Dear Diary

"Dear Diary"

Episode number
Season 1, Episode 16

Air date
7 June 2005

Featured songs
"Energy""The Mine Song""Step by Step""Always a Way"

Episode guide

Previous episode
"The Laziest Town"

Next episode
"Zap It!"

"**Dear Diary**" is an episode in the first season of *LazyTown*.

Characters* Stephanie (played by Julianna Rose Mauriello)
* Sportacus (played by Magnús Scheving)
* Robbie Rotten (played by Stefán Karl Stefánsson)
* Ziggy (played by Guðmundur Þór Kárason)
* Trixie (played by Sarah Burgess)
* Pixel (played by Kobie Powell)
* Stingy (played by Jodi Eichelberger)
* Mayor Meanswell (played by David Matthew Feldman)
* Bessie Busybody (Diary only) (played by Julie Westwood)

Premise
*"Stephanie writes in her diary about the events that happened in Lazytown. and she showed the diary to her friends. when Robbie Rotten saw this, he wrote some nasty things on a pink paper note. when her friends saw the note, thinking it was Stephanie's handwriting. They are very angry with Stephanie for writing nasty things about them. Stephanie doesn't understand why they are so upset but, with encouragement from Sportacus, Stephanie shows them what is really in her diary. Everyone has a change of heart, even Robbie."*

Prologue
Sportacus wakes at first light to prepare a hearty breakfast. From his closet of sports gear, he takes a ping pong paddle, then flips over to his SportsCandy counter and flings a banana into the air. He slashes at it with his paddle, slicing it into several pieces. Dropping flat on his back, he expertly catches chunks of banana into his mouth before leaping back up to catch the remaining peel.

Main Episode
Mayor Meanswell drops by Stephanie's room and reports a couple of mishaps while doing his laundry. When he notices her writing, Stephanie tells him that she logs everything that happens in LazyTown in her diary, starting with the day she first arrived and met her uncle. He inquires about Ms. Busybody, and Stephanie obliges with entries about the various times he infuriated Bessie, which he cluelessly admires. Stephanie also mentions yesterday's big soccer game, which she was penning about at that moment. Milford puzzles with this apparent free time that the otherwise active girl seems to have. After admitting her love of being so active, she decides to go out and meet the other kids. She brings along her diary.
Trixie and Stingy are in the sports park, arguing over a basketball, much to the delight of Robbie Rotten, who is lurking close by. Stephanie approaches, and after witnessing the bickering, leans in favor of Trixie and demonstrates several instances of Stingy proclaiming "It's Mine," as recorded in her diary. Stingy leaves Trixie and Stephanie to talk about the latter's diary, including the day all the kids teamed up to build a treehouse. Stephanie then suggests doing some cartwheels to a musical accompaniment, and she runs off to get a boombox, and Trixie reluctantly stays behind. Robbie, having listened in on their conversation, decides to break the bond between the two girls, and he forges a note on a slip of pink paper that degrades the other kids. Thinking it actually fell out of Stephanie's diary, Trixie becomes infuriated and storms off, much to Stephanie's confusion. Trixie takes the fake note to Pixel's house, where Pixel and Ziggy are playing video games. Both are shocked at what appears to be a letter of hatred from their friend.
Stephanie retreats back to her bedroom and tells her uncle that Trixie is refusing to talk to her; he opines that her other friends might be able to help, but when Stephanie arrives at Pixel's house, the group, which now also includes Stingy, barely acknowledges her. Frustrated and without answers, Stephanie walks out alone. Her lament sets off Sportacus's crystal, and he rushes over to LazyTown in his dirigible. In a few moments, he is by Stephanie's side. She relays her predicament, which Sportacus confirms as her call for help. He reminds her that there is "Always a Way" to resolve conflict, but since Stephanie is completely out of the loop, she doesn't even know where to start. Thus, the superhero takes it upon himself to talk to her friends, who tell their side of the story. Sportacus proposes that they at least try talking it over with Stephanie, to which the kids begrudgingly agree.
All the kids gather around Stephanie to show her the pink slip, which the troubled girl is able to quickly refute: her diary contains *white* pages, not pink, and all of her notes are about positive things. She even goes so far as to call Trixie her best friend, recalling that Trixie saved Stephanie's life during a bad storm. Robbie, realizing his plan was foiled again, reaches over while no one is looking and snags the diary. He decides to write a *real* derogatory diary entry – one about Sportacus. However, before he can, he glances at a page, at a note that Stephanie wrote about *him*. It mentions his generally positive qualities, such as enjoying cake, doing funny stuff, liking to relax, and sometimes being a big softie. Meanwhile, the others discover that the diary has gone missing and begin searching for it. No longer finding it in his heart to taunt Stephanie anymore, Robbie steps out from hiding and proclaims that he "found" her diary. She agrees to add this moment to her diary at the villain's insistence.
After Stephanie sings "Bing Bang", it is revealed to be another entry in her diary, which she snaps shut.

Quotes* Stephanie: Thanks Uncle Milford! You're the greatest!
* Milford: Yes, well, except where laundry is concerned.
* Stephanie: Ready to rock and roll?
* Trixie: (angrily) Not with you, Pinky!
* Robbie: And now the final diary entry. Something wonderfully bad about Sportacus. (chuckles evilly)
* Robbie: Cartwheeling? Musicking? This has got to stop. I must find a way to break up this ooey-gooey friendship. Dear Diary, my worst friend is...
* Milford: (to Stephanie) How do you have time to write in a diary, Stephanie? You're always up and moving around.
* Stingy: It's mine!
* Trixie: It's not!
* Robbie: I love the sound of arguing in the morning.
* Robbie: (reading Stephanie's diary entry about himself) "Mostly, he's a kind of a big softie." Me? A softie. Oh, no, I can't do something bad after she said something good. Maybe I am a big softie.

Trivia* **Moral**: Don't always jump to conclusions. If something seems off, make sure you talk about it first before assuming the worst.
* Songs Performed: Energy, The Mine Song, Step By Step, Always a Way
* This is the only episode not to end with Robbie in his underground lair, it ends with Stephanie closing her diary after singing Bing Bang.
* This is largely a flashback episode. Scenes were shown from the following episodes among others: "Welcome to LazyTown," "Swiped Sweets," "Sportafake," "Soccer Sucker," "Sports Day," "Hero for a Day," "Defeeted," "Crystal Caper," and "Lazy Scouts."
* Even though this episode aired before Soccer Sucker, Stephanie talks about the big event as if it happened yesterday. This is due to the episode airing order and the production order being different.
* Close examinations of the words written in the diary have shown that some pages have the same phrase repeated over and over, such as one page that says "Living in LazyTown is great" four times. Oddly, it appears that all of the entries are handwritten by Julianna Rose Mauriello, though it has not been confirmed.
* Because they were still learning to use the technology as they were making season one, the production team had trouble meeting their deadline and ended up short by four episodes. The clip shows *Dear Diary*, *Pixelspix*, *LazyTown's Greatest Hits* and *Sportacus on the Move!* were created in order to fill the season's quota.
* Despite being a clip show, this is the first time "The Mine Song" was ever featured in an episode.
* Two clips from this episode are used in the online game, "Pixelspix".

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