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Fridge Brilliance

  • Robbie sleeps in a chair. No bed or anything, just... a single chair. Is it any wonder he has a hard time going to sleep?
    • His diet also seems to consist more or less exclusively of desserts, such as cake or ice cream, often in ridiculously large quantities. When he isn't eating desserts, it's usually stuff that isn't much better like French Fries. The guy must have a lot of sugar running through his bloodstream. No doubt that has a way of keeping him awake, not to mention it explains why he's so active.
  • Robbie is often depicted as not being very intelligent. He shows a lack of understanding for basic concepts and his schemes are often not particularly well-thought out. At most his efforts often provide little more than a short-term solution that quickly gets resolved or ends up missing the mark entirely, and he is always angry about how Sportacus seems to be one step ahead of him. But as we learned in "School Scam" Robbie never went to school, which means he never learned anything, unlike Sportacus and the kids. No wonder his schemes never work.
  • Besides his magical inventions, Robbie has demonstrated several superhuman abilities, including strength, speed, durability, and the ability to teleport. Why doesn't he use them more often, especially teleportation? He's too lazy to!
    • Teleportation and speed would also explain why no one bothers chasing him after his plan's foiled.
  • Why is Robbie Rotten described as lazy even though he's active? Simple— he's not wilfully active. If he had his way, he wouldn't run around.
  • You would think a person who eats lots of sweets and not much else would be very obese, especially a lazy person. Yet Robbie is thin. Why? Because despite being described as lazy he is actually extremely active due to his constant schemes.

Fridge Horror

  • If Robbie is supposed to be the laziest person in the laziest town in the world, and yet he gets plenty of exercise from trying to make other people lazy, what does that say about the people who live outside LazyTown? Are they all in a state of constant movement, like they've drunk way too much Red Bull? Are they forced to be active until the day they die? Does the rigamortis caused from people dying while being active result in people needing to be chopped up in order to fit into their coffins?
    • ...Holy shit.
    • Maybe they're as active as Sportacus? That's not so bad.
  • LazyTown had no law enforcement before Sportacus arrived. True, the worst person you can expect to find there is Robbie Rotten, but that is an absolutely jarring level of negligence. Especially with how messy the town was when Stephanie arrived, and how the stores were all boarded up.
    • Prior to Stephanie and Sportacus' arrival, the population of LazyTown consisted of three adults and four children (the parents of said children are nowhere to be found). Having a paid police force or a public utilities crew would cost way more than what 3 to 7 tax payers could afford. LazyTown's basically the equivalent of a town from the old-west or Animal Crossing , where everyone has to rely on a handful of small businesses and a bunch of volunteer work (and considering LazyTown is full of, well, lazy people, it's very unlikely anyone would do volunteer work without Stephanie and Sportacus telling them to do so).
  • In "Dancing Dreams" Robbie locks Sportacus in a trunk, ties it off with helium balloons, and due to sitting on the trunk is put in danger when it flies into the air and hits plane level. When Stephanie and the Mayor see him in trouble they go to help him, and when Stephanie lands on the trunk she realizes Sportacus is in there and saves him. If Robbie hadn't been on the trunk when it floated away, would they have ever found Sportacus?
  • If Pixel's remote in "Zap It" had worked as intended, Robbie would have erased Sportacus from existence.
  • "Time to Learn" has Robbie consider using more than one sugar apple on Sportacus, eventually settling on four. Since one apple renders him unconscious for a good while, four could potentially be life-threatening.
  • In the episode "Double Trouble," the Mayor eventually found Robbie who was impersonating him and threw cake toward his foot to cause him to slip and fall at the end of a seesaw. The Mayor then has Ms. Busybody climb onto his back and the two, using their combined weight, causes Robbie to get flown into the air. The problem with this that Robbie was flown very high and was coming down very fast. Had Sportacus not been there to save Robbie in time, the Mayor would've actually killed Robbie (especially since he really should've just stopped after getting him to slip on the cake).

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