Difference between revisions of "The Great Crystal Caper"

**Episode chronology**
	Crystal Caper
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Episode no.	04
Original airdate	August 18, 2004
Story by:	Magnús Scheving; Máni Svavarsson
Written by:	Noah Zachary; Michael Rabb; Magnús Scheving
Directed by:	Magnús Scheving; Steve Feldman
Featured song(s)	"Anything Can Happen"
Robbie's Disguise(s)	-
Guest character(s)	The LazyTown kitten
Sports Day	Sleepless in LazyTown
	List of Episodes

Revision as of 09:20, 3 February 2018

Premise

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?

Plot synopsis

Prologue

Sportacus gets out his water bottle, spins it around and drinks from it.

Main episode

After Sportacus saves The LazyTown kitten, Ziggy, watching him, tells the other kids about what happened. Sportacus creeps up on him and Ziggy tells him he was pretending to be him. Ziggy eventually shows him but falls over. Stephanie asks him that is it true that every time someones in trouble he can see them in his crystal. Sportacus gives it to Stephanie to show it to the other kids. Stingy really wants to keep it, but Sportacus says he needs it. Stingy gets really mad and just goes home in his yellow toy car to look at all the things that just belong to him. He comes up to a hole which causes Sportacus's crystal to activate. He saves Stingy by covering up the hole, leaving his crystal by the hole. Ziggy declares that was super brave. Stingy thanks Sportacus again, holding the crystal behind his back so Sportacus doesn't know it's lost.

Down to Robbie Rotten's lair, Robbie Rotten receives a letter from the library. It says Dear, Mister Rotten, You have an overdue book from the library and we would like it back. As of today your fine amounts to 4600 dollars and 3 cents. Please pay this...... He then reads his book, which is actually called 'Rotten Behavior for Dummies'.

Sportacus notices his crystal has gone missing and notifies it to Mayor Meanswell. Bessie Busybody has everyone in LazyTown searching for the crystal right away. Pixel makes some posters and Bessie Busybody accidentally lets Robbie Rotten know about the missing crystal. He sees Pixel putting up a poster and realizes that who ever finds the crystal will have a wish granted. Robbie Rotten decides to earn the reward by making a fake crystal. After notifying it to Stephanie and giving it back to Sportacus. Stephanie sings Anything Can Happen to show how things have changed. Stephanie and Sportacus decide to have a celebration, so Mayor Meanswell puts up the stage.

Robbie Rotten gets mad that everyone is making him wait hours for his reward. He eventually falls into a hole, then Stingy, with the crystal on his hood as his hood ornament, comes right at him but stops right behind. Robbie Rotten asks him if he could borrow the crystal, Stingy doesn't do so, so Robbie Rotten tells him that he has something he doesn't have, so Stingy suggests they have a deal at the tree house.

Robbie Rotten goes into the tree house and offers him a mountain of comic books, coins and a coffee cup with a map of Texas on it, but Stingy doesn't want to trade it, so Robbie Rotten leaves, leaving Stingy trapped inside the tree house, causing Sportacus's crystal to activate. Stephanie hears Stingy calling for help and Sportacus sees that his crystal isn't working. He puts up the ladder and rescues Stingy

Stingy admits what he did and apologizes. And since he returned the real crystal, he gets to make a wish. He wishes I wish that I'll never take anything that doesn't belong to me, then Bing Bang is sung, and Trixie smooches Stingy at the end.

Epilogue

Robbie lands back in his lair and causes the mountain of comic books, coins, and the coffee cup to land on him.

Gallery

My crystal... it's gone!

Trivia

Robbie tries to bribe Stingy with "coins from all over the world, including Iceland", and his bag of coins features the design of a circle containing the letters KR. This is a reference to the fact that LazyTown originated from, and is filmed in Iceland, where the currency is the króna.
Trixie kisses Stingy's neck after the Bing Bang dance.
Robbie originally took a sip from the Texas coffee cup and commented that its contents tasted "like oil". This was apparently a simple comment on the fact that oil is a major staple of the economy in Texas. However, before the episode aired, LazyTown Entertainment was contacted by a member of the US government who had seen an advance copy and seemed to be under the impression that the line was a political comment on their president, George W. Bush. As such, the joke was cut from the final aired episode.
Minor Moral Lesson: Ziggy tells Sportacus that he was super brave, then Sportacus tells Ziggy “You have a hero inside you too!”
The Mayor offers “One Wish” as a reward for finding the crystal. But how does he know he will be able to fulfill that wish?
When Bessie calls Ziggy to report the crystal missing, Ziggy appears to be reading a comic featuring Latibaer characters.
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).

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 ==Trivia==
 *Robbie tries to bribe Stingy with "coins from all over the world, including Iceland", and his bag of coins features the design of a circle containing the letters KR. This is a reference to the fact that LazyTown originated from, and is filmed in Iceland, where the currency is the [[wikipedia:Icelandic króna|króna]].
-*He may not get the joke himself - but with Sportacus disabled, it is up to Robbie Rotten to rescue [[The LazyTown kitten]] from the  pit.
+*[[Trixie]] kisses Stingy's neck after the Bing Bang dance.
-*[[Trixie]] kisses Stingy after Bing Bang.
+*Robbie originally took a sip from the Texas coffee cup and commented that its contents tasted "like oil". This was apparently a simple comment on the fact that oil is a major staple of the economy in Texas. However, before the episode aired, [[LazyTown Entertainment]] was contacted by a member of the US government who had seen an advance copy and seemed to be under the impression that the line was a political comment on their president, [[wikipedia:George W. Bush|George W. Bush]]. As such, the joke was cut from the final aired episode.
-*Robbie originally took a sip from the Texas coffee cup and commented that its contents tasted "like oil". This was apparently a simple comment on the fact that oil is a major staple of the economy in Texas. However, before the episode aired, [[LazyTown Entertainment]] were contacted by a member of the US government who had seen an advance copy and seemed to be under the impression that the line was a political comment on their president, [[wikipedia:George W. Bush|George W. Bush]]. As such, the joke was cut from the final aired episode.
-* Sportacus gets his water from a sports water bottle. It has H<sub>2</sub>O printed on the side of the bottle. This bottle is transparent, unlike some of the other white bottles that we see in other episodes.
-* 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!
-* 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.
-* 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?
-* Question? Where did Sportacus get his crystal from? Is it magical or mechanical?
-* The Road Works warning triangle shows a man sleeping on his spade and looks very similar to the original Latibaer characters! Typical for LazyTown.
 * Minor Moral Lesson: Ziggy tells Sportacus that he was super brave, then Sportacus tells Ziggy “You have a hero inside you too!”
-* 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.”
-* When Sportacus tells the Mayor that something terrible has happened, the Mayor immediately asks “Is Stephanie alright?” Caring Uncle!
 * The Mayor offers “One Wish” as a reward for finding the crystal. But how does he know he will be able to fulfill that wish?
-* Sportacus runs off from the Mayor and Bessie without saying thank you. #Distracted
+* When Bessie calls Ziggy to report the crystal missing, Ziggy appears to be reading a comic featuring Latibaer characters.
-* When Bessie calls Ziggy to report the crystal missing, Ziggy appears to be reading a comic. Are those also Latibaer characters in the comic?
-* 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).
-* Why is Stephanie looking in her luggage for the crystal? Is she an Amnesiac Kleptomaniac?
 * 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).
-* 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 conversations with himself about “My Precious”!
-* That’s quite a microwave that Robbie has there, where can I buy one of those?
-* One of the disguises in Robbie’s lair is a Bull Fighter’s outfit.
-* 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.
-* 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. Later he also jumps into Sportacus’ arms just like Stephanie did, but Sportacus drops him and he shuffles off on his knees.
-* 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!”
-* Robbie seems to fall into a lot of holes. He falls into one in the [[Opening credits]], and he fell into one in [[Welcome to LazyTown]]. Of course it is a set up here so that he can notice the real crystal on the front of Stingy’s car.
-* 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.
-* 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.
-* Robbie tries to bribe Stingy with (1) a mountain of comic books, (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.
-* The bag of money has the KR symbol on it which stands for “Krona” the currency of Iceland where LazyTown is produced.
-* 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.
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