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Alex King is an ordinary xiv-year-old boy who has only had the worst year of his life. When he goes to bed the night before his fifteenth altogether, his only promise is that the next year will be amend. In the morn, though, he discovers that time has reset itself; it's his fourteenth altogether again, and he has to live through the entire awful year all over once more. He quickly realises that this "loop year" allows him to use his noesis of the future to change sure events. With the help of his two best friends, Simon Birch and Maddy Kent, he tries to avoid the school dandy, Parker, win the eye of Nicola Grey, the most pop girl in school, and brand it the best year of his life instead. At to the lowest degree, that's what he hopes will happen, but goose egg goes to plan...

The Worst Year Of My Life, Once again is an Australian children'due south comedy show airing on ABC 3 in 2014, with thirteen episodes. It stars Ned Napier as Alex, Laurence Boxhall equally Simon and Tiarnie Coupland equally Maddy.

This serial provides examples of:

  • Abhorrent Gentleman: Big Hannah to Alex in the commencement half of "Valentine's Day". It is kind of his own fault, though.
  • Acquired Error at the Printer: In "April Fool", Simon has a badge made reading 'KING OF PRANKS'. Nevertheless, due to several letters existence squashed together, everyone keeps reading it as 'KING OF PRAWNS'.
  • Aesop Amnesia: Lampshaded. Every episode, Alex seems to forget how the 'Loop Year' kicked his butt the last time he tried to alter anything. By the time of 'School Play', Maddy is sick and tired of giving Alex a You Can't Fight Fate speech over and over, and so she records herself proverb it and plays it to him.
  • Air-Vent Passageway: Used by Alex in "Maths Test" to break into Norris' classroom to either steal (the first time round) or recollect (the 2d time) the test papers. Neither time ends well.
  • Ambiguous Catastrophe: Due to there being only i season. In the final scene of the last episode, "The Terminal Day", Alex goes to bed, turning the light off. The screen is blackness, and so Alex's warning clock rings, with that sound ending the episode. The audition has no idea whether time is back to normal, or whether his worst twelvemonth has been reset withal again.
  • April Fools' Plot: "April Fools Day", naturally.
  • Large Brother Bang-up: 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, it's sometimes hard for the audition to see why.
  • Burger Fool: The Burger Palace, where Alex's parents have him every twelvemonth for his birthday care for. All of the staff wearing apparel in simulated medieval costume (and Howe works there role-time). In this case, it is more than that Alex is embarrassed to exist seen dining at that place. The staff really seem quite enthusiastic.
  • Carrying a Block: The doomed pavlova in "Christmas". Due to the loop year, it ends up being doomed twice.
  • Cloud Cuckoolander : Maddy, definitely.
  • Casual Accidental Disguise: In the Halloween episode, Alex dresses as the Grim Reaper to go to Nicola'due south party. However, he gets diverted to hospital because of Simon's hypochondria and, while trying to avert the law (It Makes Sense in Context), he ends up sneaking through the geriatric ward. Several patients wake upward and see what seems to be Death stalking the corridors and a near riot breaks out.
  • Comedic Underwear Exposure: Alex has two scenes in "April Fools Day" where he ends up wearing cipher merely his underpants in front of a good-sized crowd (including an all-female person health class).
  • Night Horse Victory: Later on Troy wins the cross-land race and gets his photo on the trophy next to Nicola, Alex attempts to use the 'loop year' to ensure that he wins instead. However, his messing with the time line causes neither himself nor Troy to win: with the victor being the one boy too tedious to have been redirected by the detour Alex caused the rest of the runners to run into.
  • Disaster Dominoes: Happens multiple times over the series, as Alex seems to accept a talent for triggering this kind of event. Equally an example, in the terminal episode a pair of bathers striking Parker in the face and become flung away, causing a concatenation of events that knocks multiple people into the pool.
  • Enter Stage Window: In the School Play episode, Alex attempts to attract Nicola'south attention past throwing a stone at her bedroom window. Naturally, he smashes her window.
  • The Freelance Shame Team: This is a regular occurence for Alex. As an example, in "Apr Fools Day" he ends up in his underwear in front of a girls health class the first time round, and and so in front of the school ring during the loop year. In both cases, the audition outburst out in mocking laughter.
  • Fly Crazy: After getting ice cream in his pilus, Alex is plagued by a bee post-obit him effectually. When it gets trapped inside a zorb with him, his attempts to escape information technology set off a string of Disaster Dominoes.
  • Food Slap: Afterwards 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.
  • Daughter Posse: Nicola Greyness has i.
  • Grand Romantic Gesture: Alex tries ii different ones to win over Nicola in "Valentine's Twenty-four hours". Neither really works out for him.
  • "Groundhog Solar day" Loop: The main plot involves effectually this happening to one Alex King.
  • Pilus Flip: Merely virtually whatever time Alex turns his attention to Nicola Grayness (especially if it'south the starting time time she appears in the episode), she will be doing a Hair Flip.
  • Hand-or-Object Underwear: Subsequently losing his Glace Swimsuit, Alex has to wear a deflated puddle toy as a diaper.
  • Hero Stole My Bike: In the School Play episode, Alex steals Simon'south bike in an attempt to catch up to Nicola to persuade her to return to the rehearsal. The second time around, he loses information technology by throwing it into the back of ute to hibernate from the autobus that is chasing him (It Makes Sense in Context). While he is hiding, the ute drives off, taking the wheel with it.
  • Huge Schoolgirl: Big Hannah, a minor character, is this trope and little else.
  • Impairment Shot: When Alex is suffering from a concussion in the school play episode, the audition 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 not a 'dress', as Simon keeps referring to it equally.
  • I Take Offence to That Terminal One: In the first episode, Parker calls Simon "a sniveling little coward". When Maddy comments that he has a point, Simon responds "I'one thousand not that little!".
  • It'southward a Costume Party, I Swear!: In "April Fools Solar day", Simon pranks Alex into thinking it is 'casual clothes and weird hair day' at schoolhouse, then he turns upward out of uniform and with crazy hair. Thank you to the Loop Year, Alex turns the tables on Simon the 2d time 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 main crony. For example, he was actually looking forward to going to the petting zoo with his mum ("It has a pony!").
  • Mistaken for Gay: Alex, by Parker, in "Valentine's Twenty-four hour period" (Alex, it should be noted, has no idea that Parker thinks he'southward gay). Parker seems uncomfortable but is otherwise basically okay with the idea of Alex a) being gay and b) having a crush on him, and doesn't endeavour to embarrass Alex about it. That is, until he believes that Alex is doing a Grand Romantic Gesture to bear witness the whole schoolhouse that they are together, at which indicate he makes certain that everyone knows that no, they aren't.
  • Mundane Utility: Alex, instead of using his knowledge of the future to purchase lottery tickets or predict earth events… tries to impress the daughter he has a crush on. Lampshaded by Simon.
  • My Sister Is Off-Limits!: Simon is very interested in Alex's sister Sam. Alex tries to tell Simon that Sam is very much not interested in him. (Simon doesn't believe him.)
  • Non-Verbal Miscommunication: In "Maths Test", Simon attempts to mime to Alex that Mr Norris had announced that the art instructor was ill. Alex somehow interprets this as they are going to have a maths test.
  • Noodle Incident: Information technology's non clear why Alex turned up at Nicola'south party the previous twelvemonth dressed every bit a sausage. When Maddy asks if it was a costume party, Alex embarrassedly replies "No".
  • Non So Swell Escape: In the first episode, Alex ends up hiding in Mr Norris' contraband cupboard and and so attempting to escape while Norris has his back turned. Unfortunately, his back has seized up from beingness cramped in the cupboard.
  • Oblivious to Love: Alex has admittedly no thought that Maddy has a trounce on him.
  • Open up the Door and See All the People: In "April Fools Mean solar day", Simon tricks Alex into going into a darkened room to modify his dress. When he is down to his underpants, he steps through a door to become abroad from Mr Norris and finds that he is standing in forepart of the girls health class. During the loop year, Alex avoids this but instead ends upward stepping through a door and finding himself in forepart of the school band in his underpants.
  • Putting the Pee in Pool: Invoked. The urban legend of a chemical that turns purple in contact with urine being added to pool h2o is mentioned, with Simon pointing out that it is a urban fable. Later Sam dumps a majestic drinkable on Simon while he is in the puddle, leaving him surrounded by a rapidly spreading circle of purple. Simon tries desperately to tell everyone around him that he has not peed in the pool.
  • Ripple Result-Proof Retentivity: Alex. Downplayed - he specifically says that he doesn't perfectly retrieve everything that happened the first time around, considering he didn't know he was going to take to relive the year.
  • Sadist Teacher: Mr Norris. He particularly seems to accept it in for Alex, but is also shown handing out detentions at the drop of a hat to nigh anyone.
  • Serial Continuity Error: In episode ten, Alex mentions that he was on the floor in Nicola's party because he was trying to get "her stupid dog off me." Nevertheless, this was in the get-go half of episode meaning it was in the first time loop and in the first time loop, he killed Nicola's dog in the previous episode.
  • Glace Swimsuit: Alex loses his broadshorts and the bathers he was wearing nether them in the waterslide on the terminal 24-hour interval of summer. Due to the loop year, this happens twice.
  • Single Girl Seeks About Popular Guy: Gender-flipped: Alex has a crush on Nicola, the nigh popular girl in schoolhouse.
  • Sphere Factor: In "The Last Solar day", Alex gets ice cream in his hair and is plagued by a bee following him effectually. When it gets trapped inside a zorb with him, his attempts to escape it ship him rolling around the pond pool, and triggers a string of Disaster Dominoes.
  • Strange Minds Retrieve Alike: Maddy and Howe seem to operate on the same wavelength, which is not the same as anyone else's. They both go to Nicola's halloween party as the Screaming Schoolgirl/boy (consummate with one-time-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 Wrong: When Simon attempts to pick upwards Samantha, thinking that the year might reset again, he says she should deed fast because tomorrow "he will have forgotten all about 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 Girl: Come across higher up.
  • Urine Trouble: In the Schoolhouse Play episode, Alex caps his Humiliation Conga past causing Nicola's dog to pee over her.
  • We Take the Keys: In the Halloween episode, Alex and Simon scale the fence of Nicola'south house in order to sneak into her party and cease upwardly falling off. Maddy then tries the gate and finds it is open.
  • Why Did Information technology Have to Be Snakes?: In the Halloween episode, we learn that school neat Parker is afraid of clowns.
  • Wild Teen Party: Alex's sister Sam holds ane when they their parents go away in "Sam's Party". Alex attempts to accept advantage of the "loop year" to avoid disaster the 2nd time, but just ends up making things worse.
  • Y'all Can't Fight Fate: This seems to be the mode of things. Every time Alex tries to avoid or change something the 2d time around, information technology either happens in a dissimilar way or something even worse happens.

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