Woke up Jeff! - The Wiggles shake it up with a new diverse line-up
Posted Aug 22, 2021, 5:16 AM UTC
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I hope they are better received than Emma was, adults can be animals. I've never met a kid that didn't like her, just a bunch of 30+ year olds
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Went to a wiggles show a couple of years ago, yellow was the most prominent colour in the crowd as everyone was dressed as her.
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Better received by Facebook Court* I guess is what I mean lol
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My niece adored her so much.
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My kid loves Emma good to see they have a diverse group.
Multicultural kids groups for a multicultural country.
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The only I question I have is about Lachies' hair. WTF is going on there?
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If they are going to sing a song about waking him up, makes sense to give him bed head.
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No, that's his wired smile
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Mine is why Anthony has suddenly decided his Scots ancestry needs to be a feature in every episode, bagpipes, highland dancing, marching bands in kilts etc. Bit weird.
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Trad dancing and the kilts and stuff have allllways been a fixture of the wiggles, even going back as far as the big red car VHS.
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They do Indian and Greek etc. Bit of dress ups.
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I noticed they picked the absolute top of the mollusc family with Henry and the pinnacle of the reptile clan with Dorothy which seems a bit elitist .
Other than mammals , they have no birds, no fish , no Arthropoda , not a single platyhelminth , I mean is it really diverse !
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I feel like they could have made room for Broden from Aunty Donna. Maybe an Orange wiggle
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Surprised/disappointed they didn’t have new colours rather than doubling up. I guess just to make a smoother transition when the current ones call it a day?…
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Capt’n Feathercock survived!
Ooo-Aarrr!
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🎵My name is Evie and I talk to my feet. You better pray, we never meet!🎵
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My sides! 😂😂😂
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Quentin Tarantino has entered the chat
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It’s the next uber eats ad!
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Felt like I was tripping a bit at that point.
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If your wondering why they hired her it’s because the big red cars gonna be full and they’ll be able to shove her in the boot and make a song about it
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YOU'VE GOT CREEPY EYES, SIMON!!!
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Wait, are we both referencing Tom Gleeson or....?
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I don't mind the diversity, I just think there is too many of them now.
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Not sure why they kept made them the same colours? Unless they will slowly move over to this new group.
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Maybe couldn't come up with 4 colours that will fit.
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Have you tried using orange in a rhyme?
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<insert Eminem video here>
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I hate Lachy, I don't know why, my kids find him creepy. John however is a superior replacement and got to fill the sleepy shoes of Jeff.
Does the blonde lady know how to skateboard though? She looked like that was her first time on a board.
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I used to get slightly annoyed at things like this but these days I realise, this doesn't matter.. at all. If anything, it's good, let's more children relate to the characters. Why be outraged at this? It does nothing to your every day life.
But I will concede when it comes to presenting sexual-identity or de-gendering to children I question if it's a good idea, I hope it isn't confusing to children like many fear.
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I wouldn’t worry about it. To children literally everything is new including the concept of relationships. My sister at age 4 declared she was going to marry our dad when she grew up, eventually being educated on what incest is didn’t confuse her, she just laughs about how adorable she was when the story makes the rounds. You tell a kid that ‘people know who they are and who they love, and you will to’ and that’s all they need. Confusion only sets in when they encounter other people trying to decide for subsections of the population whether they are ‘allowed’ to exist.
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Why did you use the inflammatory Newscorp headline as the title to your post?
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Wasn't aware of that being used by newscorp. Didn't intend it to be inflammatory. Sorry if I offended anyone.
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That's ok. It was verbatim and it's got the conservative snowflakes commenting away on Facebook so expect the same kind of inevitable response here I guess :/
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The red head yellow wiggle gives me the shakes, hot diggity dam.
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Absolute outrage. What are they bloody thinking?
How can they, in all good conscious introduce new wiggles with the same colours as the existing?
Surely, when pulling in over $30mill a year, they have enough money to afford some new, different coloured shirts?
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The Asian one is yellow.. reference to the power rangers perhaps?!
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Anakin stare
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💛Trini💛
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If I were a kid who woke up to the news that there would now be twice as many Wiggles in the Wiggles, I'd consider it a pretty good morning. Not sure why this is so controversial to those not in the target audience.
I dunno when i was a kid i was pissed that they replaced greg. I can’t imagine the amount of impotent rage i would have had is pretty high
I am still pissed how they treated Sam
Because years of culture wars being pushed by conservative politicians and the media means that a good portion of the population now flies into a foaming rage at the first mention of anything “woke” or “inclusive”.