Original airdate: August 26, 2004
Story by Mike Weiss, Magnus Scheving
Written by Noah Zachary, Rocky Garibaldi, 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, Heather Asch
Lazy Scouts is the fourth episode of LazyTown produced, so this was of course prone to mistakes. But does it make up for it with the plot and music?
The episode begins with a recycled opening from ‘Sleepless in LazyTown’, with Sportacus going to bed. However, the title card is not night time in this episode. Funny thing is, you can see the first mistake as soon as there is a zoom in the title card. After it zooms in, there is a tiny frame of the airship where it is actually day and not night.
Anywho, the episode opens with Sportacus brushing his teeth and jumping into his pod ready to visit LazyTown. Stephanie is going scouting with the kids and is packing her bag. Milford tries to bring a buncha stuff that could be useful, like toenail clippers (you don’t want your feet to be uncomfy while walking up a mountain) and a curling iron (gotta make sure ya look gooooddd), but Stephanie decline.
Anyways, she gets outta the house and blows the horn to get the kids ready. Robbie is in his fluffy chair, sucking his thumb with a bowl of packing peanuts (what an intimidating villian!) and the kids wake him up. He declares that he will not let those kids ruin his day. But at this point, he should know that it would just take as less much effort to put some orange fluff in his ears and ignore them.
So anyways, while the scouts are trying to go somewhere, it turns out that the LazyTown kids (excluding Stephanie) are really unprepared scouts. Trixie leads them the wrong way (and also wears her what the wrong way), and Ziggy has a lollipop. Anyways, Trixie and Stephanie are disagreeing on which way to go (sworn besties), and in comes Scottie the Scoutmaster.
Look at him, couldn’t you tell by his very real looking scout uniform? Ziggy says they’re going on a hike but Scottie says that’s for dogs and chickens. He offers to tell them how to make up lies. Stephanie wants to do stuff like help old ladies cross the road, and Scottie says that he’s done it 100 times. Then he sees Bessie crossing the road, stops the cars (Sportacus lives in an airship, all the puppets are scouting with Stephanie and Robbie, Milford is probably doing mayor work and the cat can’t drive, so who is driving those cars..?) then crosses Bessie over.. 100 times.
I mean, you gotta appreciate the dedication. Then Bessie tumbles over. HILARIOUS! So, anyways, Robbie presents the cool badges, which are obviously to lure the kids into doing lazy and bad stuff. Luckily Stephanie notices that. When they do the scout salute, they instead do a yawn.
Stephanie says that this is not what scouting is about and Robbie says this is Lazy Scouts. Then they perform the song ’Lazy Scouts’, which I kind of find annoying. Then again, GetLazy’s name derived from here. Anyways, when Stephanie brings up food and shelter, Robbie gives a badge to anyone who ignores the 'girl with the pink hair and bad attitude’.
Anyways, when Stephanie talks about going hiking, Robbie and the scouts go on a 3 second walk to a tree. But Stephanie is annoyed (as she should be). Robbie tells her that she should go home if she wants and Ziggy would have came with her if Trixie hadn’t given him a lollipop.
So, anyways Stephanie is really really sad and Milford sees her and he asks if he forgot anything (HILARIOUS MOMENT) and Stephanie tells him everything. Milford has the right person to call - Sportacus. Thus commences a wholesome scouting montage. I love the music in this montage SO MUCH it pisses me off there isn’t an official release.
Sportacus asks where Stephanie’s friends are and she says that they wanted to scout differently from her and Sportacus says that just because she disagrees with them doesn’t mean they aren’t friends. He further explains this argument by saying that if he liked jumping in mud puddles (I knew this show had some relation to Peppa Pig, not to mention the pink hair!) that they would still be friends.
So, anyways, after that talk, it starts to become windy and Ziggy doesn’t feel so safe. Robbie however is snoring away. I think if the puppets were sane they could tell RIGHT AWAY that Robbie is the scout master. It becomes so windy that Stephanie’s scouting hat and Ziggy’s lollipop fly away.
Meanwhile Stingy’s car rolls away (better then him rolling away). While Milford is worrying about Stephanie, Sportacus brings her safely. Then Bessie barges in and her hair looks absolutely crazy (LOL!).
Ziggy’s lollipop is even stuck to her back. So, Pixel is hanging onto what Milford thinks is a giant soup bowl (but is really a satellite dish) and Sportacus saves him, Stingy and Robbie. After his hat and mustache fly away his disguise is revealed.
Robbie was not expecting to be tied by a rope, saved by Sportacus on a windy day. So I was right, it would’ve taken shorter to just.. ignore them. Meanwhile, after a day of arguments, Trixie and Stephanie save each other then they become best friends for the rest of the show.
Anyways, Robbie is brought in and everyone has some hot cocoa.. with marshmallows. Stingy is peeking at Robbie’s cup hinting to let him have it (lol). Anyways, the weather suddenly becomes great and they all go outside. Sportacus tells Robbie that it is a bad idea to be unprepared.
Then Robbie starts rambling about how he IS ALWAYS prepared (didn’t he sing “being ready isn’t good”?) until Trixie, Ziggy and Stingy blow air behind him. Then he hilariously yells and climbs over the wall. They then sing the Bing Bang song.
THE END!
Honestly, that was an okay episode. The story was good, Robbie’s disguise was obvious and the featured song was mediocre.
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