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Pete (Sam Vandenberg) and Rabbit (Stuart Atkin) are competing in a highly competitive spaghetti-eating contest, skilfully hosted by Tiger (Cameron Nugent). Gribble Junior (Lachlan Jeffrey) uses the remote control to help Rabbit eat multiple bowls of spaghetti but he eats too much with predictable consequences. In the confusion, Pete gets the remote control, looks at the suffering Rabbit, and then presses rewind. It’s payback time!
Curator’s notes
This is one of the gloriously yucky moments in Round the Twist. The scene captures the irreverence of the series with a beautifully timed mix of slapstick and taboo humour. Camera work and editing are used to build up the tension, cutting from character to character in the lead up to the pay-off at the end. It’s funny when 27 bowls of spaghetti are vomited onto the audience but then Pete picks up the remote control! The audience is left to anticipate the horror of this stunning final action.
