Fanfiction Research: Episode Notes

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Cry Dinosaur

"Light!" lights up lights on the floor one by one. Sportacus presses a little grey button in the wall that makes a high "Bing!". This starts a stopwatch on Rin's communication pod thing. Sportacus tries to touch all the floor lights as fast as he can.

Rin doesn't go off for the kids trapped in the tent, blinded and bashing into things-Sportacus can see them from way up in Rin and jumps down to help them.

Ziggy gets scared by his own balloon with a scary dinosaur face drawn on it. Sportacus recognized it as his. It also scares Robbie.

Ziggy is afraid of the dark.

Sportacus is apparently not afraid of anything. I call BS. Not heights or lightning or small hermit crabs with fur. Headcanon: Sportacus is afraid of failure, and losing loved ones. People would have died if not for him, and he takes that responsibility seriously.

"[Dinosaurs] are so big, they're like buildings with faces!" Ziggy, who believes dinosaurs still exist. "Then I guess I'm afraid of dinosaurs!" Sportacus.

Robbie gets his name right.

"I have to go!" Sportacus. Why? I reckon the kids would be happy to let him camp out with them.

Robbie bashes his finger on the periscope when he says "It's disguise time!"

Ziggy is easily jumpscared by Stingy.

Robbie blows a kiss to his regular clothes. Robbie is scared by his own dinosaur disguise.

"It's darker than I thought it would be!" I don't think he can see in there. "I forgot to turn off the TV." It's still hanging. He apologises when he knocks some spare parts over and says he'll clean it up later. Robbie has a little squeaky orange horn. "No wonder dinosaurs are extinct. They keep bumping into things!"

Stingy uses Piggy as a teddy bear. Guess what colour Stephanie's pillow and sleeping bag are. They are sleeping in their day clothes.

Stephanie and Stingy decide to scare Ziggy while he's trying to sleep. (The Spooky Song)

I'm guessing either it's before 8:08, or Robbie has forgotten all about that.

Rin went off over the kids' distress.

"Piggies and children first" Stingy

Stephanie was the only child Sportacus named.

Stephanie starts a pillow fight with the clawed creature... who is the Mayor under a blanket, with sticks of liquorice for them. "We've always got Uncle Milford just in case anything happens." Stephanie "I think I'd better go... pluck myself." The Mayor, covered in feathers. Note to self: wash your brain out.

"You can't have a camp-out inside!" Stingy Stephanie persuades Stingy to camp in with them because her room has more stuff in it.

Ziggy is licking a lollipop in bed.

Pressing the on switch on the pink base of the flower lamp on Stephanie's desk also lights the mirror lights. It is a "nightlight".

"If I can't see it, it can't get me." Ziggy, about the "dinosaur".

Even Stephanie and Stingy are a bit scared of the dark.

Robbie can apparently smell Sportacus. What does he smell like? (Headcanon: strawberries.) No, it's just the flowers in the Mayor's window box. How sweet. But Robbie's allergic to flowers, they make him sneeze. (Wait. That bunch of flowers he gets given in Ástin...)

Ziggy is courageous enough to poke Robbie in the butt with a tent pole. But his earlier distress didn't set off Rin...

"My Piggy needs his beauty sleep." Stingy

Given that the kids usually fall for Robbie's disguises, this must be terrifying for them! Stephanie chucks a duvet over the "dinosaur"'s head and runs away.

"Sportacus I just wanna give you a hug!" Robbie. Did the kids not hear him calling for Sportacus? (Is something going on here...)

"I hate running!" Robbie

"Don't worry, I'm coming Stephanie!" Mayor, when he sees the dinosaur.

"Being a villain is so exhausting!" Robbie

"Friends always stick together, even when they're scared!" Ziggy, who grabs the dinosaur's leg.

"Oh, thanks for saving me!" Stephanie hugs Sportacus.

Nobody is scared of Robbie when he puts his dinosaur head back on. Sportacus shakes his head at him as he walks off.

Stingy "Boo!" jumpscares Ziggy again.

Robbie has a triple-layer chocolate cake out and some kind of green cagey drink. He can't take off his dinosaur head.


There is a scene in my fanfic where Sportacus and the kids make him a bunch of flowers as a gift for him in hospital. One blue cornflower is used as a prop in a musical number. They decide not to give him chocolate for health reasons. But if they know he's allergic, that can't really happen... And in any case a lot of hospital wards ban flowers.

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Cool. I believe the title of this thread would better be more like:

The LazyTown Stories: Episode Notes

and the thread placed in the General LazyTown Episodes forum ?

You're not discussing FanFiction. That's why.

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Good idea Pooky, but there are times where I do discuss FanFiction, such as when I mention headcanons or OCs I've come up with, like Rin for instance.

Also, I need to preface this next set of notes by asking if you've all heard of COPPA. YouTube was recently sued for collecting personal data cookies from children, and now they're punishing us for it. Of course LazyTown is children's content.
I make these notes with YouTube videos Bado Innos and Glitchtastic Plays (RIP that channel) are kind enough to put up, and I'm now worried that Bado Innos's videos are going to get taken down by January 2020, and I physically can't watch the rest of the episodes in that time. There are many other things to do.
I'm worried this series will never be finished, and I'll have to write the fanfiction with incomplete research. I'm sorry for taking Bado Innos and Glitch for granted.

-Time To Learn-

"Door opening." Rin's speaker pod screen is silver.

Sky chaser deployment time: 8 seconds

Sportacus has a skateboard just lying around outside.

"Well done." Rin, after the ball bounces into a holder on the cupboard. (Is there another one in Sportacus's belt if he needs it?) Was she able to watch him playing outside?

Again, Robbie claps twice and a blackboard drops down with an evil plan already on it. "I have finally figured out why my plots never work! I haven't been using enough sugar apples!" Robbie.

He knows 1+1=2. But he can't double 2.

"Hi Robbie!" Stephanie. She doesn't sound suspicious or wary or anything like that. She is skipping to school, sounding friendly.

The logo on Stephanie's blazer is a gold shield, one half red, the other half blue, with a white chicken and a gold banner saying "LazyTown". Stephanie didn't even need to think to say that 2=2=4.

"I think school's for everybody. (not just kids) You can always learn something new." Stephanie. She has a backpack with her name on it and 2 flowers on the back.

"Nope, I'm a villain. I don't need to go to school." Robbie He claps twice and the blackboard goes back up. Headcanon; He's 34 or 35 years old in this episode.

If Stephanie saw the drawings of Sportacus, including one where he's passed out, she doesn't say anything.

Robbie stamps on the floor once with his right foot and a lever unfolds up. Pulling it sends him down an underground pipe into his lair from the roof.

Robbie's lair has a doorbell. The postman sounds male. (Male. Mail. Lol.) Post rains through the same roof pipe Robbie entered from. "I love getting the mail!" Robbie He has a lot of bills. Is it things like electricity and water, or does his lair have bills too?

"Villain's Digest" magazine has Roboticus, a dog in a black mask, a purple Snow Monster, a Spartan or Roman soldier and a blue hooded character on it. Also the sound effects "BANG" and "ÚFF". There is a "White Wash" washing machine advert on the back. "The Top 10 Villains In The World! I must be Number 1!" Robbie. Foreshadowing? #1 is a dog. The drawings of villains #2-#9 are quite creepy. They are normal-looking people. Robbie is #10. Sportacus's number. But look on the bright side, there must be a lot of villains in the world, so to make number 10...

Important question; does Richard read Villain's Digest? Headcanon: Robbie has an older brother called Richard, and they've been estranged for years. Richard could use Villain's Digest to find him. Or one of his family members could notice that there is someone in the magazine who looks a lot like Richard. (who is taller than Robbie, with blue eyes) Richard who would recognise his brother when they show him. (But spoiler alert; there is a subplot where they reunite)

Robbie doesn't dial a number when calling Villain's Digest.

Why has Robbie never been to school?! Then I could chalk some of his personality up to being a bullied loner type. And how does going to school make you a better villain? Isn't it a bad thing to skive school? Or to encourage people to do so?
"Everyone has to finish school. Even villains! Don't you know that? School is for everyone!" Villain's Digest guy

"Hello handsome!" Robbie, to his usual clothes. He strikes a fancy pose as he pulls the lever. There is nothing obscuring "Biff's" face, but he is wearing a hat.

Seating plan, from front-left (on-screen) to back-right; Stephanie, Ziggy, Pixel, Trixie, Biff and Stingy. All the desks say "A" on them for some reason.

"Biff" looks shy and wary when the kids all say "Welcome!"

Ms Busybody has some sports candy on her desk. She is teaching today.

They accept new kids on the last day of school?

Of course Robbie is a bad student, using ripped-out exercise book paper to throw paper aeroplanes in Ms Busybody's hair and stealing Stingy's gold coin to throw it at the bell to end the lesson. Stingy admires his money in class. It seemed to come from a yellow lunchbox.

"You can't bring cake to school!" Stingy, to "Biff". Robbie eats a massive quadruple-layer slice of cake and is still hungry.

"Are you talking to me?" Ziggy, when "Biff" asks for Candy Boy. "Biff" is so hungry that he'd ask for a banana. (Has he ever had banana cake? Probably.) But he doesn't know how to eat it. Ziggy has to teach him. "Biff" looks a bit disgusted before trying to eat the peel. "That is not right." Pixel

Bessie spends break talking on the phone.

Robbie throws the rest of the banana out of the window when Ziggy says it's his favourite sports candy, but doesn't spit the rest out.

When the kids ask "Biff" if he wants to come outside and play with them, he thinks a bit before saying he has a cold. "Poor Biff!" Ziggy "I hope you feel better, Biff." Stingy "See ya Biff!" Pixel. The kids are worried about him. I'm pretty sure it's illegal for a teacher to leave a child alone in a classroom...

Robbie draws a caricature of Bessie with a paper plane through her hair. He then pranks Bessie by ringing the bell, then taking the hinges out of the door. (which he holds open for the kids) The danger of the Mayor falling over the hingeless door and landing with his head in a bin passes, so it's probably everyone's distress that sets Rin off. Sky chaser deployment time: 7 seconds

There is an armchair in the classroom. Robbie braces away, scared, when Sportacus flips in. Robbie looks nervous after the save, straightening his blazer. "Who are you?" Sportacus, to "Biff". "Hi I'm Bob." Robbie "I thought your name was Biff!" Ziggy

Sportacus got the apple energy really quickly. Apparently digestion takes over 20 minutes. "Energy supply excellent." Rin, when Sportacus checks his bracer. "This is not cool!" "Biff", towards Pixel. "Remember to study hard!" Sportacus

"Your teacher, Ms Busybody..." Mayor

"Biff" fell asleep really quickly, despite all the kids' chatter. Trixie recognises that "Biff" is wearing fake open-eyes glasses. "It's just a trick!" He wakes up when she takes them off.

"I've never studied in my life!" "Biff" Stephanie is the first to offer to help "Biff".

Ziggy thinks 4+4=3

Is "Biff"'s electric guitar playing some kind of reference? "4x4 is 91" "Biff" was holding "16" upside down. He doesn't like studying.

If the kids fail this big test, they have to go back to school over the summer.

Either "Biff" forgot that that was Ziggy's seat, or he needs to sit there to cheat.

The end of year test is 20 minutes and 4 questions long. The test starts about 2 o'clock, I think. The clock has 4 dots in between single lines representing 12 and 3.

Everyone believed there was "an elephant outside with wings!"
Something Robbie Rotten is not above; switching his test with Stephanie's and switching their names so that he passes with full marks and flying colours and she completely fails. He can sign his disguise name in black, and since Stephanie was using a red pen, forged her signature with one. The S in it is swirly.

"The first thing I'm going to do (on his summer holiday) is wake up. Then I'm going to have breakfast." Mayor

Stephanie is really clever and top of the class. "Ah, Stephanie." Her uncle smiles when Bessie addresses her. Everyone is surprised when they hear Stephanie has got an F. Her distress sets off Rin. Sportacus can probably see Stephanie from where she's crying outside.

"Stephanie's always on top of her studies!" Pixel
Trixie recognizes Robbie's forgery because "[Stephanie] always puts hearts over her i's!"

Even Sportacus is surprised to hear Stephanie failed the maths test. (or so they think) "I know you're really good at math!" Test questions; 5+5=10 3x4=12 144/6=(I had to think about this, I know it's 12 squared) 24 If Xx12=72, (darn algebra) what is x? 6. (Had to give it some thought again)

The "Step" in Stephanie's signature is joined up, but the rest is not. Apart from the heart, Robbie was actually really close.

Stephanie suspects that "Biff" was the one who cheated. Because he was so badly behaved? (Going to school disguised as a child at 34? The legal implications!)

Where was Stephanie's mask? Her blazer pockets were in shot, but she didn't reach into them. She doesn't seem to be wearing a bag. Headcanon: She inherited some magic from her pink-haired elf father, and can sometimes summon things.

The sports centre, a slide and a goalpost are in the background of the phone box.

The kids are angry at "Biff" for cheating. "Really? I cheated?" He can't think of an excuse and runs away. Talk about karma; that was the banana skin he threw out (Chekhov's Gun) AND Stephanie's skateboard he slipped on. We didn't see Rin go off for Robbie's danger and everyone's distress, perhaps that was off screen. Sportacus still saves "Biff" and catches him in his arms. He then puts him down, and "Biff" thanks him. "Thank you, thank you!"

"Robbie Rotten!" The kids are angry. "Robbie, you shouldn't cheat! It never pays off!" Ziggy Sportacus looks disappointed, like Robbie should have known better? "Studying always pays off!" Sportacus

There is a derpy sad face on the indigo metallic bucket Robbie falls into.

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Apology accepted, Glitch. I understand why you did it. I just pray nothing happens to Bado Innos... I can hope.

Let me tell you more about Rin. (Responsive Intelligent Network) July this year I took part in "Camp NaNoWriMo", and asked some "cabin mate" forum members questions about problems I'd found in my fanfiction and things I wanted second opinions on. One or more of these questions were about Rin.
If you ask me, Robbie Rotten is not completely bad, but not completely good either. Rin has experienced Robbie Rotten at his worst. There are incidents throughout the show where he tries to crash her. He takes advantage of her and uses her for evil schemes. While writing Rin, she developed a personality and spirit of her own, and those incidents must have been terrifying and traumatizing for her. I'm even worried that though it wasn't literal, he might have done something horrible to her which I don't think I can talk about on here. (but it rhymes with grape) And people who do that are usually considered beyond redemption, at least by readers. And I'm sorry if it sounds like I'm taking the perpetrator's side, but I want people to feel sympathy for Robbie in the fanfiction because of things that happen, but that's near impossible if he's done that. But I can't pretend these incidents never happened, they featured in the show and are therefore canon. So what do I do? Would you like to give me some advice?

I have drafted flashbacks in the fanfiction where Rin remembers how she got hijacked. I want readers to know why she doesn't like Robbie Rotten and doesn't want him anywhere near her.

The next one will probably be Little Pink Riding Hood. That has another incident with Rin, I've watched it before but didn't make any notes. I did draft a flashback of it into the fanfic though.

-Friends Forever-

"A new day, a new move!" Sportacus He has a calendar with 5 days on it. (from Nausikaa?) Day 3 (Wednesday?) is press-ups, according to the blue silhouette behind the numbered sunshine pinned in front. "Flying push up? With a twist? That's never been done before..." Sportacus. Where does he read that information? Just that little silhouette? It looked like a normal push-up.

Stephanie can paint. It's a sign with 4 dancing child silhouettes. A picture of the kids and their treehouse is on the left post above the wall.

By sticking her thumb and pointy finger in her mouth, Stephanie can whistle loud enough for the other children to hear.

Pixel's binoculars analyse everything in the "Sports Park."

The kids are now the "Friends Forever Club", I think.

In the Sports Park; There are three buckets on upright log chunks, each further away from the other. From furthest to closest: "100"(orange), "50" (blue), "10" (pink). The numbers are in red with white shadows. You have to knock them down with a yellow rope with a pink covered weight on each end.

The loudspeakers' volume is at 8. Robbie was sleeping under a small purple blanket with a white (cow?) patch outlined in orange.

Next in the Sports Park; the "Power Slammer." Like one of those strength test thing you get at fairgrounds. You can tell Stephanie painted it; it's pink with orange notches and half a flower on the side of the base. The hammer is long and really heavy.

How Sportacus finds the trouble; he hears Stephanie screaming. "Argh! Saving, saving, saving! How annoying!" Robbie

The hammer has pink under the metal part and on the end. Stephanie must have painted that too.

The Sports Park has parking spaces for both Stingy's car and his trailer.

"I could barely lift (the hammer)" Stephanie

Sportacus pulls 2 carrots and an apple from a backpack.

Of course Stingy claims the Sports Park is his.

The bucket-hitting game is called "Hit the Can." "Mini Bowling"; Like a bowling alley becomes a pink and orange crazy golf round. "The Hand Walker;" Like monkey bars but with only one ladder anchoring it to the ground. Pink and orange again. "A hand walker! I've never tried that before." "I love to try new things!" Sportacus From when he reached his hand to the first bar, Sportacus did the Hand Walker in 20 seconds. He swung his legs into the air on the last 2 bars.

Stingy wants the prize without even knowing what the contest is. Or the prize.

Rin is accessible to anyone other than Sportacus by tickets. They are blue and shiny with a shining crystal case picture. Sportacus gave one to Stephanie. Why? Where exactly does he get them from? "Going to the airship would be my dream!" Ziggy

Is it just me, or did Sportacus sound like he was in quite a rush to leave?

WHY IS ROBBIE BLOWING UP A BLUE BALLOON?! That's Sportacus's colour! He has no difficulty blowing it up. Can Rin hear Robbie announce his evil plan to sink her, FOREVER! by letting all her air out? Is she scared? Does Robbie know she's alive, in a sense?

"Too big," Robbie, about the Mayor's disguise. He has a mini version of his usual outfit. He strikes a fancy pose when pulling the disguise lever. Does it only remove the disguise closer to the piano? The disguise's parachute opens when leaving the tube. "Lazy Town, get ready to shake!" He does a shaky dance move on "shake".

Because Stephanie knocked over 2 pins in Mini Bowling, a red flag with a yellow "2" pops up. from an orange mechanism nect to the tunnel.

"Playing with friends is so much fun!" Trixie

Robbie sticks his tongue out in between "blue" and "airship!" He's made a nice Shaking Cup for the kids-but abuses it for an evil plan. Robbie has made 10 purple counterfeit tickets, and the crystal case design is simplified. Can Rin hear this conversation? Can she monitor her own danger values? "I'm just gonna LOCK IT!" Robbie Ziggy looks a bit worried before he says; "Justforsafety." Stephanie was disappointed because they were in the middle of her contest."But guys, remember? Friends Forever?" I don't think she's suspicious of the Shaking Cup Man yet. Even when he snatches her ticket off her. Pulling the lever further down makes it go faster. There are 4 dots on the side that get bigger and purpler further down.

"I had a glass of milk this morning!" Trixie

Can Rin sense Robbie approach her with the tickets? "Sportacus, here I come!" Robbie gets his name right. "This is high!" Robbie, about the ladder. Rin's door was open. I think she and Sportacus left it that way so one of the kids could come in. But I don't think it was open in that shot of the ladder. Robbie was out of breath after climbing it.

Sportacus is happy to see a new visitor. "Who are you?" "I was expecting one of the kids!" Sportacus "It worked!" Robbie. I'm pretty sure Rin can hear him. I don't think she can speak without being spoken to yet, so she can't tell Sportacus that this is really Robbie Rotten.

"Water!" Rin opens the hatch containing the water bottle and throws it to Sportacus. Robbie was standing in the way and has to duck. "No, but I have SPORTS CANDY!" Sportacus, when Robbie asks if he has any chocolate. Rin throws them an apple. Sportacus bounces it off his bicep. Robbie gags after sipping some water.

Jumping on a grey spherical pump on the door side of the cockpit fills Rin with air and makes her go higher. There is a whooshing sound afterwards. Does leaving the door open mess with the cabin pressure? Do neither of them have altitude sickness? (I think that's impossible for Sportacus.) Rin sways a bit as she rises. "Air supply increasing." There is a sound waveform on the speaker pod when Rin speaks.

By stepping on a floor button, a turning wheel rises from the floor. "Air out!" Sportacus. I don't think that was an actual voice command. Turning the wheel clockwise opens air hatches in Rin's red balloons. They open by flipping to the right. They are metallic with crystal case logos on them. "And close!" Probably not a voice command either, since Sportacus was turning the wheel anticlockwise. Rin sways as the air goes out. "Air supply stabilized." Rin, after her air hatches close. Her voice sounds kind of electronic.

"But we're friends forever! And friends stick together." Stephanie

"Telescope!" Sportacus The telescope shoots out of a hole in the wall between the kitchen and the sports equipment cupboard. Sportacus's telescope can zoom in- first it showed a section of the town, then a close-up of the kids.

The turning wheel has not gone down. Is there a command for that?

“Yes! While Sportacus is rescuing those kids from the cup, I can sink the airship, FOREVER! " Robbie. Rin had to have heard that. Is she terrified for her life? Robbie lets all the air out, Rin sways, Sportacus loses his balance and COULD HAVE FALLEN TO HIS DEATH IF HE HADN'T GRABBED A RUNG ON RIN'S FIN. (But has he jumped straight out of the airship before?) Robbie could have manslaughtered Sportacus.

"Air supply: 10 minutes." Rin. (There are about 9 minutes of the episode left.) Her voice has a sort of high-pitched echo to it. After opening the air hatches, Rin has enough air for 10 minutes. She is lowering parallel to the ground. "5 minutes." Rin No echo this time It's been about 1 or 2 minutes.

Ziggy was the first person Stephanie saved, Stingy was the last.

Ziggy recognizes Sportacus's telescope. From the ground, Sportacus's telescope can zoom into a close up of the bottom of Rin's fin. Sportacus is hanging onto a thin horizontal blue rail on it.

"So is the Shaking Cup Man!" (in trouble) Trixie She has great eyesight-she wasn't using the telescope. But Rin is descending.

"Sportacus, hang on!" He can hear Stephanie calling from the ground.

Swinging the weighted rope around makes Ziggy lose his balance. The other four kids holding his legs stabilizes him.

Sportacus can stand on Rin's fin, one foot on the rail, the other on the fin.

"1 minute". Rin (It's been 2 or 3 minutes)

The rope has a lot of knots in it.

"It's so high!" Stingy

The weight on the rope can fit through the rail on the door.

Why doesn't Robbie want Sportacus to save him? "Don't do that!" Robbie

The kids can watch Rin, Sportacus and Robbie from the ground.

"30 seconds" (1-2 minutes)

Instead of an apple, you originally had to hit a red ball on the Power Slammer.

Stephanie gets the carrot energy very quickly after just one bite off the end. Before, she couldn't get the hammer very far off the ground. It's enough to lift the entire hammer and send the entire apple flying up to Sportacus. Who gets his apple energy quickly too.

"Air supply empty." Rin (~1 minute) "In 10 seconds. 9... (countdown lasting about 13 seconds)"

Sportacus gives Robbie the apple he'd taken bites out of. He drops it in disgust, he could see the bite.

"Air supply empty. Warning! Airship falling. Falling! Falling!" Rin is sounding an alarm. She is in danger of crashing into the Town Hall and being speared by the flagpole, but that is below her hull. Headcanon: Maybe Ms Busybody and the Mayor are currently in the Town Hall and don't know they're about to be crashed on? That would raise the stakes. And even so, Sportacus and Robbie are in danger of injury and maybe even death.

Closing the air hatches makes Rin stop in mid-air. Rin's 3rd traumatization. "Air supply stabilized" Rin, after Sportacus pumps air back into her.

There is a crystal case on the chassis where Rin's pedals are. Pulling a lever brake up on Sportacus's right releases the cockpit.

Robbie lands from quite a high height into the shaking Shaking Cup with a ripped parachute and not much injury. Just dizzy. Sportacus turns the cup off for him. There's a flashing amber light on the side of the Shaking Cup's control box. "Is (the Shaking Cup Man) okay?" Stephanie

"Oh that man!" Ziggy, after Robbie Rotten is revealed. Sportacus sighs, folding his arms and shaking his head.

"Guys, you saved me this time. Thanks." Sportacus. "And Stephanie saved all of us!" Trixie "What are friends for?" Stephanie

The kids all put their right hands in the middle and go "Friends Forever!"

Is Robbie dancing to Bing Bang or just shaking?

Robbie's parachute gets stuck in an upper roof pipe.

Headcanon: Rin printed off 5 tickets for each of the children to say thank you. Maybe at some point during Ástin, the Shaking Cup becomes an official part of the Sports Park.

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Right now I'm watching all the episodes I consider most important in case something happens.

"Little Pink Riding Hood" probably scared Rin (the airship) the most because of what Robbie Rotten was able to do to her. I think I might have her cry afterwards.

-Little Pink Riding Hood-

Rin reckons Sportacus can't powerlift a weight with 5 watermelons on each end. "The surprise is; that you can't lift it." The speaker pod screen is blue.

A pear shoots out of a circular white hole in the wall which opens vertically. Sportacus didn't finish the pear, only two bites, before asking for a grape, which shot out of what looks like the one the toothbrush comes out of, but I think there's another one next to that. Wasteful...

"Energy level; high." Rin can measure Sportacus's energy levels. Sportacus's left-hand bracer has a compass in it. He's facing north-east while facing Rin's window. There is also a rainbow energy meter to the left, with a red circle being lowest and a dark blue rectangle being highest. The screen in the middle also shows this meter, which is flashing through all the colours. There are 3 buttons below the screen. What do they do? Decoration? When closing the bracer, 2 halves of a white S on a dark blue background slide together horizontally, the top half coming from the right and the bottom from the left.

"I thought that was impossible." It's official; Rin can think. And she was wrong; Sportacus can lift 10 watermelons on a pole after a grape and 2 bites of a pear.

Today is "Surprise Day". The kids have made him a lovely toy airship made of sports candy; the "Sports Candy Flyer". It has plastic fins and fans and is that a camera?

"I love Surprise Day!" Ziggy That navy blue captain's hat is Ziggy's anyway, judging by the golden Z in the laurel wreath.

One of Pixel's TVs has vertical coloured bars going up and down.

The Sports Candy Flyer is on some kind of blue stand.

Stingy's yellow checklist has gold coins on the back.

Pixel can activate the "Mini Flyer" remotely from his computer. "I'm connecting the remote for the Mini Flyer. Engines on! Flight Mode... started!" There are 4 dials in front of his keyboard, smallest on the left and biggest on the right. Pixel controls the Mini Flyer with a joystick. "Stabilizing thrusters!"

It has a "Sports Candy Dropper". When Pixel presses a red rectangular button on the back of the joystick, a grape drops from the Flyer's fin.

Yes, the Mini Flyer has a camera. "Stephanie, look at your screen." Pixel He's referring to the one in the back of her extremely kawaii bag. She unlocks it by drawing an S on it as "Bing Bang" plays electronically. It can do a camera feed. The camera is on the front. "So [Stephanie] can see whatever's in front of it." Pixel.

Ziggy's hat is a bit too big for him and keeps sliding into his eyes.

Robbie is good at drawing evil plans. It's glowing bright orange inside his microwave.

"Where is that blue shmoo?!" So Robbie can knock him out with a sugar apple and then send him away, FOREVER!

Robbie can hear the kids talking in Pixel's house from the periscope at a nearby fence. The eyes on the periscope can move.

When Trixie asks for the map, Pixel uses his keyboard to turn the sofa over so its back faces the ceiling. “Couch servers; activate! Map turning over!” A blue 3D net model turns over on Pixel's computer. The whole screen is blue, the battery is full, and the sofa is labelled with 4 rapidly changing 5-6 digit numbers. Long numbers are in the background. The kids are amazed to see a giant screen on the back displaying a map of Lazy Town. "Wow!" "Great huh?" Pixel
The map can zoom in and display Stephanie's icon, with a pink sonar effect. The zoomed in map moves to the forest, where Sportacus's icon is waiting with an icon of Rin to his right. A dotted line appears line by line to her down the main forest path. It traces the route Stephanie will take. A beeping noise is made after the path forms, while Sportacus's icon radiates blue circles. The icon turns round a few times quickly and then he is blindfolded. There is only one tree on the visible map, on top of the path, to the far left. "Sportacus will be waiting in Lazy Grove, near the treehouse, blindfolded!" Trixie The map travels back to Stephanie's icon quicker than it went to the forest. "And then ruuun back here!" Trixie

"I will follow the pink girl into the woods." Robbie. Insert Into the Woods reference. "She'll give it to Sportaflop bidibidibeep!" Robbie flaps his hands and fingers like a bird on "Sportaflop" and then mimics his crystal. "And then, I'll get rid of him, FOREVER!" Has he thought about how? Has he thought past tricking Sportacus with a fake apple? There are two microwaves in the left of the lair, both glowing orange inside. Robbie claps twice and the billboard rises up offscreen. He spins round and the Big Bad Wolf disguise spins down out of its tube on the far-left and onto him. The wolf head is unattached to the rest of the fursuit. (This disguise got people wondering if Robbie's a furry)

"Because if we all go, Sportacus might see us!" Trixie, when Ziggy asks why Stephanie has to deliver the Mini Flyer gift alone. "My SkyCam will follow her the whooole way. Then we can see her and talk to her!" Pixel, about a remote-controlled UFO camera with "pixel" on it, in the same font as his shirt. "Then we'll be able to warn [Stephanie] if something happens!" (Trixie)

"Sportacus, you've got mail." Rin It shoots up from a circular hole in the floor. The blindfold Stephanie sent Sportacus is the same one he wore when he was lifting the watermelon dumbbell. "I love surprises!" Sportacus

Does pressing a circular silver button on the right of the cockpit get Rin's fans turning? They are reddish-brown in the centre.

North of Lazy Town, there is nothing we haven't seen on the title screen except more fields and mountains.

The kids are dancing to Stephanie singing "Life Can Be A Surprise"-they can probably hear her through the camera, displaying on one of Pixel's computers.

The Mayor is giving a speech on one of his TVs.

I've discovered "Life Can Be A Surprise" can be mashed up with THREE other songs if you slow it down a little; "Teenage Dream" by Katy Perry, "Red Lights" by Tiёsto and "Rewrite the Stars" by Zac Efron and Zendaya.

Except for 2 sunflowers, Stephanie's bouquet is different shades of pink. Did she pick them in the forest?

Stephanie can fly in the sky. She's wearing her mask. Is it the prize; imagination?

She's wearing the same outfit Julianna Rose Mauriello did in Snow Monster, except she's wearing the jacket from Who's Who under the gilet.

She thinks of her friends as cartoon faces. (the newer style)

Sometimes she has the hood up, sometimes she doesn't.

Lazy Town and the forest are connected by a wall with a gate. There are rocks and logs on the forest floor as well as greenery. Have some of the trees been cut down?

She wears Julianna's cooking outfit in Swiped Sweets.

Sunflowers grow on bushes and on the ground.

There are bits of pale pink on the microphone.

Other things on Pixel's computers; scrolling text in 3 rounded boxes under shapes, a floppy cube cross and a 3D model of Rin. There's a heck ton of wires behind the sofa. A thick yellow one and a lot of thinner red, blue and yellow ones. One of them was the sound cable connected to the SkyCam. Stephanie is still dancing when the others lose the sound. "Sing like nobody's listening!", it looks like. On Pixel's TVs there are 3D models of his house, his name logo and a shiny infinity-shaped blob. Looks like we lost sound for the last chorus.

"Door opening." Rin's speaker screen is silver, not blue.

Pixel trusts Ziggy over Trixie and Stingy to hold the remote if Pixel tells him not to mess with it. "Stephanie needs us! Oh, I promised I'd keep an eye on her!" Pixel Ziggy can see the SkyCam feed on the remote. "I'm the captain of Surprise Day!"

There are tulips growing in the forest, including a blue one? The trees are round. Ivy is growing on half of one. Looks like it lost the top half a while ago.

"Why can't [Stephanie] stop!" Robbie, so he can put a sugar apple in her basket.

"I'm really good at flying [the Mini Flyer!]" Ziggy

One of the tree stumps looks cut.

"I can't let the pink girl get away!" Robbie There is an orange arrow sign with a red border and a picture of the treehouse on it, pointing right. On the other side is a red flower and a yellow one. Robbie flips it around to make Stephanie get lost in the forest, which could be dangerous (Robbie Rotten aside).

The treehouse looks like one in Lazy Town, but there are no leaves above it. Where did it come from?

Rin's back side fins can retract in when landing. The fans fold behind each other. Rin lands on a tiny hill in a clearing with sunflowers, sunflower bushes and stones. Her speaker screen is silver. "Door opening" When Sportacus says "Door!" There are logs and uprooted trees on the hill, along with short sunflowers and tufts of long grass.

"Now which way to Lazy Grove? Oh! The treehouse is that way!" Stephanie reads the sign with the flowers.

Pixel moves the SkyCam by moving the entire remote. Trying to get up, the SkyCam makes little whirring noises. Under Pixel's desk is a large tangle of wires.

"Wait... this isn't the right direction." Stephanie knows the way to Lazy Grove.

Sportacus stretches his arms while sitting waiting on Rin's open door. Is there a command to close it? Can she sense Robbie Rotten approaching, and is she scared? Can she hear him?

Robbie ducks down behind a bush as the Big Bad Wolf and comes straight back up as himself. "With the VoiceChanger 6000, I’ll fool Sportacus into taking a bite of this sugar apple!" A voice-changing machine looking like false teeth. There is a purple dial with a black top and a white line with 6 different settings on the top, from left to right; Ziggy, Sportacus, Bessie, Mayor, Stingy and Stephanie (Julianna). How did he make this? Could Rin hear what he said? Knocking back the teeth towards his mouth like it's a shot changes Robbie's voice. This could be dangerous. And could be used for identity fraud and theft... Robbie has a gold tooth (front right).

Robbie was right in front of Sportacus when he got up from crawling, a little to the left, and may have got a close view of his crotch.

To change his voice, Robbie has to take the teeth out of his mouth to change his voice back to normal, change the dial to the one he wants, and knock it back again. (Is the dial comfortable in there?...) Could Sportacus not hear him say "Wrong voice!" Could Rin? Sportacus is not suspicious when "Stephanie" angrily shouts "NOW!" at him. Just apologetic-looking. Robbie regrets it as soon as he yells, knowing Stephanie would never behave like that.

Rin can talk independently now, can't she?. Why doesn't she say something like; "SPORTACUS, PUT DOWN THAT APPLE RIGHT NOW, THAT IS A SUGAR APPLE AND THAT IS ROBBIE ROTTEN WHO GAVE IT TO YOU. He's pretending to be Stephanie." Inside the fake apple it is red and pink swirly, with a gooey red centre.

Pulling the teeth out of your mouth gets your normal voice back.

On swinging Sportacus's legs up and rolling him through the door, Robbie can see his rear end.

"The sign's facing the wrong direction!" Pixel

"Closet opening." Rin, when Robbie leans on a small silver circle button next to it. The translucent doors open horizontally. There is a spare Sportacus suit standing inside, between the door and the window. "Well you won't need that anymore!" Robbie

"And now Sportafloppy voice." Rin should definitely hear that. "Airship, fly anywhere in 5 minutes!" Robbie, in Sportacus's voice. The pod screen is silver. “Airship preparing for takeoff.” Rin. This is so dangerous, and must be frightening for Rin. Now Robbie Rotten has full control of her, and can make her do anything he wants. The speaker pod screen is blue. Robbie laughs. "It works!" Pointing at the speaker pod, which changes from blue to silver 2 seconds after Rin finishes talking. Must have some kind of sleep mode.

After just one press, Robbie works out what the wardrobe button does. "Closet closing." Rin The spare suit fits him, but he's considerably taller and thinner than Sportacus. So how? Magic? And did the smell and feel of Robbie's Sportacus disguise rile him up a bit?

Stephanie is outside. Is that why Rin doesn't tell her what's going on? She wouldn't be able to hear her?

"Bed coming down. But Sportacus, it's not 8:08". Rin, after Robbie says "Bed" and she is unfolding it accordingly. Note how she addresses him as Sportacus, but probably saw what Robbie Rotten did and where the real Sportacus is. (Headcanon; She has hidden cameras and microphones in this room.) Rin knows what the time is, or can see the daytime sky outside.

The 3D model shapes above the 3 text boxes on Pixel's bottom computer are; from left to right; an orange, a banana and an apple.

"Why is [Sportacus]" already in bed?" Pixel Stephanie looks suspicious, but that could be because "Sportacus" is in bed in broad daylight.

There is a sort of silver and blue-ringed button inside Rin's door section, on the left. What does it do?

"Is that really Sportacus? Pixel, zooming in.

"Why is your chin so big?" Stephanie "That’s so my chin can point in the right direction!” "Sportacus" "But why is your voice different?" "But why are your teeth so big?" Can Stephanie see his gold tooth?

“No! You’re not Sportacus!” When Robbie tries to snatch the surprise basket off her. The other kids are confused too. "What's going on?" Ziggy "This is strange" Stingy

Rin says "Closet opening" and "Closet closing" every time someone presses the button. Why doesn't she tell Stephanie about the security breach, now that she's inside? Because she thinks Robbie Rotten is Sportacus?

"Something really weird is going on here." Stephanie. "There's something weird going on there." Pixel Robbie's disguise isn't completely effective, maybe because he's behaving out of character. Or he didn't make the disguise himself? And where did he get the fake moustache from? Plot twist; Sportacus's moustache was fake all along.

“Sportacus, you need to send your guest home now. We’re about to take off. Destination: anywhere.” Does Rin know Stephanie's name? And it's been about 2 and a half minutes. Rin's back top fins move as far forward as they can go and retract out. Rin's launch makes the ground a bit windy. She rises off the ground, back fans still lined up behind each other. "Door closing in 5... 4..." Rin The door is the second of 3 metallic blob sections, on the left when facing the window from outside.

There is CCTV footage of Lazy Town on Pixel's TV next to the Mayor giving a speech.

"What are you doing?!" Robbie, when Stephanie runs out the door as Rin is taking off. She probably alerted the crystal, but it was in the wardrobe where nobody could hear it. I'm guessing Robbie's suit doesn't have a spare crystal. He dashes after her to the door. "Where did she go?!" Is he worried about her? She could have fallen to her death if she hadn't grabbed the SkyCam in time, or been crushed by the door.

"No I cannot read lips!" Trixie

Plugging 2 thickish yellow wires together turns the sound back on.

Pixel turns on the Mini Flyer's camera by typing into his computer keyboard. A 3D model of it appears, broadcasting waves from a tiny antenna on the top. It's labelled with numbers like the sofa. The joystick controller folds up from the left side of the desk. "Wow." Ziggy

"Door opening. Closet opening" (but Robbie pressed the button that time) "Airship flying out of control!" Rin. Why? She was commanded to fly anywhere in 5 minutes. I reckon the ambiguity of "anywhere" caused her circuits and decision-making software to malfunction. Sportacus would usually command her to fly to a specific location.

"Check your screen." Pixel, about Stephanie's bag screen. "I knew something was wrong." Stephanie, after seeing 2 Sportaci on the camera feed. "One of them has the blindfold we gave him, but his crystal is glowing red, which means he doesn't have any energy!" Pixel It's also making a high pitched UFO sort of noise. "There's nothing about that on the checklist!" (which is blue) Stingy "Can anyone stick to the plan?!"

"Platform going down" Rin, after "Sportacus" says "I just wanna go down!" Robbie screams after seeing how high up he is.

"Calculating trajectory of airship and final co-ordinates are..." Pixel types on his keyboard. There are 3D models of Rin and his house, and an arrow lengthening and joining the two. 3 numbers label the arrow. "Pixel's house!" Rin must be moving on a straight sort of path, without veering anywhere. Now the kids are in danger of being crashed into and killed. Is Rin terrified?

"We need to know what's going on outside! Activating outdoor cameras!" Pixel types again. 4 CCTV cameras on the front of his house fold out to face the front, and the big satellite dish moves upwards. A smaller one to the left of the aerials moves to the front. The CCTV cameras can move and zoom in, and the top-left lens looks like the iris of an eye, blue then orange. It says "pixel" in yellow in the bottom right corner of the front side with the camera.

"But Sportacus is the only one who could stop the airship!" Stephanie "But he's in a sugar meltdown!" Ziggy knows who the real one is. Trixie is the one who remembers the Mini Flyer's "Sports Candy Dropper", and that they could use it to revive Sportacus. A 3D model of the Mini Flyer is displayed on the back of the sofa, with 0s and 1s in the blue grid background, which changes to a picture of it, zooming in on the dropper, which gets labelled with a picture of a bunch of red grapes labelled with numbers. (What do these numbers mean?) How did that sequence get activated? Is it commanded by Trixies's voice?

The Mini Flyer has 2 little fans on the top back sides. "We only have 3 grapes left!" There is 1 on the left fin and 2 on the right fin when looking at the Mini Flyer from the front.

"The airship's rocking too much!" Pixel. But not enough to veer away from Pixel's house.

Stephanie's mask is in the front pocket of her bag. But it wasn't there before.

Now there is a treehouse in the middle of the forest, away from the clearing. Two of them? There's a rope hanging from this one.

Stephanie can throw a lasso high up so it lands around Rin's platform. “Okay guys! I’m holding the airship steady!” Headcanon; SHE'S 9 YEARS OLD. I think she used some magic. Rin is pulled back and stopped.

Pixel puts his goggles on for the last grape. He slides them down with his left hand. The same one controlling the joystick.

Rin must be relieved to have Sportacus revived, but she's still in danger of crashing at the moment, so she's still scared?

Stephanie could hold Rin steady for under a minute before letting go.

Why doesn't Rin call for help?

Robbie throws his Voice Changer machine away from the platform. Does it break on landing?

"Crash in 9..." Rin displays a countdown from 9 to a tenth of a second on her speaker screen in thick white numbers. I think she calculated that.

WHY DON'T THE KIDS EVACUATE PIXEL'S HOUSE?!

"This is the end of Robbie Rotten! (screams, then) What have I done?" He is regretful and remorseful?

Rin sounds really calm. Is that because it's an automatic sort of speech?

Is that the handbrake lever Sportacus just pulled up?

"Save me!" Robbie

It took Sportacus some effort to pull Rin up to safety. Rin is probably relieved after this. "Crash avoided." Rin's 4th and worst traumatization.

Stingy was hiding behind his clipboard.

Robbie screams a Wilhelm scream. "Opening outer doors!" Pixel types to open the roof so "Sportacus" can fall through, from quite a height, landing between the sofa and the TV. "Who did you expect, Sportaloon?" Robbie

The Mini Flyer has at least 3 grapes on it. Any fourth ones are out of view.

Robbie wears the spare Sportacus suit back home. He attaches a remote-controlled propeller dish thing to a slice of cake so it can fly into his mouth. Some of it lands on his clothes.

Sportacus comes back to Robbie's lair afterwards (unaired) asking for his suit back and telling him off for frightening Rin. Robbie says that it's an airship and can't think for itself.

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Re: Fanfiction Research: Episode Notes

My original plan was to watch most of the Season 1 Episodes in order, so I could work out and get a feel for how Robbie's feelings for Sportacus grew in a slow burn. Only now I feel I won't have the time.
What's more, using what I remember, I was going to include flashbacks from Play Day (as well as other episodes) in the fanfiction. I thought Sportacus and Robbie's cowboy duel happened towards the end of the episode, and so I planned to headcanon that Robbie would run home after that duel, because it made him feel kind of anxious. He was staring into Sportacus's sky-blue eyes for quite some time. It's the catalyst, the spark, that sets many other attractive memories to boiling point. Robbie falls asleep feeling frustrated at how he failed again, and is woken up by the kids playing the next morning. Sportacus is playing with them, and as soon as he jumps into view of Robbie's periscope, Robbie's romantic feelings hit him "like a dodgeball to the stomach", and, petrified, he realises what they are. (He doesn't tell ANYONE about this. Not just because him and Sportacus are arch-nemeses.)
But no, that cowboy duel scene was in the middle, and Robbie hatches another scheme where he ends up encountering Sportacus the very same day. Maybe I just need to adjust some things? Can I find another "Oh no!" point of realization?

This is why I put this in the "Fanfiction" section, LazyPooky.

-Play Day-

"Pilot training sequence; ready." Rin "Light!" lights up the floor lights. Like that light-touching test you see F1 drivers do. "Light system activated." Rin "On your marks, get set..." Sportacus presses a silver circle button on the wall, next to a white circle window and the bed? "Ready, set..." Rin displays a blue stopwatch counting hundredths of a second in blue.

Stepping on a bottom left floor light opens a flap by the cockpit. It opens away from the cockpit to reveal a handbrake to pull up around 90 degrees. "Airbrake engaged." Rin

Stepping on a floor button pushes a turning wheel up from the floor. "Balance fins in place" Rin, after Sportacus turns the wheel anticlockwise and her top side fins move as far forward as they can go.

Stepping on another floor light brings a pair of turning wheels down from the ceiling. Sportacus pulls a lever in between, to his right, and the one to his left up. There are two pressure gauges in between, one above the other. Turning his left one towards him pulls the top side fins out. "Air fins initiated" Rin Turning the other one away from him opens the trapdoor and drops the ladder.

"Viewing platform down" After Sportacus steps on a button to open the door

42.08 seconds is a "New Training Record". The numbers flash and ping a little bit. "Congratulations." How often does Sportacus do this? Does he have to?

"Time for my after-breakfast nap!" Robbie The blanket is small and purple, with a square cow patch on an orange background.

Trixie slides down the slide on a wagon, wearing a helmet. Rin went off for Ziggy's distress, as well as Trixie's and also her danger. Robbie could hear Trixie screaming through his orange fluffy earplugs. When Trixie's wagon knocks into Robbie's periscope, he spins round with it. "Sunday drivers!" (? couldn't hear it well) Robbie "I can't watch!" Ziggy hides his face behind his lollipop. "Sportacus yeah!" Ziggy, when he arrives to save Trixie. He caught Trixie's speeding wagon with his bare hands. "Yeah! Good save Sportacus!" Ziggy

Today is Play Day. Sportacus doesn't seem to have heard of it. "The best, noisiest day in Lazy Town to play!" Ziggy "Play Day. My least favourite day, ever!" Robbie. Why am I not surprised.

Play Day seems to require many different games. "Did you know today is Play Day?" Stephanie, excited.

"I have to stop [the kids], or I will never get any peace and quiet!" Robbie

Is the far-left disguise a centurion in a fancy dressing gown?

Robbie puts the cowboy disguise on by spinning round. The "Rotten Kid" disguise spins out of the tube and on to him. Robbie tries a cowboy American accent. Looks like the cowboy duel scene is going to happen earlier than I remember. I might have to rewrite some headcanons. "And when I win, [the kids]'ll have to be quiet forever!" Robbie On drawing he accidentally throws his candy cane pistol behind the piano.

Trixie reckons she's in charge of "this here town, cowboy!" "Not if I have anything to say about it!" Ziggy

"Sheriff Pink is riding in!" Guess who, in a fake American accent. But she doesn't have a British dub voice.

"Look, who's that?" Trixie, about Robbie. Nobody recognises him. This could be a chance for him to play with the kids. "This town ain't big enough for the four of us." Robbie holds up three fingers, and the kids are like "Huh?" "What?".

Robbie chokes on his straw and spits it out. "Oh no! It's the-" Ziggy

"Actually it's about 3:15", Trixie, when Robbie says it's high noon. How does she know? She didn't check a watch.

Robbie is okay with lassoing children.

After being alerted, Sportacus grabs a backpack and some table tennis bats from the equipment cupboard. Sportacus flies Rin towards the trouble.

"You can't stop me! I'm Robbie-" Sportacus looks a bit "Try me. Come at me bro." Does Sportacus know now, or does he magically forget? Could the kids hear Robbie? Sportacus shakes his head, rolling his eyes.

"Then it's just me and you, kid." "Me and you? What about those kids?" Does Robbie wonder why Sportacus hasn't included them? "Yeah!" The kids Sportacus winks at them.

"Make your move." Sportacus is shaking his head again. They are staring into each other's eyes, wobbling a bit, steadying themselves. A tumbleweed blows past Robbie's feet. Sportacus straightens his belt.
Robbie looks up into his eyes.
Sportacus blinks slightly, but not completely.
The sun burns bright.
Robbie's pupils get smaller.
Sportacus smiles and his eyes glint, and his pupils shrink a little.
Robbie gets an itch in his nose.

"No! That wasn't my move!" Sportacus rolls his eyes, shaking his head, and sighs. They start again. "Start the music again!" Where does it come from? Robbie probably broke the fourth wall! Sportacus looks upwards too. Robbie snaps his fingers and the music starts.

They sidestep, mirroring each other.
Sportacus's hand is shaking.
Robbie turns his head so his left eye is closer. His gold tooth (his left, next to the "buck teeth") (part of the disguise, I think) glints.
Sportacus turns his head to his right.
The sun still shines.
Robbie's lips jerk and twitch.
Sportacus's right hand is still shaking. (Pent-up ADHD energy?)
He strengthens that arm a bit.
Robbie looks side to side with his eyes.
Sportacus just stares at him, blinking slightly.
Robbie's eyes cross then rapidly blink.
Robbie's right hand is also shaking.
Sportacus's right fist unclenches.
Robbie's eyelids blink and shake.

"Draw!" Robbie, who frantically can't find his weapon. "Apple!" Sportacus grabs his bats right away, knocking Robbie's hat off by serving the apple at it. "Look out, kid!"

"You can't be a cowboy without a hat." Sportacus "Without a hat?" Then Robbie realises it's off. "Let me get it!" He turns round to put it back on-Sportacus serves another apple at his rear end, causing him to land in a bucket he's kicked through Robbie's legs. The kids laugh and Sportacus blows his bat out. Then he thrusts Robbie's hat back with one hand. He doesn't help Robbie take it off. Robbie walks away.

Is this the moment Robbie realizes he's in love? This is most unwelcome. Rin would note his high distress levels.

"No", Trixie, when Stephanie suggests they play pirates. Ziggy also shakes his head.

"We did that this morning!" Trixie, when Stephanie suggests they play spacemen. What was Stephanie doing that morning?

"You're all wearing new hats. Where's mine?" "You could do [football], if you had a ball that wasn't MINE!" Stingy "Well, alright," when Stephanie says they can play together and it's Play Day. "It's his ball, we gotta play by his rules." Stephanie, when Stingy asks if they're going to play dressed as cowboys.

"Ball!" Sportacus The football shoots through a circular white hole in the wall. Sportacus kicks it back through. "I love Play Day!" The door handles have some kind of half wheel on the hull ends. Sportacus takes his telescope out of his backpack. He kicks another football into a hole in the wall, this time the top one to the right of the bed.

Stephanie's broom; pink with a yellow handle. Trixie's is blue with a red band near the red broom section. Stingy's is yellow then orange with a red band. Trixie's football shirt says "TRIXIE 27" on the back. There is no flower in the "i" on Stephanie's personalized football shirt.

Sportacus can score a goal with a sort of backflip.

It says "STINGY 25" on the back of his waistcoat. He has white gloves with yellow outer pads and a little football icon. "My ball's got a grass stain on it!" Stingy They were playing on tarmac or something like it...

"TRIXIE 27" is printed on another material then attached to the shirt. "Look, look see it's ruined!" Stingy, about his ball. He takes it and leaves over a grass stain.

"Those kids make me crazy!" Robbie

"Let's go make some costumes!" Trixie, when Stephanie suggests playing wild animals.

"Raaargh!" Robbie could look through the periscope through the bucket still being on his head. He tried but couldn't get it off. "Sounds pretty wild! Raargh!" Including Sportacus making claw hands. Could he see Robbie's periscope?

"[Wild animals are] the noisiest of them all!" Robbie "WHAT AM I GONNA DOOOO?!" He jumps up and down. "Wait a minute. Why am I acting like a baby... I'm the Master of Disguise!" After two failed pulls, Robbie finally gets the bucket off. He snaps both his fingers and vanishes from our eyes, in a Master of Disguise song. "And to make you believe each character that I pick!" He's a good singer. He runs behind a wall as Robbie Rotten and comes back as a detective. "I'm as sneaky as can be... No-one's sneakier than me!" "You walk right by me..." That's exactly what Stingy does, past Robbie as himself against a wall. He snaps both his fingers, vanishes from the chair and reappears by the microwaves. His mirror says "RR II" This song is the same as Glanni Glaepur's "Versti Fantur" in Glanni Glaepur i Latabae.
"Who are you? Oh, it's you! It's me!" Robbie, to his reflection. The mirror is really grimy and cloudy round the edge. Robbie claps twice and the mirror goes up out of view.

Trixie, wearing leopard-skin cat ears and a scarf, is "a wild tiger!" Ziggy is a wild mouse. Stephanie is a wild lion, with a long tail, furry brown black-clawed paws and a fuzzy hairband, but not fuzzy enough to be a mane. A wild lioness then? They do all the wild hunting. Stephanie drums a funky beat on a pink drum. "Squeeak! Squeeak!" Ziggy

"Those kids want to play wild animals? I'll give them wild animals!" Robbie disguises himself as a gorilla. "Oooh ooh ooh!"

There are upwards stairs by a table with a chemistry set. "Just what I needed!" Robbie peels a banana from the chemistry set before realizing it's a sports candy. "This gorilla's on a diet! (laughs) Just wait until the kids see me in this outfit! I'll scare them into next week!"

Robbie comes out from the wall with his gorilla head off, then dashes back when he realizes the kids can see him? "Those kids are noisier than ever! So, I'll have to scare them quiet!" "Wire!" And a vine drops hanging from the sky. It makes him jump.
"I thought apes could climb like monkeys!" Robbie tries to climb the wall but falls.

"I forgot! I'm scared of heights!" He talks to himself, trying to pep himself into climbing the rope. "I talked myself into it!" He manages to climb the wall without the rope. The kids are scared of the "wild gorilla".

"How do I steer this thing!" Robbie is able to balance on the random unicycle by the tree he vine-swings and lands on.

Sportacus keeps a very long scarf behind the bed, which he pushes round. One end of it is attached to the bed doorframe. He swings in on it, kicking a wheelbarrow for Robbie to fall in. Then he tips him out backwards. "Are you okay monkey?" Sportacus shakes his head when "Robbie Rotten!" is revealed.
"I was just playing!... It is Play Day!" Robbie. Deep down, did he just want to play Cowboys and Wild Animals with the kids?
"Robbie." Sportacus shakes his head again.
"Even Robbie Rotten likes Play Day," His top lip twitches and shakes. Was Ziggy wrong?

"So what can we play next?" Robbie growls in frustration when Bing Bang starts. And then growls, shaking his fists, and storms off halfway through.

Sportacus goes back to Rin and flies off at the end.

"Safe at last. Nothing can happen to me now!" Then Robbie trips on a banana skin. He's wearing black socks under his normal trousers under the gorilla suit. "I can't take it anymore! Aargh!" Holding the upended chair, then shaking his hands.

- - - Updated - - -

-The Blue Knight-

Sportacus has made an entire chess set out of sports candy. "How about a game for the mind?" Rin
Sportacus has a white timer with a rook chess piece in the middle. It has 2 clocks. He plays chess with himself. Couldn't he have asked 1 of the kids if they'd like to join? Or summon Rin and play against her? But of course then again, Rin doesn't have an actress.

Orange wins. "Now that's how you use your mind to play with your food." Sportacus (tosses a grape into his mouth)

"Children, meet the Blue Knight!" "This armour is going to be the main attraction at a Lazy Town mediaeval festival, that is being held today!" Mayor Did the kids know about it before today?

The kids don't know who the Blue Knight is. Whatever language the book is written in, it's not English.

"Oh Robbie, Robbie! The Mayor's about to read us a story, why don't you come over and sit with us?" Ziggy, when he sees Robbie walking past. "Yes, come and sit down!" Stingy. "Yeah!" The other children. They don't look at all suspicious.
"I'm not interested in stories! They bore me." Robbie. The kids are disappointed.

The Mayor can do a Scottish accent. I don't know if it's any good. "Mediaeval stories should always be read with a Scottish accent."

"There was a Blue Knight who lived right here in Lazy Town... He raced around town, helping all of those who needed help." Mayor
"Like Sportacus!" Ziggy
"He lived in a castle. He was the strongest knight in the world, and no one could defeat him!" "The Blue Knight was walking through the woods, when the evil Purple Knight rode in on his dragon!" Mayor
"A dragon?" This part piques Robbie's interest. "Oh… Scary!" Ziggy
"And challenged the Blue Knight!" "The clamour of the swords could be heard all over Lazy Town!" Mayor

"I was just looking for this leaf!" Robbie, holding a big brown and orange autumn leaf. Looks like a maple leaf. Is it autumn then? When Ziggy asked if he was actually interested in the story.

"Then all of a sudden the clamour stopped! And when the people of Lazy Town visited the castle the next morning," Mayor

Robbie bites the tip of the leaf. He doesn't like the taste, so he throws it away.

"Both of the knights had disappeared!" "But, the Purple Knight's sword was stuck in a stone by the entrance of the castle, and the Blue Knight's sword stuck in a stone on top of the castle! Legend has it that if you remove the Purple Knight's sword, the Purple Knight and his evil dragon will come back and take it from you!" Mayor
"Only a person with true belief in himself" (what about herself?) "can remove [the Blue Knight's sword]!"

"And in honour of the Mediaeval Festival, I have brought you all mediaeval costumes!" Mayor The big red trunk containing them is already behind the kids.

Robbie steals the storybook and sneaks off with it. Excited, he rubs it.

There was a toy purple crocodile in the costume trunk. The kids all get changed together, boys and girls. And I'm not sure if the Mayor ever left.
The kids have wooden swords this time, not balloons.

How many handsprings can Sportacus do in a row?!

"What is that?" About the Blue Knight's armour.
"I need someone to dress up in it, and I was hoping it would be you!" "All you have to do is stand in front of the castle and wave your hand to the children!" Mayor
"(laughs) If it's for the kids, I'll do it!" Sportacus

"I am not a knight, I am a prince!" Stingy "Stingy, you're always a prince!" Pixel "That's true," Stephanie "You're right. I am going to be… The King!" Stingy ducks up wearing a gold crown.

"This shield is so heavy! ... Wait for me!" Ziggy trips over his costume. "Come on guys, let's go!" Did Stephanie not see him? Ziggy slowly tries to follow, his shield drags on the ground.

"Urgh, the blue Knight!" Robbie opens the storybook.
"...and hide all the sports candy in the dragon then, the SPORTS ELF won't have any energy, and will have to leave Lazy Town forever just like the Blue Knight in the story!" Robbie builds the dragon himself.

Is that the Haunted Castle? The Blue and Purple Knight's swords are there just like in the story. Headcanon; If the story is true, then they are Sportacus and Robbie Rotten's ancestors respectively. The pommel of the Purple Knight's sword is glowing purple and making a scary sound.

Stingy won't let the other kids get to the castle unless they pay him "in gold". "Attack!" Stephanie and the others just charge at him. Ziggy hasn't caught up yet.
"I can never climb [a closed gate]." He can jump high enough to see over the fence, but not high enough to get on top. He tries calling to his friends by propping his shield up against the wall, and calling to them, but he falls off. "I'll never be a knight."

The Blue Knight's suit of armour is really stiff. "It's really hard to move in it!" Sportacus "Well, it's just a little rusty, that's why I brought my oil can!" "Now you can try some moves you know, flippity flippity." Mayor "Flippity flippity."
"I cannot see anything!" Sportacus. He has a lance. He falls over when trying to pole-vault it. "I guess I need to practice a little bit more!" He can't flip in the suit of armour.

"But I always sing at the festival!" "[The Mayor has] to do the laundry. I have got to practice my singing!" Bessie The laundry basket looks heavy. Milford is having a bit of difficulty carrying it.

Flipping a switch up inside the dragon turns it on. There are some lights and gauges inside, as well as a purple computer keyboard. Its little wings can flap. Its short legs are on the outside of wheels. Robbie can make its head and tail move as well. The mostly red lights are flashing. The Purple Knight disguise sort of magically zooms out of the tube and onto Robbie, spinning round. The organ pipes are steaming. A pressure gauge spins round rapidly and 4 lights; yellow, blue, orange and red, not all the same black fitting, flash and beep.

There is an orange flag on top of the castle. "A young and handsome prince came through the land," Stephanie, about Pixel, who wears a yellow paper crown.

The dragon can suck sports candy up from the vegetable patches while flying. They are stored in the cockpit.

"Knights are brave, and strong, and they're always helping people!" Mayor, who stops his conversation with Ziggy as soon as Ms Busybody calls him. "I could be the Helpful Knight!" Ziggy

There are pumpkins, melons and carrots growing in one of the vegetable patches.

Ziggy is small and light enough to be launched by a washing line like he's a slingshot stone. He's a bit small for his costume, it drags on the floor. Everything in the washing basket lands on the washing lines, all pegged and ready to dry.

Sportacus can do 1 or 2 one-handed press ups in the suit of armour before falling. Is he wearing his hero suit under it? He could hear his crystal in his chest. He can see enough to save Ziggy by catching his sheet in the lance.
Sportacus puts on a deep voice as the Blue Knight. He can see the washing line, but about two thirds of his vision are cut off horizontally.

Sportacus dubs Ziggy a knight with what looks like a real sword. Is he not afraid it will hurt him? "You can," ("I can,") "you will," (I will,) "if you believe!" (If I believe!) "I dub you Sir Ziggy..." "Oh yeah, Lollipop!" Is that his real surname? (According to my headcanons, it's Junkfood. And yes I know another character has that surname…) "Sir Ziggy Lollipop!"

"The Blue Knight" ties Ziggy's costume into a knot so he won't trip on it. "Remember sir, a true knight always believes in himself! You can, you will, if you believe. (...) Thus, let's do it!"

"Oh King Stingy, is that not a treasure chest? Full of gold coins over there?" A lot of kids have roosters on their costumes, just like on their school uniforms. Even the castle flag is reddish orange with a yellow flying rooster. "It's just a flag. And it's MINE." Stingy, after Trixie climbs to the top of the castle and raises the flag. She can't pull the Blue Knight's sword out. The pommel is glowing blue with a shiny sound effect.

"[The gate] was open all along!" Ziggy

"You lot don't actually believe that old book? (...) Dragon Mcflagon!" Trixie, after she tries to pull the Purple Knight's sword out and the others beg her not to.

The dragon can fly.

Robbie slashes at the Blue Knight with his sword. He misses. Steam is coming from the dragon's nostrils. "Going somewhere?" "The Blue Knight". Robbie gets scared by both him and the dragon. He is not very good at sword fighting. "Where'd you go?" "Right here!" Sportacus kicks him in the rear end so he lands over a box.

"Thanks Sir Lollipop!" "The Blue Knight", after Sir Ziggy Lollipop manages to throw him his heavy shield. "I did it!"

Now the Blue Knight's sword's hilt is glowing, in the centre.

"Stephanie, we need to get the blue Knight's sword!" Ziggy
"Guys, I have an idea! We can use this rope to tie down the dragon, and then 1 of us can sneak into the castle!" Stephanie, who lassos a dragon. So do the other kids. There is a random catapult nearby. Ziggy managed to lasso the dragon's neck. "I knew he wasn't a knight!" Trixie, when she can't find Ziggy because he's gone to the catapult. It launches when you press a little red button near its basket. It launches Ziggy onto the top of the castle.

The castle is held up by chains attached to bricks like tent guy-ropes. Sportacus trips over 1 of them because he can't see it.

"Get out of town, you blue buffoon." "The Purple Knight"

Putting the Purple Knight's sword back in the stone powers down the dragon.

Robbie gets scared and runs to his dragon when he doesn't have a sword.

"Stop, Sir! And reveal yourself!" Ziggy accidentally draws a lollipop instead of a sword. Robbie is scared enough to take his hat off and reveal himself as "ROBBIE ROTTEN!" "I knew it!" Ziggy

Sportacus throws his sword back up to the castle and it lands where it originally was.

"And Ziggy turned out to be a true knight. Sir Ziggy Lollipop!" Stephanie

Back in his lair, Robbie packs his disguise inside a purple suitcase that orange inside, and storms off somewhere.

I think only Stephanie saw Sportacus lift his visor and wink. She winks back and gives him a thumbs up.

"I hope we don't run into a dragon!" Then Pixel scares Ziggy with the purple toy crocodile in the trunk earlier. Trixie just laughs.

Bessie sings kind of operatic, and not bad. She can hold a note for quite a long time.

"I really need a vacation!" Robbie, after to top it all off, his suitcase breaks open.

Did he just want to play Knights with everyone but was too shy to ask?

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To explain one note; I have a headcanon that Robbie's past involves a theatre. Nothing surprising, I think.

-Dancing Dreams-

The toothbrush shoots out of a small yellow hole to the top left of the bed. There is a bigger white hole below it, to the left. Why doesn't Sportacus brush his teeth with toothpaste?! It makes your teeth stronger and cleaner.

"Toothbrush in freefall." After Sportacus absentmindedly throws his used toothbrush out of Rin's open door and then regrets it. Was it open when he woke up? He never said to open it.

"Paper!" draws a small square table up from the floor and a small stack of blue paper drops on top of it. Sportacus can make paper aeroplanes. I don't think he ever threw them around in class.

"3 seconds to impact." Rin calculates about the toothbrush. Sportacus can throw a paper aeroplane fast enough to catch the toothbrush he dropped earlier. (In less than 3 seconds) It flies back up through Rin's door like a boomerang. Sportacus had tried to throw the toothbrush back in the hole where it came from.

The Mayor can be a mechanic and fix his own plane.

"It's Lazy Town Dream Day, when we do something we always dreamed of…" Mayor Sounds awesome. What's the date today? "And your dream is to be a pilot." Stephanie "Ah, yes, a pilot. Free as a bird! I always fly on Dream Day…" Mayor "I think I'll keep my feet on the ground." Stephanie, when Bessie asks if she wants to be a pilot like her uncle. Instead, she's doing a dance performance today.

Today the sun is shining bright. "What a lovely day for a picnic!" Robbie is having a picnic OUTSIDE. By himself. He seems to have packed squirty cream, a kind of chili pepper, brown hotdog sauce, a small blue bottle I can't tell what's inside, and of course a big slice of purple creamy cake. That blue bottle's either salt or pepper, and Robbie sprinkled it on the cake. The brown hotdog sauce was actually more squirty cream, and the cake had quite a lot of cream on it already.

The stage was behind Robbie when he sat down for his picnic, at least 2 fences away. "What is she doing?!" Robbie, watching Stephanie dance to the instrumental for Have You Ever. He doesn't seem to like it.

"Stephanie! Stephanie, my friend!" When Ziggy finds her. Her shoes are heeled. "You're so amazing, yeah!" About her dancing. "You want me to teach you some stuff?" Stephanie "I'm a terrible dancer." Ziggy "Just listen to the music and move your body to the beat." Stephanie. Robbie is disgusted when she puts the music on. "I can't do this. Uurgh..." Ziggy, before she does. She starts teaching Ziggy to dance and Robbie is dancing along with pointy fingers, then a sort of fist shaking dance move.

"Oh Stephanie, you're the best friend I've ever had!" Ziggy "Awww you're a pretty good friend too." Stephanie, giving him a quick pat on the back.
"Well if you can teach me how to dance, you can teach everybody how to dance, can't you?" Ziggy "Hey, that's a great idea! Maybe we could start a dance school, right here in Lazy Town!" Stephanie "NO! NO NO NO NO!" Robbie waves his arms widely across each other, not wanting this at all. "That's a terrible idea!" "And we can have dance contests and make up whole new dances!" Stephanie "Everybody dancing?!" Robbie dances a bit while saying this. Stephanie and Ziggy shake hands, promising to be partners in setting up a new dance school in Lazy Town. Ziggy rushes off to tell the others.

Robbie has difficulty pulling his napkin off. "I have to stop her!" About Stephanie. He is too lazy to properly pack everything in the picnic basket and just wraps everything up in the tablecloth.

"What a wonderful dancer!" Bessie, about Stephanie. "...Dancing is her dream." Mayor Robbie does a mocking sort of dance on overhearing them. "One day, she will go to a famous dance school!" Bessie "But that's far away!" Mayor "Yes far far away." Bessie "Oh my Stephanie!" Mayor Robbie can hear them. He groans, then makes a disgusted sort of noise. And then thinks of his next evil scheme on the spot. "That's it! She loves dancing..." (Does a flappy mocky dance, laughing) "I can send her away to my special dance school! (Does he actually have one?) After all it's her dream to become a dancer." He says dancer in a falsetto way, turning around and flapping about again. Robbie ducks behind the plane and comes back up as a dancer. On seeing his new disguise, he gasps and starts dancing on the spot.

"(Sighs) I used to be able to dance like that." Bessie, watching Stephanie dance, with the Mayor.

Robbie had a massive purple trunk behind the plane. When he knows that Bessie and the Mayor have seen him, Robbie starts doing a quick "1, 2, 3" dance and hurts his back or his thigh after kicking his leg out twice. "Who are you?" Mayor "Sully Swingahip" makes himself dizzy by spinning around how many times quickly? Robbie's a better dancer than he'd like to admit.

"Only one lucky student is allowed in every year" He pretends to be the owner of the most famous dance school in the world far far far far far (I probably haven't got enough fars) away. "And this year we have chosen –" "Me! Me! It's me isn't it! Oh it's me, Milford! It's me!…" Bessie is jumping up and down on the spot. "Do you know anyone with pink hair?" The Mayor asks Bessie when "Sully" says that they're looking for a girl with pink hair, miming Stephanie's bob. WHAT ABOUT YOUR OWN NIECE?! "Well, pink hair is very unusual." Bessie "Your cousin Tessie has pink hair." Mayor "Pinkish." Bessie. It takes them a small while to remember Stephanie.

"Oh my, what's in the [trunk?]" Bessie "My wardrobe." "Sully"

Stingy, Trixie and Pixel are fighting over a pink football. I don't know what they were all saying, but I'm pretty sure that's Stephanie's. "I can't wait to tell Sportacus that me and Stephanie are going to teach everyone how to dance!" Ziggy

Did Robbie make that acceptance letter himself? Would he be able to magically pull some strings to actually get Stephanie into a famous dance school? Does he even know where "far, far away" is? If not, then it's not one of his more well thought-out plans. "Or maybe you don't want to leave FOREVER! Uh er I mean, be a dancer." "Sully" "But I do! More than anything else!" Stephanie, who seems to giggle at "Sully's" dancing. He makes a shooing motion with both hands after the 1st chorus, to get her to stand at the side and he sings centre stage. Robbie can do a really fast tap dance! He ends up dancing together with Stephanie! Including a synchronised tap dance. But he can't do the splits. The song ends with him lifting Stephanie on his shoulder like Sportacus has done before. Did he enjoy this musical number? Did they ever teach him any dancing at the theatre?

"Sportacus is going to love our dance school!" Ziggy Sportacus was doing this spinning around on his back breakdancing move at least 5 times in a row! He downward barrel rolls Rin's flight pod.

There is a forest to the south-west of Lazy Town. The river flows in a wavy shape through it. There is a patch of forest in the top left corner of 1 of the nearby fields.

Everyone is thrilled when Stephanie tells them she's been accepted into a famous dance school. "That's my Stephanie!" Mayor

"Dancing is good for you!" "Sully" then does a quick dance and falls over. He was so surprised when Stephanie pointed him out as giving her the golden envelope that he lost his balance and fell off his trunk where he was stretching. "And now pink girl, we have to go!"

"Ziggy, it is my dream." Stephanie

Does anyone even know where far far away is? Does the mayor?

There is an R on "Sully's" scarf.

Ziggy doesn't want Stephanie to leave. He is sad about having to put their dance school plan on hold. "I was so excited about going to dance school, I wasn't even thinking about leaving Lazy Town. And you." Stephanie Robbie's lies and disguises can really mess with people's emotions.

"Hurry up Pinky, the dancing school is waiting!" "Sully" "Yeah, you have to." [go pack?] Ziggy "I'm gonna miss this place." Stephanie. She's packed her shoulder bag and 2 smallish red suitcases.

The mayor is wearing 1 of those flight hijab-like things and goggles.

"And now for some goodbye presents for you, Stephanie!" Stingy. "Me 1st! Me 1st!" Bessie gives her "the latest model" of a phone. "Now, call me!" She kisses Stephanie on the cheek. Stingy's given her a baby piggy bank. Robbie just wants Stephanie to leave ASAP. Pixel gives her a "VidDiary 6000". It's that remote thing, with "some videos of our best times on it." Including the Story Time song, which plays when Stephanie presses the red button to the top left above some yellow buttons and a joystick, below the screen. Does he give one to Robbie at a time when he's in hospital? Trixie gives her a picture of the 2 of them, in front of the treehouse, framed in red. "I'm going to miss you Pinky!" "I'm gonna miss you too." Stephanie. She hugs the giver after each gift. "We'll miss you!" Pixel Sportacus gives her a special apple. "You never know when you might need it... Good luck." "Yes, come on my pink hurricane! (...) My dancing queen!" Sully, as she starts to board the plane. "I'm not hugging you because you're leaving, I'm hugging you because I want to!" Ziggy, to Stephanie. He gives her a quick kiss on the cheek!

There is no flower on the i in Stephanie's personalised jacket.

"Up, Up, and away!" Mayor The propeller starts turning when you press a small silver button in the cockpit, to the right of a white light and a red one that may be buttons. "Ooh, it works!" Mayor
Everyone waves and says goodbye as the plane launches, taking off on a road.

Do neither Stephanie nor the Mayor get altitude sickness or oxygen deprivation or anything like that when they're so high up in the air?
The plane is a two-seater, and appears to be controlled by a steering wheel.
"Wow!" Stephanie, at the view down below.
The mayor draws a heart in the sky with his plane and neither of them get sick. Does he know where to go?

"I did it!" Robbie laughs to himself. "The pink hurricane is gone!"

Stephanie waves "Bye!" from up in the air. Everyone misses her already, except for Robbie, who is making a fake crying gesture. "It's hard to say goodbye. But it's great to see Stephanie follow her dreams, right?" Sportacus The kids agree reluctantly. Stingy was wiping tears from his eyes.

"Now I just have to get rid of that blue typhoon!" Robbie There are loads of little brown drawers inside the lid of the purple trunk. "Sportaspoon!" (Freudian slip?) Robbie, who regretted it almost as soon as he said it. Was it because it was an insult, and he's not supposed to insult people in disguise? The Birthday Fairy hat is in the trunk. When Sportacus bends over looking inside the trunk, Robbie kicks him in the behind so he falls in, and then shuts the lid. Robbie was standing behind him. "I DID IT!" He locks Sportacus inside and attaches balloons to the trunk so he will float away forever.

"Uncle?" Stephanie pokes her uncle while he's flying the plane. "Do you think we could fly over Lazy Town one more time?"

"Let me out of here!" Sportacus, sounding scared and/or a bit angry. "What? I can't hear you!" Robbie "I'm a genius! Sportacus will be gone, FOR EVER!" (echoes) Could Sportacus hear him?

"Help me!" "Sully" floating on the trunk, to Stephanie and the Mayor. "It's the dance instructor!" Stephanie "We gotta help him!"

"Things aren't going to be the same without [Stephanie]!" Pixel "She was My friend." Stingy "Mine too" Trixie

Stingy recognises "the dance instructor!" when he's high up in the sky.

"I'm going down there to save him!" "Trust me Uncle, I know what I'm doing." Stephanie, who then takes a bite of the apple Sportacus gave her. The Mayor is worried and scared by this idea. Pulling a lever on the passenger's left ejects them down from the plane.

The Mayor manages to catch "Sully" in the passenger seat after Stephanie accidentally knocks him off the trunk when she lands on it. Afterwards, she fist-pumps.

As well as a padlock on the lid, the purple trunk can also be locked from the top, in the centre. The lid is divided in half. There is a lever inside the trunk which folds 2 brown side draws out from the side of the lids like plane wings. Robbie was keeping ties in them. The converted trunk-plane manages to land safely from what must be quite a great height. Neither Sportacus nor Stephanie seem to be hurt. "Yes!" Sportacus, when Pixel asks if they're alright. "Yeah we're fine, thanks to Sportacus." Stephanie "No, thanks to you! Stephanie was amazing!" Sportacus. She shrugs and smiles.

"I know you have to follow your dreams, so, even if it makes me sad, I want you to go to that dance school!" "Awww, thank you Ziggy!" She hugs him.

The plane has a winged LT logo on the back fin and on the side, close to the propeller. "Nice landing!" Ziggy, when the Mayor lands the plane. The button that turns the propeller is glowing red and it changes back to silver when the Mayor turns it off.

"Yeah I'm fine, but what about the dance instructor?" Stephanie, when the Mayor asks if she's all right.

Is it just me, or is everyone more shocked than ever when the dance instructor is revealed to be "ROBBIE ROTTEN!" "Robbie Rotten? Oh, I should have known…" Mayor Sportacus shakes his head quite fast, sighing. Is it just me, or is he smiling a bit?

Ziggy is overjoyed when Stingy tells them that Stephanie is going to stay "right here in Lazy Town, with us!" "Hey Ziggy! Let's teach them Bing Bang!" Stephanie Everyone cheers. "Yes!" Sportacus

"Great flying Mayor!" Giving him a thumbs up. "Oh Milford, you are my flying ace!" Bessie

Ziggy does that pointing finger move in Bing Bang. The instrumental was on the blue button of Stephanie's boombox. Also "silly words", "Up up, do the jump" "clap your hands together" and just general bopping. The other kids join in.

"Maybe I'm wrong about everything!" Robbie "Yes! (Laughing) Maybe I should stop being lazy, start eating sports candy, and be nice!" "Nah!" He laughs easily then trips over something, into the trunk and gets trapped in it.

Poor Robbie managed to catch both Stephanie and Sportacus for a short while, before his plan got thwarted again.

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In the same Google Sheets outline where I keep all these notes, I have a list of characters and descriptions of them. There is also a column for their birthdays.

-The Greatest Gift-

Sportacus has a small calendar in his airship with a 10 in front of an S logo on the top. (A new kind of calendar for a new year?) The days are in front of a go faster stripe, and you pull yesterday off each day.
Yesterday, the 13th, had a purple silhouette of a sleeping Robbie going "Z z z". The number and the circle around it are purple, the background is white. 14 is red, with a picture of Ziggy and a present. "Wow! Today is Ziggy's birthday!" Sportacus. What month is it? (Headcanon: August) It's officially been at least a year since Happy Brush Day. Stephanie has probably been staying in Lazy Town for over a year.
Was yesterday Robbie's birthday? (Headcanon: 13th October?) But he was a silhouette.
The calendar is to the left of the door. The speaker pod is on the right of the door.

There is a small silver button to the left of the calendar which opens a cupboard. Sportacus is keeping a dark blue present with a red ribbon inside.
The table stays still when Sportacus kick-flips off of it.
"Ribbon!" A round white hole in some kind of section opens vertically and Rin shoots a ribbon out. Of course Sportacus uses breakdancing or something like it to tie it into a fancy bow.

Stephanie can play the (pale pink) ukulele. "Boogie Woogie Boo… Happy birthday to you!" Does she write all her songs before singing them? She writes songs in her diary.
Stephanie had chicken for lunch today. It must be the afternoon then. "Chicken's delicious!" Trixie They are pretending they don't know it's Ziggy's birthday.

Ziggy has marked his height over the years on a tree. Last year's height is the 4th one, 2nd from the top. There are 5 notches. Ziggy must be at least 5 years old. And would he really be as tall as the bottom notch at one year old?

"Tomorrow is my birthday" Ziggy this must take place before Sportacus is seen then. Robbie rips the 13th off the calendar. Do you rip off today then? "Why is the cookie boy's picture on my calendar?" Robbie Where did him and Sportacus get the calendars from? Does everyone in Lazy Town have one?

There is a TV show called "Home Shopping Network". They are advertising a bouncing bouncy ball. Robbie's gadgets and machines can break. His TV was slowly going up and down and the TV voice got deeper when it descended.

"What to do when I'm bored? Aha… I'll spy on those Lazy Town fools!" Robbie's periscope can appear anywhere. The Mayor keeps a flowerpot on the window of his office. "Ah, my super soak! Cleans everything in a jiffy!" About a brand of cleaning spray thing.

"No!" Robbie, when Stephanie asks her uncle if they can host Ziggy's birthday party in the office. "Oh, but of course! That's what offices are for! Oh, there are never enough parties in offices!" Mayor, who cleans his own office. And Robbie's periscope when he sees it, and the soap suds go right down into Robbie's face. Pressing a purple button on the right periscope handle (when looking into it) starts windscreen wipers on the eyes.

"Let's invite everybody!" Stephanie knows Ms Busybody's phone number. "Time to get Milford to help me with my hair rollers! Milford!" When Bessie learns she's invited to Ziggy's birthday party. The office is full of a bunch of red file drawers. Bessie's framed picture is on the top of one of them.

When the door slams on the periscope, it reverberates back into Robbie's face.

You get a picture of yourself on the calendar when it's your birthday. There is a picture of a yellow crab above Robbie's calendar. Is it because it is the time of the star sign Cancer? (Who names a star sign after a deadly disease? And the fact that Stefan Karl's star sign was Cancer is a coincidence that's beyond messed-up.) If so, then Ziggy's birthday is probably 14th July, not August.

Both the 11th and the 12th towards the back of the calendar are sleeping Robbie silhouette days. So maybe his birthday isn't on the 13th? (I think it would suit him. That or the 1st.)
Birthdays shown when Robbie flicks through the calendar, from back to front: (headcanons in brackets) Sportacus: 10th (April) Bessie: 6th (haven't decided yet) Mayor: 3rd (ditto) Stephanie (Julianna Rose Mauriello): 1st (March) Julianna Rose Mauriello's birthday's on 26th May and Chloe Lang's is on 14th November. (6 days before mine) Therefore characters' birthdays do not have to match their actors'. On the other hand Magnus Scheving's (Sportacus) is on the 10th November. (Why am I not surprised) Stefan Karl's was on 10th July. (So is my relative's) The 10th. That would be a bit of a laugh if Robbie had his birthday on the 10th.

"How many [birthdays] do they need? One every year?" "Even worse, they'll of invite Sportaspot!" Robbie His TV remote is orange. It's on a matching bedside table with the phone. He presses a button on it and the TV goes back up.
"I will NEVER go to a birthday party! Not even if I was invited!" Because they're too loud and things like that.

When the phone rings, a translucent white bar on it flashes. It makes Robbie jump. It's one of those old-fashioned and circular dial ones, which look to be made with a pair of orange taps. Stephanie knows Robbie's phone number. He agrees to come to Ziggy's birthday party because there will be cake. "Of course I'll be there!... Thank you!" Stephanie invited him to a birthday party! She really will invite everybody!

"Trixie, check! Robbie, check!" Stephanie makes a checklist in her diary.

"(Gasps) no, I cannot come to the party, tomorrow, I'm going to have a cold." When Stephanie asks Stingy if he is ready for Ziggy's birthday party tomorrow. "GB! That stands for goodbye!" Stingy, who stammers the word "give" and doesn't even finish it. He doesn't want to come to the birthday party because he doesn't want to give Ziggy anything.

"See you later Stingy!" When Sportacus flips past him. Stingy watches, following him with his head.
"Hi Stephanie!" He lands when he sees her. She is disappointed that Stingy isn't coming.

Stingy brakes before Sportacus lands right in front of his car. There is a little golden pig face on the spare back tyre. "Oh yes, I am pretty wonderful at parties." Stingy.

Stephanie and her uncle say goodnight to each other. Who does pixel say "Goodnight!" to? His parents? His computer? He lives next door to Bessie. When facing the front of his house, the top left side window turns off.

Ziggy's house has a candy cane step rail and lollipops in the window boxes. There is a blue and white duck flying above his bed. His lampshade looks like a sweet wrapper and his hatstand looks like a bunch of candy canes. His bed is between the wall with 2 windows, and a TV. His room is mostly red, with some blue and yellow. He's wearing red pyjamas with yellow Z's on them, and a blue edged collar. There is also a red armchair in his room. He sleeps under a blue pillow and blanket.

Robbie is sleeping upside down on his chair, wearing an eye mask. He's in his normal clothes, but with a matching dressing gown and nightcap. Does the book he's holding with a ribbon tied round it read Birthday Manners?

Stingy's bed is yellow. The ends look like a temple, or the entrance to the Fitzwilliam Museum, with piggy banks on the corner pillars. There are gold coins in the triangle part and it says "MINE" in capital letters underneath. He sleeps under a white satin blanket and at least 5 matching pillows. His piggy bank is next to him. "You can't have it, it's mine, no don't take it, no, NOOOO!" This nightmare wakes him up. It's a full moon. The walls are dark blue, there is one yellow window to his right, with a red frame.

Sportacus seems to wake up before his crystal goes off. Did he hear Stingy scream? "Sportacus, it's later than 8:08" Rin The lights are on behind his bed.

In front of Stingy's house is a fountain with a pig holding a bow and arrow standing on a one-ringed Saturn-like planet.
Stingy's pyjamas are yellow with gold buttons and a blue checked collar and pocket lining. He can't say "gift". "It's the thought that counts. And Ziggy will be happy to see you!" Sportacus "It doesn't have to be a big gift?" Stingy "No no. Stingy, good night!" Sportacus dabs and runs off. "It doesn't have to be a big gift. It could be small! So small that you can't even see it!" Stingy

"Are you saying happy birthday to me? Are you?" Ziggy, to his reflection in the read sweet-shaped mirror. It seems like Ziggy's friends have made him a map to his birthday party. On the back of it are coloured balloons with icons symbolising everyone, like a swirly S or a crown. I think there's a purple balloon for Robbie!

"Must I do everything myself?" Bessie, kind of operatically. Milford absentmindedly threw some soap sprayed flowers out of the window onto Robbie. "Ow! Hey!"
The Mayor's office has a doorbell. "Hi Robbie!" Stephanie, answering the door. She looks happy to see him. "Is this the correct address for the party?" Robbie, looking nervous, wearing a suit. "Did I show up on time?" When Stephanie says the birthday boy will be here any minute; "What should I do?" Worried. He throws the flowers dropped on him to the floor. Then burps while sitting down. "Hi Robbie!" Pixel "Whatever" Robbie waves a tiny bit.

"My card says; Happy, happy, joyous occasion, at Mayor Milford's you'll find the celebra-(gasps) celebration!" I don't think Ziggy understood the word "celebration" at first. "The party's at the Mayor's office!"

Robbie is sitting right by the door. He flinches a bit when it opens, and does a bigger flinch when he turns round and sees Sportacus. Robbie backs to the wall when he jumps past him.

"It's all right, it's all part of the plan, it's okay!" Pixel, when Robbie gets worried, leaning towards him. Robbie's fingers are touching his shoulder. Was Sportacus laughing at Robbie? Kind of cheerfully.
Everyone's "Surprise!" makes Robbie jump a bit. "N-n-no, not now" Pixel, when Robbie tries to give Ziggy his present.

Sportacus does some quick fancy dance move with his hands. "Boogie Woogie Boo!" Stephanie then looks at Robbie. "Happy… Birthday… To you?" Robbie, who gets up and dances after Sportacus claps and everyone continues partying. He's not bad at dancing. He is being too sweet for words. What's more, I don't think he's come up with any evil plan, to use Ziggy's birthday party to get rid of Sportacus for ever!

Robbie holds his orange paper bag present out, when Ziggy starts opening Trixie's. (Rather obvious) Headcanon: he's never been to a birthday party before as a guest and doesn't know what to do. Or how things work.

Trixie gives Ziggy "superhero seeds"; sports candy seeds. "You can plant them and power up whenever you want!" Trixie. Sportacus smiles.

Pixel gives Ziggy a "Televiewer 3000". The screen is displaying a silver S on a blue background, like in Sportacus's bracers. There is a sort of handle on each side with buttons and a dial on the left one. "I uploaded videos of every one of Sportacus's Super Moves!" Pixel. Did he ask Rin for any? You turn it on by pressing a button to the right of the top side of the screen. Robbie claps a bit after Sportacus's video ends. He joins in when Sportacus teaches them some moves face-to-face! Robbie's not perfect, but he tries. He is still holding his present. "What am I doing!?"

Ziggy cries and hug Stephanie after she gives him a photograph of him, Sportacus, the Mayor and the other children. The frame is pink with a flower in the bottom left corner and a sort of wave pattern in the top right. Robbie sighs happily in an "Aww" sort of way.

"Oh, Robbie!" Ziggy, when Robbie announces it's his turn. Ziggy sounds a bit surprised. "I heard you like cookies!" Robbie Stephanie pats him on the shoulder. "Oh, I love cookies!" Ziggy The paper bag is full of these orange macaroon-like cookies with a white cream sandwich-style filling and purple icing. "They're kind of hard." Ziggy knocks on one and it makes a knocking on metal kind of sound. "Can I eat it?" "No!" Stephanie shakes her head. "It's an old family recipe. They give you a little gas (small fart), but they're really tasty!" Robbie Sportacus shakes his head and giggles. "Milford, you stay away from those!" Bessie "Oh! Yes of course Ms Busybody!" Milford

Sportacus gives Ziggy a lollipop made out of sports candy.

"Thank you all for making this so great! And everyone showed up! (Sadly) Well, almost everyone… Oh…"
Stingy was incredibly late. Ziggy has to tug the present off him. Stingy kept pulling it back. It's got gold coin pictures on the wrapping. Stingy growls in frustration while Ziggy opens his present. Stephanie pats him on the shoulder. There are little stars on his bow tie.

"I bring cookies and he brings nothing?!" Robbie The box was empty. "Well yes, technically but, you know what Stingy?" "This is great. I love it!" Ziggy "You do?" Stingy "Yes! It's the best gift ever! See? It's a toy!" Ziggy mimes. "It is?" Stingy "It's the airship!" Stephanie catches the toy one and it becomes a skipping rope with music. "There's nothing there." Stingy

"Robbie are you ready?" Sportacus throws him an imaginary basketball. Robbie hesitate and thinks for a bit, then decides it's a football and kicks it and it breaks a window. Sportacus laughs, smiling.

Trixie's jacket has a T on the back. "I love cake!" Pixel

Stingy is remorseful and tearful because he technically didn't give Ziggy anything. "I'm so ashamed!" He starts crying. "Stingy, you gave Ziggy the best gift of all!" "Everybody's playing with your gift! Even Robbie!" Who is throwing and catching it, interacting with the others. "You gave him the gift of imagination. Now Ziggy can imagine any toy in the world!" Sportacus

"Actually, [giving] feels... great!" Stingy "I'm sure Ziggy will share with you!" Sportacus

"Stingy!" Stephanie is happy when he comes outside. "Can I play?" Stingy "Of course you can Stingy!" Ziggy

In a Bing Bang flashback, Robbie wiped a tear from his eye, holding the paper bag.
Robbie steals the cookies back. Was he just trying to be nice and playing along so he could get free cake?

"Imagination. IT NEVER WORKS!" Robbie he sarcastically imagines a big fluffy bed with a big fluffy pillow and an orange pillow appears in his hands. His bike is parked behind the steps leading to the disguises. "Time for my big fluffy nap!" He throws his pillow and it lands on what looks like thin air. "It works!" And he has a big fluffy nap, falling asleep as soon as his head hits the pillow.

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-Sportacus Who?-

Instead of calling for the table, Sportacus jumps on the air pump and it rises from the floor, pale blue paper and pen already on it. No, it's a pencil. Dark blue and kind of ovular.

He has a bowling ball with a T-shaped slot to put a paper aeroplane in. He bowls it through a circular hole in the very bottom right of the wall with the bed. A white shutter comes down afterwards. The plane leaves the bowling ball and flies out the back of Rin.

Sportacus says "Door!" but Rin doesn't open the door. Where is her speaker pod?! "I need to turn this up." There is a vertical grey ellipse with a blue circular dial in the middle. It is divided into quarters by thin white lines, and there is a silver circle in the middle of that. Sportacus turns the dial clockwise. After turning the dial up enough, Rin hears him.

Where did the white bungee rope come from?! He didn't say anything. There is a little ring on top of the door to attach it to. It can be folded down sideways when not in use.

Stingy's car is parked next to a sunflower bush. "I didn't sign my name! Sportacus"

Pixel's computer screen is mostly blue, except for a black and white rectangular window zooming in on some sort of code. "I'm just organising all my Lazy Town files!" A paper aeroplane from Sportacus shoots through Pixel's window and lands on his desk. "I have to make a backup copy of my computer files before I do anything else!"
To the right of the computer screen with 3D sports candy, is CCTV footage of Lazy Town. Ziggy's house is in the view. "Warning! Warning! Warning!" Pixel's computer in a robotic voice. Something happened and now it is making steam.

Sportacus flips right out of Rin's door and lands safely on the ground!

Pixel's entire house looks affected by whatever glitch this is. The CCTV cameras and satellite dishes are randomly moving. There is a big satellite dish on the back of his house. "You gotta unplug [the computer] before it blows!" Pixel, to Sportacus. "Go Sportacus!" Stephanie, when that's what he goes to do.
The computer is still saying "Warning!" There is also an alarm sound.
There are 7 silver circular plug sockets near the bottom of the room. It appears to be one per computer. From top left to bottom right, the wires are; yellow, blue, red, orange, then at the bottom; yellow, violet, pink. Pulling the orange wire cuts power to the computer with the 3D model of Rin. The plugs have 2 prongs. (Japanese maybe?) The pink wire unplugs the 3D sports candy below Rin's 3D model. The top left yellow wire cut power to all the TVs when it was pulled. All the electricity in the room, it looked like.

Sportacus managed to save a burnt biggish rectangular computer part that is still steaming.
"All the pictures and stuff on my computer, all the memories, gone!" Pixel "If only that do-gooder Sportacus could have a memory meltdown like Poodle's computer, he'd never be able to save anyone again, FOR EVER!" Robbie

"Sportacus won't be able to resist my trap!" He sets up some hurdles for him, leading up to a modified orange door frame called the Memory Sucker 3000. Which zaps anything that comes through it. Even just hands. Robbie does a sloppy dab mocking Sportacus and does his back in.

Sportacus fell for the trap, hook, line and sinker. A light on top of the Memory Sucker comes on whenever someone comes through it, and their head is zapped through the antenna on top. The space inside the door frame crackles with electricity too.

"I did it! Sportacus's memory is as missing as a sock in a dryer!" Sportacus was right by him! How did he not hear that?!

"Hello Sporta… buddy!" Robbie comes up behind him and holds his shoulders. "I am your best friend!" This is going to be interesting! I don't think Robbie has had much experience making friends. "Aargh!" Robbie, after Sportacus shakes its hand by grabbing it and shaking it up and down really really fast. Robbie holds his wrist afterwards. He's clearly just pretending to be Sportacus's best friend. The 2 of them are standing really close. "I can't remember who I am." Sportacus leans backwards into him. "Well, don't worry my friend!" Robbie puts one hand on Sportacus's shoulder and the other kind of in front of it. Sportacus still has his back to him. "Listen to your old pal, and whatever you do; never, never, NEVER save anyone!" Robbie turns some wheels, seemingly tightening them, on the side of the Memory Sucker. "Save anyone? Why would I do that?" Sportacus "Never mind!" Robbie leads him off somewhere with one hand on his back.

"Pixel was really upset about losing all his computer memory" Ziggy "Well Ziggy with no memory you don't know who you are or what you do." "No memory means no you." Stephanie

Robbie has told Sportacus he doesn't just like ice cream, he loves it. And he runs an ice cream stand. He does fancy throws with the ice cream cones and the scoops, but just passes the finished ice cream to the children. "Only one [scoop]?" Ziggy Sportacus throws 4 ice cream scoops on top of each other. "My ice cream's in trouble!" Ziggy's ice cream is so tall it wobbles. Even with his memory gone, Sportacus flips over and catches the scoop end of the ice cream with a cone before it can fall to the floor. "You must be the greatest ice-cream man on this planet!" Ziggy

Sportacus does press ups on a bench. I think Robbie managed to take his memory, but not his ADHD. (Headcanon) Speaking of Robbie, he comes up from behind the bench right opposite Sportacus's backside going up and down as he does press-ups! Robbie pliés as he talks to Sportacus so he's always face to face with him. It doesn't take long for them to tire him out. (And we've arrived at that screenshot which Sportarobbie shippers take out of context. And speaking of ship fuel… This whole episode.)
When Robbie suggests to Sportacus that he sits down for a minute, he just does this exercise where he sits down and stands up on an invisible chair, never actually making contact with the bench. Robbie could probably see him from behind… "Can't you sit still for a minute?!" He keeps telling Sportacus to sit down, but he ignores him. Robbie tries to pull him down by touching him on his shoulder and left upper arm. "No! I don't think so!" Sportacus carries on working out.

"You already said [to never save anyone!]" He pats Robbie on the shoulder. Robbie looks surprised.

Pixel is frustrated because his computers aren't turning on. There is a blue on/off switch on the bar dividing the bottom 2 computers.

"(Sighs) Ice cream's good!" Ziggy wants more ice cream right after eating 5 scoops. Sportacus balances a 2 scoop ice cream cone with a cherry on top on his finger. "Ziggy." Stephanie shakes her head when Ziggy asks for it.

"[Sportacus saves people] 6, 7, 8 times a day! Can't you remember that you do that?" Ziggy Sportacus whispers that he doesn't remember anything only to him.

"Come on, follow me!" Stephanie whips off Sportacus's ice-cream man hat off and throws it away.

"Have you ever skipped rope?" Sportacus shakes his head to this and other lyrics. He tries throwing the basketball behind him over his shoulder and it lands through the hoop. He can remember how to skip rope. And how to score a goal by kicking the football with a backflip.

"I almost remember remembering, then I… don't remember. I'm sorry."

Pixel has pictures and video clips of everyone on his computer.

"Nice?! You think [the kids are] nice?! Those kids were fooling you!" Robbie "No!" Sportacus sounds angry when he stands up towards Pixel's house.
Robbie tells Sportacus the kids call him names behind his back. "They call you Mr Flippety flippety flippety flippety flippety flippety flip." Robbie points his fingers and moves them like conductors' batons. "And my favourite one-I mean the one you hate most:" When Robbie says it's too awful for him to say, (giggling to himself, sitting facing away from Sportacus) Sportacus slaps his hand on his back and pulls him back up by the waistcoat. He pulls a chalk out from somewhere behind his ear and some paper from inside his jacket, near the neck and the left shoulder. "That's not even a word!" Sportacus "I know! I don't know how to spell it!" Robbie. He later pulls Sportacus up from sitting down by the shoulder. "I'll whisper it to you! Come closer!" (beckoning, repeat 3 times) "Wah! No! Back back back back!" Robbie keeps calibrating how close too close is, then grabs Sportacus's shoulders from behind and whispers into his other ear. "The blue elf?!" Sportacus. BUSTED. The kids might not know this, this is one of Robbie's lies. Who cracks up laughing and then has to stop. "That's not nice." Sportacus.

Who remembers nothing about Rin. "Wow! An airship! Is it mine? (...) How do I get up there?" "First, you have to do some moves… You're going to say the word, it's got L in it." Robbie "Lettuce!" Makes Rin drop a load of lettuces out the trapdoor where the ladder usually comes from. Most of them land on Robbie. "That's not the word." Robbie "I'm sorry." Sportacus "Letters!" Drops a load of letters presumably from the same place.

Robbie gives Sportacus some knitting needles and a ball of blue wool in an indigo box. "Knitting? (Surprise. Is this really what he does best?) Okay…" Sportacus

"I'm gonna create a new circuit pathway… And reboot the hard drive…" Pixel Pixelspix comes back online. Robbie doesn't have an icon. Pixel has some video clips of Sportacus on his laptop and computer.

Robbie plans to pop Rin like a balloon so Sportacus will fly away and never be able to find his way back. I sense a traumatisation coming up… Could Rin hear his plan?

I'm guessing Sportacus can't remember how to say "Interface" to summon Rin so she can tell him what happened and how he could get his memory back.

"I have to stop those kids. What can I use to trap them?" Robbie. He builds them a trap out of some purple wire, some kind of indigo machine part and a lollipop. Mainly by hitting the stuff with a hammer. When Ziggy pulls a lollipop off the ground, it breaks the purple rope which drops a cage down on the kids. Does this set Rin off?!

"I'm really good at this!" Sportacus has knit himself a scarf long enough to cover most of Rin.

Robbie plans to pop her by firing himself out of a cannon wearing a helmet with a spike on it. A bit like the Kaiser and other German soldiers in World War I. Ziggy's face is too wide to squeeze through the cage bars.

Sportacus stores the scarf behind his bed. (If that's the case, then where's the bathroom?) Rin going off gives him his memory back. I'm assuming she went off for the kids and not herself. I'm also assuming she does not feel pain when Robbie manages to land headfirst into her balloon. She wobbles from side to side. But the balloon was not popped or penetrated, as can be seen when Robbie loses his grip and falls.

Sportacus's belt buckle is on the flight pod, but with the colours reversed.

Robbie uses a magenta paint-effect umbrella as a parachute.

Sportacus pushes on the bed and spins it round to reach the scarf, which is long enough for one end to attached to Rin's door and the other to reach the ground in front of the kids' cage. Sportacus swings down to them. "Sportacus!" The kids. "Who?" Sportacus "Oh no! His brain is still drained!" Ziggy. Sportacus winks at them. But he wants the kids to keep it a secret for now…

Robbie lets go of the umbrella parachute and lands straddling a tree branch. Apart from how it usually hurts men when they land like that, he is unharmed. Robbie does make "Aargh..." kind of noises. His helmet falls off.

"Sportacus! Just the hero I've been looking for! Save me!" "No, I meant never never never never save anyone but me! What did I say?" Robbie asks for help, but Sportacus says he doesn't know.

Robbie is wearing red and blue horizontal stripy socks underneath his shoes. He pulls the scarf out so it lands in a pile for Robbie to land in when the branch snaps. Pixel laughs and Stephanie and Ziggy cheer for Sportacus. "I think you need to wear a helmet all the time." Sportacus drops the helmet on Robbie's chest from quite a low height. The kids are laughing at him.

"You know Robbie, even though I have my memory back, I can still be your friend." Sportacus has his hand on Robbie's left shoulder. "(Splutters) Friends?! With friends like you, who needs friends?!" Holding his helmet to his head, Robbie trips over the scarf while hopping around looking for his shoe.

Sportacus can lift the cage. "Now I remember what I really like to do best." (...) (does a twist flip) Before Bing Bang.

Ziggy pretends to be a mummy with the scarf.

"Mr Rotten I, I found your shoe!" Mayor, who then accidentally shoots him out of the cannon not realising he's inside it even though he kept saying "I'm in here!" The cannon fires by pulling an orange lever on the top on the end away from the hole. How did Robbie fire the cannon from the inside then?

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(See The Greatest Gift) I headcanoned characters' birthdays based on what seasons I felt suited their personalities. Trixie's is the 4th July until further notice.

-Birthday Surprise-

The baseball shoots out of a white circular hole below and to the left of the toothbrush holes.

Sportacus somersaults into the floor where his Sky Chaser is waiting. (Probably obsolete after Season 3. Used for something else maybe?) He wears his goggles while riding it. And can pedal fast enough to catch up to a speeding baseball. No that's not a sky chaser. It looks a little bit different. A bit like a sort of plane you sit down and pedal, which also has a steering wheel.

Ziggy has tied a blue ribbon around his finger to remind himself to remember something. "That's very, very important!" But he's forgotten what it is. So he tied a ribbon on his other finger to remind him to remember what the other one is for. But he's forgotten about that one as well.
Trixie has a ribbon on her finger too, but she can remember what it's for. Out of her, Stingy and Ziggy, she is the only one who can remember that it's Sportacus's birthday tomorrow. Headcanon: 10th April. (Until further notice) Today is definitely the 9th of a month.

Stephanie is playing a videogame with Pixel. Looks a bit like Street Fighter with sports candy? And a lot in the background.

"Yeah, you don't have a lollipop in your mouth!" Pixel, when Ziggy asks if they notice anything different about him. "You mean the ribbons on your fingers to remember about Sportacus's birthday?" Stephanie "Why don't we throw him the greatest party ever?" Stingy, after Stephanie suggests the exact same thing.

Robbie's alarm clock is blue with some purple bits. The clock face is white, you can see the numbers 12, 9, 3 and 6 and the others are black dots. The hands are purple. It makes a tinny ringing sort of sound. It is half past 2.

Robbie's wearing indigo pyjamas with purple piping over his usual turtleneck? As well as his dressing gown and nightcap. The cow patch on his blanket has a red background and an orange border. The cow is wearing a bell collar and is chewing some sort of plant. Robbie shuts up the alarm clock by hitting it with an orange hammer, then throws the hammer away. A purple circle on each side of the alarm clock now sticks out on an orange spring. So does the clock face. Robbie falls back asleep immediately after.

The kids are by a sort of wooden climbing frame behind a sunflower bush and a park bench. Stephanie's boom box, Pixel's laptop, and some sports equipment, including a pink baseball bat, are left around on it. The town hall can be seen in the background to the right.

"First of all, I think it would be best if we have the party at my house." Stingy "Well, I was actually thinking that we have at my uncle's house." Stephanie "Excuse me, but there is a fountain outside of my house!" Stingy "Yeah but, the sports field is right here and Sportacus would love to play sports on his birthday!" Everyone except Stingy agrees. "Who needs a sports field when you can have a fountain and a freshly mown lawn!" "He's got a really nice lawn!" Pixel "You can take a bath in the fountain because we're staying here!" Trixie The kids have a massive fight over where to hold the party, and it activates Robbie's loudspeakers, waking him up.
There is a purple bike with a horn and 6 pointed stars on the handles by an indigo crate and in front of the disguise piano. Robbie pulls the periscope down, and then a bit further up so he can look out of it.

"Your lovely car is… (hesitates) Well it's small!" Trixie triggers Stingy.

"Nobody likes kids that argue!... Except me!" Robbie

Stingy splits Lazy Town down the middle with a chalk line. "And never come to my house again!" Stingy. Robbie watches the fight from his periscope and cheers them on. "If I had my way, there'd be a big fence, and we'd never play with you again!" Trixie "I would build a wall so big, I would never see you or even smell you, again!" Stingy. Him and Trixie are being the most aggressive. This could be absolutely nauseating foreshadowing about the 2016 American elections. The kids have been split in half too, Stingy and Pixel vs. Trixie, Stephanie and Ziggy.

Stingy's line about the wall gives Robbie inspiration for his next evil plan. When disguising himself as a builder, the whole outfit was in the tube, but only the hat and fake facial hair came on. The rest, ironed and folded, slid out of the draw underneath the piano. "Must I do everything by myself?!" Robbie tries to put his trousers on over his pyjamas, and falls over the railing. When he lands, he is fully dressed.

Almost immediately after the fight, cooling off at Pixel's house, Pixel and Stingy regret it. "But… I just really wanted to have Sportacus's party at my house!" Stingy "But… It's Sportacus's birthday tomorrow! We shouldn't be fighting!" Pixel Stingy sighs. "We should all be friends! I think we should apologise." "A...pologise?" Stingy. "You know, say we're sorry." Pixel "Yes… We should do that. I want [the apology] to be just right!" Stingy goes home and works on it.

Stephanie is looking through a blue scrapbook with photos of past episodes. One photo per page. From left to right; the kids and their treehouse, Stephanie and Trixie singing about Christmas, Stephanie and Ziggy with a big plank, Ziggy cooking with the Mayor (left one cannot be seen), Trixie and Pixel planning to build their clubhouse, (left one cannot be seen), Stingy, Ziggy and Trixie taking a vacation the day Sportacus could not. From what little I can see of the cover, it looks to be some kind of patterned pink. Stephanie has a little pink fluffy teddy bear. On the right pages, there are two scenes from Playing on the Playground. Then the Mayor holding a trophy and Ziggy running to Stephanie, having raced a Lazy Rocket, Sportacus saving the puppet kids from the ice cream van, the other kids running away from the stage as Sportacus catches Trixie as she falls out of the sky wearing a helmet, pads and rollerskates, Stephanie wipes a tear from her eye reminiscing about her friends. It looks like vertical pink stripes on the cover. There is a yellow flower in a pink pot on her windowsill. More pictures (right pages); Stingy wearing a brown baseball glove and talking to Ziggy, Stephanie with a baseball bat in that same conversation where we can see Stingy is wearing an orange and pale orange baseball cap, Stephanie hugging Stingy before leaving for dance school, then hugging Pixel with Trixie to his left.

A circular light is on above the door to the Mayor's house.

"I'm so smart, I'm so sneaky, and I'm so BAD!" Robbie "Be quiet out there!" Bessie turns the lights on in a room attached to the right of her house that looks like a phone box. The wall has that house and the climbing frame thing behind it. The climbing frame thing seems to have a swing attached made out of some kind of crate, where the baseball equipment is stored. "Sorry!" Robbie, quietly, facing away from the window.

There is a little calendar in Sportacus's airship between the water and the kitchen. The "9" page has a picture of a sun on it in the white middle between the (2 shades of) blue top and bottom. There is a white raised oval thing which the calendar is attached to. Sportacus rips day 9 off to reveal the 10th, with a present representing his birthday.

Stingy has written a very wordy apology letter. "You don't need all that! Just say; I'm sorry." "Yes! 'Cause we're friends!" Pixel

The wall is purple and has a castle turret in the middle.

"You know; Pinky, Swinky, Nixie! And the baldy!" "And they said something about never wanting to see you again!" Robbie

Stephanie makes a note of what they need for the party in her diary.

Robbie's flask was too hot for him. Robbie stirs the kids' enmity up by telling each group that the other one asked him to build the wall so they could never see that group ever again. "You know, Sticky and er... Picky" Bessie is on Stingy and Pixel's side of the wall. "I'm brilliant! Time to sit back, relax, and enjoy the show!" Robbie

"They've cut me off from over half of my town!" "The skateboard's on the other side of this ridiculous wall!" Stingy Pixel picks up a football with yellow pentagons from the floor. "We can't. The goal is on their side!" Stingy And the other goal? On your side?
"All the soccer balls are on that side of the big wall!" Stephanie

"This is too good to be true! The only thing missing is some cake!" Robbie looks in his orange treasure chest like box but there is none. He is sitting under an orange and yellow (two quarters each) paint effect umbrella.

"No no no! Milford would never do anything like that!" [build a wall separating him from Bessie] Bessie has baked a pink and blue sports candy cake for the party. "I have made this special cake for the Sportacus party, and Milford loves my cake!" "I know, he loves it! This doesn't make any sense!" Stingy Robbie steals the cake with a very long orange paddle thing.

"And I have his present wrapped and everything!" Ziggy puts the present down on a pink skateboard with a flower and 2 white waves with red shadows on the top.

"And I was really looking forward to a piece of Miss Busybody's special birthday cake!" Milford, right before Robbie accidentally drops it on him. "I've been attacked! By a cake!" "That's a Busybody cake!" When Ziggy picks up a piece. "Ah! My car!" Stingy, when Ziggy throws the piece onto his car. Bessie and Milford bake more cakes for a cake fight. Pixel ducks his laptop under its table and away from the fight. "I hope this day never ends!" Robbie Something about the cake fight sets off Rin. "Someone is in trouble! On my birthday!" Sportacus

The lights in the sky chaser-like machine garage darken and then brighten when Sportacus enters. "Go!" Probably to open the garage trapdoor near the platform and fly out.

Pixel has his goggles on. "What's this wall doing here?!" Sportacus "Aargh!" (Looks frustrated) Robbie, when Sportacus arrives. His run-up was interrupted by the wall. "I need sports candy to jump over it." "Jump?! Over my beautiful wall?! I don't think so!" Robbie

"Apple!" Sportacus. Rin drops an apple out of the trapdoor where the ladder usually comes out. It's next to the platform, in between that and Rin's back fans. Did Sportacus not see Robbie catching his apple in an orange net, and switching it with a sugar one?! He was looking up waiting for it.

Sportacus loses all his energy mid flip, and manages to keep enough consciousness to grab the wall as he lands on top of it.

"What?! A fake sugar apple?!" Stephanie, before even picking it up. "Pixel, we're gonna need your computer to-" Forgetting that he's on the other side of the wall. "But the ladder's on the other side too!" Trixie, when Stephanie says she needs one to climb a tree and pick an apple.

"Got it. Stephanie, climb up the ladder to Sportacus." Stingy, forgetting that she's on the other side of the wall. "We don't have any [sports candy]. The apple tree's on the other side of this big wall!" Pixel Bessie is just randomly eating some leftover cake in the background, licking her fingers, while Sportacus looks like he's going to be comatose for ever.

Pixel and Stephanie use hammers and chisels to break a brick out of the wall. "No! No!" "No teamwork!" But Robbie just sits there, not doing anything to stop them.

Stingy has some rope in his car. "The apple tree's over here but I can't reach it!" Stephanie. There is one apple growing on one branch considerably lower than the others. Stingy gets Pixel to kick a football from a certain spot so it will hit the apple tree and knock the apple down. It works. Stingy throws a rope over the wall and enough dangles over the edge for Stephanie to climb up with everyone on Stingy's side pulling on the other end.

Stephanie loses her balance and falls off the wall. Sportacus manages to grab her arm. Her feet are hanging quite low to the ground. "Oh my!" Milford "Stephanie!" Bessie kind of screams. The other kids gasped. Sportacus manages to lower her down okay.

Robbie loses his balance while trying to escape and falls off the top of the wall. This brick section he fell off in between 2 pillars is wobbling. He's not that hurt when he lands, but Rin does not go off for him when that section starts falling on him.

Ziggy gives Sportacus a red-and-white striped bowling ball for his birthday.

The wall is wobbling for quite some time, with Robbie just shaking and cowering under it, making no move to run away and escape. Sportacus throws the ball and kicks the pink (Chekhov's Gun) skateboard at the same time, so the ball lands on the end of the skateboard so it flips up on its end, and rolls towards the falling wall, propping it up. Robbie is still scared and makes no effort to get out. Sportacus takes the skateboard away and holds the wall up by himself. Then Robbie crawls out. Then Sportacus puts the wall down.

Sportacus folds his arms when "ROBBIE ROTTEN!" gets revealed.

Stephanie brings in a cake covered in sports candy, presumably baked by Bessie. Has it got any sugar in it?

"Happy birthday!" Stephanie hugs Sportacus.

Sportacus eats a sports candy off the top of the cake. I think he kicked the wall down RIGHT BEHIND STEPHANIE. She was a bit in front, but did he know that? He dances holding the cake.

The mayor, Bessie, Sportacus, Ziggy and Stingy, and presumably someone in front, can carry a section of wall off. Sportacus pushes one all by himself. He dips Stephanie on one hand while holding the cake in the other.

"And I didn't even get any cake!" Robbie He has his own cake, but there is a wall splitting his lair in half and it's on the other side. He reaches through a brick-shaped hole in the wall, but the cake is out of his reach. Does he get stuck?

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Can we talk about how Robbie browned up for his Mayor disguise? Shame on him.

-Double Trouble-

"Carrot!" (looking to the right) shoots a carrot out of a small circular hole in between the water and the kitchen, near the floor. "Carrot!" (looking to the left) shoots a carrot out of a similar hole between the door and a circular section towards the bed. Sportacus uses them as a nunchuck. "Carrot!" (looking to the left) shoots a carrot nunchuck out of the previous hole. "Sports candy and exercise? Perfect together!"

There is a box of "Lazy Crunch" to the left of the kitchen table.

The Mayor's "safari hat" has 2 pink butterflies on it.

"Don't forget! Be back by 3! 'Cause today's the day you announce the annual Lazy Town rule!" Stephanie, to the Mayor. He goes out camping every so often to catch butterflies. Does he keep them or let them go?

"Now those noisy kids will never be able to find my super secret lair, which is so cleverly hidden behind this locked door!" Robbie has nailed planks over his billboard door.

The Mayor walks past Robbie and his lair on his way to catch butterflies. So close he nearly bumps into him. "What's going on?!" Robbie, sounding angry. He flinches when the Mayor walks closer to him.
"Oh Mr Rotten, I'm so sorry!" Mayor "Yes, you should be!" Robbie "Oh, how delightful!" Sarcastically, when the Mayor says he's going to catch butterflies. "And I must be back by 3 o'clock, so I can announce the new Lazy Town rule!" "You're gonna be back at 3 o'clock to announce a new rule?!" Does he notice that he's piqued Robbie's interest with this? Can he sense him scheming? Robbie touches the Mayor's shoulders and leans behind him, saying "A rule that everybody will follow?!" into his left ear. In his right ear; "No matter how selfish and greedy that rule might be?!" In the wrong hands, this power could be very dangerous. As I think we are about to see. The Mayor nods. Then; "What?!" "Never mind! Well, what are you waiting for?" Robbie Briefly touching the Mayor's right shoulder; "Early Mayor catches the butterfly!"

He tries to get back to his lair via the billboard door that he's just nailed shut. "I locked myself out! Uh-oh." And then has to take the planks off with a crowbar propped up against the right side of the steps leading up to the door.

A black and blue butterfly flies by. "Now what did I do with that sunscreen?" Mayor

Robbie has broken a hole in the billboard taking the planks off.

The entrance pipe has the desk with the microwaves behind and to the right of it. "This place needs an elevator!" Robbie He got some sort of white debris stuck to his hands in the pipe.

He has a Mayor disguise already ready in its tube. Things Robbie Rotten is not above; identity fraud and using blackface in his disguises. Or brownface. And I'm sorry, but I thought the production team would have known better.

"The Mayor" claps twice and the mirror appears to his left, the side with the disguise tubes. Robbie can do a decent Mayor impression. Robbie is wearing some sort of plastic head mask which he pulls off.

From left to right; carrots, red cabbage, and regular cabbage (I think) are growing in a garden box.

"The Mayor" turns round to his left and he's Robbie again. He turns in the same direction and he's "the Mayor" again. Robbie is disgusted at his face mask.

Robbie is tapping his fingers on the garden box. All 15 of them. He is surprised to see he has 3 hands. The 3rd hand disappears behind the garden box.

Robbie hammers the camera and it cracks.

"I'm trying to catch a dinosaur in that cage!" Ziggy. The cage is hanging in a tree. "Ziggy, there are no more dinosaurs." Stephanie. Who put that cage up? "But they could come back though, couldn't they?" Ziggy

Where's Trixie? All the other kids are waiting except her. Her rollerskates have gone out of control, that's where. Her helmet has the number 33 on it.

1 of Sportacus's skateboards is just lying around on the floor.

Trixie couldn't stand still on her rollerskates. They look like her normal shoes but with wheels.

"It's after 3 o'clock!" Pixel checks his armband.

Did the Mayor spend all day looking for his sunscreen?! Robbie sneaks up behind the Mayor, kicks his rear end into the orange tent and zips it shut, laughing, tying 2 white ropes next to the opening into a bow for good measure.

"It's almost 3 o'clock!" How did Robbie know? He didn't check a watch.

Did Robbie know that trapping the Mayor would set off Rin?

"Someone is in trouble. I think it's the Mayor." Sportacus, probably because the Mayor isn't here yet. He finds "the Mayor". Outside Robbie's lair. "The Mayor" goes the wrong way to the meeting. Sportacus has to remind him. "Thanks." "The Mayor".

"The Mayor" kneels down so he's closer to the microphone? He declares no more sports candy and everyone is shocked, not suspicious. "I think Milford is just grumpy today." Bessie. She decides to cheer him up by baking him a vanilla cake. "One of your best cakes ever!" Stephanie
"Something is not right…" Sportacus

"This is terrible!" "The Mayor", about a slice of Bessie's cake! "It tastes like… An old shoe!" "Robbie would eat cake if it had sand in it", huh. "And I want you and your icky cake out of town before I get back." (Starts to close the door, then opens it again) "Be GONE!" "Mayor"

Robbie has put up "No Sports" signs all over town, including a "No Swimming" sign on dry land. "How many sports are there?!" "The Mayor", when he orders the kids to put all the sports equipment into a net, and they put in a lot.

Ziggy gets an apple out to snack on after the "No Sports Candy" rule. So he's okay with snacking on some chocolate without any problems. "You heard the Mayor, rules are rules!" The sports equipment net is very heavy.

"You are the kind of person who always follows the rules." "Mayor" "Yes." Sportacus "And you encourage the children to always follow the rules?" "Mayor" "Yes." Sportacus, who sounds cross about the sports candy ban. Rules aren't always good for people. "I do always follow the rules!" Sportacus has been exiled from Lazy Town forever. "Have a nice life!" Robbie, as he shuts the door on him.

Robbie has a dark blue pressing machine that squashes the air out of footballs.

"You know, these new rules are all wrong!" Trixie, angrily "Except for the chocolate rule, right?" Ziggy
The kids (except Stephanie, who's gone to talk with Bessie) go off and find "the Mayor". "We want sports and sports candy now!" Trixie. The others agree. "We don't like these new rules of yours, no!" Ziggy If they don't like the rules, they peacefully try and change them.

"Picky (Pixel), Sticky" "Mayor" "It's Stingy!" Robbie sets a new rule that the kids can have all the ice cream they want… And locks them in the ice cream van. "Kids!" Robbie.

Rin's flight pod seatbelt is blue, the silver buckle has a white 10 in front of a blue S on it. The flight pod's fins retract outwards when released. Pressing a circular silver button next to a blue speedometer thing unfolds a propeller fan out of the back of the flight pod. I'm not a pilot, so I don't completely understand the 5 gauges in the cockpit. From left to right; (in sort of a down, up, down, up pattern) a little speedometer?, A white diagram of the flight pod with L and R on the ends, a "VERTICAL SPEED" meter going in up in fives from 0 to 20 on both the top and the bottom, an altitude meter, I think, and a speedometer identical to the one on the far left. Is that Íþróttaálfurinn on the side of the flight pod, next to all the speedometers and stuff? Pressing a button (I couldn't see, but it was with his left hand) folds the propeller back in, stops the other 2 and stops the flight pod altogether. Some sort of metal circle appears in front of where the biggest fan came from.

Was the Mayor catching butterflies in Lazy Town? Because if so, Sportacus disobeyed a rule to save someone in trouble.

The Mayor has a beige bag with brown piping and a lot of pockets.

Sportacus untied the bow quite quickly. "Sportacus! Oh thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!" the real Mayor crawls out of the tent. "Oh my! Ooh that can't be good!" The Mayor, when Sportacus says someone is pretending to be him. "I have a wonderful disguise! My butterfly catching outfit!" Mayor

Bessie is carrying 2 red suitcases with pink straps around them and white labels. How does the Mayor catch butterflies dressed as a big pink and white fluffy bunny?! (I think this is a Glanni Glæpur reference.) "Does it work?" Sportacus "Actually no. Never has." Mayor "At least no one will recognise you." Sportacus

"You're not my real uncle. My real uncle would never do that!" Stephanie "Well your real uncle would never do this either!" Robbie stamps on the ground to make an orange lever fold up, and pulls it to drop the cage on Stephanie.
Which trapped child did Rin go off for?

Sportacus presses the 10 on his crystal case with his hand to make it unfold into 6 pieces. "Stephanie! You know what to do!" He boomerangs the crystal so it cuts an apple off the tree which drops into Stephanie's hand.

There is some kind of handbrake on the floor of the ice cream van that when pulled up, makes the van start rolling along.

Stephanie can lift the cage off her after one bite of an apple.

"Rope!" Sportacus calls, and a grappling hook drops from the trapdoor where the ladder comes from. There is a ring sticking up on top of the ice cream van (a bit like Po's antenna in Teletubbies) to attach it to. Pulling enough on the rope releases the whole thing. There is a grappling hook on the other end of the light blue rope too.

Sportacus pulls off the padlock. It was attached to some sort of raised dark blue wheel.

He asked the kids if they're alright, they say they're okay, then he sees Stephanie cheering. "I gotta go." And he runs to her.

"Who are you?!" Bessie, to Milford as a bunny. "It's me, Milford!" He takes his bunny nose and teeth off.

Ms Busybody packed a slice of cake in her suitcase. The one she made earlier. "I knew you like my cake!" Ms Busybody. The Mayor throws it at the fake him. Robbie runs away from it, but it lands on the floor and he slips on it.

"Get on my back! Trust me!" Mayor, to Ms Busybody. Piggybacking Ms Busybody, the Mayor jumps on one end of the seesaw and sends the fake Mayor on the other end flying. The seesaw is in a playground with the slide attached to the wall behind it and the Mayor's house is in the background to the left. Robbie flies high above the clouds, then drops back down. Bessie is still being piggybacked by the Mayor.

"Well, who'd have thought?" Bessie, to the Mayor. "Not me." Mayor. When "ROBBIE ROTTEN!" is revealed. Both of them were probably sarcastic.

Stephanie lets go of the sheet she and Sportacus caught Robbie with. Sportacus drops it on him. "Who turned out the lights?" Robbie. The other kids laugh. Stephanie looks cross as Robbie walks off, shaking her head a little. "Oh my! Oh Milford!" Bessie, after Robbie storms off.

"Mr Mayor!" Stingy. He and the other kids only recognise the Mayor when he takes his bunny nose off and pulls his headpiece down. So it's not just Robbie then. Interesting… I chalked his disguises up to magic.

"From now on, the only person who will imitate a mayor in Lazy Town is… Me!" The Mayor's new rule. "It's great to be the Mayor!" Singing. "Let's dance!" To Ms Busybody, as Bing Bang starts. And that's what they do.

A bee buzzes in through Robbie's entry pipe and chases him.

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Sportacus smiles at Stephanie when he sees her. "Woah..." Stephanie, at Sportacus zooming by on… Did the sky chaser always have a propeller where the handlebars meet the wings? It looks slimmer, and he doesn't seem to be pedalling. What is this?

Yelling "Platform down!" from outside lowers the platform. "Up!" takes it back up again.

The sky chaser, or whatever it is, automatically flies into the side of Rin. A metal door slides to the right to reveal the sky chaser-shaped hole it can fly into on its side, the bottom facing the right. Then a circular shutter in the middle shuts leftwards over the top and the whole circular section kind of turns and locks.

"Wow!" Stephanie Her letter shoots up from a small circular hole behind Rin's flight pod, behind its left wing. "Dear Sportacus, I knew you would beat my letter to the airship. Stephanie" On pink paper. None of her Ns are the wrong way round-her handwriting looks different from the 1st episode. "I guess I did." Sportacus

Sportacus gets fan mail. They are addressed to Lazy Town Entertainment. One kid has drawn Íþróttaálfurinn from Áfram Latibær. This could all be breaking the fourth wall, or I could find a way to keep it intact... somehow.

"Anyone can be a superhero." "I wake up at sunrise." Sportacus Probably from all the light shining in his window. Rin plays a rooster noise on her speaker pod to wake him up.

Sportacus jumps out of his boots into a pair of roller skates, (and later vice versa) which we didn't see him get out of the cupboard.

He makes his bed with a hockey stick. Wearing roller skates.

Stepping on a floor light sucks the pillow and the blanket into the wall. "Bed deactivated." Rin. Then the mattress slides up and spins clockwise into the wall. But why with the mattress facing out?

"After my bed is made, it's time for a very important meal." Sportacus The kitchen comes out from the wall when you step on a floor light. Sportacus peels and slices a banana with a table tennis bat, then lies on the floor and catches them in his mouth, flipping back up immediately afterwards. "Apple!" He steps on a floor light, then turns back to face the table with his left hand ready, but nothing lands in it. "No apples?" How did that watermelon get to the middle of the floor? Did Rin put it there? He can't help performing stunts with it before eating it. He winked at the camera. Was that a fourth wall break, or one of Rin's hidden cameras? There is some kind of watermelon cutter next to a blue cup with a crystal case logo, on the side facing the fruit tubes. Sportacus puts the watermelon down there and it is cut into quarters. "Morning is a time when I get my energy for the whole day. And fresh sports candy is my favourite. I like to mix them all together. Delicious!" He only had one bite of a quarter of a watermelon.

With your back to the wall facing the door, the floor light that brings the kitchen table in is somewhere to the left of the table. (Not the nearest) Sportacus was on the other side, so he flipped over the table and landed on it.

He brushes his teeth after breakfast. There is a sort of metal rod suspended horizontally from Rin's ceiling by a metal strip on each end, with 3 holes each, the topmost one bigger than the other 2. With his knees around the bar, the toothbrush hole is close enough for Sportacus to swing to and get the toothbrush. (Was Nausikaa not worried he'd fall off?) "Toothbrush!" just pushes the toothbrush halfway out of the hole, not throws it. Is it because Rin could see where he was? Sportacus does not brush his teeth with toothpaste… Which helps clean and strengthen your teeth…

Stingy has a yellow and orange toothbrushes, sometimes with a blue band round the handle, in yellow and orange safes, 2 on each side of the sink. Inside is a small hole for the head of the toothbrush. The wall above the white tiles is green.

Stephanie uses toothpaste, (white, in a pink white and orange tube) brushing her teeth in front of her desk mirror. There is no sink to spit out excess toothpaste or wash her face. There is some kind of pink tripod thing behind her desk. Maybe an easel without a canvas? On the left of her desk is a pink flower pot containing a yellow 6 petalled flower with an orange centre.

In front of his computer, Pixel uses a silver joystick by his right hand to swivel a superfast tooth brushing machine in front of his mouth. It is activated by typing something into his keyboard. He stops it by pressing a button on his keyboard. It levers into its resting position by the computers, probably facing the door, when he toggles the joystick towards him.

"Smile a mile." Stephanie, to herself in the mirror.

When he was done, Sportacus absentmindedly throws his toothbrush out of the open door. Not for the 1st time. "Sky chaser!" Makes Rin drop a folded sky chaser from her trapdoor and unfold it after a few seconds of freefall. Sportacus lands on it, one hand on the middle of the handlebars, after flipping out the door. Dangerous much? Yes there is a propeller where the wings meet the rod with the handlebars.

He caught up to the falling toothbrush and caught it, then takes it back up to Rin. Does she clean it for him?

After jumping from the sky chaser onto the platform, the sky chaser automatically flies into its special hole in Rin's side.

"Can you believe how much fun it is to brush your teeth?" Sportacus He throws his toothbrush over his shoulder and it lands through the toothbrush hole, which is yellow in the centre.

"Where was I? Ah! My morning exercises!" "Sports spinner!" Raises a wheel of fortune-type contraption up from a square in the floor, from a hole towards the bottom left only big enough to fit the bottom pole through. There is a crystal case but some upward blue stripes where it widens and meets the clear wheel, which is full of blue cards with shining crystal cases. Like what tickets to Rin look like. He spins the wheel clockwise on its right. "The Sports Spinner helps me to pick the right exercise." There is a rounded pointy light on each side. After some spinning, one card presumably falls into the shaft holding up the wheel. Sportacus puts the flap below the crystal case down to reveal a silver flattish boxlike thing. Pressing the crystal case design on the bottom of the front pushes out today's card. Which is "jumping jacks". Very quickly he starts modifying them and then doing his own thing. Was the Sports Spinner replaced by the SuperMoves cards in Rin's speaker pod in Lazy Town Extra?

"Wow! That was great! I'll do one more! (card)" This time we see the front of it, which is white with an orange shining border then a thin red line border, 5 red urn-like icons vertically down the right side, the number 150 in the top left corner, "POWER JUMPING" across the bottom, (in the same font as the episode title) and in the middle a picture of a random girl with a ponytail and an orange, yellow and green unitard, doing a split jump. SPORTACUS DID 15 POWER JUMPS IN A ROW!

"Now I'm warmed up! Let's try something harder!" When the wheel spins, the lights turn on, then off, then turn back on again. Standing near the Sports Spinner, which is in front of the water, Sportacus steps on a nearby floor light to lower the Sports Spinner back into the floor. We never saw the pole hole widen to take in the rest of it.

Stepping on a floor light shoots a football out of a hole in the wall. Sportacus later kicks it back in. It looks to come in and out of the top-right and top left holes next to the bed. Translucent white doors close the holes vertically when the balls go back in.

"My friends in Lazy Town are always doing something active. They love to play! Just like me!" Sportacus.

He accidentally steps on a floor light and a football hits him in the back of the head. "Training still in session." Rin

"Now I'm ready for anything and usually, something happens." Sportacus.

"That's easy. Because I love to move!" When he gets an anonymous light blue letter asking why he moves so much. Or ADHD?

Sportacus can turn round and round on his hands with his legs wide open.

Stephanie scores a basket.

Sportacus has a clear water bottle that looks like 2 circles on top of each other. It says H2O in white outlined in blue on the bottom circle, which is bigger than the top. The lid is dark blue, and has a ring on top of it so he can spin it around on his finger. "Water really tastes great after a workout! Now I have enough energy to keep going all day!" He empties the water bottle into the cup on the table before drinking it. Rin makes a little 2-note alarm sound. "Frozen H2O missing." Before Sportacus drinks the water. Kicking something to the right starts water running in half the clear sphere in the top-centre of the water section. "Bat!" He steps on the floor light and a baseball bat is tossed up from the floor, handle first. It has a crystal case logo on the bat part. "Ice cube!" An ice cube shoots out from somewhere to the left of the water sphere, and bounces off Rin's walls for a bit before Sportacus catches it in the cup.

"Things can get a little busy, but I like it that way."

Another anonymous letter asks Sportacus to teach them a one armed push-up. Who is sending him these letters?
"Yeah! I know a lot of push-ups!" Sportacus Types of push-ups he can do; normal, "triceps" (leaning backwards onto the elbows), one clap per press up, "turning", (like a mid-air twist but on the ground) He sings a little bit during push-ups. "What about something a little bit more difficult?" (Turning wasn't difficult?!) And then does one armed push-ups. "And to the side!" (Fusing it with the triceps from earlier, but to the side) "I wonder if I can jump and clap behind my back?" (As a kind of press-up) He can. "I love it!" He can also do a sort of push-up when he jumps off the floor throwing his arms out in front of him. "And now the best 'til last! One arm and one leg!" (Opposite arm and opposite leg) He's doing this much slower. Is it difficult?

"Table!" The square table is behind the flight pod.

"Push-ups can be hard. But remember, take it one step at a time and remember; never give up!" "Thanks for sending me your letter! I always like to hear from you. Here are some drawings of push-ups." (Written) Does he know who to send it to?
The drawings are kind of like stick figures, or those male icons you see at toilets, but the body parts are separated. The hands are almost circular. The pen is blue and white and the ink is black. There was no command for it. Did it come with the paper?
"Some letters are sent by airmail, some are sent by email, but mine are sent by bowling mail!"

"Door!" But Rin didn't open it and so he bumped into it. (A two-tone beeping sound) "Door not activated." Rin Sportacus needed to turn up the volume on the side of the doorframe. "Door!" "Still not activated." Rin. It took another turn.

Where did the white bungee rope come from? He didn't ask for it. One end only had to be swung towards the top edge of the door to attach to it. The rope is almost long enough to reach the ground. I don't think this is the 1st time Sportacus has forgotten to sign a letter. "Sportacus." A one armed handstand on a floor light shuts the door.

"Time for energy boost." Rin "Time for a Sportacus Club Special!" Sportacus. A what? A sandwich.

"Can't a poor lazy man take a little nap without all this noise?!" Robbie, when his loudspeakers pick up Ziggy calling for help. Robbie had orange fluffy earplugs in. He looks for the noise in his lair, then realises it must be coming from outside. He claps twice and the periscope comes down on his head. "Well, this isn't so bad." When he sees that Ziggy is stuck up a tree. Because of schadenfreude? Until he hears him loudly calling for help again. "But couldn't he fall more quietly?!" Robbie

"But before taking off, I try to locate the problem." Sportacus. His crystal doesn't tell him where the trouble is. Does he store his telescope under his jacket?

He found Robbie's periscope in his telescope. Robbie gasps and quickly moves his head sideways out of view.

Pressing the silver circle button (in the outside red part) to the right of the cockpit lines Rin's 3 fans up behind each other. It seems Rin was a short flight away from Lazy Town, so Sportacus's telescope must have quite some zoom. She was flown quite low to the ground, close to Stingy's house and the almost dome-like orange roof of a large building in front of it.

Sportacus had to touch something on the floor behind the air pump to flip up the rectangular lid in the floor (towards Rin's door wall) and pull up the handbrake inside. He has both the bungee rope and the really really long scarf.

"Where is that blue elf going?!" Robbie. Right towards his periscope view.

1 of Sportacus's skateboards is randomly lying there on the floor. (2-tone blue-and-white with a crystal case design in the middle. The wheels are white.) Robbie gasps and he can see Sportacus's crotch through his periscope before he jumps right over it. "Woah!" He ducks down from the periscope.

Ziggy lands right on Sportacus's upper body and he doesn't seem harmed. Ziggy offers him the lollipop that fell from the tree. "No thanks." Sportacus

"I can't stop [Sportacus]!" Robbie

"3, 4 or even 5 saves a day, that's normal! I mean, it is Lazy Town!" Sportacus

Robbie is still watching him through his periscope.

Sportacus lands on the end of the seesaw, accidentally shooting Stingy up in the air.

"You!" Robbie points at Sportacus through the periscope window.

Sportacus catches Stingy.

"Mayor Meanswell. He's always in trouble!" Sportacus. The Mayor was just safely walking by carrying some cake. Not in trouble yet!

"Thanks again! Bye!" Stingy, to Sportacus. "This time, you go on the high end!" Stingy, to Trixie, about a seesaw.

"If it wasn't for that good for nothing, warm-hearted, generous healthy quack! Everyone would still be lazy in Lazy Town!" Robbie then grunts.

There are bits of red and orange on Sportacus's tennis racket.
"Carrot!" causes Rin to drop one out of the trap door. Sportacus catches in the mesh of the tennis racket.

There is another random skateboard lying around, this one is pink with a thick red stripe in the middle and pink wheels. Is there no place to put skateboards?!

"Stephanie knows that sports candy gives her extra energy." Sportacus

Robbie cleans his periscope by breathing on it and wiping it with his finger. Is he watching "Energy" through his periscope? After Sportacus does a split, we cut to Robbie who is looking through the periscope with his left eye tilted forward. He raises his eyebrows and ducks out of sight.

Stingy's car is parked between a bench and some hurdles, a small distance away from the wall. The trailer is not with it.

Robbie looks excited when Stephanie accidentally kicks a football towards the Mayor, through the window of his house. (Sportacus catches it like he's saving a goal, so Robbie gets cross.)
"This is Lazy Town, not Sporty Town!" Robbie

When calling "Sky chaser!" on the ground, Rin drops it from her trapdoor, unfolds in midair and it flies somewhere near Sportacus, hovering above the ground. (If it enters Rin at the wall, how does it get out the trapdoor?)

"As usual, everyone in Lazy Town is safe and happy. Well, almost everyone." Robbie did not try and put a stop to the rest of the town's energeticness today. "What a bunch of selfish LazyTowners!" "Who cares about them? I don't. I don't!" Robbie. He pushes the periscope away but it swings back towards him. "My leg!" On jumping over the rail to dodge it and landing on the floor. Does this set off Rin?

She displays a white clock on her bed door, with white rectangles where 12, 9, 3 and 6 are, 8:08 in numbers between 6 and 9, and a thick white line with rounded semicircular edges for a hand. Probably a second hand, because of how fast it's ticking. "Countdown to bedtime." Rin swivels the bed out. Sportacus steps on a white floor square as he rushes to the bed. Is this what deploys the blanket and pillow? He sleeps in the outfit he was wearing that day. He doesn't change into pyjamas.

"To be a superhero, you need to move, eat great and sleep great. Then you're gonna feel great! And nothing can stop you!" Rin doesn't dim any lights indoors. It is still a bright sunny day outside. Is it summer?

Robbie has not just hurt his leg, but there is a bandage round his head and his arm is in a sling. (This is mostly recycled footage, isn't it… This bit is from the end of Welcome to Lazy Town.)

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Anderson Island is a headcanon island in the North Sea, a small island that's part of Iceland. Fun fact, I named it after Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, creators of Thunderbirds.

-Little Sportacus-
Sportacus gets a letter from a 10 year old named Tommy. Sportacus loved to play dodgeball when he was Tommy's age. (living on Anderson Island therefore, I think, about a year after his father dies)"Ball!" summons a blue ball with a go faster stripe around it from the window below the toothbrush holes, to the left of the bed. The stripe ends in 2 points, one above the other, they would have overlapped otherwise. Sportacus plays dodgeball with himself, as the ball bounces off Rin's walls. "And I still love playing dodgeball!"

Robbie sucks his right thumb in his sleep, holding a bowl of popcorn in his other hand. He wakes up from a nightmare where he says "It wasn't me!" His arms creak when he stretches them out. "Time for chocolate!" Almost immediately after he wakes up.
"I wonder what those kids are doing?" When there is a loud ball bouncing sound coming from the loudspeakers.

"I took them off!" Ziggy, about his bike stabilisers. "Be careful!" Stephanie is worried. He's doing fine at the moment… "I can go really fast!" "I haven't learned that yet!" When Stephanie tells him to use his brakes. He can ride a bike with stabilisers but doesn't know how to use the brakes…

You can fit a grappling hook on Rin's red and white stripes. There is a hook on the other end of the rope. Sportacus slides down it, his legs perpendicular. The yo-yo seemed to be in his hand already without him saying anything. There is a big yellow Z on the top of Ziggy's red yellow and blue helmet, and the number 44 on the side. The saddle on Ziggy's bike has a red pole going round it. There is a gap between it and the yellow saddle big enough for a yo-yo to catch into.
"I was trying to ride a 2-wheeled bike, but I suppose I'm just too little." Ziggy "You learn more when you're little than any other time in your whole life." Sportacus "If that's true, I'm going to learn a lot now, so when I grow up, I'll know everything!" Ziggy

How many midair twists did Sportacus do in a row?!

"If only Sportacus was little, he couldn't ruin my plans! But that's impossible! (gets a bright idea) Or is it…" Robbie says his name right. He has to use some strength to push a big indigo square crate, with no lid. Inside is an indigo suitcase, some kind of purple rollerskate gadget, an orange I don't know what that is, an orange and really loud air horn, and more. Robbie makes a "Littlizer 3000" eternal youth machine by hitting an orange umbrella light thing with a hammer and loads of different objects fly off it. AN ETERNAL YOUTH MACHINE. Is there no limit to his power?! And he uses it for such small purposes... Pressing the yellow button next the umbrella turns on a red light at the top of the machine next to the button and the umbrella beams down orange rings like it's a UFO, more then less until there is none. The fishing rod with the umbrella can be removed from the machine.

There is a cockatoo perched on an indigo mechanical part in Robbie's lair. A pet of his? Robbie tries to turn into a chick but it becomes an egg.
"Maybe I have to tune [the machine]!" Robbie "Now it's ready!" After using an indigo spanner-like tool on a red wheel on the fishing rod.

"1201…" Sportacus counting how many skips he's done. With a load of leaves and twigs on his head, Robbie sticks his head up from the bush, Sportacus could have seen him from the side, but he didn't. "2208…" Sportacus has his back (well, quite far to his right) to Robbie when Robbie uses the machine on him. Little Sportacus didn't hear Robbie laughing…

"Who are you?" Ziggy doesn't recognise him even though he's wearing his adult clothes. And his trousers haven't fallen down yet… Ziggy laughs when Sportacus says who he is. "If you are Sportacus, you would know my ultra-top-secret nickname! That I told nobody else…" "It's Mr Fluffy Bunny-pants…" Sportacus whispers to him. Ziggy recognises him after that. "Nobody can see you like this! The kids would freak out! Especially Stephanie…"

Pixel's house has a doorbell, which makes a ding-dong bell-like sound. Pixel is using Pixelspix. There are 3 rectangular buttons in the top right of a machine under his computer, orange, then blue, then orange. Pressing the right orange one pops up a window onto his computer, and makes the top-right CCTV on his house zoom into whoever pressed the doorbell. A red light flashes above the camera. "I need to borrow some of your clothes!" Ziggy Pixel has 3D nets of some trousers, a shirt, socks and shoes on his computer. Some sort of extendable crane machine-like gadget delivers the clothes to Pixel wrapped in an orange packet with a blue ribbon. The grabber thing then delivers it outside to Ziggy.

Robbie's bush is purple with white flowers growing on it. Pixel's clothes fit a 10-year-old boy. Robbie pops his head along to Stephanie bouncing the ball as a beat. If you change the key a couple of times in California Girls by Katy Perry, it can be mashed up with Time to Play. Stephanie gets suspicious of little Sportacus's stunts. He seemed to forget Ziggy's instructions to blend in, thanks to ADHD? Because he was enjoying himself too much? Robbie steals Sportacus's adult clothes.

Instead of just asking Sportacus directly if that's who he is, Stephanie rips out a page of her diary, and deliberately lets it blow away in the wind for him to save it. I'm guessing Sportacus did between 5 or 10 handsprings in a row to catch up to it, but some of them were off-camera. He handsprings back to her, still forgetting Ziggy's instructions. "Come on, nobody can flip like that except for Sportacus." Stephanie "Hi Sportacus!" Ziggy forgot too, and then realised as soon as he said.

Stingy's asleep on Pixel's sofa in the middle of the day. Trixie tickles his nose with a feather. "If you really are Sportacus then you can do incredible jumps!" Trixie, who believes him along with the other children when he does a split jump. "Pixel, did you have your house cam on today?" Stephanie. "Yeah! I got everything on video." Pixel. There is a 3D model of one of those film reel cameras against a blue grid background window on his computer screen. "Watch the big screen!" Pixel points to his left. Pixel is monitoring a wall near the Mayor's house on CCTV. Footage of Sportacus skipping appears on a blue TV to the left of a window. It is opposite the sofa. "Look! That bush is moving!" "It's a guy wearing a bush!" Ziggy. You can see Robbie's face quite close-up on the TV. "Interesting choice of costume." Stingy
Pixel presses a button on his keyboard and his UFO camera comes out from somewhere on the ground. The camera can stick out a little distance like a snail's eye and its silver lens can open and close. Pixel puts his goggles on and presses a button to open up the roof. "Look at all those leaves! Must have fallen off the costume. Deductive reasoning." Stingy, about a trail of purple leaves shown on the camera. The trail leads to Robbie's billboard. "What's out there?!" Pixel, about the billboard. Stephanie decides to go out and follow it. "You guys stay here and watch the monitor, okay?" Pixel gives her a walkie-talkie.
"A cow?" Stingy "I don't get it!" Trixie, about the billboard. The kids don't see the door in the billboard until Stephanie falls through it. It opens towards the back. Stephanie's clearly never been here before. She looks kind of fascinated and curious.

The kids all arrive at the exterior of Robbie's lair. Pixel controls the camera with the remote screen thing he's carrying. "I'll send the hovercraft down there so we can watch it on this video monitor!" Which is displaying a 3D net of the hovercraft on it on a blue grid background square. "Pixel, [the hovercraft is] great!" Ziggy. The hovercraft can fit down the entrance pipe without touching any of the walls. There is a white light on each side of the bottom of the hovercraft, which flash alternately.
About the interior of Robbie's lair; "Wow," Ziggy "It's cool!" Pixel "Look at this place, it's amazing!" Trixie "It's a bit spooky," Ziggy "This place is huge!" Pixel The camera's vision is somewhat fisheye. Robbie's hair is mostly covered, but the kids can see his face from the side on the camera. His sideburns are visible.

"Rope!" Rin drops one to Sportacus from the trapdoor with the stairs, even though his voice hasn't broken. Is this the first time Sportacus has been in Robbie's lair? Now they've been in each other's homes, both without being invited. When the hovercraft shakes the table, Sportacus catches the cockatoo egg before it can roll off. This wakes Robbie up. Again, nobody recognises Robbie's face when it's close-up on the camera. Sportacus's adult clothes fit on Robbie's disguise mannequin. Did Sportacus spin round to change back or was he spun round? Robbie put a self-destruct timer on the Littlizer. Turning it to 10 from where 12 would be, is 10 seconds. It is purple between 10 and 6, and the rest is orange. 12, 9, 3 and 6 are white lines with blue shadows, and the other numbers are silver dots. Sportacus presses a button when when the red hand gets to 12. "I guess I was wrong. I only needed 8."

The Mayor was cutting a bush on the other side of the wall near his house. The kids could see "ROBBIE ROTTEN!" when he landed on it. They probably now know where he lives.
There is smoke coming from the entrance pipe to Robbie's lair. "Sportacus, I learned something important today," "You're never too little to learn. And, if a bush comes at you with a fishing rod and an umbrella, RUN!" Ziggy

The cockatoo chick hatches, and its first words are "Mama!" Looking at Robbie. "What, me?"

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I know I haven't posted on here in a while. In fact, my last post was the very day before something major went down in my personal life...
And so I haven't felt like writing LT fanfiction in a while. But now I'm starting to get back into it, while multitasking projects from different fandoms.
The good news is that Bado Innos's channel is still up and I've been making some notes on the LT Extra episodes they've recently uploaded. There is also a section for this season labelled 'All episodes', where I keep notes on common tropes and things throughout each Extra episode, I think I'll post them when I've seen 'all episodes'.

-Goal!-
"Hi kids!" Sportacus There is no-one, not even any more adults, in the room with him. "Are you ready for today's SuperMoves? Perfect!" After Sportacus scores a penalty kick and cheers, Rin drops a football from her ceiling. "Where did you come from?" Sportacus "Soccer ball in place." Rin, ater Sportacus kicks a FOOTBALL back into a hole in the wall. "I love to play!" Sportacus

Ziggy is wearing a pair of flying goggles. He is next to break the fourth wall, but thought we were behind him. Ziggy has already been talking to faraway friends (How? Letters? Phone calls? Video chat? How did they become friends?) who have given him the clue "nets are very important!" for today's "Ziggy Activity". He likes flying around the world to go on playdates with friends.

According to scientists, and the Mayor, Uruguay was the first country to win the World Cup. The Mayor loves dancing the salsa.

I think Ziggy always misinterprets the clues his friends give him. He brought a butterfly net instead of a goal net. "Football! Is that the same as soccer?" Ziggy "Hi Ziggy!" The coach and football kids all know Ziggy's name. Joe and Luke probably told everyone that their friend Ziggy was coming over beforehand. Ziggy doesn't join in with the football game.

Stingy wants to be good at football. Stingy misread a rulebook and thought you need 11 footballs, not 11 football players on a team. His yellow bib says "8" and he has white gloves with yellow bits. Stingy's ball has yellow shapes on it.

Ziggy wonders if cows would come onto the football pitch during a game and start eating the grass. And he doesn't know you're not allowed to use your hands unless you're a goalie. Joe and Luke have different opinions on the best way to kick a football, the side of your boot or the laces. Nice headers, Ziggy.

"Sportacus Challenge coming up! Email ready!" Pixel His camera is already flying around. It's at the bottom of the UFO. The camera can talk "Searching... (for Sportacus) Not yet" He uses it to look for Sportacus. Django in St. Louis has sent Sportacus a challenge; (how does he know about him?) can he do a backflip and kick a football at the same time? Yes he can. And score a goal too. (undefended) Pixel writes an email back to Django in St. Louis. "Your friend, Pixel. This is Pixel saying; See you next time with another cool Sportacus Challenge!" He says this to the computers, so who is he talking to?

"That was Zigtabulous!" Ziggy He can't wait to get back to Lazy Town and teach everyone how to play football... which they already know, surely.


-I Love Sportscandy!-

"The Sportacus move!" Sportacus, when he draws the "dab" card for today's SuperMove.

Some articles in the "LazyTown News" the Mayor's reading; "LazyTown Spring in the Air", something about Sportacus I can't quite read, "The Mayor is planing to paint the house blue", "Few words from Robbie Rotten", "Is Ziggy The New Hero?" Stingy claims to have found "the secret to life itself! Aaaah!" "Will you pay me?" Stingy, when the Mayor asks what it is. "Aren't we being stingy today," when the Mayor refuses to pay him. "I know I don't need it, but I want it." Stingy, about his plan to get all the children of the world to send him their sweets to make it easier for them all to eat sports candy instead. "No! Don't send anything to him! Please!" The mayor, directly at the camera. If I remember correctly, the Stingy and Mayor segments aren't nearly as self-aware as others. Usually they just interact as if no one is watching them. Did the characters script this scene and then act it out?

Ziggy knew the names of all the fruits. There are a lot of kids exercising with Sportacus. Is he running some kind of gym now in the sports centre? Some of the kids have "Lazy Team" on their shirts. Another girl has a LazyTown logo on her orange cheerleader outfit.

"Does fruit always grow on the ground?" "Can you pick berries even when they're green?" "Not (picking fruits) by feet?" "I eat fruit nearly as much as I eat lollies!" Ziggy.

"There's only one thing that is fun about SPORTS CANDY, (overly enunciated in disgust) and that's playing with it!" Robbie. He claps twice and all the lights go off except for a spotlight on him. "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, cats and dogs…" You can hear cats and dogs in the background. Robbie claps twice and the lights go back on. For someone who hates sports candy, he has a lot of apples in that big purple trunk. He seems to think juggling apples means taking them out of the trunk and throwing them over his shoulder. A LOT more apples fall out of the air than he tossed out. He gets stuck under a pile of apples on his chair. Does Sportacus save him?


-Ready, Set Go!-

"SuperMoves program activated." Rin, with no prompt other than the usual flipping. Is it a timed thing? "My favourite time of the day!" Sportacus. "Let's go!" "Start now!" Rin, after catching the empty card box.

Stephanie moves the TV camera around, and presses a little lever-switch below a blank screen to the right down to start filming. The screen above changes from a spinning globe on a blue background to the Mayor and Bessie, and an orange light on the right side of the camera, high up and close to the edge facing Bessie and the Mayor, turns on. "Scientists have recently discovered…" Bessie. I think the knowledge of how the marathon got its name has been around for a long time. "Oh Mayor, must I do everything?" Bessie.

Ziggy has a train track with a train and carriages that move all by itself.

"You know that's one of my favourite Lazy Town songs..." Stephanie, about No One's Lazy In Lazy Town.

While running a relay race, Stingy hid in the Mayor's house so Trixie wouldn't take his baton.

"Can you use a lolly instead? [of a baton]" "Have you heard of the Lolly Olympics? I hope to win a medal one day!" Ziggy

At the bottom of Pixel's email, there is an S icon with an icon of Sportacus's face in front. "Searching…" "Object found!" Pixel's UFO, in a non-smooth robotic voice. "I'm on the sports field!" Sportacus is in front of a goalpost, with Stingy's car parked to the right of it. The theatre, Stingy's house and a bit of the sports centre can be seen in the background. Today's challenge is from Maria in England; can Sportacus run around Lazy Town in less than 10 seconds? "10 seconds?! That's pretty fast… But I think I can do it!" Sportacus. That was 20 seconds. I counted. Not 9 seconds, as Pixel says. Pixel had UFO footage on one screen and the time up on the screen to the diagonal bottom right. "Your friend, Pixel." Pixel, signing off his email.


-Fantastic Gymnastics!-

"Let's see what the [SuperMove is] today." Sportacus probably does 1 of these a day. "SuperMoves ready." Rin, getting the cards out. The card for "Handstand" is one-handed, with the legs spread almost to the sides.

Stephanie is making another apple castle all by herself. "You're not playing with your food, you should never do that you know!" Trixie, to Stephanie. "I'm making a plate of sports candy for Ziggy's birthday." Stephanie. There are loads of sports candy creations all over the table. "I almost forgot! It's tomorrow!" Trixie. "And remember last year, when everyone went home with a stomachache?" Stephanie. "Too much sugar!" Both of them. (Happy Brush Day?) Stephanie has made Ziggy a pirate ship and a racecar out of sports candy. "We can always dress up as knights and play some cool games!" Trixie.

Ziggy likes banana splits. "Sportacus loves gymnastics and so do I!" Ziggy.

The Mayor is mopping the floor "for Stephanie's split practice." She's practised the splits yesterday and the day before that. "How often you have to practice? Every day?" Stingy. "Well that explains why I can't do the splits." Stingy only practices the splits once a year. "Never practice the splits on a wet floor." Stingy.

"That's amazing! I could never do that!" Ziggy, about some girls doing cartwheels in a line.

"When you move, you have to stretch!" Sportacus.

"I once did a handstand for a really, really long time, like… 2 seconds!" Ziggy.

Robbie claims he can walk on his hands and tries to set a world record in it. He spits on his hands, then claps them together and they get stuck. He actually can walk on his hands for (wobbling a bit, with his legs bent towards his back), but cracks appear in the lair floor with each hand step until he Wilhelm screams down a big hole.

"Ah, ouch... I'm stuck!" Ziggy seems to cartwheel up from the floor. He can stand with his legs really wide, but he can't do the splits yet. His underpants are blue with yellow Zs outlined in red, as seen when he splits a hole in his crotch trying to do the splits… His face looked like he was doing a poo.


-Splish Splash!-

"Time to play." Rin, after Sportacus flips out of the cockpit. "That means only one thing! SuperMoves!" Sportacus. Rin passes him the cards. "Bye bye shark!" To a big imaginary shark Sportacus was surfing away from.

While watching the children swimming, Ziggy is holding a microphone with a "TV" logo on it, like a sort news reporters use.

"I went to the sports store and bought all the best equipment; goggles, snorkel, flippers, swimming trunks, but still… I can't swim!" Stingy. "No, I bought everything." When the Mayor says that there are still 2 important things missing; practice and "water wings". (armbands, I'm assuming) "You mean like Ziggy wears in the swimming pool?! That's just silly." Stingy. "Can I own them?... What about the air inside of them?" Stingy, when the Mayor gives him his old armbands. "Yes Stingy, you can own the air." Mayor "Ah… Nice strawberry…" To a cake he was decorating with strawberries.

"I can't wait to learn to swim!" "Do you have to have special floaty arms and legs to swim?" "I looove bathtime!" Ziggy. "Have you got a tail like a goldfish?" After asking Erin if she can swim underwater like a goldfish, and she says yes. "You like you're wearing funny-looking sunglasses in the pool!" Ziggy didn't know what swimming goggles are. "Can only dogs do the doggy paddle?"

"Scanning… Object found." Pixel's UFO, looking for Sportacus. Pixel is speaking into a microphone attached to the table.Today's challenge is from Alex from Chile; can Sportacus jump up and grab an apple from a tree? Yes he can, by kick flipping the apple off the branch. The computer closest to the table and behind the keyboard has a red light in a sort of dark blue oval to the right of the screen with "ON" above it in white and "OFF" below. The computer screen to his right and close to the desk is black and scrawling white text. "Shutting down the Sportacus Challenge! All systems off, Pixel out!" Pixel sends Alex from Chile an email and turns off his computer.

Ziggy has invented the "Ziggy paddle", where it looks like you just flap your hands around. He has his own yellow rubber ring and armbands, with a blue circle on each one with his "Z" logo in the middle.


-Clean Up!-

"Hi kids! Are you ready for today's SuperMoves?! Perfect!" Sportacus. Rin then tosses him the cards otherwise unprompted. Sportacus's name logo is under a silhouette of him doing a one-handed handstand. "A double move!" Sportacus. There is no writing on the card apart from his name and the number 10. But he knows this card means 2 moves in 1. "When you do jump or spin, always make sure you have plenty of room!"

"Hey everyone! SuperZiggy here…"

Stephanie advises Trixie to wash sports candy before she eats it, which she thinks is a crazy idea.

Ziggy has a dark brown teddy bear and a blue face cloth with a yellow Z outlined in red. Also a red "special superhero snuggle blanket" covered in lollipops and sweet wrappers.

"Oh Stingy! Good to see you my young friend!" Mayor. Stingy plans to host a pizza party at his house for all his friends. "So I want everyone to take a bath before eating my pizza." Stingy misunderstands that you should wash your hands before eating. He doesn't want people washing their hands in his sink and getting dirty, so he tries to borrow the Mayor's.

"My blanket is still all sticky!" Ziggy.

Sportacus gives us a V-sign while explaining a "two for one" move. (Combining 2 moves at the same time)

Ziggy's snuggle blanket is so sticky that it has stuck to his hand.

Robbie's lair is messier than usual. He tries to set a world record in cleaning it up. "Someone say… Go, Set, Ready!" He turns round and is in a white and purple frilly apron with a matching nurse hat thing, holding a blue feather duster. Robbie cleans his lair really fast, almost warp speed, by stuffing everything into a big indigo safe, full to the point of exploding back out again. 1 of the things that exploded back out of the safe was the toy magnet thing from Sportacus Saves The Toys.

"I'll be a real soaperhero!" Ziggy.


-Pedal Power!-

"Time for SuperMoves." Rin. "I'm ready!" Sportacus. "Activate!" Rin passes him the cards. "Ready, set, go!" While standing facing the bed, Sportacus steps on a floor light to his left and a rectangle opposite the bed comes down to allow a section of floor with a rolled mat on it to come up, and the mat unrolls automatically. There are go faster stripes on each side, slightly curved; dark blue-grey, white, black, white, dark blue-grey. To put the mat away, Sportacus steps on the same floor light that got it out. The match rolls up by itself, and it is put away the same way it is taken out, just reversed.

"Ready to go on another Zigtacular Zigtastic adventure!" Ziggy.

"Ah, Europe. What a lovely country!" Bessie.

"Ziggycadabra!" Ziggy waves his wand at an upside down top hat with a lollipop already inside.

Stingy's bike helmet is blue. It has the number 8 on the side in red. He is looking for a yellow one. He doesn't want to ride his yellow bicycle with a blue helmet because they will not match. "As Mayor of Lazy Town, I officially request that you go outside and play!" "Well, as Prince (rolled R) of Lazy Town, I grant your request, my humble servant!" Stingy. The Mayor was baking a cake. The oven pings when it's ready.

"I fall off my bike all the time." "Does your bike have special magic powers to help you do tricks?" "So do I!" Ziggy, when Cameron says no, but he wishes it did. "Does eating sports candy help you do better tricks?"

There is a logo of Sportacus's face in front of an S in the bottom right corner of Pixel's Sportacus Challenge email. He beams it up to Rin using a little satellite dish on the top of a long metal pole tower. There was a 3D net model of Rin on Pixel's computer screen. He types something underneath and presses enter. On receiving the email, the door to a compartment with a TV opens upwards, and the TV turns round so the screen faces from the wall to the ceiling to outside. There are 3 silver button things on each side of the screen. Pixel's Skype feed is already on it. Pixel's computer can see Sportacus looking at the TV. "I think I can." Sportacus, when pixel says that Jonathan from Italy wants to know if he can do a football throw-in in a cool way. When Sportacus says "Ball!", Rin throws a black-and-white football out of a hole next to his bed, quite high from the floor.

Ziggy's bike is blue with stabilisers. "Maybe one day, I'll be able to ride really really well, without stabilisers!" The wheels of his bike are yellow and the mudguards and pedal thing are red.


-Picnic Time!-

"I feel like moving!" Sportacus. "Time for SuperMoves!" Rin, throwing him the cards. Today's card has a line of white silhouettes below the blue one. Sportacus can do press ups; one-handed, two-handed, forwards and backwards, clapping or twisting in between, and using a basketball.

"Ziggy the Zigtacular here!"

"Coconuts are filled with delicious coconut juice!" Stephanie. "It's just like… Just like coconut juice!" Trixie has never tried coconut milk before until now. "I can't wait to see the look on the others faces!" Trixie. "Me too. They're gonna be so surprised!" Stephanie. I'm assuming Ziggy, Stingy, and Pixel haven't tried coconut milk before either.

The Mayor has a framed picture of Bessie on top of a filing cabinet in his office. "Is Ziggy's birthday party over already?" Is this after Happy Brush Day? Stingy ate "a full bowl of toffee taffy for the party", got a massive sugar rush and then a massive sugar crash. The Mayor has a bowl of apples on his desk. He invites Stingy to take one and he takes the whole bowl.

"Picnics are the best!" Ziggy laughs.

"I know the secret recipe for the most energetic drink in the whole world!" Robbie ducks behind the table with the chemistry set comes back up in a chef's hat and a white apron trimmed with purple, and a black fake moustache. He drops the French accent after taking the moustache off. Recipe; (a bowlful of) sugar for running, a toffee sweet for soccer, 2 lollipops for swimming, ("of course, everybody knows that!") And liquorice syrup ("Not too much!") for basketball. "Now let's mix it up!" He puts the ball in the microwave to the right and the steaming drink in an orange glass comes out of the left one. "Now I'll drink this and become the strongest, and the fastest villain, IN MY LAIR!" "Maybe, it needs more sugar!" Before passing out.


-Let's Dance!-

"The only way to start such a great day is with some super moves!" Sportacus looks at Rin's pod, and she says; "Programme activated," and gets the cards out. This is the 1st thing he does that day, even before brushing his teeth. "Power jumps" seem to be another word for split jumps. "This is 1 of my favourite jumps! It takes a lot of practice to do them, so we should start right away!" Sportacus can do 2 in a row.

Some sheets of paper drop on Milford's news desk from above, with the latest updates on the most popular dance in the world. Milford also has a blue fax machine on his desk. More paper updates are dropping from the ceiling.

"I love dancing!" Ziggy

"Ah, Stingy my good friend!" Mayor, when he enters his house. "I don't know these fancy dances. (the salsa and cha-cha-cha) In fact, I don't know any dances!" Stingy. The Stingy Wiggle; when you wiggle your arms and fingers about. Stingy then ask the Mayor to stop doing it "because it's my dance!" He'd totally copyright claim stuff on YouTube, even if he didn't actually own it.

Ziggy's beatboxing sounds more like blowing raspberries to an out-of-tune beat. He has his own dance move; the Ziggy Walk, which seems to be walking backwards and then forwards to a conga-type beat. "Bet you can't lick your medal like this!" Ziggy licks his lollipop.

"Sportacus challenge coming up! Downloading data… Maximise!" Pixel. "Subject located!" When Pixel's UFO finds Sportacus, it gets its screen out with Pixel's face on it. "Another challenge? That's great! Who is it from?" Sportacus. He drinks from a bottle of water before attempting a somersault with a double spin. "Online!" Pixel's UFO, making a load of beeping noises, before Sportacus attempts the move. He succeeds, doing a triple spin instead. "That was unbelievable!" Pixel.

Christian and Luke taught Ziggy to spin around on the floor really fast curled up into a ball on his back. He is dizzy afterwards. "That was dizzytastic!" He loses his balance and falls backwards.


-Smart Art!-

"Hi kids! Are you ready for today's SuperMoves?" Sportacus. "SuperMoves program activated." Rin, who then gets the cards out. "And now, a little bit extra!" Sportacus, getting up after doing the splits. "Let's go!" Rin.

"Wow! Cool factor 10!" Trixie, after seeing Stephanie's face pizza. "Thanks Pink-er I mean Stephanie, you're the best friend ever!" Trixie sighs when hugging her, but this could be a friendly thing.

Stingy is drawing a piggy bank, outlined in pink and not coloured in yet, but is hogging all the crayons except the red, which the Mayor is using. When the Mayor asks for the blue crayon to draw Sportacus with, Stingy won't give it to him. "It's much more fun to share!" Mayor. "It is?" Stingy. "Art is not only something we do by ourselves, but we share it with the whole world! And when people see our pictures, they see life in a whole new way! Maybe art will even inspire them to do wonderful things with their lives!" Mayor "So you're saying that by sharing with others I can make their lives better?… I don't buy it." "I'm going to give you some really good advice, because I like you." Stingy then suggests that the Mayor draw an invisible Sportacus. "First I will draw his funny little hat!" Mayor, after Stingy eventually gives him the blue crayon.

Ziggy paints a picture using a big lollipop as a paintbrush. "I wanted to draw a picture of a lollipop, not put paint on my lollipop!" Ziggy then throws the lollipop away. "My favourite colour ever to paint with is blue, and I like to wear it too!" "I once painted a picture of Stephanie and gave it her because she's my best best best friend in the whole world!" Ziggy.

Robbie has a painting of the Mona Lisa or a copy, framed with the caption "RR 1." He picks it up from the floor, off-camera. "How can this be famous! She's not even smiling!… Or is she?" Robbie tries to set a world record for the most famous painting in the whole world, with a painting of a stop sign. But he gets his hand stuck through it doing a 'Ta-daaa!' gesture.

Ziggy has painted himself, "Superhero Ziggy... saving all the lollipops in the world!" (Coloured dots surrounding him) "And since I've saved them, I get to eat them too!" (WTF...)


-Slam Dunk!-

"Ready. Time for SuperMoves." Rin gives Sportacus the cards after he finishes some handsprings. What time is it? The silhouette is of Sportacus with a basketball, apparently the card represents "8 basketball jumps." Sportacus scores a basket when he throws a basketball out of the door and it lands in a basketball hoop somewhere in Lazy Town. "Basketball shot; 3 points." Rin. "I love to play!" Sportacus.

According to Ms Busybody, basketball was first played in Canada in 1892. "An instructor in Springfield, Massachusetts, wanted to create a game that students could play inside during the cold winter months." "Look how fragile-" Ms Busybody pops 1 of the apparent first basketballs ever with a knitting needle.

The Mayor has been making a "tutti-frutti basketball cake", and has iced and decorated it well. Stingy wants to be the best basketball player in Lazy Town, and so to turn his bedroom into a basketball court to practice in, he wants the public basketball hoop. "Are you crazy?!" When the Mayor says he can practice with a wastepaper basket and some socks indoors. Stingy letter asks if the idea can be his idea. The Mayor says yes. "And this also is mine." Stingy steals the wastepaper basket the Mayor was demonstrating with.

"Dribbling?! Don't you do that with your mouth?" Ziggy.

"I never tried that before, but I'm ready to give it a go!" Sportacus, when Pixel says that Elizabeth in France wants to know if he can somersault and throw a basketball at the same time. He can, and score a basket. "Any time!" When Pixel thanks him.

Ziggy accidentally manages to spin a basketball on his finger for a long time.


-Let's Jump!-

"Hi kids! Let's do some SuperMoves!" Sportacus looks at Rin's pod screen. "Super moves ready," Rin gives him the cards. Sportacus gets his water bottle out from the hemisphere in the wall by sliding up a hatch in the middle of it.

"Hi Pinky!" Trixie, when entering Stephanie's house and seeing her at the kitchen island. She is great in her sports candy with 10 being the freshest and 0 being the most processed-I think that's an Afram Latibaer reference. "This orange marmalade! This must be a 10, it's delicious!" Trixie. "Well, it is yummy…" Stephanie.

There is a gold letterbox in the door to the Mayor's house. Stingy believes he can't win the long jump unless he has golden sports shoes. "Barefoot?! In the grass?!" Stingy, when the Mayor says it doesn't matter what he wears on his feet to practice the long jump. "I just finished cleaning the sports field, why don't you go out there and practice right away? " Mayor. "I'll go and get my gold trousers!" Stingy.

"I love sand!" Ziggy.

"Jumping, jumping, jumping! How difficult can that be? Anyone can jump! I can even set a world record in jumping if I feel like it! And you know what?… I feel like it!" Robbie ducks below the camera and reappears from the periscope to the lair floor in front of the big purple trunk. Inside is a pair of sparking orange boots with 2 springs on each one. He jumps into them. First he sings as he jumps, but then the boots go out of control, jumping faster and faster, and he lands upside down in his chair with his legs crossed and his left hand stuck in the front spring of his right foot.


-Teethtastic!-

The 1st thing Sportacus does when he wakes up is sit up and stretch his arms. "Time to play. Get ready for SuperMoves!" Rin, giving him the cards after he somersaults out of bed. He hasn't brushed his teeth yet. That's because brushing teeth is today's SuperMove. The card says "Sportacus" below the silhouette. Rin's TV is out, with 3 blue circles on the bottom of the screen, like on her pod. The background is blue, with lighter broken gauged concentric circles going round each other, and a 3D toothbrush on top and in the middle. "One leg." The wavy line appears behind the toothbrush when Rin speaks. The 3 dots flash, middle then outside, repeat. "Other leg." "Change arm." "Blink your eyes." "Sing a song." "Twenty times done." Rin. "Let me tell you a little secret; brushing your teeth can be the most fun part of your day!" Sportacus throws the toothbrush back over his shoulder and it lands through its hole. (yellow inside)

"Today's big news is all about, er... ooh, toothbrushes! Oh my, does that sound fascinating!" According to Mayor Meanswell, the first toothbrush was invented in China over 500 years ago, out of a bamboo stick and the hair from the back of a pig's neck. "Oh Milford, do you believe everything you read?!" Bessie doesn't believe him because she finds it gross. "Well no one is using any pig's has from my piggy!" Stingy pops up from behind the desk. "You tell him Stingy!" Bessie. "And this is Stingy with my big news; remember to brush your teeth twice every day! Come on Piggy, we have to go brush your teeth, your breath smells!"

Ziggy's dustpan is red with a yellow Z in the middle of the inside and a blue handle. The brush handle is blue, the back is red and the bristles are black. "It's a Ziggy super-duper dustpan and brush scooper! You can clean up lots with this!" "The dentist knows loads about looking after our teeth! Well, at least I brought a brush with me!" (Holds up his dustpan and brush) "Wow, it tickles!" Ziggy brushing his teeth without toothpaste. None of the kids are scared of the dentist.

"I realised if I only brush one time instead of 20 times, I save 746 minutes every year! My toothbrush will stay brand-new for years!" "I even taught (the other kids) the One Time Time song!" Stingy steals the Mayor's fruit bowl while he goes to tell the other children to forget the One Time Time song.

"I find brushing my teeth really ticklish!" "I would like 2 bags of sweets, wouldn't you Raj?" Ziggy.

Pixel controls his UFO the joystick to his left of the keyboard and the keyboard. "Located!" The UFO when it finds Sportacus. Richard from Mexico asks if he can travel from Lazy Town to Rin in under 10 seconds. "Wow, that's pretty fast… But I'm up to it!" He does a running start from a running track marked out in white on the ground. Pixel sets up an all blue timer on the computer to the bottom right of the one Sportacus is on, where his Sportacus Challenge email was previously displayed. It counts to the hundredths of a second, and looks to go up to 99 whole seconds. Sportacus had parked the flight pod behind a fence, and uses it to get back to Rin. The timer is also displayed on her TV, and then Pixel's face camera feed. Sportacus completes the challenge in 9.99 seconds.


-Outdoor Action!-

"I'm ready to move! Are you?" Sportacus. "Time for SuperMoves." Rin gives him the cards. The "freestyle" card shows a silhouette of Sportacus jumping on his hand. "The great thing about moving is that you can do anything you want!" Sportacus.

"Trixie, it's a park! We play in the park!" Stephanie. "We relax and do nothing in the park! See, I bought cupcakes and marshmallows for everyone." Trixie. There is a white hob on the kitchen island, one big one (mostly black with a red circle in the middle) between 2 smaller ones, 3 dials and an orange light. "I'm bringing my new frisbee!" It's mostly pink, with a blue wave pattern on the top side. "The thing is, I really wanna beat Stingy in a frisbee match!" Trixie. They compromise, bringing some sports candy and some cupcakes.

"So, we're going outside! Yippee!" Ziggy.

Stingy doesn't want to play outside because it's dirty outside. He has a load of sports equipment, but doesn't want to take it outside for this reason. "Well, usually I ask Ziggy to clean them, but sometimes I do it myself." When the mayor asks what Stingy does when his shoes and car get dirty. Stingy resolves not to walk or take his car outside.

"I can't believe I finally caught the ball!" Ziggy accidentally catches a rounders ball.

"Outdoor games are the coolest ever! Can you play outdoor games indoors?" "What do you need to play games outdoors?" Ziggy. Casey says you can use anything with your imagination. "Have you ever tried playing frisbee with a pancake or a pizza?... What about a lollipop?" "I sometimes drop my ball…" "My frisbee always gets stuck up a tree, and Sportacus helps to get it down." "If it's raining, could you fly the kite in your bedroom instead?" Ziggy.

Robbie sniffs a frisbee. "See? It doesn't even work!" After knocking on it. He holds it up and drops it, and it falls to the ground. "Like I said, doesn't work at all!" "Fly!" He thinks saying that will make the frisbee work. Robbie doesn't know how to use a frisbee. Robbie jumps over the fence in front of the disguise tubes to escape the flying frisbee he threw, and lands getting stuck in 1 of his contraption tables. The frisbee knocks him on the rear end.


-Let's Roll!-

"Playtime ready, time for SuperMoves." Rin, after Sportacus finishes exercising, saying nothing. "Playtime? My favourite time!" Sportacus. Rin gives him the cards. "Begin." Rin. "I know a lot of different kinds of push-ups!" Sportacus. Including one with his legs in the air, but slowly.

"With me, Ziggy the Zigtacular!" Ziggy poses with his fist in the air.

"Nobody knows for certain exactly when the skateboard was invented." Mayor. "I love mysteries!" Bessie. "Some people think the skateboard first appeared in the 1950s with soapbox derby racing cars!" Mayor. "I love racing cars!" Bessie. "I tell you, you really need to be in tip-top shape to do something like that!" Mayor. "I need to be in tip-top shape?!" "I'm keeping my eye on you, Milford!" Bessie pokes him and accidentally pushes him away while he's on the skateboard, he crashes off-screen. "Oh! Milford, are you all right?!" "Milford? Can I get you anything?" After the show has ended and the lights go off.

"This is my favourite board game, ever!" Ziggy shows his new friends a game of Snakes and Ladders. "It's really easy to play." "I've got my Ziggy board, so, let's watch!" It's black on top, and is blue with a yellow Z outlined in red on the bottom middle, and the outsides of the wheels, which are black. Ziggy is wearing his helmet. "How do they stay on their boards when they're going so fast?!" He steps on his skateboard and whizzes off out of control.

Stingy has a skateboard that is yellow on the bottom with pictures of gold coins. The axles and the fronts of the wheels are blue, and the rest of the wheels are white. His helmet is blue and yellow, with some kind of reflective tape. The top has horizontal stripes; black, white, yellow, white, yellow, white, black. The white stripes are thinner. He's wearing blue and black elbow pads. He says he wants the Mayor with him while he's riding his skateboard. The Mayor thinks Miss busybody coming to visit as important, Stingy does not. His helmet has a red-orange number 8 on the side. He wants the Mayor to pull him on a rope while he's riding his skateboard. Or push him. Stingy doesn't want to get his skateboard shoes dirty by stepping on the ground. "Are you talking about my sports field?" "Er, yes, ha ha, today it can be your sports field." Mayor. Stingy goes off to practice right away.

Apparently skateboards need to be the right shape and have special axles called trucks. And you can wear special shoes to help you grip better. "Does your skateboard have rockets on it?!" "Energy! That's what we need!" "An Ollie! That rhymes with lolly!" "See you later, dudes!" Ziggy tries to sound like a cool skater.

Pixel types something in white below a 3D model of his UFO on a blue background. Tina from Denmark wants to know if Sportacus can do a one-armed handstand. "I think I can do that… But first I need sports candy!" He grabs a carrot from the nearby vegetable garden. Did it belong to anyone in particular? Apparently he can do a one-armed handstand, but he couldn't keep still, always moving his arms and kicking his legs.

The Ziggy is a skateboard move where you stand on your skateboard and dance around and then trip off it.

-Great Greens!-

"Super moves coming up!" Sportacus. "Program activated." Rin gives him the cards. "Start now!" There are 4 silhouettes on today's card, including one of Sportacus dabbing. This apparently means Sports Day. Coincidentally, today is Lazy Town's Sports Day. Sportacus has a blue and white backpack with a crystal case design on the front and curved go faster stripes to the left of it. (Is he plugging merch?) One carrot shoots out of a small hole between the water and the kitchen, near the floor, another between the door and some other compartment, on the side of the door with the bed.

Stephanie is mapping out the sports field on the kitchen island using sports candy, planning how Sports Day is going to be organised. "Pinky, you're a genius!" Trixie.

Ziggy has a blue bag with red piping, a red handle and a yellow Z on the front. Inside is a plush toy green frog, a green crayon, ("I've coloured in lots of pictures with this!") and a green toy car with black wheels and yellow hubcaps.

Stingy is being sports candy colour-ist, throwing out any sports candy that isn't yellow. "Well I could eat watermelon! It's my favourite!"

"I always look after my lollipops really well, to make sure no one licks them!" Ziggy.

Robbie starts to sit down by the disguises, and finishes in his chair, in his pyjamas. "Come on Robbie, you can do this. You're the best villain in this lair!" He's trying to set a world record in sleeping, but lacks the tiredness. What time is it? "There's nothing better than to relax with a good book, while trying to stay awake!" (and set a staying awake world record) He's knockout asleep as soon as he opens the book. Does he get the sleeping world record?

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Re: Fanfiction Research: Episode Notes

-Let's Jump!-

"Time for SuperMoves." Rin gives Sportacus the cards after he's finished somersaulting. "Super jumps! Wow that's gonna be hard!" "Wall jump power jump double jump twist jump backward jump start now!" Rin, fast. "Whoa! That was really difficult!" Sportacus, after doing a backwards somersault "backward jump" after some handsprings. "Make a frog sound." After telling Sportacus to frog jump. He does. "Only joking. Jumps completed." Rin, after 2 ribbits.

Ms Busybody's first guess for the world's most athletic animal is a dog, then a pig, gorilla, chicken and a puffin. Apparently it's a flea. Not a cheetah like I thought. Apparently fleas can jump 100 times their height. The Mayor has brought in a flea called Squiggy to prove it. Ms Busybody panics when it jumps into her hair. After the show, the Mayor asks Squiggy if it's all right and it seems to talk back in squeaks, and Ms Busybody calls someone. "Did you see that? Live on television?"

Ziggy has his own personalised pogo stick. "I think that was more of a tiny-weeny jump." Ziggy, about his attempt at a high jump.

Apparently kids are having a big costume party. "Ziggy is going as a lollipop, again, Stephanie is a ballerina, Trixie's a witch, and Pixel is a clown, those were all costumes I wanted to wear, and now I have nothing!" Is this Halloween? The Mayor is going in his bunny outfit. "A pink donkey?" Stingy also thinks it's a kangaroo and a dog with weird ears. He decides he wants to go as a bunny instead of the Mayor. "You can always go as a... a Mayor!" "But I don't wanna be a Mayor!" Mayor. Do either of them realise that that bunny suit will probably be too big for Stingy?!

"Do you need springs in your shoes to jump really high?" Ziggy.

"Downloading, uploading, sideloading, all data perfect and in place!" Pixel. "Subject located." Pixel's UFO, after he calls for Sportacus through a microphone on his desk, to his left of the keyboard. Helga in Switzerland wants to know if Sportacus can jump over the big wall in Lazy Town. Yes he can, and he can somersault over it too.

Ziggy can do the high jump, but from both legs.


-It's Hip To Skip!-

"Hi kids! Let's do some SuperMoves!" Sportacus. "SuperMoves ready." Rin gives him the cards.

"...you're just in time for another Zig-credible, Zig-mazing activity!"

"I'll never eat oatmeal!" Trixie. She hates oatmeal but she's never eaten it before. "I like fresh fruit!" Trixie. "And delicious cold milk!" Stephanie. "I love milk!" Trixie. Stephanie persuades Trixie to eat oatmeal by adding milk and sports candy to it.

Ziggy has brought a small yellow and purple rope tied in a simple knot which he uses to remember people's birthdays, including his own. "Sportacus loves skipping!" Ziggy.

The Mayor's favourite sport is tennis. "Stephanie does love soccer!" When Stingy asks the Mayor if he knows what her favourite sport is. They reckon Ziggy's favourite sport is baseball. "Ms Busybody loves chess! A sport for the brain!" Mayor. Stingy wants to learn everybody's weaknesses at their favourite sport so he can beat them all. "You don't have to win every time and beat everybody to have a good time in sports!" Mayor. "Think 1… 2 thinks… 3 thinks… Yes I do!" Stingy. "Maybe I'll let you win once… But only once!" When the Mayor tries to tell Stingy that it's the taking part that counts.

"The rope looks like a big giant shoelace!" Ziggy, about a skipping rope.

"Jumping rope! That must be the most boring activity in the whole world! Besides all other activities in the whole world!" Robbie. Steam is coming from the bottom of the microwave door gap. "What if I set a world record in jumping rope? I would be world-famous at last!" Robbie's rope is orange with orange fluffy handles. He presses buttons on the ends of the handles without ropes and lightning sparks and the skipping rope skips by itself in his hands. He manages to jump every time as it goes faster before crashing into his chair and getting tangled up. Lightning flashes from the handles.

"I'm Skippacus, Lazy Town's new skipping superhero!" Ziggy, after doing 2 successful skips.


-Deep Sleep!-

"Now I'm ready to move!" Sportacus flips out of bed. "Playtime!" Rin gives him the cards. "Power stretching! That's a perfect move after you wake up!" "Stretching is really important for the whole body! Remember to stretch every day, then, you can jump and run and do all kinds of moves!"

Ziggy is excited about an activity that apparently involves sleeping.

"Scientists have discovered that children need an average of 10 hours of sleep every night!" Mayor. "Cake? Cake? Did someone say cake?" Bessie wakes up (after staying up too late) at the mention of cake; when the Mayor says that he dreamt he was a green monkey wearing a chocolate cake on his head. "Go back to sleep Ms Busybody." The Mayor pats her on the shoulder.

Ziggy is wearing a navy blue dressing gown with a light blue collar. Ziggy was woken up by his own snore and got worried that it was a lion's roar.

"Did you know there are some really cool steps to this song..." Stephanie, about the Spooky Song, where these moves were not done because the tent was too small to stand up in.

Stingy's piggy bank has a white blindfold of the yellow edge and strap. Stingy's sleeping on an armchair in the Mayor's house, with a yellow pillow resting on the armrest, under the yellow duvet. He dreamt he was a king in a gold castle, and wants to go back to sleep so he can have it again, forever.

"Do you think animals read bedtime stories to each other?" "Maybe we should give [animals] some books to read!" "Sometimes I dream about cool things like pirates and treasure!" "Do you think animals go to sleepovers?" Ziggy.

Himiko in Japan wants to know if Sportacus can hit a golf ball from the airship. Yes; he shoots it out the door and it lands and rolls into a random golf hole with a number 1 flag. Hole in one.

"Did you hear that?" Ziggy to his teddy, about Ziggy's snore. He makes the teddy's head move. "You did Teddy?"


-Kick Tricks!-

"Time for SuperMoves." Rin, after Sportacus flips over the kitchen table. "That sounds like fun!" Sportacus. "Activate." Rin gives him the cards.

"...with the amazing Ziggacus! (whispered) That's me by the way."

"Believe me there is nothing sporty about this water." Trixie. She was expecting Stephanie to prepare soda for a football match instead of "sport water". Instead Stephanie adds a strawberry and slices of lemon, kiwi, and orange to 4 jugs of water.

"This is the best street map ever!" Ziggy, about an ordinary-looking street map.

"Sorry Piggy, there's not enough for you!" Stingy, about a pipette full of water. He's vowed only to have one drop of water a day. He wants a glass of water to last 49 years. "I knew it! I need Ziggy's glass to! Then I'll have enough drops for 98 years!" (Maniacal laugh) "are you counting Piggy?" Stingy takes the Mayor saying that you need at least 20,000 drops of water a day too literally.

"It took me like, a whole year to learn how to catch the ball without dropping it!" Ziggy. "I want to do one (kick-up), one day." After asking Dylan how many he can do. "I'm going to score zillions and zillions (of goals) one day!"

"Soccer! Like that's difficult to kick a little ball, do a header, bounce it on the knee! (Laughs) That's not difficult. Let me tell you what's difficult; kicking 3 balls at the same time!" "Wait a minute; I'm a soccer genius! And I can break the record!" Robbie. He has a big lidless indigo crate. Why does he have 3 orange footballs with indigo pentagons in there? "1! 3! Er! No... 2! And fffff… (Wiggles his fingers trying to count on them) 3! Yes, 3!" "And my PowerDropper 3000!" (An orange-ended pipette) just one infuses all 3 football stacked on top of each other with some kind of white power, then they look ordinary. I'm pretty sure this is cheating. The balls bounce all over the lair after Robbie kicks them. But I guess he did kick 3 balls at once, so is that a world record? One bounces off his head and knocked him headfirst into the crate. He gets stuck.

Ziggy can bounce a football on his knee once.


-Do Re Mi!-

"Time to play," Rin, after Sportacus finishes his handsprings. He gets the kitchen table out. "SuperMoves program activated." Rin gives him the cards. "Jumping jacks are also called star jumps!" Sportacus, after showing why.

"To be specific; the world's oldest instrument… Ms Busybody!" He was just passing the baton, so to speak, but she takes it the wrong way. "The world's oldest instrument is the flute!" Mayor. He's reading from sheets of paper that are red, yellow, white and dark and light blue. "I'm not speaking to you, Milford!" When he tries to pass to Bessie again. "The 1st flute was invented over 36,000 years ago, and was card from the tusk of the woolly mammoth!" Mayor. "WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME?!" Bessie overhears the Mayor describing a picture of a woolly mammoth; "What a huge and hairy beast!"

Ziggy has brought his favourite playthings in a pirate's treasure chest. There is a pirate's hat and a rolled-up treasure map inside. "I love music!" Ziggy.

"It's great to be in a band!" Stephanie.

"Woo-o-o-oah…" Ziggy shakes after someone bangs together 2 cymbals.

Stingy has a yellow recorder. Apparently it's a flute. The Mayor has one too; it's brown and wooden and held like a recorder. He's not that good at playing it. Neither is Stingy, playing it like a recorder. "Flute-practising equipment!" The mayor has a set of headphones for Stingy and one for him, in their colour schemes, (yellow and blue, and orange, silver and brown) after they decide to play a song together. They work well, and it's hard to hear each other. Or Ms Busybody yelling at them to keep the noise down from the other side of the window.

"Any time I play an instrument, it makes a funny noise, like eee-eee eee... (mouse impression)" "I really like pretending to play the guitar! Like this!" (Air guitar with guitar noises) "Playing instruments looks very tiring. Do you sometimes need a rest?" "My wrists ache sometimes when I eat too many lollipops!" (And his stomach, I bet) Ziggy.

"Tuning the computer, data in place!" (after pressing enter key) "Affirmative! Email visualised!" (Clicks up Sportacus Challenge email) "Camera systems go!" (Controls UFO camera with his left joystick to find Sportacus.) "Subject located." UFO camera when it finds Sportacus. Jochen in Germany wants to know if Sportacus can do a cool basketball trick. "Well, I know a trick or two. Why not? Basketball!" Sportacus. Rin drops one out of the hatch next to the platform, between it and the back fans. It's white and blue with black lines in between. After Sportacus's basketball trick knocks the lid off a trash can, he puts it back on after he's done talking to Pixel. The camera comes back on to show Pixel. Sportacus gives the camera a thumbs up.

Ziggy is very proud after dinging a triangle once with everything he has. "How good was I?! When I get back to Lazy Town, I'm going to start a band, and be the coolest lead triangle player in the world!"


-Bounce Away!-

"Get ready for SuperMoves." Rin, after Sportacus has finished flipping. She gives him the cards. "Start now!" After getting the packet back. Today's card has Sportacus's name below the silhouette. (of him sitting up, pushed up by his hands) "It's hard, but I know you can do it!" Sportacus, about the "power lift". "Everyone grab a chair and get ready. I'm gonna use my sport box. Box!" The letter-writing table comes up from the floor. This time 2 handles come up on each side, from horizontal to vertical. "The possibilities to move are endless!"

"Boo! (Laughs) Don't worry, it's only me, Zigtacular Ziggy!"

"Ms Busybody and I were going to climb Lazy Mountain today..." Mayor. Is he talking about one of the purple mountains in the distance? "Yes! Ms Busybody has been giving me energy cakes every morning for the past 2 weeks!" When Stephanie asks if he's been eating healthy. The Mayor is strong enough to lift a heavy backpack almost instantly after one bite of an apple.

Stingy is frightened because tomorrow is his birthday… And last year he invited everyone to his house but they left it a mess. "That's what happens at birthday parties, you know!" Mayor. So this year, Stingy has resolved to invite everyone to come and give him presents and then leave. The Mayor tells him he'll probably lose his friends if he does that, and they won't come to his party next year. "And zero friends means zero presents." He suggests is getting Stephanie to help set up some sports candy for the party, "Then everyone will have enough energy to play and help you clean up afterwards." "That's a really really good idea! Thank you! Now it's my idea! I'm a genius!" Stingy.

"Animals love to move!" "Spiders, they love to move!" Sportacus.

"Anyone can do acrobatics, flippity-flippity, but it takes a genius to set a world record in acrobatics, flippity-flippity." (Realises) "I'm a genius!" Robbie. Robbie has a (gymnastics) horse or whatever it's called. He pats it and it neighs. It's red with indigo legs. Robbie claps twice and the lights go dark and a spotlight appears on him. "Ladies and gentlemen, I, Robbie Rotten, the master of the universe, will now set a world record in acrobatics, flippity-flippity!" He claps twice and the lights go back on. He takes a running jump and lands on the horse with one leg either side, so that he lands where it hurts. He's stuck hanging upside down off the end, with his hands gripping the legs, and his legs gripping the top of the horse.

"Trampolining is great fun!" Ziggy. He can bounce on the floor many times in a row.


-Super Speed!-

"Time to play." Rin, after Sportacus flips over the kitchen table. "Let's do some SuperMoves!" Sportacus. Rin gives him the cards. "Ready, set, go!" Rin, after getting the packet back. "Apple!" Sportacus steps on a floor light and an apple rolls out of its compartment. "I'm ready!" After one bite of the apple. "Speed mission; fly around the world in under 20 seconds." Rin. "Ready, set, go!" Rin, after Sportacus presses a silver button in the cockpit. It may have caused the propellers to come out and start turning. Is that Africa and Europe on the globe? It's difficult to tell. Sportacus came from behind the Earth, around the middle. "Time: 19.5 seconds. Speed mission accomplished." Rin.

"Scientists say that the peregrine falcon is the world's fastest animal. It can reach speeds of up to 200 miles an hour when diving." The Mayor reads this off pink, white and red sheets. The Mayor has forgotten Bessie's birthday, and she's angry that he hasn't got her a present. He runs off and brings her an orange oval box wrapped in pink and red ribbon.

Ziggy has red and black roller blades with clear wheels. He can use them, if a bit unsteady and out of control.

"We start with Sportacus's swish..." Stephanie teaches us how to dab.

"I can't believe he gave me a C-! I deserve much better than this. I should have gotten a… a B. B+! Or an A-, I'd take an A- but a C-?!…" Stingy. A C- is a failing grade. He has maths, reading and writing homework as a consequence of failing a test. Stingy rushed and scribbled through his homework to save time. "And is it free?" When the Mayor offers him some cocoa. He says it is. "Oh, well then I'll have 2, with marshmallows!"

"Do you think if there were 4 pedals on your bike, rather than 2, you could go much faster?" "I always fall off my bike, even with stabilisers." "I like getting plasters." "I once cycled to the top of Lazy Town (where's that?) And back again… And it took me a whole… 10 minutes. And I was really, really, really tired." Ziggy.

"Email online, downloading…" Pixel moves his left joystick to control his UFO camera. "Online…" Camera. Christopher in Iceland wants to know if he can do a helicopter move on a wall. "That is a really difficult move…" Sportacus. Pixel sends Sportacus some sports candy to help, by pressing the Enter key and a hole opens up downwards in some kind of silver box (the top side is deeper than the bottom) above the door of his house, in the middle of 4 CCTV cameras. A black sports candy cannon pokes out and shoots him an apple. Sportacus can do the helicopter move on the end of the high wall, with the sphere pillar thing.

Ziggy's bike bell is red and black, his handles are yellow and the handlebars are blue. He tries to cycle with roller blades and can't really get anywhere.


-Tall Stories!-

"Time for SuperMoves." Rin gives Sportacus the cards after he's finished flipping. "Ready, set, go!" Rin, after catching the packet. Today's silhouette seems to be of Sportacus reading a book while doing a one-armed handstand. "Special move. What kind of move is that? I have to check my sport book. Sport book!" Sportacus points at the ceiling and it falls into his pointing hand. It's a thickish blue book with a 3D crystal case icon and go faster stripes. On the spine are 6 silhouettes of Sportacus in various poses, in white rings, and on the bottom back is a 2 colour icon of Rin flying rightwards out of a white ring. "I haven't done this move in a long time!" Sportacus touches his foot with his hand while standing on the other, and wobbles a bit. "If you ever need an answer to something, you can always find the answer in a book!" Or Google.

Stephanie and Trixie are doing their homework together. Trixie didn't have any breakfast because she had "too much studying to do!", and now she's falling asleep. "Where is the ocean the deepest?" Trixie. "The ocean is deepest… in the Pacific Ocean!" Stephanie. Trixie laughs. Her top is zipped up the back with a white zip. "No, the ocean is deepest on the bottom!"

Ziggy brought a yellow envelope with a picture of him and his friends on it, including Sportacus. "This is a letter for all my friends back in Lazy Town!" There's nothing written on the envelope. There is a blue haired queen on the stamp, with chin-length hair and a right swept fringe.

Stingy has his glasses on while reading a book. "I'm almost afraid to ask." The Mayor, when Stingy says that his book isn't making any sense even though he's reading every other page. "If I were to read every page, then my book would wear out twice as fast! And my books won't look pretty and clean, just like me." "Mine? I like it. I like it a lot." Stingy, when the Mayor tells him that amazing adventures and wonderful characters and pictures could all be his if he just reads every page of a book. Stingy doesn't want the Mayor to talk while he's reading. He wants peace and quiet.

"Oh, I forgot! We need to be quiet when people are reading and hearing stories." "Some people have books, but they have special writing!… Yeah, it feels bumpy!" "No wonder everyone here loves stories... You can have all sorts of exciting adventures, without going anywhere!" Ziggy. He starts walking while reading a book and bumps into a bookshelf.

I think we've been taught how to dab 3 times in the show. First with super moves, then in Stephanie's dance section, and now in Sportacus's other section.

"I love reading books, because you get to see loads of cool stuff, like… space aliens and… flying pigs!" "I'm only just starting to learn to read, and it's really fun!" "If I could write a book, it would be all about candy!" "My favourite book ever was called Lollipops of the World. It was brilliant, 'cause there were loads of, loads of pictures of, well, lollipops!" "Stephanie loves ballerina books as well!" Ziggy.

"Who said that books are fun?! They're boring! Boring! You can't use them as a pillow, you can't spray whipped cream on them and eat them, and you can't set a world record with them!" Robbie. Robbie has a bunch of books in a big purple trunk, blue and orange. Does he need those round glasses that make him look like Harry Potter? Inside is also a blue can, probably filled with cola or soda or something like it. He burps after drinking it. He's thrown all the books behind him over his shoulder, and they've arranged themselves open in a circle for him to stand in. Robbie tries to set a world record by reading 15 books at the same time. "1, 2, 5!" Counting himself in. He spins round and round and gets dizzy.

"Reading is just the best!" Ziggy is bringing back some books for his friends; "there's one about flips and jumps for Sportacus," (blue, a silhouette of somebody getting ready to flip in front of a light blue spiky burst) "and a book about dancing for Stephanie," (pink with a blue spine and a silhouette of a ballerina with stars). Ziggy's got himself a book all about superheroes. (Red and yellow, with a superhero in a green and purple costume, yellow stars and a POW sound effect)


-Ice Is Nice!-

"Time to play." Rin, after Sportacus flips over the kitchen table. "That means; time for some SuperMoves!" Sportacus. Rin gives him the cards. "Ready, set, go!" Rin, after catching the packet. Today's silhouette has Sportacus's name underneath it. "Sports candy!" Sportacus. Rin shoots a watermelon out of a hole in the wall. It looks to be one to the left of the door. "Sports candy keeps you in balance!" Sportacus.

"Over to you, Milly Milford!" Bessie. "Milly? I prefer you call me Milford." Milford. Bessie mishears 'ice skate' as 'ice gate'. Apparently the first ice skates in history were made out of animal bones in Finland 5000 years ago.

Ziggy has brought a giant ice lolly with him, and it doesn't seem to have melted that much. "I love lollies, especially ice lollies!" "I love ice skating!" "These skaters are Zigtaculous!" "See what I'm doing with my hands? (Waving and flapping them about) That's how fast they're skating!" Ziggy.

The Mayor is boiling hot cocoa in a saucepan. Did he make it himself? "Yes of course! 8 hours a night!" Mayor, when Stingy asks if he sleeps. Stingy wants to wrap a mattress around himself to protect him if he falls while ice skating. He has a pair of black and white skates. "Here Stingy, let me give you-" Mayor. "Oh I know, some advice." Stingy. He gets excited when the Mayor says he's giving him a gift. "My old ice skating helmet, from when I was a little boy!" It's yellow, with 3 thick blue stripes and 4 thin white stripes. "Even in my colours!" "And now I'm going to Ziggy's to get his mattress!" Stingy. "My cocoa's ready. Hello cocoa!" The Mayor starts chasing Stingy to try and get him not to go to Ziggy's, but gets distracted.

"Penguins and polar bears live on the ice. Do you think they can ice skate?" Ziggy. Apparently you can't use the ice you skate on for ice lollies, cream, or cubes.

Lisa in Austria wants to know if Sportacus can do a "super mega jump". "I know a lot of jumps, but I'm not sure if I know the super mega jump!" Sportacus. An "ultra super mega jump" looks like a load of handsprings and flips across Rin and back.

"When I go back to Lazy Town, I'm going to make a huge ice rink out of lots and lots of ice lollies, and then I won't mind falling down!" Ziggy.


-One, Two, Ski!-

"Wow! Now I'm ready for some SuperMoves! How about you?" Sportacus. He looks at Rin's pod. "SuperMoves programme activated." Rin gives him the cards. "I love the snow! The great thing about this move is that we can do it all year long, even if we don't have any snow!" Sportacus, about a skiing move.

"Ziggy here, ready to go when no other Ziggy has gone before!"

Trixie wanted to build a snowman today, but all the snow has melted. Stephanie has made a snowman out of sports candy. "The healthiest snowman in the world!" It's really good, with lots of different sports candy.

"And that we'll be doing lots of sliding! One of my favourite things! And I brought along the best slide in the whole world, ever!" Ziggy pushes a blue and red child's slide. "So, who wants to have a go on my slide first?"

"The snow bunnies?! There are snow bunnies?!" The Mayor gets scared by Stingy running in and screaming "It's coming!" About snow. He seems to be afraid of snow. "Fun?! Fun?! You call it fun to get all wet and, and cold and, and, and… snowy?!" "Well yes of course, but what does that have to do with anything?!" When the Mayor asks if he likes sleds and skiing and skating. "I would need to polish it, and make a sign that says; STINGY'S SLED, GO AWAY!" When the Mayor asks what Stingy would need to use a sled. "Yes, yes, but besides that, what has to be on the ground?" "Well snow of course!" Then Stingy realises. "Why don't you go home, dress warmly, and then take your sled up Lazy Hill. I'm sure the other kids are already there!" Mayor. "But it's my hill! I have to run. See you later!" "Wait! That is my hill!" As Stingy runs out the door. There is a picture of Ms Busybody hanging to the left of the window. Stingy makes the Mayor jump when he slams the door so hard the picture falls onto the floor.

"Turning this way and that way and this way and… Woah!" Ziggy gets dizzy and falls backwards. "Couldn't you just slide down (a ski slope) with your shoes on?" "Do you need really boingy legs to ski?… What do you need?" "Could I make skis out of lollipop sticks?" "I'm always falling over and banging into things." Ziggy.

"I am a genius in jumping! I'll show them who's number one!" Robbie. He bangs his hands on the disguise piano and it doesn't seem to set off anything. Robbie has a pair of orange skis, with some kind of orange harness to attach them to his back like a backpack, and a really long orange ladder. "This is really high!" He gets freaked out a bit by how high he's climbed. Is that his lair down below in the fields? Or a tree? Robbie climbs the ladder from his entrance pipe to an indigo ramp really high above his lair, so he can ski jump over the billboard. He jumps into his skis. On either side of the ladder are two yellow triangular flags with an orange RR on them. "Here we go! Yee-haaaaaaa!" Robbie pushes off without much trouble but gets more and more scared as he goes down, to the point of Wilhelm-screaming off the edge. He doesn't use any poles. He lands upside down in his entrance pipe, his skis too big to fit through so he just hangs there. He's stuck.

"I could call myself Ski Sportacus!… The skiing superhero!" Ziggy. He loses his balance and slides (on one leg) on his skis down the slope. His shoes are white with bits of green and purple.


-All episodes-

Ziggy has a suitcase with stickers from all around the world, including London, Paris and Japan. The Mayor's plane has a winged "LT" logo on the fin. Sportacus gives Ziggy an apple for the journey. The Mayor can draw a heart in the sky with his plane-and I don't think it makes Ziggy sick. The Mayor flies Ziggy around the world. When Ziggy wants to get out, he pulls a lever by his window and some sort of door opens up under his seat. He has a red, yellow and blue parachute.

From what I remember, there's a lot of fourth wall breaking in this spin-off. Several characters know they're being watched. Are Ástin's characters this self-aware? Did they make this to air on Pixel TV maybe?

"SuperMoves program activated." Rin takes this as a cue to push the screen back in her pod by the door so a deck of cards (blue with Ss and go-faster stripes) can be mechanically thrown out of a hole in the bottom of the hole made. (How big is this pod? Just a bit bigger than a pack of cards.) Is this an upgrade and/or present from Nausikaa? The cards are in a box, which Sportacus throws back to Rin's pod. She catches the box with the very mechanism that threw it. Then the screen goes back to where it was. "Ready, set, go!" Rin. Sportacus (who never does anything by halves) can do fancy stuff with a pack of cards. The SuperMove cards have a blue number 10 in the top right, seven white Sportacus silhouettes at the bottom, outlined in dark blue, and a big blue silhouette in the middle with a white outline. This represents the SuperMove.

Ziggy likes flying around the world to go on playdates with friends.

Bessie and the Mayor (in a toupée) are running a news show. Stephanie is filming it. Their logo is a gridded silver planet above the letters "TV", in a blue and orange circle. The orange light on Stephanie's camera, which she turns on herself, probably means it's recording. She points at them afterwards and that's their cue to start. "Welcome to Lazy Town's Big News" Mayor Bessie is sitting in front of a laptop and a telephone, both red. The Mayor has a yellow earpiece in his ear. I think Ziggy always misinterprets the clues his friends give him.

Stephanie does use that pink house next to the Mayor's. You can enter it via a back double door in front of an umbrella. Inside it is very plain and very pink, with a 2D door, darker pink floor and 3 flower icons to the right, where there is a darker curve pattern. Next fourth wall breaker: Stephanie, teaching us some dance moves. Who are these multiethnic Stephanie clones? (well, black and white) Where did they come from? Maybe this new padded pink room is part of the pink house. (Does Stephanie ever want to see other colours?) There are lights everywhere except the floor and flowery or starry projections in the back.

Ziggy interviews his friends with an orange "TV" logo microphone.

"Sportacus Challenge coming up! Email ready!" Pixel His camera is already flying around. It's at the bottom of the UFO. The camera can talk. "Searching... (for Sportacus) Not yet" He uses it to look for Sportacus. A little TV screen flips out of the bottom half of the UFO, with Pixel's face on it. He asks Sportacus if he can hear him, to which he says yes.

Sometimes, Stephanie and Trixie like to hang out by themselves in the Mayor's kitchen. Are there any other situations where the kids hang out in pairs?

Some of the kids exercising with Sportacus have "Lazy Team" logos on their shirts.

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Re: Fanfiction Research: Episode Notes

-Roboticus-

Placebo Mask and backpack make debut. First episode after [prequel fanfiction idea explaining where Sportacus and Stephanie's upgrades came from].

"Are you ready for a challenge?" Rin can hear Sportacus saying it's a beautiful day from the open door. "I'm always ready for a challenge!" Sportacus. "See those walls? And the big one?" Rin is in the air, and she's talking about something on the ground, that Sportacus can see through his telescope. The vision from the telescope has some sort of measuring gauge on the bottom and to the right, not connected. Rin challenges Sportacus to run over 5 walls in under 15 seconds. "Right now." When Sportacus asks when the challenge starts. How high above Lazy Town was Rin? Low enough for Sportacus to jump off the door and land safely on the ground unassisted. Is there a button or something on the right side of Sportacus's left bracer, close to the wrist, that he presses to release an S-shaped throwing star? A rectangle panel going down the top seems to slide down and then slide back again when the throwing star is out. Below the panel it is light blue, and black below the S. "Bat!" Sportacus punches his crystal, and a baseball bat comes up from the middle of his backpack, handle first. He pulls it out. It's blue, but silver on top and black and white stripes below that. Coming up from the handle are some curvy go faster stripes, leading up to 10 in front of an S. Sportacus's crystal glows light blue and pings after one bite of an apple. Did it get an upgrade? "New record. 14 seconds." Rin. Sportacus slides the top of his left bracer up from right to left to reveal a screen displaying his time, with 3 blue buttons below, to the right, some kind of energy gauge going from dark blue rectangles to a red rectangle and a red circle, and a clock to the right. "Sports candy works every time!" Sportacus.

"Ziggy, you are not pushing me high enough! (sighs) Do I have to do everything myself?" Stingy, seesawing with him. Pixel is looking at something that looks a bit like a silver Nintendo 64 controller with bits of red, yellow and blue. "If you want me to play basketball with you, the sports field has to be squeaky clean!" Stingy. Stephanie has bought a pink cloth sticking out of her bag. The mask isn't in the front pocket. "I am cleaning, superhero style! I am cleaning the seat of the seesaw!" Ziggy, by sitting on it. Stingy groans.

Robbie shoots a silver trash can out of a cannon, and it shoots up a pipe leading out of his lair, out of the entrance hatch and into the air.

"Shouldn't we ask Sportacus to play?" Ziggy, after the playground has been declared spotlessly clean. "Ziggy, I'm sure Sportacus is busy saving someone." Stephanie. The crystal glows pale blue to the point of white when someone's in trouble. "Well, Sportacus doesn't have to worry about me, I never get into any trouble!" He's saved Ziggy numerous times in the past.

The trashcan is full of crumpled-up orange sheets of paper. There is indeed a button on the wrist of Sportacus's left bracer, the same colour as the surrounding blue. "Racket!" Sportacus punches as crystal and a tennis racket comes out of the right of the backpack. "Ball!" Sportacus flicks something downwards on his right of the belt buckle, and a little hole opens in the top, and a tennis ball shoots up growing out. "Oh Ziggy, he's okay?" Stingy, turning to Stephanie, after Sportacus rescues Ziggy. "You're almost as fast and strong as a… A robot!" Pixel, about Sportacus. "Robots, they're so cool!" Ziggy.

Robbie gets out a big orange phone book with lots of numbers inside. He pushes the dial on his phone one number to the right and calls the number to order "the fastest and strongest robot there is". He gives his address or bank details, but he does say "thank you" to whoever is on the other end of the line. A big box "to Mr. RR" drops down next to him, and a smaller box drops onto his lap. The remote control looks a bit like a purple monster with 6 sharp white triangular teeth, and small silver buttons opposite the points. There is a black lever switch above them. "Roboticus, ready for action!" He looks a lot like Sportacus, complete with crystal and backpack, but darker purple. He is clean-shaven. The ground shakes when he jumps on it. He makes cracks in the floor when he puts his fist on the ground. He can do a lot of flips and sporty stuff. His eyes scan the cannon and a graph paper like pattern is laid over it, and loads of purple pop-ups appear around it. Apparently it weighs 1250. Pounds? Tonnes? Kilograms? Roboticus can lift it with 2 hands and hold up with one. After saying that Roboticus is 6000 times stronger than Sportaflop, he does a messy imitation of Sportacus's dab, flapping his fists around.

Rin didn't go off when Ziggy fell back in the trash can. Sportacus was sitting next to him. Roboticus sizes up the rolling trash can like he did with the cannon. He just stands there after stopping it while Sportacus pulls Ziggy out of it. "Hero time for Roboticus." Rin does go off for Robbie sawing off a tree branch and it starts falling onto the Mayor. He could probably see the Mayor down below. Roboticus sizes up the tree branch. Sportacus doesn't look too pleased at this new superhero. Especially when Robbie appears and starts talking about how fast Roboticus is. Then he looks kind of angry? There is an off switch in the back of Roboticus's neck. When activated, he falls asleep standing up. Robbie gives us a V-sign when asking "Mayor" about the rules regarding 2 superheroes in one town. Sportacus folds his arms, suspiciously? The rulebook says 'Lazy Town IV' on the brown cover. Rule 26, section C; "There can only be one superhero in Lazy Town." What about Stephanie and her mask then? Do the rules not apply to her because she's the Mayor's niece? Does anyone hear Robbie when he goes "yes!" and then "oh no…" when he sees everyone's upset by this rule? Robbie turns Roboticus back on by twisting the same switch that turned him off. Is no one suspicious by the fact that it's Robbie Rotten recommending Roboticus? "It's okay Mayor, I understand. I mean, this superhero is strong!" Sportacus, about Roboticus. He decides to go and practice so he could be faster and stronger. "But Sportacus, you're my friend!" Ziggy. "You are my friend too! That's why you have to trust me… Everything is gonna be okay. Remember, never give up Ziggy!" Sportacus. Does he know that Robbie's up to something? I can't tell. He leaves without saying goodbye to anyone else. "Remember what Sportacus always told us; if you're feeling down, play games! Stingy and Pixel, you like to play basketball, and Stephanie and Trixie, you love to play soccer!" Mayor.

"Not fast enough. You need more practice." Rin, after Sportacus does something involving running and catching a blue-and-white rugby ball in 9.6 seconds.

The top of the remote control flashes red when Robbie presses a button. Roboticus walks as Robbie wiggles the lever. He grids up the goal, but not Stephanie and the football. It weighs 3217?! "Are you going to play with us?" Stingy, when Roboticus walks over. "No more soccer ball!" Roboticus jumps on it. Ziggy's bike has lollipop wing mirrors. It has blue black-ended handlebars, red breaks, and silver connecting the handlebars. "Oh! Hi Roboticus!" "No more bikes!" He snatches the wheel off Ziggy's bike. Ziggy hops away on what's left of it.

The Mayor has fallen asleep at his desk in the middle of the day, and falls over startled when Stephanie opens the door. "He popped the soccer ball, he took the basketball hoop, and he even broke Ziggy's bike!" Stephanie complaining to Uncle Milford. There is a D-section to the only-one-superhero rule; "The only way to get rid of an existing superhero is to challenge him to a race!" Him? What about superheroines? Perhaps this only-one-superhero rule was invented to stop superheroes fighting each other and letting beef get in the way of justice. Apparently Roboticus can be challenged by a team.

The kids go up to him angry, but it seems it's just him there mad about, and not Robbie Rotten. Do they know that he's controlling him? Robbie laughs when all the kids say they want Roboticus gone. "I am ready for a challenge!" Roboticus. The race will start in the town square at 3 o'clock.

Sportacus is practising in Rin. Has he flown away from Lazy Town?

Trixie can pull Stingy's car by a rope with him in it, while grunting. Ziggy can lift a dumbbell with a lollipop on each end with some effort. Trixie and Stephanie can lift themselves up by grabbing a tree branch with both hands. Stingy has a gold sweatband with fleece on both edges. He is using Piggy as a weight to lift. Pixel can lift himself sitting down off the handles of a slide.

Sportacus jumps off Rin's door with his hands across his chest like a pharaoh and his backpack unfolds into a pedal powered glider.

"Runners, take your marks!" Broadcast from orange loudspeakers on each corner of the stage and the Mayor speaking into a microphone on a podium. Near the school is an "old oak tree", its trunk surrounded by a red fence. There is a part of Lazy Town called Lazy Hills. Some kind of housing estate? "Oh this is exciting, isn't it Mr Rotten?" Mayor. Robbie hides his remote control when he talks to him. But he could have seen him using it earlier.

"This is totally cheating!" When Roboticus traps Trixie in a net hanging from a tree. He calculates stuff about a rope suspending a cage, before cutting it with a throwing star like Sportacus's, trapping Pixel and Stingy. "Cheater!" An angry Ziggy sees his friends in a cage. Stingy grabs Ziggy by the collar of his cape and pulls him as close to the cage as he can. "Ow!" Ziggy. "You're on your own now Ziggy. You have to run for both of us!" Stingy gives him the baton.

How can Robbie see all of this to control Roboticus? He's still with the Mayor at the stage. The Mayor's found a loophole in the rules; since Sportacus has had to leave town, he's not a superhero any more, and can therefore compete to win his territory back. "If he's not a superhero, he's just a normal LazyTowner!" The Mayor makes to go and tell him, but Robbie says he'll do it. And the Mayor lets him. Sportacus is in Lazy Town practising.

"I can't make it! This wall is just too big!" Ziggy. The Placebo Mask is now in Stephanie's front pocket. First 'Mask Moment' of several. The bag was out of shot in that scene before this. Stephanie slaps the mask on her face, and it seems to naturally stick. She dabs before going. She can cartwheel and do several handsprings in a row. She can jump up high to catch the apple growing on a tree, and throw it high over the big wall. Ziggy catches it.

"Well done. New record!" Rin, about 9.2 seconds. She made a bleeping noise before speaking. Before closing the bracer, 2 horizontal halves of a white S on an electric blue background slid from opposite directions into the screen. Robbie's tried to trap Sportacus in a hole covered with leaves before and failed, and now he's trying again.

"Now I've got the energy!" Ziggy, and his apple looks almost whole. He manages to throw the baton over the wall. Was it cheating to just go round? He starts climbing it, but the wall looks flat with next to no footholds, and he isn't wearing a helmet or anything. He gets to the top, jumps off the edge, and land safely on his feet.

Robbie touches Sportacus on the shoulder when he tells him what's been happening. He does say that Sportacus can compete, but he leads them towards the trap he's set for him. Sportacus runs right into it. The hole looks rather rectangular. "Robbie! Robbie! What are you doing?!" Robbie just drives a bulldozer right over the hole. Would that suffocate Sportacus if he was down there long enough?! Robbie can see Sportacus looking up at him crossly. And just runs off laughing.

The ladder apparently weighs 3217. Sportacus's shuriken can stick into the digging part of the bulldozer. It's attached to a very long piece of string, from his left bracer. Sportacus can pull a bulldozer by some string with some effort. The shuriken probably retracts back into his bracer after he's done.

Stephanie notices things with the Placebo Mask on by whipping her head towards them and staring at them. She makes a seesaw out of a plank which she carried herself, and uses the falling ladder to lever her up somersaulting "Woah!" into the air so she can ring the bell.

Roboticus crashes through the big wall. It would have crushed Sportacus to death if he hadn't rolled out the way in time.

Sportacus lifts the cage off Stingy and Pixel. Sportacus's shuriken can cut rope.

"Robot!" Robbie shakes the remote control lever in frustration. "Robot?" Stephanie. It's in his name! Roboticus! And that's how everyone notices it's been Robbie Rotten controlling Roboticus this whole time. "Roboticus lost. Not happy. Must find man with big chin." His speech repeats and breaks up like a stuck record sometimes, after crashing into a stage pole on the other side of the finish line. He can feel emotion. He starts chasing Robbie, and Sportacus doesn't go and save him. Instead, he dances in Bing Bang.

Roboticus chases Robbie all the way back to his lair, into the box where Roboticus came from, and sits on it. "Someone's in trouble."