Worst Year of My Life Again Review

Alex King is an ordinary fourteen-year-old male child who has just had the worst year of his life. When he goes to bed the night before his fifteenth altogether, his but promise is that the side by side year will be better. In the forenoon, though, he discovers that time has reset itself; it's his fourteenth birthday again, and he has to live through the entire awful year all over again. He quickly realises that this "loop twelvemonth" allows him to use his knowledge of the time to come to change certain events. With the assistance of his two best friends, Simon Birch and Maddy Kent, he tries to avert the schoolhouse bully, Parker, win the heart of Nicola Grayness, the most popular girl in school, and brand it the all-time year of his life instead. At to the lowest degree, that's what he hopes will happen, merely nothing goes to plan...

The Worst Twelvemonth Of My Life, Over again is an Australian children'southward comedy show ambulation on ABC 3 in 2014, with xiii episodes. It stars Ned Napier as Alex, Laurence Boxhall as Simon and Tiarnie Coupland as Maddy.

This series provides examples of:

• Abhorrent Admirer: Big Hannah to Alex in the first half of "Valentine'due south Day". It is kind of his own fault, though.
• Acquired Mistake at the Printer: In "April Fool", Simon has a badge made reading 'King OF PRANKS'. Even so, due to several letters being squashed together, everyone keeps reading it equally 'KING OF PRAWNS'.
• Aesop Amnesia: Lampshaded. Every episode, Alex seems to forget how the 'Loop Twelvemonth' kicked his butt the concluding fourth dimension he tried to alter anything. By the fourth dimension of 'Schoolhouse Play', Maddy is ill and tired of giving Alex a You Can't Fight Fate speech communication over and over, so she records herself saying it and plays it to him.
• Air-Vent Passageway: Used past Alex in "Maths Examination" to break into Norris' classroom to either steal (the starting time fourth dimension circular) or recollect (the second time) the examination papers. Neither time ends well.
• Cryptic Ending: Due to at that place beingness just 1 season. In the final scene of the last episode, "The Concluding Solar day", Alex goes to bed, turning the calorie-free off. The screen is black, and and so Alex's alarm clock rings, with that sound ending the episode. The audience has no idea whether time is back to normal, or whether his worst year has been reset notwithstanding again.
• Apr Fools' Plot: "Apr Fools Day", naturally.
• Large Brother Bully: A gender-flipped version in Sam, Alex's older sister.
• Bumbling Sidekick: Simon has his moments. Although he and Alex seem to be good friends, information technology's sometimes hard for the audition to see why.
• Burger Fool: The Burger Palace, where Alex's parents accept him every yr for his birthday treat. All of the staff wearing apparel in faux medieval costume (and Howe works in that location part-time). In this example, it is more that Alex is embarrassed to be seen dining there. The staff actually seem quite enthusiastic.
• Conveying a Cake: The doomed pavlova in "Christmas". Due to the loop year, it ends upwards being doomed twice.
• Cloud Cuckoolander : Maddy, definitely.
• Coincidental Accidental Disguise: In the Halloween episode, Alex dresses as the Grim Reaper to go to Nicola's party. Nevertheless, he gets diverted to hospital because of Simon's hypochondria and, while trying to avoid the police force (It Makes Sense in Context), he ends up sneaking through the geriatric ward. Several patients wake up and see what seems to be Death stalking the corridors and a near anarchism breaks out.
• Comedic Underwear Exposure: Alex has two scenes in "April Fools Twenty-four hours" where he ends up wearing nothing just his underpants in front of a good-sized crowd (including an all-female health course).
• Dark Horse Victory: After Troy wins the cross-country race and gets his photo on the bays adjacent to Nicola, Alex attempts to use the 'loop year' to ensure that he wins instead. Withal, his messing with the time line causes neither himself nor Troy to win: with the victor being the one boy too slow to accept been redirected by the detour Alex caused the remainder of the runners to run into.
• Disaster Dominoes: Happens multiple times over the series, as Alex seems to have a talent for triggering this kind of event. Equally an example, in the final episode a pair of bathers hit Parker in the face and get flung away, causing a chain of events that knocks multiple people into the puddle.
• Enter Stage Window: In the Schoolhouse Play episode, Alex attempts to attract Nicola's attending by throwing a stone at her sleeping room window. Naturally, he smashes her window.
• The Freelance Shame Squad: This is a regular occurence for Alex. As an instance, in "April Fools Day" he ends up in his underwear in front of a girls health form the kickoff time circular, and then in forepart of the school band during the loop yr. In both cases, the audience burst out in mocking laughter.
• Fly Crazy: After getting ice cream in his pilus, Alex is plagued by a bee post-obit him around. When information technology gets trapped within a zorb with him, his attempts to escape it set off a string of Disaster Dominoes.
• Food Slap: After a That Came Out Wrong moment, Samantha dumps a drink on Simon while he is in the pool.
• Gang of Bullies: Parker and his friends.
• Girl Posse: Nicola Grey has one.
• 1000 Romantic Gesture: Alex tries 2 different ones to win over Nicola in "Valentine's Solar day". Neither really works out for him.
• "Groundhog Twenty-four hour period" Loop: The main plot involves around this happening to one Alex Male monarch.
• Pilus Flip: Simply almost any fourth dimension Alex turns his attention to Nicola Greyness (especially if it's the first time she appears in the episode), she will be doing a Hair Flip.
• Mitt-or-Object Underwear: After losing his Glace Swimsuit, Alex has to habiliment a deflated puddle toy equally a diaper.
• Hero Stole My Bike: In the School Play episode, Alex steals Simon'southward bike in an attempt to take hold of up to Nicola to persuade her to render to the rehearsal. The second time effectually, he loses it past throwing it into the back of ute to hibernate from the bus that is chasing him (Information technology Makes Sense in Context). While he is hiding, the ute drives off, taking the bike with it.
• Huge Schoolgirl: Large Hannah, a minor grapheme, is this trope and petty else.
• Impairment Shot: When Alex is suffering from a concussion in the school play episode, the audience gets a POV shot of Nicola swimming in and out of focus. Just before Alex throws up on her.
• Insistent Terminology: In "Halloween", Alex is quite insistent that his Grim Reaper costume is a 'robe', and non a 'dress', as Simon keeps referring to information technology equally.
• I Take Offence to That Last One: In the start episode, Parker calls Simon "a sniveling little coward". When Maddy comments that he has a betoken, Simon responds "I'one thousand not that footling!".
• Information technology's a Costume Party, I Swear!: In "Apr Fools Day", Simon pranks Alex into thinking it is 'casual clothes and weird hair day' at school, and then he turns up out of compatible and with crazy hair. Thank you to the Loop Year, Alex turns the tables on Simon the second fourth dimension round and he is the one who comes to schoolhouse out of uniform and with weird hair.
• Minion with an F in Evil: Howe, Parker's master crony. For example, he was actually looking forrad to going to the petting zoo with his mum ("Information technology has a pony!").
• Mistaken for Gay: Alex, past Parker, in "Valentine's 24-hour interval" (Alex, it should be noted, has no idea that Parker thinks he's gay). Parker seems uncomfortable only is otherwise basically okay with the idea of Alex a) beingness gay and b) having a trounce on him, and doesn't endeavour to embarrass Alex about it. That is, until he believes that Alex is doing a Yard Romantic Gesture to show the whole school that they are together, at which point he makes sure that everyone knows that no, they aren't.
• Mundane Utility: Alex, instead of using his knowledge of the time to come to purchase lottery tickets or predict globe events… tries to print the girl he has a crush on. Lampshaded by Simon.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits!: Simon is very interested in Alex's sis Sam. Alex tries to tell Simon that Sam is very much not interested in him. (Simon doesn't believe him.)
• Not-Verbal Miscommunication: In "Maths Test", Simon attempts to mime to Alex that Mr Norris had appear that the fine art teacher was sick. Alex somehow interprets this as they are going to have a maths examination.
• Noodle Incident: It's non clear why Alex turned upwards at Nicola's party the previous yr dressed equally a sausage. When Maddy asks if it was a costume party, Alex embarrassedly replies "No".
• Not Then Smashing Escape: In the offset episode, Alex ends upwards hiding in Mr Norris' contraband cupboard and then attempting to escape while Norris has his back turned. Unfortunately, his back has seized upward from beingness cramped in the cupboard.
• Oblivious to Love: Alex has absolutely no idea that Maddy has a vanquish on him.
• Open up the Door and See All the People: In "April Fools Day", Simon tricks Alex into going into a darkened room to change his clothes. When he is downwards to his underpants, he steps through a door to get away from Mr Norris and finds that he is standing in front of the girls health class. During the loop year, Alex avoids this just instead ends upward stepping through a door and finding himself in front of the school ring in his underpants.
• Putting the Pee in Pool: Invoked. The urban legend of a chemical that turns purple in contact with urine beingness added to pool h2o is mentioned, with Simon pointing out that it is a urban legend. Afterward Sam dumps a imperial beverage on Simon while he is in the pool, leaving him surrounded by a apace spreading circle of purple. Simon tries desperately to tell everyone around him that he has not peed in the pool.
• Ripple Result-Proof Retention: Alex. Downplayed - he specifically says that he doesn't perfectly think everything that happened the starting time fourth dimension around, considering he didn't know he was going to take to relive the yr.
• Sadist Teacher: Mr Norris. He particularly seems to have it in for Alex, only is also shown handing out detentions at the drib of a hat to almost anyone.
• Series Continuity Error: In episode 10, Alex mentions that he was on the floor in Nicola'southward political party because he was trying to get "her stupid dog off me." However, this was in the first half of episode significant it was in the outset time loop and in the offset time loop, he killed Nicola'southward canis familiaris in the previous episode.
• Glace Swimsuit: Alex loses his broadshorts and the bathers he was wearing nether them in the waterslide on the concluding solar day of summer. Due to the loop year, this happens twice.
• Unmarried Girl Seeks About Pop Guy: Gender-flipped: Alex has a crush on Nicola, the almost pop girl in school.
• Sphere Factor: In "The Last Day", Alex gets ice cream in his hair and is plagued by a bee post-obit him effectually. When it gets trapped inside a zorb with him, his attempts to escape it transport him rolling around the swimming pool, and triggers a string of Disaster Dominoes.
• Strange Minds Think Alike: Maddy and Howe seem to operate on the same wavelength, which is not the same as anyone else's. They both become to Nicola's halloween party as the Screaming Schoolgirl/boy (consummate with sometime-fashioned wooden ruler), and later Howe is able to tell - with no prompting - that Maddy's 'scary' costume is her dentist dressed to become to a party.
• That Came Out Incorrect: When Simon attempts to choice up Samantha, thinking that the twelvemonth might reset again, he says she should act fast because tomorrow "he volition have forgotten all virtually her". Realising what he has just said, he says "That didn't come out right" and she dumps a drink on him.
• ¡Three Amigos!: Alex, Simon and Maddy.
• Two Guys and a Daughter: Encounter higher up.
• Urine Trouble: In the Schoolhouse Play episode, Alex caps his Humiliation Conga by causing Nicola'southward domestic dog to pee over her.
• Nosotros Take the Keys: In the Halloween episode, Alex and Simon scale the fence of Nicola's house in order to sneak into her party and terminate up falling off. Maddy and so tries the gate and finds it is open.
• Why Did It Have to Exist Snakes?: In the Halloween episode, we learn that school bully Parker is afraid of clowns.
• Wild Teen Political party: Alex'due south sis Sam holds one when they their parents become abroad in "Sam's Party". Alex attempts to take advantage of the "loop year" to avoid disaster the second time, but just ends up making things worse.
• You Tin can't Fight Fate: This seems to be the way of things. Every time Alex tries to avoid or change something the second fourth dimension around, it either happens in a different way or something fifty-fifty worse happens.

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