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a series of Round The Twist plot summaries that I can fit within single tweets
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The villainous Mr Gribble is trying to have Nell, who says she has seen a dragon, committed as insane so that he and a group of Arab investors can buy her cottage. The kids set out to prove her sanity and save her house by finding the dragon and retrieving Nell's missing rubies.
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Gribble Jr and his gang give new boy Pete a nerve test on his first day at the new school. He has to collect a rotting skull from the middle of the pond in the haunted tip at midnight. Pete not only passes the test, but also comes back with a surprise present for Gribble.
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8 year old Bronson wants to know where babies come from. Dad directs him to the cabbage patch where he finds a real live green baby. When the baby thinks Bronson is his father, Bronson takes on the role of parent but when that becomes too demanding, he tries to put the baby back.
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A bolt of lightning hits the video remote control at the lighthouse and suddenly it works on people. The PAUSE button freezes everyone - but it's the REWIND that causes the most trouble, especially when Rabbit pigs out in the school's 3rd annual spaghetti-eating competition.
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When Pete dries his underpants in the microwave, he gains special powers, and is tempted to get even with Gribble Jr. But the underpants don't like the water and shrink. Left nude on the beach, Peter finds it hard to get to the race where his frog, Loopy Leaper, is due to start.
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The Twists find a trunk full of old circus costumes washed up and decide to dress up the scarecrow in the clown's costume. But the scarecrow comes to life and chases Linda, dressed as the lady clown. Fortunately Dad, dressed as a fortune teller, sees all and knows all.
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[so many of these are just a little too long, and it is very painful for me not to include them. but I'm doing my best]
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Mr. Gribble plans to build an aquatic wonderworld on a beautiful stretch of a natural waterway. Bronson, who is the humiliated loser of the school peeing competition, finds an ally in a water spirit who helps him defeat Mr. Gribble and prove that he is no "little squirt."
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Bronson upsets Miss James by refusing to attend her birthday party. But there is something Bronson absolutely has to do at precisely the same time. It is a matter of life and death! Could it be something to do with the fact Bronson has not washed his feet for the last 6 months?
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Pete finally meets the girl of his dreams. He can't believe his luck — Jeannie is the most beautiful girl in Port Niranda — even if she is a tree spirit. But when Pete discovers he is pregnant, Linda, Bronson and the Gribble Gang deliver the surprise of their lives.
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When Bronson swallows a rare whirling derfish nobody could have guessed his willy would spin like a propeller and he would become a human outboard motor. Then Linda discovers the derfish is one of the last breeding pair in existence and she demands that Bronson cough it up.
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Bronson teams up with resident geekazoid Anthony for a science project that ends up with Pete and Linda having their brains sucked out. While Bronson is searching for their brains at the local tip, Gribbs and his gang kidnap Linda and Pete's bodies and make them their slaves.
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Linda's old Veronique doll comes back to haunt her. It won't leave her alone, neither will Gribbs who has heard Linda read from the Viking Book of Love and is acting really weird.
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All of these from australiantelevision.net/rtt/series1.html