It has been more than three decades since the children’s author Paul Jennings first wrote the scripts for Round the Twist, but Australians of a certain age will still have a favourite episode. It might be the one about a tube of lipstick that made everyone want to kiss you, or perhaps the tale of a remote that can rewind and fast forward time (used to disastrous effect during a spaghetti-eating competition). Maybe you have fond memories of the Twist family – siblings Pete, Linda and Bronson, and their widower dad, Tony – and the strange lighthouse they called home. Have you ever, ever felt like this?
For the 36-year-old composer and playwright Paul Hodge, the episode etched in his mind involves a pair of shoes so smelly their stench could knock someone out – a superpower deployed by Bronson Twist while yelling “Up the pong!”
