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Premise
Pixel builds a machine called the Zapper6000 that makes things vanish, thinking that he can help his friends get out of chores the easy way (by not doing them).Robbie gets a hold of the machine and uses it to make Sportacus vanish! Pixel soon realizes there is no easy way - he didn't make the chores go away, they’re just invisible. The only way to solve a problem is to roll up your sleeves and do the hard work. Can Pixel right his wrong before all of LazyTown is gone from sight?
Plot synopsis
Prologue
Sunrise, Sportacus is asleep. He wakes up and makes his bed. Sportacus equips Rollerblades and a hockey stick, he then proceeds to make his bed using these. He then has a look of accomplishment. When Sportacus throws something into the air, he is fast enough to get below it or ahead of it in order to catch it again.
Main episode
The kids rooms are really messy and need a clean-up. They have to find a way to clean it quickly and properly. Sportacus is also doing spring cleaning up in his air-ship. He knows how to do it properly. Pixel tries to help by making a device that makes things disappear, but in reality this is just a useless short cut and still leaves the actual work to be done. The kids soon realize their mistake and have to go back and fix things.
Mini Save
Ziggy gets stuck under a pile of sticky sweets while looking for a chocolate bar in his bedroom. Sportacus has to dive in and save him.
Rotten Plan
Robbie doesn’t see the sense in a machine that gets rid of junk, but he can think of at least one thing that he would love to get rid of. Robbie plans to “borrow the zapper until he doesn’t need it anymore”. He plans to use it to make Sportacus invisible. He climbs into Pixel’s house and steals the Zapper6000. Later he actually plans to destroy the Zapper after he has made Sportacus invisible.
Big Save
Sportacus has to rescue the Zapper6000 from being destroyed by Robbie Rotten and then restore all the invisible things back to visibility.
Moral Lesson
When there is work to be done, there are no short-cuts!
Epilogue
Robbie goes down his tube into his lair, then, the Zapper6000 previously thrown by Sportacus falls into the tube. when it falls on the ground of the lair Robbie states that he is over using the Zapper6000, then without anyone's assistance the Zapper6000 fires and turns Robbie's pants invisible, he then does the cliche crossed legs and walks out of the camera's view.
Trivia
- Stingy only appears during the Bing Bang Song in this episode.
- Stephanie has an easel in her bedroom. Does she use that for art and painting?
- Sportacus is also doing some Spring Cleaning, but when he opens his storage cabinet, the equipment is all different to what was there earlier in the morning when he made the bed. Did he already clean it once today?
- The game Pixel and Stephanie are playing involved monsters and jumping over things. There are obviously many kids games which involve doing such things, but the most famous is Super Marios Bros.
- Pixel invents a “Zapper6000” to make the messy things disappear. It seems to have the intelligence though to distinguish between items that should remain and items that should disappear. For example Stephanie’s bed and duvet and her dressing table are still there after all the other messy things have disappeared.
- There doesn’t appear to be any glass in Stephanie’s window. Either that or she ALWAYS leaves the window open.
- When Ziggy is looking for his chocolate bar in his messy bedroom. He dives to the bottom of the pile to find it. Before he goes in he gives a shout of Cowabunga! Originating as a greeting by Chief Thunderthud (the only Indian ever to have a moustache) to the Peanut Gallery on the 50's television program "The Howdy Doody Show", the term was later adopted by surfers in the 60's. It was re-ignited on the kids cartoon show, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
- Sportacus’ crystal not only has the power to tell when someone is in trouble, but can actually let Sportacus know who that person is.
- The chocolate bar that Ziggy comes up with when Sportacus saves him is the same one that Julianna Rose Mauriello poses with in a famous behind the scenes shot.
- After the kids run out of Ziggy’s house, Sportacus notices Robbie’s Periscope device and takes a closer look by peering straight into the device. It seems like Sportacus does not know what it is. But later on (in LazyTown’s Greatest Hits) we find out that Stephanie knows what the device is for and that she can speak to Robbie through it.
- Robbie contemplates using “Groucho Glasses” (the iconic old funny glasses and fake nose disguise), thinking it is a “great disguise”. But he decides against it because nobody would give him anything looking like that. Groucho glasses, also known as the beaglepuss, are a humorous novelty disguise based on the stage makeup that caricature comedian Groucho Marx wore (i.e., large fake mustache, eyebrows, and glasses). They typically consist of black horn-rimmed glasses with attached eyebrows, large plastic nose, bushy moustache, and occasionally with an attached plastic cigar. Considered one of the most iconic and widely used of all novelty items, Groucho glasses were first marketed in the early 1940s and are instantly recognizable to people throughout the world. Groucho glasses today are often used as a shorthand for slapstick.
- With all of Pixel’s amazing technology, cameras and surveillance, he is not able to detect a guy climbing through his window and stealing from him!
- When Robbie starts using the Zapper6000 to try and make Sportacus disappear, Sportacus does not even notice all of the buildings and walls disappearing all around him! But then later, he is able to point out to Pixel all the things that need to be made visible again!
- The Mayor actually falls and breaks his leg on the junk in Stephanie’s room. Quite a serious consequence!
- When Sportacus gives the Zapper6000 back to Pixel, Pixel says “prepare to re-materialize!” But that is not really the correct term as Sportacus was only invisible.
- The Zapper is thrown away by Sportacus, but lands in Robbie’s lair (It takes an awful long time to land there – see “Suspension of Disbelief” for this episode). When it hits the ground it makes Robbie’s underwear disappear. Robbie is wearing the same underwear that we saw in Lazy Scouts (which he used for the flag).
