Now, I love all the players from Australia but this cracks me up...hahahaha...I swear these guys are crack for kids....I think i've posted about them before but couldn't find it.....anyways...i told myself my kid wasn't gonna watch them....I of course was waaaay wrong..she love's them!!!!!

Here's a list of the top entertainers from the land down under :rofl

TOP ENTERTAINERS

1. The Wiggles $50 million

2. Nicole Kidman $35 million

3. Hugh Jackman $30 million

4. Kylie Minogue $27 million

5. Keith Urban $26 million

6. AC/DC $18 million

7. Cate Blanchett $18 million

8. Hi-5 $16 million

9. James Wan and Leigh Whannell (Creators of the Saw franchise) $15 million

10. Russell Crowe $15 million

(Gross income 2006-07)

source: Syndey Morning Herald story (http://www.smh.com.au/news/people/a-wobble-but-the-wiggles-still-rule/2007/07/17/1184559786837.html)

and if you live on another planet and you don't know what the wiggles are:

The wiggles (http://www.thewiggles.com.au/)

I have an aussie friend who has 2 little boys. All they ever watch is the wiggles. I think its something like the teletubbies were years ago.

why Mel Gibson isn't in the list?

edit: probably because he was born in US...

The wiggles and Barney and that stuff is easy to keep your kids off. You just got to play with em instead of using a tv as a babysitter.
Not sacking WC btw, or well not much.

The wiggles and Barney and that stuff is easy to keep your kids off. You just got to play with em instead of using a tv as a babysitter.
Not sacking WC btw, or well not much.

no doubt.....but dude...a man can only read snuggle puppy so many times!!!!!!

actually the only time she watches those sickos is when she's at my wife's friends house!!!! she does watch some little einsteins and mickeymoust playhouse at home some...but not that much...she's too busy getting into stuff now....the poor pugs

actually, the wiggles when they have concerts, they get the kids up and moving around.

they have this huge drive in australia atm where they will only put their name or faces on healthy food.

so when you go to the supermarket, they are not on lollies and so on, they are on yoghurt and fruit products.
they are even on fruit smothies in the boost juice shops.

and they told mcdonalds where to go as well.

barney and the wiggles are completely different things. actually teletubbies are different as well. the wiggles ****s over all of them.

Yeah, what TD said.


The Wiggles encourage kids to get up and dance with them.

I won't let my kids watch tellytubbies, they don't talk properly and they just laze around rubbing their fat bellies......

Interesting on WC's list that Hi-5 is also on the top 10 list! 2 Kids entertainment groups in the top 10 earners list! Shows what a strong industry it is.


Also though, nothing beats getting out with a bat and ball and playing outside with your kids. Or my favourite, getting a chair and a can of bourbon and letting them ride supervised on the road :D What a Dad!!!!!

I can't find the info to back it up but a story I heard before was of a child taken to the doctor because the parents thought the child was having seizures. I don't know who asked the parents about it, but come to find out, the child was only having the "problems" when they were watching The Wiggles. I guess that's a case of parents not watching what they were showing the child.

I can't find the info to back it up but a story I heard before was of a child taken to the doctor because the parents thought the child was having seizures. I don't know who asked the parents about it, but come to find out, the child was only having the "problems" when they were watching The Wiggles. I guess that's a case of parents not watching what they were showing the child.


I believe its an urban myth. The original story had to do with a certain anime cartoon that one scene drove some people to have seizures. The Simpsons made it even more popular when they did a vacation episode and were all watching the show and had seizures.

The original yellow wiggle > the current yellow wiggle, nuff said.

High5 ftw Charlie rocks mai world!