Headscratchers / The Wiggles

• Fruit Salad: Although it's undeniable that it is indeed yummy yummy, there are numerous questions the rest of the song raises: Why is it that adding the banana and grapes are two separate steps but the apples and melon are a single step? Do they not deserve as much individual attention? Are there consequences to adding the fruits in a different order? Who would make/eat fruit salad on a plate rather than a bowl? Furthermore, if indeed a plate is being used, then what does 'toss in some grapes' refer to? You can't put something 'in' a plate. Is it really wise to cut a melon with a plastic knife? But most baffling of all is how eating the banana, grapes and apple/melon are treated as separate steps. Why on earth would you go to the trouble of mixing all those fruits together just to eat them all separately?
  • Better question: who would waste their time thinking about this??
    • Someone who's heard it 1000 times against their will
  • Taking these in order:
    • 'Banana' gets its own verse because it has three syllables, honestly — the meter doesn't fit otherwise.
    • There are no consequences for differing sequences of fruits, other than changing the order of the song.
    • Depending on consistency, fruit salad may indeed be eaten and/or made on a plate, rather than in a bowl. (Which does not alter the line about the grapes, as they are being added into the mixture.)
    • Cutting a melon with a plastic knife can be done well and safely, depending upon the construction of the knife and the type of melon.
    • And, finally: Making the fruit salad requires preparing all of the constituent fruits for consumption, allowing them to be eaten as desired. There is nothing wrong with preferring to eat the pieces and types of fruit individually, and the prior preparation makes it easy to have one fruit after another, with all of the labor finished.
    • And, since someone will ask "Who bothers answering such silly questions?": Someone who enjoys answering questions, loves people, and finds 'silly' questions to be relaxing and fun. The sharing of information is a joy.
• How come Wags the dog have characteristics of a dog (having a strong sense of smell, for example) but Dorothy doesn't have characteristics of a dinosaur? They're both animals.