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| Filming in December 2004. 'What a bad script! Who wrote this?? Oh, yeah, I did..' |
Original airdate: May 17, 2006
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, Kristjanna Sæunn Olafsdottir
Puppeteers - Gudmondor Thor Karason, Jodi Eichelberger, David Matthew Feldman, Julie Westwood, Sarah Burgess
Dancing Duel is the 35th out of the 36th produced episode of this season of the show, so I am expecting a very high quality episode!
The episode begins with a sign of low quality - the episode begins with a recycled cold open from Play Day. But ignore that, this might be a chance for a new, fresh episode. Milford is busy rolling up a poster of sorts when some loud bass is heard and his water cup shakes.
He checks Stephanie’s room and it’s just her dancing to ‘We’re Dancing’ on like, really loud volume. Did she put it up to 101? Anyways, Steph apologizes and tells Milford she was just dancing which is a perfect time for Milford to tell her about the LazyTown dance competition, and she helps him put up the posters.
Meanwhile, Robbie is eavesdropping on.. nothing. For a change, it’s quiet in LazyTown, and he says so to the miniature version of him. Speaking of miniature, he has a regular size of cake, and for some reason, he has this thingy that makes stuff bigger.
He is satisfied with his slightly more bigger slice of cake and he puts down miniature him and BEFORE HE TAKES A BITE INTO IT, he leans on the dial, throws his cake away, and now there is a clone of him. ???? The episode started three minutes ago. Anyways, they keep telling each other they’re Robbie Rotten over and over, until the clone turns off.
He tells him there is only room for ONE Robbie Rotten, and then he hears Sportacandy, and turns him back on assuming he MIGHT need him. Anyways, Ziggy launches himself over a wall with the help of a stick and lands into a bin in an attempt to save.. a LOLLIPOP.
Does Ziggy ever think before doing anything? Anyways, Sportacus saves him and the kids all come to see what’s happened. Then Sportacus looks at a poster Stephanie stuck up and she explains it to the kids.
Apparently, if it goes well this year, they will have a dance competition every year which is dumb because it could cause a hole in the town’s budget. He is disgusted, proclaiming LazyTown could turn into a disco. He dances to demonstrate!
The jokes in this show are so funny, but so simple! Anyways, the kids try to convince Sportacus to join the competition but he says there’s someone better then him - Stephanie. She doubts her winning but Sportacus says anyone who tries their best is a winner. Now she’s hooked and decides to join.
Meanwhile, Robbie’s annoyed because the wind-up Robbie hasn’t done anything yet when he finally walks into sight. Then the kids say hi to him, and the fake Robbie checks out the dance competition and says he’ll JOIN. The real Robbie bashes his head on the periscope of anger.
Unsurprisingly, the kids laugh at him, while he repeats 'Robbie will dance.’ He doesn’t get a great response from Robbie who yells at him, saying that Robbie doesn’t dance or move. Then he moves. A lot.
Then he stops and decides to think about what to do. Meanwhile, Stephanie is practicing her dancing against the laziest guy in town, which is kinda pointless. But then again, anything can happen! Anyways, Robbie is attempting to teach his clone how to 'dance’.
And, as you can probably guess, because this is Nickelodeon JR, and comedy, the Robbie clone does even worse for this excuse of dancing.
Robbie is JUST so done with it. Stephanie is thinking about doing jazz twist for her dance, but she doesn’t like that either! Pick a thing, lady! (Fairly realistic..) Anyways, Robbie is doing MORE dance moves (jumping in the air and shaking his chest..) much to his clone’s appeal.
Robbie stops and tells him to try it - he does it much more faster before the wind-up goes down, and then back on. Robbie sits on the couch of annoyance. Then Stephanie decides to try a time step, and SHE DOESN’T LIKE THAT!! YOU LITTLE- I didn’t really like it either, and neither did candy boy. Then back to the lair. Again. Robbie is contemplating that it could’ve been the music. Speaking of music, Robbie sees the music box and a little ballerina inside it and asks Robbie to mimic her.
And it goes well, until the wind-up runs out. And Stephanie finally decides what she’ll do for her dance - a high kick and a split! Then the rat called Trixie comes over and turns off the music. Then Ziggy turns it on. Then the rat turns it off and asks what they’re doing. Stephanie tells her she’s just practicing.
Trixie convinces Stephanie she knows all the moves and to take a break - after all she’s only going up against Robbie. Or is she? Robbie finally brings the ballerina to life. It turns out she’s not very innocent - she kicks Robbie’s clone back into the machine so that he is a little figurine again.
Meanwhile, Stephanie is reading comics in her socks, lying down on her bed, all that lazy stuff. Sportacus decides to check on how she is doing with her dancing and boy oh boy does he get a surprise - nobody in LazyTown is outside! And that’s a chance for Ziggy to let free and dance!
Until Trixie walks up to him and he immediately turns the song off and tells her he was waiting for Stephanie - but Trixie tells him what he said yesterday and Ziggy said that gets you stiffened, but Trixie says it doesn’t matter. Anyways, Stephanie goes the rest of the day lazying and reading comix. Living the dream..
Ziggy is a fortune teller. Milford yells from the kitchen about breakfast and how the competition is today. Stephanie gets up. Stiffened. And she screams. For seven seconds straight.
She goes to the kitchen and tells Milford that she’s stiff. She smiles when she says 'stiff’. Weirdo. Anyways, she asks Milford to help her stretch and he says yes. So the problem has STARTED to be resolved. Then Sportacus’ crystal beeps.
So, anyways, Milford & Steph are stretching when Sportacus lands in the town. If this was realistic he’d probably land somewhere super random in the town - but nup, he lands in RIGHT in front of them. Lucky he’s there because Milford loses his balance.
Stephanie explains what happened in the form of a song - I Can Move which is an updated version of an updated version of Solla Stiora. After the song, Stephanie feels stretchy enough to dance! Luckily for her the competition’s about to start. Back in the lair, Robbie is going to give Rottenella a piece of cake, but she trips him.
From the floor, he looks at her and lets out a small 'hey!’. XD. The contest starts and everyone is watching. Rottenella is the first dancer. Robbie takes a while to wind her up - but when he does, she is a wonderful dancer! (Note: Milford says 'Now gimme a beat , yo!’ before the music starts. Hilarious.) Backflips, splits and cartwheels all over the place. Stephanie thinks she’s already lost.
Sportacus tells her that if she doesn’t try she WILL lose. How motivating. Then he tells her that he believes in her and that’s enough for her to go up on stage. She’s pretty good, and Robbie thinks so too, because he tries sabotaging her by putting ping pong balls on the stage, and she flips over them!
He only stops when a pissed Sportacus taps him on the back. You must admit, angry Sportacus is very intimidating. So, thanks to bias, the judge (Stephanie’s UNCLE) decides Stephanie is the winner, and they sing Bing Bang. Robbie sits on the machine (where the human comes out of), sulking about how he lost. He throws the Rotenella music box, it hits the dial, and he’s a figurine now.
I guess the writers really like Stefan’s voice, because even as a figurine, he talks - yelling 'I’m Robbie Rotten and I don’t daaaaaaaancccee!’
8/10 - Nice plot, high quality, great song, but the cuts from lair to town were getting on my nerves!!
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