105: Sleepless in LazyTown (prod 111)

 

Filming in May 2004. Magnus must be tired, so he’s taking a nap in costume. Even heroes need rest.

 

Original airdate: August 19, 2004

Story by Adam Peltzman, Magnus Scheving

Written by Noah Zachary, Cole Louie, Magnus Scheving

Directed by Steve Feldman, 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, David Matthew Feldman, Julie Westwood, Amanda Maddock

Sleepless in LazyTown covers the importance of sleeping at the right time. In this case, if you don’t sleep for long enough, maybe Robbie Rotten will make a deal in a game of baseball that if he wins that a superhero leaves town.

The episode begins with.. Sportacus going to bed, thus resulting in a night-time title card. What a great way to start an episode, with the end of the day! Well, foreshadowing..

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Filming in June 2004. Super in character for Trixie.

Original airdate: November 11, 2004

Story by Magnus Scheving

Written by Noah Zachary, Cole Louie, 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 – Ronald Binion, Gudmondor Thor Karason, Jodi Eichelberger, David Matthew Feldman, Julie Westwood, Amanda Maddock, Sarah Burgess

My Treehouse is the last episode of LazyTown to air in 2004. From here and the rest of the season you can see a slight increase in quality.

The episode begins with Sportacus timing how long it takes for him to cartwheel and flip into the skutla – approx. 14 seconds. He says that this is too slow for saving people, so he tries again. Twelve seconds. Not much of an upgrade, but it’s improvement.

Sportacus visits town to see what the kids are doing, and they’re hiding in a treehouse – Ziggy, Stephanie, Trixie & Pixel. They’ve started a secret treehouse in fear that Stingy will hear about it and try and take it all for himself. He’s a young little boy, he can’t just take a treehouse.. then he takes the treehouse.

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Filming in March 2004. I bet Sportacus is thinking: ‘Oh, time to flip over that lazily covered trap and potentially fall inside instead of just fricking ignoring it!’

Original airdate: August 18, 2004

Story by Magnus Scheving, Mani Svavarrson

Written by Noah Zachary, Micheal Rabb, Magnus Scheving

Directed by Magnus Scheving, Steve Feldman

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, David Matthew Feldman, Julie Westwood, Amanda Maddock

Crystal Caper is the fourth episode of LazyTown. Sportacus’ crystal gets swiped and everyone in LazyTown is looking for it. With plot twists, you’ll never believe who took it, and you’ll never believe who “found” it!

The episode begins with Sportacus flipping his water bottle around then chugging it all up in two seconds. What a promising start. Anyways, after drinking it, Sportacus’ crystal beeps. That dang cat is up on the tree again. Sportacus saves him like usual, but what’s the best part is that he does a frontflip up in the air and grabs the tree branch, holds the cat with one hand then jumps off. Couldn’t he just have used a ladder..?

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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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

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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.