(From now on, all screenshots in these reviews are taken BY ME.)
Original airdate: June 6, 2005
Story by Magnus Scheving
Written by Noah Zachary, Cole Louie, Magnus Scheving
Directed by Raymond P. Le Gue, 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
The Laziest Town - an episode of LazyTown I haven’t watched in about two or three years. I remember a lot, but is it really the same now?
The episode begins with Sportacus having his breakfast. Knowing him, it’s not normal. He grabs a ping pong paddle. A ping pong game for breakfast..? Ew. He grabs a banana and starts peeling it and eating it like a normal person.. nah, joking.
He slices the banana (not peeled) in midair with the ping pong paddle, drops to the floor and catches all the slices in his mouth. I know he’s my favourite character, but come on. That’s just weird, dude.
Sportacus decides he hasn’t had enough, so he wants some apples. But his supply has run out, so he decides to go get an apple. Now instead of just riding to town, doing a somersault frontflip and grabbing onto an apple (or apple tree), he ties his feet in a rope and attaches the magnet to the metal part of his door and LITERALLY DIVES to an apple tree.
Then he flips back to his ship. Honestly pretty complicated and not needed, but admit it, it was awesome.. and about a million times cooler then catching banana slices in your mouth while having a potential stroke on the floor.
Milford is in his office, checking his to-do list - polishing his shoes, writing a new speech, checking the energy meter, eating the ba na na -CHECKING THE ENERGY METER? So, he goes to the energy meter to see where the ball marking how energetic the kids are is. And it’s on the bottom.
It turns out Robbie is in a ‘disguise’ (literally wearing his normal clothes.. with a mustache) and is giving out TRIPLE-scoop ice creams.. for a penny. (Penny Pestella reference??!1!!!1?) It is a very good plan. Milford literally asks 'WHY AREN’T THE CHILDREN PLAYING???’ as if they’re obliged to (LOL) and calls help from Sportacus.
Milford thinks he is a failure of a mayor, but Sportacus tells him it’s okay to eat ice cream sometimes. Then Milford elaborates further by bringing him to the office. Sportacus gives the kids some apples to energize, and they look all smiley and ready to do anything! After one SINGLE bite.
So, they go to the Mayor’s office and see the energy meter at 0, and if they don’t amp it up to 100 by 5 p.m they’ll be named 'The Laziest Town on Earth’! If you think about it, if they did even get the ball to 75, there’d be at least one town lazier then them.. but nevermind. It’s a kids show. So Sportacus runs on the spot while eating his apple and gets it up to 5.
Then he stops running and it’s back down to zero percent. So the kids and Sportacus promise Milford that they’ll keep moving and the plan is great until Milford announces everyone must move. Robbie at least has the decency to move sometimes (he’s more active then he thinks he is) and Bessie gets Milford to do everything for her. So, Bessie, a protagonist in this show.. is being lazy, which is exactly what the main antagonist is doing.
Sportacus tells the kids to meet him on the sports field in five minutes and to run as fast as they can.. Ziggy then forgets why he has to run - so the energy meter goes up. Sometimes, I just don’t know about that boy.
Robbie’s world has fallen as he tries offering the kids more ice-cream cones, but they all decline… Ziggy, however declines too, but it takes him about 10 seconds to come up with the strength to say 'Maybe Later’. What a sigma! No, I unironically do not that say that word on a daily basis.
Robbie is shocked and he himself says 'WHAT THE SIGMA?’.. nah just joking. He does say 'WHAT?!’ though. So Milford is busy trying his best to explain what’s going on to Bessie, but of course, the annoying whiny woman she is, she starts talking about how she doesn’t have any clothes to wear.
Sportacus has taken the super spinner from the airship (we get to see him use it again in Sportacus on the Move!) The first move is jump rope (background music from Superhero Moves CD), and in the office, the ball on the energy meter is up to 5. I’m surprised with a dude like Sportacus it’s not at 75 already.
Milford is lifting weights (he’s the mayor AND he can exercise, what a dude!) while Bessie is going on and on about her outfit. Then she discovers that Milford is sweating and is offended, accusing Milford of wanting Bessie to ruin her clothes. Fatness & fanciness, or Healthiness & happiness? Anyways, the kids have finished jumping, and the next move is pushups. Robbie is annoyed and he reports this to the mayor.
Satan- I mean, Bessie has came to pester Milford once more with different hor- CLOTHES and asks Milford to tell her what he honestly thinks. He tells her clothes don’t matter while exercising.. and she is offended. Again. I HATE BESSIE. Now the energy meter is at twelve, and Robbie is in the mayor’s office with a mustache. Then he takes it off and throws it away.
His excuse? He forgot to shave. Anyways, he tries to file a report but Milford asks if this can wait until later, and he tells them about the 'prize’ they’ll win if they don’t get up and move. What does the laziest guy in town who hates moving do? Moves.
It backfires when Milford announces to Robbie he is moving the energy meter UP to 30. So he promises to himself to not blink, breathe and/or move a muscle.. until he sneezes.. and moves a lotta muscles.
So the meter goes up to 30 and the super spinner’s next move is skiing. They all perform the song ’Go For It’, and I cannot tell how much people have trashed this song. It’s amazing! Who cares how Jellyana’s voice sounds? She’s still a pretty good singer, not to mention the fast-paced instrumental and lyrics! This song is awesome!
So, the energy meter hasn’t reached 100 yet so Stephanie comes to the conclusion that one person isn’t moving. Two, actually, but she tries to go convince Bessie to move. Bessie is relaxing in her clothes when Bessie gets a phone call from Milford and she answers it really fast.
Stephanie has the idea for Pixel to set up every phone booth in LazyTown and have Bessie run & pick them up. Pixel gets his computer. Now, from the plan, it sounds like there are about 30 phone booths in the town.. right? NUP. There are THREE. 3. TROIS.
Anyways, they start the plan and Bessie runs as fast as a human can make a puppet run. Milford calls the first phone and tells her she is doing wonderful. She is exhausted at the second phone (can relate) and Sportacus gives her a bottle of water.
So she keeps running, and she slows down again. But Sportacus throws her an apple (that hits Robbie in the head LOLZ!) but to really up it a notch, the Chariots of Fire theme song reprised by Mani Svavarrson plays as she runs to the last phone booth in slow motion. She’s made it! Woohoo! I’m surprised she didn’t get Milford to run for her, but she did it! Woop woot!
So, Sportacus has spinned the super spinner a buncha times to get multiple moves and do them all at the same time as fast as he can, but even he gets tired. They have failed. The meter is only up to 90. It’s 5pm.
Until Robbie starts to dance and move frantically out of excitement that his plan to stay still so the meter doesn’t reach 100 and Sportacus is so ashamed he leaves town.. and then the meter reaches 100. Three cheers for Mr. Rotten, and he’s not enjoying a single second of it.
So he leaves to his lair and they sing Bing Bang. Robbie is so annoyed he promises he’s never ever gonna move for the rest of his life until Robbie’s phone rings and he picks it up about ten seconds. It turns out to be a wrong number. Then he rages.
I love this episode. Bessie saw herself as someone who was only good at answering the phones, but she was the person who got the energy meter up to 90.
10/10
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