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| Filming in May 2004. Magnus must be tired, so he's taking a nap in costume. Even heroes need rest. |
Original airdate: August 19, 2004
Story by Adam Peltzman, Magnus Scheving
Written by Noah Zachary, Cole Louie, Magnus Scheving
Directed by Steve Feldman, 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
Sleepless in LazyTown covers the importance of sleeping at the right time. In this case, if you don’t sleep for long enough, maybe Robbie Rotten will make a deal in a game of baseball that if he wins that a superhero leaves town.
The episode begins with.. Sportacus going to bed, thus resulting in a night-time title card. What a great way to start an episode, with the end of the day! Well, foreshadowing..
Everyone in the town is well asleep, excluding Pixel who is staying up late to play his new video game. Robbie is of course TRYING to sleep, but he fails to do so, and he starts.. crying? He is also wearing cushions as an alternative to noise cancelling headphones. Stefan Karl is hilarious.
Anyways, it’s morning in the town and Pixel is still playing his video game. Robbie hasn’t gotten any sleep, so he decides to sleep outside, using pieces of his.. fluffy couch as headphones. However, a fly starts bugging him and plays one of the most hilarious sequences in LazyTown history. After he falls off the couch, tries to catch the fly and gets stung in the butt, he starts fighting with the fly, using a bin lid as his shield and.. nothing as his sword. He finally manages to get that fly in the bin, and he can sleep now.. or can he? Stephanie and Ziggy are teaching Sportacus to play baseball (Sportacus hit a home run for Sportacular Spectacle Day 2 years before this episode, so either he wants to see how good she is at it or he forgot how to play.) and Robbie starts whining about the noise.
Sleeping outside and whining about the noise is like eating a burger then whining about the meat. So anyways, Pixel has joined their game of baseball and is so tired from playing games last night he forgets he’s wearing a mask, and falls down after catching a ball.
Ziggy realizes he was up all night, then Sportacus talks about how sleep is one of his main sources of energy. However, Robbie is eavesdropping then comes to the idea of keeping him up (Sportacus really needs to start talking quieter) and goes back to his lair. He crafts the ball with a bunch of louds thing like a whistle (for some reason the final product comes out of a microwave..).
Anyways, after Pixel left the game of baseball, he came back with a gadget to keep his body moving which would NOT work in real life. Nickelodeon. Anyways, Robbie is now in his baseball clothes (why does a person who despises sport have a costume dedicated for one sports…??) with the noisy ball and is going to join their game. Meanwhile, Sportacus has thrown a ball and Pixel catches it without even knowing (blud fell asleep again). Robbie offers to hit now that Pixel is out, but Stephanie is surprised (he doesn’t even MOVE very much!). Sportacus lets him play, and Robbie says that whoever hits it farest wins and that Sporty must leave town if he loses. Sportacus accepts, Robbie says to prepare for the game in two days, and gives him the noisy ball.
Everyone goes to bed that night, Pixel stays up to play games AGAIN, and Robbie’s plan actually works. This genuinely shocked me. Sportacus stays up all night looking for that ball and ends up getting no sleep at all. Stephanie and Ziggy are already up and waiting to practice for baseball, but Sportacus is still sleeping and Stephanie sends a letter up to the airship.
Sportacus comes jumping over a wall to a bench where the two are waiting for him. Epic, right! He’s ready for action! Nope, he falls back asleep until Ziggy yells his name. I don’t get it. He doesn’t have energy to play baseball but he has enough energy to jump over walls. That’s what I hate about logic in this show. He tells them he’s fine and Stephanie realises he didn’t get enough sleep. He jumps onto the bench, yells for a pillow (the airship must have been surprised that he didn’t ask for Sportscandy or a sports equipment) and then takes a nap. The two try multiple efforts to wake him up - drums, tamborines an alarm clock, yelling his name, and the saxophone. Nothing works and the two are totally bummed.
Stephanie says they need help and Ziggy suggests they call Sportacus. If that was supposed to be funny, it definitely was. Anyways, they go to Pixel’s house, turn on all his TVs (that wakes him up) and ask him for help. Pixel accepts to help.. “right after a few more snores” then goes back to bed. I love this show. Robbie is spying to see the effects of the noisy ball, and Pixel’s gadget is being used on Sportacus.
Stephanie tells Pixel to put it on, but he’s asleep again (a rare moment where we see the angry side of Stephanie) and Ziggy presses buttons on his remote control and Sportacus (still asleep) starts moving around. (Why is there a button that makes someone do the splits..?)
Anyways, he wakes up and turns it on properly. However, Pixel amps it up a bit too high and Sportacus is inches away from running into a tree. (Why doesn’t his crystal beep when he is in trouble like in season 2?) Stephanie makes Pixel promise to get some sleep. At 8:08 pm, Pixel is still playing games (my lord, I will take a strand of his hair and deep fry it, put some beef salt on it and chomp it up) until he realises his friends need him. Anyways, in the hair- I mean, airship, Sportacus tries to go to bed, but that noisy ball starts acting up. He is so pissed he jumps all the way from his bed to his sports equipment cupboard and kicks the button to open it. It is so unintentionally cool.
He finds the noisy ball and does something to it, but we don’t know what. All we know is that he got rid of it or somehow figured how to turn it off, because when they perform Wake Up (undeniably one of the best songs ever) he gets up with a smile, and starts flipping and exercising.
Pixel feels so great that he wakes all his friends up himself. Once Sportacus is in town, they start talking about how good their sleeps were. Sportacus tells Pixel a secret - the secret is that what was keeping him up was the noisy ball. Pixel looks at the mark on it and realises the ball was made by Robbie himself.
Sportacus reveals his plan to Pixel (not the microphone, so it’s a mysteryyyy to the audience..), and he goes to lie on a bench once the kids come. The kids except Pixel are panicking, and Robbie arrives to the field. Pixel and Stephanie are throwing the ball at each other while Robbie isn’t ready, and those count as two strikes.
Robbie actually hits the ball, but only in front of his foot. That counts and now it is “Sportasnore”’s turn to hit. However, his plan is still going on, and he doesn’t hit it on the first 2 strikes. However, on the final strike he hits it SO HARD that it lands in Robbie’s lair, and Robbie loses the game.
They celebrate by singing and performing Bing Bang, and Stephanie changes clothes in between shots. Meanwhile, in Robbie’s lair, he sulks on his chair, but then sits on a lump, that lump being his noisy ball. The camera zooms in on the clock, thus saying “This is gonna be a loonggg night for Robbie.”
This episode is definetly one of the best. I didn’t like it much because I didn’t remember much, but I actually think this episode is amazing. With funny dialogue from every character, an epic song, this does not fail.
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