Rottenbeard

"Rottenbeard"

Episode number
Season 1, Episode 12

Air date
28 September 2004

Featured song
"You Are a Pirate"

Episode guide

Previous episode
"Dr. Rottenstein"

Next episode
"Cry Dinosaur"

"**Rottenbeard**" 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)
* Stingy (played by Jodi Eichelberger)
* Mayor Meanswell (played by David Matthew Feldman)
* Bessie Busybody (in a photo in the Town Hall)

Premise

*"The children are playing pirates when a real pirate sails into town. Rottenbeard, who is really Robbie Rotten in disguise, takes the children on a fake treasure hunt, where they find a fake piece of the LazyTown stone. Sportacus must re-enact the final confrontation between the original Rottenbeard and the mysterious hero who once saved LazyTown."*

Quotes* Stephanie: That isn't a pirate! It's Robbie!
* Ziggy: Robbie Rotten!
* Sportacus: (reading corrected LazyTown stone) LazyTown should always be happy.
* Milford: Well, that's easy. All we have to do is smile.
* Robbie: That's easy for you to say.
* Trixie: Kick him!
* Sportacus: What?
* Trixie: Just give him a little push.
* Sportacus: Okay. Whaddya know? A hole-in-one.
* Robbie: (to Sportacus) You cloven kangaroo!
* Trixie: Doing nothing is worse than anything.
* Stephanie: This is the worst.
* Robbie: Finally! Peace and quiet in LazyTown forever!
* Stephanie: Does that mean I"m not allowed to dance anymore?
* Robbie: (as Rottenbeard) Not even the sailor's jig.
* Trixie: Out of my way, you scurvy dog! Stephanie!
* Stephanie: Why do I have to dig?
* Trixie: Because I have the hook. You dig?
* Stephanie: All right, I'll dig.
* Ziggy: You better dig.
* Ziggy: (finally spotting the "X" after repeated attempts by Robbie to draw his attention to it) What's this?!
* Robbie: (as Rottenbeard) We have a winner.
* Robbie: (as Rottenbeard) Yar har! Wind at your back, lads, wherever you go!
* Robbie and Kids: (singing) Blue sky above and blue ocean below / You are a pirate!
* Robbie: Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
* Robbie and Kids: You are a pirate!
* Robbie: Heh heh heh heh.
* Robbie: (singing, as Rottenbeard) We've got us a map
* Kids: A map!
* Robbie: To lead us to a hidden box / That's all locked up with locks
* Kids: With locks!
* Robbie: And buried deep away / We'll dig up the box
* Kids: The box!
* Robbie: We know it's full of precious booty / Bust open the locks
* Robbie and Kids: And then we'll say "hooray!"
* Stephanie: Yar har fiddle de de / If you love to sail the sea / You are a pirate.
* Robbie: Weigh anchor!
* Robbie and Kids: Yar har, fiddle de de / Being a pirate is all right with me / Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free / You are a pirate!
* Robbie: (singing, as Rottenbeard) Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free / You are a pirate!
* Robbie and Kids: Yar har fiddle de de / Being a pirate is all right to be / Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free / You are a pirate!
* Stephanie: That's the "X." That must be where the treasure is.
* Robbie: (as Rottenbeard) I knew you'd make a worthy crew the minute I laid eyes on you.
* Robbie: (as Rottenbeard) I've got me a map. I've got me a shovel. But I need a pack of puny pirates, such as yourselves to help me find the booty.
* Ziggy: What did you just say?
* Robbie: (as himself) I need someone to help me find the treasure!
* Robbie: (as Rottenbeard) Are ye real buccaneers? If it's real treasure ye be seeking ye be sailing under the flag of Rottenbeard the Pirate.
* Robbie: So if someone, meaning me, made a fake stone, they'd have to do whatever I wrote on it. (laughs gleefully) Time to put my skills as a chiseler to good use. Ah! Ah! Now all I have to do is break it to match the other half. (laughs meanly) Ah! (He falls over, but the stone splits just as he wanted it to.) A perfect match. And now to go bury it somewhere those kids will find it. Ha ha ha! Disguise time!
* Milford: (reading from the LazyTown Big Book of History) A pirate named Rottenbeard wandered through LazyTown, spreading his rottenness to every home and taking whatever he wanted.
* Robbie: Those rotten kids. Noise, noise, noise. Nothing but noise! Ugh. (groans) Ew! Ugh! Uh! Eee. Ahh. Ha ha ha. (finds several sets of earmuffs) For trucks, jets, rockets. Ah, for kids. (He puts them on, but then removes them because they're not working.) Nothing is working! Oh ho ho ho!
* Trixie: I have a hook.
* Ziggy: She has a hook.
* Stingy: Okay, uh, you're in charge.
* Sportacus: Good luck, guys. But don't sink too many ships.
* Sportacus: I thought Stephanie was in real trouble. No wonder my crystal didn't beep.
* Trixie: Yargh! We be playin' pirates, Sportacus!

Trivia* This episode features the first time that the kids are taken hostage by Robbie.
* Pixel is the only character absent and doesn't appear in this episode. Bessie is also absent, but her photo can be seen in the Town Hall.
* Robbie and the kids perform "You Are a Pirate," Track 10 on the LazyTown album.
* The "History of LazyTown" book read by the Mayor uses the original *LazyTown* logo from before the concept was adapted for television.
* At the front of Rottenbeard's pirate ship, there is a carved bird that resembles Haninn, the bird and narrator featured in Glanni Glaepur i Latabae.
* The pirate ship shows up again in Robbie's Greatest Misses. Here it nearly manages to run over Sportacus all by itself.
* The Parrot was a pet of Stefán Karl Stefánsson.
* Right before finding the real treasure map, Stephanie implies she is only in LazyTown for the summer, saying, "I can't believe it. I have to spend my whole summer here doing nothing."
* You Are A Pirate has become an Internet meme.

Goofs* During the scene where the fake stone is unveiled, Stephanie starts to walk away. She is seen walking for about three seconds and then the camera cuts to Sportacus, who starts to run after her. When he does this, Stephanie is nowhere in sight. She is then seen sitting on a bench. Based on the time taken, she should not have been able to reach the bench that quickly.

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