Original airdate: August 17, 2004

Story by Magnus Scheving, Mani Svavarrson

Written by Rocky Garibaldi, Scott Gray, Magnus Scheving

Directed by Rufus Scott Church

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 – Ronald Binion, Gudmondor Thor Karason, Jodi Eichelberger, Heather Asch, David Matthew Feldman, Julie Westwood, Sarah Burgess

Sports Day was the first LazyTown episode the crew worked on after the Lazy Dance. Not directed by Magnus Scheving, but instead Rufus Scott Church, this episode is very different from others with CGI and green screen flaws. Does the plot in fact make up for that?

Filming in Feb 2004. That face says pain and only pain.

The episode begins with Sportacus brushing his teeth, then noticing the date on the calendar (of course, in classic Sportacus fashion, while he’s upside down) and realizing that it’s LazyTown Sports Day, then he rides his airship into town to see what’s going on. This cold open uses a terrible green screen of Sportacus doing the t-pose flip in the opening credits instead of just recording a new one.

Milford is trying to fix the town up to get the kids excited for Sports Day while Bessie is chit chatting on the phone. Nothing new, but it is so extravagating how Bessie does no work at all.. and why in the world does she have TWO PHONES?

Anyways, the LazyTown kids are hanging together outside and Stephanie is reading a book about the history of the town. She reaches a page about Sports Day and everyone says they won’t do it this year because they’re bad. Seems like everyone has forgot the lessons from the past episodes.. AGAIN. God, I hate when this happens.

Luckily for Stephanie, Sportacus has just arrived in the town and has a surprise for everyone – Ziggy guesses it’s chocolate twice, but Sportacus is actually trying to say it’s Sports Day. I don’t know why it’s so funny, but everyone just says “awwww” except Stephanie.

Anyways, nobody comes except Sportacus and Stephanie until Sportacus says that Milford is (well, trying to) fix the town up. Suddenly everyone has a change in character when Pixel says the field is ready for a race. 20 seconds ago you guys were dreading this idea!

Robbie is in his lair, deciding what to wear, declining every single outfit for the one he wears IN EVERY SINGLE EPISODE OF THE SHOW. God, I love the scripts of this show. Cherry on top? He gets a miniature version that couldn’t even fit a doll, BUT IT WORKS.

Anyways, Robbie decides to peep through the hole and look at what the LazyTowners are doing. He sees Bessie.. relaxing and gasps and gags. Very confusing knowing that Robbie is all for being lazy, but then the camera pans and we realize that he is gasping at the gang playing with a ball on the field. So.. weird. Not funny (well, his face kinda is..)

Robbie has his 400th Lazy Idea of the week, which is to buy the field, which in real life would not work unless you had a mayor as bumbling as MAYOR MILFORD MEANSWELL, who unknowingly accepts to the deal, until Sportacus steps in and says that he has to beat him and the gang at sports day. Robbie says that if he does win, that he will make the sports field a pillow stuffing factory, and Sportacus has to leave town. Sportacus handshakes him. See, that’s why I liked him. He was the only one who had guts to speak up. Robbie accepts the deal, and they start training.

Ziggy is put in the job of Sports Candy Supervisor, and his task is to get sportscandy for the gang to power up. Ziggy is the last person I would ever put in this role, so either Sportacus has lots of faith in his friends – or sometimes he is just plain stupid.

Anyways, the kids start exercising, running around. Pixel is doing pushups, Trixie is doing handstands, Stephanie is trying to stretch (and failing, which is totally out of character), and Ziggy is using giant lollipops at barbells. At least he’s doing something. Stingy is doing sit ups, and he can’t do them for his LIFE, unless you shake money or his piggy bank around his face. Robbie is being lazy in his lair, and of course, making gadgets for the race. For the man that made the deal, he really is not taking it seriously. Stingy is being the jerk he is and refusing to give anyone the baton in practice, and they (the puppets) all chase him as fast as they can, which might have been the only workout they did.

So anyways, Pixel is spouting data about how bad they were (shut up, french fry hair boy) and Ziggy brings out sportscandy (gummy people that Ziggy makes run, jump and spin into the mouth), but Sportacus says they need REAL energy. So instead of climbing up to get an apple from a tree, instead he decides to cartwheel and flip to the tree, then whacks it to make it fall down. Effective, but.. well.. it’s cool, too. I ain’t complainin.

Sportacus gives Stephanie an apple, then he does a spinning flip in the air. Why? He has more apples in his backpack. (It could have taken much more shorter to just.. hand everyone the apples..) Then they perform “Energy” while Robbie is watching. He scolds Sportacus for thinking he can win by eating fruits, then he yells one of the 2: “THAT’S DISGUSTING!!” or “IT’S DISGUISE TIME!”. If anyone can buy the script from Mark Valenti on eBay (no, seriously, he’s selling about 30 scripts from Season 1) and tell me what it says, deeply appreciated.

Pixel asks Sportacus if he’s ever eaten sugar before, and Sportacus tells him the whole story – he ate too much sugar, all his energy drained and he fell to the floor. That’s why he doesn’t eat it anymore. TLDR – Sugar gives Sportacus diabetes. I know this show is crazy on the health aspect, but that’s actually ridiculous even for Sportacus.

However, Robbie is in his classic mailbox costume, spying on them when Ziggy is told to get more apples. Ziggy tries to climb the apple tree, but he can’t reach it. His solution? A sugar apple that Robbie whipped up with Rotten Candy Faker Maker 4000. Robbie puts it on a fishrod and hits Ziggy on the head with it. Ziggy believes it is magic and he HAS to take the apple. Personally, I WOULDN’T take a floating apple.. but, Nickelodeon, man.

Anyways, Sports Day starts with a race between Robbie and Sportacus (Robbie starts two seconds earlier.. and loses in the end anyways). Mid-way, Ziggy gives Sportacus the apple, and he takes a bite and flops his way to a bench. Oh, no, he’s dead.

Stephanie gives Ziggy the baton and Robbie is now on the biking section of the race. Trixie is doing the scooter section, and everyone is kinda mad at Ziggy until Pixel finds out the apple came from Robbie’s gadget. If you ask me, I don’t think they should’ve been mad to begin with. Ziggy’s too nice to give Sportacus a sugar apple.

They give Sportacus a bite of the real apple, he wakes up ready for the baton and biking and rides over Robbie who has been taking a power nap. Stephanie gives him the skateboard, he jumps onto it and basically flies with it. Awesome! He wins the race. Robbie doesn’t see it and puts HIS ride onto power mode and crashes into an apple tree. Sportacus gets to stay in LazyTown, and they all sing the Bing Bang song. The end.

There are so many things wrong with this episode it’s aggravating. Horrible green screens, montage music that sounds like it wasn’t composed by Mani out of character dialogue, a mediocre song and once again, an absent Robbie ending. WHY?!

Good plot, but a very weak episode.

5/10

Original airdate: August 16, 2004

Story by Scott Gray

Written by Noah Zachary, Mani Svavarrson, Magnus Scheving, Scott Gray

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 – Ronald Binion, Gudmondor Thor Karason, Jodi Eichelberger, Heather Asch, David Matthew Feldman, Julie Westwood, Sarah Burgess

This is the second episode of LazyTown that aired on the same day as the first one. All in all a very early and flawed episode.

Filming in Feb 2004. Show this to the Sportasteph shippers. I dare you.

The episode begins with some amazing aerobics from Sportacus while he.. tries to brush his teeth. My lord, he is so extra. And it is so cool! How everyone can see those jumps and flips that Magnus, Joe and Dyri did and not like them is beyond me.

Anyways, it’s a new day in LazyTown and everyone has seem to forgotten everything Sportacus had tought them in the last episode. They take him for granted and don’t care. Anyways, Stephanie is in her room writing in her diary, bored. Milford asks what is wrong and Stephanie tells him that nobody is playing outside. Milford knows what just to do (rely on Sportacus). He gives Sportacus a letter saying ‘I need your help’. Sportacus rides the airship to LazyTown, but not before doing a flip into his chair.. and landing the wrong way. LazyTown is the pinnacle of comedy.

Milford talks to Sportacus, telling him something terrible has happened. Sportacus tries guessing four times what has happened, and all his guesses are lethal natural disasters. LOL! This is funny. Anyways, Milford tells him about the whole thing with not wanting to play outside and he asks Sportacus to get the kids excited with a sport like he did last year at the Sportacular Spectacle Day. Now, excuse ME, but didn’t Sportacus arrive in LazyTown, like, one episode ago? The continuity of this show’s first season kills me sometimes, like when a clip from Soccer Sucker (episode 24) is played in Dear Diary (episode 16).

Anyways, Robbie is as usual, angry about Sportacus, so he looks into his periscope and finds the sign Milford has put up. Robbie reminisces about how Sportacular Spectacle Day was a day full of pie eating contests and diving into chocolate syrup. He then admires his newest invention – “THE FEET CRAZER MAKER 6000!!” Then he plays with the remote control, calls it beautiful until it kicks him in the face and he falls onto the ground. I. Love. This. Show.

He then gets up from the floor and wears his newest disguise – Rob U Blind, a salesman with ridiculous ways. Now we are in Pixel’s house with Ziggy and Stephanie. Ziggy is hyping the event up. He is ridiculously excited. Steph is curious. And french fry hair boy is playing a video game and insulting Ziggy in between rounds.

Sportacus is on the soccer field practicing his amazing move (kicking a soccer ball while doing a backflip). Robbie is walking to him and almost gets hit in the face by the ball. Anyways, he walks up to him and plays the funniest sequence of this episode.

Robbie asks Sportacus if he has ever thought “Boy, my shoes are sure full of slimy smelly goo!”? Sportacus of course says no. THEN Robbie pours slimy smelly goo all over his shoes. Robbie then (pretends to) cleans the shoes with the Shoe Cleaner 6000, and once he is finished, he swipes the shoes and gives Sportacus the Feet Crazer Maker. What’s funny is that Sportacus is not having any of it (and Robbie is also pretty hilarious).

So, anyways, after that, it is time for Sportacus to perform his epik move!1!111!1!1!!, but Robbie has the remote control and plays with Sportacus, making his “feet go cuckoo!” -Sportacus. Everyone is worried and confused, except Robbie who is enjoying every single moment of it. It’s so unintenionally funny. Sportacus just looks insane. I also love Milford’s “reaction” to getting kicked in the head. Could be the cause for his stupidness in the later seasons?

Now Sportacus is on a bench trying to get his feet to go back to normal while Milford and Bessie are just sitting there and questioning if that was supposed to happen. It’s so funny. One of the possibly craziest events in LazyTown just happened and they’re so quiet about it, especially the man who got KICKED IN THE HEAD. Anyways, back to Stephanie and the gang, who are using multiple methods to try and get him back to normal while performing “Always a Way”, a.k.a ONE OF THE BEST LAZYTOWN SONGS IN EXISTENCE. THIS SONG IS A TREASURE AND I WILL GO BRUCE LEE MODE ON ANYONE WHO DISAGREES. It’s inspirational and a head banger (well at least the radio edit).

Now Robbie shows up on stage in his LazyCus costume and performs an amazing move (attempting the splits and falling down and failing terribly)! Milford and Bessie aren’t really all that impressed, but LazyCus convinces them by saying that they don’t have a superhero anymore.

Cue Sportacus coming on in stage with the gang, doing a handstand. He then fails and flails his feet around. Fortunately, french fry hair boy is behind Robbie while he drops his gadget off the stage and turns it off, and the shoes go flying off.. and Robbie runs off stage in such a cartoony way it is hilarious..

Sportacus stands up normally, but he doesn’t know where his shoes are. Robbie runs back on stage to give him the Feet Crazer Makers, but french fry hair boy stops him and tells him to put them on. Robbie declines but Pixel comes back with the classic ‘unless-you’re-afraid’ argument. Ooh, snap! He ends up putting them on, acting like everything is fine, but then Pixel turns the gadget on.

Then his feet go cuckoo and everybody laughs at his pain as he falls down and gets his foot stuck in a bin.. I would too. Anyways, somehow Stephanie gains hold of the real shoes and cleans them up. He puts them on and Bessie throws him a ball to do his epik !!111!!!!111 trick. He performs it, the ball almost hits Robbie again, everyone is impressed, they sing the Bing Bang song (both verses), the end.

I must say, for the third episode of the TV show that LTE filmed, this is an amazing episode. Of course, the puppeteers screwed up visibly like four times in total, but it was an amazing episode with an amazing song. But there was no Robbie sequence at the end, possibly because the two verses of Bing Bang were sung instead of one verse.

THE END

10/10

Written 24.4.24

Original airdate: August 16, 2004

Story by Magnus Scheving

Written by Noah Zachary, Cole Louie, Magnus Scheving

Directed by Magnus Scheving, Raymond P. Le Gue

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 – Ronald Binion, Gudmondor Thor Karason, Jodi Eichelberger, Amanda Maddock, David Matthew Feldman, Julie Westwood, Sarah Burgess

LazyTown is definitely my favorite TV show and always will be. And this is where it all started. In all honestly, a decent pilot.

Filming the episode in April 2004. It seems Stephanie has a gown like a Jedi.

The episode begins with an (honestly mysterious) cold open from Sportacus, featuring him in the airship, waking up, flipping, blah blah blah. Honestly a very cool start to the show, and I actually think Sportacus is the best character.

Photo taken by LazyPooky. pictures.lazytown.eu

So, anyways, the next scene is them playing video games in Pixel’s house, and is such a blatant introduction to the characters. Pixel is playing the same video game over and over (which is a football game even though the LazyTown kids would not even THINK about playing football), Trixie is asking Stingy for popcorn (this is not something she’d do, she’d definitely steal it in the live shows or in Season 2), Stingy is refusing to give it to her and Ziggy is being the regular kid he is and eating candy. I STILL love his character.

For the record, you must be demented if you eat popcorn for anything other than a slight snack or for a movie/TV night.

I know that it was the sixth episode produced, but it just feels so weird. The opening sequence for the characters are just.. so out of character. So anyways, we’re now in Milford’s office while he’s cleaning up, and Bessie is.. being Bessie and yippity yappiting awayy on da phone. Milford cleans Bessie with a feather duster, then proceeds to tell her why – Stephanie, his niece is coming to visit town. Normally I find Milford funny in the first season of the show, but I didn’t laugh at all during this sequence. I HATE BESSIE. And it confuses me to think that she’s my mother’s favourite character (Her favourite episode is also Remote Control..)

However, this sequence is much much more funnier. Robbie is in his lair eating the same creamy cake he seems to eat about a million times in this show. He then laughs about how lazy the town is and how it’ll stay like that under his watch, then he sits on his piano and throws away his cake. Perfect timing, you’re talking about how where you live is just how you like it and you’re so strong and fierce and scary to keep it that way, but his clumsiness shows out for that. Robbie was never my favourite character, but Stefan portrayed him amazingly.

So, now Stephers is in LazyTown, at shock about how terrible it is. Weeds all over the place, bugs flying, nobody outside. Did she expect a town called LAZYTOWN to be the home of professional athletes?

Anyways, she meets Milford, her uncle, and he offers to carry her stuff. Stephanie declines and Milford says she is strong. In the lair, Robbie has gotten another slice of cake, and he spits it out and throws it away in shock at the word ‘Stephanie’. This is why there was never an episode about wasting food on the show. Except Swiped Sweets where Sportacus says ‘Food’s for throwing, not for growing!’ Robbie suspects trouble for his masterplan to keep the town lazy. We are now in Milford’s amazing house, and Stephanie thinks so as well.

Milford talks about how he is baking a cake for Bessie after Stephanie complains about the smell, and of course Milford messed it up. Anyways, Stephanie talks about playing outside and Milford laughs and informs her that nobody plays in LazyTown, but they USED to. Stephanie asks what she can do after Milford takes her to her room and supplies her with a deck of cards.

Supposedly an hour later, Stephanie has made a tower with her cards and Milford comes to check on her. Stephanie says that if she had another deck she would have made the Empire State Building. When I first heard that, I thought if 9/11 had not happened that she would have said ‘the Twin Towers’. However LazyPooky on the GLF reminded me she was only making one building with the deck of cards, and that in different dubs the building has changed. So she shut down my theory, and pretty damn well.

Now the two are in the kitchen, checking out the cake. Stephanie compliments it then tries to go outside. Milford stops her for two reasons: Nobody plays outside, and Milford feared an injury. Stephanie convinces Milford to let her go, and as Milford predicted. It’s boring. Nothing happens except her sitting on a bench alone, rolling a ball. Ziggy comes up to her and they introduce one another. Ziggy tells Stephanie to come to Pixel’s house, and she accepts.

Ziggy tries introducing the gang to Stephanie, but nobody listens. Pixel looks at her and then gains an instant crush and loses his game, but he really doesn’t care. Uhm.. I might just say this is one of the most cringe inducing scenes of the whole show, except where Stingy coughs/chokes on his popcorn in shock that Pixel doesn’t mind losing.

Stephanie introduces herself and then asks them to play soccer. Pixel says they’re already playing soccer (the idiot) and Stephanie asks about REAL soccer. They say they have never played a single sports before and Stephanie sings the song “Have You Ever” (not knowing that Robbie is watching), which I find an incredibly mediocre song, unless it’s in instrumental without the vocals. It still boggles my mind how that won the song vote in 2005.

Anyways, they start kicking a ball around, but Trixie kicks it too high and Robbie gains hold of it. Now plays a kid friendly version of bribing – Robbie gives Trixie a ball to throw at a window, Pixel a new video game with “6000 PLUS bonus levels!!” (Robbie tells Stingy the game was his), and Ziggy a large pile of candy. Robbie tells Stephanie to be lazy like a “good girl” and she reprises Have You Ever in a sad way. It is just me, or is singing when you’re sad is totally stupid?

Stephanie is writing in her diary at Milford’s house and he can clearly see how sad Stephanie is. Milford tells Stephanie about “Number 9”, a superhero from the North Sea who swooshed all around and gives her a tube to send a letter to his airship. I’ve seen the color scheme of that tube all over the place, and I think once at a barber shop. So it’s just getting annoying.

Stephanie writes a letter, puts it in the tube and sends it to the airship, all while Robbie keeps on trying to say that it will only makes things worse and she shouldn’t do it. Of course, they’re at such far distances that Stephanie can’t hear Robbie and she sends the letter to Number 9. I have a fond memory of being in second grade, requesting we watch this episode during indoors break time, and having to pause the video on a frame of Stephanie’s struggling face. Everyone thought it was hilarious. I also remember making a GIF out of this. Stephanie was sending a bomb to the airship. I really question my sanity.

Now Number 9 has the letter. He reads the letter, then reads a book about the history of the show (the town existed before pre-colonial Australia), writes a letter to Stephanie, puts it in an airplane shape, then in a bowling ball, then sends it to her. All while jumping and flipping occasionally, but not showing his face ONCE to the camera. Man, this guy is cool!

Stephanie recieves the letter after a long time, and Number 9 arrives in LazyTown, except he isn’t Number 9! AN IMPOSTER! It’s Number 10. People call him Sportacus, but Sportacus calls himself a slightly above average superhero. I call him the best Nickelodeon character ever.

Beep beepity beep! His crystal beeps two times and he goes on a saving rampage – saving Ziggy, Trixie and Stingy. What a dude, always there when you need him.

Now Robbie is pissed. He feels rotten, so he decides to set up a trap for Sportacus, but instead Bessie falls for it. I must say that digging a hole hundreds of feet into the ground is a surefire way to get someone murdered. Luckily Sportacus, Stephanie and Milford save Bessie. Milford gives Bessie a cake. For a few seconds they both forget Bessie is in a life threathening situation and compliment the cake. See, this is why LazyTown is the pinnacle of comedy, not to mention that while Sportacus is saving Bessie, she has no expression at all. Cons of being a puppet.

Sportacus decides to stay in LazyTown (yes!!) and then they all sing the Bing Bang song while pricking weeds. Robbie is not happy for any of it, and he even falls into his own trap (obviously on accident).

I kinda liked that episode. I used to not like it very much, but revisiting it (A.K.A re-reading the transcript, looking at screenshots and watching the trailer), I actually think it’s a pretty good episode, especially for the first one of the whole show.

7/10

That is bad.

I won’t do that in 2026.

Anyways, I’m editing the stunt doubles video. Seriously.

Pray for my storage

Yes, I got a notification from WordPress saying so. I think they’re lying – I did not start this in January 2024. Wait, I did. Never mind. Just be happy. In February comes more content! Thank you for sticking with me so long.

My fam went to the beach yesterday. It was a great way to spend Christmas chilling with your family. I got a Fujifilm Instax Mini 12, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 19 and the Big Book of Little Lunch.

ISLAND OF FIRE

This is a Taiwanese Jackie movie. I know that it isn’t really an XMas movie, but one scene is set in the holidays. I haven’t watched the movie yet, though.

The song of the day is Merry Christmas by John Williams, theme song of HA2.

‘DECK THE HALLS’

This is a heavily hated movie for reasons I don’t understand! I loved it, aside from a few.. scenes. It doesn’t get me in the Christmas mood, though, it’s pretty mean-spirited, honestly but makes for a good watch.

HOME ALONE 2: LOST IN NEW YORK

This is the movie that gets me more in the XMas mood, because I enjoy this sequel more than any other installment in the series. Very funny, and I like the thick plot.

Christmas Song of the Day

FELIZ NAVIDAD – This has always been my favourite Christmas song ever.