Round the Twist: 'Now, mate! Now!'

Title:

Round the Twist: 'Now, mate! Now!'

NFSA ID

713061

Year

1992

Summary

Pete’s (Ben Thomas) day gets worse when Gribble Junior (Richard Young) and his gang Rabbit (Drew Campbell) and Tiger (Nick Mitchell) find out how to trigger his chook behaviour. With some snails, they lie in wait. Summary by Annemaree O'Brien.

CURATOR'S NOTES

Taboo humour and a great comic lead in and payoff make this a very funny scene. The yuck factor is huge when Pete eats the snails.

Round the Twist synopsis

Pete has been hypnotised by Linda and every time someone says the word 'now’ he behaves like a chicken for ten seconds. Unfortunately, Linda can’t undo the hypnosis so Pete gets into some serious trouble at school.

Round the Twist curator's notes

This is the first episode of the second series of Round the Twist, introducing new actors in many key roles. All the young actors changed as the original child actors were now too old to play their characters. The actors playing the roles of Mr Gribble and Matron Gribble also changed with Mark Mitchell taking on the role of Mr Gribble with his customary gusto. Mitchell created a larger than life Mr Gribble and remained a constant throughout the following series. This change of cast didn’t appear to impact on the popularity of Round the Twist.

Round the Twist Series Two first went to air on the ABC on 20 March 1993.

Notes by Annemaree O'Brien