History Series / RoundTheTwist

* [[Padding]] - The plot can move surprisingly slowly. "Yuckles", for instance, features about eight minutes of the Twists and Gribbles wandering around the forest. Other than Pete [[AmusingInjuries slipping while]] [[GroinAttack crossing a log bridge]], all that really happens is a demonstration of the Yuckles' ability to mimic other objects and then explode, which barely needs one minute to show.

* MurderousMannequib: "Know All" is an adaptation of the short story "Know All" by Creator/PaulJennings. A mannequin is part of one of Tony's art pieces around the time that the Twists find a chest filled with costumes, which only much later they learn are from a circus of which all members have perished in an accident. Intrigued by the find, they each dress up and find themselves [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman bestowed with the talents and characteristics of the original owners]]. For fun, they dress up their [[ScaryScarecrows scarecrow]] in a clown's outfit. This causes it to come alive and, being empty beforehand, to strongly take to the love the clown had for the other clown. Tony, who's the FortuneTeller, arranges for the mannequin to be dressed up as the other clown to reunite the loves. As both the scarecrow and the mannequin steadily become human-like due to the costumes, they decide to join the circus.

** Linda gets the line "I'll always remember the time we ''pissed on the cold ear.''" in "Nails." (Her line is supposed to be "I remember the time we kissed on the old peer," but she messes it up, to the gleeful amusement of everyone else.)

* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace - The Shipwreck Coast[[note]]This is real place in Victoria: the location of more than 600 shipwrecks[[/note]]

''Round the Twist'' was an Australian TV show that every Aussie and Brit who grew up in TheNineties likely remembers watching. The show was about the Twist family -- 14-year-old twins Pete and Linda, little brother Bronson and widowed father Tony, a.k.a. "Dad" -- who live inside a lighthouse that seems to be a beacon for the supernatural. Ghosts, weird creatures and mysterious magical objects abound--from magic gumleaves to haunted toilets to super-power-inducing underwear, the show revelled in the weird, the revolting, the hilarious, and the downright disturbing.

The show was also run in Britain on Creator/{{CBBC}} and in America on Creator/FoxKids (around the time that FK was airing horror comedies, like ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'', ''Series/EerieIndiana'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Toonsylvania}}''- Fox Kids even advertised ''Round The Twist'' as an Australian version of ''Goosebumps''), and hence the series has some recognition in both places.

''Round the Twist'' was an Australian TV show that every Aussie and Brit in their teens, 20s and even early 30s (the first season was broadcast in 1989) remembers watching when growing up. The show was about the Twist family -- 14-year-old twins Pete and Linda, little brother Bronson and widowed father Tony, a.k.a. "Dad" -- who live inside a lighthouse that seems to be a beacon for the supernatural. Ghosts, weird creatures and mysterious magical objects abound--from magic gumleaves to haunted toilets to super-power-inducing underwear, the show revelled in the weird, the revolting, the hilarious, and the downright disturbing.

* ClothesMakeTheManiac - Linda's magic hat in "Copy Cat".

** Another pretty bad one is how in Series 3 & 4 everyone seem to forget all their experiances with ghosts. It gets directly laughable in Series 4's ''Face the Fear'', where the Gribble gang try to scare Bronson with ghosts, and he somewhat nervously claims that ghosts don't exist. Despite him having encountered ghosts ''several'' times in ''all'' four series. Even his nervousness doesn't make sense, given how most of the ghosts he's met have been non-malevolent or even friendly.

* InvisibleStreaker - Linda, in the "Lina Godiva" episode, turns invisible thanks to an enchanted perfume spritzer -- but her clothes remain visible, so she has to take them off. Of course, Pete accidentally deactivates her invisibility at exactly the wrong time.

*** In the French version, the line is "[I remember] nous nous embrassions sur le vieux port", flubbed as "nous nous embrassions comme des vieux porcs" (we made out like old pigs).

* InvisibleStreaker - Linda, in the ''Lina Godiva'' episode, turns invisible thanks to an enchanted perfume spritzer -- but her clothes remain visible, so she has to take them off. Of course, Pete accidentally deactivates her invisibility at exactly the wrong time.

The show was also run in Britain on Creator/{{CBBC}} and in America on Creator/FoxKids line-up (around the time that FK was airing horror comedies, like ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'', ''Series/EerieIndiana'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Toonsylvania}}''- Fox Kids even advertised ''Round The Twist'' as an Australian version of ''Goosebumps''), and hence the series has some recognition in both places.

The show was repeated in Britain on CBBC and in America on FOX's FoxKids line-up (around the time that the line-up was airing horror comedies, like ''Goosebumps'', ''Eerie Indiana'', and ''Toonsylvania''. Fox Kids even advertised ''Round The Twist'' as an Australian version of ''Goosebumps''), hence have some recognition in both places.

* EatTheCamera - How the opening credits end. Usually on Bronson.

* ButtMonkey - Poor, poor Pete.
** Rabbit in the second series becomes this within the trio of bullies.

* TheHatMakesTheMan - In "Copy Cat", Linda's magic hat alters her personality.
** HatOfPower[=/=]HatOfFlight - Said magic hat also grants the ''power to fly''!

* OurGhostsAreDifferent - Lots of variation. The ghosts often seem bound by different rules - some ghosts are mute, whereas others can talk. While most ghosts have UnfinishedBusiness, one episode a ghost that needed to pass his 'scare test'. Also featured are a ghost dog, a ghost ''seagull'', among other things.

* {{Reincarnation}} - Played for laughs in ''Next Time Around''.
* ReTool: And how. The first episode is actually rather different to the rest of the series, introducing several ideas (Pete's false tooth and love of awful jokes) that are never used again, and being the only episode to not feature an opening title sequence. Also, this is the only episode where Nell is not referred to by her given name.
** Nell is called by her first name later in the episode -- it's only when she's being introduced that Tony calls her "Ms Rickards", and he's arguably just being polite. It's not a retool so much as the characters just getting to know each other better.

* ScaryScarecrows - Having discovered a trunk filled with circus clothes, Tony decides to dress their scarecrow in a clown outfit, causing it to later come alive and chase Linda, thereby successfully managing to combine Scary Scarecrows with MonsterClown in one easy step.

* TransferStudentUniforms - The Twist kids themselves at the beginning of the series. [[spoiler:Later, the boy who turned into a merman]].

* JekyllAndHyde: Linda's shadow in ''Shadow Play''

** The ''entire'' episode of "Lucky Lips" basically has Pete getting kisses from other women via a tube of magical lipstick. The scene that falls past the radar in particular is when he uses it in the classroom and winds up "forcing" ''every'' girl in the classroom to kiss him -- including Linda, and right through to the teacher. (When an unsuspecting Tony later tries on the lipstick, Linda groans "oh ''no!''" and runs away as fast as she can.)

** "Little Squirt"...just Little Squirt.

** The entirety of "The Big Burp," which includes a PottyEmergency and, worst of all, an accidental pregnancy...involving a boy character carrying the child of a tree nymph.

** "Linda Godiva" has Linda finding a way to turn invisible -- but her clothes don't turn invisible with her, so in order to make use of her invisibility [[InvisibleStreaker she spends a considerable amount of the episode naked.]] One scene even shows the invisible Linda stripping out of all her (visible) clothes, including her underwear, and one scene shows her frantically dressing in order to turn visible again. In the last scene she accidentally becomes visible again without having dressed, and there is a full-body naked shot (shown from behind) as she rides off on the horse.

* MoralGuardians: The show almost didn't see the light of day (and was the subject of a lot of censorship issues) in its native country of Australia and when it was exported to the UK (though not America, surprisingly), due to its gross-out humor (most of which centered on vomiting, urination, body odor, and defecation), mild sexual content (references to incest, KissingUnderTheInfluence, pregnancy, and interspecies romance), and subject matter that most MoralGuardians wouldn't find appropriate for children's TV (nudity, death, dangerous stunts, and NightmareFuel).

* ReTool - In Series 3 & 4, the series loses its focus on ghosts and their UnfinishedBusiness and became an Australian version of ''EerieIndiana''.