# Who wants to be a Wiggle? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 29, 2006, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-wiggle/382191 "2006-11-29T14:25:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-wiggle/382191/1 "2006-11-29T14:25:00Z")
Because, apparently there will be an [opening](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6194594.stm) . Yellow’s not my color, or I’d be right there. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-wiggle/382191/2 "2006-11-29T14:30:27Z")
I’m ready, to wiggle. I’ve been ready for so long. I’m ready, to wiggle. When you wiggle you can’t go wrong. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-wiggle/382191/3 "2006-11-29T14:33:19Z")
Hmmm… Maybe one of the _Barney_ kids can step in. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-wiggle/382191/4 "2006-11-29T14:38:27Z")
**Jthunder** Barney is purple pre chewed crap. The Wiggles is a good show with quality actors, and people who understand children rather than just pandering to them. There’s no comparison between the two. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-wiggle/382191/5 "2006-11-29T14:43:37Z")
A Wiggle? Is that a fat guy doing jumping jacks or something? ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-wiggle/382191/6 "2006-11-29T15:07:40Z")
Greg’s sub, Sam (who plays Professor Singalottasonga on the TV show), has been doing a good job in the American concerts. Yes, the first concert my wife and I have been to in three years was The Wiggles. Why do you ask. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-wiggle/382191/7 "2006-11-29T15:15:13Z")
[QUOTE=DocCathode] **Jthunder** Barney is purple pre chewed crap. The Wiggles is a good show with quality actors, and people who understand children rather than just pandering to them. There’s no comparison between the two. [/QUOTE] Yeah, yeah. I know. Let’s not hold that against the kids though, okay? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-wiggle/382191/8 "2006-11-29T15:37:34Z")
I’m surprised they don’t have more openings. That guy in the Red Shirt looks ripe for being killed off by random phaser blasts, evil cloud creatures, and Andromedan aliens with encapsulating guns, but he’s still there every week. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-wiggle/382191/9 "2006-11-29T17:07:17Z")
At least it wasn’t Anthony. You know, the _cute_ Wiggle. (One of those You Know You’re A Parent when moments is when people start discussing which Wiggle is the cutest and you realize you actually have an opinion on the matter :eek: 😛 ) ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-wiggle/382191/10 "2006-11-29T17:26:49Z")
[QUOTE=flodnak] At least it wasn’t Anthony. You know, the _cute_ Wiggle. [/QUOTE] Wha? I always thought that Anthony (the blue one) looked like he was one sleepless night away from being a psycho killer. Murray’s the cute one. He’s also Fang’s favorite. > [@](#): > > (One of those You Know You’re A Parent when moments is when people start discussing which Wiggle is the cutest and you realize you actually have an opinion on the matter :eek: 😛 ) No comment. The only thing I don’t like about the Wiggles is how their songs will creep into you head at odd times. I’ll be at work happily designing circuits for finding pathways from Atlanta to DC when I suddenly start humming “Where’s Jeff”. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-wiggle/382191/11 "2006-11-29T19:33:18Z")
_Bastard._ ---
**Author:** ![iluvurmom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iluvurmom/32/7276_2.png) [@iluvurmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iluvurmom)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-wiggle/382191/12 "2006-11-29T19:59:18Z")
Man I do not really like the wiggles at all but I have watched the show…Has anyone ever seen Hiphop Harry I stumbled across it one morning and was like are these kids raping? ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-wiggle/382191/13 "2006-11-29T20:03:56Z")
\*Oi eat green grahss and oi give whoyte milk, Oi’m a caaow Mooo! Oi’m a caaow Mooo!\* There, **JSexton** , now you can have something different to chew up your brain… ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-wiggle/382191/14 "2006-11-29T20:05:09Z")
Being roughlytheir age and having been in an indie band around the same time as them, I have to admit the Wiggles freak me out quite a bit. Having said that, which instrument are they now missing? If it’s guitar or bass maybe I could convince them that sarcasm and bile are useful traits for a children’s show performer. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-wiggle/382191/15 "2006-11-29T20:12:54Z")
[QUOTE=Ichbin Dubist] I could convince them that sarcasm and bile are useful traits for a children’s show performer. [/QUOTE] They are, for the straight man/ comic villain. Remember Igor, the butler on Count Duckula? (Pie hits him in the face) (cue sarcasm and bile) “Raspberry. I have never been a great lover of raspberry.” and “Igor! You’re . . . cute!” “I know sir, and I don’t care for it. I don’t care for it at all.” Come to think of it, I’m surprised the wiggly world has no sarcastic, bilious character already. The Muppet Show had Statler and Waldorf. Sesame Street has Oscar the grouch. ---
**Author:** ![Dob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Dob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dob)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-wiggle/382191/16 "2006-11-29T20:25:56Z")
I swear these guys use subliminal messages or something in their broadcasts. My little girl just over 9 months old saw her first episode two weeks ago and SAT STILL and watched the entire 20 minutes!! Even the talking parts! I couldn’t believe it. > [@](#): > > One of those You Know You’re A Parent when moments is when people start discussing which Wiggle is the cutest and you realize you actually have an opinion on the matter Being the Dad, I have often thought (in the past couple weeks of watching) that their are in fact some seriously hot aussie chicks in this show. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-wiggle/382191/17 "2006-11-29T21:54:46Z")
I think I am glad that my kids are too old and so I know nothing of this. I prefer to remain unenlightened. I came in here to find out just what a Wiggle was…I know enough now. Carry on. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-wiggle/382191/18 "2006-11-29T22:07:31Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] I think I am glad that my kids are too old and so I know nothing of this. I prefer to remain unenlightened. I came in here to find out just what a Wiggle was…I know enough now. Carry on. 🙂 [/QUOTE] \*\*rigs, \*\*I have only an adult child. i am only Wiggle-Enlightened because some of our district’s administrators did a spoof of the Wiggles at our start-up convocation this year, prompting me to do some research and…become familiar. Honest. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-wiggle/382191/19 "2006-12-01T04:46:11Z")
[QUOTE=flodnak] At least it wasn’t Anthony. You know, the _cute_ Wiggle. (One of those You Know You’re A Parent when moments is when people start discussing which Wiggle is the cutest and you realize you actually have an opinion on the matter :eek: 😛 ) [/QUOTE] I agree–Anthony is definitely the cutest! 🙂 But I’m not _entirely_ sorry that my kids have moved on to other programs! (My youngest child loved The Wiggles until they changed the format of the show; after that, she lost interest.) ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-wiggle/382191/20 "2006-12-01T06:57:04Z")
[QUOTE=Maus Magill] Greg’s sub, Sam (who plays Professor Singalottasonga on the TV show), has been doing a good job in the American concerts. Yes, the first concert my wife and I have been to in three years was The Wiggles. Why do you ask. [/QUOTE] [url=[Australia News: Latest National Headlines, News Today and Breaking Stories | Nine.com.au](http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=61825)]Sam will be the new yellow Wiggle. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-wiggle/382191.md?page=2)