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Height - but no one was as accomplished as in this episode "Little Squirt" of the Australian kids TV series "Round The Twist".

If you don't have the attention span to get the full background - the denouement is at 21m30 of this video on the programme's official channel. From the 1980s - the past is indeed another country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sxR-hfisPs