Story by Matthew Donlan, Martin Cartlon, Magnus Scheving
Written by Noah Zachary, Cole Louie, Magnus Scheving
Directed by Steve Feldman, Jonathan Judge
Executive producers - Magnus Scheving, Ragnheidur Melsted, Raymond P. Le Gue, Mark Read, Brown Johnson, Kay Wilson Stallings
Starring Magnus Scheving, Stefan Karl Steffanson, Julianna Rose Mauriello
Puppeteers - Ronald Binion, Gudmondor Thor Karason, Jodi Eichelberger, David Matthew Feldman, Julie Westwood, Amanda Maddock
Zap It. I hardly remember anything about this episode.
EDIT: So I just lost two hours work of my post.. so I am redoing it.. very short way. I apologize. I promise you that the next review will definitely be in proper form.
So Sportacus cleans his bed with a hockey stick and roller skates which makes me think I'd like cleaning my room if I did that too, Milford trips over Stephanie's skateboard, and asks if she can clean it later. Steph likes dancing, asks to do stuff later and owns a journal, just like me.
Milford says yes, they play a video game, Steph tries to leave but Pixel makes gagdet to get rid of stuff, they do it to Steph's room, Ziggy drowns in his candy pile looking for chocolate, Sportacus saves him and they demonstrate the Zapper 6000 to Ziggy, Robbie is eavesdropping and takes the remote control while they play video games while singing Gizmo Guy then Ziggy spills the soda that Pixel made disappear and Milford trips over the invisible mess that Stephanie left in her room. Robbie zaps Sportacus in a little kid costume, blah blah, Sportacus is invisible now, he gets the Zapper back, the town is restored to normal, the episode ends with Robbie's underpants getting zapped, the end.
6/10
I need to start writing reviews somewhere else. Maybe I should copy and paste them to Tumblr ? Normal review of 'Records Day' coming soon.
Written by Noah Zachary, Cole Louie, Magnus Scheving
Directed by Raymond P. Le Gue
Executive producers - Magnus Scheving, Ragnheidur Melsted, Raymond P. Le Gue, Mark Read, Brown Johnson, Kay Wilson Stallings
Starring Magnus Scheving, Stefan Karl Steffanson, Julianna Rose Mauriello
Puppeteers - Ronald Binion, Gudmondor Thor Karason, Jodi Eichelberger, David Matthew Feldman, Julie Westwood, Amanda Maddock
The
first season of LazyTown was ordered 40 episodes, but the producers met
their deadline and only produced 35. Thus being why there are four clip
shows in this seasons - and I remember not being very fond of this one.
The
episode begins with a recycled cold open from the episode before this -
The Laziest Town. Only the banana scene plays and we get a new shot of
the peel falling onto the ping pong ball, but couldn’t they have just
filmed a new one or just recycled from an even OLDER episode? Taking it
from the previous one is just.. Lazy in LazyTown.
Stephanie
is in her room with her diary and Milford has messed up the laundry -
his pants shrunk & one of his socks are pink. He offers to give it
to her, but she is writing in her diary about everything that happens in
LazyTown and she shows Milford a page about the first day she was in
town (Welcome to LazyTown).
Then
a page about when Milford spilled Bessie’s drink and when he nearly
fell from the ladder (Sportafake), and then when they played against the
Soccer Bot (Soccer Sucker). That scene just grinds my gears, spoilers!
Soccer Sucker is the TWENTY FOURTH episode of LazyTown. THIS IS THE
SIXTEENTH.
Milford
asks about how Stephanie has time to write in her diary (she looks at
the clock, durr) because she’s full of energy, and then she remembers
the time they sang a song about it (Sports Day). Meanwhile, Robbie is
eavesdropping on Stingy and Trixie fighting over a basketball.
Stephanie
pops up and they stop talking to each other. Trixie asks Stephanie to
prove that Stingy says everything is his a lot - like the time he said
the seesaw was his (Welcome to LazyTown), the time he said the ladder
was his (Sportafake), the time he said Ziggy’s candy maker was his
(Happy Brush Day) and the song he made about it
(It’s Mine!) which is genuinely amazing. Not because of the memes or
anything. Then they mock the song and Stingy says that it’s his song
(which he’s right, but the thing is they changed up the lyrics to
‘absolutely definitely mine’)
Stephanie
says she writes everything good in her diary, and then she flips to a
page with the song 'Step by Step’ (Hero for a Day) and when they built
the treehouse. So 75% of this episode is recycled footage and shots. How
annoying. So they go to a bench and decide to do some cartwheeling with
music. Stephanie goes to get the boombox and Trixie says 'Oh, well I
guess I’ll just stay here, okay’. It wasn’t really that funny, but the
way 'Ok’ is said really topped it off. LOLZ.
Robbie
wants to stop this icky friendness (Stefan Karl himself said deep down
Robbie wants some friends) so he gets a pink piece of paper that was
coincidentally next to him that he didn’t have at all before this scene
and writes the following words- 'DEAR DIARY. MY WORST FRIEND IS TRIXIE
MY SECOND WORST FRIEND IS PIXEL MY 3.RD WORST FRIEND IS ZIGGY AND MY
4.TH WORST FRIEND IS PIXEL’. He puts the slip of paper on the bench and
Trixie reads it.
It’s
funny because even a blind person could tell that’s not Stephanie’s
cursive handwriting.. It’s not even in cursive. Not to mention, no idiot
actually writes secrets in a diary. It’s not like the book has a high
tech security system. The plan succeeds and Trixie reads it to everyone.
Ziggy is pumped when Trixie says Ziggy is her 3rd favourite and starts
bragging. LOL!!
Anyways,
they all are super mad at her and Stephanie is sulking in her bedroom.
Meanwhile Milford has washed his shirt and turned the letters on it
upside down (how do you even do that..??).
He
says he will use it when he will stand on his head (kinda funny) but
Stephanie is too sad to respond. He asks what is wrong and Stephanie
says Trixie is being mean to her for no reason (she does have a reason,
so Stephanie is WRONG!!).
The
above screenshot makes me realize that Stephanie’s eyelashes look
really stupid. She’s obviously got her eyes open, but you can’t see them
because of the stupid eyelashes. It looks like she’s crying black tears
- 'Loud House’ style. Anyways, Milford’s advice is to ask her other
friends what’s going on and Stephanie says Milford is the best. Maybe
not in laundry, but, eh.
So
Stephanie walks in Pixel’s house and they all shuffle to the other side
of his couch and everyone is avoiding face contact and nobody’ll talk
to her. She is pissed and walks off 'angry-black-mom’ style. I don’t
blame her.
An
instrumental version of 'Have you Never Been Sad’ plays over clips of
Stephanie walking slowly and sadly. I nearly got teary eyed myself, but
Sportacus came to the rescue. Enough crying. I need to see his
backflips.
Stephanie
tells the whole story to Sportacus and how she gives up on the whole
thing. Sportacus then comes back with her own argument - Always a Way
(Defeeted). After the song finishes, Sportacus goes to Pixel’s house to
see what’s wrong and they say that she said mean things about them all.
Then Stingy shows Sportacus the note.
But
he doesn’t believe Stephanie wrote it (more proof for my headcanon
Stephanie is Sporty’s favourite of the childs). He tells them to go talk
to Stephanie about it, and Stephanie says she didn’t do it while Robbie
is watching.
Her
first piece of proof - her diary paper is white. Her second piece of
proof - she only writes nice stuff - e.g. Stingy returning Sportacus’
crystal (The Great Crystal Caper), Pixel making the treehouse blueprint,
when Ziggy worked out with Sportacus (Super Hero for a Day), and when
Trixie saved her (Lazy Scouts). She should be a lawyer. While they are
all hugging, Robbie snatches the diary again.
Except,
this time, he is gonna write bad stuff about Sportacus ('Sportacus is
SO annoying!’) But he gets distracted by a page Stephanie has written
about him. She has written the following: 'Robbie really likes cake
(Swiped Sweets). Sometimes he does funny stuff (falling in Welcome to
LazyTown). Other times, he just wants to relax (Super Hero for a Day).
But mostly, I think he’s a big softie.’ What a kind soul. Meanwhile, the
kids notice it is lost and start looking for it. Robbie proves the
'softie’ statement by giving the diary back.
Robbie
is curious as if she is gonna write about him and he puts his finger in
the diary. Then she closes it and Robbie just says he’s curious. Aw,
man, I feel bad for him. He did something nice then right after it
Stephanie thinks he’s gonna snoop. ): To answer the question, Stephanie
writes the following: 'Robbie Rotten can be super sneaky. One time he’. Then Bing Bang plays
- a montage of scenes from the past 15 episodes in a 'sitcom finale’
style. (This is recycled for 'Greatest Hits’.) Maybe this would’ve fit
better as the finale of Season 1 over Sportacus on the Move! The episode
ends with Stephanie closing her diary on a page that says 'Living in
Lazytown is great! Living in Lazytown is great! Living in Lazytown is
great! Living in Lazytown is great!’ No joke.
This is one of those episodes that become better once you watch it more. Kinda like with some Sports Candy.
(From now on, all screenshots in these reviews are taken BY ME.)
Original airdate: June 6, 2005
Story by Magnus Scheving
Written by Noah Zachary, Cole Louie, Magnus Scheving
Directed by Raymond P. Le Gue, Magnus Scheving
Executive producers - Magnus Scheving, Ragnheidur Melsted, Raymond P. Le Gue, Mark Read, Brown Johnson, Kay Wilson Stallings
Starring Magnus Scheving, Stefan Karl Steffanson, Julianna Rose Mauriello
Puppeteers
- Ronald Binion, Gudmondor Thor Karason, Jodi Eichelberger, David
Matthew Feldman, Julie Westwood, Amanda Maddock, Sarah Burgess
The
Laziest Town - an episode of LazyTown I haven’t watched in about two or
three years. I remember a lot, but is it really the same now?
The
episode begins with Sportacus having his breakfast. Knowing him, it’s
not normal. He grabs a ping pong paddle. A ping pong game for
breakfast..? Ew. He grabs a banana and starts peeling it and eating it
like a normal person.. nah, joking.
He
slices the banana (not peeled) in midair with the ping pong paddle,
drops to the floor and catches all the slices in his mouth. I know he’s
my favourite character, but come on. That’s just weird, dude.
Sportacus
decides he hasn’t had enough, so he wants some apples. But his supply
has run out, so he decides to go get an apple. Now instead of just
riding to town, doing a somersault frontflip and grabbing onto an apple
(or apple tree), he ties his feet in a rope and attaches the magnet to
the metal part of his door and LITERALLY DIVES to an apple tree.
Then
he flips back to his ship. Honestly pretty complicated and not needed,
but admit it, it was awesome.. and about a million times cooler then
catching banana slices in your mouth while having a potential stroke on
the floor.
Milford is in his office, checking his to-do list -
polishing his shoes, writing a new speech, checking the energy meter,
eating the ba na na -CHECKING THE ENERGY METER? So, he goes to the
energy meter to see where the ball marking how energetic the kids are
is. And it’s on the bottom.
It
turns out Robbie is in a ‘disguise’ (literally wearing his normal
clothes.. with a mustache) and is giving out TRIPLE-scoop ice creams..
for a penny. (Penny Pestella reference??!1!!!1?) It is a very good plan.
Milford literally asks 'WHY AREN’T THE CHILDREN PLAYING???’ as if
they’re obliged to (LOL) and calls help from Sportacus.
Milford
thinks he is a failure of a mayor, but Sportacus tells him it’s okay to
eat ice cream sometimes. Then Milford elaborates further by bringing
him to the office. Sportacus gives the kids some apples to energize, and
they look all smiley and ready to do anything! After one SINGLE bite.
So,
they go to the Mayor’s office and see the energy meter at 0, and if
they don’t amp it up to 100 by 5 p.m they’ll be named 'The Laziest Town
on Earth’! If you think about it, if they did even get the ball to 75,
there’d be at least one town lazier then them.. but nevermind. It’s a
kids show. So Sportacus runs on the spot while eating his apple and gets
it up to 5.
Then
he stops running and it’s back down to zero percent. So the kids and
Sportacus promise Milford that they’ll keep moving and the plan is great
until Milford announces everyone must move. Robbie at least has the
decency to move sometimes (he’s more active then he thinks he is) and
Bessie gets Milford to do everything for her. So, Bessie, a protagonist
in this show.. is being lazy, which is exactly what the main antagonist
is doing.
Sportacus tells the kids to meet him on the sports field
in five minutes and to run as fast as they can.. Ziggy then forgets why
he has to run - so the energy meter goes up. Sometimes, I just don’t
know about that boy.
Robbie’s
world has fallen as he tries offering the kids more ice-cream cones,
but they all decline… Ziggy, however declines too, but it takes him
about 10 seconds to come up with the strength to say 'Maybe Later’. What
a sigma! No, I unironically do not that say that word on a daily basis.
Robbie
is shocked and he himself says 'WHAT THE SIGMA?’.. nah just joking. He
does say 'WHAT?!’ though. So Milford is busy trying his best to explain
what’s going on to Bessie, but of course, the annoying whiny woman she
is, she starts talking about how she doesn’t have any clothes to wear.
Sportacus
has taken the super spinner from the airship (we get to see him use it
again in Sportacus on the Move!) The first move is jump rope (background
music from Superhero Moves CD), and in the office, the ball on the
energy meter is up to 5. I’m surprised with a dude like Sportacus it’s
not at 75 already.
Milford
is lifting weights (he’s the mayor AND he can exercise, what a dude!)
while Bessie is going on and on about her outfit. Then she discovers
that Milford is sweating and is offended, accusing Milford of wanting
Bessie to ruin her clothes. Fatness & fanciness, or Healthiness
& happiness? Anyways, the kids have finished jumping, and the next
move is pushups. Robbie is annoyed and he reports this to the mayor.
Satan-
I mean, Bessie has came to pester Milford once more with different hor-
CLOTHES and asks Milford to tell her what he honestly thinks. He tells
her clothes don’t matter while exercising.. and she is offended. Again. I
HATE BESSIE. Now the energy meter is at twelve, and Robbie is in the
mayor’s office with a mustache. Then he takes it off and throws it away.
His
excuse? He forgot to shave. Anyways, he tries to file a report but
Milford asks if this can wait until later, and he tells them about the
'prize’ they’ll win if they don’t get up and move. What does the laziest
guy in town who hates moving do? Moves.
It
backfires when Milford announces to Robbie he is moving the energy
meter UP to 30. So he promises to himself to not blink, breathe and/or
move a muscle.. until he sneezes.. and moves a lotta muscles.
So the meter goes up to 30 and the super spinner’s next move is skiing. They all perform the song ’Go For It’,
and I cannot tell how much people have trashed this song. It’s amazing!
Who cares how Jellyana’s voice sounds? She’s still a pretty good
singer, not to mention the fast-paced instrumental and lyrics! This song
is awesome!
So,
the energy meter hasn’t reached 100 yet so Stephanie comes to the
conclusion that one person isn’t moving. Two, actually, but she tries to
go convince Bessie to move. Bessie is relaxing in her clothes when
Bessie gets a phone call from Milford and she answers it really fast.
Stephanie
has the idea for Pixel to set up every phone booth in LazyTown and have
Bessie run & pick them up. Pixel gets his computer. Now, from the
plan, it sounds like there are about 30 phone booths in the town..
right? NUP. There are THREE. 3. TROIS.
Anyways,
they start the plan and Bessie runs as fast as a human can make a
puppet run. Milford calls the first phone and tells her she is doing
wonderful. She is exhausted at the second phone (can relate) and
Sportacus gives her a bottle of water.
So
she keeps running, and she slows down again. But Sportacus throws her
an apple (that hits Robbie in the head LOLZ!) but to really up it a
notch, the Chariots of Fire theme song reprised by Mani Svavarrson plays
as she runs to the last phone booth in slow motion. She’s made it!
Woohoo! I’m surprised she didn’t get Milford to run for her, but she did
it! Woop woot!
So,
Sportacus has spinned the super spinner a buncha times to get multiple
moves and do them all at the same time as fast as he can, but even he
gets tired. They have failed. The meter is only up to 90. It’s 5pm.
Until
Robbie starts to dance and move frantically out of excitement that his
plan to stay still so the meter doesn’t reach 100 and Sportacus is so
ashamed he leaves town.. and then the meter reaches 100. Three cheers
for Mr. Rotten, and he’s not enjoying a single second of it.
So he
leaves to his lair and they sing Bing Bang. Robbie is so annoyed he
promises he’s never ever gonna move for the rest of his life until
Robbie’s phone rings and he picks it up about ten seconds. It turns out
to be a wrong number. Then he rages.
I
love this episode. Bessie saw herself as someone who was only good at
answering the phones, but she was the person who got the energy meter up
to 90.
Written by Noah Zachary, Cole Louie, Magnus Scheving
Directed by Magnus Scheving
Executive producers - Magnus Scheving, Ragnheidur Melsted, Raymond P. Le Gue, Mark Read, Brown Johnson, Kay Wilson Stallings
Starring Magnus Scheving, Stefan Karl Steffanson, Julianna Rose Mauriello
Puppeteers
- Ronald Binion, Gudmondor Thor Karason, Jodi Eichelberger, David
Matthew Feldman, Julie Westwood, Amanda Maddock, Sarah Burgess
My
Treehouse is the last episode of LazyTown to air in 2004. From here and
the rest of the season you can see a slight increase in quality.
The
episode begins with Sportacus timing how long it takes for him to
cartwheel and flip into the skutla - approx. 14 seconds. He says that
this is too slow for saving people, so he tries again. Twelve seconds.
Not much of an upgrade, but it’s improvement.
Sportacus visits
town to see what the kids are doing, and they’re hiding in a treehouse -
Ziggy, Stephanie, Trixie & Pixel. They’ve started a secret
treehouse in fear that Stingy will hear about it and try and take it all
for himself. He’s a young little boy, he can’t just take a treehouse..
then he takes the treehouse.
He
doesn’t go far because Sportacus grabs hold of the rope he’s using to
steal the treehouse because ‘if they don’t want me in the club, I’ll
just take the club!…house’. So they change their minds, not because they
want to, because they don’t want to piss Stingy off, and let him join
the club. Milford is making an announcement on the loud-speakers and
Robbie.. is sleeping. Outside. After two episodes of doing the same
goddamn thing he hasn’t learned his mistake.
Anyways,
Milford announces a big treehouse building contest with big 'prizes’.
Robbie wakes up and decides to listen to the Mayor. I’d just not join,
I’m hopeless with building houses. I can’t do it in a video game, what
makes me think I can do it in real life? Anyways, he announces that they
have to be in teams, the best treehouse in town wins, and they get a
HUGE trophy.
Watch
the episode yourself to see what it looks like. Might not be as
astonishing as you think. Anyways, everyone thinks the trophy is really
cool, especially Stingy, who wants it the most. The president has
ordered one person to help all teams, and for LazyTown, that person is
Sportacus.
Robbie is of course, amazed by the trophy and attempts
to steal it, but Bessie yells at him (LOL) and he goes away. The kids
start building their treehouse, but Ziggy has a bunch of lollipops in
his mouth, and Stingy is too busy looking at the trophy.
Other
then that, he is hogging all the supplies for the tree house (does he
WANT that trophy?). Well, at least he’s working on the treehouse. Bessie
is getting Milford to build it for him while she relaxes (this is just
ridiculous now) and Milford almost falls and drops all the wood, but
Sportacus pushes a wheelbarrow so Milford doesn’t fall on the ground.
Robbie
is also trying hard for that trophy. He is trying his best to build a
treehouse but he has no expierence and hurts himself multiple times in
the process (smashing a piece of wood with a hammer, making that piece
of wood fling onto him, and hitting his hand with a hammer).
He
realizes what a waste of time this is (he should have some kinda
invention for this task, but he doesn’t think so) and decides to cut the
kids tree with an axe. But the axe is rubber and it starts shaking, so
he scraps that idea. Then Stingy’s hammer flies away and instead of
moving away, Robbie covers his head. Luckily, Sportacus is there and he
catches the hammer. There are two more minutes remaining and the
treehouse looks pretty good, the kids perform Teamwork,
and Bessie is reading the headline of Lazy Town News: “LAZYTOWN SPRING
IN THE AIR”. What a boring newspaper. I genuinely don’t know why she’s
always reading the newspaper in this season.
The
time is finally up and what’s left to do is to send the photos in to
the president and see who wins the day after. Sportacus is the man
taking the photos and he’s wearing a red cloth on his face. Maybe to
divert attention? Or to not get hit by the flames?
Bessie
does a closeup to the camera, so you can’t even see all the hard work
that Milford did. Not to mention the photos are black and white (I’m no
color expert, but I am pretty sure color photos existed in 2004), so the
painting of the treehouse was useless. And Robbie says 'Cheddar’ when
Sportacus tells him to say 'Cheese’. LOL!
Despite
how terrible his treehouse, Robbie still thinks he will win, and he
mails the letter in along with everyone else. Anyways, Stingy can’t
handle the idea of someone getting given the trophy (jeez, it’s like
there’s the secret to life in this trophy) and he rips up the photo so
only him and the treehouse can be seen.
More
proof that if Stingy is your favourite character, you’re a 'fan’ who
discovered the show in 2017 after We are Number One and The Mine Song
and have only watched 3 episodes. Anyways, the winner 'Stingy’ is
announced the next day and Robbie is on the verge of crying. He did put
in a lot of effort and Stingy did almost nothing.
Everyone is
unhappy with Stingy (well, maybe not the Mayor considering he doesn’t
know what Stingy did until Trixie tells everybody), but he is just happy
he got the damn trophy. I respect the grind, but I don’t respect lying
about it.
He
goes to the treehouse with the trophy, and they want answers. He says
that it’s his treehouse because he 'owns’ everything used to build it,
excluding Stephanie’s flower pot, which he throws out. (What a jerky
move) So they leave him alone.
To
take Stingy off their minds, they play a game of basketball and some of
Pixel’s video games while Stingy plays ping pong, rock paper scissors,
and chess.. alone. He lures Ziggy into visiting the treehouse (Siggi
Sæti from 'Let’s Go, LazyTown!’ (1997) is background music) with candy
which is pretty smart. He says he can have tons of candy if he plays
with him, but Ziggy declines so Stingy turns the handle and breaks it.
I
like how we can see he feels remorse for his actions but doesn’t want
to show it. It’s good writing. Robbie is watching and he sees the trophy
and decides to steal it in the mailbox costume and Stingy eventually
decides to leave the treehouse (to go apologize), but he nearly falls
off and now he’s in trouble.
Stephanie
hears his yells and convinces Trixie to save him. What character
development! She climbs up the tree and tries to grab his hand, but the
trophy distracts her and she almost falls until Stingy grabs her hand.
Robbie
finally sees his chance to get the trophy (which is in multiple broken
parts, but to each their own) but he falls over a leftover piece of
wood, and Sportacus has just came to save the two.
Sportacus
has saved the two (hip hip hooray), but Robbie is still lying on the
ground in his mailbox, and the treehouse is about to fall on him. Thus
comes more proof of the power of Sports Candy.
THAT’S RIGHT. HE HOLDS AN ENTIRE TREE HOUSE UP. Anyways, the gang make up, they sing Bing Bang and Robbie is in the lair with the trophy. He polishes it and takes care of it.. then he falls apart.
