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Guilty fetish..lazy town

RobertScorpio

RobertScorpio

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I watch this show nearly everyday with my kids, and...I like it. I think it comes from Sweden, and its about some crazy town, lazy town, that is like some Abba/Ace of Base alternate reality....

The bad guy is Robby Rotten and he easily steals the show when he is on, but the rest of the show had cute songs for the kids, the best being a song called YOU ARE A PIRATE..look for it on Youtube, it is there...Kind of like HR PUFFINSTUFF meets LIDSVILLE (and I think that actually happened)

What are some of your guilty kids show pleasures...

Rob
Scorpio

http://emea.promax.tv/emea/img/newsletter/nov06/Lazy-Town-group.jpg
 
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guilty "fetish" - whole other thread dude! :D

Weird coincidence - I watched Lazytown for like the first time ever just about half an hour ago, and lo and behold I log on here and find a thread about it! :borg:

Still, I totally get what you're saying about Robbie Rotten - the big-chin steals the show. :lol:

I think I like the very stylised look of the show too. Didn't really understand what was going on though - who's the superhero with the pointy moustache?
 
Holdfast said:
guilty "fetish" - whole other thread dude! :D

Weird coincidence - I watched Lazytown for like the first time ever just about half an hour ago, and lo and behold I log on here and find a thread about it! :borg:

Still, I totally get what you're saying about Robbie Rotten - the big-chin steals the show. :lol:

I think I like the very stylised look of the show too. Didn't really understand what was going on though - who's the superhero with the pointy moustache?
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From what I have seen? He is a super-hero who makes sure that the kids don't eat too much candy and become lazy. He lives in some crazy ass blimp but where he comes from? I don't know. But I think he is also the creator of the show, or the executive producer.

When ever they sing a song I immediately think of ABBA's disco stuff. And yes, that dude's chin really steals the show. And it's made in either switzerland or Sweden I think, which adds to the 'freshness' I think...

Rob
Scorpio
 
My daughter is a big fan of LazyTown. The guy with the mustache is Sportacus, who does all that stuff RobertScorpio mentioned, and he is indeed played by the show's creator/executive producer/director/sometimes writer/story editor/caterer/set painter/... Okay. I made up those last two, but his name (Magnus Scheving, I think) is all over the show. I have to admit that the songs are fairly catchy. There's one about baking a cake that got stuck in my head for a few days.

Hmm...other kids' shows... My son really likes The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, which despite using every crappy sitcom plot known to man, is actually pretty funny. I can't deal with Spongebob, though. I've been showing my kids DVDs of Animaniacs and The Muppet Show to try to teach them what quality is. :)
 
The four year old loves Spongebob. Somedays, I think I'm going crazy. It's not so bad now that it's summer and I can tell him to turn off the tv.

He likes LazyTown too. I think the main theme of the show is to get kids to get out and do sports stuff - which is odd, cuz, you know, it's a tv show ... and you're telling kids to not watch tv ...
 
LazyTown is an Icelandic TV show and great for kids. If you're an adult watching too, it isn't boring and has cool production design. Sportacus' flying craft is a particularly nice piece of work (it's no low-budget show). The Eurobeat-type songs are also likable if you are into that sort of thing.

Robbie Rotten isn't really evil, but so super-lazy that he hatches schemes to get Sportacus and his friends to leave LazyTown so he can sleep. Sportacus knows this, but the evil schemes are the only things that get Robbie up and moving around, and since it is Sportacus' goal for everyone to be active, he plays along.
 
I don't have kids but I've run across this while flipping channels. Whew! Lemme tell ya! That Julianna Rose Mauriello is gonna be one hell of a hottie when she gets a few more years under her little pink wig.:drool:
 
T J said:
I don't have kids but I've run across this while flipping channels. Whew! Lemme tell ya! That Julianna Rose Mauriello is gonna be one hell of a hottie when she gets a few more years under her little pink wig.:drool:
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Apparently she's 17...
 
JNG said:
Robbie Rotten isn't really evil, but so super-lazy that he hatches schemes to get Sportacus and his friends to leave LazyTown so he can sleep. Sportacus knows this, but the evil schemes are the only things that get Robbie up and moving around, and since it is Sportacus' goal for everyone to be active, he plays along.
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Ah! Now the show makes sense. I thought they might be brothers or something and that's why Sportacus (brilliant name! :lol: ) wasn't too hard on him.
 
CmdrAJD said:
My daughter is a big fan of LazyTown. The guy with the mustache is Sportacus, who does all that stuff RobertScorpio mentioned, and he is indeed played by the show's creator/executive producer/director/sometimes writer/story editor/caterer/set painter/... Okay. I made up those last two, but his name (Magnus Scheving, I think) is all over the show. I have to admit that the songs are fairly catchy. There's one about baking a cake that got stuck in my head for a few days.

Hmm...other kids' shows... My son really likes The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, which despite using every crappy sitcom plot known to man, is actually pretty funny. I can't deal with Spongebob, though. I've been showing my kids DVDs of Animaniacs and The Muppet Show to try to teach them what quality is. :)
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My 14 year old daughter and my 4 year old son love the Zack and Cody show too, and all those crazy disney shows as well....

And on an aside? Im going to look for the lazytown soudtrack because now I cant get the cake song or You are A pirate out of my head!!!

Rob
Scorpio
 
CmdrAJD said:
I've been showing my kids DVDs of Animaniacs and The Muppet Show to try to teach them what quality is. :)
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In addition to that, you need to show your kids the following:

Batman: The Animated Series

Superman: The Animated Series

Justice League/Justice League Unlimited

Batman Beyond

Teen Titans

The Batman

Static Shock

Dungeons & Dragons

Robotech

Kim Possible

Land Of The Lost

Transformers

JEM

X-Men: Evolution

Freakazoid

Looney Tunes

Thundercats

Gargoyles

There's a ton of other classics, but I can't remember them right now; they're all from the '80's, and some of them aren't on DVD. But most of the ones that I've mentioned are better than Spongebob Squarepants or The Suite Life Of Zack & Cody.
 
cardinal biggles said:
^What thread bomb?
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I posted it like forever ago in the thread bomb thread, and everyone was like 'huh'?
My son used to love that show. Now he's into Thomas, but yeah....songs still stuck in my head.
Hoser, creeping out Ganoosh.
 
Dusty Ayres said:
CmdrAJD said:
I've been showing my kids DVDs of Animaniacs and The Muppet Show to try to teach them what quality is. :)
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In addition to that, you need to show your kids the following:

Batman: The Animated Series

Superman: The Animated Series

Justice League/Justice League Unlimited

Batman Beyond

Looney Tunes
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Already in the rental queue. :) My son loves Kim Possible, and we own Land of the Lost. Also, I see that Freakazoid will be out on DVD on July 29th, so I'll be snapping that one up immediately.
 
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