GasBandit
Staff member
He said he had.I thought he'd gotten better.
The fact that Robbie Rotten was both the busiest person in town (which even gets commented on) and secretly the hero in some episodes is something that only makes sense if you're watching it as an adult. This is both partly intentional (to show that Robbie isn't really a bad person) and partly to due to cultural differences. You need to remember that LazyTown is an adaption of Icelandic stage plays for kids; hell, Sportacus is an elf in the plays and they joke about this in the show by NEVER showing his ears.I haven’t seen the show, but my wife was forced to sit through a lot of them thanks to our son’s TV habit. She told me that the show was very classist, glorifying how the Jock (Sportacus) would always get the better of the Nerd (Robbie), and how this would be reinforced by Robbie reading comic books/playing with action figures/doing cosplay, and how all he (Robbie) really wanted was to be left alone.
—Patrick