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Episode Title: Crystal Caper
Season: 1
Episode: 4
Production #: 105
Original Airing Date: August 18, 2004
Episode Summary: When Sportacus accidentally drops his crystal, a covetous Stingy picks it up and does not return it. Robbie turns in a fake crystal in order to get the reward: one free wish. And his wish? The banishment of Sportacus! Will Stingy give the crystal back in time to save the day?
Opening Shot: Daytime, Sportacus is awake.
What Sports/Equipment does Sportacus use? None
What does Sportacus eat/drink? Water
Suspension of Disbelief? How is Stingy’s car able to drive right over Sportacus back?
What Gadgets/Vehicles does Sportacus use? None, just his crystal
Story by: Magnus Scheving, Mani Svavarsson
Episode Written by: Noah Zachary, Michael Rabb, Magnus Scheving
Episode Directed by: Magnus Scheving, Steve Feldman
Where does the Action mainly take place? The Town Centre.
Recurring Characters present? All
Recurring Characters absent? None
Guest Appearances / Outsiders: A Kitty Cat.
Kid's Challenge/Play/Sport: The kids want to know how Sportacus' crystal works.
Mini-Save: Sportacus saves a kitty cat from a tree branch, later he saves Stingy from falling into a hole while driving.
Robbie Mad: Robbie is not really mad at anyone in this episode unless you count those “pushy librarians”. In fact, he is happy that Sportacus has lost his crystal.
Robbie Disguise: None
Rotten Plan: Robbie manufactures a fake crystal in order to hand it in and claim the prize for himself so that he can wish that Sportacus leaves LazyTown forever. But later he finds the real crystal and tries to bribe Stingy for it.
Rejected Disguises: None
Robbie's Names for Sportacus: None
Robbie’s Vehicles/Gadgets: His special kooky Microwave conversion machine that makes the fake crystal.
Music Video / Song: "Anything Can Happen" = http://www.getlazy.net/wiki/index.ph...ing_Can_Happen
Youtube = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTQIn9m6Fy4
Stephanie's Clothes/Special Outfit: None
Big Save: Sportacus has to save Stingy from the Tree house after Robbie removed the ladder.
Bing Bang Song: Normal, in the town centre. Trixie kisses Stingy at the end of the Bing Bang song!
Robbie's Joke / Closing Scene: Robbie returns to his underground lair and declares that he needs a bigger pillow. He notices that something is missing and then his three bribe items come flying back down the chute after him. He takes a sip from his Texas mug.
Moral Lessons / Point of the Production: Stingy admits he made a mistake taking the crystal. Sportacus tells stingy that “the things you do affect everybody, not just you.” Stingy made a mistake but he admitted it and said he was sorry. “That also affects everybody.”
Internal Cross References/Recurring Themes: Letters to the “President of the Country”; Stephanie’s Red Clam-shell luggage. The retractable podium is deployed in this episode by the Mayor for the celebration party.
External Cross References: “Dummies” books (see below). “My Precious” (see below).
Discussion Questions / Weird Things:
1. Sportacus gets his water from a Sports Water Bottle. It has H20 printed on the side of the Bottle. This bottle is transparent unlike some of the other white bottles that we see in other episodes.
2. The Dispenser for the water bottle is below the Water Fountain to the left of the Food Table hatch. We never actually see Sportacus using a faucet anywhere in the episodes, not even to brush his teeth!
3. Mistake? Sportacus steps on a light to trigger the food dispenser table and the table deploys, but then he gets his water out of the little round hole below the water fountain in the wall to the left of the table. Maybe he is going to eat something after he drinks the water.
4. Question? What does Sportacus do with all of the leftover fruit on his fruit table? Or does he really eat that much Sports Candy every day?
5. Question? Where did Sportacus get his crystal from? Is it magical or mechanical?
6. The Road Works warning triangle shows a man sleeping on his spade and looks very similar to the original Latibaer characters! Typical for LazyTown.
7. Minor Moral Lesson: Ziggy tells Sportacus that he was super brave, then Sportacus tells Ziggy “You have a hero inside you too!”
8. Robbie takes out Library books? He owes $4006.03 in late fees for the books he has not returned yet. The book he then reads is “Rotten Behaviour for Dummies.”
9. When Sportacus tells the Mayor that something terrible has happened, the Mayor immediately asks “Is Stephanie alright?” Caring Uncle!
10. The Mayor offers “One Wish” as a reward for finding the crystal. But how does he know he will be able to fulfil that wish?
11. Sportacus runs off from the Mayor and Bessie without saying thank you. #Distracted
12. When Bessie calls Ziggy to report the crystal missing, Ziggy appears to be reading a comic. Are those also Latibaer characters in the comic?
13. Nobody ever calls Robbie, yet his number must be in the Directory that Bessie has. This is not true though as we do see him getting calls in other episodes (yes, I know some of the of them are wrong numbers).
14. Why is Stephanie looking in her luggage for the crystal? Is she an Amnesiac Kleptomaniac?
15. The scene with Trixie on Ziggy’s shoulders is used again in “Welcome to LazyTown” (which was the episode produced right after this one). Only the Voice over is different (and the end result).
16. When Stingy is sitting in his car admiring his precious crystal, the scene reminds us of the character Gollum from “The Lord of the Rings”. Gollum also has converstations with himself about “My Precious”!
17. That’s quite a microwave that Robbie has there, where can I buy one of those?
18. One of the disguises in Robbie’s lair is a Bull Fighter’s outfit.
19. When Robbie gives his fake crystal to Sportacus, he looks quite apprehensive for a moment to see if it will really fit into Sportacus’ Crystal holder number badge thingy.
20. The Song “Anything can happen” is the first time we see Robbie dancing with the other LazyTown characters and it’s really cool I think… even if he doesn’t get it exactly right. He is supposed to catch Stephanie but is sleeping on the job. This is one of my favourite LazyTown songs (Yes, I have lots of favourites). Later he also jumps into Sportacus’ arms just like Stephanie did, but Sportacus drops him and he shuffles off on his knees.
21. After finding the (fake) crystal Sportacus announces a celebration and Stephanie does a cute little speed wobble because she wants to have a party with “Cake and balloons and Streamers and maybe a puppy!”
22. Robbie seems to fall into a lot of holes. He falls into one in the Opening Sequence of the show, and he fell into one in the First Episode. Of course it is a set up here so that he can notice the real crystal on the front of Stingy’s car.
23. As usual he calls Stingy “Stinky” as he does in quite a few other episodes. Later on in the treehouse he calls him “Stringy”. He always follows it up with a “Whatever” comment implying that he really doesn’t care what people’s real names are. This is one of his anti-social tendencies.
24. The Kitty Cat from earlier on in the episode shows up in the same hole the Robbie falls into and Robbie saves it without even thinking about it.
25. Robbie tries to bribe Stingy with (1) a mountain of comic book, (2) a bag of coins from all over the world – including Iceland and (3) A coffee cup with a map of Texas on it. Finally he threatens to turn Stingy in for taking the crystal. Stingy ultimately refuses.
26. The bag of money has the KR symbol on it which stands for “Krona” the currency of Iceland where LazyTown is produced.
27. Eventually it is found out that Robbie gave a fake crystal and Stingy is given the wish for returning the real crystal. He wishes that he will never take anything again that doesn’t belong to him.
Credit: Some information and episode Summaries borrowed from the LazyTown Wikipedia Episode Page and the LazyWiki
Season: 1
Episode: 4
Production #: 105
Original Airing Date: August 18, 2004
Episode Summary: When Sportacus accidentally drops his crystal, a covetous Stingy picks it up and does not return it. Robbie turns in a fake crystal in order to get the reward: one free wish. And his wish? The banishment of Sportacus! Will Stingy give the crystal back in time to save the day?
Opening Shot: Daytime, Sportacus is awake.
What Sports/Equipment does Sportacus use? None
What does Sportacus eat/drink? Water
Suspension of Disbelief? How is Stingy’s car able to drive right over Sportacus back?
What Gadgets/Vehicles does Sportacus use? None, just his crystal
Story by: Magnus Scheving, Mani Svavarsson
Episode Written by: Noah Zachary, Michael Rabb, Magnus Scheving
Episode Directed by: Magnus Scheving, Steve Feldman
Where does the Action mainly take place? The Town Centre.
Recurring Characters present? All
Recurring Characters absent? None
Guest Appearances / Outsiders: A Kitty Cat.
Kid's Challenge/Play/Sport: The kids want to know how Sportacus' crystal works.
Mini-Save: Sportacus saves a kitty cat from a tree branch, later he saves Stingy from falling into a hole while driving.
Robbie Mad: Robbie is not really mad at anyone in this episode unless you count those “pushy librarians”. In fact, he is happy that Sportacus has lost his crystal.
Robbie Disguise: None
Rotten Plan: Robbie manufactures a fake crystal in order to hand it in and claim the prize for himself so that he can wish that Sportacus leaves LazyTown forever. But later he finds the real crystal and tries to bribe Stingy for it.
Rejected Disguises: None
Robbie's Names for Sportacus: None
Robbie’s Vehicles/Gadgets: His special kooky Microwave conversion machine that makes the fake crystal.
Music Video / Song: "Anything Can Happen" = http://www.getlazy.net/wiki/index.ph...ing_Can_Happen
Youtube = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTQIn9m6Fy4
Stephanie's Clothes/Special Outfit: None
Big Save: Sportacus has to save Stingy from the Tree house after Robbie removed the ladder.
Bing Bang Song: Normal, in the town centre. Trixie kisses Stingy at the end of the Bing Bang song!
Robbie's Joke / Closing Scene: Robbie returns to his underground lair and declares that he needs a bigger pillow. He notices that something is missing and then his three bribe items come flying back down the chute after him. He takes a sip from his Texas mug.
Moral Lessons / Point of the Production: Stingy admits he made a mistake taking the crystal. Sportacus tells stingy that “the things you do affect everybody, not just you.” Stingy made a mistake but he admitted it and said he was sorry. “That also affects everybody.”
Internal Cross References/Recurring Themes: Letters to the “President of the Country”; Stephanie’s Red Clam-shell luggage. The retractable podium is deployed in this episode by the Mayor for the celebration party.
External Cross References: “Dummies” books (see below). “My Precious” (see below).
Discussion Questions / Weird Things:
1. Sportacus gets his water from a Sports Water Bottle. It has H20 printed on the side of the Bottle. This bottle is transparent unlike some of the other white bottles that we see in other episodes.
2. The Dispenser for the water bottle is below the Water Fountain to the left of the Food Table hatch. We never actually see Sportacus using a faucet anywhere in the episodes, not even to brush his teeth!
3. Mistake? Sportacus steps on a light to trigger the food dispenser table and the table deploys, but then he gets his water out of the little round hole below the water fountain in the wall to the left of the table. Maybe he is going to eat something after he drinks the water.
4. Question? What does Sportacus do with all of the leftover fruit on his fruit table? Or does he really eat that much Sports Candy every day?
5. Question? Where did Sportacus get his crystal from? Is it magical or mechanical?
6. The Road Works warning triangle shows a man sleeping on his spade and looks very similar to the original Latibaer characters! Typical for LazyTown.
7. Minor Moral Lesson: Ziggy tells Sportacus that he was super brave, then Sportacus tells Ziggy “You have a hero inside you too!”
8. Robbie takes out Library books? He owes $4006.03 in late fees for the books he has not returned yet. The book he then reads is “Rotten Behaviour for Dummies.”
9. When Sportacus tells the Mayor that something terrible has happened, the Mayor immediately asks “Is Stephanie alright?” Caring Uncle!
10. The Mayor offers “One Wish” as a reward for finding the crystal. But how does he know he will be able to fulfil that wish?
11. Sportacus runs off from the Mayor and Bessie without saying thank you. #Distracted
12. When Bessie calls Ziggy to report the crystal missing, Ziggy appears to be reading a comic. Are those also Latibaer characters in the comic?
13. Nobody ever calls Robbie, yet his number must be in the Directory that Bessie has. This is not true though as we do see him getting calls in other episodes (yes, I know some of the of them are wrong numbers).
14. Why is Stephanie looking in her luggage for the crystal? Is she an Amnesiac Kleptomaniac?
15. The scene with Trixie on Ziggy’s shoulders is used again in “Welcome to LazyTown” (which was the episode produced right after this one). Only the Voice over is different (and the end result).
16. When Stingy is sitting in his car admiring his precious crystal, the scene reminds us of the character Gollum from “The Lord of the Rings”. Gollum also has converstations with himself about “My Precious”!
17. That’s quite a microwave that Robbie has there, where can I buy one of those?
18. One of the disguises in Robbie’s lair is a Bull Fighter’s outfit.
19. When Robbie gives his fake crystal to Sportacus, he looks quite apprehensive for a moment to see if it will really fit into Sportacus’ Crystal holder number badge thingy.
20. The Song “Anything can happen” is the first time we see Robbie dancing with the other LazyTown characters and it’s really cool I think… even if he doesn’t get it exactly right. He is supposed to catch Stephanie but is sleeping on the job. This is one of my favourite LazyTown songs (Yes, I have lots of favourites). Later he also jumps into Sportacus’ arms just like Stephanie did, but Sportacus drops him and he shuffles off on his knees.
21. After finding the (fake) crystal Sportacus announces a celebration and Stephanie does a cute little speed wobble because she wants to have a party with “Cake and balloons and Streamers and maybe a puppy!”
22. Robbie seems to fall into a lot of holes. He falls into one in the Opening Sequence of the show, and he fell into one in the First Episode. Of course it is a set up here so that he can notice the real crystal on the front of Stingy’s car.
23. As usual he calls Stingy “Stinky” as he does in quite a few other episodes. Later on in the treehouse he calls him “Stringy”. He always follows it up with a “Whatever” comment implying that he really doesn’t care what people’s real names are. This is one of his anti-social tendencies.
24. The Kitty Cat from earlier on in the episode shows up in the same hole the Robbie falls into and Robbie saves it without even thinking about it.
25. Robbie tries to bribe Stingy with (1) a mountain of comic book, (2) a bag of coins from all over the world – including Iceland and (3) A coffee cup with a map of Texas on it. Finally he threatens to turn Stingy in for taking the crystal. Stingy ultimately refuses.
26. The bag of money has the KR symbol on it which stands for “Krona” the currency of Iceland where LazyTown is produced.
27. Eventually it is found out that Robbie gave a fake crystal and Stingy is given the wish for returning the real crystal. He wishes that he will never take anything again that doesn’t belong to him.
Credit: Some information and episode Summaries borrowed from the LazyTown Wikipedia Episode Page and the LazyWiki
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