Music / The Wiggles

Get Ready to Wiggle
We've been ready for so long
Get Ready to Wiggle
When you wiggle you can't go wrong
Get Ready to Wiggle
Wiggle will make you big and strong
Get Ready to Wiggle
Come on wiggle to this song
Wiggle to this song

— "Get Ready to Wiggle"

The Wiggles are an Australian children's band, founded in 1991 but who gained international popularity during the 2000s. Greg Page, Anthony Field and Murray Cook met as early childhood education students at Macquarie University in the 80s, while Field was a member of 80s rock band The Cockroaches alongside Jeff Fatt; the three classmates undertook a university project of their own design intended to create music aimed at children with educational value, and Fatt was brought in as a pianist. A few years and a deal with The ABC later, and The Wiggles were born.

Over the years they have produced over fifty albums and home videos, several television series and a feature-length film, with another one in the works. The ABC has broadcast the majority of their shows and been in charge of distributing all their albums and videos in Australia. In the United States, the program initially aired on Fox Family, then moved to Playhouse Disney, but were eventually supplanted there by the Imagination Movers, after which they moved again to Universal Kids.

Besides the band themselves, the majority of Wiggles media also includes a secondary cast of friends; Dorothy, a green-and-yellow dinosaur girl that eats roses, Henry, a purple band-conducting octopus, Captain Feathersword, a Friendly Pirate, and Wags, a big brown dog. In 2019, the group added a fifth friend, Shirley Shawn the Unicorn.

It says something about the Wiggles' importance within Australian culture that when the original yellow Wiggle, Greg Page, left the group due to an illness in 2006, it made national headlines for weeks. The majority of Australians will know at least three of their songs and sing them, as well as give you the trademark Wiggle finger pointing gesture unashamedly, an almost unique thing in the world when it comes to children's music.

After Greg's departure, he was replaced as the Yellow Wiggle by Sam Moran, who stayed until January 2012, when Greg returned. Later that year, however, it was announced three of the original members - Greg, Murray, and Jeff - would retire from the group the following year (though they continued to be involved in the development of the band), and would be replaced by three younger band members, Simon Pryce as the red Wiggle, Lachlan "Lachy" Gillespie as purple, and Emma Watkins as yellow, with Anthony staying.

In 2021, an additional personnel of Wiggles was introduced, with four new members joining alongside the core lineup. Around the same time, it was announced that Emma would be retiring and passing on her yellow skivvy to Tsehay Hawkins.

The core lineup of The Wiggles currently consists of Anthony Field (blue), Lachlan Gillespie (purple), Tsehay Hawkins (yellow) and Simon Pryce (red), while the additional members consist of Evie Ferris (yellow), Lucia Field (blue), Caterina Mete (red) and John Pearce (purple).

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Members:

Current members:

• Anthony Field (Blue) - Guitar, drums, vocals, violin, didgeridoo, banjo, bagpipes, trumpet, bass (1991-Present)
• Lachlan Gillespie (Purple) - Vocals, piano, guitar, xylophone (2012-Present)
• Tsehay Hawkins (Yellow) - Vocals, rapping (2021-Present)^note Formerly red as a supporting member.
• Simon Pryce (Red) - Vocals, percussion, bass (2012-Present)
• Evie Ferris (Yellow, supporting member) - Vocals (2021-Present)^note Formerly blue.
• Lucia Field (Blue, supporting member) - Vocals, drums (2022-Present)
• Caterina Mete (Red, supporting member) - Vocals, guitar (2022-Present)
• John Pearce (Purple, supporting member) - Vocals, rapping, programming, guitar, drums (2021-Present)

OG Wiggles:

• Murray Cook (Red) - Guitar, bass, ukulele, mandolin, vocals (1991-2012)
• Jeff Fatt (Purple) - Keyboard, accordion, guitar, vocals (1991-2012)
• Greg Page (Yellow) - Vocals, guitar, drums, keyboards (1991-2006, 2012)

Other former members:

• Phillip Wilcher - Piano, vocals (1991-1992)
• Sam Moran (Yellow) - Vocals, guitar, drums, trumpet (2006-2012)
• Emma Watkins (Yellow) - Vocals, drums, guitar (2012-2021)
• Kelly Hamilton (Yellow, supporting member) - Vocals (2021-2022)

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Studio discography:^note Based on official catalogue available on streaming.

• 1996 - Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas
• 1997 - The Wiggles Movie Soundtrack
• 1998 - Toot Toot!
• 1999 - Wiggle Time!^note Re-release of "The Wiggles" from 1991 and "Here Comes a Song" from 1992, with new and re-recorded tracks.
• 1999 - Yummy Yummy^note Re-release of original album from 1994, with new and re-recorded tracks.
• 2000 - It's a Wiggly, Wiggly World!
• 2000 - Yule Be Wiggling
• 2001 - Hoop-Dee-Doo! It's a Wiggly Party!
• 2002 - Wiggly Safari
• 2002 - Wiggle Bay
• 2003 - Go to Sleep Jeff
• 2003 - Whoo Hoo! Wiggly Gremlins!
• 2003 - Top of the Tots
• 2004 - Cold Spaghetti Western
• 2004 - Santa's Rockin'!
• 2005 - Sailing Around the World
• 2006 - Here Comes the Big Red Car^note Re-release of "Big Red Car" from 1995, with new and re-recorded tracks.
• 2006 - It's Time to Wake Up Jeff!^note Re-release of "Wake Up Jeff!" from 1996, with new and re-recorded tracks.
• 2006 - Racing to the Rainbow
• 2007 - Getting Strong!
• 2007 - Pop Go the Wiggles
• 2008 - You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
• 2008 - Sing a Song of Wiggles
• 2009 - The Wiggles Go Bananas!
• 2009 - Hot Poppin' Popcorn
• 2010 - Let's Eat
• 2011 - Ukulele Baby!
• 2011 - It's Always Christmas with You
• 2012 - Surfer Jeff
• 2013 - Taking Off!
• 2013 - Furry Tales
• 2013 - Pumpkin Face
• 2013 - Go Santa Go
• 2014 - Apples and Bananas
• 2014 - Wiggle House
• 2015 - Rock & Roll Preschool
• 2016 - Wiggle Town
• 2016 - Dance, Dance!
• 2017 - Nursery Rhymes
• 2017 - Duets
• 2017 - Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas^note Not to be confused with the 1996 album.
• 2018 - Nursery Rhymes 2
• 2018 - Wiggle Pop
• 2019 - The Wiggles' Big Ballet Day
• 2019 - Party Time!
• 2020 - Fun and Games
• 2020 - Choo Choo Trains, Propeller Planes & Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car
• 2021 - Lullabies with Love
• 2021 - Halloween Party
• 2022 - Super Wiggles
• 2022 - Wiggly Nursery Rhymes
• 2023 - Ready, Steady, Wiggle!
• 2023 - The Sound of Halloween

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Big Red Tropes

• The Ace: While every member of the band past and present is a multi instrumentalist, Anthony probably fits this trope the best. Just take a look above at how many instruments he plays.
• Added Alliterative Appeal: Dorothy The Dinosaur.
• Alphabet Song: They have their own version of the song:
  A, B, C, D, E, F, G
  H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P
  Q, R, S, T, U, V
  W, X, Y Zed or Zee
  Now I know my ABC's
  Next time won't you come and sing with me
  I said the A, the A and the B, the ABC's, thank you, thank you very much, you're a beautiful alphabet
• Ambiguously Brown: The man Greg meets in "Desert Dreaming". He can't tell if he's "white, brown or black". Considering he's in the desert and also mentions totems, it's safe to assume the man is from one of Australia's First Nations peoples.
• Ambiguous Gender Identity: Officer Beaples is always portrayed by a woman but sometimes sports a mustache. She's been referred to by she/her pronouns in the past^note Notably in "Let's Go (We're Riding in the Big Red Car)", with the line "We'll all be waving to her too", but in 2020, Anthony referred to them by they/them pronouns. ^note Or, rather, the "they" pronoun. They were only referred to by a (non-)gendered pronoun once during the show in question.
• Amicable Exes: Emma and Lachy.
• Artistic License – Paleontology:
  • Dorothy's very existence in modern times is of course an obvious example. Then again, she exists in the same world as a human-sized bipedal dog, a suit-wearing octopus, a pirate, and a unicorn, so...
  • During the Wiggles' performance of Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" for a radio show, Anthony explains that Dorothy survived the dinosaur extinction... because she ate roses.
  • "Caveland" features the old cliche of cavemen co-existing with dinosaurs. It's been common knowledge for decades that dinosaurs went extinct tens of millions of years before the first humans appeared three million years ago.
• Back for the Finale: In January 2012, Greg's return to the group was announced with much fanfare, only for him, Murray and Jeff to announce their retirement effective at the end of the year.
• Babysitting Episode: In the side storyline of "Safety", Captain Feathersword babysits the Wagettes while Wags goes with the Wiggles to visit Henry.
• Big Damn Movie: The Wiggles Movie is a prime example for the band, 'cause it's, y'know, a band.
• Big Eater: Dorothy counts, at least towards roses. Her eponymous song describes her as such;
  I knew that if mum saw her
  She'd never let her stay
  A dinosaur as big as that
  Needs feeding night and day
  • Anthony, whose shtick was his love for food.
• Big Friendly Dog: Wags, of course.
• Big Guy, Little Guy: Greg and Murray were the big to Anthony and Jeff's little.
  • Simon has been the tallest out of everybody since his introduction.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: Greg.
• Borrowed Catchphrase: Lampshaded at the end of "Wake Up, Lachy!"
  Lachy: Could you keep that noise down? I'm trying to sleep!
  Jeff: Hey Lachy, that's my line!
• Bowdlerise:
  • The VOD version of The Original Wiggles Concert for Bush Fire Relief ends the concert early, omitting the encore. An example of Tropes Are Tools, as right before the encore, Greg collapsed from cardiac arrest.
  • Unsurprisingly, and understandably, Rolf Harris' guest appearance in the YouTube upload of It's a Wiggly, Wiggly World on the band's channel was removed.
  • Subverted in their cover of "Elephant" by Tame Impala for Australian radio station triple j's weekly "Like a Version" segment: "Well, he feels like an elephant shakin' his big grey trunk for the hell of it." Understandable, given that the cover was recorded to appeal to the Wiggles' Periphery Demographic.
• Breakout Character:
  • Captain Feathersword was supposed to be featured for a grand total of one appearance. His immense popularity after this one appearance cemented him as a mainstay for the rest of the series, even outlasting most of the OG Wiggles (it helps that his official actor since 1996 has been the always hilarious Paul Paddick).
  • Emma. It's to the point where the group have reported little girls a bit outside of The Wiggles' primary demographic coming to live shows dressed up as Emma. She's also gotten her own spinoff series, album, and merch (the latter of which is sometimes faced with Hype Backlash by parents online).
• Canon Discontinuity: When the Wiggles' pre-2013 albums were released for streaming on December 5, 2019, the band's first few albums^note The Wiggles, Here Comes a Song, the original Yummy Yummy, Big Red Car & Wake Up Jeff! were excluded in favor of their re-releases.
  • The albums featuring Sam were initially not included^note However, some of Sam's songs had been available on the 2012 compilation Hits and Rarities— specifically "Follow The Leader", "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star", "Monkey Man", and live versions of "The Shimmie Shake" & "Dr. Knickerbocker", but they were eventually added a couple years later.
  • Likewise, their cover of "Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport" was not included on said streaming-based releases of It's a Wiggly, Wiggly World due to Rolf Harris making a guest appearance on it. It was also omitted from the live album Celebration. This version didn't feature an appearance by Harris, however.
• Carnivore Confusion:
  • Dorothy's a dinosaur, obviously a tyrannosaurus rex of sorts complete with sharp-looking teeth, but she eats... roses. Her species has been designated as "rosasaurus".
  • While not dealing with eating but similar still, Captain Feathersword is a friendly pirate.'
• Catchphrase: Say it with me... "Beauty mate!"
• Changed for the Video: The album version of "Decorate The Tree", from Yule Be Wiggling, primarily has Dorothy singing the chorus, but when production of the video came around, the chorus lyrics were changed entirely and it was now sung by The Manzillas, the band's in-house backing vocal group.
  • Australian singer Keith Urban sang lead vocals on the band's cover of England Swings from Let's Eat! However, Urban was away on tour when it was time to shoot its music video, so a second version was recorded for the video, replacing Keith's vocals with Sam's.
• Clothing Reflects Personality: The colours of the Wiggles themselves; yellow = the star; red = the musician; blue = the hungry one; purple = the sleepyhead.
• Colour-Coded Characters: In the above image, that's Emma in the yellow skivvy, Simon in the red, Lachy in purple, and Anthony in blue. Greg wore the yellow skivvy until 2006 when he turned his skivvy over to Sam (and then took it back in 2012, only to give it to Emma at the end of the year). Murray wore red, and Jeff in purple, until Simon and Lachy (respectively) came in during 2013.
• Comically Missing the Point: The ending of "Wake Up Jeff/Lachy".
  Would you keep that noise down? I'm trying to sleep!
• The Compliance Game: In "The Toilet Song", the singers try to get the viewer (who they assume to be a toddler) to sit on the toilet for the entire song by calling it the "Toilet Challenge".
• Cool Shades: Murray, Anthony and Jeff wear them in the video for "Snakes (You Can Look But You Better Not Touch)" from "Wiggly Safari".
• The Cover Changes the Meaning:
  • They've done a few covers/adaptations of songs aimed at older audiences, both written by the band themselves pre-Wiggles and by other artists.
  • One that stands out is Monkey Man, originally done by The Maytalls. The original version appears to be about a man telling someone (a girlfriend?) that he's heard rumors of her "hugging up the big monkey man" (implying cheating on the singer) although he can't confirm it. The Wiggles version, featuring Kylie Minogue, is about... an actual "monkey man".
  • Their cover of Rolf Harris' "Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport" makes no mention of the dying stockman whose perspective the song was originally sung from. As such, all references to death are removed and the song merely becomes about animals. They also naturally cut the infamous "abos" ^note meaning "Aborigines" verse from the original, though Harris himself had already disowned that line by then due to it being considered racially insensitive.
  • The OG Wiggles cover of "Pub Feed" by The Chats removes the bit where they're gambling in the bookies to try and raise their rent money and changes their desire for greasy food to healthy food.
• Crossover:
  • The 2013 Wiggles met none other than Elmo, Abby Cadabby and Cookie Monster in this collaboration video, where said Muppets performed "Do the Propeller" with the Wiggles.
  • Simon participated on Season 2 of The Masked Singer Australia as Puppet, making it to the semi finals. Emma would later take part in Season 4 as Zombie.
• "Days of the Week" Song: Sprouts Wiggly Waffle, a daily block that aired on the then-called Sprout, started with The Wiggles singing about which day of the week it was.
• Demoted to Extra: The original 1992 video for "Dorothy the Dinosaur" was filmed around the time Phillip Wilcher was on his way out from the band, and it shows. He mostly just hangs around away from the rest of the group gesturing to the audience and really doesn't seem into it. The camera also seems to avoid focusing on him.
• The Dentist Episode: A side-story in the Season 2 episode "Movement" has Dorothy visit the dentist when she gets a wobbly tooth.
• Drunk on Milk: "Another Cuppa" is about Captain Feathersword getting addicted to Dorothy's rosy tea, and the other Wiggles persuading him to drink something else. Reminder that Captain Feathersword is a pirate, who are well-known for drinking nothing but rum.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Wiggledance! technically features the very first appearance by Emma, as she and her sister can be seen as children in the audience.
• Early-Installment Weirdness:
  • The group originally had five members (including Philip Wilcher) and wore patterned shirts that bore no resemblance to their trademark coloured skivvies (except Murray's red polka dotted shirt). A couple of years later, Anthony donned a green shirt instead of his now-famous blue skivvy.
  • "Desert Dreaming", from the Wiggles' first album, is a droning spoken-word piece. The group's later discography is far less experimental.
  • Jeff was originally the driver of the Big Red Car when it made its first appearance in the video of the same name. It was also just a cardboard cutout at the time instead of the converted Volkswagen it would be later on.
  • When the secondary cast was first added to the line-up, the characters were initially played by the Wiggles themselves, with Anthony playing Captain Feathersword, Murray voicing Dorothy and Jeff voicing Henry. Eventually, after Paul Paddick joined the group and became popular with them, he became the official actor for Captain Feathersword (and remains so to this day), and more performers were brought on to portray Dorothy, Henry and Wags. In particular, Murray would only voice Dorothy in her first few appearances before the character was recast to a lineup of female dancers and voice actresses.
• Excited Kids' Show Host: Everyone, of course.
• Extreme Omnivore: In the Series 2 episode "Nutrition", Anthony has a dream where he eats everything, and not just the food.
• Fake Interactivity: Experimented with on occasion, particularly during the early Sam era. However, it isn't used much, with many of their shows and videos relying on sketch-based humor instead. The reason behind this is that Anthony, being the band's co-manager (along with his brother, Paul), believes that The Wiggles shouldn't treat their viewers like morons.
• Fat and Skinny: Anthony was notably more corpulent than the rest of the group for the first ten or so years of the band's history. He's stayed in shape since the mid-2000's, though.
• Forgotten Theme Tune Lyrics: Once you hear them sing "Turkey In The Straw", you'll recognize the tune that's always been instrumental in older cartoons such as Looney Tunes.
• Formerly Fat: Anthony has admitted to have been "out of shape and very unhealthy" for much of the band's history, mostly due to his poor diet which consisted mostly of high sugar and starch foods. It made it difficult for him to complete shows and was one of the main reasons he would become so depressed and disillusioned with touring. Thankfully, he changed his diet, began regularly working out and is now much healthier.
• Fountain of Youth: The episode "Lachy Shrunk the Wiggles" has Lacey invent a rose that is supposed to turn whoever smells it into a superhero, Emma and Anthony get their hands on it when it hasn't been tested, and it turns them into children instead.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: A Season 4 Wigglehouse segment revolves around the Wiggles catching "Topsy Turvy-itis", which causes them to swap personalities.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: In their cover of Duke Ellington's "The Mooche" from You Make Me Feel Like Dancing, a few posters in the background read "King Mondo", a reference to the character from Space Dancing!
• Friendly Pirate: Captain Feathersword, who currently provides the trope image. He is always introduced as "Captain Feathersword, the friendly pirate", and he enjoys tickling people with his Feathersword. Aside from dressing and speaking like a pirate, he's otherwise a very nice fellow.
• Funny Octopus: Henry the Octopus, a supporting cast member, likes to be under the sea, in an octopus's garden, in the shade.
• Gentle Giant:
  • Greg is 6'4'', but like the rest of the band, is a total softie and also has one of the cleanest and most pleasant to listen to singing voices you'll ever hear.
  • Simon is just a little bit shorter than Greg and looks like he should be on the starting lineup for the Australian rugby team, but in reality, he is of course a big teddy bear.
  • Likewise, Murray, who's about 6'3'', would look more in line on a basketball team, but, much like the others, is a giant goofball. This clip is plenty proof of that.
• Girlish Pigtails: Emma's usual hairstyle. Sometimes she switches to a Prim and Proper Bun.
  • Lucia also wears this as her hairstyle.
• Harsh Vocals: The band went nearly 30 years without any of their songs featuring this... then Cookie Monster sang "Do The Propeller" with them.
• Heavy Sleeper: WAKE UP JEFF/LACHY!
• Help, I'm Stuck!: A main storyline of the Season 2 episode "Safety" has Dorothy get stuck on the hedges of her harden when the ladder falls below her feet.
• Heroic BSoD / Heroic RRoD: Anthony had no less than three of these after Greg's cardiac arrest:
  • One the night of, once he realized how bad Greg was doing (which lead to panic-induced convulsions);
  • One the morning after, while he was explaining to Greg what happened (inducing more convulsions); and
  • One during the next reunion concert, while the crowd was chanting in support of Greg (causing Anto to break down crying onstage).
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Simon, Greg, and Murray are the huge to Emma's tiny.
• Hypocritical Humor: Captain Feathersword makes fun of Anthony in the Go Santa Go music video from 2017's "Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas" for not being able to do the dance associated with the song anymore because of his back. He then tries to do it himself and ends up throwing his own back out in the process.
• I Am the Band: Anthony Field is this as the band was more or less his idea, to begin with and handled all of the business side of things with his brother (and co-manager) Paul, until the latter resigned in 2020.
• I Can't Dance: Anthony's problem for one of the side stories of the Series 2 episode "Dancing".
• Idiosyncratic Wipes: Frequently shows up to transition to the next song or segment of a show.
• In the Style of: "Monkey Man" was originally recorded by The Maytals, but The Wiggles clearly based their cover on the much more well-known version by The Specials. This is made clearer by the band wearing the suits and hats generally associated with The Specials.
• Interspecies Romance: Dorothy and Wags. They even had a wedding (or at least a pretend wedding)... three times!
• Kent Brockman News: Network Wiggles, their third TV series, included a news segment hosted by Greg, with Dorothy acting as a field reporter, and weather by Captain Feathersword (with his "Weathersword").
• The Kiddie Ride: The Wiggles have three distinctive types of these; a carousel-type ride, ones of the Big Red Car, and one rare Dorothy-based swing ride that was produced in the late 90s.
• Large and in Charge:
  • Greg was the tallest Wiggle and the lead singer during his time in the band.
  • Subverted with the current lineup. Anthony is the clearly the one in charge but Simon is the tallest.
• Large Ham: Being a children's act, this is more or less a requirement for the group.
  • Jeff took this trope up to eleven after he was woken up.
  • Simon is an opera singer, so he's naturally this.
• Last Note Nightmare: "Wiggly Medley" ends with the loud plonking of pianos and a drumbeat that sounds almost like a gunshot or an oncoming train. The reverb and the fact that this comes out of nowhere make this verge on jump scare territory.
• Live Album: The band has two; LIVE Hot Potatoes! and Celebration!
• Long-Runners: Got their start in 1991, and are still well and truly around.
• Long-Runner Line-up: They kept the same lineup from 1992 to 2006, making them a Type 4.
• Lost Voice Plot: The main side story of "At Play" features Dorothy literally losing her voice.
• Lyrical Cold Open: "Hot Potato".
• Made of Iron: Greg has suffered from OI for well over a decade and had a cardiac arrest right at the end of the original lineup's reunion concert in 2020, but he's still alive and kicking!
• Man of a Thousand Voices: Simon displays his ability to go from bass baritone all the way up to a falsetto in "Simon's Cold Water Blues".
• Meaningful Appearance: Tsehay mentions she wears Sunflowers as a nod to her name which means Sun.
• Metal Scream: Captain Feathersword delivers an impressively high one in "Captain's Magic Buttons".
• Mood Whiplash:
  • Happens to Dorothy in the Series 2 episode "Directions"; she is at Happy and Sad Street, going past either the happy or sad sign will cause her mood to switch to that respective one.
  • The first bush fire relief gig in 2020. The mood went from being happy and jovial to grim and terrifying when Greg collapsed.
• The Movie: A theatrically-released movie, produced in 1997, pretty much cemented them as the world's best-loved children's performers.
• No Antagonist: Played straight in every series. Though in The Wiggles Movie, the closest thing is Wally the Great, who originally intended to steal Greg's magical wand, until he somehow eventually apologized for his mistake and learned from his lesson afterward.
• Noblewoman's Laugh: Back when Murray voiced Dorothy, her laugh sounded more like this than the childlike giggle she'd have later on.
• Older Than He Looks:
  • Go back and watch the earlier videos of the band from the 90s. You'd never guess that Jeff was in his late thirties to mid forties. Even today he still looks slightly younger than he actually is.
  • Paul Paddick just doesn't seem to age at all. He looks exactly the same as Captain Feathersword now as he did when he first took on the role.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: This video, hosted by Greg after his collapse at the bushfire relief concert, is incredibly sombre to drive home the importance of CPR and defibrillators.
• Our Mermaids Are Different: Paloma the Mermaid. Who love teaching marine biology and blowing kisses.
• The Pirate Who Doesn't Do Anything: Captain Feathersword. He's just a big softie who also happens to be the resident Butt-Monkey. The worst he ever gets is tickling people with his sword, which has a large bundle of feathers instead of an actual blade (hence his name). This was actually lampshaded when the band appeared on an episode of Yes, Dear.
  Jimmy: Look buddy, I'll give you twenty bucks to get my kid onstage.
  Captain Feathersword: Ho ho! I can't take your money, sir. It wouldn't be fair! Hoohoohoo!
  Jimmy: "Fair"? You're a pirate!
• Pokémon Speak: Subverted with Shirley Shawn the Unicorn. The only word they ever say is "Scrumptious!"
• Prefers Going Barefoot: Anthony usually performs barefoot or in socks since he finds it easier to move around onstage without shoes.
• Pun: A lot of the pre-song trivia questions in 'Ready, Steady, Wiggle' do puns on the topic of the episodes. Example, after Simon turns into a duck when he drank Lachy's "Turn You Into A Duck Drink".
  Will Simon duck out for another cup?
  Will the Wiggles send Lachy the bill?
  You just can't beak this episode.
• Red Shirt:
  • Averted with Greg Page.
  • And, well, Murray Cook and Simon Pryce.
• Revolving Door Band: This, especially occuring so soon after this.
• Running Gag:
  • "Oh no!" "Oh what!?" "Oh no!" "Oh what?!" "Oh no!" "Oh what?!"
  • "Huh?" "Huh?" "Huh?" "Huh?"
  • "Well, blow me down." (Captain Feathersword gets blown down, then gets back up again.) "I gotta stop saying that." "You gotta stop saying what?" "I gotta stop saying 'Blow me down'... Oh no!" (Cue being blown down and getting up again.)
  • Since the 2013 lineup, there have been jokes about Anthony being the oldest member. Greg gets this treatment as well during the 2017 version of Go Santa Go.
  • In TV Series 4 & 5, the Wiggles often talk about Bill O' Really... I mean O'Reilly.
• Self-Backing Vocalist:
  • Occasionally used early on, as the group could only record vocals with the people they had hired, which at the time was themselves. However, they mostly averted this trope for most of their history, with their in-house backing vocal band "The Manzillas"^note whose members included Paul Field, Paul Paddick, pre-yellow wiggle Sam Moran, Taiwanese Wiggles member James Arthur Chen and pre-red wiggle Simon Pryce providing backing vocals on all of their albums from Wiggly Safari to Surfer Jeff.
  • Played straight when Emma, Lachy & Simon joined, as they provided all of their own backing vocals.
• Self-Deprecation: In interviews, Jeff has said that his role as the one who always falls asleep and needs to be woken up derives from his lack of background in early childhood education and that it's a way to get him involved in the shows without him actually needing to do anything. Network Wiggles ran with it in the form of a game show where he would fall asleep in a random location (hence the name "Where's Jeff?" for both the game show and its related song) and the contestant (either one of the other Wiggles or Captain Feathersword) had to guess where he was.
• Self-Titled Album: The Wiggles' debut album.
• "Sesame Street" Cred:
  • Many prominent entertainment industry figures have guest-starred in Wiggles videos or on their numerous TV shows, including Slim Dusty, Troy Cassar-Daley, Kylie Minogue, John Fogerty, Christine Anu, Steve Irwin, Leo Sayer, Barry Williams and many more.
  • Of course, the band had a crossover with Sesame Street itself.
• Shave And A Haircut: The tune is often used.
• Show Within a Show: Series 3 has the Wiggles producing a show at their own TV studio, Network Wiggles.
• Signature Headgear: Dorothy's white gardening hat, Henry's straw vaudeville hat and, of course, Captain Feathersword's pirate hat. Emma usually wears a yellow and black hairbow. She apparently has thousands of them. Tsehay has her sunflower headband she wears on her head.
• Signature Laugh:
  • Dorothy has a high-pitched and girlish "Hee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee!"
  • Captain Feathersword has his "Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!"
• Sitting Cutely on a Piano: At one point in the Santa's Rockin'! video, Dorothy does this on a beach chair while eating a rose. Considering that The Wiggles are Australian and that the video in question is one of their Christmas videos, the beach chair makes a lot of sense.
• The Smurfette Principle: Dorothy could have been considered this prior to Emma's arrival. As for Emma's character, the group arguably downplays this trope — while Emma is the first official woman to be a Wiggle (not counting the foreign-language groups), she lacks the overt tokenism often associated with the trope. There have also been other recurring women in the various series, including Kylie Minogue as an honorary "Pink Wiggle", so Emma's arrival only really fits this trope in description.
• Snakes Are Sinister: Averted with "Snakes (You Can Look But You Better Not Touch)". The Wiggles state that looking at snakes is fine, but firmly state that you should leave them alone and let them get on with their day. Considering that Australia has some of the most deadly snakes in the world, they definitely mean it when they tell you not to touch them.
• Special Guest: The Wiggles Go Bananas has Kylie Minogue join the set as an honorary Pink Wiggle.
• Spinoff:
  • Dorothy had her own spin-off, called... Dorothy the Dinosaur.
  • Emma got her own show in 2015, with Lachy getting his own show a year later. The shows were called "Emma!" and "Lachy!"
  • There were also foreign-language counterparts of The Wiggles themselves, formed overseas (see West Coast Team).
  • There was also the Wiggles-produced show The Kingdom of Paramithi, which featured many of their regulars (including Paul Paddick (best known as Captain Feathersword), as well as current red Wiggle, Simon Pryce) and technically counts as a spinoff.
• Stage Magician: Greg's shtick before his initital retirement was performing magic tricks, wearing the obligatory magician's hat and cape. However, these tricks had an alarming tendency to go wrong, especially whenever Anthony was involved.
• Straight Edge: The band seem to be about as clean as you can get, with none of them ever being linked to drugs or alcohol and also promoting healthy eating and fitness, especially Anthony and Simon who regularly talk about their workout schedules.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute:
  • From 2006 to 2012, the original Yellow Wiggle, Greg Page, was replaced with his understudy, Sam Moran, due to Page's illness.
  • In the first series, Wigglehouse's door is the grouchy Door, but for all series after it, he is replaced with the kinder Flora Door.
• Team Mum: Dorothy is the most responsible and mature of the Wiggles cast, although as she is stated to be 5 years old in the franchise's context, she obviously still has her childlike moments. Despite this, it seems like the band has forgot about her apparent age in recent years.
• Those Two Guys:
  • During the first two TV series, Wags and Captain Feathersword were almost always seen together.
  • The Wiggles' social media are pushing this trope with Simon and Lachy, as seen in posts like these two.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Anthony's is fruit salad ^note yummy, yummy! or apples. Dorothy's is roses.
• True Blue Femininity: Evie was this being the Blue Wiggle and a professional Ballet Dancer. Upon her being changed to the new Yellow Wiggle, this role was passed over to Lucia.
• Tutu Fancy: The skirt on Evie's outfit is frilly to resemble a tutu. Befitting her also being a ballerina.
• Unperson:
  • Founding member Phillip Wilcher only appeared on the band's first album and left/was kicked out soon after. The band re-recorded the album without him later on, and there's never been any mention of him since then.
  • Sam, for a time. Up until November 2020, the band only made mention of him where legally obligated to do so. However, as of Nov. 2020, The Wiggles are working to re-release content featuring Sam, going so far as to refer to his years with the band as the "Sam era".
• The Voiceless:
  • Wags the Dog... at least, initially. In the second TV series, we can hear his thoughts (similar to Garfield), most likely provided by Greg Page, revealing him to be quite the snarker in the presence of Captain Feathersword's antics. Eventually, he was given the ability to speak aloud at around the time of the fourth TV series. Despite this, he hasn't spoken out loud since "Go Santa Go!", and that was made in 2013, pretty much rendering him voiceless again.
  • Officer Beaples doesn't speak; she only blows her whistle.
• Voices Are Mental: Subverted in the Series 2 episode "The Body"; Captain Feathersword and Wags happen upon "Each Other's Voices Street", which causes them to switch voices.
• West Coast Team: There were officially licensed overseas counterparts of The Wiggles in Taiwan and Latin America, lasting between 2003 to 2007. They initially didn't last long, as dubbing The Wiggles' content became more convenient. However, the Latin American Wiggles group saw a resurrection in 2021, with the TV series being uploaded alongside newly filmed video clips. The fate of the Taiwanese Wiggles is currently unknown.

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And we're all fruit salad, yummy yummy
All in the same bowl