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''RollerCoaster'' followed a well-established format for Australian children's television. In order to comply with government-mandated Australian content regulations, local broadcasters have traditionally engaged a local presenter or team of presenters to "wrap" (or "top and tail") pre-produced segments such as cartoons. These shows offer a relatively inexpensive means of filling children's viewing times on Australian TV—the wrapper segments are generally made with a small crew and feature minimal production values; in the early days of Australian television the wrapper segments were performed live, although today they are now usually pre-recorded. The outsourced content is often purchased at relatively low cost, and for many decades Australian networks have been offered package-deal rates by American production houses and networks, as an incentive to purchase bundled content.
The 'outsourced' segments of the show were most commonly short animated series. Many of these programs are produced outside Australia with most sourced from other English-speaking countries, chiefly the United States, Britain, Canada and New Zealand. ''RollerCoaster'' alternates these short programs (e.g. ''[[Shaun the Sheep]]'', ''[[The Mr. Men Show]]'') with longer animated or live-action children's programs in a variety of genres, such as ''[[Roman Mysteries]]'', ''[[Wolverine and the X-Men (TV series)|Wolverine and the X-Men]]'', ''[[Naturally Sadie]]'', ''[[6Teen]]'', ''[[Carl Squared]]'', ''[[Atomic Betty]]'', ''[[Girlstuff/Boystuff|Girl Stuff, Boy Stuff]]'' ''[[Young Dracula]]'', ''[[Lizzie Mcguire]]'', ''[[Even Stevens]]'', ''[[Zoey 101]]'', ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'', ''[[Best Ed]]'', ''[[Silversun]]'', ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', ''[[Round the Twist]]'' and more recently, the children's [[reality TV|reality]] competition ''[[Escape from Scorpion Island]]''. Such programs are usually produced for
The locally produced portions of ''RollerCoaster'' featuring Spencer featured a number of recurring segments including: "Fetch", "Feed Me", "Now Poll", "MEE News", and "The Surfing Scientist" and "Professor Slo and Doctor Mo". Many of these segments included elements of audience participation or contributions via email or the ''RollerCoaster'' website's moderated chat rooms and message boards.
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