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"Hi, My Name's Catrina!", also known as "when a new person starts at work," is a video from the 1980's British TV show Emu's All Live Pink Windmill Show featuring young children introducing themselves.

Origin

Emu's All Live Pink Windmill Show was the fifth television show for British comedian Rod Hull and his anarchic puppet Emu. Joined by a group of ten children in Hull's Pink Windmill, featuring singing and dancing to many popular tunes from across the western world. ^[1] This video comes from the first episode of the series, where the kids introduce themselves to the audience in studio and at home before launching into a rendition of Can't Stop the Music by the Village People.

Spread

On November 27th, 2016, the Facebook page Instant Regret posted the first 24 seconds of the video, garnering 88K reactions, 11M views, 83,331 shares, and 223K comments, captioned "When a new person starts at work."^[2] It exploded over Twitter, with users tagging themselves as the "cool mom"^[3] or "FCKN GOALS."^[4] User @suitelifeondick compared the experience to being greeted by the staff at cosmetics store Lush.^[5] Lush's Oxford Street branch in London responded by recreating the video, captioned as "Walking into Lush Oxford Street like…"^[6] Vice UK's Marianne Eloise was able to contact some of the actors in the video and got updates on their current lives.^[7] On December 7th, Catrina Hylton, the titular Catrina, released a video of her dancing along to the song.^[8] Most of the kids, specifically Joe, Catrina, Hugh, Abbie, and Emma, have created a facebook page entitled "Pink Windmill Kids."^[9]

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