing the acoustic guitar in Haru Ga Kita, but the music has no guitar whatsoever.
* The credits for In The Wiggles' World list only The Wiggles, though John Field did write it.
* Dominic Lindsay's name is listed in the credits for Here Come The Wiggles.
* John Field's name is listed in the credits for Let's Go (We're Riding In The Big Red Car).

## References

1. ↑ 8 Jul 2000, Page 209 - The Sydney Morning Herald