The Twits Ending Explained: The Real Reason Beesha Set the Twits Loose

Spoilers ahead for Netflix's animated musical The Twits. If you have any love for Roald Dahl chaos or want to be surprised by why a kid hero frees two absolute goblins at the end, come back later. If not, let’s talk about how this thing goes from gross-out gags to a pretty sharp take on empathy and revenge.

• Title: The Twits (2024)
• Directors: Phil Johnston, Todd Kunjan Demong, Katie Shanahan
• Voices: Johnny Vegas, Margo Martindale, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Ryan Lopez
• Genre: Animation, Musical, Family
• Runtime: 1 hour 42 minutes
• What it is: The first screen take on Dahl’s 1980 book, from Netflix’s 2023 purchase of the Roald Dahl Story Company
• Themes: empathy, family, big imagination, and the cost of getting even

The pitch: the worst couple alive build a trash-fire theme park

Our narrator is Pippa, a grasshopper telling her son about Mr. and Mrs. Twit, a married pair who hate basically everything except each other’s misery and their rotting amusement park, Twitlandia. Think mattresses, junk, filth, and somehow that’s the brand.

We meet Beesha, a 12-year-old orphan with a recorder and a spine, and her best friend Bubsy, a younger kid about to get adopted out of their orphanage run by very-soft-spoken Mr. Napkin.

Bubsy’s last wish before adoption: visit Twitlandia. The park opens… and is immediately shut down for being dangerous, unsound, and smelling like rancid hot dog meat. The Twits retaliate by stealing a truck full of liquid hot dog meat and dumping it into the town of Triperot’s water supply. Yes, that’s an entire meat-juice flood.

The fallout? Bubsy’s adoption tanks because the would-be parents blame the orphanage’s now disgusting tap water. Beesha and Bubsy go hunting for whoever did it and find the stolen truck at Twitlandia. Beesha’s spy-cam catches the Twits admitting everything.

Enter the Muggle-Wumps (and the empathy twist)

While escaping, the kids discover three magical creatures locked in a cage: the Muggle-Wumps, from a place called Loopaland. The Twits keep them hanging upside down because their tears have power, and those tears literally run the park. Early on, Beesha and Bubsy can’t understand a word the Muggle-Wumps say. But when the kids show them a little kindness, it’s like a switch flips and the creatures’ speech becomes clear.

They tell the kids the key to the cage is around Mr. Twit’s neck. Beesha’s video hits the local news, the police arrest the Twits, and Triperot goes into a familiar spiral. The town used to be the fun capital of the world, but Tripe Lake dried up and the economy with it. People are broke and desperate for any promise of a comeback, which is exactly the Twits’ brand of pitch.

"When you really want something to be true, it’s alarmingly easy to convince yourself it is."

One ambitious couple rallies supporters to pay the Twits’ bail with $1,000 donations in exchange for future profits. The Twits get sprung, go home, crash. Beesha and Bubsy sneak in, snag the key, wake the monsters (literally and figuratively), and free the Muggle-Wumps back at the orphanage. The Twits chase them, mug Mr. Napkin for his watch and clothes, and get right back to scheming.

Now they run the town (because of course they do)

The Twits run for mayor and win by cheating. They force the current mayor, Wayne John John-John, to eat a toxic cake that makes his butt explode. He heads off for butt-replacement surgery. The Twits become co-mayors. And with power comes another shot at the Muggle-Wumps, because Twitlandia needs their tears to function. They whip up their followers against Beesha, who is protecting the creatures.

The trap, the toad, and the stolen orphanage

Beesha keeps night watch at the orphanage, worried the Twits will come. Her soft spot: she still believes her real parents might return. Mr. Twit uses a voice changer to fake a call from Mr. Napkin saying her parents are back. She rushes out. It’s a trap. By the time she escapes, Twit loyalists have literally stolen the entire building and hauled it next to Twitlandia.

Beesha is wrecked. Then a weird ally shows up: the Sweet-Toed Toad, a creature from the Twits’ house who speaks in riddles and keeps repeating one line.

"If you lick my toes, opposite your life will go."

The toad nudges Beesha to realize she already has a family: the kids and Mr. Napkin who love and look out for each other.

Reopening day goes nuclear (and honest)

At Twitlandia’s grand reopening, the Twits try playing nice and claim they’ve adopted all the orphans. Translation: free labor as theme park performers. Beesha storms in with the toad. When the creature lands on their faces, the Twits are forced to tell the truth — the toe-lick rule flips your intentions. They admit to scamming everyone and blowing the cash on fireworks. Those fireworks misfire and level the park.

Beesha releases the kids and the Muggle-Wumps, then takes one last swing at stopping the Twits for good. She and the orphans turn the Twits’ house upside down and glue the couple to the ceiling. The Twits think they’re standing upright, but they’re actually hanging. That puts them in danger of catching the shrinks, a curse where you shrink until you vanish.

Why Beesha frees the villains anyway

Back at the orphanage, victory party. But then the Muggle-Wumps’ speech turns to gibberish again. Beesha and Bubsy realize the problem: they lost their empathy by giving in to hate. So they go back and free the Twits. The pair tries to pounce, but Beesha and Bubsy are past being easy marks. The win isn’t about squishing the bad guys — it’s about not letting them change who you are.

Where everyone lands

The orphanage is rebuilt. Mr. Napkin finds his voice — literally thanks to a toe-lick confidence boost. The Muggle-Wumps sell their tear formula as clean energy, get rich, buy the orphanage, and adopt Beesha, Bubsy, and the rest of the kids. Beesha becomes a local hero after suggesting they refill Tripe Lake using floornobles — soft cottony puffs Papa Muggle-Wump sheds when he’s anxious — which hilariously brings tourists roaring back.

The Twits, still awful, try to cure the shrinks by floating away on balloons. They drift off and land in Loompaland, where magical beasts are waiting. Whether that saves them or dooms them is a neat Dahl-verse wink. And one last gag: the narrator, Pippa the grasshopper, and her son? They were stuck in Mr. Twit’s beard the entire time. They finally wriggle free.

Bottom line: The ending is a curveball that works. Beesha’s choice restores her connection to the Muggle-Wumps and gives the movie a smarter edge than you might expect from a story full of meat juice and exploding butts. The Twits is streaming now on Netflix (US).