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Oh, and all the dancing and music isn't actually the letters describing the town breaking out into song, but rather her parents thinking about how much she loved music (especially eurodance), singing and dancing when reading the letters and imagining her doing these things in the town.
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Oh, and all the dancing and music isn't actually the letters describing the town breaking out into song, but rather her parents thinking about how much she loved music (especially eurodance), singing and dancing when reading the letters and imagining her doing these things in the town.town.
[[WMG:''[=LazyTown=]'' is a TV show in-universe, and each episode is staged for the cameras but is based on actual events that happened in the town, though they've been exaggerated a bit -- and given musical numbers -- for better storytelling.]]
"Sportacus on the Move!" opens with imagery of viewer fan mail, which basically provides the roots for this theory. Some businesses in the town were closed for a month or two so that each season could be filmed, and Mayor Meanswell got paid in return. Each character who appeared in a episode was given a debriefing prior to filming. Some of the more dangerous stunts (especially involving characters like Robbie Rotten and [=Sportacus=]) were filmed with stunt doubles or recreated with [=CGI=]. It took roughly three days to film each episode. This would also explain why the first "year" had only 34 stories, the second had 18, and the third and fourth had 13 each -- all the other days in [=LazyTown=] in the past year were just ordinary days where nothing quite as interesting happened.
[[WMG:''[=LazyTown=]'' is a TV show in-universe, and each episode is staged for the cameras but is based on actual events that happened in the town, though they've been exaggerated a bit -- and given musical numbers -- for better storytelling.]]
"Sportacus on the Move!" opens with imagery of viewer fan mail, which basically provides the roots for this theory. Some businesses in the town were closed for a month or two so that each season could be filmed, and Mayor Meanswell got paid in return. Each character who appeared in a episode was given a debriefing prior to filming. Some of the more dangerous stunts (especially involving characters like Robbie Rotten and [=Sportacus=]) were filmed with stunt doubles or recreated with [=CGI=]. It took roughly three days to film each episode. This would also explain why the first "year" had only 34 stories, the second had 18, and the third and fourth had 13 each -- all the other days in [=LazyTown=] in the past year were just ordinary days where nothing quite as interesting happened.
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[[WMG: Robbie Rotten is the bastard son of [[Series/{{MysteryScienceTheater3000}} TV's Frank]] and [[WesternAnimation/{{TheChristmasTree}} Mrs. Mavilda]] who was forgotten]]
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[[WMG: Robbie Rotten is the bastard son of [[Series/{{MysteryScienceTheater3000}} [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 TV's Frank]] and [[WesternAnimation/{{TheChristmasTree}} [[WesternAnimation/TheChristmasTree Mrs. Mavilda]] who was forgotten]]
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[[WMG:Robbie's telescope device with the always angry eyes on it is sentient and also an actual LazyTown resident.]]
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[[WMG:Robbie's telescope device with the always angry eyes on it is sentient and also an actual LazyTown [=LazyTown=] resident.]]
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Stephanie is a young girl who was growing up in a financially challenged family. Her anxious and stressed parents had a hard time affording to take care of her, so they sent her to live with her uncle while they tried to make enough money to better take care of her. They were alright with her going to LazyTown because they were under the impression it was a nice, somewhat fantastical place to live. When Stephanie gets there, she is greeted by an even more run down town, a more distressed mayor, and more people with issues than what are present in the show. She still starts to change the town for the better, but gets hindered by a villain. Not by Robbie Rotten (I'll explain that in a moment), but by Glanni Glæpur, a separate entity that's more of a threat like he is in the plays. Stephanie recognizes him as a renowned criminal, and has to team up with Sportacus on the regular to thwart his actually dangerous schemes. In between thwarting these plans, Stephanie learns the dark (by kids show standards) history of the town, and the darker history of Sportacus, particularly his backstory of being a former child slave who killed his master (Actual character concept that was planned in production, by the way). Finally, the time comes for Stephanie to write to her parents. She wants to help the town, but know her parents would absolutely not let her stay there if they knew what was actually going on. So, she begins writing letters that downplay the situation heavily. The various elements of the show stem from the way she wrote the letters:
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Stephanie is a young girl who was growing up in a financially challenged family. Her anxious and stressed parents had a hard time affording to take care of her, so they sent her to live with her uncle while they tried to make enough money to better take care of her. They were alright with her going to LazyTown [=LazyTown=] because they were under the impression it was a nice, somewhat fantastical place to live. When Stephanie gets there, she is greeted by an even more run down town, a more distressed mayor, and more people with issues than what are present in the show. She still starts to change the town for the better, but gets hindered by a villain. Not by Robbie Rotten (I'll explain that in a moment), but by Glanni Glæpur, a separate entity that's more of a threat like he is in the plays. Stephanie recognizes him as a renowned criminal, and has to team up with Sportacus on the regular to thwart his actually dangerous schemes. In between thwarting these plans, Stephanie learns the dark (by kids show standards) history of the town, and the darker history of Sportacus, particularly his backstory of being a former child slave who killed his master (Actual character concept that was planned in production, by the way). Finally, the time comes for Stephanie to write to her parents. She wants to help the town, but know her parents would absolutely not let her stay there if they knew what was actually going on. So, she begins writing letters that downplay the situation heavily. The various elements of the show stem from the way she wrote the letters:
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** "This Orange Lantern is MINE!"
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[[WMG:The show is actually an adaptation of Stephanie's heavily-sugarcoated letters to her family]]
I've seen lots of theories for kids' media where it's about a mundane reality being dolled up due to a coma/drugs/trauma/etc, but because I like to be the odd one out, here's a theory where the inverse is the case. It's a bit of a long one and I apologize for that.
Stephanie is a young girl who was growing up in a financially challenged family. Her anxious and stressed parents had a hard time affording to take care of her, so they sent her to live with her uncle while they tried to make enough money to better take care of her. They were alright with her going to LazyTown because they were under the impression it was a nice, somewhat fantastical place to live. When Stephanie gets there, she is greeted by an even more run down town, a more distressed mayor, and more people with issues than what are present in the show. She still starts to change the town for the better, but gets hindered by a villain. Not by Robbie Rotten (I'll explain that in a moment), but by Glanni Glæpur, a separate entity that's more of a threat like he is in the plays. Stephanie recognizes him as a renowned criminal, and has to team up with Sportacus on the regular to thwart his actually dangerous schemes. In between thwarting these plans, Stephanie learns the dark (by kids show standards) history of the town, and the darker history of Sportacus, particularly his backstory of being a former child slave who killed his master (Actual character concept that was planned in production, by the way). Finally, the time comes for Stephanie to write to her parents. She wants to help the town, but know her parents would absolutely not let her stay there if they knew what was actually going on. So, she begins writing letters that downplay the situation heavily. The various elements of the show stem from the way she wrote the letters:
* The abstract, cartoony architecture represents Stephanie describing the town as idyllic and fun in a deliberately childlike way
* Sportacus being very kind is her trying to make sure her parents believe a very kind spirit is keeping an eye out for her (he already is, but he's a bit aggressive and a bit of a trickster like in the plays)
* Milford being a silly, bumbling guy is her masking her uncle's genuine fears and stress so her mother (his sister) doesn't find out how he's not doing well
* Robbie Rotten is a character Stephanie created to keep her family from finding out an escaped convict and criminal mastermind (well.. to some degree) isn't trying to do her harm on a constant basis. Furthermore, his bumbling nature and less-than-foolproof plans were to make him seem like he's hardly a threat.
* The puppets represent Stephanie heavily masking their problems and general situations, making them seem silly and goofy... like puppets.
* The lack of characters compared to the play stems from a mixture of Stephanie not hanging out with many people outside of the ones we see on the show, and to hide how many people have issues. Jives occasionally gets passing mentions, which is why his house occasionally shows up in the background, and in unseen letters (I.E events outside of episodes), other characters do get brought up
Finally, details regarding Sportacus' origin getting changed from Episode 1 to Episode 2 was Stephanie realizing what she wrote sounded a bit cryptic and uncomfortable and trying to retcon it clumsily, hoping they'd not pay much mind to it. She eventually convinced Sportacus to send them a letter confirming her take on the story when they kept pestering her about it. Small details like darker than usual plans by Robbie or Sportacus owning some brass knuckles are accidental hints about the true nature of the town that Stephanie subconsciously wrote in.
Oh, and all the dancing and music isn't actually the letters describing the town breaking out into song, but rather her parents thinking about how much she loved music (especially eurodance), singing and dancing when reading the letters and imagining her doing these things in the town.
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This would explain the tiny population, the lack of any law enforcement aside from Sportacus (and/or the police officer in the original Icelandic plays), and why Mayor Meanswell seems to occasionally take up other job positions such as an airplane pilot.
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This would explain the tiny population, the lack of any law enforcement aside from Sportacus (and/or the police officer in the original Icelandic plays), why Pixel also doubles as the town's only tech guy, and why Mayor Meanswell seems to occasionally take up other job positions such as an airplane pilot.
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This would explain why there's only 9 regular residents of the town, the lack of any law enforcement aside from Sportacus (and/or the police officer in the original Icelandic plays), and why Mayor Meanswell seems to occasionally take up other job positions such as an airplane pilot.
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This would explain why there's only 9 regular residents of the town, tiny population, the lack of any law enforcement aside from Sportacus (and/or the police officer in the original Icelandic plays), and why Mayor Meanswell seems to occasionally take up other job positions such as an airplane pilot.
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[[WMG: [=LazyTown=] is a micronation.]]
This would explain why there's only 9 regular residents of the town, the lack of any law enforcement aside from Sportacus (and/or the police officer in the original Icelandic plays), and why Mayor Meanswell seems to occasionally take up other job positions such as an airplane pilot.
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* Actually, I think Spock says sugar isn't good for Vulcans in the novelization of The Voyage Home, and we all know from Deep Space Nine that Vulcans get drunk on chocolate (Sporty would not setting a great example for the kids if he went around drunk!)
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* Actually, I think Spock says sugar isn't good for Vulcans in the novelization of The Voyage Home, and we all know from Deep Space Nine that Vulcans get drunk on chocolate (Sporty would not be setting a great example for the kids if he went around drunk!)
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* Actually, I think Spock says sugar isn't good for Vulcans in the novelization of The Voyage Home, and we all know from Deep Space Nine that Vulcans get drunk on chocolate (Sporty would not setting a great example for the kids if he went around drunk!)
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* It should be noted that despite all this, it seems like the genie [[spoiler:making Robbie disappear]] was ''not'' intentional, based on the genie's reaction. This implies that the genie is fine with messing with his latest master if that person turns out to be a jerk, but he would not intentionally hurt anyone of his own volition.
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* It should be noted that despite all this, it seems like the genie [[spoiler:making Robbie disappear]] was ''not'' intentional, based on the genie's OhCrap reaction. This implies that the genie is fine with messing with his latest master if that person turns out to be a jerk, but he would not intentionally hurt anyone of his own volition.
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[[WMG:In "The Lazy Genie," the genie was ObfuscatingStupidity and being a LiteralGenie on purpose.]]
The genie could probably tell instantly that Robbie was a bad person, or at least didn't appreciate Robbie's selfish attitude. So he intentionally screwed up Robbie's wishes by taking them too literally as a really subtle form of MistreatmentInducedBetrayal. Some evidence: When the genie makes the healthy foods and sports equipment disappear, they reappear later because Robbie never specified that they had to disappear ''forever''. But when [[spoiler:Stingy wishes for Robbie to return from disappearance, Stingy]] never specifies that he has to return "forever," and yet the genie grants [[spoiler:Stingy's]] wish the way he intended. This implies that the genie is normally a BenevolentGenie unless he dislikes his master.
* It should be noted that despite all this, it seems like the genie [[spoiler:making Robbie disappear]] was ''not'' intentional, based on the genie's reaction. This implies that the genie is fine with messing with his latest master if that person turns out to be a jerk, but he would not intentionally hurt anyone of his own volition.
The genie could probably tell instantly that Robbie was a bad person, or at least didn't appreciate Robbie's selfish attitude. So he intentionally screwed up Robbie's wishes by taking them too literally as a really subtle form of MistreatmentInducedBetrayal. Some evidence: When the genie makes the healthy foods and sports equipment disappear, they reappear later because Robbie never specified that they had to disappear ''forever''. But when [[spoiler:Stingy wishes for Robbie to return from disappearance, Stingy]] never specifies that he has to return "forever," and yet the genie grants [[spoiler:Stingy's]] wish the way he intended. This implies that the genie is normally a BenevolentGenie unless he dislikes his master.
* It should be noted that despite all this, it seems like the genie [[spoiler:making Robbie disappear]] was ''not'' intentional, based on the genie's reaction. This implies that the genie is fine with messing with his latest master if that person turns out to be a jerk, but he would not intentionally hurt anyone of his own volition.
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[[WMG:Robbie's telescope device with the always angry eyes on it is sentient and also an actual LazyTown resident.]]
The fact that the eyed telescope you know, HAS PUPPETY EYES, and can appear anywhere around the town (even through any window outside and inside the higher level of Pixel's house) is proof of that fact. He just has to be controlled by Robbie and he doesn't have any arms, explaining why he doesn't turn on Robbie and hang out with the kids.
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[[WMG:Sportacus is an alien (though not a Time Lord).]]
Think about it. Maybe sugar is bad for him because it's [[AlienCatnip bad for his alien metabolism]]. Maybe he covers his ears all the time because his ears look different due to being an alien (he could have pointy ears like a [[Franchise/StarTrek Vulcan]] or maybe his ears are a different colour at the top or something). Maybe his species is naturally more agile than humans (again, like a Vulcan, although I'm not suggesting he ''is'' a Vulcan because he lacks the slant eyebrows, [[TheStoic stoicism]], and ability to go without sleep for ten days. Also, sugar is OK for Vulcans.) And lastly, maybe his unusual name comes from trying to rename himself from an alien name to a human name but not knowing how names work (e.g. he went "This woman's name is Rosalie and she likes roses, I like sports, so I'll call myself Sport... acus.")
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* Dude, this is pretty much the [=WMG=] that we needed to explain why Robbie's the villain!
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I realised something about him and Tsutomu from Bust a Groove.
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Short temper? Check. Disliked by his peers at times due to his attitude? Check. I mean...They even ''look'' the same. If we're going for the "younger Tsutomu" route, my guess is he grew out of his greedy ways, moved out of Lazytown and his name was legally changed to avoid getting bullied. It didn't work because he was bullied for his new mature attitude.
Short temper? Check. Disliked by his peers at times due to his attitude? Check. I mean...They even ''look'' the same. If we're going for the "younger Tsutomu" route, my guess is he grew out of his greedy ways, moved out of Lazytown and his name was legally changed to avoid getting bullied. It didn't work because he was bullied for his new mature attitude.
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Ryou decided to make a second Mew Mew Project [[Main/ItAmusedMe because he got bored]] and selected [=LazyTown=] as the location of the Project.
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Ryou decided to make a second Mew Mew Project [[Main/ItAmusedMe because he got bored]] and selected [=LazyTown=] as the location of the Project.
Project. Stephanie already has pink hair so no hair color change is required for her to be Mew Stephanie.
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Ryou decided to make a second Mew Mew Project [[Main/ItAmusedMe because he got bored]] and selected [=LazyTown=] as the location of the Project.
Ryou decided to make a second Mew Mew Project [[Main/ItAmusedMe because he got bored]] and selected [=LazyTown=] as the location of the Project.
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* [[https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/57bkxj/i_am_stefan_karl_robbie_rotten_from_lazytown_and/d8qo0yp/ Jossed]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/yr31z/iama_head_writer_for_the_worlds_most_expensive/c5y47q3/ twice]] on these Reddit [=AMAs=], which say Robbie was always a villain, and also isn't Number 9.
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People have speculated that some of the characters from ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' stand for each sin, and it seems that the ''Series/LazyTown'' cast could very well be based on the seven sins, too. (The Mayor and Bessie aren't included, perhaps because they were added to the show to throw people off?)
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People have speculated that some of the characters from ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' stand for each sin, and it seems that the ''Series/LazyTown'' cast could very well be based on the seven sins, too. (The Mayor and Bessie aren't included, perhaps because they were added to the show to throw people off?)
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Both characters share a love for money and have expensive tastes, and the timing of her disappearance and Glanni's appearance is suspect.
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Some episodes have him ''almost'' win, usually due to overlooking something obvious, and in "Records Day" he attempts to kill Sportacus and nearly succeeds. Between his technology, his disguises that can fool the whole town, and some of his plans being legitimately dangerous, it seems like the only reason he loses is because he doesn't care enough to win.
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Some episodes have him ''almost'' win, usually due to overlooking something obvious, and in "Records Day" he attempts to kill Sportacus and nearly succeeds. Between his technology, his disguises that can fool the whole town, his ability to teleport in "Master of Disguise," and some of his plans being legitimately dangerous, it seems like the only reason he loses could cause a lot more damage than he does, but given his main trait is because laziness that's likely why he doesn't care enough to win.doesn't.
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[[WMG: The only reason Robbie hasn't won is laziness.]]
Some episodes have him ''almost'' win, usually due to overlooking something obvious, and in "Records Day" he attempts to kill Sportacus and nearly succeeds. Between his technology, his disguises that can fool the whole town, and some of his plans being legitimately dangerous, it seems like the only reason he loses is because he doesn't care enough to win.
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[[WMG: Robbie Rotten's last name isn't Rotten.]]
It's ''[[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Robotnik]]'', and Robbie is a descendant of the good Doctor.
Both Robbie and Eggman share an improbably high intellectual capacity and are [[GadgeteerGenius skilled with machines]], to the point where they can assemble them within ''seconds'' and have technology far beyond the scope of what is thought possible at their fingertips. The two also share {{Manchild}} tendencies and, though Robbie fortunately isn't quite as cruel as his ancestor can be, do desire some form of dominance over a location.
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[[WMG: Robbie Rotten is a MeanCharacterNiceActor both in RealLife and in-universe]]
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[[WMG: Robbie Rotten is a MeanCharacterNiceActor both in RealLife and in-universe]]
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[[WMG: The show exists in the same universe as GregTheBunny.]]
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[[WMG: The show exists in the same universe as GregTheBunny.Series/GregTheBunny.]]
