Wake Up Jeff! (1998 video)

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"**Yummy Yummy**" is a remake of the 1994 Video of the same Name. It and Wiggle Time! remake, Yummy Yummy's remake, Big Red Car's remake released on April 13, 1998. It is arguably one of The Wiggles' most popular Videos along with Wiggle Time! remake, Yummy Yummy's remake, Big Red Car's remake, launching the popularity of Songs like Hot Potato, Fruit Salad and The Monkey Dance (which had first been released Years beforehand). Some songs were re-recorded for this Version, such as the previously mentioned Hot Potato and The Monkey Dance. Songs like Pufferbillies and Havenu Shalom Alechem were not in the original Version but added to this Video. No songs from the original Video were removed, except for Dorothy's Birthday Party which was part of the bonus segment at the end.

## Song List

Note: All Songs are from the album Wake Up Jeff! unless noted otherwise. Re-recorded Songs are noted as such. Newly added songs have been denoted by an asterisk (\*).

1. We Like To Say Hello
2. Henry's Underwater Big Band
3. Everybody Is Clever (Australian version)
4. The Chase (Instrumental) (International version)
5. Having Fun At The Beach
6. Bing Bang Bong (That's a Pirate Song)
7. Bucket Of Dew/Paddy Condon From Cobar
8. Wake Up Jeff!
9. Dorothy (Would You Like To Dance?) (New recording)
10. Take a Trip Out on the Sea
11. Romp Bomp A Stomp
12. I Can Do So Many Things
13. Wave to Wags
14. Pipers Waltz (Instrumental)

## Plot

**Intro** - An alarm clock is flying around ringing while it is on the table. The video title moves up and Jeff was woken up by doing a big yawn after.

The Wiggles introduce themselves. When they ride in there Big Red Car, they like to say hello to everyone.

* **Song 1**: We Like To Say Hello - Jeff is driving the Big Red Car which looks like a cardboard cut-out.

Greg and Henry say hello to everyone.

* **Song 2**: Henry's Underwater Big Band

Greg tells the other Wiggles to stand still like a statue. Murray does a strongman pose, Anthony stands on one leg. Jeff sticks his arm out like like a showman. Then Greg asks the viewers to tell him if any of the statues are moving. Of course, all the other Wiggles statue dance around, but when Greg hears from viewers, he turns around they assume their original positions. On the third try he finds out viewers is right. Afterwards, Greg says, "Let's do statues together, everybody" which means it's time to sing.

* **Song 3**: Everybody Is Clever (AUS version only), replaced by The Chase (Instrumental) in International versions

Anthony and Murray watch kids doing some drawings about the beach with pens and highlighters. Michael is drawing a towel. Peter is drawing Wags the Dog. Leonardo is drawing a person swimming. Nicole is drawing the water and sand. Sian is drawing a person about to jump in the water. Murray introduces the next song.

* **Song 4**: Having Fun At The Beach

The Wiggles introduce Captain Feathersword, but he answers with "Bing Bang Bong" and other nonsense phrases. They ask him what's up with that? He answers, it's a pirate song. Let's dance a pirate song together!

* **Song 5**: Bing Bang Bong (That's a Pirate Song)

Anthony and Murray introduce Dominic, who is holding his baby girl Ashleigh with his left arm and a trumpet on his right. Anthony and Murray ask him questions about playing the trumpet and Dominic plays a few motifs. Everyone's wearing a green hat, so It's time to do an Irish dance, featuring a bunch of the little girls from the dance school.

* **Song 6**: Bucket Of Dew/Paddy Condon From Cobar

A alarm clock goes pass and everyone says "WAKE UP, JEFF!" to wake Jeff up.

* **Song 7**: Wake Up Jeff!

Jeff asks Dorothy to dance, and Dorothy does a few dance steps.

* **Song 8**: Dorothy (Would You Like To Dance?)

The Wiggles and kids are in a camp site singing about going for a ride on a boat out in sea.

* **Song 9**: Take a Trip Out on the Sea

This is Dorothy's favourite dance.

* **Song 10**: Romp Bomp A Stomp

Greg and kids are doing this dance and Greg does tells them things that he can do in this song.

* **Song 11**: I Can Do So Many Things

Wags is barking in the background and Anthony says that who is that barking and it's Wags the Dog.

* **Song 12**: Wave to Wags

Greg, Anthony, and Murray are standing with an empty glass box and hear some snoring. The glass box is the of a coffin (think Snow White) but no one is inside the box. Greg has Anthony and Murray cover the box with a drape, spin it around, and chants some magic words. They lift the drape, and Jeff is there, but he's asleep. They ask everyone to wake up Jeff. Jeff wakes up, wondering what he's doing in a box.

**Greg's Magic Trick**: The Magic Box Trick

After when they wake Jeff up. Murray told him to not fall asleep again and said we need, while he was twirling his arms round and round until he stopped, and said YOU! for the next song.

* **Song 13**: Pipers Waltz

It's time to say goodbye, but Jeff is still asleep on his bed, so The Wiggles decide to do a goodbye dance, and they will see if that wakes Jeff up.

## Cast

### The Wiggles

* Murray Cook
* Jeff Fatt
* Greg Page
* Anthony Field

### Voices (Uncredited)

* Carolyn Ferrie - Dorothy's voice
* Jeff Fatt - Henry's voice

### Also Featuring

* Leeanne Ashley as Dorothy the Dinosaur
* Paul Paddick as Captain Feathersword
* Edward Rooke as Wags the Dog
* Leanne Halloran/Donna Halloran as Henry the Octopus
* Paul Hester as Paul the Cook

### Dancing Children

* Cassandra Halloran
* Jessica Halloran
* Joseph Field
* Clare Field
* Sian Ryan
* Emma Ryan

### Havenu Shalom Alechem Dancers

* Elyssa Dawson
* Reem Hanwell
* Rhiannah Kitching
* Kristen Knox
* Larissa Wright

### The Young Children

* Dominic Field
* Ceili Moore
* Tara Fitzgerald
* Josephine Perez
* Thomas Halloway
* Sophie Holloway
* Christopher Powell
* Ned Pike
* Freya Pike

## Release Dates

**Australia** - April 13, 1998 (VHS), March 4, 2002 (2 on 1 DVD w/ Wiggle Time!)

**North America** - October 12, 1999 (Alternate VHS), August 1, 2000 (Official VHS), February 4, 2003 (HIT DVD)

**United Kingdom** - March 29, 1999 (VHS), January 31, 2005 (Double Bill DVD & VHS w/ Toot Toot!)

## Trivia

* This is the second remake video, along with Wiggle Time! Yummy Yummy, Big Red Car, which was released the same day.
* "Pufferbillies" and "Havenu Shalom Alechem" make their video debuts.
* The Big Red Car only appeared in the title cards of each song.
* The audio track was in made up of mono mixes panned slightly to the left or right on all versions.
* The prologues from the original for D.O.R.O.T.H.Y. (My Favourite Dinosaur), Teddy Bear Hug and I Am A Dancer aren't used anymore. The same also applies for the epilogues for Crunchy Munchy Honey Cakes, Shaky Shaky and Henry's Dance.
* In the US and UK versions, Teddy Bear Hug and Numbers Rhumba were replaced with puppet music videos of Wigglemix and Go Captain Feathersword, Ahoy! (which were both previously used in The Dorothy the Dinosaur and Friends Video). Teddy Bear Hug is a Raffi song, while Numbers Rhumba was written by David Walden and the necessary rights for these songs to appear in the video likely couldn't be obtained. However, Numbers Rhumba did appear on the North American release of the album.
* Songs from this video can be seen in The Wiggles (TV Series 1) and The Wiggles (TV Series 2).
* The song title banner was used for some songs from Wiggle Time!, Big Red Car in TV Series 1.
* "Shaky Shaky" is the only song where the title card is during the prologue and not during the song.
* Paul the Cook is played by Paul Hester, which back then, he and Tony Henry were The Wiggles drummers, as such this is the second video where one of The Wiggles' musicians guest stars, the first was Wake Up Jeff! with The Wiggles' trumpet player Dominic Lindsay, after this would be Yule Be Wiggling, the musician guest stars in which were violin player Maria Schattovits, cello player Margaret Lindsay and trumpet player Dominic Lindsay
* Ned and Freya Pike appear only in the prologue of Numbers Rhumba, not in any of the songs.
* This was the last appearance of the cloud background set until 2016's Dance Dance!.
* The footage of "Teddy Bear Hug" is used twice in the closing credits.
* The video was uploaded on YouTube starting July 10, 2019 as part of the Classic Wiggles series.
* With Paul Hester, this is the first collaboration video, the second was Wiggly Safari with Steve Irwin (aka The Crocodile Hunter) and the third was The Wiggles' Big Ballet Day! with The Australian Ballet.
* "Joannie Works With One Hammer" wasn't done twice until December 2013 with The New Wiggles, Emma, Lachy and Simon, it was just done once in a regular tempo, The New Wiggles did it first in a regular tempo and again in a fast tempo.
* This is The Wiggles' second video remake, the others include Wiggle Time! Yummy Yummy, Big Red Car, on the same year as this video, Here Comes The Big Red Car and It's Time to Wake Up Jeff! (also known as Wiggle Around the Clock in America) in 2006, Hot Potatoes! The Best of The Wiggles in 2014 and Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas! in 2017.
* The outro of this video later reused it's audio in the end credits of 2000's It's a Wiggly Wiggly World! video.
* The American DVD was pressed on November 13, 2002, explaining the 2002 copyright date on the disc and cover.
* Anthony does an Elvis impression when he says “I’ve got my shaking clothes.”

## Goofs

* On the Australian VHS back cover, Havenu Shalom Alechem was misspelled as Havenu Shalom Alachem.
* On the US small clamshell VHS and 2003 DVD back cover, Pufferbillies was misspelled as Pufferbellies.
* On the US alternate VHS and 2003 DVD Cover, the song list states that Havenu Shalom Alechem comes before Wigglemix when it's actually the opposite.
* When the songs from this video and Wiggle Time!, Big Red Car remake were aired in The Wiggles' first TV Series, a few sounds were added.
* The US and UK version of the credits still show scenes of Teddy Bear Hug and Numbers Rhumba despite them not appearing in those versions. Because of this, nobody knew what songs those where at the time of those releases until those songs aired for TV Series 1 on Playhouse Disney in the USA in 2002 and Nick Jr in the UK in 2004.
* On the Canadian VHS, the back cover lists "Greg's Magic Trick" as a song.
	+ It also mentions "Numbers Rhumba" and "Teddy Bear Hug" in the description, despite both of those songs being replaced.

## Video

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