tubular not appearing to work within a function

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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
For tubular to load. It does not.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

1.0, Chrome 40

Please provide any additional information below.
JS:
setTimeout( function() {
    extidactual = $('#extid-hidden').text();
    tubularoptions = '{videoId: \''+extidactual+'\'}';
    console.log('Passing \"'+tubularoptions+'\" to jQuery.tubular.');
    $('#wrapper').tubular(tubularoptions);
  }, 2000);
  console.log('Preloader dropping in TWO seconds...')

Original issue reported on code.google.com by kjhuggs on 8 Mar 2015 at 6:58