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| Filming in December 2004. Trust me, you won't want to peel off that banana skin! |
Original airdate: May 16, 2006
Story by Magnus Scheving
Written by Noah Zachary, Cole Louie, Magnus Scheving
Directed by 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
I am looking forward to this episode - I don’t have much memories of what my first thoughts on it were, but I do remember enjoying it pretty much. The first three paragraphs of this were written at school so no snitching!!!
The episode begins with a recycled cold open from ‘Dr. Rottenstein’. This is too cool to ignore. Sportacus throws a melon into the air, does a handstand on the watermelon, and then catches it while doing the power jump. Then he EATS IT. The improper but super cool way to do stuff.
Stephanie is under an apple tree in this super cool jumper (I’d wear it if it was for boys, and blue), trying to figure out how to get it out from under there, when Sportacus comes to her rescue, telling her to close her eyes, holding out her hands. Then he does a flying backflip kick, and in Steph’s hands is an apple.
Ziggy comes after the scene, asking if Stephanie thinks that if he kicks the same tree, a lollipop would fall out. Then when she leaves, he kicks the tree.. and a l..
eave falls out. Some day, he convinces himself. The boring Robbie Rotten looks through his periscope knowing he is going to see the thing he hates most only to see the thing he hates most - kids. In this case, it is valid, because STINGY is bragging about his saving to Pixel. Which makes no sense, because you’d have to be in trouble to be saved, so why would he be bragging about being in trouble?
But, he was not really in trouble. His possession (a literal kite) was. So I guess it’s a bit braggable. Pixel talks about his saving, then Stephanie comes to talk about how Sportacus gave her an apple. They ultimately decide that since Sportacus is so nice to them that they should give him something nice. Robbie CAN’T watch.
Then he watches.
Idiot.
The kids decide to think about what Sportacus likes.
Randomly doing backflips? Playing with his food? No - sports candy. Then comes the idea of a SportsCandy festival. (LOL, they said the name of the episode in the episode). And then comes Sportacus (startling Robbie..). Ziggy starts going on excitedly about how much Sportacus likes sportscandy, and he agrees. Then he calms down with a nudge from Pinky, asking which one’s are ‘his favourite, let’s say?’
He likes them all. Liar. Watermelons are terrible. Anyways, he asks why they want to know and Ziggy almost gives it away and Stephanie smacks his… mouth, asking if he’s occupied at 5 P.M.
But, does it matter? It’s almost always sunny in LazyTown. They then assign themselves some sportscandy, then they go and look for more Sportscandy for the festival. But Stingy stops them, in fear the ‘dirty dirt’ (he has a point) will RUIN his clothes. So they have to go back to their houses and change their clothes. Meanwhile, Robbie is disgusted, questioning what the world has come to.
Eighteen years (since this episode aired), and that’s actually a good question. So, he decides to go and think of a plan somewhere else (will the location matter? I love this show but the characters need to think more.), but his periscope’s handle stops him.
He lifts it up and chuckles at it. So funny and I don’t even know why - that’s how you know they’re a great actor - the script’s not very funny (I’m joking, LazyTown is ALMOST always funny) and they make it funny! Anyways, Robbie realizes that if he took all the Sportscandy away, the kids’d have no energy to run the festival, but he doesn’t know how he’d swipe the vegetables.
Then he looks behind them and gets into the carrot costume. Really stupid plan because the LazyTowners are smart enough to know carrots don’t have faces. Meanwhile, Sportacus has finished off a game of soccer and has his Sportacus Club Special - A REGULAR SANDWHICH WITH TOMATOES AND LETTUCE. Put some sauce on that thing, my brudda.
So, anyways, while Robbie is sneaking around town, the kids perform Good Stuff. The song ends and Robbie sees that Ziggy is trying to make a carrocket (carrot rocket). So he pops up behind him when Ziggy says he needs a bigger carrot. In a homage to ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’, Ziggy stutters the words 'giant carrot’ until Robbie tells him to 'spit it out!’
Then he says 'boo’ in the least scariest way he can. Ziggy runs away. I know that Ziggy may be the youngest LazyTowner but that’s no excuse for him to believe Robbie’s ridiculous costume. No food has a face! Anyways, Robbie takes the box of carrots and the crystal beeps. Sportacus puts down his boring sandwich (as he should’ve done after ONE bite, but that’d be a waste).
He jumps into town and cartwheels his way over to a running Ziggy. If I was Sportacus I would tell him that there is nothing there and that if you see a person with dodgy clothing it’s Robbie and his latest scheme.
But, I ain’t no slightly above-average superhero - so Ziggy tells him everything and he checks it out. Ziggy decides to stay so he can curl into a ball and cry, but he says he’s just going to see if the carrot comes back. But that isn’t happening. Robbie has just dumped the carrots into the net that he just found (Surely someone must’ve got that reference), tying the net to a rope and tying the rope to 6000 KGs worth of metal. Meanwhile, Sportacus is looking around for the carrot.
But he won’t be coming back again as his next target is Stephanie, who is making an apple tower. (WOAH, APPLE TOW-ER!) She reaches for another apple, and boy does she get one!
I thought Stephanie was smart enough to realize that isn’t a real giant apple as giant apples don’t exist and if they did they wouldn’t have faces, but I was wrong. So, Sportacus’ crystal beeps and he flips over to a hiding Stephanie.
If I was Sportacus I would tell her that there is nothing there and that if you see a person with dodgy clothing it’s Robbie and his latest scheme. But, I ain’t no slightly above-average superhero - so Stephanie tells him everything and he checks it out with Stephanie. Meanwhile, When they get to the tree the apple was at. But that isn’t happening. Robbie has just THROWN the apples into the net that he just found (Surely someone must’ve got that reference THAT TIME), tying the net to a rope and tying the rope to 6000 KGs worth of metal.
Meanwhile, Ziggy is still hiding, walking backwards and so is Stephanie. Then they bump into each other, screaming and running. Then Stephanie realizes the short ice-cream haired boy isn’t a giant carrot, so they hide and Stephanie puts her arms around Ziggy.
This season is constantly fueling the Stephaziggy shippers. Sportacus is still looking around, but Robbie is already in the banana costume. Ziggy and Stingy have made a banana ship.. and it sinks. Then Pixel spots the giant banana on the couch, who scares them.
Come on, he isn’t even YELLING boo, he just says it normally! Anyways the kids run away yelling 'giant banana’, so the other kids run away yelling giant banana. Crystal beeps once again. While Sporty’s going after the kids, the banana gathers up it’s (probably smarter) brothers.
Robbie is just about to throw the bananas into the net, when he steps on a skateboard and Sportacus saves him with a throwing ring so he jumps off the skateboard. Sportacus falls for three carrots and they land into his tennis racket. Sportacus throws them at the banana, pinning him against the wall.
And for NO absolute reason, Robbie falls down out of the banana peel, and Sportacus asks if he is okay. But he doesn’t recognize it’s Robbie until the kids come! So, Robbie tries to change the subject by using a banana as his phone. The kids apologize and tell Sportacus about the festival and how they can’t do it because they have no sportscandy. Cue in Ziggy.
He unties the rope, flying in the air and getting stopped by a tree, and the Sportscandy net comes flying down. Sportacus catches both these things. So, in celebration they have their sportscandy, like NOTHING happened, they sing Bing Bang. In the lair, Robbie sits on a carrot, throws it away and it bounces on the wall. He blocks his face with a plate, then says he knew vegetables were dangerous before dropping the plate on the floor.
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