131: Robbie Rotten's Greatest Misses (prod 133)

 

Filming in December 2004. "We are filming in four.. and I am carrying a wall.'

Original airdate: February 7, 2006

Story by Magnus Scheving

Written by Noah Zachary, Cole Louie, Magnus Scheving

Directed by Magnus Scheving, 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 - Gudmondor Thor Karason, Jodi Eichelberger, David Matthew Feldman, Julie Westwood, Sarah Burgess

Will this episode hit or miss? Well, it IS called Robbie’s Greatest Misses, but.. uhhh.. you get me, right?

Episode beginning: Kinda recycled. This time it’s Sportacus purposefully dropping a stopwatch out his airship, trying to catch it on the sky chaser, and what do you know, he gets it.

All in 29.9 seconds. Robbie is in his lair eating a fat creamy slice of cake that I’ve always wanted until I found out it was shaved cream for the frosting. He decides to check what the LazyTowners are doing, and Ziggy warns Milford not to step on a skateboard.

He was just being a moron and says ‘GOTCHA!!’ Anyways, Milford has a trophy in his hands and Ziggy asks who it’s being awarded to. He says that he cannot tell anybody, and then he tells Ziggy ('I can’t tell you that it’s Sportacus). Lolwut. Robbie takes a much more different approach to this, throwing away his cake.

Food waster. Ziggy points out he wins every year, and Robbie wants to put an end to this by making sure someone classy wins. Then he burps. It turns out that burp was too.. well.. I don’t know, but PBS Kids Sprout didn’t like it. So here is the next part [kinda boring] summed up: Robbie hide in mailbox, Milford tells everyone Sportacus won except Sportacus.

Then Robbie figures out the big epic secret as to why Sportacus always wins - because he saves people all the time. GASP! Meanwhile, Ziggy is continuing his moron adventure, telling the kids there’s a monkey playing the trumpets outside.

Then he says GOTCHA when they realize he is a big fat chubby liar. They tell him fibbing is bad and he doesn’t care. So, back to the lair, Robbie performs Master of Disguise. At the end of the song, he still doesn’t know how to catch Sportacus. And he plays a few VHS tapes of his greatest misses, which makes no sense. How’d he have them? Is SOMEONE in the town always filming him?

So, Ziggy is still at it, being a MASSIVE moron, and lying about a spider on Trixie’s shoulder. She waves it around, falling to the ground. That rhymed! Anyways, he gets kinda sad when they don’t laugh. Back to Robbie’s lair, he says they were all good plans and they should’ve worked. Then he gets the actual GENIUS idea to use ALL of his schemes at once. It’s plans like these that should’ve worked.

But it doesn’t end there - he comes up with the disguise of a cow. What. Then Ziggy spots him using the soccer ball launcher. So he goes to snitch to his friends and not a fricking trusted guardian, but they obviously do not believe him. So he does a big angry 'you-no-trust-i-save-town-alone’ speech in an attempt for them to believe him, and what does it do?

It makes them believe him even less. So he tries again after he sees the cow (Robbie, but is there really any difference..?) hiding into a mailbox but Stephanie keeps on saying telling fibs is bad, so then they check it out AND THEY SEE

absolutely nothing. I love this show, but the amount of coincidences is ridiculous, even for Nickelodeon. Then the two go back to Pixel’s house. Ziggy tries some more, but he gives up. THEN Robbie comes out and Ziggy hides behind a tree.

He confronts the cow and tells him how much trouble he is causing. Then he ties up Ziggy. Sportacus’ crystal beeps and he comes to town on the Sky Chaser. Meanwhile, the kids go to check on Ziggy, and Robbie climbs up on a wall, starting to launch flying soccer balls at Sportacus.

As if that wasn’t enough, he tries to MURDER him by launching a cannonball out the cannon. Luckily, Sportacus grabs onto a tree branch, turns around it (dodging the cannon) and flipping off the branch.

He activates the Candy Maker, but that’s just a chance for Sportacus to practice some tennis hits. Then he unleashes the pirate ship - but Sportacus has seen Rush Hour 2 - so he lies down.

LOL. So, then when the anchor comes, he jumps over it. Probably the easiest thing to do. So Robbie starts controlling a bulldozer (he says 'Not another one!’, which is kinda just wasting time). Instead of just running out the way, he has to flip into the driver’s seat and stop it. Anyways, the pirate ship goes against the master and comes charging at Robbie. But Sportacus must save him!

Using a skateboard. He lies down on his skateboard, skates (pushes with his back) over to Ziggy for an apple. So Ziggy kicks the tree and the apple drops in Sportacus’ hands and he bites it. The anchor of the ship grabs onto the wall, making it wiggle, and Robbie fall. So, instead of going somewhere else, he stays there as the wall falls on him. Sportacus skates under the wall.

And everyone is super sad because they think he’s.. unalived. (Steph unties Ziggy.) Until he LITERALLY CARRIES UP THE ENTIRE WALL BY HIMSELF WITH THE HELP OF ONE APPLE BITE. I’d think he was dead too. He was under there for like 40 seconds before lifting up the wall.

While Robbie is shaking and quivering like a sissy. (I would too, to be honest.) And to think Robbie is some people’s favourite character! Robbie’s disguise is foiled, everyone makes up, Milford gives Sportacus the award and they sing Bing Bang.

Robbie just wants to forget it all with a piece of cake. But instead he has a LARGE sip of milk. How you 'accidentally’ pick up something and sip it is unknown to me.

Oh, and if you think about it, Robbie has had a lot of milk before.. just in the form of cake! (Or, probably cake batter.) Then he adjusts his cow head. The end

6/10. I admit, that episode was pretty good! Although the unrealism with Sportacus is so just overkill, not even me, a super mega ultra Sportacus fan can really find them cool.

130: Surprise Santa (prod 125)

 

Filming in October 2004. Robbie's only love is a snowball.

Chris Crow (https://www.youtube.com/@handle6324) gave GetLazy an .iso of the ninth LazyTown DVD intended for promotional use only. To finally put the .iso to use, I decided to take all the screenshots in this episode myself. I also watched it using VLC.

Original airdate: October 11, 2005 (DVD) / December 9, 2005 (TV)

Story by Magnus Scheving

Written by Noah Zachary, Cole Louie, Magnus Scheving

Directed by Magnus Scheving, 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 - Gudmondor Thor Karason, Jodi Eichelberger, David Matthew Feldman, Julie Westwood, Sarah Burgess

The longest LazyTown episode clocking in at twenty-seven minutes. I am a bit annoyed because I should’ve waited until Christmas Time, but it’s May so that’d be far too long of a hiatus.

It turns out the person who made Sportacus’ calendar is a complete goddamn idiot, because it doesn’t have any fricking dates on any page at all. It also turns out Mayor Milford Meanswell is a complete goddamn idiot (not that shocking) because while he rips off the YESTER DAY piece, we see a glimpse of ‘FESTIVAL DAY’. Could be a hint to 'Sportscandy Festival’, or Milford is just a goddamn idiot. Sportacus has HUNDREDS of balls..

..in the airship. He decides to decorate his airship in the most ridiculous but kinda cool way. He rides hid airship, making it go tipsy turny, so that all the Christmas ornaments go into this hole in the floor that has NEVER been there before.

So, he flips out of the skutla, and all the ornaments come flying out of one of the holes that Sportacus’ football pops out of some time, and he hits them onto the walls with a ping pong racket. It also turns out that Sportacus is a complete goddamn idiot because he must’ve put glue on all the ornaments. There’s no way they’d stick onto the walls in real life! Anyways, in the intro, unlike the normal title card, there is a Christmas version of the town instead! This is the third time the intro has been modified - Night time in 'Sleepless’, and the paper plane flying near the airship and off the camera in 'Sportacus Who’.

So, Ziggy is so shocked by the snow he assumes it’s present time, and annoys everyone. Milford is showing the kids the present he got for Bessie. Stingy is looking at the stockings full of presents. All this present talk aught to annoy someone, y'know?

Knew it. Anyways, he shows great annoyance about not being invited, but he says he doesn’t care and wouldn’t go if he wasn’t invited. Ziggy is still asking if it’s present time and Stephanie tells him to calm down (those damn presents ain’t goin nowhere!.. unless stingy takes em), but french fry hair boy pops in with some trivia. Apparently Ziggy’s eaten 162 pieces of candy in the past sixty minutes. Fatty. Robbie is still peeping in the lair when he has a great idea - to potentially kill everyone of frostbite.

At every Christmas party, Sportacus is the special guest of honor and he sits on the fancy chair. But he is going to make a GIANT snowball and launch it through the mayor’s window so it hits Sportacus at exactly 6:00.

He has an invention for everything. So some gadget thingy majingy blows snow all around the lair, and he makes a giant snowball. In satisfaction of his work.. he kisses the snowball.

If there were different scriptwriters, at least ONE would make the snowball come to life, open it’s eyes and say 'Ew!’ and roll away from him. It’d be better that way. He carries it (isn’t he the laziest dude in the town?) all the way to the cannon (which should be near his lair, Robbie, you goddamn idiot). Anyways, Stingy is being a selfish little jerk, writing a present 'To Me, From Me’, the little moron. He needs to learn what Christmas is really about. Ziggy interrupts his jerkiness by going crazy about snow angels. Instead of JUST GOING TO DO IT, he keeps on yapping about it. Meanwhile, Robbie is reminded about the presents, but he doesn’t know how to go there without being recognized. Then he has it - to dress up as a fat cookie (food) loving man - CaseOh.

Uh- I mean, Santa. Who stuffed up my 'Make fun of Robbie’ paper with the 'Make fun of CaseOh’ one?? Anyways, he performs Good to Be Bad. Meanwhile, Milford is putting up decorations ON A STRING, and he is ON A LADDER. Disaster is bound to strike, so Sportacus comes seconds before he even is in trouble! But if he WAS in trouble.. the crystal’d beep. And he saves him using a bowling ball.. and a skateboard. So that just when he trips and he is about to come falling down with the ladder.. he doesn’t.

But Bessie tells him to come down because they still need to put nametags on the gifts (rat). So, Stingy is looking outside to see what happened and asks Bessie for her input on GIVING out gifts. Then he shows a disgusted face when she says it’s better to give then recieve.

So he looks at all the gifts saying they belong to him and only him. Meanwhile, the kids perform 'I love Christmas’ while Santa is sneaking around the town. When the song ends, Ziggy and Trixie start making snow angels, but Ziggy freaks out when he thinks he’s lost his lollipops.

His lollipops aren’t the only thing he may have lost.. Anyways, with the guidance of Sportacus, Stephanie starts building a giant snowman. Maybe to get in the Guinness Book of World Records? Ziggy walks up to the snowman and Stephanie questions him holding two lollipops. He lies that they’re ears for the snowman (nobody puts ears on a SNOWMAN, but what’d I know, I live in AUS) and runs up to it and it all comes tumbling down. To the ground. So does Ziggy.

Stephanie is annoyed at him (when she JUST put the head back on in like, two seconds..), and Ziggy runs away of shame. Sportacus goes after him, where Ziggy reveals that at Christmas he gets so excited he eats a ton of candy, then he gets more excited and eats more candy, and gets more exci- you get me. And the remedy to his hyperness?

Why is it the carrots in this show look like a carrot I’d want to eat? The real life carrots taste horrible and are super hard to bite in! Deceiving us with sneaky little tricks.. So Sportacus throws the carrot (he wants some candy too.. JK) and uses it as the snowman’s nose. Then he goes back to his ship. Meanwhile Stingy is hovering over some presents and he shakes gifts to guess what is in them. And in the progress, he breaks a glass one!

Meanwhile, Robbie’s still sneaking around, and lucky him, because he’s been caught by Ziggy. Robbie tries bribing him to go home with candy but Sporty already told him to not eat that stuff.. so Robbie gives him more, he eats it, goes wild, and tells him what he wants for Christmas.

That was the second scene I found funny in this episode. Try harder, whoever wrote this episode. Meanwhile, Bessie notices they have no Christmas tree, so everyone goes out to find one. Ziggy is still going on about what he wants for Christmas.

But the annoyance hasn’t stopped there. Stingy comes with a big book of ALL HIS presents, which seems to have more then 300 pages. Clown. Anyways, everyone has gone away which is the perfect time for Robbie to sneak in, take the presents, and get out! Wouldn’t take that long, heh?

Really? Couldn’t he just go from the CLEARLY OPEN WINDOW?? DOES ANYONE IN THIS GODDAMN SHOW THINK? I love this show. But the characters are just brain-dead sometimes. Anyways, he takes the gifts and finds one with HIS name on it, literally.

He decides he can’t steal their gifts and wants to go back, feeling remorse. Softie. So he goes back by the window and just sneaks back to the lair, right?

Oh my lord. So, Sportacus has to save him (crystal beeps). He flips over the table (he coulda just walked.), and pulls him out the chimney. Everyone discovers it’s Robbie. Then they sing Bing- oh, yeah, 5 more minutes because holiday special. Anyways, he decides to go back, but being super kind, Stingy (normally an annoying, selfish unfunny rat) & Stephanie (always kind unless she’s kinda annoyed) say he can stay. Robbie wants to start with the presents, but the others want to start with Bessie’s turkey. Priorities, Robbie. Anyways, it turns out a bit better as since it is his first time, he gets to be the guest of honor.

Meanwhile, Ziggy is getting a taste of his own medicine when Robbie asks 'Twinky’ if it’s time for the presents. But he is not as hyper or loud.

This is so far kinda heartwarming. Robbie doesn’t take as much candy as usual, he starts smiling, and he even says he is gonna have a big dinner. Nothing can go wrong!

Boom! The snowball comes flying out, and unlike the villian he is, Robbie actually warns everyone about the snowball. Sportacus starts cartwheeling on the table (he would have stepped on at least two pieces of food, come on), grabs a piece of mistletoe (Not in that way), wraps it around Robbie, then swings on the rope so Robbie dodges the snowball.

It looks like the chair came with Robbie, so either he grasped onto it with his butt REALLY tight, or Trixie put lots of super glue on his seat because comedy. Either way, if this was realistic, that chair would fall off and be in pieces right now. Anyways, the snowball hits the walls, and Sportacus grabs it and does a frontflip. While the flip was cool, it was cooler to know Magnus himself did it.

Sportacus thanks Robbie for warning everyone, who himself is questioning who’d do such a thing! Sportacus shrugs it off. Anyways, NOW they get into the presents, singing 'Bing Bang’. Apparently, Robbie knows what the present is before even opening it. And as Stephanie says it’s a.. 'PAIR OF SOCKS?!’

He says he likes being bad and somehow the snowman smiles, so he takes off its head, throws it away (into the cannon on accident so the timer starts but shorter), and goes back to the lair. And he has a visitor.

The snowman’s head falls on Robbie’s head, and he’s cold, and he can’t breath, so he dies quickly. But this is a kids show and he sneezes because comedy.

5/10: Would be good as a regular episode, dull in some places, but didn’t feel Christmasy enough.

129: Greatest Hits (prod 128)

 

Chris Crow (https://www.youtube.com/@handle6324) gave GetLazy an .iso of the ninth LazyTown DVD intended for promotional use only. To finally put the .iso to use, I decided to take all the screenshots in this episode myself. I also watched it using VLC.

Original airdate: October 21, 2005

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 - Gudmondor Thor Karason, Jodi Eichelberger, David Matthew Feldman, Julie Westwood, Sarah Burgess

Yet another clip show that I kinda don’t really mind because this is the twenty ninth episode, so it’s not really that useless.

The cold open is actually a mix of two cold opens previously. Sportacus has no apples, so he jumps out and uses the sky chaser to grab one from a tree. A pretty smart way of re-using shots. Props to whoever edited this episode.

Milford walks into Stephanie’s room to check on her. She is OBVIOUSLY under the blankets, but she yells ‘boo’ (it wasn’t that loud) and startles Milford. She starts writing in her diary about all the songs in LazyTown. She asks for Milford’s favourite song which is Teamwork. Then he comes up with the idea of asking everyone in LazyTown their favourite song.

The first person she asks is Ziggy. And what do you know, his favourite’s ’Cooking by the book’. Stephanie wonders if the others have favourites. Ziggy goes to ask Stingy and Stephanie goes to ask Trixie. Robbie is eavesdropping, questioning why he hasn’t been asked because he is the most musical. Stop lying to yourself. Anyways he tries to sing high-pitched and breaks glass.

Attempted dab in the above screenshot. Anyways, I like Pixel more, because HIS favourite song is No one’s lazy. I love that song. Out of anger he hasn’t been asked, Robbie pushes his eavesdropper back, but it swings back, and he dives for it. Repeated action, but never unfunny.

So, Trixie is building a card out of towers (it took her an entire DAY), but Ziggy ruins it by sneezing and it flies away (but it’s still in it’s tower form..). He asks Trixie what her favourite song is, and in a possible attempt to scare him, she says ’Spooky Song’. So he runs into Steph.

Stephanie is going to ask Sportacus and Ziggy is going to ask Stingy. Considering Ziggy is a.. y'know.. complete gosh-darn idiot, he whacks his lollipop against Stingy’s car multiple times, and when Stingy says it’s called the It’s Mine song, he doesn’t understand it until the last time he says it.

Stephanie’s interaction is a bit easier with Sportacus - she sends him a letter telling him that they wanna see him, and he comes down. Sportacus gives her a lot of hints about his favourite song, which is ultimately Twenty Times Time.

When Stephanie says that she forgot to ask someone about their favourite song, Robbie ultimately thinks it is him, but it is actually Bessie. It seems like she is avoiding him on purpose. Anyways, Bessie is about to phone call someone when Stephanie asks her, and her favourite is Secret Agent.

It’s also revealed that Bessie thinks Milford is handsome.. so that’s a good one. Stephanie is walking home when Robbie bobs up the periscope and startles Stephanie. She wants to ask Robbie his favourite but it’s 'too late’ (which is ridiculous because he has been whining about it the whole episode).

So after she begs (for some reason when she says please she looks like a chipmunk with her teeth), Robbie reveals his favourite is 'You are a pirate’. After that, Stephanie goes back home and reveals the winning song.

Maybe I should explain a bit more - In 2005, Nick Jr. launched a game called 'You Pick The Hits’ where you had to pick from 3 LazyTown songs - Step by Step, Good Stuff and Have You Ever. The song with the most votes would be presented on TV once, and that song was Have You Ever. So this is the third time the song’s been featured in an episode.

Milford asks Stephanie how it went, and she says it went great, and that there is one song everyone in LazyTown likes - ’Bing Bang’. For some reason, Robbie is still angry, and the episode ends with him hurting himself trying to do the Power Jump, saying 'Everyone can do the jump!’

It turns out not everybody can do the jump.

3/10 - Really boring, and the parts where the kids gasp when they think of who to ask next are annoying. When I write these I skip the cold open (ONLY if it’s reused) intro, credits, and songs. So this was fast to watch.