This show was on in America when I was a kid. At least for a short time. Loved it. If you ever come back to this show again, review the episode Whirling Derfish. It still makes me laugh.
The Big Burp aka the episode where Pete gets pregnant, because he meets up and marries a tree spirit after he literally wee on a tree for over a minute.
Was an awesome show to grow up with. It was kind of the equivalent of goosebumps. Based of a super popular series of books written by author Paul Jennings. They were all gross and twisted stories young kids love to read about and turned into a show.
Skeleton on the Dunny" "Birdsdo" "A Good Tip for Ghosts" "The Cabbage Patch Fib" "Spaghetti Pig Out" "The Gum Leaf War" "Santa Claws" "Wunderpants" "Lucky Lips" "Know All" "The Copy" "Without My Pants" "Lighthouse Blues"
If you like being recommended stuff, I really think you would like The Librarians franchise. It has three made for tv movies and a tv show, and there's a new show coming out this winter.
Round The Twist was a massive world wide hit in the 1990's, including in the US where it was on Fox Kids. Besides the surrealism, it was unusual in that the three most important stars of the show were child actors. Children loved the way the show explored the world of children's imagination.
'Dunny' just means toilet ('loo' also means toilet. Apparently we have a lot of words for toilet). It's not particularly ubiquitous, but is reasonably common out in rural communities. And a panel beater is someone who fixes like... the bodywork of a car. She's basically his face looks like someone reversed into a tree with it.
And now again at the end. Crap like the tooth thing alongside the guy winking in the painting thing (Imagine how much more disturbing that would be on a low Fidelity TV broadcast,) represent the general feel I got from the show from the two or three episodes I saw as a child. And the super catchy end song also stuck with me.
Oh God, you're right. That was probably terrifying. The tooth thing grossed me out probably worse than anything has grossed me out on this channel so far. And the wink was super creepy.
I grew up watching Gary The Cylon as a kid, and it’s free to watch on TH-cam. I may be young, but it’s about as weird as a whole lot of your other material anyway. It’s a great bit of comedy fun.
Over analysing Round the Twist is about to send me round the bend. By the way, is that Barry Otto in the end? One more, I wonder if the character Twist in Spaced was a homage to this series. I mean, it seems like it was rather successful in the UK, although the likes of Pegg would be a bit older than myself. I would have been 12 when this first aired, and yes, we all watched this with great anticipation here in OZ.
As someone who was born and raised in Australia, Round the twist is such a popular children's TV series in Australia and I grew up watching it when I was young. Also just to clarify, it was actually confirmed in 2019 that it started in 1990 not 1989. There is another Australian children's series I recommend you to watch and not many people have heard of this one and it's called The Gift. The whole series is on TH-cam but the first episode got removed due to copyright but the rest of the episodes are still posted, so here is episode 2 th-cam.com/video/nx8AC1Wg8lM/w-d-xo.html
Ah, thank you for letting me know about the air date...I'll make sure to move this episode to the 90s playlist haha. I'll check that out! I actually have gotten one other request for it. :)
@@samih5916 yeah I had completely forgotten until right now so thank you for reminding me, I just saved the episode you sent me to my playlist of future video ideas 😊 there's a member of our community here @lazer125 who's very dedicated to cataloging Australian/NZ content so you may enjoy checking out some of their playlists.
@@AveryTalksAboutStuff you're welcome and sure I'll check their channel out, also three more recommendations of australian kids shows for you to react to in future is Crash Zone, Pugwall/Pugwall's Summer and Horace and Tina.
Australian children's TV nowadays is fine enough, but it just doesn't hit the same as it was back then like in the 80s to the 2000s and some of the 2010s especially when there was less of it since 2019 to 2022 as explained in articles & TV like Behind the News talked on this.
It’s not weird or bad. You just don’t know it. That show was way more entertaining and educational than anything I was able to watch at the time. Better than any American show
I have a lot of respect for this show and have covered several episodes so please don't think I'm looking down on it in any way. I cover things with sarcasm but aim to create a space for people to remember the stuff they grew up with fondly.
If you ever want another kids show to react to, I would 100% recommend 'Jeopardy' (you can find the whole show on TH-cam if you look up 'Jeopardy CBBC'). It's like the Blair Witch Project meets the X-Files (and maybe Lost?) For kids. It is about as intense and full-on as a kids show could be with a genuinely terrifying and high stakes story. Every single episode ended in a jaw-dropping cliffhanger that would have you screaming at the tv. A group of Scottish high school kids and their teacher, as part of a UFO group, go on a school trip into the remote Australian bush to look for aliens. And what follows is a genuine nightmare. From struggling and almost dying in the Australian bush too many times to count, to genuinely terrifying alien abductions with horrific consequences, to mysterious government organisations hunting them down. There are so many extremely unnerving and terrifying things that happen. Even my Mum found the show scary. And just to make it 100x scarier, the majority of the show is filmed in the style of the Blair Witch Project on camcorders. So you experience all the terrifying things the same way the characters do. And it has the same close up shots of terrified faces as in Blair Witch too. I don't think a US channel could ever get away with a show like 'Jeopardy'.
Yes i said about this series like a while back. Series 2 & 3 first time i watching during the pandemic 2 years ago, holy crap the plot got more crazy, weird and scary at times. Certainly one of the lesser known Australian tv shows let alone a Aussie & British sci fi from 2002 (yes 20 years ago, omg i'm old).
@@pokemaniac05 Ooh someone else who has seen the show! It's so underrated even though so many people go "oh yeah, that show freaked me out!" When it gets brought up. Yeah, season 2 and 3 are where the show gets really crazy! The red-eye virus- stuff of nightmares! You could make an 18+ sci-fi horror movie out of that. And the plots like when most of the kids finally make it home (I think through an abduction?), only to find they're like ghosts who can't interact with their families. And to their families they've been missing I think for months and are all presumed dead so they're grieving them. The only way to fix things is to be sent back to Australia and the horror they just escaped from. Pretty dark stuff for a kids show!
@@TheTardisDreamer I have made playlists of this kind of stuff, sadly time has not been kind with copyright, deleted, blocked vids & entire channels closed with a lot of the rare/old Australian & New Zealand media gone on YT and not in other video based sites like Vimeo or Dailymotion.
@@AveryTalksAboutStuff well the avg height if a lighthouse is 300-400(ish) feet. I aint climbing that everytime i need to drop a deuce or brush my teeth. Have fun with that couch player, i will not be helping you move. Bottom floor. The one that only fits a bed, tv, playstation and computer.
@@adamburdt8794 ah, I totally get where you're coming from! I never thought about that but that is quite far to climb every day. I suppose Bronson was smart for picking the lower level room.
@@AveryTalksAboutStuff that's Tamsin West as Linda Twist in the 1st series who sang the iconic theme song. being a Australian living in Sydney, Australian tv shows feel like underappreciated these days, i would say like any of them to do a reaction, but i've seen so many well known and obscure shows that i watched on the internet last year. Sadly tho copyright has made many of these older shows especially, unfortunately almost impossible to find nowadays unless some miracle happens. Paul Jennings the book author that the show is based on his short stories left after Series 2 after some well ended his relationship with Esben Storm (director, script consultant and writer) and so the tv writers had to make their own stories and Jennings went to other show that also based on his stories called Driven Crazy that also started a family like the Twists, but that show is impossible to find episodes on other than a excerpt on episode 1
one of the earliest tv shows i've seen from the ATCF or Australia Children's Television Foundation, which their logo is just a yellow sun and smiley head on the bottom left corn. They are still going to this day since the 1980s, i think Space Nova is the most recent show they worked on or associated with. there are still shows i regret didn't watch like The Tribe, a New Zealand sci fi show that is pretty big more than ever with Covid.
Why does it has to be a bathroom ghost?, I mean, the painting was hidden there... but the writer of the episode put it there. How about, the ghost shows up at a well and they have to go to the well to get water because the pumbling isn't working, a little more re-writing and boom, no more grown-ass dude watching kids going to the loo. And I get it, maybe it's more apealing to kids a "bathroom ghost story" than a "well ghost story" and is a lot more creative, but still, its more creepy than scary... no wait I take that back, it's quite f scary too.
Yeah I definitely agree with the sentiment of being creeped out by a peeping tom ghost. Paired with the sewage tooth bit I had quite a lot of questions with this one. That wink at the end sends chills up my spine every time. 😅
@@AveryTalksAboutStuff The painting part reminds me of the movie "The Witches", the story about the girl in the painting was super disturbing when I saw that movie as a kid.
@@mysfiring Thank you! That does clear up some stuff. I really appreciate you requesting it because it's lovely to learn about stuff I've never seen before, especially knowing it's near and dear to so many people's hearts. 💛 I hope I covered it well and brought back nostalgia for the aussie kids out there. It was fun to go in semi blind and try to figure things out without context. 😂 It really is a charming show and I can totally see why it's so popular.
@@mysfiring cool to see this was the first Australian suggestion to start with and later ones in fact from me & Sami (I guess Natasha with The Saddle Club).
This is me commenting at the very beginning of the video: this show was exhibit a in my growing understanding that having a worldview where the South Pole is up must fundamentally do something to your brain chemistry, because so much of Australian media just seems bizarre in ways that are difficult to describe. The American version of the show, (to me; not officially,) is Eerie Indiana.
I'll have to look up Eerie Indiana since I've never seen that. This show is a trip and kind of reminds me of Goosebumps which I was obsessed with when I was younger. Gives off the same vibe.
As a 30 year old Aussie can confirm grew up watching this show, it's pretty iconic here
It's pretty fantastic!
She called her a "silly old fool" not an a-hole 😂 I watched this every day after school as a kid. I loved it so much.
Lol, sorry my brain tends to mix things up a lot. 😅
This show was on in America when I was a kid. At least for a short time. Loved it.
If you ever come back to this show again, review the episode Whirling Derfish. It still makes me laugh.
Will do! I've seen some people say that it aired briefly in America which I had no idea about. Somehow I completely missed it.
The Big Burp aka the episode where Pete gets pregnant, because he meets up and marries a tree spirit after he literally wee on a tree for over a minute.
The Big Burp is my vote. Whirling Derfish will probably get you demonetised 😂
Round the twist was ahead of its time! amazing show that was.
I'm not even surprised that the Aussies made this, it's right up their alley.
I think this is my first experience with australian media. It's quite something for sure. 😅
The gum leaf war is such a good episode
man its always the abandoned lighthouses where everything goes wrong.
Never trust the abandoned lighthouses y'all. 😂
Was an awesome show to grow up with. It was kind of the equivalent of goosebumps. Based of a super popular series of books written by author Paul Jennings. They were all gross and twisted stories young kids love to read about and turned into a show.
just to make you feel old, the girl who played the 14 year old daughter, Linda (and sang the theme song) is now 50
I was just in the middle of watching Unsolved Mysteries and you now decide to upload!? 😂
Oops 😂
you sneaky son of a squirrel, you! 😂
Skeleton on the Dunny"
"Birdsdo"
"A Good Tip for Ghosts"
"The Cabbage Patch Fib"
"Spaghetti Pig Out"
"The Gum Leaf War"
"Santa Claws"
"Wunderpants"
"Lucky Lips"
"Know All"
"The Copy"
"Without My Pants"
"Lighthouse Blues"
If you like being recommended stuff, I really think you would like The Librarians franchise. It has three made for tv movies and a tv show, and there's a new show coming out this winter.
my primary school librarian used to put this show every time it was raining.
That's amazing! I love that! :D
Paul Jennings was the writer of this series, his books were awesome
The lighthouse is on the great ocean road a bit west of Geelong, it's a beautiful area
Round The Twist was a massive world wide hit in the 1990's, including in the US where it was on Fox Kids. Besides the surrealism, it was unusual in that the three most important stars of the show were child actors. Children loved the way the show explored the world of children's imagination.
I'm in my 30s, watched in the UK when I was a kid and loved it but it also freaked me out at times!
Yeah it's a pretty terrifying show for kids 😳
It's probably a bit late but on the stairs the woman says "silly old fool"
'Dunny' just means toilet ('loo' also means toilet. Apparently we have a lot of words for toilet). It's not particularly ubiquitous, but is reasonably common out in rural communities.
And a panel beater is someone who fixes like... the bodywork of a car. She's basically his face looks like someone reversed into a tree with it.
Interesting...here in the south of the states we also have many slang terms so I love learning different ones from different places. 🙂
Skippy the bush kangaroo is the most Australian kids tv show ...ever 🇦🇺
I've been getting recommended your videos on stop and they are amazing, new sub!!
That's crazy that youtube actually recommended me. 😅 Thank you so much for being here and welcome!
And now again at the end. Crap like the tooth thing alongside the guy winking in the painting thing (Imagine how much more disturbing that would be on a low Fidelity TV broadcast,) represent the general feel I got from the show from the two or three episodes I saw as a child. And the super catchy end song also stuck with me.
Oh God, you're right. That was probably terrifying. The tooth thing grossed me out probably worse than anything has grossed me out on this channel so far. And the wink was super creepy.
Ugh, that sifting through sewage teeth scene made me way more uncomfortable than the toilet ghost
I hate it so much
I love this show so much
If you ever need a guest host let me know!!
Ooh that would be so fun! 🙂
3:03 We're Tigra and Bunny, and we like the boom
You need to watch the marvelous musical mansion !!!!
That sounds amazing! I totally will!
I grew up watching Gary The Cylon as a kid, and it’s free to watch on TH-cam. I may be young, but it’s about as weird as a whole lot of your other material anyway. It’s a great bit of comedy fun.
I'll be sure to check it out! Thanks for the suggestion!
Over analysing Round the Twist is about to send me round the bend.
By the way, is that Barry Otto in the end?
One more, I wonder if the character Twist in Spaced was a homage to this series. I mean, it seems like it was rather successful in the UK, although the likes of Pegg would be a bit older than myself. I would have been 12 when this first aired, and yes, we all watched this with great anticipation here in OZ.
As someone who was born and raised in Australia, Round the twist is such a popular children's TV series in Australia and I grew up watching it when I was young. Also just to clarify, it was actually confirmed in 2019 that it started in 1990 not 1989. There is another Australian children's series I recommend you to watch and not many people have heard of this one and it's called The Gift. The whole series is on TH-cam but the first episode got removed due to copyright but the rest of the episodes are still posted, so here is episode 2 th-cam.com/video/nx8AC1Wg8lM/w-d-xo.html
Ah, thank you for letting me know about the air date...I'll make sure to move this episode to the 90s playlist haha. I'll check that out! I actually have gotten one other request for it. :)
@@AveryTalksAboutStuff you're welcome and I didn't know someone requested you to react to The Gift.
@@samih5916 yeah I had completely forgotten until right now so thank you for reminding me, I just saved the episode you sent me to my playlist of future video ideas 😊 there's a member of our community here @lazer125 who's very dedicated to cataloging Australian/NZ content so you may enjoy checking out some of their playlists.
@@AveryTalksAboutStuff you're welcome and sure I'll check their channel out, also three more recommendations of australian kids shows for you to react to in future is Crash Zone, Pugwall/Pugwall's Summer and Horace and Tina.
Australian children's TV nowadays is fine enough, but it just doesn't hit the same as it was back then like in the 80s to the 2000s and some of the 2010s especially when there was less of it since 2019 to 2022 as explained in articles & TV like Behind the News talked on this.
It’s not weird or bad. You just don’t know it. That show was way more entertaining and educational than anything I was able to watch at the time. Better than any American show
I have a lot of respect for this show and have covered several episodes so please don't think I'm looking down on it in any way. I cover things with sarcasm but aim to create a space for people to remember the stuff they grew up with fondly.
I’m only 13 and I grew up watching this
If you ever want another kids show to react to, I would 100% recommend 'Jeopardy' (you can find the whole show on TH-cam if you look up 'Jeopardy CBBC'). It's like the Blair Witch Project meets the X-Files (and maybe Lost?) For kids. It is about as intense and full-on as a kids show could be with a genuinely terrifying and high stakes story. Every single episode ended in a jaw-dropping cliffhanger that would have you screaming at the tv.
A group of Scottish high school kids and their teacher, as part of a UFO group, go on a school trip into the remote Australian bush to look for aliens. And what follows is a genuine nightmare.
From struggling and almost dying in the Australian bush too many times to count, to genuinely terrifying alien abductions with horrific consequences, to mysterious government organisations hunting them down. There are so many extremely unnerving and terrifying things that happen. Even my Mum found the show scary.
And just to make it 100x scarier, the majority of the show is filmed in the style of the Blair Witch Project on camcorders. So you experience all the terrifying things the same way the characters do. And it has the same close up shots of terrified faces as in Blair Witch too.
I don't think a US channel could ever get away with a show like 'Jeopardy'.
I've gotten so many requests for that one! I'm hoping to cover it soon. :)
Yes i said about this series like a while back. Series 2 & 3 first time i watching during the pandemic 2 years ago, holy crap the plot got more crazy, weird and scary at times. Certainly one of the lesser known Australian tv shows let alone a Aussie & British sci fi from 2002 (yes 20 years ago, omg i'm old).
@@pokemaniac05 Ooh someone else who has seen the show! It's so underrated even though so many people go "oh yeah, that show freaked me out!" When it gets brought up.
Yeah, season 2 and 3 are where the show gets really crazy! The red-eye virus- stuff of nightmares! You could make an 18+ sci-fi horror movie out of that. And the plots like when most of the kids finally make it home (I think through an abduction?), only to find they're like ghosts who can't interact with their families. And to their families they've been missing I think for months and are all presumed dead so they're grieving them. The only way to fix things is to be sent back to Australia and the horror they just escaped from. Pretty dark stuff for a kids show!
@@AveryTalksAboutStuff That's exciting! I'm sure you'll find it really interesting :)
@@TheTardisDreamer I have made playlists of this kind of stuff, sadly time has not been kind with copyright, deleted, blocked vids & entire channels closed with a lot of the rare/old Australian & New Zealand media gone on YT and not in other video based sites like Vimeo or Dailymotion.
I bet that painting smells like 10,000 farts
Oof, you're probably right. 😂
It might have been a ghost and not a vampire, but they were staking out in an outhouse, the garlic would've been very welcome.
True lol 😂
I don't care what anyone says. The top floor is usually the most luxurious but I'm picking the smaller crappy room on the bottom floor.
Tv logic for the win XD
@@AveryTalksAboutStuff well the avg height if a lighthouse is 300-400(ish) feet. I aint climbing that everytime i need to drop a deuce or brush my teeth. Have fun with that couch player, i will not be helping you move. Bottom floor. The one that only fits a bed, tv, playstation and computer.
@@adamburdt8794 ah, I totally get where you're coming from! I never thought about that but that is quite far to climb every day. I suppose Bronson was smart for picking the lower level room.
This was a charming video
Thank you so much! I appreciate you watching! 😊
You have to check out the episode "The Big Burp".
Have you ever, ever felt like this?
Do strange things happen? Are you coming round the twist?
@@AveryTalksAboutStuff that's Tamsin West as Linda Twist in the 1st series who sang the iconic theme song. being a Australian living in Sydney, Australian tv shows feel like underappreciated these days, i would say like any of them to do a reaction, but i've seen so many well known and obscure shows that i watched on the internet last year. Sadly tho copyright has made many of these older shows especially, unfortunately almost impossible to find nowadays unless some miracle happens. Paul Jennings the book author that the show is based on his short stories left after Series 2 after some well ended his relationship with Esben Storm (director, script consultant and writer) and so the tv writers had to make their own stories and Jennings went to other show that also based on his stories called Driven Crazy that also started a family like the Twists, but that show is impossible to find episodes on other than a excerpt on episode 1
@@pokemaniac05 yeah I really enjoyed this one I need to revisit it sometime soon!
one of the earliest tv shows i've seen from the ATCF or Australia Children's Television Foundation, which their logo is just a yellow sun and smiley head on the bottom left corn. They are still going to this day since the 1980s, i think Space Nova is the most recent show they worked on or associated with. there are still shows i regret didn't watch like The Tribe, a New Zealand sci fi show that is pretty big more than ever with Covid.
@@pokemaniac05 I'd love to check out more australian tv. This one was really fun! 😊
The whole "tooth getting flushed down the toilet" thing makes more sense in the original book. They could have adapted this story way better.
This program was soooo weird back in the day! It aired here in the UK also and was rather popular 🙂
I was so happy when it was requested because it's delightfully bizarre. I may cover more episodes in the future. 😊
That would be awesome. Your vids are great ☺️ and you seem rather adorable! ✌️
@@rickshaw3645 Well thank you. 😊 I certainly try my best. 😂
Why does it has to be a bathroom ghost?, I mean, the painting was hidden there... but the writer of the episode put it there.
How about, the ghost shows up at a well and they have to go to the well to get water because the pumbling isn't working, a little more re-writing and boom, no more grown-ass dude watching kids going to the loo.
And I get it, maybe it's more apealing to kids a "bathroom ghost story" than a "well ghost story" and is a lot more creative, but still, its more creepy than scary... no wait I take that back, it's quite f scary too.
Yeah I definitely agree with the sentiment of being creeped out by a peeping tom ghost. Paired with the sewage tooth bit I had quite a lot of questions with this one. That wink at the end sends chills up my spine every time. 😅
@@AveryTalksAboutStuff The painting part reminds me of the movie "The Witches", the story about the girl in the painting was super disturbing when I saw that movie as a kid.
@@raulg22 yeah I know what you mean. It's definitely creepy. 😂
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I couldn't have done it without you so thank you again. 💛
@@AveryTalksAboutStuff
@@mysfiring Thank you! That does clear up some stuff. I really appreciate you requesting it because it's lovely to learn about stuff I've never seen before, especially knowing it's near and dear to so many people's hearts. 💛 I hope I covered it well and brought back nostalgia for the aussie kids out there. It was fun to go in semi blind and try to figure things out without context. 😂 It really is a charming show and I can totally see why it's so popular.
@@AveryTalksAboutStuff I HAVE FOUND A SECOND EPISODE FOR YOU TO COVER: th-cam.com/video/epqA7q9xsY0/w-d-xo.html
@@mysfiring cool to see this was the first Australian suggestion to start with and later ones in fact from me & Sami (I guess Natasha with The Saddle Club).
The nerdest, geekiest woman in the world.
Why thank you, I take that as a compliment 😊
@@AveryTalksAboutStuff 😀😀😀
This is me commenting at the very beginning of the video: this show was exhibit a in my growing understanding that having a worldview where the South Pole is up must fundamentally do something to your brain chemistry, because so much of Australian media just seems bizarre in ways that are difficult to describe. The American version of the show, (to me; not officially,) is Eerie Indiana.
I'll have to look up Eerie Indiana since I've never seen that. This show is a trip and kind of reminds me of Goosebumps which I was obsessed with when I was younger. Gives off the same vibe.
You should watch an Australian show called "Nippers"