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| Filming in November 2004. Willing to bet Julianna read the entire season's script before this pic. |
Original airdate: October 11, 2005 (DVD) / May 17, 2006 (TV)
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
Oh boy. I remember before watching every LazyTown episode TO DATE, I’d always put this one off because it didn’t really look interesting to me. After finishing all the episodes (and RE-finishing them which I’m 1/5 through), it’s time to watch Ziggy’s Alien again!
Recycled Zap It! opening. Durr. Robbie is trying to take a nap. SHOCKINGLY AS IF THIS HAS NEVER EVER HAPPENED IN THE PAST 33 EPISODES he gets disturbed. By the kids.
Sorry - I meant KID. As he is getting disturbed by the sound of Pixel trying to launch his alien communication plan. An excited Ziggy runs into his house, trips on NOTHING and his arm hits a button.
He ends up tangled in some wires and Pixel tells him only big kids inside (Ziggy is only two years younger then Pixel, SMH..) the house. So Pixel tells him to play outside, and he stuffs that up - Stingy is on a ladder, setting up an antenna when ZIGGY BUMPS INTO IT and he falls down.
Robbie’s happy about this, until he starts yelling for help, much to his annoyance. Then Sportacus saves him, much to his anger. But it seems the ladder has fell on Stephanie and Ziggy.
Sportacus saves them too and asks what they were doing. They explain everything to him, say bye, and tell Ziggy that he can’t join their club because he would crash the rocket. Stephanie feels bad, but Stingy is all for it. He says that if he saw an actual alien, he’d have a panic attack and not talk for a week. Robbie’s listening.
Robbie has the idea to dress up as a space alien and scare Ziggy so he shuts up but for that plan to work REALLY well, it’d have to work forever, so he’d have to dress up as an alien once a week. He takes no notice of this and dresses up in an alien costume that looks NOTHING like an alien.
So, anyways, Ziggy starts the cake and candy club, but nobody will join because they’re too busy singing Galaxy. So, Zobby (Robbie’s alien costume) comes outside of his lair to find Ziggy and then he steps on a skateboard. Meanwhile, Stingy is questioning if the rocket is all his, and he says he can just own the bottom half but Steph declines. Pixel asks if they’re ready through the walkie-talkie.
Stephanie tells him ‘almost’, much to his annoyance, which is a bit out of character because he’d be fine with it considering he crushes on her. Anyways, once Steph picks up something, Zobby comes cruisin’ by and is out of her sight once she stands up.
She asks what that was, and Stingy tells her not to worry because it’s probably his. If he owns a different life type, then, urhm, I’d worry.. Ziggy says that he would give away all his candy just for someone to hang out with. In comes Zobby whose skateboard hits a wall. He is sent front-flipping (yes, Robbie has done flips multiple times in this season!) with a hard landing.
Zobby introduces himself and Ziggy goes a bit crazy - but when Zobby tells him to be quiet, he becomes quiet. Ziggy offers him candy much to Zobby’s liking until Ziggy calls him 'buddy’, which is the opposite of what he was aiming for. So, Ziggy goes to his house, which is DROWNED IN CANDY.
He tries to find a good piece of candy for his new 'buddy’, but he decides to give him his favourite lollipop ever, which is kind of sad, really. He’s willing to give anything to anyone he meets so they can be friends with him when his real friends think he’s too young to do stuff with them. So, for some reason, he decides to run up to his friends, but he bumps into the table and equipment falls off.
Stingy reminds him two things - he is TOO SMALL, and out of the club, but Ziggy offers to bring them a real life-size space alien (Zobby) and tells them to follow him. But he isn’t there. He is trying to take a nap on a bench.
He sure took a nap, but not on the bench! So, the kids are looking for him, but they can’t find him.. until he gets up from under the couch and shakes his head and starts talking about his pain, scaring Stephanie and Stingy.
Zobby’s scared too, yelling 'KIIIDDDSSS!!!!’. then telling them to be quiet, and they are quiet. The kids find it a bit cool now, which starts a tug-of-war as to whose friend it is. Zobby yells out STOP and orders them to whisper every word. Then he starts napping. Ziggy says he must be tired of Earth and Stephanie comes up with the idea to bring him back HOME much to Ziggy’s sadness.
Then he comes up with the idea to bring the alien home HIMSELF but Stingy keeps on saying he is too little and he’d crash, yada yada. He storms off, and Stingy says some people can be too possessive and STEPHANIE AGREES. Maybe it’d be funnier if the irony hit hard? Maybe Stingy could claim something a few seconds AFTER he said that. Sportacus’ crystal beeps.
He rides into town. Meanwhile, the kids are literally just carrying Zobby in a wheelbarrow and they bump his head on the ice-cream stand, but he’s too tired to wake up. Ziggy is sulking about how he isn’t too young to fly a rocket and how Zobby’s HIS friend. Sportacus flips over to his window and asks what’s wrong.
Ziggy tells him everything and how he’s too little but Sportacus says you’re never too little to help someone out. Then he goes back to the ship. The kids are trying to figure out where to send Zobby as he said he was from 'Junkiter’ and no planet exists. They decide to pick a pretty green one.
Pixel checks everything is where it’s supposed to be, and he presses the red button, meaning that the rocket’ll go in ten seconds. Stingy notices that Ziggy’s in there. The 60 thousand KG worth of metal drops on the seesaw and they’re launching.
Stingy is sad he will never see him again then asks for his candy. I get that was supposed to be funny but it isn’t. Ziggy could be in potential danger. The rocket flies past Sportacus’ airship and Sportacus sees them. Zobby’s had enough and falls out of the rocket, holding onto a wing.
Then Sportacus JUMPS OUT THE SHIP and lands on the rocket. Ziggy asks Sportacus to save Zobby and he mishears it as 'Zombie’.. XD. So, he tries to walk to the back of the rocket but with the air and everything it’s a bit hard. It’s also hard because Zobby keeps missing Sportacus’ hand. But he is pulled back in!
Then Sportacus sits on Zobby (you can tell by the 'ow!!’ sound, XD)’s face, presumably. Sportacus tells Ziggy to ride the rocket, but Ziggy says he is too small. Sportacus reminds him what he said, and luckily, they make it back to LazyTown safely.
Sportacus tries to pull Zobby out, but instead he pulls out his helmet, and the disguise is of course, revealed, once again. And then he falls out of the rocket after aggressively grabbing the helmet back. LOLZ.
Ziggy is sad because he thought he had a friend. Stephanie says they’re all his friends. Stingy agrees after a day of being a moron. Then Ziggy silently ends racism by saying 'Big, small or alien, we can all be friends!’. God, I love this show, such a heartwarming scene. The background music from Mani does it as well. They perform Bing Bang.
The episode ends with Robbie back in his robe, trying to relax, when a bright light shines above him, and someone calls out 'Take us to your leader’. Then he screams, abruptly cut off by the ending credits.
So simple, and so funny. It’s the scream that’s the cherry on top, really.
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