Original airdate: June 7, 2005
Story by Hanna Maja
Written by Noah Zachary, Cole Louie, Magnus Scheving
Directed by Raymond P. Le Gue
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
The first season of LazyTown was ordered 40 episodes, but the producers met their deadline and only produced 35. Thus being why there are four clip shows in this seasons - and I remember not being very fond of this one.
The episode begins with a recycled cold open from the episode before this - The Laziest Town. Only the banana scene plays and we get a new shot of the peel falling onto the ping pong ball, but couldn’t they have just filmed a new one or just recycled from an even OLDER episode? Taking it from the previous one is just.. Lazy in LazyTown.
Stephanie is in her room with her diary and Milford has messed up the laundry - his pants shrunk & one of his socks are pink. He offers to give it to her, but she is writing in her diary about everything that happens in LazyTown and she shows Milford a page about the first day she was in town (Welcome to LazyTown).
Then a page about when Milford spilled Bessie’s drink and when he nearly fell from the ladder (Sportafake), and then when they played against the Soccer Bot (Soccer Sucker). That scene just grinds my gears, spoilers! Soccer Sucker is the TWENTY FOURTH episode of LazyTown. THIS IS THE SIXTEENTH.
Milford asks about how Stephanie has time to write in her diary (she looks at the clock, durr) because she’s full of energy, and then she remembers the time they sang a song about it (Sports Day). Meanwhile, Robbie is eavesdropping on Stingy and Trixie fighting over a basketball.
Stephanie pops up and they stop talking to each other. Trixie asks Stephanie to prove that Stingy says everything is his a lot - like the time he said the seesaw was his (Welcome to LazyTown), the time he said the ladder was his (Sportafake), the time he said Ziggy’s candy maker was his (Happy Brush Day) and the song he made about it (It’s Mine!) which is genuinely amazing. Not because of the memes or anything. Then they mock the song and Stingy says that it’s his song (which he’s right, but the thing is they changed up the lyrics to ‘absolutely definitely mine’)
Stephanie says she writes everything good in her diary, and then she flips to a page with the song 'Step by Step’ (Hero for a Day) and when they built the treehouse. So 75% of this episode is recycled footage and shots. How annoying. So they go to a bench and decide to do some cartwheeling with music. Stephanie goes to get the boombox and Trixie says 'Oh, well I guess I’ll just stay here, okay’. It wasn’t really that funny, but the way 'Ok’ is said really topped it off. LOLZ.
Robbie wants to stop this icky friendness (Stefan Karl himself said deep down Robbie wants some friends) so he gets a pink piece of paper that was coincidentally next to him that he didn’t have at all before this scene and writes the following words- 'DEAR DIARY. MY WORST FRIEND IS TRIXIE MY SECOND WORST FRIEND IS PIXEL MY 3.RD WORST FRIEND IS ZIGGY AND MY 4.TH WORST FRIEND IS PIXEL’. He puts the slip of paper on the bench and Trixie reads it.
It’s funny because even a blind person could tell that’s not Stephanie’s cursive handwriting.. It’s not even in cursive. Not to mention, no idiot actually writes secrets in a diary. It’s not like the book has a high tech security system. The plan succeeds and Trixie reads it to everyone. Ziggy is pumped when Trixie says Ziggy is her 3rd favourite and starts bragging. LOL!!
Anyways, they all are super mad at her and Stephanie is sulking in her bedroom. Meanwhile Milford has washed his shirt and turned the letters on it upside down (how do you even do that..??).
He says he will use it when he will stand on his head (kinda funny) but Stephanie is too sad to respond. He asks what is wrong and Stephanie says Trixie is being mean to her for no reason (she does have a reason, so Stephanie is WRONG!!).
The above screenshot makes me realize that Stephanie’s eyelashes look really stupid. She’s obviously got her eyes open, but you can’t see them because of the stupid eyelashes. It looks like she’s crying black tears - 'Loud House’ style. Anyways, Milford’s advice is to ask her other friends what’s going on and Stephanie says Milford is the best. Maybe not in laundry, but, eh.
So Stephanie walks in Pixel’s house and they all shuffle to the other side of his couch and everyone is avoiding face contact and nobody’ll talk to her. She is pissed and walks off 'angry-black-mom’ style. I don’t blame her.
An instrumental version of 'Have you Never Been Sad’ plays over clips of Stephanie walking slowly and sadly. I nearly got teary eyed myself, but Sportacus came to the rescue. Enough crying. I need to see his backflips.
Stephanie tells the whole story to Sportacus and how she gives up on the whole thing. Sportacus then comes back with her own argument - Always a Way (Defeeted). After the song finishes, Sportacus goes to Pixel’s house to see what’s wrong and they say that she said mean things about them all. Then Stingy shows Sportacus the note.
But he doesn’t believe Stephanie wrote it (more proof for my headcanon Stephanie is Sporty’s favourite of the childs). He tells them to go talk to Stephanie about it, and Stephanie says she didn’t do it while Robbie is watching.
Her first piece of proof - her diary paper is white. Her second piece of proof - she only writes nice stuff - e.g. Stingy returning Sportacus’ crystal (The Great Crystal Caper), Pixel making the treehouse blueprint, when Ziggy worked out with Sportacus (Super Hero for a Day), and when Trixie saved her (Lazy Scouts). She should be a lawyer. While they are all hugging, Robbie snatches the diary again.
Except, this time, he is gonna write bad stuff about Sportacus ('Sportacus is SO annoying!’) But he gets distracted by a page Stephanie has written about him. She has written the following: 'Robbie really likes cake (Swiped Sweets). Sometimes he does funny stuff (falling in Welcome to LazyTown). Other times, he just wants to relax (Super Hero for a Day). But mostly, I think he’s a big softie.’ What a kind soul. Meanwhile, the kids notice it is lost and start looking for it. Robbie proves the 'softie’ statement by giving the diary back.
Robbie is curious as if she is gonna write about him and he puts his finger in the diary. Then she closes it and Robbie just says he’s curious. Aw, man, I feel bad for him. He did something nice then right after it Stephanie thinks he’s gonna snoop. ): To answer the question, Stephanie writes the following: 'Robbie Rotten can be super sneaky. One time he’. Then Bing Bang plays - a montage of scenes from the past 15 episodes in a 'sitcom finale’ style. (This is recycled for 'Greatest Hits’.) Maybe this would’ve fit better as the finale of Season 1 over Sportacus on the Move! The episode ends with Stephanie closing her diary on a page that says 'Living in Lazytown is great! Living in Lazytown is great! Living in Lazytown is great! Living in Lazytown is great!’ No joke.
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