History Series / RoundTheTwist

* CoveredInGunge - In "Sloppy Jalopy", Pete gets shoved into a pool of foul-smelling sludge.

** Done indirectly in "Ice Maiden" when Bronson becomes infatuated by an ice sculpture to the point of kissing it. He then discovers that the sculpture was based on his cousin Terry, about whom he has been having [[AnxietyDreams psychedelic nightmares]]. He very quickly abandons his loathing of her and seems very happy about her [[UnfortunateImplications sleeping in]] [[{{Squick}} his bedroom]]. He smiles at her in a rather amorous way throughout.

* CreditsMontage - Usually includes a few outtakes[[note]]Mostly actors {{Corpsing}} at the ridiculous stuff they have to do.[[/note]] and deleted scenes.

** Kissing ''[[UpToEleven siblings]]'' in "Lucky Lips" due to the [[KissingUnderTheInfluence magical lipstick]].

** Linda’s reaction to being an InvisibleStreaker is happily shed her closes, free to be naked and unashamed as a “spirited adventure”. One might get the impression she has nudist tendencies.

* LampshadeHanging - During season one, Pete, Linda and Bronson are discussing the ongoing mystery of the mysterious music coming from the top of the lighthouse. Replies Bronson, 'Yeah, it always plays music when something creepy's about to happen' moments before they spot the mysterious sea chest that is that episode's weirdness of the week.

* MinoredInAssKicking - Sometimes Linda comes across as a soppy, intellectually-bent spiritualilty-geek. For all that, she could kick your arse.

* PoorCommunicationKills - A staple of Fay's relationship with the Twists. It sort of makes sense, because Fay in many ways is the newcomer who hasn't quite figured out how the family works and as such tends to miss obvious cues or take everything at face value. Still, it's noticable how much trouble everyone could have saved themselves if the kids, and to a lesser extent Tony, had just bothered to ''explain'' things to her -- or if she hadn't been in the habit of jumping to conclusions every time something weird happened, because the conclusion she usually jumps to is "the kids hate me."

* ClothesMakeTheManiac - In "Copy Cat", Bronson finds an ancient Mongolian copy cat hat that compels whoever is wearing it to copy what they see. Linda wears it during the `Birdman’ competition and she copies a seagull soaring through the sky. But Dad and Gribble aren’t quite so lucky when they wear the copy cat hat.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything - In "Smelly Feat" Bronson chucks his shoes through a classroom window and everybody inside passes out as if it's a smoke bomb.

* KissingCousins - Kissing ''[[UpToEleven siblings]]'' in "Lucky Lips" due to the [[KissingUnderTheInfluence magical lipstick]].

* MurderousMannequin: "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.

* HollywoodNerd - Anthony has strong shades of this.

* AdultFear - Most notably in "Ice Maiden", when Tony has to perform an emergency stop on a public road[[note]]In an open-topped Land Rover Series III without seatbelts.[[/note]] to avoid running over Bronson as he rolls down a hill inside a trolley. He then has to get out of the car and chase the trolley along the pier, fails to catch it before it falls of the end, then jumps into the water to save his son from potentially drowning.
** Ironically visited upon Bronson in "The Cabbage Patch Fib", as he is stuck bringing up a baby - including all the usual drudgery involved in being a new parent - which threatens to suffocate if held by anyone else. The episode also includes Pete and Linda trying to resuscitate said child after Bronson gives up.

Four series of 13 episodes each were made altogether, produced in 1989, 1992, 1999 and 2000. The first two series were based on the short stories of children's author Creator/PaulJennings, who also wrote the scripts. Due to "creative differences" Jennings left the show after that, taking the rights to his stories with him. When the show was revived seven years later by the Creator/{{ACTF}} (presumably to up the number of episodes to 52, i.e. one for every week of the year), it consisted of original stories written by a new team of writers. During the 7 years the show was off-air, ''Series/TheGenieFromDownUnder'' (a similar but far less popular show also made by the ACTF, but with ''an explanation'' for the unusual events that occurred) took its place. Around the same time, the even-lesser-known series ''Driven Crazy'', also based on Jennings' stories, aired on Creator/Network10.

Four series of 13 episodes each were made altogether, produced in 1989, 1992, 1999 and 2000. The first two series were based on the short stories of children's author Creator/PaulJennings, who also wrote the scripts. Due to "creative differences" Jennings left the show after that, taking the rights to his stories with him. When the show was revived seven years later by the Creator/{{ACTF}} (presumably to up the number of episodes to 52, i.e. one for every week of the year), it consisted of original stories written by a new team of writers. During the 7 years the show was off-air, ''Series/TheGenieFromDownUnder'' (a similar but far less popular show also made by the ACTF, but with ''an explanation'' for the unusual events that occurred) took its place.

* InvisibleStreaker - Linda, in the "Linda 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.

* EatTheCamera - How the opening credits end. On Bronson in series one and two, Linda in series three and four. Also happens to Rabbit at the end of "Spaghetti Pig-Out", when Pete is about to rewind his spaghetti vomiting.

* CurseCutShort - in "Birdsdo"

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: So, so much. It becomes about ten times funnier when said show is aired during kids programming blocks. Aside from the examples mentioned under MoralGuardians, we also have:
** The ''entire'' episode of "Lucky Lips" basically has Pete getting kisses from other women via a tube of magical lipstick. What pushes it is the fact that the lipstick makes anything female kiss its target, whether or not it's a human.
** The "Cabbage Patch Fib" has a scene with Matron Gribble bursting in upon hearing there's a baby present. She proceeds to greet Linda as though she's the one about to give birth. There's a scene at the end as well where Bronson finally gets the "talk."
** The "Wunderpants" episode has a couple of scenes involving Linda and Fiona flicking their eyes down to Pete's crotch. Also a good chunk of the second half has Pete wandering around completely butt naked after the bullies stole his clothes.
** "Quivering Heap" has full-body naked shots (again from behind) of Gribble, Tiger and Rabbit, after a ghost has made their clothes vanish.
** "Little Squirt", centered on Bronson using a water nymph to win a pissing contest in school.
** 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 pier," but she messes it up, to the gleeful amusement of everyone else.)
*** In the French dub, 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).
** The entirety of "The Big Burp," which starts with a PottyEmergency and escalates into an accidental pregnancy -- with the male (Pete) getting pregnant by a dryad. The episode was so raunchy that it was nearly banned from airing in Australia.
** The entire "Viking Book of Love" arc that basically forces whoever is nearby to fall in love with whoever is in their direct path. And it turns into quite sickening love at some points, although it gets used for good at one point.
** Bronson swallows a whirling derfish. His penis basically becomes an instant propeller if you add water.
** "Linda Godiva" has Linda using a magical perfume bottle 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.
** "Dog By Night" has werewolf Pete urinating on a tree, lusting after a domestic dog, drinking out of a toilet and sniffing the arse of Harold Gribble.
*** There's also a subtle joke about constipation when Tony hears Pete's lupine howls from the upstairs bathroom and comments that "Pete needs more roughage in his diet.".

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Pete saying he's a dog trapped in a boy's body and Tony gradually opening up to the idea of it sounds like a typical coming out story, only instead of being gay or transgender Pete is a were-dog.

** Done indirectly in "Ice Maiden" when Bronson becomes infatuated by an ice sculpture to the point of kissing it. He then discovers that the sculpture was based on his cousin Terry, about whom he has been having [[AnxietyDream psychedelic nightmares]]. He very quickly abandons his loathing of her and seems very happy about her [[UnfortunateImplications sleeping in]] [[Squick his bedroom]]. He smiles at her in a rather amorous way throughout.

** One episode has full-body naked shots (again from behind) of Gribble, Tiger and Rabbit, after a ghost has made their clothes vanish.

** Another pretty bad one is how in Series 3 & 4 everyone seem to forget all their experiences 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.

* Main/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.