Original airdate: September 28, 2006
Story by Magnus Scheving
Written by Magnus Scheving, Mani Svavarrson, Noah Zachary
Directed by Jonathan Judge
Executive producers - Magnus Scheving, Ragnheidur Melsted, Raymond P. Le Gue, 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, Ronald Binion
Double Trouble - Robbie’s disguise is terrible in this episode, so will the song and story make up for it?
Sportacus’ cold open is a great start as it is a possible homage to Bruce Lee. He calls for two carrots and connects them together - reciting the nunchuck routine from Enter the Dragon. Then he calls for ANOTHER two carrots, swinging them around. Sweet homage, cool homage.
Meanwhile, Milford is looking for a hat.. that is on his head. He doesn’t notice until Stephanie takes it off for him. Every show needs their comedy relief, but Milford’s is a teeny bit exaggerated. Milford is going butterfly catching and he’s got all he needs - a tent and his butterfly catching net. Stephanie reminds him to come back by three o'clock as he is scheduled to announce the annual LazyTown rule (pretty sure you don’t need to announce a rule every year..). Then they say goodbye and Milford leaves. Meanwhile, Robbie has a hammer.
And because he is a grown man who is responsible.. he hits his thumb on the hammer. I get him yelling and shaking it, he’s in pain. And unfortunately, I also understand him sucking it like a small man who is unresponsible.
It’s so funny because it was so sudden. The only thing you could hear for a few seconds was a hammer banging. Imagine closing your eyes for a few seconds.. then - ‘DAAAAAÆÜGH’. Anyways, after sucking his thumb, he spits and throws the hammer away. He says that now those noisy, nosy kids will never be able to find his 'super secret’ lair. When a noisy, nosy adult finds his super secret lair.
He’s just here to tell him everything, and also about how he’s going to return at 3 for the annual rule. Robbie is bored and mocking him up until that part.. -annual rule- Then he is trying to get him to go after a few questions (A new rule that everyone must follow no matter how greedy and selfish it might be? Milford’s reaction to that’s hilarious!!). Now all he has to do is to make sure the Mayor doesn’t return and disguise himself AS THE MAYOR and make his own rules. IT’S DISGUISE TIME!! After he figures out how to get the wooden X of his door.
Don’t worry. He found some random crowbar hanging around. Meanwhile, Milford is looking at the lovely day, then starts looking for some sunscreen. He looks in the tent. Back to Robbie who has reached his lair (for some reason, he didn’t just come falling out the chute like in Season 1). He stands up, dusts himself off and declares it Disguise Time. Then he shows up in the LEAST Milford Meanswell looking disguise ever.
That is weird. Luckily, the song 'Fun to be Mayor’ doesn’t really make me think about this too long - I like the parts where Robbie stops his Milford voice and begins the rough voice. Anyways, after the song, Ziggy is wearing a hat with a fake snake on top of it, sneaking around and he has a hung a cage. When Stephanie comes around, she asks what he is up to and he explains that he is waiting to catch.. A DINOSAUR. He’s confused when Steph tells him there aren’t any more.
He says they could come back. Cry Dinosaur II? Anyways, it’s almost three and everyone is waiting for Milford.. but he isn’t back yet. The kids are talking about this when a sudden WOAH WOAAAHAHHH - it’s Trixie attempting to be cool by putting herselves and maybe her friends in danger by SKATING - not cool. Stick to the scooter (one of the reasons why this is out of character - Trixie only rides her scooter)
The crystal beeps and coincidentally, Sportacus is driving the skutla. So he stops and Dyri- I mean Magnus flips out of the skutla, jumps over a wall, rolls, grabs a skateboard and jumps over another wall. Trixie trips over a curve and does a frontflip. So Sportacus lies on the skateboard and rolls over to a sheet being dried outside. He holds it so Trixie bounces off it. Then she backflips and Sportacus flips to catch her.
He puts her down and she almost falls down thanks to dem skates before Sporty holds him. Kinda unneeded - the episode would have gone well without the rescue, but I guess it’s better then him just flying to town to see what the kids are doing. Anyways, he asks the kids where the Mayor is but they say they don’t know. Meanwhile, instead of GOING in the tent, Milford is still crawling looking for the sunscreen when Robbie comes over to kick his butt. Literally. LOL.
So, then he zips up the tent. Robbie remembers it’s almost three and goes back to LazyTown. The crystal beeps and Sportacus runs to the other side of town, passing Robbie’s lair.. and Robbie.
So far in the show, Robbie has been in the airship, and this is the second time Sportacus has been to Robbie’s billboard lair. Anyways, Sportacus asks Robbie if he is okay. He says yes and tells him the crystal’s out of order. Sportacus reminds him of the rule and he walks to town with Robbie. Who walks the wrong way until Sportacus helps him.
The kids are a bit worried until he finally walks up onto the stage and he crouches down to the podium. They’re all smiling waiting for the rule, hoping it’ll be something good. Then he spews out - 'LazyTown has no more SportsCandy.’ You can see the smile wipe off Julianna’s face, hilarious!
Then he walks off stage and into the office, saying that was easy. Comes in Bessie Busybody who has baked Milford a cake. Robbie tastes some of the frosting and calls it terrible and it tastes like an old shoe. Then he looks outside to find the kids playing basketball. Before going out he tells Bessie he wants her cake and her out of town by the time he is back. Robbie asks the kids what they’re up to, and tells them sports is banned. He also put up a few signs. He drops a bag on the floor telling them to put all their sports stuff in the bag.
Robbie asks how many sports there are and Stingy is rambling on and on until Robbie yells NO MORE SPORTS!!!! Steph asks what they can do if they can’t play sports, and he says something quiet. Ziggy pulls out an apple even though it was established he just banned them. Robbie opens the door and snatches it from him as he is about to take a bite and throws it into the bag. Then he takes the bag back to the office. The kids know this is wrong..
Well, most of the kids, but as Ziggy says 'rules are rules’! Sportacus enters the Mayor’s office, looking for him and Robbie enters after him. Sportacus wants to discuss the new rules. Robbie asks Sportacus if he is the type of person to follow rules and enforce the kids to do so. He says yes to all the questions. Milford shows Sportacus the kids outside, following the rules. He says they don’t want sports, sports candy, or Sportacus. And he makes a new ruke, Sportacus has to leave LazyTown forever!
He takes all the balls and starts deflating them while singing a line of 'Fun to be mayor’. Sportacus goes back to the airship and the kids are super bored, when Stephanie stands up and says they have to find out what’s happening. French fry hair boy agrees. Trixie says this is all wrong, and Ziggy says it is excluding the candy rule. Ha. Ha. Stephanie is going to talk to Bessie, Trixie and the rest are gonna find the mayor, who is eating some ice-cream.
The kids barge to Robbie saying they want sports and sports candy back until he says there is a brand new rule - you can eat all the ice-cream you want. The idiots. Robbie tells them to go in the truck, they do so, and he locks them in. Meanwhile, a bee enters Milford’s tent and Sportacus’ crystal beeps. So he rides over to the other side of town to help Milford. He unlocks the tent, finding the real mayor. He tells him he thought he was back in LazyTown and Milford says he was stuck in the tent all day. Then Sportacus realizes someone is impersonating Milford.
The plan is to sneak in LazyTown - Milford must blend in. Apparently he has a great disguise. Meanwhile, Bessie is about to leave when Stephanie stops her and asks what’s happening. After they finish talking, Bessie leaves. THANK GOD!! But Steph’s not happy - she runs to the office. Meanwhile, Sportacus is crawling behind a wall, looking for Milford. He can’t find him because he’s 'blended in’ so well.
He is wearing his butterfly catching costume - a pink and white bunny that seems to scare the butterflies away. But it works because nobody will recognize him. Anyways, the stress is getting to Robbie. When Stephanie comes up to him asking why he kicked Bessie out, he yells 'BECAUSE I FELT LIKE IT!!’. Then Stephanie realizes that this isn’t the real Milford as he wouldn’t do any of this. He also wouldn’t trap Stephanie in a cage, which is exactly what he does.
The crystal beeps and off he goes! He runs and jumps over a wall! He can see the shaking ice-cream stand, and the well hidden trapped Stephers. Sportacus takes out the crystal (it flings back to him like a boomerang) and he throws it at an apple. The apple falls into Stephanie’s hands, and she bites it. ONCE. And she has the strength to lift up the entire cage herself. Ziggy is getting curious in the ice-cream stand.. and he touches a brake - off the car/ice-cream stand goes! Sportacus calls for a rope from his airship and swings like Tarzan ontop of the ice-cream stand. He attaches the hook to the stand and the other side to the cage Stephanie escaped from. The force of the stand stopping makes the stand shake and Sportacus fall off.
Who am I kidding? He flips mid-way through the fall and lands on his feet like a cat. He unlocks the stand and runs back to Stephanie, who thanks him and tells him that there’s someone pretending to be Milford. Thanks, we heard. So they go to find him. Meanwhile, Bessie runs into the real Milford. She asks who he is and he takes off the nose, revealing himself. Once Robbie walks by, he tells her that’s the faker, then Robbie turns around. They duck, and she says NOW she understands. Milford asks for a piece of Bessie’s cake. He throws it at Robbie, who slips on it.
So he sits on the seesaw. Milford needs some extra weight, so he piggy backs Bessie, and he JUMPS on the seesaw sending Robbie flying. The end, ta-ta. Not really because there’s three more minutes left. Sportacus hears his yells and looks at the sky. He grabs a laundry sheet, spreads it out with the help of Stephanie, and Robbie lands safely. Then they tip him onto the ground - his fake head comes off and the disguise is thus revealed. Sportacus throws the sheet onto him. Now the REAL Milford makes a rule - The only one allowed to imitate the mayor is the mayor. They sing Bing Bang celebrating his really dumb rule. In the lair, Robbie says it’s not fun to be the mayor. As if his day wasn’t bad enough, here comes the bee that tortured Milford. It chases him. Ta-ta, the end for real this time.
7/10 - Mediocre song, horrible disguise, awesome plot and rescues.
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