Pixel

Pixel

Species
Human

Gender
Male

First appearance
*Áfram Latibær!* (in all)"Welcome to LazyTown" (in series)

Puppeteered by
Ronald BinionJulie Westwood

Voiced by
Kobie Powell (seasons 1-2)Chris Knowings (some season 2 episodes)Ronald Binion (seasons 3-4/Extra)

**Pixel** is a main character in *LazyTown*. He’s a computer genius and inventor. He has trouble interacting with other people and coping with problems. He has tendency to invent gadgets that make his life easier, like speeding up his homework, tying his shoelaces, or even playing sports for him. He represents antisocial behavior and his health issue is media moderation.

Description
*Engaged, earnest, and focused, Pixel navigates video games and electronic technology with masterful skill. But all of the hours he's spent logged on have left him ill-prepared for the illogical and uncontrollable forces at play when he hangs with real people. The remote control he carries in his holster can't mute arguments, or change the programming of friends, so he must either retreat to his consistent world of bits and bytes or struggle through the messy moments of friendship.*
*Sometimes the only way he can communicate with other kids is through his love of technology, rambling on with dazzling data when a simple "yes" or "no" would do. His ability and instinct to solve problems using technology are valuable when the others need to figure some-thing out, but Pixel nearly short-circuits when faced with a simple question like: "What’s your favorite color?" Or how he feels about Stephanie. He has such a crush; he almost can't talk around her. Talk about computer malfunction!* — LazyTown.com

Looks
Pixel has dark skin, red-orange hair, and brown eyes. He usually wears a white t-shirt with orange sleeves and his name printed on the front, a blue shirt underneath, a pair of baggy jeans, and big sneakers. He also sports a headpiece with silver antennae, a translucent visor, and a belt that contains many gadgets.

Personality
Pixel is the resident computer genius in town. He can do a lot of different things with his computer, and all this stuff is pretty well appreciated by the people of Lazy Town. For example, throughout the series, he runs a TV Station, invents spy gadgets and helps gather various information with his computer. He really takes pride in his inventions and becomes quite upset if something happens to one of them.
While he can easily understand the logical ways of computing and calculation, Pixel has trouble interacting with people, and understanding the illogical ways of the humans. He loves his friends and his friendship, but he has serious troubles understanding them. He's absent for a good part of Season 1 (While since Season 2 he appears more). Whilst no explanation is given about this fact, it is assumed that he prefers to spend his time working on his computer than playing outside with his friends.
Pixel's room is the usual meeting place after the playground, it's seem because he has video games. He has a good relationship with all his friends, but sometimes Ziggy and Stingy can challenge his capacity of understand people. Pixel has little patience, getting fed up quickly when someone it's doing something stupid or annoying. Stephanie is always trying to drag him outside to play, but Pixel usually prefers to stay inside.

Appearances
Pixel appears in many episodes of *LazyTown*. He appears the least out of the kids. His debut was in "Welcome to LazyTown" and his last appearance was in "Mystery of the Pyramid". He also appears in the following *LazyTown* productions that are not part of the series:
* *Áfram Latibær!*
* *Glanni Glæpur í Latabæ*
* Unaired pilot
* Most episodes of *LazyTown Extra*

Major roles
The following episodes focus on Pixel or have him in a very prominent role.
* "Sleepless in LazyTown"
* "Zap It!"
* "Pixelspix"
* "Remote Control"
* "Soccer Sucker"
* "Pixel TV"
* "LazyTown Goes Digital"
* "Let's Go to the Moon"

Relationships
Stephanie
Pixel has a huge secret crush on Stephanie, as stated in his official description. Some examples of Stephanie/Pixel moments are included below.
* Pixel's crush is very clearly shown in the first episode when they meet. Pixel is awestruck and stares at Stephanie as magical music plays. He ends up losing his video game because he’s distracted, but for once, Pixel doesn’t mind.
* In "Dear Diary", when Trixie asks Pixel "Who's the sweetest, nicest, cutest girl in all of LazyTown?", Pixel immediately replies, "Stephanie!" as the same magical music beat plays. Then, Trixie gives him Stephanie's fake note and says "Well, think again, LOVERBOY!" This confirms that Pixel thinks Stephanie is the "sweetest, nicest and cutest" girl he knows, and it also implies that Trixie is aware of his crush on Stephanie, since she calls him "loverboy."
* In "Zap It!", Stephanie visits Pixel at his house and they play video games together. Later, Pixel helps Stephanie clean her room with his Zapper 6000.
* In "Soccer Sucker", Stephanie gives Pixel a heart-to-heart talk about his dependence on his computer. She explains to him that he needs to trust himself instead of his computer sometimes. This empowers Pixel to join a soccer match against Robbie's Soccerbot, which he ends up winning. After he scores the final goal, Stephanie cheers for him and hugs him.
* In "Pixel TV", Pixel gives Stephanie her own SportsCandy show. They sing a duet together called "Colors".
* In "LazyTown Goes Digital", Pixel and Stephanie work together to stop Robbie's machine from throwing pizzas everywhere.
* In "Dancing Dreams", Pixel gives Stephanie a "Vid-Diary 6000" that contains videos of all their best times together. They share a hug as well in this episode.
* One story sequence in the "Story Time" segment of "Once Upon a Time" is based on *Snow White*. It features Stephanie as Snow White and Pixel as the prince who needs to kiss Stephanie in order to wake her up after she eats an apple.
* In "Birthday Surprise" during the "We Will Be Friends" song, Stephanie opens her diary to a page with a photo of her and Pixel hugging from "Dancing Dreams".
* In "The Blue Knight", Stephanie calls Prince Pixel "young and handsome" during the song "Here We Go".

Sportacus
Pixel looks up to Sportacus and has learned a few lessons from him. Some examples are:
* In "Sleepless in LazyTown", Sportacus teaches Pixel that he should go to sleep on time in order to have energy.
* In "Remote Control", Sportacus helps Pixel learn that he needs to use his body in order to be healthy, rather than use machines to do everything.

Robbie
Like all of the other residents, Robbie doesn’t know Pixel very well. They do not talk to each other often, but they have interacted on some occasions:
* When Robbie arrives at Ziggy's party in "The Greatest Gift", Pixel happily says "Hi, Robbie!" to him. Robbie is very nervous and dismisses this with a "whatever."
* In "Birthday Surprise", Robbie calls Stingy and Pixel "Sticky and Picky" instead of their real names.
* In “Sportacus Who” Robbie calls Pixel “Poodle” after all his electronics were destroyed.

Ziggy
Pixel and Ziggy are good friends. He admires how Ziggy is attuned to others' feelings. Some of their interactions are described below.
* In "Remote Control", Ziggy gets mad when Pixel uses his all-powerful remote to mute other people. He says to him, "you can't do this to people because people are people! And I'm a people person, so I should know!"
* The majority of "Pixelspix" features Ziggy at Pixel's house, where he and Pixel check out the Pixelspix website. They are shown to have a brotherly relationship, although Pixel occasionally gets annoyed with Ziggy when he obsesses over sweets.

Trixie
Pixel admires Trixie's outspokenness and her ability to rally a group. They seem to have a neutral relationship. Some of their major interactions include:
* In "Once Upon a Time", Pixel and Trixie must help the other kids get out of Pixel's Storymatic 3000. They are the only kids who did not end up stuck in the machine.

Stingy
Pixel likes how Stingy can stand up for himself, which is something that Pixel can’t easily do. However, Stingy is prone to arguing with Pixel. Some of their interactions are included below.
* In the "Cooking by the Book" musical sequence of "Swiped Sweets", Pixel and Stingy are shown fighting over a bowl that Stingy presumably wants to have for himself.
* In "Birthday Surprise", Pixel sides with Stingy when Stingy gets into an argument with Trixie over where to hold Sportacus's party. Pixel takes Stingy to his house, where he tells Stingy that he needs to apologize to Trixie. For the rest of the episode, Pixel remains on Stingy's side and seems to have a neutral relationship with him.

Performers
Pixel is unique among the *LazyTown* characters, having gone through several changes in voice actors and performers. When production on the first season began, Pixel's voice was provided by Noel MacNeal. Kobie Powell was given the role after some early episodes had already been filmed, so Noel's work was redubbed with Kobie's voice. However, Noel can still be heard as Pixel's voice in some releases; one example is the iTunes release of "Defeeted".
The Pixel puppet has been performed by Ronald Binion since the first episode, although Julie Westwood (who normally plays Bessie) took over the role for several episodes of the first season. Kobie Powell stopped providing Pixel's voice after the second season; Ronald Binion provided both the puppetry and voice for Pixel for all later episodes.
**Primary performers:**
* Ronald Binion: seasons 1-4 (puppet only in seasons 1-2, puppet and voice in seasons 3-4/Extra)
* Kobie Powell: seasons 1-2, voice only

**Other performers:**
* Jón Stefán Kristjánsson: *Áfram Latibær!* (1996)
* Rúnar Freyr Gíslason: *Glanni Glæpur í Latabæ* (1999)
* Julie Westwood: select episodes of season 1, puppet only
* Noel MacNeal: One episode of season 1, voice only
* Chris Knowings: Five episodes of season 2, voice only

Trivia* Pixel's Icelandic name is **Goggi Mega**.
* In the original plays, Pixel had fair skin. He was bald in *Áfram Latibær!* and had neon green hair in *Glanni Glæpur í Latabæ*. The puppet made in 2000 was inspired by Pixel's appearance in the theater play.
* In *Áfram Latibær!*, Pixel has a noticeable verbal tic. It is absent in "Glanni Glæpur í Latibæ" and the LazyTown show.
* As seen in "Pixelspix", Pixel owns a candid photo of Stephanie.
* Pixel's original concept name was PC Hyperbyte.
* His name is taken from the name of a point in a digital image: A Pixel.
* Pixel's computer runs Linux Operative System, specifically Debian distribution.
* The PixelsPix.com domain used to redirect to the LazyTown Official Site.
* The thing on Pixel’s left hand forefinger is used to operate his mobile database. He also uses this database in Happy Brush Day and in Sportafake (to play Music).
* Similar to Robbie Rotten, his inventions usually end in "3000" or "6000".
* According to LazyTown's Greatest Hits, his favorite song is No One's Lazy in LazyTown.
* According to the original LazyTown website and Ronald Binion's website, Pixel is **9** years old.
* Pixel's full name is **Pixel Hyperbyte**.

Gallery
Character poses

Designs
*Áfram Latibær!* (1996)*Glanni Glæpur í Latabæ* (1999)CGI (2000)Illustrated (2000)Wit Puppets (2000)Illustrated (2002)Unaired pilot (2003)