Things I can't stop thinking about #11
Ages ago, I remember someone bringing to my attention the fact that when lazytown first broadcasted, Stefán Karl was 29 years old and Magnus was 40, which gives them a 11 year age gap.
I thought that was cool but it didn't put into perspective how big that age gap...
Until I realized that these photos were from the same year (1988)
With Stebbi being 11~12 and Magnús being 23~24!
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Birthday Surprise aka The Berlin Episode.
I'm a history student and I had a good laugh about this episode and some thoughts I wanted to share:
This is about the Episode "Birthday Surprise"
Summary: "The kids prepare to celebrate Sportacus's birthday, but Robbie has built a wall across LazyTown that makes it impossible for the kids to play together."
So the episode goes that Robbie builds a wall, separating the town from east to west. This is very similar to the events that happened on 08/13/61 when the Berlin wall was constructed. Much like in the Episode itself, it was seemingly built overnight.
That's obviously not completely true, it took multiple years, however whole families were separated, houses were destroyed that were in the way and nobody could enter or exit. Which is also pretty similar to the Episode.
This is most likely just a huge coincidence, but much like Lazytown itself, the city of Berlin has a round(ish) shape.
Another similarity is that much like Sportacus' Airship there was the "Berliner Luftbrücke" the air supply chain that helped out West Berlin.
Much like in real life, the townspeople themselves started to take the wall apart. Also since this is the point where the wall fell, it would technically be Checkpoint Charlie.
This victory was later celebrated with the Song "I've been looking for freedom" by David Hasslehof... Stephanie obviously sings Bing Bang at the end of every episode, but to think they celebrated the fall of the wall the same way was nice.
While I was doing my little research I stumbled upon the Lazytown Wiki and found some interesting trivia:
The Wall fell on November 9, 1989. So the production of this episode was exactly 17 years after it happened.
Also, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought about the Berlin wall. Apparently, this was the intention of the episode.
This makes me really happy to see, to have some of your history represented in media, even if it was obviously way oversimplified. Which is also fine, this is a children's TV show after all.
If you want to watch the full episode, you can watch it on YouTube:
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"(...) Due sono le cose che faccio – respirare e pensare a te. Può volerci un po’ per pulire la scritta sullo specchio, ma va bene così, perché i messaggi importanti, quelli che contengono qualche verità, un nocciolo di essenza, belli nella loro disperazione, non possono essere consegnati in un modo che consenta di cancellarli facilmente."
J.K. Stefànsson
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