Original airdate: November 11, 2004
Story by 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, 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.
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