History WesternAnimation / TheTwins2000

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* WildHair: Nelly's hair is perpetually unkempt, with strands sticking out all over the place. In the original book, she says that she doesn't like to have it combed, and that her mother says it "looks like a haystack".

Not to be confused with the [[Videogame/TheTwins mobile game of the same name.]]

* PantyShot:
** Happens to Lil when she bends over to grab some clothes from her wardrobe in "Happy Campers".
** A frequent occurrence in "Trampoline", mainly coming from Amy bouncing on the titular trampoline. Also shown with Lil using her jump rope and getting tangled up by Nelly's, and with Nelly sitting on the couch when Mikey comes over.

The series originally aired from 2000 to 2001 on Creator/{{YTV}} in Canada and Creator/{{CITV}} in the UK. While it did see a small home release, it is mostly considered lost media. However, recordings of a handful of different episodes have been uploaded to Youtube.

** In ''Swimming'', Lil and Nelly's father spends much of the episode talking to the fourth wall about how much he's looking forward to taking the girls to the pool. After dealing with a ridiculously strict lifeguard and giving him his comeuppance, he decides he's had enough and takes the girls out to eat instead. The episode ends with him addressing the camera one last time: "What did you expect? That lifeguard was a pain!"
** In ''Where's Snaily?'', Amy asks her father to buy her a toy barbecue set. He's hesitant at first, but Amy manages to convince her by crying and begging him to do so. After he leaves, she immediately stops crying, turns to the camera and says: "Works ''every'' time." This is repeated by Lil, and also said while facing the camera, when she manages to sweet-talk Amy into letting her play with her barbecue set, so she can search her backyard for Snaily.
* BrickJoke: At the start of ''Holiday'', when Amy brags to the girls about her upcoming trip to the Caribbean, Nelly lies and says that they're going somewhere even better. Amy responds by saying: "I'll believe it when I get your postcard." Fast-forward to the end of the episode, when the girls win a game show and get an island vacation as their prize. They send a postcard to Amy, who takes it about as well as you'd expect.

* CampingEpisode: ''Happy Campers'', in which the girls see Amy's father putting up a fancy tent in her backyard, and he invites them and their friend Mikey to come camping later that night. HilarityEnsues.

* CaptainObvious: In ''Trampoline'', Mikey comes over to show the girls a balloon he has. One of the things he says about it is that "You can blow it up!" Lil and Nelly respond thusly:

** In ''Holiday'', Nelly asks the garbage man to ask her some trivia questions to help her practice for the game show. When she can't answer any of them, she insists that he only ask her questions she knows the answer to - specifically, questions pertaining to snails. The question he asks her is whether a snail is a mammal or a mollusk. Fast-forward to the game show, and with the scores tied, the last question is to name a mollusk. Nelly is able to answer it, thus letting she and Lil win.
** ''Trampoline'' starts with Lil and Nelly playing with jump ropes in the backyard, where Lil eventually discovers Nelly's bucket of a nasty concoction called "compost soup". Near the end of the episode, the girls get the idea to prank Amy by tying the bucket to a tree in Amy's yard using both ropes. Pulling on the rope sends the bucket bouncing on the trampoline alongside Amy, eventually landing right on top of her head and covering her in the stuff.

* FakeHairDrama: ''Swimming'' features a lifeguard with long blond hair, which causes Lil to fall head over heels for him. However, when Lil drops Fluffy into the pool and the lifeguard jumps in to save him, it's revealed he was wearing a wig the whole time. This after he made fun of both Lil and Nelly's hairstyles.

* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: One of the many ways in which Lil and Nelly differ, with Nelly being the foolish sibling and Lil the responsible one. For example, in ''Holiday'', Lil decides to immediately hit the books and study up for the game show, while Nelly slacks off and decides to play cards with Snaily instead.
* GameShowAppearance: In ''Holiday'', Lil and Nelly convince their parents to sign them up for a trivia game show in the hopes that they might win an island vacation.

* IdiotHair: Lil wakes up with a small section of her hair sticking out at the beginning of ''Where's Snaily?''. She doesn't take to kindly to this realization.

** In ''Holiday'', when Lil and Nellie imagine how they'll spend their island vacation if they win it.
** In ''Swimming'', when the girls' father imagines what their trip to the pool will be like.
** In ''Sand Castles'', Lil pictures herself as a princess living in a majestic sand castle, only to be interrupted by Nelly getting dust everywhere.
** In ''Happy Campers'', the girls' mother has a disastrous premonition of how the camping trip in Amy's backyard will turn out, which involves Lil and Nellie dressed up as Native Americans and having BoundAndGagged Amy.

** Happens to Lil when she bends over to grab some clothes from her wardrobe in ''Happy Campers''.
** A frequent occurrence in ''Trampoline'', mainly coming from Amy bouncing on the titular trampoline. Also shown with Lil using her jump rope and getting tangled up by Nelly's, and with Nelly sitting on the couch when Mikey comes over.

* SpoiledBrat: Amy. Her parents (mainly her father) feed into it, buying her just about everything she wants. For example, in ''Sand Castles'', when Amy shows the girls her fancy talking wristwatch, she says her father bought it for her because she's "worth it".
* StrippingTheScarecrow: When Lil and Nelly end up trashing their tent in ''Happy Campers'', Amy's mother lets Nelly sleep in Amy's bedroom and gives her a nightgown to wear. Nelly, not caring one bit for the nightgown, steals some torn up clothes from a scarecrow in the backyard, letting it wear the nightgown instead.

* ToiletHumor: When Mikey comes over in ''Trampoline'', he shows off his balloon by blowing it up, letting it go, and sending it flying around the room making fart-like noises - as one might do with a balloon. Then comes Nelly (of course) with ''this'' gem:

* TropeyComeHome: In ''Where's Snaily?'', Lil accidentally flings Snaily into Amy's backyard along with the stick he was resting on. She doesn't realize that Snaily was there until the following day, when she and Nelly go into their own backyard to look for him. Long story short, Lil ventures into Amy's backyard and is able to bring Snaily back home safe and sound.

[[caption-width-right:350: The four main characters, playing cards. [[note]]From left to right: Nelly, Snaily, Fluffy, and Lil. [[/note]]]]

* ChekhovsGun: In ''Holiday'', Nelly asks the garbage man to ask her some trivia questions to help her practice for the game show. When she can't answer any of them, she insists that he only ask her questions she knows the answer to - specifically, questions pertaining to snails. The question he asks her is whether a snail is a mammal or a mollusk. Fast-forward to the game show, and with the scores tied, the last question is to name a mollusk. Nelly is able to answer it, thus letting she and Lil win.

* PantyShot: Happens to Lil when she bends over to grab some clothes from her wardrobe in ''Happy Campers''.

The series originally aired from 2000 to 2001 on YTV in Canada and [=CiTV=] in the UK. While it did see a small home release, it is mostly considered lost media. However, recordings of a handful of different episodes have been uploaded to Youtube.

''The Twins'' is a Canadian animated children's series based on the 1998 book of the same name by John Wallace and produced by CINAR. The show centers around a pair of 5-year-old twin sisters: Lil, who is well-mannered and prefers to keep things clean, and Nelly, who loves nothing more than getting messy. Naturally, their night-and-day personalities tend to get them into quite a bit of trouble, but they're always able to put their heads together and work their way out of it. Other characters include the girls' parents; Fluffy, Lil's talking stuffed rabbit; Snaily, Nelly's pet snail; and Amy, the girls' spoiled next door neighbor.

* GreenIsGross: Nelly's parts of the original book are represented by the color green, representing her love for all things gross. This carries over to the show: Her pet, Snaily, is green himself; and in the opening sequence, she's seen with a green blanket as a baby, and one half of the title card's background is green to oppose Lil's pink.

* ExpressiveHair: In the original book, after discovering Nelly's additions to the school project the book is framed around, Lil's normally smooth hair stands on end to reflect her anger. However, her fear turns out to be unfounded, as her project ends up being the best one in the class.

* WildHair: Nelly's hair is perpetually unkempt, with strands sticking out all over the place.