Parent laughs hysterically at ‘Wiggles’ performers flipping middle fingers during kids’ show: ‘Where is tall finger?’
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A Wiggle giggled while flipping the bird on the popular children’s show.
An American mother, who goes by the handle @thefinalrebrand on TikTok, laughed hysterically as the cast of the Australia-based show “The Wiggles” flicked their middle fingers at each, prompting social media to question if flipping the bird had different meanings between the two countries.
The viral video showed actors performing the song “Where Is Thumbkin” — a children’s nursery rhyme that has the same melody as “Pop Goes The Weasel” during an episode.
Lanchy Wiggle, played by actor Lachlan Gillespie, sang “Where is tall finger? Where is tall finger?” followed by performers Caterina Mete and Tsehay Hawkins joining Gillespie as they all lift, and flick their middle fingers at each other to the tune as he sings “here I am. Here I am.”
The gesture, on both hands, happened for several seconds as Gillespie continued singing the lyrics, “How are you today friend? Very well, thank you. Run away. Run away.”
“Welp, this got my attention,” the TikTokker captioned in her video as she was heard laughing throughout the clip.
In the same social media post, the mother replayed the video and zoomed in on Hawkins, the singer wearing a yellow shirt and sunflower headband, and wrote “This was personal.”
The clip showed Hawkins smiling directly into and making eye contact with the camera as she aimed her middle finger right at the lens — seemingly giggling while bringing her hand down as Gillespie sang “Run away. Run away.”
“Tsehay meant that s–t,” the TikTokker captioned.
“Wiggles just flipped us off,” one person commented.
“Listen, I get it, but also, who thought this would go well?” another wrote.
Social media commenters also pointed out how odd it was that they called it the “tall” finger instead of the “middle” finger.
One user questioned if the middle finger carried the same meaning in Australia, where the show is filmed, as opposed to the United States, debating if the gesture was intentional or cultural differences.
“Australians DEFINITELY use the middle fingers to flip people off, that’s why this is funny; she flipped the camera off intentionally and giggled to herself,” a person on the platform suggested.
Others suggested that kids in Australia see songs like this performed often.
“My mom was a pre-school teacher and the kids performed this. They flipped everyone off,” someone commented.
This isn’t the first time the show had adults wondering if there were hidden jokes aimed at them. An example would be when the show released a song about bouncing balls and another when they released the song “Last Christmas” which had characters sing as former “lovers” which one Reddit user believed would have been “unthinkable” in the past.
The show doesn’t feature this middle finger performance in the nursery rhyme montage for preschool and kindergarten kids on the direct website despite it making air.
The original children’s show “The Wiggles” started in 1993 and there have been a series of spinoffs like “Wiggle and Learn,” “Ready Steady, Wiggle” and other specials featuring brand new songs and “interpretations of the classics,” per producers.
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