phenomenalia
n.— «What hath The Wiggles wrought? In the etymology of pop-culture phenomenalia, crystallized with the Aussie happy-feet band in the colored skivvies, born of the wistful singalongs in the original MM Club—M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E—and filtered through the vaguely unsettling plastic-skin colorations of “Heartbeeps” and the ambitiously camp, cheap cheerfulness of Sid and Marty Krofft, here we have the Doodlebops.» —“Doodlebops rock!” by Burl Burlingame Star-Bulletin (Honolulu, Hawaii) Sept. 26, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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