Difference between revisions of "Sportafake"

**Episode chronology**
	Sportafake
	No, I'm Sportacus.
Episode no.	08
Original airdate	August 24, 2004
Story by:	Ole Olson Steen; Magnús Scheving
Written by:	Noah Zachary; Cole Louie; Magnús Scheving
Directed by:	Raymond Le Gué
Featured song(s)	"No One's Lazy in LazyTown"
Robbie's Disguise(s)	Sportacus
Guest character(s)	-
Hero for a Day	Happy Brush Day
	List of Episodes

Latest revision as of 05:09, 3 February 2019

Premise

Robbie disguises himself as Sportacus to make the kids do lazy, unhealthy things. Stephanie suspects something is wrong, but won’t stand up and be heard. Now there are two Sportacuses in LazyTown, and nobody knows which one is the real one! A race is called to determine the real Sportacus. When someone cries out for help, the real Sportacus goes to help, giving Robbie the win. But Stephanie finally stands up for herself and says the real Sportacus lost the race so he could help someone.

Plot synopsis

Prologue

Daytime, Sportacus is flying the airship and making flight adjustments. Sportacus always seems to be able to get ahead of whatever he throws. He can move really fast. He throws the ring frisbee and it saves Bessie. When she goes flying through the air, he is right there to catch her.

Main episode

The Mayor is helping Bessie fix some things around her house. The kids are lazing around on sun chairs like Bessie. The day is really hot and Sunny. Pixel is using his arm computer to play Beach Music. Stephanie shows up and wants to play catch, but the other kids just want her to relax and do nothing. Sportacus shows up and joins the kids in doing nothing (or at least he pretends so). He jumps up and invites the kids to play catch. They all jump up and start playing very noisily.

Mini Save

Sportacus has to save the Mayor from a bee when he gets stuck in a tree after Stingy stole the ladder. He catches him when he falls out of the tree. Later he has to save Ziggy when he eats all the Bubble Gum and gets stuck. Then for a third mini-save he has to help the Mayor again. That must be the record for mini-saves in an episode.

Rotten Plan

Robbie is mad that nobody wants to stay inside and be lazy on such a beautiful day. He gets even more upset when Sportacus shows up and starts playing catch with all the kids. Robbie thinks that the kids listen to Sportacus because of his moustache and outfit, so he plans to dress up just like Sportacus and get them to listen to him rather.

Big Save

Sportacus has to save Bessie when Stingy accidentally bumps her with the ladder while she is standing on the little red wagon. She goes flying off down the road and Sportacus executes some super moves to bring her to a stop.

Epilogue

Robbie returns to his underground lair and collapses into his chair and falls straight to sleep complete with snoring.

Moral Lesson

Sometimes you have to speak up, even if no one wants to hear it. Otherwise you won’t be true to yourself!

Trivia

LazyTown's residents are apparently unable to distinguish between the real and fake Sportacus, despite some seemingly obvious physical differences:
- Robbie has "0" on his back instead of "10".
- The band holding Robbie's goggles on is a darker blue than that of his hat; Sportacus' is lighter.
- Sportacus wears his hat with the black and white stripe over one eye; Robbie's hat is off to one side.
- Robbie's 'Sportafake' is nearly 20 cm taller than the real Sportacus.
- While Sportacus' ears are mostly hidden under his hat, Robbie's stick out from underneath his.
While naming different objects through town his own, Stingy refers to a ladder as "his father's". This is the first and only time anything is ever stated about the puppets having parents.
Sportacus is busy flying the airship. He uses various levers and wheels to make adjustments to his flight. In one shot we see him adjusting the fore and aft setting of the wing stabilisers. But then a moment later he uses another wheel to extend the wing stabilisers which were already extended in the previous shot.
Pixel uses his computer again to determine that [the fake] Sportacus is joking when tells them to eat Bubble Gum. Robbie replies “Bingo Bongo, you are Wrongo!”; A prase later popularised by the cartoon Steven Universe.
The interesting thing about the song for this episode is that it is sung from two different locations. Sportacus in the airship and Stephanie on the ground.
When Stephanie is back in the Mayor’s House, in his kitchen she asks if she can speak with him. As she does this she glances down again (Is she looking at the puppeteers?). She did this in a previous episode as well.
The scene where Sportacus and Robbie Rotten (dressed as the fake Sportacus) square off is a play on the famous Scene from the movie Spartacus with Kirk Douglas where he is being sought by the Romans and many of the other slaves stand up and claim “I’m Spartacus!”
Bessie goes to give Milford a kiss, but is interrupted when Stephanie starts the Bing Bang Song (this scene is omitted from some broadcasts of the episode).

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-{{Infobox character
+{{Infobox episode
-| name             = Stingy
+| episode_name     = Sportafake
-| image            = Stingy.png
+| image            = LTS01E09.png
-| caption          = [[File:Stingy_Name.png]]
+| caption          = No, I'm Sportacus.
-| icelandic_name   = [[Nenni Níski]]
+| episode_no       = 08
-| actor/puppeteer  = [[Jodi Eichelberger]]
+| airdate          = August 24, 2004
-| voice            = -}}
+| story_writer     = [[Ole Olson Steen]]<br>[[Magnús Scheving]]
+| writer           = [[Noah Zachary]]<br>[[Cole Louie]]<br>[[Magnús Scheving]]
+| director         = [[Raymond Le Gué]]
+| song             = [[No One's Lazy in LazyTown]]
+| disguise         = [[Sportacus (Robbie's disguise)|Sportacus]]
+| guest_star       = -
+| prev             = [[Hero for a Day]]
+| next             = [[Happy Brush Day]]
+}}
+==Premise==
+Robbie disguises himself as Sportacus to make the kids do lazy, unhealthy things. Stephanie suspects something is wrong, but won’t stand up and be heard. Now there are two Sportacuses in LazyTown, and nobody knows which one is the real one! A race is called to determine the real Sportacus. When someone cries out for help, the real Sportacus goes to help, giving Robbie the win. But Stephanie finally stands up for herself and says the real Sportacus lost the race so he could help someone.
-== Personality ==
+==Plot synopsis==
-Stingy, as his name implies, is the stingiest and greediest person in LazyTown. His catchphrase is "It's Mine!", which he says about almost everything, going as far as to having a song, [[The Mine Song]], where he claims that everything is LazyTown belongs to him. Most of the time, this is played for laughs or to the slight exasperation of his friends except in the episode '''''[[The Great Crystal Caper]]''''' where, after causing Sportacus to lose his crystal, Stingy finds and keeps it. He eventually gives it back and is deeply sorry and vows to try and do better at returning things that don't belong to him. His most prized possessions are his pink piggy-bank, simply called '''Piggy''', and his yellow toy-car, in which he can often be seen driving, or parked next to the Sports Field. Despite his greedy manner, he is a good friend who generally cares about them, and wouldn't let them down. He enjoys playing especially with his friends, but becomes hurt and angry, when he is excluded, or they don't want to play with him, as seen in '''''[[My Treehouse]]''''' when his friends exclude him from their "Friends Forever" club, on the basis that he can't work in a team (Later in the episode this is shown to be true, but he does immensely improve) he ties up the clubhouse with rope (While they are still inside!) and attempts to drag it away, he is stopped by Sportacus, who after asking him why, convinces the kids to let him join. He is very musical, with him shown on the Saxophone, Harmonica, Bass, and Recorder. He is great on roller-blades (Of which he owns many), and is quite good at soccer. He is very clean and hygienic (Owning ''many'' toothbrushes, and he even taught Ziggy how to brush his teeth!) As well as teaching the kids how important it is to clean up, and to keep everything tidy ('''''[[Trash Trouble]]''''').
+===Prologue===
-His best friend is shown to be Ziggy. At the end of '''''[[The Great Crystal Caper]]''''', [[Trixie]] kisses him.
+Daytime, Sportacus is flying the airship and making flight adjustments. Sportacus always seems to be able to get ahead of whatever he throws. He can move really fast. He throws the ring frisbee and it saves Bessie. When she goes flying through the air, he is right there to catch her.
-==Character Development==
+===Main episode===
-===Appearance===
+The Mayor is helping Bessie fix some things around her house. The kids are lazing around on sun chairs like Bessie. The day is really hot and Sunny. Pixel is using his arm computer to play Beach Music. Stephanie shows up and wants to play catch, but the other kids just want her to relax and do nothing. Sportacus shows up and joins the kids in doing nothing (or at least he pretends so). He jumps up and invites the kids to play catch. They all jump up and start playing very noisily.
-Of all the characters, Stingy's outfits, are the most similar to each other.
-In the first play, Stingy's outfit, consists of a yellow suit, a large black bow-tie, and black shoes. When he is next seen again, in '''''[[Glanni Glæpur í Latabæ]]''''', his outfit is almost identical to his current one, except his shirt is short-sleeved, he has short socks, and black Oxford Shoes.''
-His current outfit is, a long-sleeved button-up shirt, with small pale blue/grey lines, a daffodil yellow waistcoat, knee-length shorts in the same yellow, long white socks, dark brown loafers, a red bow-tie, with a polka-dot pattern, and cuff links. He is the only person in LazyTown besides Sportacus (Whose hair is always hidden) who has brown hair. He wears it short, with some of it being swept over to the other side.
-He is of average height, he has a circle-shaped face, with dark brown eyes, and heavy eyelids.
+===Mini Save===
+Sportacus has to save the Mayor from a bee when he gets stuck in a tree after Stingy stole the ladder. He catches him when he falls out of the tree. Later he has to save Ziggy when he eats all the Bubble Gum and gets stuck. Then for a third mini-save he has to help the Mayor again. That must be the record for mini-saves in an episode.
-===Personality===
+===Rotten Plan===
+Robbie is mad that nobody wants to stay inside and be lazy on such a beautiful day. He gets even more upset when Sportacus shows up and starts playing catch with all the kids.
+Robbie thinks that the kids listen to Sportacus because of his moustache and outfit, so he plans to dress up just like Sportacus and get them to listen to him rather.
+===Big Save===
+Sportacus has to save Bessie when Stingy accidentally bumps her with the ladder while she is standing on the little red wagon. She goes flying off down the road and Sportacus executes some super moves to bring her to a stop.
+===Epilogue===
+Robbie returns to his underground lair and collapses into his chair and falls straight to sleep complete with snoring.
+===Moral Lesson===
+Sometimes you have to speak up, even if no one wants to hear it. Otherwise you won’t be true to yourself!
 ==Trivia==
-*According to '''''[[LazyTown's Greatest Hits]]''''', his favorite song is [[The Mine Song]].
+*LazyTown's residents are apparently unable to distinguish between the real and fake Sportacus, despite some seemingly obvious physical differences:
-*As of '''''[[School Scam]]''''', Stingy starts using glasses for reading.
+**Robbie has "0" on his back instead of "10".
-*Stingy can play [[When We Play in a Band|bass]], the [[Good Stuff|harmonica]], the [[Man on a Mission|saxophone]] and the recorder.
+**The band holding Robbie's goggles on is a darker blue than that of his hat; Sportacus' is lighter.
-*Although his motto is "Mine!", he has also disclaimed certain things, like a ladder he finds in '''''[[Sportafake]]''''' ("Hey, what's this doing here? It's mine. Well, no, but it might be my father's.") and Robbie's Robodog in '''''[[LazyTown's New Superhero]]''''' ("That dog is not mine!").
+**Sportacus wears his hat with the black and white stripe over one eye; Robbie's hat is off to one side.
+**Robbie's 'Sportafake' is nearly 20 cm taller than the real Sportacus.
-{{Character List}}
+**While Sportacus' ears are mostly hidden under his hat, Robbie's stick out from underneath his.
+*While naming different objects through town his own, Stingy refers to a ladder as "his father's". This is the first and only time anything is ever stated about the puppets having parents.
+* Sportacus is busy flying the airship. He uses various levers and wheels to make adjustments to his flight. In one shot we see him adjusting the fore and aft setting of the wing stabilisers. But then a moment later he uses another wheel to extend the wing stabilisers which were already extended in the previous shot.
+* Pixel uses his computer again to determine that [the fake] Sportacus is joking when tells them to eat Bubble Gum. Robbie replies “Bingo Bongo, you are Wrongo!”; A prase later popularised by the cartoon ''Steven Universe''.
+* The interesting thing about the song for this episode is that it is sung from two different locations. Sportacus in the airship and Stephanie on the ground.
+* When Stephanie is back in the Mayor’s House, in his kitchen she asks if she can speak with him. As she does this she glances down again (Is she looking at the puppeteers?). She did this in a previous episode as well.
+* The scene where Sportacus and Robbie Rotten (dressed as the fake Sportacus) square off is a play on the famous Scene from the movie Spartacus with Kirk Douglas where he is being sought by the Romans and many of the other slaves stand up and claim “I’m Spartacus!”
+* Bessie goes to give Milford a kiss, but is interrupted when Stephanie starts the Bing Bang Song (this scene is omitted from some broadcasts of the episode).
-[[Category:Characters]]
+[[Category:TV Series Episodes, Season 1]]