Referenced By / The Wiggles

Advertising

• An Ad Council Public Service Announcement about brushing your teeth features a spoof of the group called the Super Duper Party Troopers singing a song called "Ants In Their Pants".

Literature

• In Experimental Film, Simon says of the tune Clark keeps singing, "Ain't the Wiggles, that's for sure."
• In Peta Lyre's Rating Normal, Jeb points his fingers like one of the Wiggles.
• Are You Alone on Purpose?: Once when Perry was six, he started singing "Shaky Shaky" while patting the grass. It turns out he was trying to describe the reverberations caused by explosives at a quarry kilometers away, which no one else in the family was sensitive enough to feel.

Live-Action TV

• In Good Luck Charlie, Charlie and PJ's favorite Show Within a Show is called The Gurgles, which is a show about colorful singing shapes.
• In the Psychoville Halloween special, Mr. Jelly finds that the knockoff DVDs he bought were actually kids shows rather than the horror films he paid for. One of the DVDs is The Wiggles, which he says is "worse than Exorcist II".
• In an episode of Reba, 9-year old Jake isn't happy to be made to watch The Wiggles with his niece Elizabeth. His sister Kyra teases him by saying she has a Barney tape that they can watch.
• Scrubs has Dr. Cox offhandedly mention that, because of the sacrifices he's made for his son, he's seen the band live in concert...twice.
• Victorious: In "The Diddly-bops", Henry, the young son of Sikowitz's college roommate is a fan of the Wagafuffles and wants them to perform at his fourth birthday party.
• The climax of the Yes, Dear episode, "Make Every Second Count" has Jimmy and Christine take Dominic and Logan to a The Wiggles concert. When Dominic is chosen to go onstage, Jimmy tries unsuccessfully to get Logan with him, first by bribing Captain Feathersword with $20.00, then by sneaking backstage. When he does the latter, he is caught by the security guards and blacklisted. In The Stinger, Jimmy carpools in the Big Red Car with Greg, Anthony, Jeff, and Murray, who sing a parody of "Toot, Toot, Chugga, Chugga, Big Red Car" about him.

Web Animation

• At the start of Pokemon Parody Episode 1, before Ash goes on his journey, his mom comes in telling him to have some fruit salad. Cue the song.

Western Animation

• In the Animaniacs episode "Babysitter's Flub", Pinky is obsessed with a show called The Groggles, which spoofs this band and YouTube children's channels. To pay the homage further, the female member dons a gigantic bow in her hair like Emma.
• In the Bluey episode 'Phones', Bluey shows Grandad her autographed picture of the band as dogs.
• In the Family Guy episode "The Boys In The Band", Lois puts on a show for Stewie called The Turtlenecks. They wear exactly the same colours as The Wiggles and the Yellow Turtleneck looks exactly like Greg would with a mustache (complete with Greg's Big Ol' Eyebrows). Anthony Field posted a clip on his Instagram story calling it "the American Wiggles".