Original airdate: June 9, 2005
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 - Ronald Binion, Gudmondor Thor Karason, Jodi Eichelberger, David Matthew Feldman, Julie Westwood, Sarah Burgess
Twas a time in history where this was my favourite LazyTown episode in history. I loved the plot, the song, the climax, and I liked the quality of production. This was the thirty first out of thirty five episodes of the first season of LazyTown to be filmed.
The episode begins with a recycled cold open from ‘My Treehouse’. I guess it was recycled because Sportacus set a record of how fast he could get into the skutla (twelve seconds).
In the lair, Robbie is being awarded the Laziest Person award by Milford and Sportacus. Sportacus is giving him the crown on an orange fluffy pillow, bowing down, praising Robbie, asking for an autograph and Milford is talking about how Robbie has always been his favourite. This sequence is just so funny writing-wise, not to mention Magnus’ acting! Only one minute in and you can see why I love this episode.
However, it turns out to be a dream and the crown on his head is his underwear. He screams at the sight of his red heart boxers. LOL! The only thing that’s real is him grasping the LazyTown Book of Records in his arms. So he opens the book up and Sportacus has won every record - Fastest Run, Highest Jump, Most Races Won, Most Flips, Longest Throw, Most Energy, you name it and he’s won it! Except Laziest Person. Robbie declares that award his. Also, has anybody noticed the descriptions for the records are just Lorem Ipsum text?
So Robbie decides to set that record, but outside, where Milford can see it. Speaking of Milford, he is bringing Bessie a cup of fruit juice and asks if she needs anything else a buncha times and only stops when Bessie yells at him. (The kids ask Robbie what he’s doing and he tells them about Record Day, then they ask Milford to do it again but Bessie is against it because things were getting broken by balls. They promised not to break anything this time and they go to tell the others.
While the kids are walking to tell the others, Robbie tells them to be quiet and Trixie tells him that they’re setting their own records and he gets super mad. I don’t blame him either. Trixie is going to throw a ring through a.. life ring and set a record, Ziggy is gonna set a world record in ping pong until Stingy takes his idea so he does a record in golf, Pixel is gonna set a world record in video soccer (isn’t the whole point to be active..?) and Stephanie is gonna hit a baseball as far as she can, but when they try, they fail miserably.
Sportacus sees their failure, and he rides to LazyTown to help them. The sound of the airship wakes up Robbie. Sportacus asks the kids what’s wrong and Stephanie tells him everything. So he says that they should do a team record, but they need some energy. Stephanie goes under a tree and Sportacus does the flying kick from Defeeted - a ball hits the tree and an apple falls into Stephanie’s hand. Then they perform Energy, but with some different clips. This is personally my favourite version of the song.
During the song, Stephanie kicks a ball and it almost flies through Milford’s open window, but luckily Sportacus does a flying dive to catch it. The song ends and Milford asks to play, but he kicks the ball flying to Bessie’s flowerpot. They can’t play soccer anymore and Robbie fake cries. LOL!!
Then Milford has to bring Bessie the LAZY ● TOWN NEWS which has a very captivating headline - 'MAYOR MEANSWELL SNORES TO LOUD’. Anyways, the kids decide to set a baseball record but Robbie has a ridiculously smart plan to catch one of their balls, break something with it, and blame it on them. He tries the plan, and what do you know?
It makes a hole in Bessie’s copy of LAZY ● TOWN NEWS which she has been reading since My Treehouse, apparently and she declares that they can’t play with balls anymore. Who in the world voted HER for mayor? Not me that’s for sure. LazyTown’d turn into FashionTown. While Milford is a good character, Bessie takes advantage of him too much times in this show and never stands up for himself.
So the kids are super sad, but then they have the genius idea to ask Sportacus for help. But Robbie isn’t having it. So he grabs a soccer ballsack and tries out the newest gadget he has - a soccer ball launcher. Stephanie sends Sportacus a letter to say that they want him there.
You can see his visible happiness when he finds out the kids want him. So he decides to use the Sky Chaser (I always found the Sky Chaser epic, but not as epic as the skutla), but Robbie’s flying soccer balls almost hit Sportacus and he dodges them all. A ball flies into the airship and hits the steering wheel, and the airship starts turning.
While Sportacus is looking at the airship, a ball hits him in the head. He dodges every ball coming his way, and as Bessie says, 'saves himself’ by going back to the ship. As he tries to go back to the ship, a ball hits him in the chest and he grabs onto the platform.
How some people can watch this episode, see Robbie almost kill Sportacus because he wants to set a world record and still ship them or have Robbie as their favourite character is just BEYOND me. Then a ball hits him in the hand, and he’s hanging on with ONE HAND!! Two wouldn’t work for me. Sportacus is so epic! Sportacus grabs an apple he kept in his shirt, then a ball hits his hand and lands on Robbie’s head. He tells him to 'WATCH IT!!’
Excuse me, but he is hanging from a platform thousands of feet in the air. He can’t hear you and even if he did he wouldn’t give two f- fuji apples. Anyways, the kids finally decide they have to get him some Sports Candy. In positions. Ziggy has a golf club and is below the apple tree. Stephanie has a bat and is on the baseball court. Trixie is on the sports field with a ring. Stingy is in the treehouse with a ping pong paddle. Trixie hits a box full of soccer balls and it opens. Milford kicks it as hard as he can. BAM! I’d purposefully just hit Robbie with the ball (what type of ball..??)
Pixel hits the soccer ball with his head (which is how he scored the winning goal in Soccer Sucker - oops. Spoiler alert! Eh, screw you, the production team already spoiled it themselves in Dear Diary and you had no problem with that. IT’S CAUSE I’M BLACK!!!!) and it hits the tree. The apple falls on the ground and Ziggy hits it with the golf club to Stingy’s ping pong paddle.
Also, it might just be me, but Stingy moving his eyes is totally unnerving. Stephanie hits the apple with her baseball bat as hard as she can and Sportacus catches it! I’m just surprised eight year olds thought this up, because Milford definitely didn’t. So, Sportacus takes ONE single bite of the apple and suddenly has enough energy to climb up the platform and Stingy is laughing happily, like a maniac. So, another ball flies into the ship and hits a lever. The inbrake has released and the airship is moving! Sportacus hits a flying ball like Bruce Lee (Cheng Zhen) delivered his punches in 'Fist of Fury’. and the platform is up, and plays a recycled scene from 'Dr. Rottenstein’. It might be reused, but I enjoyed watching it in this episode more then that one. It’s like how drinking water makes the rest of the day calmer. Watching the prior scene just made the ending of the climax cooler.
While Robbie is leaving to the lair, Sportacus leaves the airship and tells them they were fantastic. They actually were. Sportacus, I can’t believe YOU, a superhero who lives thousands of feet in the air had to be saved by some eight year old puppets. Eh, you’re still my favourite. Milford tells them all that they’ve set a new record for the world’s longest team flying disc soccer golf ping pong apple relay. They all sing Bing Bang to celebrate. Then Robbie trips and sits on the soccer launcher.
He is launched into his lair and he lands on his orange fluffy chair (wasn’t it outside the entire episode…???) and sends it flying back to the lair. He then says that MUST have been some type of record. LOL!!
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