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LazyTown Goes Digital (prod 202)

Original airdate: May 20, 2007

Story by Magnus Scheving

Written by Magnus Scheving, Mani Svavarrson, Noah Zachary

Directed by Magnus Scheving

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, Emily Decola, Mary Robinette Kowal

Thank you for the 8 likes and new follower I got on the last review. Today, I'll be reviewing my favourite episode.

The episode begins with this jolly ahh elf waking up like there are no problems in LazyTown.

He flips out of bed and calls for a toothbrush but a soccer ball comes flying at him, he asks for a toothbrush again and an apple comes flying at him. The airship's being disobedient today! He calls for the table but it doesn't open. So then he calls for the bed to close.. and the door opens.

So, he knows something is up, and goes back inside to check the control box. What do you know, it's just a pesky butterfly in it. So he lets it free instead of keeping it like a weirdo. And it lives happily ever after.

What a calm opening to the episode, then it all goes to chaos. So, now, Ziggy and Stephanie are playing tennis which apparently Stephanie was born ready for. They're having fun and all and Pixel comes in, showing off how cool he is, with his new Auto Tennis Blaster 6000.. and Ziggy has the audacity to ask what it does. So Pixel turns it on to demonstrate, but the ball almost hits Robbie, so he holds onto a.. pole? Sign? Whatever it is, the ball hits the pole/sign instead and now Robbie's clinging on to a shaky pole.

The 3 kids laugh and Robbie complains about how they're too noisy. They keep playing tennis instead of investing in Bitcoin and buying a house in 2007. Anyways, Bessie storms in Milford's office/house (not sure), angry that he missed a lunch she had invited him to over e-mail. Then he breaks the shocking news - he doesn't have a computer.

So, Bessie tells him he needs a computer to run LazyTown (modern things = modern town), but in the midst of it, she whacks the table angrily, turning on the fan and sending papers flying. Oh, and Milford too.

Sportacus' crystal beeps and he goes to town to save him. Meanwhile, Robbie has actually found a quiet area in the town to take a peaceful nap. That is, until Milford in the bin comes rolling at him like it's a bowling arena. I don't think the pins are supposed to jump though.

Sportacus calls for a snowboard that comes falling. The bin launches over it,so now it's high up in the air. Sportacus catches it and tips Milford out. Milford says he's alright but is looking for his note.

Unfortunately the one stuck on his face's a different note, one not as urgent. He says if he listened to Bessie this wouldn't have happened, and that he needs to modern-ize LazyTown. Sportacus recommends going to Pixel for computer help, which he does. Then Pixel starts yapping about hotspots, modems, gigabytes, all while Milford looks at him like he's speaking Cantonese, drunk. Pixel says he can help Milford with a computer, but the other stuff can be taken care of by a technician. All while Robbie listens, and he finds a good plan in this.

He suddenly pulls out a marker and paper, then writes his phone number on it. He lies it down on the ground so Pixel and Milford see it while talking about hotspots, modems, gigabytes while Milford listens and doesn't comprehend anything. Then, because that's the best way to make an exit..

He jumps over the wall. So while Milford is asking Pixel where they'll find a technician. Ta-daa! NOW Milford sees the paper, with the complicated phone number - 5555-1111. Then the phone in Robbie's lair starts ringing and he says someone should pick it up. ONLY THEN does he realize the call is for him and he rushes to the lair to pick it up.

Robbie introduces himself as Bob Wired, and the mayor of LazyTown introduces himself as the mayor of LazyTown, and they make an appointment for when the two will be ready for each-other to install stuff.

His plan is to keep the kids tech-occupied so they don't come out of their rooms, which actually could work. Meanwhile, Milford is sending a bmail to Bessie. As soon as they contemplate calling another technician, Bob Wired arrives into his office, telling him all the stuff he can give LazyTown - automatic pizza delivery, traffic lights, digital music, 3000 video games, and.. the best of it all. A TOAST MACHINE!! So, Bob asks if anyone needs their airship modernized, and Milford talks about all the modern features in Sportacus' airship, promptly annoying him. So he stops him, and quickly says he is going to WIRE the whole town. So he jumps into an electrical box, throws and organizes some stuff around, and quick enough, LAZYTOWN GOES DIGITAL!

Milford tells everyone about the new techno-stuff, getting them excited, and he even gives Sportacus a little "doo-hickey" to put in his control box. Apparently, it'll help him save people faster. Anyways, they perform Techno Generation and everything is well and swell. Milford even says it's one of the best days in LazyTown history. Then Robbie laughs, and says it will be one of the worst.

Robbie gives Ziggy way too much pizza, puts a bunch of video games on Pixel's screens, turns up the volume and speed on Steph's music, shoots tons of toast out the toaster, messes with the traffic lights, and emails Bessie SPAM. Now the whole techno thing isn't fun anymore. Just in time as Sportacus decides to go outside, check on the kids. But the door keeps closing and opening. He tries pulling his airship's lever, that doesn't work. And it starts burning in Robbie's electric box. So he checks his control box, and it turns out the doo-hickey Milford gave him leaks purple goo and ruined the box.

He leaves the airship via the platform. He grabs sports equipment of some sort.. and I really can't describe what he does here. Enjoy these screenies.

Yeah. So Sportacus tries to save Milford and Stephanie (who is stuck in her room.. why can't she just go out the window?) since her door is buggin. And he simply unplugs the big wire in front of their house. The traffic light is also hanging off, and it's about to hit Stingy SMACK-WALLOP in the face, and instead of driving backwards, he yells and looks at it. Sportacus hooks the other end of the wire to his car & pulls him backwards.

The pizza making machine has gone wild, so Sportacus defends himself using a tennis racket and bin lid / shield. Sportacus climbs on top of the electrical box, and there are TWO big wires.

In a nerve-racking scene for the 5 year old audience, Sportacus can't decide which one to pull, and he almost pulls the wrong one. Luckily Pixel realizes there are different models, Sportacus identifies the right one, and they pull the right wire.

The question remains - what would happen if he pulled the wrong one? Hmmm.. anyways Ziggy has drowned in his house because of how much pizza the gadget shot into his house.

Luckily, Sportacus locates him and he can breath again. He even says 'I can see the light!' LOL. So, anyways, Milford apologizes for the chaos he has caused and Pixel says if tech fails Sportacus always helps. And Sportacus also points out the kids helped him this time. So yeah, it all works well, they perform Bing Bang, the end.

Robbie is sulking in his lair, thinking about what to do next, when the idea comes flying at him to make a pizza. Then the pizza comes flying at him.

7/10 - Yeah, this is definitely not my favourite LazyTown episode anymore. It's good, but kinda boring. I guess Sportafake is truly the best LazyTown episode.

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It's my 1 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

Can't believe I've been reviewing LazyTown for an entire year now. Given, I've only made it to season two. But now I have my FAST computer back!! So i can make Tumblr posts again.

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Birthday Surprise (prod 217)

Original airdate: May 12, 2007

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, Emily Decola, Mary Robinette Kowal

I assume Magnus did not direct this one because, it was, you know, his birthday, during filming..

Sportacus is in his airship being Sportacus. He calls for the door to open, gets a bat, a ball and of course, hits it out of the airship, and rides the sky bike. He then manages to catch it. What. Then he says 'good catch' as if that isn't a world record or something. Why is he so humble.

Okay, so now here comes one of the funny scenes. Ziggy's got a ribbon on his finger for some reason, and he's bragging about it to Stingy. It's to remind him of something that's very important happening tomorrow. When Stingy asks, candy boy forgets. So he has another ribbon on his other hand to remind him what the ribbon was reminding him of (makes sense), and turns out he forgot that too. And Stingy yells in rage.

LazyTown is a sub-genre of art. So Trixie's got a ribbon on her finger [copycat much?], but unlike Ziggy and his half a braincell, she remembers what it's trying to signify- Sportacus' birthday, THEN Ziggy remembers what it's trying to signify- Sportacus' birthday. Then this screenshot happened.

I don't even. Just roll with it. Laugh your guts out. But anyways, Ziggy thinks of telling the other kids what's happening, and they go to Pixel's house. Ziggy asks if they notice anything different. And Pixel says 'there's not a lollipop in your mouth?' - Ziggy was catching STRAYS man, the answer to that is no. But Stephanie answers correctly to nobodie's surprise. Then she thinks of throwingh a good party for Sportacus and nobody cares. But then Stingy says it and everyone thinks it's a great idea. Misogny in a kids show? This is outrageous. (btw i listen to sabrina carpet and i'm 6'3) Well it doesn't matter because it was funny. And Stephanie thought so too.

So this is a classic part from the episode - Robbie's alarm clock (why does he have one? He loves sleeping!) wakes him up. And instead of turning it off. He hits it with a hammer. Reminiscent of Ryo Saeba from City Hunter.

So here comes the main plot of the episode - before even PLANNING anything about/for the party, they start debating on where to hold. Stephanie wants to hold it at Milford's house because they're closer to the sports field, and Stingy wants to hold it at HIS house because it has a fountain (and freshly mowed lawn). Like what, Sportacus gonna drink outta it?

So, they just yell at each other because of course they don't know how to appropriately debate, waking up Robbie. And then comes possibly the best part in LazyTown history. Stingy talks about his fancy fountain and fancy car and Trixie simply calls it small. Like.. wow. Not that any of the 5 year old bigheads who were watching LazyTown in 2007 would've found that funny. And budget Grinch / Robbie talks about how he enjoys the sound of kids arguing. What.

So they keep arguing & Robbie cheers them on. It ends with Stingy seperating each-other via a chalk-drawn line and saying he wants to build a wall so they can never see/smell each other again and Ziggy decides they should make it so high only birds can fly over it. So Robbie has a brain-storm. Become a builderman (woah guys roblox reference!!111!11!11) and actually builderman the wall ! 11 !1. 1! ! So, he gets into costume rather slowly (the parts are sold seperatly).

Peak screenshot-taking, me. Anyways, back at Pixel's house, Stingy realises he's a selfish moron, thanks to the help of Pixel and he decides to 'work' on an apology as if he just can't say 'my bad gang'. Then Stephanie sings We Will Be Friends which I always found TOO sad for my liking. While everyone is being lazy and sleepy, the master of laziness, is on the grind.. building a wall. How lazy.. Anyways, he recites his plan and laughs at the end of it, and Bessie wakes up yelling at her window, BE QUIET. And he does so.

He's a villian but he understands the concepts of beauty sleep. So, Sportacus wakes up with a smile and yet still needs the calendar to remember it's his birthday. But he's excited to see what the kids are doing for his birthday.

Meanwhile, Pixel is reading Stingy's piece of crap apology letter:

Due to the unfortunate events yesterday that led to us disagreeing of the party in question, hereby my official apology.

So, Pixel tells him he doesn't need all of that (what he means is 'nobody is reading this') and he just needs to say the word sorry. So anyways, they COINCIDENTALLY walk towards the wall but backwards, meaning this whole time they didn't see that big ahh wall. So they walk to Robbie, asking 'what is this?' and he looks at them like they're dumb. Which, is mostly in season one, they are.

So, he explains that it's a wall that the others (Pinky, Swiggy, Nixie & Baldie) asked for, and that they never want to see Pixel and Stingy again. So while Stephanie is writing a list in her diary (I ain't gay but it looks kinda cool) when she bumps into the camera. And the sound effect is so hilariously loud I couldn't help but giggle. Also this shot.

Then she stands back up and the kids admire/look at/ponder/wonder about the wall. Robbie looks and sips his slightly too hot tea, as he explains Sticky and Picky asked for the wall. Then they're all mad, then Robbie leaves. They all decide to have fun and do something else, but the thing is, one of the crucial parts of any activies they wanna do are on the other sides. Robbie enjoys watching this but would prefer seeing it with cake. But he has none. Luckily, Bessie comes wheeling in a fruit cake for Sportacus' birthday. ALSO luckily, he has a comically large shovel that he uses to pick up the cake.

It's all going good until Robbie's frostingfingers drop the cake on Milford, and his head is caked. (All That reference!) Ziggy angrily returns the package without a receipt and it lands on Stingy's car. And HELL breaks loose. So somehow, Stingy & Bessie & Pixel make a cake from scratch.. and they throw it over to the other side. And the kids dodge it as if it's a grenade. So, Stephanie, Milford, Ziggy and Trixie BAKE AN ENTIRE CAKE FROM SCRATCH AND THROW IT OVER. And begins the cake wars - I guess Sportacus' words (food's for growing, not for throwing) in season one go to crap because about 10 new cakes are made and thrown. And throughout this whole fiasco, Robbie didn't even catch one and eat it.

There are tons of great screenshots I could've used, but that one is good enough. Anyways, Sportacus' crystal beeps, on his birthday. All Sporty deseves is a rest ): Robbie sees him, and is annoyed that this thing is gonna end so quickly. Sportacus calls for an apple so he can jump over the wall, but Robbie quickly catches it and replaces it with a sugar apple. Sportacus jumps over the wall...

Loses energy mid-air...

and has a sugar meltdown.

WASTED

I sure do love being unconscious as a birthday gift! Finally the kids stop being dumb and realise Sportacus is just.. sleeping on a wall. Stephanie wants to climb to the apple tree and get sportscandy but CONVIENIENTLY the ladder's on the other side. So, in this ABSOLUTELY CINEMATIC SHOT..

So, finally they put aside the beef and decide they have to work together to get Sportacus back to normal because.. yeah. Stephanie starts hammering through the wall and so does Pixel (stephanie.. pixel.. hmm..), and there's a hole in the wall so they can talk to each other and devise a plan. Pixel kicks a ball high up in the air, hitting the tree, shaking the apple directly into Stephanie's hands. Then she runs for her life.. or Sportacus'

Stingy throws over a rope so she can climb to Sportacus and she does just that, and she feeds him the apple. Despite being mid-suga meltdown, he bites the apple and is revived to life. Stephanie is saved from falling off the wall (RESCUER EVEN ON HIS BIRTHDAY!), and Sportacus asks why this 'big wall' is here. And the two clash over who made it until Stingy says the wall-builder told him it was them.. Robbie runs away, risking life in the process.

Then he falls off the wall.. unharmed. But then the wall starts falling. Now is the perfect time for Sportacus to do an epic unboxing video!11!!11 of Ziggy's present. He uses the bowling ball Ziggy gives him in a.. way.

He throws it in the air, while pushing the skateboard backwards, so the ball hits the skateboard, pushing it upright, stopping the wall from crashing.

Sportacus lifts up the wall, leaving Robbie to crawl away but his disguise is already revealed as his mustache has fallen off. Fallen off like MY ACCOUNT LOL!!! So, the kids all apologize and stuff, and so do Milford and Bessie. And tears are forming in my eyes until Stephanie brings out the sportscandy cake for Sporty's birthday. Which looks horrendous. WHY ARE THERE CARROTS AND LEMONS ON IT?

But it's good enough for Sportacus and they sing Bing Bang as Sportacus gets the wall out the way. Anyways, Robbie is sulking in his lair when he remembers he has cake then acts all giddy giddy like a little boy. And he goes to get it but there's somehow a big purple wall in his lair that he never noticed, seperating him and the cake. And he can't even reach for the frosting to lick off his finger.

8/10

I guess I actually accomplished something this Saturday, I finished a review. So long to write.. dang you Toonami Aftermath! Anyways, Birthday Surprise is a good episode of LazyTown. But the song is so emo, but it fits with the episode and is beautifully written. Also, valuable lesson.

Yahoo! Expect a LazyTown Goes Digital review in 3 weeks.

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Energy Book (prod 214)

Original airdate: February 13, 2007

Story by Magnus Scheving

Written by Magnus Scheving, Mani Svavarrson, Noah Zachary

Directed by Magnus Scheving, 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, Emily Decola, Mary Robinette Kowal

It still amazes me how they managed to make an old Energy campaign from 2000 a 24 minute episode six years later.

Sportacus gets a letter asking if the term 'You're what you eat' is true. He doesn't deny it and takes an apple bite, saying Sportscandy gives you energy, milk gives you strong bones, and he makes a healthy milkshake. And he shakes the smoothie up by throwing it in the air, and breakdancing (the bottle bounces off his legs). Then he drinks it.

He decides to test by doing handstand-pushups, and it works every time. In the town, Stephanie is complimenting Stingy's bowtie when Ziggy comes up running, saying he's gonna throw a ball like Sportacus, and he falls over attempting to do so. They all agree he needs practice and Sportscandy. Meanwhile in the lair, Robbie is making the Eiffel Tower out of french fries.

A sense of bliss washes over him. Happiness, knowing his modern piece of art is almost in completion. Slowly climbing the ladder, one by one, to put the last salty, sweet and crunchy deep-fried potato on.. and..

Those pesky kids ruin it for him. FOR ONCE, I am actually on his side. He eavesdrops on them, and they're dancing to No one's lazy. So I'm on their side. It's Robbie's last straw when Ziggy pretends to be Sportacus. He starts complimenting himself and says he is a better role model to Ziggy. Then he walks straight into his periscope.

I LOVE THIS SEASON. Meanwhile, the kids want to have some Sports Candy but can't figure out a way of how to get it, and in comes the ladder. Stephanie tries to climb it to get an apple hanging off a leave, and Stingy & Ziggy are holding the ladder. They have a dispute about whether Ziggy jumped as high as Sportacus did a while ago, and let go. They grab hold of it, of course, but Stephanie is still about to fall off. Sportacus flips onto the sports field and does a ball handstand.

People on YouTube do this trick all the time and people say it's super cool and stuff, but Magnus Scheving did it in 2006 and no one appreciates it! Anyways, the ball hits the ladder and the ladder leans against the tree. Sportacus checks if they're okay, which they are and asks what Steph was doing on the ladder. After the explanation, he just does it for them by doing a flip-kick of the apple. I hope he washes his shoes.

Ziggy asks how he learned to move like that (it's been 46 episodes how do you not have this information siggi), and Sportacus says he of course practiced everyday, and that he uses a book to help him - the Energy Book where he puts in a sticker for every healthy food eaten, getting good sleep, and moving! The kids ask for their own, and he goes to his airship to find some and give them to the kids. In the meanwhile, they perform 'We Got Energy', undeniably the most mid song of this season. After the end, Ziggy asks what they're doing next, and Stingy says shocked, 'YOU DON'T KNOW?' But he doesn't know either. So, of course, Steph breaks the ice and says it's water. Stingy asks like he knew. Jerk. Sportacus flippity-floppities to the kids with energy books.

He gives them the energy books and he showcases his wonderful flexibility and athleticism as if we haven't seen his skills in the last fourty-six episodes. I would say we've seen too much if they weren't fricking awesome. He even does a flip so high with a landing so strong the lair shakes and Robbie's cake is ruined by.. concrete?

You wanted a LazyTown episode. You never wanted a realistic LazyTown episode. Cuz they don't exist. Lower your standards. So then he throws the plate away and his cake flops to the ground. I feel his pain. So in classic Robby fashion he goes to check what is going on. Stingy says he doesn't know if he can do that, but he thinks he can with stickers. Sportacus then leaves. And Robbie is satisfied. And he goes back to eating his cake and living his life.. no, he doesn't. There are 11 more minutes of the episode.

It's funny that this show would last 2 episodes if Robbie lived his life. Ziggy says it's like a superhero training program, which Robbie does NOT like the idea of, so he FOR SOME REASON.. walks down the stairs. Takes his scooter, and scoots to the other stairs. This is the start of his disguise time.

He has glasses that make him look.. well, nerdy and for some reason his hat has a propeller which he uses to get out of his lair. Handy, useful, and weird. First, he gives Ziggy a caramel sticker. Ziggy questions the possibility of that, and Robbie says everything is possible - seems like him being healthy is impossible, though. Robbie boasts about his cake stickers, ice-cream stickers, fudge stickers, and he ends up giving Ziggy them all. Mission not accomplished because it's Stingy's turn.

Stingy dedicates his workout to his energy book while also singing It's Mine. Stingy's a more bearable character in this season haven't you noticed? Once Stingy goes to put in a sticker, Robbie says that if he does that, they won't be his anymore. Which makes little-to-no sense, but no sense, really. By Robbie's logic- once he sticks it in the book it's gone forever. His logic makes sense- BUT NO it doesn't. Mans even convinced me, and Stingy too because now he is keeping them.

Yes I purposefully took that horrible screenshot of Robbie. Stingy is so thoughtful as of to give one to his Piggy. LOL. See? Stingy's more likeable in this season. Anyways, Stephanie's dancing to Twenty Times Time and she stops to put a sticker in her book. Sportacus comes over and Stephanie tells Sportacus that the energy book was a good idea. Then they go to check on the other kids. Meanwhile Robbie is up to his usual shenanigans, listening to the perfect silence.

So he thinks his work is done, so he decides to take a nap. Meanwhile Ziggy is in his bed, and his stomach hurts from eating so much candy. Sportacus and Stephanie decide to check up on him, and his stomach still hurts. But he's pretty happy that he filled up his sticker book. It also has to be mentioned by Stephanie that you don't get any energy from candy. Shocking. And they break the facts to him he has lost points.

They then decide to check in on Stringy Cheese. I should call Stingy stringy cheese because his color is yellow and Stingy and Stringy only have a 1-letter difference. Anyways, they check on Stingy and he is taking a nap. Because when you're not moving around like a monkey, the only other thing you can do is nap.. Stingy explains his logic to the two of them. Stingy and Ziggy (apparently Trixie and Pixel and Bessie and Milford don't give two craps about the Energy Book because they aren't in the episode at all) are really sad because they lost points, but in a common Sportacus W he tells them to never give up.

Sportacus tells them he can find Sportscandy and Ziggy runs off, knowing where it is and waking up Robbie. And in his efforts to stop Ziggy from eating the sportscandy.. HE DOES IT HIMSELF.

Mans chomping down that carrot for his life! Stephanie feels pretty thirsty so while Ziggy watches a carrot homicide, Stephanie recommends him to drink water to her. And in his efforts to stop Stephanie and Robbie from drinking the water.. HE DOES IT HIMSELF.

Like, what would this even do? LazyTown is not gonna run out of water with season 4 Sportacus and his trips to glaciers in Iceland. But then Stingy says he's gonna use his pogo stick to Stephanie. And in his efforts to stop Stingy from using the pogo stick.. HE DOES IT HIMSELF.

And it keeps on bouncing and bouncing. And Sportacus' crystal beeps? I mean, come on, man.. I know it's a preschool show but this is just nonsense. Stingy says 'why is he bouncing out of control on mmY pOgO stIcK', or something, but like, forget what I said about him being a better character in Season 2. Sportacus calls from a life ring and hoops Robbie around it (no name for his disguise..?) and he swings around for a while.

In this intense, nerve-racking ten seconds, Robbie's glasses and hat fall off and everybody recognizes him. So then they make fun of him and then point out how many energy stickers he would've got. He tries denying it, but he really can't. So they give him an energy book and he runs off. Then they perform Bing Bang, and Sportacus they will give themselves a point if they sleep before 8:08 - his way of saying 'get your latex butts to bed'. Meanwhile, in the lair, Robbie keeps on saying he won't go to bed at 8:08, but he ends up sleeping, and the first thing he says when he does.. is.. 'Hello, Sportacus'... WHAT IN THE HELL.

8/10 - Enjoyable and fun!

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Gang gang join my LazyTown community

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IF I GET ANOTHER 'PLS DONATE' MESSAGE ONE MORE TIME I'M GONNA CRASH OUT.

i watch lazytown. okay. thats all this blog is. just a blog about some dude watching lazytown i don't donate. i'm not old enough to. and i fricking hate politics. ok.

reminder that im returing janurary 1

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guess who asked this one..?

can i get an achievement for rewatching and reviewing a show that first premiered in august 2004 called lazytown that inspires kids to be healthy and eat healthy and was created by an icelandic aerobics champion that sold it to nickelodeon in 2003 after writing many books plays & games

Achievement unlocked!

Not so lazy now!

Guess you’re number one after all!!

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Hey

I came up with a new idea.

Give me an ask that contains one-three SHORT sentences on your opinion of an episode of Lazytown. I will add them to the end of the post, and if it is an episode I haven't yet reviewed I will save it until then.

@et-is-an-alien @rhmis-user-2020 @lazytowncontent @lazy-scout @lazy-goblin @lazytownlane @sportacusfinch @sportabrite @sportaspoons-crystal @sportaflopsgoggles @latibaers-dankest @latibaes

I would love your opinions on the episode, mainly because someone might use my opinions as a source before purchasing/watching the episode, but they also need opinions from OTHER LazyTowners.

Alternatively, email me your opinions if you want.

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Friends Forever (prod 218)

Original airdate: February 16, 2007

Story by Magnus Scheving

Written by Noah Zachary, Mani Svavarrson, 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, Ronald Binion, Emily Decola, Mary Robinette Kowal

Friends Forever is probably one of the most heart-warming episodes of the series and would've fitted better as a finale then Toys.

YouTube keeps annoying me thanks to V3, so beware 480p screenshots from a (luckily, widescreen) DVD rip from the 2000s.

It's a new day in LazyTown, and that means a new move for Sportacus. But this day calls for a harder move - pushup twist. He decides to attempt it, and he succeeds!

I swear, if you cannot guess how he was able to do it- THE CLUE IS IN THE IMAGE!! Well, if you can't, you weird, bruh. Anyways, in the new Sports Park, Stephanie is finishing off her painting of the sign. She yells for her friends to check it out.

She tells them what it is, all the kids are literally standing right in front of it and yet Pixel still needs his binoculars. But, it's reasonable as he's actually looking at all the games. Ziggy questions her setting up the field, and she says she did, of course, since they're friends forever. They all put their hands together, and on 3 and yell 'FRIENDS FOREVER!' Stephanie decides to show them all the games - Hit the Can.

Swinging it around like a cowboy, Stephanie gets a score of 50! Ziggy yells out 'This is so cool!', startling Robbie who's having a power nap. So he goes to check out what's happening, and currently, Stephanie is attempting to do the power slammer.

But it is way too heavy and she is toppling over. And here comes what might be the most epic rescue of season two - Sportacus does a few flippity floppities to the sport park, swings into a cool handstand to LIFT the paint off the wagon, and kicks it back so Stephanie lands safely.

Sportacus lifts the hammer to see how heavy it was, and it really was heavy. So he decides to give them Sportscandy as they might need it later. Foreshadowing. Stephanie tells Sportacus this is their Sports Park, Stingy says it's his, Pixel says it's THEIRS, and they go back and fourth until Stingy brings out his menacingly deep voice. XD. Jodi is HILARIOUS! Stephanie shows him the Sports Park & one game captivates him most - Hand Walker. He tries it, of course, and he does it! Ziggy is pretty scared. Stephanie explains you go handle to handle with your hands only.

Once he finishes, Stephanie tells the kids about her idea of a contest and Stingy wants to win without even knowing the prize - which is a ticket to Sportacus' airship. Sportacus leaves after wishing them all good luck. Meanwhile, Robbie is for some reason blowing a blue balloon (again, for some reason), when he overhears Trixie wanting to go to the Sportship and questioning who'd want that.

Midway through - he gets an idea to go out there and let ALL the air out and he does a slightly useless demonstration with the balloon that sends it flying. It's disguise time and he disguises himself as a daredevil. The kids perform 'New Games Everyday'. At the end of the songs, the kids say they're having so much fun and nothing could be better then this. Here comes Robbie with his shaky cup.

Like with Stephanie, there's a contest - but this time is for whoever stays in the longest. Who does so gets a ticket to Sportacus' airship. Steph says she has one like that (but yours is REAL! Look at his excessively purple card.), and Robbie says he has ten. The kids get in the shaking cup, Stephanie asks 'Friends Forever??' but she is ignored.

She decides to sit on a bench. Sadly. And she takes off the photo of her and her friends. Meanwhile, Sportacus has left his ladder out, meaning Robbie can easily enter the airship. He throws away the fake tickets and keeps the real one, which I dislike, since there is no explanation for how he obtained it. Anyways, he climbs the ladder to the airship, and Sportacus flips over to him.

He asks who he is, and Robbie replies with 'a lucky winner'. He was reasonably expecting one of the kids, and Robbie shows him the ticket for proof. Now Sportacus is happy to have him. Robbie asks for soda, and he pulls out WATER.

Even funnier when Robbie literally gags, implying he has never drank water before and enjoyed it, meaning he doesn't drink it 99% of the time, but you need water to live.. Anyways, he asks for chocolate, and Sportacus pulls out an APPLE.

So he has the most healthy things you could ever consume. He even takes a tiny sip of water to be nice. Not very rotten in my eyes! Robbie asks him how he keeps the airship.. well.. in the air, and he pumps it up with air by jumping on this cool thing.

I thought it was one of the greatest parts of his airship when I was younger for some reasons - it's bouncy and he flips off it. Then he asks how he lets the air OUT - by pulling a lever.

Meanwhile in the shaking cup, the kids are getting dizzy and Stingy is upside down (LOL), and Stephanie is reluctant to save the kids - but she remembers their promise - FRIENDS FOREVER! Pixel tells her to turn it off by using the lever, but it falls off! In the airship, Robbie asks if there is anyone to save. Sportacus says the citizens of LazyTown are all safe, and they go back and forth and stay awkwardly and the crystal beeps & Robbie says 'YES' when Sportacus says someone is in trouble. LOL.

So he leaves Robbie to go look at the kids with the telescope. He leaves Robbie. Alone. In the airship. Unsupervised. Where he could easily release air from the airship.

Sportacus falls but he grabs on to something. Robbie decides to jump for it but the parachute doesn't work like it should've and he's just stuck hanging there. Literally.

Lolz. Meanwhile, Stephanie is rescuing the kids in a super duper cool way - using the HAND WALKER! She gets all the kids out one by one, telling them to grab her legs.

Sportacus loses grip of his telescope, and the kids notice it drop and they see Robbie and Sportacus in the air. They devise a cool plan to save him - Ziggy swings the can hitter and Sportacus grabs it, tying it to the airship door. Even more daring then Robbie, he JUMPS OFF whatever he was holding onto and tries to enter the airship by climbing the rope.

But one side of it unties, and Sportacus is left dangling in the air. Swinging from the left (take it back, now y'all, one hop this time, right foot, let's stomp..) to the right!

He attempts to climb up but is not nearly as strong to. Stephanie remembers that Sportacus gave her some spare Sports Candy. They devise a plan to get it to him by using the Power Slammer - they put it on the lower side of the thing you're supposed to hit. Stephanie hits it as hard as she possibly can, and it flies in the air and Sportacus swiftly catches it and bites it ONCE.

And whatcha know, he's strong enough to climb up the rope and Enter The Airship (the greatest Magnus Scheving movie of them all..). The airship is gonna crash as the air supply is becoming lower and lower, and luckily Sportacus jumps into the airship and he cranks the lever as hard as he can.

Robbie is sooo clooosee to getting the pole in the town hall stuck up his posterior, but luckily, he has cranked the lever enough and it doesn't crash. So it goes back to being an airship, he jumps on the bubble a few times. He then drives the airship back in the air.

Robbie's glad he made it out safe and happy - but not for long! The useless parachute has ripped off the door, and he falls thousands of feet.. and lands in the shaking cup. How realistic.

Sportacus attempts to tip Robbie out of the shaking cup but it is way too shaky, so he grabs the lever and fixes it. It is finally revealed it's Robbie, and he fibs about the shaking cup being fun. So Stephanie shakes it a bit more.

Sportacus thanks the kids for saving him, they do the 'shout-123' thingy and perform Bing Bang! During the song, in an attempt to go back to the lair, Robbie gets stuck to the ceiling.

Cheap parachute.

10/10 - Moral: Never turn back on your friends. Amazing rescues too.

[lazyrants]

Pixel TV (prod 212)

Original airdate: February 15, 2007

Story by Magnus Scheving

Written by Noah Zachary, Mani Svavarrson, 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

If someone randomly asked me to name the ninth episode of season two of LazyTown, it'd take me forever to remember what it was. So, Pixel TV is pretty much unknown to me.

The episode begins with Sportacus going to his screen, and Pixel is on his screen, telling him he's live in four seconds. Sportacus tells the camera that LazyTown is always moving and so are we. Then he does a buncha cool moves.

In his house, Pixel is managing his antenna and is talking to the LazyTown people on his TV screens. He's set up a LazyTown TV channel with good moves, good food and go, go, go! Stephanie will be doing Sportscandy, Bessie and Milford will be doing news, Ziggy and Stingy will be doing their cooking show (probably the funniest segment), and Trixie's doing a talk show (that's why she called Loud Girl).

Everyone has LazyTown TV, even Robbie, and for some reason, the LazyTown theme song plays on his television. He changes to Bing Bang, he changes to Sportacus eating, he changes to Pixel. And at the end of it all, he says.. 'they have their own TV show?!' and doesn't he know it.

Robbie decides if they can have their own TV shows, he can too - since he's handsome, talented and smart. If you're so smart, try actually coming up with a plan that works. Anyways, he has a mini TV that fits on his arm, and now it's time for Stephanie's show. He says he needs a disguise and goes to.. an empty purple box. It makes more sense when you see all his disguises being dropped via a chute.

Colours is performed, and that song really annoys me because mid-way through there is a random cut to Sportacus. I am all for Sportacus scenes, but I'm also all for LazyTown songs. During the song, Robbie steals almost all her Sportscandy, leaving one strawberry. LOL.

Due to that, she cannot make her Sportscandy Rainbow Smoothie (for some reason she keeps on breathing during every word. Sportscandy *sigh* rainbow smoothie.) & Pixel is going to switch to the news so he gets into his Rob R. Robley costume.

When Stephanie turns the camera on (she films and and has her own TV show.. remind you of a blue elf?), Milford doesn't talk. Pixel tells him to go. He asks, 'Go where?' 'You're on!' 'On where?' Haha. I love this season. Then Stephanie tells him the camera is on and to start reading the LazyTown Good News - Three butterflies on the sports field, and new flowers. This town would be so peaceful if it wasn't for Robbie. Speaking of Rob, he shows up with a fan, that blows away his wig and notes.

It's even funnier when you think that someone who was helping write this episode (I'm guessing Mani) said 'Let's give Milford a wig purely to blow it off.' XD! Now, Robley takes his place (Bessie is visibly angry, showing that she doesn't like him purely to use him).

So he announces a buncha lies - Sports Candy makes you sick and all sports has been outlawed forever. By Pixel's request, Stephanie switches over to Bessie's weather show. But Rob takes that pole thingy Bessie's holding and grabs it so hard she falls.

Rob says 'let's take a look at the weather' & signals for Stephanie to pan the camera up. Once she does, he says 'let's take a look at the weather' once again. WHY IS THIS FUNNY? WHY IS STEFAN SO FUNNY?? He takes off the birds, suns, clouds & adds a bunch of storm and rain, telling everyone it's too dangerous to go outside so they must stay inside doing nothing. Now Trixie's doing her yap show.

She's supposed to have a guest, but doesn't then she starts yelling at Pixel about how she needs a guest. Considering the fact he set up an entire TV channel, I think his brain can comprehend it, Loud Girl. Robbie disguises himself as her guest - some apparently famous dude called Purple Legend. Trixie yells at Pixel as he told her they were gonna have interesting guests (PL got steamrolled!), and PL says he eats ice-cream, cookies and candy all day, sleeps till noon, and Trixie says those are both boring. So, PL jumps on the chair out of anger! LOL!!

Trixie says if he's so interesting, he should do something like sing or juggle or DANCE, and he decides to do some weird Irish leg dance or something. Trixie is laughing. LITERALLY.

PL purposefully bumps into the camera, ending the show since the camera broke. And they switch over to Ziggy & Stingy's cooking show, but for some reason, Stingy can't say anything. He tells Ziggy to introduce the show, which he does. They are going to make a castle with apples, and Stingy tells us the ingredients are apples (WOWZA!), 50 of them. Ziggy corrects him by saying fourty-nine since he's eaten one. But they're interrupted by Chef Robert, who cancels them both.

And he is making the most delicious food in history of food - the sugar candy chocolate candy ice-cream gooey-ooey yummy cake. The ingredients - 2 bars of chocolate, a ridiculously excessive amount of sugar, and the candy. The worst part is that he doesn't even take the wrappers off the chocolate bar, or the lollipops off their sticks. Ziggy says it looks delicious but unhealthy.

Robert asks if he's a chef who went to cooking school wearing a big white hat. The answer is of course, no, and he yells at him to go away. The next step is to put the mix in the fridge, but he steps on an apple he threw on the ground, slips and falls, and now the mix is on his head. Slapstick moment.

Anyways, Steph and Trixie managed to get the camera up and running, and now comes the best of all - Bessie's puppet show. I'm being sarcastic, this sucks.

(During it, Pixel complains since this is being broadcast worldwide.) Robbie sees the puppet show, and he says 'Puppets, now they've gone too far!' LOL. He decides now he has to stop the TV station once and for all, and he does that.. with a gorilla outfit. And the way he does it? Instead of scaring him into stopping it, he CLIMBS UP PIXEL'S ANTENNA AND SHAKES IT.

The TV's now all glitchy and stuff, but he shakes too hard and almost falls down. Luckily, Sportacus appears (where ya been dude?) to save the gorilla. Milford is going live with LazyTown Good News. This is sure to make headlines! Milford asks the gorilla what he's doing up there, and he RESPONDS with 'I'm breaking this antenna forever!' But when he falls, Sportacus attaches a hook to Pixel's roof, causing it to open so the gorilla lands in his house. Once he does, the head falls off, and it's revealed that Robbie was doing all this nonsense instead of .. just.. not watching TV.

It turns out well in the end as Milford tells everyone it's just Robbie, Sportacus goes back, & Stingy films Steph doing the Bing Bang. No Sportacus power jump unfortunately. In the lair, Robbie is attempting to forget about the day with ice-cream, but a news report about the day is played on the channel.

And he yells. THE END!

8/10 - Great plot, funny dialogue!

[lazyrants]

School Scam (prod 207)

Original airdate: February 13, 2007

Story by Magnus Scheving

Written by Magnus Scheving, Mani Svavarrson, Noah Zachary

Directed by Magnus Scheving, 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, Emily Decola, Mary Robinette Kowal

I hate learning 123s for quick calculation..

I've seen the opening sequence so many times I don't even need to watch it to type this up - Sportacus makes the first three letters of the alphabet clouds using his skutla, and he says 'Now that's how to do the ABCs!' Maybe it has something to do with the fact a short clip of it is seen in every single one of the last two seasons' episodes.

Stephanie is finishing off some of her homework when Milford asks what she's doing at the house, then she asks what he's doing at the house, and he replies with 'I live here' - which reminds me why I think Season 2 is the best season, the humour and music. Máni Svavarrson had some kind of role in both of those, one bigger then the other. So Mani, if you see this, you rock! Anyways, Stephanie reminds him he's the principal of LazyTown School, and he should be ringing the bell and opening the door. So he starts ringing the bell.

Robbie is woken up by the bell and he mistakes it for his phone ringing, so he answers the phone. LOL, then he hears Milford's voice, hangs up, and asks himself who is ringing it. He goes to check using the periscope and sees Milford, and looks away. He says school is a terrible way to start the day - for once he says something agreeable!

Ziggy is attempting to walk to school, but his backpack is too heavy, and he falls into a wheelbarrow. Meanwhile, Stingy is being a moron. Trixie is carrying all his books when she says it's his turn to do so, and he asks what more she wants (Considering he's giving her his property). Stingy and Trixie see Ziggy fly by and Sportacus' crystal beeps. He flies to LazyTown using the sky bike and flips behind Stingy and Trixie, and asks Trixie for.. a pencil??

And Stingy for.. paper. Stingy rips off the CORNER of his page, expecting Sportacus to use that. Trixie yells at him and he gives Sportacus a bigger one. So Sportacus does some boring calculations.

LazyTown's too cool to cover MATHS!!! Anyways, he says he'll save him once he is 5 feet away from the wall, and once he is, he throws a yo-yo, wraps it around a tree, and Trixie tells Ziggy to grab hold of it. He does, and Sportacus gets him off. After thanking him, Ziggy nearly falls down again thanks to how heavy his bag is, and guess what his 'school supplies' were?

Ziggy is fictional. Ziggy is fictional. Ziggy is fictional. Ziggy is fictional. *deep breaths in and out* Anyways, Sportacus grabs an apple, Ziggy bites it, and he's energized now. He runs to school so he isn't late and also because he's excited as Sportacus said he might check up on him. Robbie is somehow annoyed by this and vows to stop the kids from learning anything so they don't become like 'Sportanerd'. LOL. But Stephanie does a frontflip in this episode, so uhh..

He decides to become a teacher so the kids learn nothing. He gets into his Professor H. R. Rottennen (what a boring long name) costume. At school, the kids perform I Like Learning. Once they finish, Milford arrives in the school, as well as Rottennen who introduces himself as the new teacher. When Milford asks why they need a new teacher, he yells at Milford - 'NO TALKING IN MY CLASS!' and he says 'Yes, teacher!'

I love this show. Rottennen pushes Milford out the room. So, the kids starts the lesson.. by sitting in a student's chair. LOL! The kids have to tell him he's supposed to sit up at the front. He laughs, and does so. Anyways, now it's reading time which yet again, the kids have to tell him. And here comes one of the funniest sequences from this show: He tells them to open their books, turn them around, and go to sleep!

I think it's this shot that just makes me laugh. Because all you can hear is his snoring for 2 seconds. Stingy coughs into a MEGAPHONE to wake him up. Then he wakes up, falls off his chair, stands up, and starts doing karate to.. the air?

I could take this scene, speed it up and caption it with sometihng funny like 'bro thinks he's bruce lee' or 'one minute without zaza', upload it to YouTube and get a million subscribers or something because that's how advanced humor is nowadays (even though I think my imaginary captions are funny but whatever). Anyways, when he realizes he looks like a weirdo, he says he's just stretching.

That's why this show rocks - it teaches you how to live healthy while appealing with amazing music & humor. It's been eighteen years since this episode was written and the humor still makes people laugh to this day. Anyways, now it's time for maths (LOL that was like 25 seconds), and they get out their maths books - Thus spawning the incredible quote once again 'Open your books, turn them around, and go to sleep!' Then they tell him that they're supposed to be adding and subtracting, and when he's lost words to say..

The bell comes in handy and the lesson has already ended. I wanna go to LazyTown School! After a while they have their next lesson which is outside. And Robbie tells them to sit down, lean, and go to sleep. LOL. But the kids keep on whining. Luckily, Sportanerd comes to the rescue.

He asks what new things they're learning and apparently they've learned to jump and flip and stuff, but the kids reveal they haven't learned how to jump the horse, and it takes a while for him to figure out what horse they mean. He attempts to do the jump aaaannnddd..

Oof! Hey Rotten, how are the family jewels? Then he turns upside-down, and falls off the horse. Then he says 'That is how you jump the cow.' I actually chuckled at that one. Maybe it was Stingy's response 'a COW?????' Stephanie asks Sportacus if he can teach the kids new moves. He does a QUADRUPLE backflip off the horse! Anyways, Rottenenn has somehow gone underground and is cutting a hole in the ground.

Once he comes back up, he tells the kids to go back inside and have a snack. When they all leave, he tells Sportacus that he didn't quite catch the landing of when he jumped off the horse and would like if he could do it again so he can teach the kids how to do so. So he does it again, Rottenenn pulls a lever that came out of nowhere, and mixing some shots from Secret Agent Zero and new ones for this episode, he falls into his trap.

He then goes back to class, snickering until he sees the kids with their science gear and he yells. Gosh, I love this episode. Now it's time for science. Rottenenn tells them to OPEN THEIR BOOKS, TURN THEM AROUND, LEAN FORWARD, AND GO TO SLEEP. I think this was the funniest because Stephanie has a huge smile on her face until she hears 'turn around' and looks at Trixie like Trixie's the camera and she's the main character in the sitcom. LOL!!!

The kids are now annoyed a lot and they tell him that they want to do science, and he actually listens to them. He starts flicking through some pages, and finds a formula. He starts mixing a few liquids and coincidentally, that's the exact same formula for..

AN EXPLOSIOOOONNNNNNN!! The liquid starts foaming, and all the kids run out. The only one still in there is Rottenenn. Robbie tries to open the door, but he breaks the handle, as well as Stephanie on the other side. The school explodes, Rottennen has to go to hospital, the end. Not really the end because the crystal beeps and Sportacus attempts to open the trap by getting the horse off it. Stephanie goes to find Sportacus, and she finds out he is trapped.

She tries to move the chair but she cannot since she isn't strong enough. Sportacus asks if there is Sportscandy nearby & he tells her to do the jump/flip that he did to get the Sportscandy and push the chair. Sure enough, she does it! But in one of the shots she looks like she JUMPED to get the apple.

She takes one bite and pushes the chair. Conveniently, Sportacus jumps onto the chair. Meanwhile, Rottennen has ripped the curtain and tied it to a table and is going to jump out the window, but Sportacus is jumping through the hole on top of the door. When he gets in, he startles Rottennen, causing him to fall out but Sportacus stops the table with his leg.

He asks the kids for help to stop the chemical reaction. Trixie opens up the science book and Pixel figures out the right amounts and liquids to put in - a little bit of the orange, a lot of the red, a liquid par?? of the green one. And whoop-de-doo, the green one is at the end of the table.

It explodes and they don't have school or a superhero anymore. The end. Well, not really, because here comes one of the coolest parts of the episode - Sportacus lets go of the table, flips across the teacher's desk, AND GRABS HOLD OF THE TABLE!

In his office, Milford is wondering how the new teacher is going. XD. Anyways, attempting to put just ONE drop of the green liquid inside, the cloth nearly rips, but Sportacus does it! THEN the cloth actually rips, but luckily Sportacus grabs it.

Milford hears the twang of the curtain, asks himself what it was, and despite the fact Rottenenn is literally outside of his window, he ignores it, and thinks it's nothing. Yes, the school nearly exploding & your 'new teacher' almost falling to the ground is nothing. Sportacus lifts him up back into the classroom, and his glasses fall off. Sportacus puts the door handle back in place, and opens the door, asking if the kids are okay. Robbie takes his wig off, replying with a firm YES! And now, the disguise is revealed, which is kinda stupid, because how'd he forget the kids were there?

Robbie says he thinks he has some homework to do and leaves the room. The kids thank Sportacus and say they learned something new - Open your books, turn around, STAND UP AND DANCE! They perform Bing Bang. During the song, Milford nods his head, hinting that NOW he hears everything. Robbie attempts the experiment in his lair, saying that it will work this time and it fails.

He says 'Maybe not.' and he didn't open any books, turn them around, lean forward (he leaned backwards!) and went to sleep. He'll feel that when he wakes up!

10/10 - This episode was so exciting and intense and it almost made me want to go to school.

[lazyrants]

The LazyTown Circus (prod 203)

Original airdate: February 12, 2007

Story by Magnus Scheving

Written by Magnus Scheving, Mani Svavarrson, Noah Zachary

Directed by Magnus Scheving

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, Emily Decola, Mary Robinette Kowal

In this episode, a song that starts off wonderfully and ends terribly is played, and Stephanie dresses up in her most horrendous costume in the entirety of the 100+ episodes produced (including the campaigns, Extra, Sproutlet Show).

Sportacus is playing with a Yoyo in the airship. He wraps the string around his water bottle and pulls it to him. While drinking, the crystal beeps. He goes outside to see what it is, and it's a fly stuck in a mailbox. WOW. JUST. WOW. Using the yoyo, he gets it out.

Look at that 3D effect. In 2013, three episodes from the then-new season were played in cinemas. Imagine if this was one of them and it was in 3D! Anyways, he wraps the yoyo around the mailbox handle and pulls up the yoyo, opening the mailbox and freeing the fly. The main episode starts with Trixie dialogue, my second-least favourite character so it's getting off to a bad start. She's doing a high-wire (that isn't that high), and once she finishes, it's Ziggy's turn. Can you predict what happens next? Yep, right. Robbie decides to eavesdrop (after playing two of his piano keys, for someone reason one makes a moo noise, so that was funny)..

Ziggy gets scaareeed.. beep beep beep. Sportacus attaches a hook to his belt buckle, and jumps out the airship. Supa. Kewl. Mainly because he's 3D animated in one of the shots & he doesn't even hit the ground.

Anyways, Ziggy's still being a whiny scaredy-cat, he's not even halfway through the walk, and Robbie is literally CHUCKLING. I don't blame him, either. Sportacus flips over to him, and he gives a 'u serious right neow bro' face to Ziggy, then he smiles and taps his shoulder. He lifts him off. Ziggy tells him he knew he wasn't that high up but he was still scared, and he gives him some good advice - try to be a little brave. Once he leaves, it's Stephanie's turn and she says that it's too low for her. Trixie says she's never been on a real one before, Steph says she has (she says they're as high up as TREES).

Ziggy believes her and even asks for her to help him and Trixie with the high walk and to do other cool stunts, and the idea comes for them to start a THE LAZYTOWN CIRCUS (lol episode name in episode review hehe) with animals, cotton candy (Guess who said that? They both said no), music, stunts, & cotton candy (Oh my god, Ziggy. SHUT. UP). When they leave, she decides to try the high walk.

Meanwhile, Stingy & Pixel are being epic gaemers!!11!! when Trixie comes in and tells them everything, including that they need animals. Stingy comes with actually funny dialogue - 'Pick Pixel! He's been eating cheesy garlic Crunch-O's all day and he smells like elephant feet! (Pixel breathes in his face) Urgh, call animal control, something's died in Pixel's mouth!'

Out of all the screenshots I've took for this review, this is my ultimate favourite. So after some more funny dialogue and an angry Trixie moment, we go back to Stephanie attempting the high walk once more, but she herself is scared.

When she sees Ziggy running to her, he puts the pole higher then it originally was. Ziggy runs to Stephanie with a clown nose on and tells her he is a clown. Red nose or not, he is a HUGE CLOWN. He falls (??????) Robbie laughs. He stands up, questions how high the pole is and tells Stephanie she's his hero. So screw the dude who saves you everyday & tells you how to live a healthy life. When Robbie overhears Ziggy's excitement about starting a circus, he attempts to think up a plan to stop it, but he can't think of anything. The end. Until, he starts whining about the annoying things of circuses and talks about cannons - then he devises a plan to shoot Sportacus out of one.

Ziggy sends Sportacus a letter asking if he'll do some circus stunts. He decides a few moves to do - the first one being this one where he throws a tennis racket from arm to arm, throws a ball in the air, AND HOLDS THE RACKET WITH ONE FINGER, AS WELL AS THE BALL. Then he throws a glass plate onto there as well.

And here comes a somewhat funny Disguise Time - Robbie chooses the ringmaster outfit and a light shines on him like he's actually in a circus.

He introduces himself as Roberto The Great, funny dialogue, etc. He ends his speech with 'LET'S START THE SHOW!' Anyways, for once, they do something with the Mayor's approval. They tell him about the circus. When Trixie says Steph's doing the high walk, she says Sportacus might do it. The animals Stingy and Pixel introduce themselves with obnoxious noises. LAZYTOWN FURRY PROPAGANDA AT 3AM NOT CLICKBAIT MUST WATCH 4K ULTRA HD. Anyways, Sportacus flips in and handstands, saying he is ready for circus stunts.

Milford starts saying a bunch of stuff they need for the circus, and Trixie tells him they already have most of the stuff he's talking about. Sportacus says they just need a ringmaster, and they get a ringmaster.

Roberto instructs them to follow him, and somehow, the LazyTown circus has just.. gotten there. Did he buy it like in Mystery of the Pyramid? Did he build it? Was it already there? They all follow him and go inside the circus.

They look for a few seconds until Robbie tells them to get prepared. Then we cut to Bessie and Milford for like five seconds after they bump into each other and Milford tells her he's got the tickets. Well, that was kinda useless. Anyways, Pixel is the head of a zebra.. horse thingy & Stingy is the tail which he complains about. They compromise to take turns. Then Pixel burps and Stingy runs out for air. I don't get why this is slightly funny but it is. Everyone is in their costumes, Milford & Bessie have arrived, and it's Time to Start The Show! (During the video, Steph plays the sax and spit comes out. Yuck.)

After taking the screenshot, I realized that is not the case.. *facepalm*, Trixie made it look like that with her water flower. After the song, Roberto tells Sportacus his very important role - to go into the cannon and fly into the 'very safe' net. He agrees once Roberto says the kids would love it. So he handstands his way to the cannon.

Before he gets in, Roberto tells him to put on his goggles (don't want anybody gettin hurt). He also tells him to cover his ears so he doesn't hear anything, and it works. Anyways, it's time for the high wire and Stephanie's too scared to. Roberto gets Ziggy and Trixie out of the way and tells them to stay there, pulling a lever that traps them in a net. He pulls up the net so they're just hanging in the air. Stephanie yells 'Oh no!' and Roberto overhears her.

Roberto chases Stephanie for a while, bringing up the question - what would he do if he caught her? Anyways, she climbs up the ladder, and Roberto drops the ladder so she can't get down. Milford and Bessie are idiots who think this is all staged. Stephanie attempts to get to them, but she can't, and she reveals she was lying. Took her long enough! Ziggy says she just has to be brave, and what ya know? She does it!!

lolwut. The crystal beeps, which Robbie thinks is the perfect time to launch Sportacus out. Sportacus swings onto this swingy thingy with his hands, and flips so now he's holding onto it with his legs. When Steph loses grip, he catches her.

Stephanie does an astonishing backflip onto the ground, then ANOTHER one after she lands. Sportacus does one only. But then again, he's Sportacus. He gets Ziggy & Trixie down, and the horse/zebra finally decides to make an appearance. Roberto says it's the perfect getaway and uses it as one, but Stingy & Pixel can't handle his weight, so they topple him over and he falls into a drum.

Notice the season one prop in the screencap. His hat falls off, and everyone finds out it's Robbie. Then he tells the kids to not try this at home (LOL). Stephanie apologizes to them for lying about her bravery, but they say she was brave enough to be truthful & actually go on the high wire. Ziggy is still sad they didn't get to see anyone on the high wire. So Sportacus goes on the high wire, and he's so daring he does FLIPS on the wire!

Then they perform the circus version of Bing Bang, which is pretty bad if I may say. In the lair, Robbie says that he was so close and he'll get Sportacus soon. He tries sitting down, but he can't, ya know, considering he has a drum on his posterior.

7/10 - Revisiting it, I liked it more. It was the song & costumes that put me off.

[lazyrants]

The LazyTown Snow Monster (prod 210)

Original airdate: December 15, 2006

Story by Magnus Scheving

Written by Magnus Scheving, Mani Svavarrson, Noah Zachary

Directed by Magnus Scheving

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

Review of a Christmas special - valid because Christmas in July!

Sportacus is in his airship and he's playing with a katana. Oh, go ahead and motivate kids to play with sharp things, okay. He throws a strawberry in the air and catches it with his katana. Same with a grape, a lemon, another strawberry, and a blueberry. He decides to unlock/open the door, AND HE THROWS THE KATANA OUT.

Then, he gets out a hook to bring the katana back up. The fruits are all in ice cubes, and he puts them all in a bowl. He calls them 'Sportscandy Ice Cubes' and puts them in a glass of water, and takes a sip.

I should probably point out he calls them cool. I really hope that pun was intended. It's a lovely snowy day in LazyTown, and Milford seems to be looking for something when Stephanie comes in. Stephanie questions the smell ('Welcome to LazyTown' reference?), and it's Milford's bait for catching fish. He tells Stephanie he can't find his fishing hat. Whaddya know, he was WEARING IT. But Stephanie is looking for something of her own.

It turns out to be a costume. The kids have been playing Catch the Snow Monster and Stephanie is the snow monster this time, so she needs a fluffy, scary, tremendously horrifying. What do you know, Milford's wearing it. So they do a hat swap.

Stephanie looks ridiculous. Milford thinks he looks pretty. Self-love crosses into delusion, but OK. So the kids are playing Snow Monster on the field, when Steph sees Ziggy on the court, scanning in front of him for her. Then she scares him and he dives for some reason. Pixel has a device to catch her. (Why does he wanna catch his crush..?) And Trixie's going old-school, using a net (that she just found). And Stingy asks when it's his turn to be the Snow Monster. Meanwhile, Milford is fishing.

He thinks he found a fish but he goddamn well knows he didn't. The kids are still playing Snow Monster when Stingy's whining about being it wakes up Robbie. He questions why they're playing outside in winter (If I was them, I'd be drinking hot cocoa with marshmallows next to the heater, watching a movie.. ah... these Americans, so lucky with their snow. IT'S WINTER WHILE I'M WATCHING THIS AND IT'S NOT EVEN COLD!!). He decides to check out what they're doing, and he sees the Snow Monster Steph, and RUNS AWAY while dabbing.

Stefan Karl brought so much life to Robbie Rotten. Then he realizes snow monsters aren't real and reluctantly goes back to the periscope. He realizes it's just the silly kids. THEN he feels something coming. It's either a brilliant idea or his periscope hitting him in the back of the head.

Double dipper. Coincidentally and conveniently, Robbie literally already has a SNOW MONSTER COSTUME. Meanwhile while Milford is fishing, the ice starts to crack and instead of getting out of there he watches as it breaks. Or maybe he's waiting for Sportacus to save him, because the crystal beeps and he does exactly that. He drives the skutla over Milford and tells him to tie his fishing rope to the Skutla's wing thingy. And Sportacus turns over the skutla and drops Milford in a pile of snow. He pulls over in the air, puts on his scarf and checks on Milford.

It turns out he didn't know how dangerous frozen lakes were because he didn't see Macaulay Culkin in 'The Good Son'. Sportacus tells him abut the danger of frozen lakes, then goes back to his airship. Milford puts up a sign. Back at the lair is a fourth-wall break, and I hate fourth wall breaks mostly because most kids shows have annoying characters talking to the camera and LazyTown wasn't the type of show for that and it never should've did that, and they didn't! Well, with some promos and LazyTown Extra as an exception. Anyways, Robbie was fourth-wall breaking in the worst way - talking to the camera.

Robbie puts on the costume FINALLY. This disguise time doesn't rhyme unfortunately, it's just weather descriptions 'too rainy, too sunny..' Anyways, when he discovers it works he is extremely happy. It's Stingy's turn to be the Snow Monster, and he says no-one can catch him. Then someone catches him.

Too soon. Sportacus flippity flops into the game to see what they're doing and they explain everything to him. Stephanie asks him what his favourite thing to do as a kid in the snow was, and he says it was building a snowman. They do so while performing 'Snow, Give Me Snow'. Then once they finish he goes back to the airship. Anyways, for some reason Pixel thinks they need some tunes so he goes to get his solar-powered boombox which is stupid because it's SNOWING. Anyways, the kids go in the fort, thus bringing us some funny dialogue. Ziggy says he wishes he could have a fort all year long, Trixie says it'd melt and become water, Ziggy says he'd just make it a water fort and Stingy says it would melt. While they're all having fun, the party diarrhea-er Robbie comes out the shell.

As he falls down climbing over the wall, the kids hear him and wonder what it is. Stephanie goes outside to check what it was and she sees a 'The LazyTown Snow Monster' as she said at the beginning of the episode. Robbie says that was great after Stephanie hides in the igloo. Trixie wants to catch the Snow Monster, but Stingy says they need a bigger net. Then Stephanie decides a way to stop a SNOW monster is by throwing SNOWballs at him. ???? They think it's a good plan but the Snow Monster falls off the chair (I genuinely chuckled) so they can't put it in action.

Meanwhile, Milford is on the field and he sees the igloo and decides to check it out. But the kids have their snowballs in their hands at they aim at the guy who runs the town. It takes them SIX SECONDS to figure out it's not a snow monster.

He tells them that there is nothing to be scared of and they should come out. He tells them if there was a real snow monster there would be footprints. And the footprints he are talking about pop up TWICE. Then Milford has a nice surprise. He just needs to turn around. Which he does. And he screams. And he runs into his house and so do all the kids. Trixie decides to look out the window for the monster, Milford decides to lock the doors and Ziggy decides to run to Milford asking how much candy he has because apparently 'we need supplies until summer'.

Anyways, Stephanie devises a plan (Julianna's acting is AMAZING in this episode.) - Ziggy wears the extremely terrifying white hat & jumps onto Milford's back. Stephanie covers them with a white sheet. This is supposed to apparently scare the Snow Monster away.

Then they go outside, struggling to move. Trixie & Stingy are doubting the plan. And the two falling is the LAST STRAW for Trixie so she decides to go outside. Stingy asks to have her toys if she gets eaten. If I was Steph, I'd smack him. Anyways, when Robbie sees Trixie he starts to hide. When Trixie's close to him, he keeps on moving and falling down so that she can't find him. So if Trixie follows the sound he won't even be there, until Robbie decides to lie down until she comes. When she finds him she isn't so brave anymore.

She runs and hides behind a tree. Meanwhile, at Milford's house, Stephanie and Stingy are convinced they're fine. Trixie is still hiding and Ziggy/Milford are still trying to scare away Robbie. Robbie is scared of them. They are scared of Robbie. Pixel has finally got the boombox (weren't you away for like ten minutes? slowpoke) but he doesn't know where they are. So while he is looking around he spots the Snow Monster behind him. Meanwhile, Trixie has literally CLIMBED THE TREE BRANCH and it's about to fall.

Sportacus' crystal beeps, and it's seemed to be taking him the whole episode to get back to the airship. Anyways, he sees Milford and Ziggy and says 'A snow monster scaring the kids away! This is serious.' He flips his way over to Trixie. As he jumps over a wall, he calls for a snowboard and skis over to Trixie, catching her after she falls.

Trixie notices and tells Sportacus the snow monster is getting away, so he decides to throw a snowball at the sign, whacking Milford's gyatt (why did I type this), and he falls over. Sportacus unveils the snow monster. Trixie tells him that's not the snow monster he saw, and then Robbie shows up.

Robbie runs into the frozen lake and falls in. He grabs onto the sign and Sportacus gets the skutla. He attaches the hook to the sign and lifts him up. He drops him right outside Milford's house, where the head of the disguise falls off, and everyone knows it's him. His response? He admits it's cold, and he goes back to the lair. They sing Bing Bang. Back in the lair, Robbie is so cold, he's covering himself with two towels, putting one of those squishy bottles you put warm water on on his head, and his feet in BOILED WATER. He notices there's a fish inside his shirt somehow and takes it out.

7.5/10 - It was better then the last Christmas special and acting was good.

[lazyrants]

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.

[lazyrants]

50 posts! Finally!!! But I only made 39 reviews. XD.

[lazyrants]

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.

[lazyrants]

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.