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| Filming in July 2004. A CARROT! HEALTHY, NUTRITIOUS, AND FRICKING DISGUSTING!! |
Original airdate: September 27, 2004
Story by Rocky Garibaldi, Tom K. Mason, Dan Danko, Magnus Scheving
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
Rottenstein is one of the most recognized episodes of the show. So today I’m going to be revisiting it.
The episode begins with an awesome Sportacus move that was taken from the pilot in 2003 - he throws a watermelon in the air, does a cartwheel, jumps in the air and does a handstand on the watermelon. Then he stands up, kicks the watermelon and then does the power jump. Then he eats the watermelon. Not only is it the best trick he’s ever done but the melon doesn’t break!
The episode begins with the LazyTown kids growing some sports candy in their.. well.. gardening clothes. Stingy has marked everything he’s grown with a sign that says ‘Mine’ (A lil bit excessive) Ziggy attempts to carry a box full of tomatoes because he’s the world’s strongest hero.
However he manages to carry it.. actually Sportacus does. Ziggy ponders about how Sportacus is so strong and then he says he gets it from Sports Candy (a carrot). But Robbie is eavesdropping. We all know where this’ll go, right..?
He then does a cool flip to demonstrate. However, his crystal beeps and he frontflips over Robbie out of the screen. Robbie then asks himself about 'HOW HE DOES THAT?!?!’ when Sportacus literally just explained it. Everyone tells Ziggy to EAT THE CARROT but Robbie stops him.
Robbie asks Ziggy how Sportacus gets his strength and Ziggy says 'this’. Robbie mistakes the carrot for a box. LOL! Might be the funniest moment in the episode. Ziggy starts talking about how he is going to eat them for the rest of his life, then Robbie leaves. Ziggy then forgets everything he just said and decides to have it later.
Meanwhile in his lair, Robbie Rotten, the man that despises health, fruits, vegetables, exercise and sports-candy, is examining his very own sports candy. A carrot. He then realises that if anyone has sports-candy that they will be moving around and healthy, like a sickness.
Then he has the great idea to make Sportscandy sound like a sickness, which will mean the kids won’t eat Sports Candy. He decides it is disguise time and he walks through the wardrobe, shaking his head and blubbering (LOL) until he gets a doctor outfit.
So, anyways, they sing ’Good Stuff’ (I used to be obsessed with this song) and in between moves Robbie is seen sprinkling dots onto the food that the kids are growing. Ziggy gets some spots on his 'sick’ lollipop and him too. Everyone has some spots and they don’t know. Once again a really smart plan (but didn’t last long)
Dr. Rottenstein “examines” them and he says that it is a rare case off the spotty vegititius - the rarest disease in the entire world. Then he announces that to cure it they must eat junk food.
He also says that the person whose name starts with S and flippity flops around a lot (it took them about 6 guesses, even when Robbie said 'a name starting with S’, someone guessed Pixel) must stay away from LazyTown forever.
Everyone is devastated (I would be too) but Sportacus knows something is wrong. He writes letters to Stephanie, Ziggy and Pixel. Meanwhile, Stephanie is lazing around in bed while Milford has given her a tray full of.. peanut butter, marshmallows, chocolate, fries, burgers, butterscotch, chocolate syrup, soda and shakes. I am just surprised nothing fell off. Props to the producers.
Sportacus does his usual routine to send letters (he sends Stephanie’s first.. hinty hint?), but Ziggy is the only one who actually knows he got a letter (he was also super excited to dig in until he realized the dots were fake). Maybe it’s just me, or does Ziggy progressively become a better character over episode? But at the start of a new season he’s back to square one.
Meanwhile, Robbie is enjoying his life. Junk food and television. He couldn’t be happier! Ya do realize where this is going, right? He’s the villian, he will never ever ever EVER EVER EVER!! catch a break.
Anyways, during a ridiculous use of metaphors (It’s not like sports candy just comes from the air!), he realizes Sportacus has a bunch of sportscandy and sports equipment in his airship. He has a plan to make a small visit to the airship once Sportacus leaves.
Sportacus has still left his ladder up while meeting Ziggy. Ziggy tells Sportacus about how the disease was fake and that they were actually getting worse from their junk food. Meanwhile, Sportacus’ airship flies away and he has to go get it back.
Robbie is in the airship and this is just so shocking to me. I’m just used to seeing Robbie in dark places with inventions and gadgets, but now he is in his worst enemies’ airship. The following sequence is pretty funny. He messes with buttons and manages to get himself hurt.
Anyways, he messes with this pedal looking thing and the airship goes cuckoo thanks to Sportacus fighting the ladder. He looks completely crazy while doing it, but it’s kinda cool he can basically carry an entire airship.
Ziggy is going to his friends’ houses and begging for their help but they are too weak and lazy thanks to the junk food. So Ziggy decides to finally eat that carrot he was supposed to and he throws some carrots through his friend’s windows. Character development is awesome!
He becomes determined and cool in a circling shot and acts like a ninja throwing stars. Everyone takes a bite of the carrots he gave them and they all become strong enough to help Sportacus. They hold the ladder for him while he goes to save Rottenstein.
So anyways, Sportacus connects Rottenstein to a rope and pushes him off that little piece of floor that comes with the pole (what is that CALLED?!). He makes it safe. Then comes an awesome sequence when Sportacus stops the ship from crashing into Milford’s house.
Milford didn’t really care about potentially dying, but more about his new paint job nearly being ruined. Anyways, they all sing Bing Bang and the episode ends with Robbie sitting on that carrot he was examining. He throws it, but it bounces off the walls and woulda hit his face if he didn’t block it with a plate (the carrot was actually already on the plate).
This ending scene wouldn’t be as funny without Stefan Karl’s hilarious acting.
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