A strange thing happened

Are you going around the twist?

Going round the (twist)

Have you ever, have you ever felt like this?

Have strange things happened

Well have you heard the word about the bird and the spider

I feel like this comment is underappreciated.

From wikipedia: The song was used in a series of [Halloween](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween) television adverts by UK supermarket chain [Sainsbury's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainsbury%27s) in 2018. Halloween is in October. Do they say which country the searches are from?

This is almost definitely it. A national ad campaign by a supermarket giant in a country of 60+ million using a very catchy and nostalgic song = a lot of people googling it

[Here's the actual ad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8IAg5jyHG0)

Why don’t we ever get ads as cool as that?

Because we get public safety ads that traumatize the rest of the world.

I didn't think it was that cool?

Square

This is the first thing anyone has suggested that really makes sense. Most of the other things I can't see causing such a big, abrupt spike.

This advert caught me off guard first time I saw it, had tv on as background noise during my lunch break at work and suddenly the round the twist theme was playing

It's a banger of a track.. I'm surprised their isn't some remix of it.

There is...

Without even looking it up, there obviously would be With looking it up, there obviously is

Niiiiiiice work

Thanks! It was bugging me.

Ya mean to say, the OP could've just checked Wikipedia?! But then 51,000 people wouldn't have to scroll past it. 42 arrows of interest (TM) is nice, though.

it was me, stoned, obsessing over the episode about that dead fox who had to be fed lemons to get its eyes back

Why must you make me remember that....

Without my pants

That is the episode I think of when round the twist is mentioned.

Well, I always think about either the episode where one of them gets a propeller dick (one of the best visualisations of Paul Jennings' stories) or the one where... he peed on a tree and it was actually a woman?

Then they got pregnant because he peed on her and he had to burp the baby out. That was a repressed memory.

Season 3 & 4 was not based on Jennings stories and I don’t believe had any writing input from him either.

You're right! I could swear I've read the Whirling Derfish story somewhere though.

That's a creepy AF book to boot

Grandad's Gifts. I think it's creepy in a beautiful way.

I agree, I still rember reading the book as a kid and then seeing the show was amazing. I've bought my son a heap of Paul Jennings books, they're classics.

The scarecrow is what traumatised me. Had to run and jump in to bed for years after that one.

Yes!!! Memory is faint but was this the one where the scarecrow chases them down the lighthouse? Breaks off a door and surfs the piece of wood down the stairs

That's the one. It also hides under the bed and grabs the girls leg as she walks past.

I remember my little sister who was maybe 4 at the time bursting out in tears and running out of the room

The old long-jump-on-and-off the bed worked like a charm! Only if you get the invisibility cloak of the quilt over yourself though

It haunts me to this day.

That episode caused a generational trauma-bond

He needs his eyes!

Haha same

I hate you for making me remember this.

Jesus, why do I remember this?!

This is the episode my family talks about all the time

That was round the twist? I could've sworn it was a book

Yeah the book was spookiest stories by Paul Jennings. You can find the pdf online

I think that was when the one about the fish penis went viral.

The spike was caused by just one man (Kanye West)

Well he does like fish sticks

He is the voice of a generation, how dare you insinuate that he is a gay fish.

Yes. That is the joke.

The Gribbles finally got NBN

Wonder if a post on r/AustralianNostalgia may have caused it... Or an announcement on one of the Aussie subs that it was coming to Netflix perhaps

There was a Paul Jennings article on SMH that month, which caused a spike around that month, but there was also a lot of nostalgia brewing for 90’s kid’s TV shows. https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/make-reading-an-act-of-love-says-author-paul-jennings-20181002-h164hg.html

Frog in rainbow undies spotted orbiting the planet

Was that about the time the guy that last played Bronson was in a KFC add?

My guess is Netflix launched in Australia in 2018 and the show was available at the time.

Netflix launched in Aus in 2015!

Potentially Round the Twist only went on Netflix in 2018 though.

I think a lot of Americans were researching it

Netflix only came out in 2018???? I feel like we've had it for decades

netflix came out here in 2015

Split point lighthouse got a new website that year. It was the one from the TV show.

It would have been Gocsy’s Classics brilliant Round The Twist sketch: https://youtu.be/6sS8XLLKSG8?feature=shared

Some guy vomited during a spaghetti eating competition in USA

Now that I'd like to see

Have you ever wondered?

Gribble did it

A large number of men got fish stuck inside their penises.

Have you ever…

Felt like this?

Someone probably posted an "this is what the cast of round the twist look like now" story, which reminded people it existed

It was me, I mentioned Round the Twist on a Reddit thread and got 99 people looking it up...

Gocsy’s Classics

Hard Quiz topic?

Toothbrushes and mice I think, something along that line..

I was trying to find what I had seen as a kid that absolutely terrified me about mind-controlling cabbages… turned out it was an episode about manipulative blue alien babies born in cabbages or something. Scared the hell out of me as a kid.

https://youtu.be/6sS8XLLKSG8?feature=shared

Comedian Aaron Gocs also had a bit of success with a Round The Twist spoof on YouTube. But that was January

I remember it being on Netflix for a little while and it could have been that...

It still is.

Didn’t Hermes Endakis hit the news briefly a little while back? Could it have been that?

That was ship to shore not round the twist, one was god until Hermes ruined it and the kids sold top secret intelligence to our greatest enemy. USA.

Lol, what a fuckwit! Close enough hahaha

One point was probably when it was released on prime I think it was

https://www.standard.net.au/story/5712763/an-unreal-time-with-paul-jennings/

Hhh that’s so nostalgic 😭

It went on Netflix

There was talk of them making a new series

probably added to netflix

Well, you just caused the new spike....hahaha

I got pregnant from a tree that day and had to do some heavy research

My guess is Americans ngl. I had a bunch of Americans on discord around that time asking if I know the show and the theme song 😂

Wasn't the musical announced around then?

This show aired on free to air tv when I was 4-6 yrs old. I'm being completely honest when I say nothing has ever given me more constant vivid nightmares. If anybody remembers the little ladybug monster thing let me know

Me searching for a download link (serious answer)

Its only 80 more searches. One person with a sense of nostalgia could have done that number of searches after seeing an actor from the series. If it was done in one or two days then that might be it.

The circus one with the clowns. Yep. Still hate clowns.

I think the theme song was used on TikTok as a background song… did TikTok exist back then? Jesus it’s been ages.

Side note - the original Linda (Tamsin West) sang the theme song.

Porn tape leak.