Friend: Hey what’s wrong?
Me: Oh, it’s nothing
Me in my head: In episode one of Lazy Town when Stephanie arrives there the kids make it seem like they’ve never heard of Sportacus, and make the idea of exercising seem ridiculous like its never happened before. However the mayor knows of him but makes it sound like he hasn’t been there for a long time (he even forgets his name, and identifies him by the 9 on his chest) But in the next episode Ziggy and the Mayor mention Sportacus doing a sports day where he played baseball with the kids one year ago. However, a few episodes later Sportacus says that he’s never played baseball before, and if one year has passed how did everyone forget about Sportacus in such a short time? Sportacus also makes it sound like he’s never really associated with Lazy Town before Stephanie contacts him in the first episode. There is also the fact that in the episode where Robbie Rotten dresses up as a pirate, in the history book (although outdated, by how long not sure as stated by Trixie, as the show started in 2004, but the history book goes from about 1700-1900 something.) a person that looks eerily similar to Sportacus and a Rotten ancestor are in the book. So, therefore, a possible explanation is that “Sportacus” is either a title passed on from one person to the next, or Sportacus has been around since the book has. Meaning that he could either be able to reincarnate, or he has been alive for all that time, and when he gets hurt he changes his number so people don’t get suspicious. Alternitavely, Sportacus could be a sort of spirit watching over the town, which is why he keeps showing up. Anyways, this explains in the first episode, why robbie says “another one?!” When he sees sportacus. Which means that, in the timeline before Stephanie gets there, number 9 Sportacus is being active with the kids, and plays baseball with them for his sports stunt. Something happens to him (or maybe the town says they don’t need him around all the time anymore so he flies away for a while?) and Robbie Rotten takes the opportunity to make lazy town lazy again in a short period of time (he has shown multiple times to quickly win the kids over with candy and video games etc.). Before Sportacus comes back, since a person like Stephanie isn’t around to warn Sportacus about Robbie’s schemes, he is able to plug the pipes around town so the people can communicate with him anymore. Therefore, the crystal doesn’t go off when he leaves for a while, and he thinks everything is fine and goes back to his island in the north sea. Summertime arrives, and thats when Stephanie arrives, to see lazy town in the condition that it is in in the first episode. So while Sportacus is some sort of supernatural entity (Robbie does call him an elf because of his hat in the show, and he’s one in the plays the show is based off of) Robbie’s ancestors must have been dedicated to trying to get rid of Sportacus, which is why he’s so adament about getting him to leave. Also, the kids forgetting about Sportacus along with the mayor sort of makes sense if you put into context that one year is a long time for kids, and they easily could have forgotten, especially after playing video games and eating junk food all the time. And the mayor characteristically is a bit dopey, as the stress of running a town and keeping ms busybody happy must have caused him to simply forgot sportacus existed.
