205: Haunted Castle (prod 205)

 Original airdate: October 24, 2006

Story by Magnus Scheving

Written by Noah Zachary, Mani Svavarrson, 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

I never liked this episode as I hate Halloween and this was Halloween themed. My country and religion’s hatred for Halloween aside, how is ‘Haunted Castle’?

Sportacus is riding his airship when he suddenly pulls the lever to stop. He flips out of the skutla, does a backwards cartwheel and a backflip, landing on the button that pushes out the table. He flips over and gets an apple. He suddenly hears a noise and wonders what it is. After checking his sports cupboard and bed, he gets out the airship to find out what it is. It turns out to be an owl. What does he do? The normal thing to do.

He talks to the owl and acts like it’s a human. He asks his name and it just hoots. He compliments him, calling it a 'cool’ name and says he’s Sportacus. Twas a lovely day in LazyTown - Milford is painting a fence and Bessie is hanging up laundry. Trixie.. scares Milford and he ruins the fence.

Robbie is doing the most ridiculous thing he can. He hates the noiseyness of the kids, right? So how does he resolve the fact his sleeps are getting distracted by loud kids? He sleeps outside with even louder kids. On an uncomfy bench. In a park. It’s no surprise when he gets woken up by Ziggy being pushed in a wagon by Stephanie. He turns his brain on and leaves.

Trixie goes to scare Stephanie and Ziggy, much to the annoyance of Steph. Trixie wants to go on the wagon and wants to be pushed towards Bessie’s laundry. Stephanie is reluctant until she puts on her helmet. She gets a big push from Stephanie, and she goes too fast and she’s about to crash into Bessie’s sheets. Stephanie says she’s about to crash into Bessie’s sheets. She crashes into Bessie’s sheets. Bessie falls down, ruins her hair and yells for Milford who is reading the news of his OWN TOWN.

The top headline is literally 'The mayor is planning to paint the house blue’. He’s reading news about himself. XD. Trixie says they were just having fun, Bessie is saying they ruined the sheets, and Stephanie is attempting to straighten them out. XD. So Milford tells them to push the wagon AWAY from the sheets and to not possibly piss off Bessie.. anyways, Ziggy gets in, it’s his turn, Milford pushes him a bit too hard .. and beepity-bip. He’s in trouble! The wagon goes up the slide Stingy’s trying to go down, then it goes back down and CRASHES INTO BESSIE’S LAUNDRY!! Almost. Sportacus grabs hold of the wagon.. and his flying ice-cream.

You can tell from his face in the screenshot he wants to gobble that ice-cream up. He gives it back to Ziggy after Bessie finishes being a complaining.. moron. Stingy comes to add possibly nothing to the conversation and asks what was going on as if any sane person would miss THAT. But Stingy’s never established as sane in any of the episodes. Neither are any of the other characters. Anyways, he starts describing what happened while waving around his hand holding the ice-cream cone. Ya see where this is goin? The cream FLIES off the cone and lands.. on Bessie’s sheets.

She is like, SUPER SUPER SUPER SUPER SUPER ANGRY. She tells the kids they MUST follow the rules which they nod their heads in agreement too. But they have nowhere else to go. So Stephanie says they should BUILD THEIR OWN PLAYGROUND, as the land in LazyPark isn’t being used yet. So they all go to the park. The kids all yell 'LazyPark, here we come!’ Waking Robbie up, in shock as that is his favourite place of the town. Yeah, sure, screw your home that has all your clothes, food, and chairs and blankets and gadgets.

So he goes over to his periscope and looks outside. He yells that Lazy Park has always been lazy and should stay lazy. He also adds LAZYLAZYLAZYLAZYLAZY AAAAAARRRGGGH!!! Anyways, the kids are building the playground when Milford comes over to tell them about the famous Leaning Castle of LazyTown. If it’s so famous why did it take 40 episodes to get an episode about it?

He advises the kids not to go in the tower - and Trixie, the lair, says that they won’t. He also adds a new rule - they cannot go over the wall that leads to the castle. And another new rule - Ziggy’s the smolest so never leave him alone. They all follow the rules and Robbie turns his periscope around of anger and talks to himself. The periscope is turned to Bessie who has a sheet on top of her head. He looks at what’s happening, and unfazed, he says 'A ghost’.

Then he realizes, yells out 'A GHOST’ and LAUNCHES HIMSELF OVER THE RAILING ON PURPOSE. MANI SVAVARRSON PROBABLY WROTE THAT PART AND HE PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE WRITTEN EVERY EPISODE OF THAT SHOW BECAUSE HE IS HILARIOUS. He climbs back up, talking to the 4 year old audi- I mean, himself, telling himself he wasn’t scared. He reluctantly looks in the periscope only to Bessie getting the sheet off her head, then tells himself only kids believe in ghosts. ANND HEEERREE COOMEESSS A BREEELEEEYAAANNT IDDEEAAA.

Scare the kids away by pretending to be a ghost. Tata. Meanwhile, at the playground, the kids name some supplies they bought and Pixel keeps on repeating them, but adds a 'Check’ to the end. Really annoying - check. It goes on for only two items because Ziggy said he brought a lollipop. Stephanie says you don’t need a lollipop to build a playground - you need legal permission and an adult guardian (but she doesn’t say those..). Ziggy says it doesn’t hurt to be careful. He has a point (a funny one). They then sing 'Playing on the Playground’

At the end of the song, it’s gotten dark. Ziggy says they should home, remembering what Milford said.. joking, he doesn’t care about what Milford said. He just scared of the ghost - which Trixie points out, and he starts yelling and asking 'What ghost??’ Everyone laughs except Stephanie, who tells Ziggy it was a joke. I see why she’s the favourite of many. SPORTACUS 4 DA WIN THO. Anyways, Trixie says she’s gonna go in the castle to see if there are really ghosts which everyone thinks is a bad idea.

Stingy and Pixel go to the castle with her. This is what Healthy Harold meant by peer pressure. Ziggy and Stephanie stay behind, and Stephanie says if they aren’t back in five minutes they’re going to the castle. So Robbie is left alone with the sheets - the perfect time to execute his plan. Meanwhile, Pixel, Trixie and Stingy have arrived at the castle, and Pixel admits it’s a bit scary. So, after a few seconds, Stingy squeals and Pixel asks if he saw a ghost. And YOU WILL ACTUALLY PAUSE THE EPISODE AND POP UP IN YOUR CHAIR OF ANNOYANCE OF WHAT HE FOUND. Well, that’s what I did.

It was a coin. A single. Coin. Gosh. Anyways, Robbie has finished painting ghost eyes on the sheet (but aren’t ghosts invisible..?) and the kids have been away for long. Stephanie asks Ziggy if she can go check what’s going on, and he says he can stay put for a minute.. well, half a minute. Then Stephanie comforts him by telling him she’ll be quick - but screw that, he doesn’t care. He only wants the lollipop (he licks it to calm down). Robbie has finished cutting up the sheets and his entire body is covered with ghost/sheet. Stephanie’s arrived at the castle and calls for the kids by just yelling 'Guys?’. She goes in the castle, and Trixie pops up, yelling boo. Stephanie jumps back, locking them in.

So when Stephanie tries to open the door, they realize they’re locked, no-one can hear them banging the door, and Stingy’s teeth start trembling. LOL!! Trixie says they should go to the top of the tower and yell for help, and Stingy says he’s not doing that, but Trixie asks him if he wants to be alone. (It’d have been funnier if she called him a chicken again.) So he goes up first. Meanwhile, Robbie decides to go sneak up on Ziggy, but he trips over a wagon. Ziggy turns around and assumes it’s Trixie. Then for some reason Robbie falls down. (??) Stephanie yells out his name, he sees Trixie, he looks at Robbie, and he yells.

Despite the fact he can’t.. ya know.. see.. he chases Ziggy around, and after a while Ziggy has tripped and a box is on top of his head but he continues running, and he runs out the door. The crystal beeps and Sportacus flies into town, and grabs two of Bessie’s pegs. Meanwhile, Ziggy has tripped over a rock, and fallen over and he can’t get out the box.

And like it should’ve down years ago, the Leaning Tower of LazyTown leans just a BIT too much. (The timing of this show is ridiculous) Luckily, Sportacus flips over to the tower and kicks it back in place!

Then he gets Ziggy out the box, and the tower leans again - but this time, he uses HIS HANDS to keep it in place! THEN HE KICKS OPEN THE DOOR!! Probably one of the best rescues ever. Anyways, when they’ve all gotten out the tower, they realize the ghost is getting away. Sportacus says he doesn’t think it’s a real ghost, then he flips onto a wall and pulls out the pegs. He pegs Robbie straight to Bessie’s hanging line and crawls out the costume - which is now revealed. (it hits hard this time because Bessie yells out 'ROBBIE ROTTEN’) After he runs to the lair, Milford runs over to them to check if they’re OK.

Trixie says it was her fault this all happened - and she’s right - it’s her no good doing stinky manure rule-breaking scooting red loving but got no lovers little self’s fault. But everyone else says it’s not her fault because they ALL broke the rules. YEAH, YOU DID, because of her!! DUHH?? But this is Nickelodeon. Anyways, they say that the most important thing is the lesson was learnt, but Stingy says it was that he found that coin, then they laugh (I’d throw him back in the castle and make it lean again goddammit) and perform Bing Bang.

In the lair, Robbie is sulking when he hears Hoot Hoot from earlier in the episode making noise. He goes to check what it is. Then he sees it on top of the shaft and RUNS BACK to the Leaning Tower. IT’S AN OWL, NOT AN ANGRY MOM WITH A SLIPPER. In relief that he got away from the owl (which apparently is more scary than an angry mom with a slipper), he wipes off his sweat, and leans on the tower and makes it lean even more then it did at the beginning of the episode.

Then he goes back to the lair.

6/10 - Took me forever to watch, cool rescue, songs and plot.

 

204: Double Trouble (prod 215)

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.

 

203: Trash Trouble (prod 209)

 Original airdate: September 27, 2006

Story by Magnus Scheving

Written by Magnus Scheving, Mani Svavarrson, Noah Zachary

Directed by Sigvaldi J. Karason

Executive producers - Magnus Scheving, Ragnheidur Melsted, Raymond P. Le Gue, Brown Johnson, Kay Wilson Stalling

Starring Magnus Scheving, Stefan Karl Steffanson, Julianna Rose Mauriello

Puppeteers - Gudmondor Thor Karason, Jodi Eichelberger, David Matthew Feldman, Julie Westwood, Sarah Burgess, Ronald Binion

This episode better not be trash.

Sportacus is in his airship and he flips, lands on a button and turns to the screen. He tells the screen to look for Sportscandy and it zooms into an apple tree. The record for obtaining it is 59 seconds which Sportacus believes he can beat. So, he rides into town using the Sky Bike, and once he sees the apple tree, he throws a boomerang at it, and it slices the apple off the branch and it lands in his hands.

If this was realistic it’d have just landed in the grass. While going back to the ship, the boomerang flies back to him. Without even looking he catches it! Then he goes back in the ship - the record was 51 seconds! Anyways, back in the town after the intro.. Sportacus is literally lifting a bench. Stingy is carrying a bunch a trash in his car (including himself) when Milford comes to him. He tells Milford that he found some stuff that he doesn’t want - and gives it to him. Trying to carry it, Milford falls down into Stingy’s car wagon, sending Stingy flying into the air. Lucky Sportacus is there to catch him.

That doesn’t get a ‘thank you, Sportacus’ from Stingy. He is only concerned about his car. So, Sportacus pushes the mayor out of the wagon, then he goes after Stingy’s car. Then he checks on the mayor, takes the trash out his hand and throws it at Stingy’s car - Well, I’d do that. I am NOT cut out to be a super hero. He throws it at a far-away garbage can and makes a perfect shot! The mayor compliments him on it, and he goes back to the airship. Stingy advises Milford 'not to do that again’.

Back at Pixel’s house, the kids are watching an episode of a show they’ve already seen and Stephanie asks Pixel where the remote control is, but his room is such a mess he can’t find it. Stephanie proposes the idea of cleaning up but everyone including Steph declines. Then Ziggy panics and tells everyone not to move - he lost his lollipop. Stephanie promises to get him a new one. Then Trixie wants to play outside, assuming it’ll be cleaner there. So they all go. Ziggy is reluctant, but little does he know..

Robbie is in his lair, eating gooey sticky taffy, and THROWING THE WRAPPER on the floor - making a mountain of taffy wrappers. Anyways, it’s still dirty outside (Steph found Ziggy’s lollipop), so Pixel says that they can’t play - and that cheers up Robbie. Imagine being such a jerk your happiness is at the cost of a kid’s sadness. Anyways, he goes to look at the periscope, and questions how simple it can be. He says the answers to his problems is episode thirty - Greatest Hits.. hey, he said trash. No difference. Anyways, he has the usual disguise time except this time it’s not funny - Too fifties, too sixties, too seventies, 'eh’, then he finds the trashman costume.

Ta-taa! His plan is to fill a cannon with.. well.. trash, and launch it into LazyTown! HAHAHAHA! Anyways, he launches it to test if it works - but he forgot to open the hatch and it all comes crashing down. LOL. He’s happy it works, completely ignoring the fact his lair is a mess.

Meanwhile, the kids aren’t fond of Stingy’s idea to not be a lazy slob in a dirty town, and they run away when he bends down to pick up gloves. 'All you need is some organization.’ So, he runs back to Pixel’s house. But all his efforts won’t be needed, because Robbie’s finally driven into town with the cannon. Meanwhile, the kids are playing a video game (you pick up a MUSHROOM with a LEEK..?) when Stingy walks in angrily. Trixie’s excuse is that they don’t know how to clean - which gets Stingy to start performing ’Clean up’. Since the town is pretty clean, the kids tell Milford to take a rest and Pixel takes him to his room to play video games. After the song ends, Steph looks for a place to put her rubbish.

Then Robbie comes up in his trash-man costume, saying he is the trashman and tells her to give the rubbish to him. No hesitation, she does it. Not as easy with Trixie who argues with him for ten seconds before giving up. She’s not too sure about this. He sees some more trash and smiles. Then for some reason he notices some taffy in his mouth he didn’t even know was there. So, he throws it onto the ground before going to pick up more rubbish. Meanwhile, Ziggy is.. licking a lollipop.

Stingy is NOT being a lazy kid, and he is working on his very own recycling system, then Robbie comes to mess it up. Eventually he convinces him with three questions - 'Do you stay up late at night studying trash?’ 'Have you ever been to trash school?’ 'Do you even have a Trash Man Badge?’ As suspected, the answer to all these questions - is no. Then Robbie spits out more taffy. Slob. Stingy scrapes it up and flings it into a bin, telling Robbie to 'not do that agaen’. He says he’ll be watching him. Robbie’s so annoyed by this once he leaves, he throws his taffy wrapper on the ground and says 'I’ll be watching YOU!!’ Anyways, Ziggy finally finishes his lollipop.

He jumps off the bench, takes a bin, and steps on Robbie’s taffy. He’s stuck to the ground. (That would be hard to get off but it’s possible!) Anyways, Pixel is still attempting to teach Milford to play the Leek game when the kids all come into the house, informing Milford and Pixel the town is tidy. But not for long - Robbie has finally got his cannon to work and he pulls the lever, making trash fireworks. Stingy comes in and makes an announcement - the town is tidy. Thanks, I heard. So, he pulls up the window to demonstrate and boy does he get a surprise.

Stingy thinks this is just a dream so he tells someone to pinch him - and Trixie does. Really hard. By now, Robbie’s broken the lever. Stephanie realizes Ziggy’s missing - so Stingy DIVES IN the trash to find him. That’s no use because Sportacus’ crystal beeps (Man, this sucks, he was only in three scenes of this episode..) and he flips into town. The kids watch on Pixel’s computer as if it’s a movie. Sportacus calls for a boomerang and throws it at the lever. The trashpour stops! Hooray! Trixie has the audacity to say 'We did it’.. little brat. Sportacus finds Ziggy and tries to pull him up but he can’t because of that bing bang taffy. Stingy pops up from some trash and throws a scraper at Sportacus, and HE dives in.

For a while nobody can see him, but he pops up with Ziggy! I don’t know how he scraped off the taffy - he couldn’t possibly see under all the trash. Ziggy preaches - 'I’m free!’ Robbie jumps from a wall to another wall and climbs on top. He says that this was a bad idea and he wobbles and falls into a trash can. (I love how Stefan screams when he’s trying to talk. 'Maybe this trash wasn’t such a good idea after aAAAAAUGGGH’) Sportacus hears the lid drop, and goes to rescue him. He pulls him out but his hat/wig and moustache have fallen off. Then he goes back into the bin after everyone realizes it’s him. I’d do the same. Stingy says that they have a little job to do, and in the span of a fourty second long 'Bing Bang’ they’ve CLEARED THE TOWN.

Maybe it wouldn’t be as dumb if they sang the extended version of Bing Bang, but, kids show. Robbie is sulking in the lair, and he throws yet another piece of taffy on the floor. He steps on the piece he JUST THREW. Did he forget about it 1 second after? Then he falls onto the ground in the Taffy Mountain (TM, TM).

He greets the trash. LOL!! So simple and so funny.

7/10 - Needed more Sportacus scenes, the slice in the middle of Clean Up was unneeded, and frankly, Trixie and Ziggy annoyed me in this one.