Chris Crow (https://www.youtube.com/@handle6324) gave GetLazy an .iso of the ninth LazyTown DVD intended for promotional use only. To finally put the .iso to use, I decided to take all the screenshots in this episode myself. I also watched it using VLC.
Original airdate: May 18, 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
Puppeteers - Gudmondor Thor Karason, Jodi Eichelberger, David Matthew Feldman, Julie Westwood, Sarah Burgess
Sportacus is my favourite character, but this is a clip show AND in the style of an autobiographical documentary. So will I really even like it? Beware - I don’t really explain most scenes good enough because they’re mostly recycled from other episodes, so I keep it short.
The episode begins with a new cold open (good start!) where Sportacus is riding to town on his sky chaser. Once Stephanie sees him she puts in her letter. Sportacus checks on what she’s doing, then she sends the letter. Sportacus rides back to his airship to get the letter, and he does.
We get some narration from Sportacus, who is thanking us for our letters. Some letters that were actually sent to LazyTown Entertainment pop up on the screen, with kids reading out their questions - and there’s a big last group yell - ‘can I be a superhero?’ Sportacus says anyone can be a hero, then he walks through his morning.
Here is a recycled cold open from 'Zap It!’ that I’ll only explain as my Zap It review was rushed. Sportacus gets out of bed and flips into a pair of skating shoes. He grabs a hockey stick and skates over to his bed. He throws away a cushion then arranges the blanket.
He says that’s how you make a bed, then skates over to his cupboard, spinning the hockey stick once more then putting it back in it’s place, literally. He declares it breakfast time.
A recycled cold open from 'Dear Diary’ - he slices up a banana with a ping pong racket, falls to the ground and tries to catch all the slices in his mouth. Still hungry, he calls for an apple but there are none left. So he decides to have some random watermelon that was on the floor.
Recycled cold open from 'Dr. Rottenstein’ - he throws away the watermelon, does some cartwheels, jumps in the air, and now he’s handstanding on the watermelon. Then he gets off, throws it in the air and catches it doing a power jump. He twirls it on his finger and it shatters to slices as he drops it on the table, then he eats it.
Now, it’s teethy cleany time the Twenty Times way! Sportacus flips onto his aerobics bar, hangs on with his legs, and grabs his toothbrush. He jumps off and starts brushin!
The rest of the LazyTowners are brushing too to ’Twenty Times Time’, but that all ends when Sportacus throws the toothbrush out of his accidentally-open door. He jumps out the airship and lands on the sky-chaser, and from then on, it’s a mashup of 'Twenty Times Time’ & 'Get it Together’. After the whole toothbrush thingy, Sportacus wants to play a little game with the sports spinner.
His first exercise is jumping jacks, and he adds a little Sportatwist to it - in the middle he starts flailing his arms around like those inflated people you see at car shops, then he starts kicking.
Then he just starts to fricking jump. That may just be some practice for his second move and my favourite one - Power jumping! So, he does a bunch of power jumps (no Sportatwists) before going on to a harder move - soccer. A recycled cold open from Soccer Sucker. Meanwhile, the kids are doing nothing!
They’re probably bored because Sportacus isn’t playing with them, but Milford tells them to do something fun like play basketball, and they all have fun doing so. After he throws back the ball, he says that he’s now ready for anything, then something happens. He gets a letter, and reads it.
It’s a question about why he moves so much. His answer is that he loves to move, and then he performs Get it Together. Once the song ends, he flips over to his water bottle and puts some water in his cup. Recycled cold open from Miss Roberta - he hits an ice cube using a baseball bat against the walls and it lands in his glass of water and he drinks it.
Then he gets a letter from an unknown person asking him to teach him one-arm pushups. This is my favourite part of the episode. So, he demonstrates normal pushups, triceps pushups, clapping, turning, then he tries ONE ARM!
Then jumping then clapping behind his back! Sure enough, he accomplishes it! Then he does his favourite - one arm, one leg. This is super cool. He calls for paper and a pen and he draws some pictures of his favourite pushups, and of course, a message. He sends his letter using air-mail, but he forgot to sign his name. He runs out, but the door isn’t activated yet, so he has to turn the knob a bit. TWICE.
Finally, once it opens, he ties his feet to a white rope, then attaches the piece of metal to it on the magnet of his airship’s door. He then dives off, catches the letter, and pulls himself back up. Then he signs his name.
Then he throws it back out. Now it’s time for another energy boost. Meanwhile, a recycled scene from Ziggy’s Alien - Robbie tries to sleep but is awaken by the sound of a kid yelling for help. In this case it’s recycled from 'New Superhero’ and Ziggy is falling. Then a recycled scene from 'Sports candy festival’ where Sportacus’ Club Special is consumed by Sportacus. I have complained about this so many times - but that is a plain lettuce and tomato sandwich.
The crystal beeps. Sportacus says before he saves someone he tries locating the problem, which he almost never does. Liar. So, he rides into the town and saves Ziggy with a skateboard and a comically long scarf.
The crystal beeps again - this time a recycled rescue from the VERY FIRST EPISODE involving Trixie being a moron, Stingy being a moron, Stingy flying in the air, and a seesaw.
Then a recycled rescue combining clips from both 'Sportscandy Festival’ & the beginning of 'New superhero’. Milford is carrying a cake, he’s about to walk onto a skateboard, but with the help of a carrot, he doesn’t. Then a recycled scene from 'Sportscandy Festival’ - Steph wants an apple, Sportacus throws a ball at the tree, Steph has an apple.
Then Energy is performed. Sportacus goes back to the airship using the sky-chaser. Robbie who has been looking through his periscope pushes it back of anger, then it comes rolling back and he makes a dive for it.
XD! So, Sportacus flips into his bed, day turns to night, and a recycled ending from the VERY FIRST EPISODE plays! Except this time there’s an extra two seconds of Robbie’s pained expression after lifting his arm.
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