Memes / LazyTown

We Are Number One! (But it’s a page image.)

• "You Are a Pirate" and "Cooking by the Book" are both popular sources for remixes and mashups. The latter grew especially popular due to a fan-made mash-up of that song with a Lil' Jon track.
  • At one point the "You Are a Pirate" verse "We know it's full of precious booty" became a meme.
  • A NSFW-ish fan-animation of "You Are a Pirate" by the creator of (and featuring characters from) Gold Digger, which also got fan-animated into a SFM animation featuring Team Fortress 2 characters.
  • "You Are a Pirate" flared up again during 2019, being portrayed as a response to any game developer making a bad move, implying their game's would-be players will be pirating it out of spite; being made into a Epic Games Store Exclusive is a common one.
  • In general, "You Are a Pirate" has been commonly associated with Internet piracy. The "LOL, LIMEWIRE" flash video ^note Based on the defunct torrent software LimeWire which used the song helped fuel these comparisons during the 2000s.
• This entire scene from "The First Day of Summer" has gained exposure on 4chan and iFunny as a reaction gif for when something really good is given away for free.
  • "Who did you expect? Sportaflop?" ^note During the scene, Robbie Rotten plays both a ice cream vendor and a customer, and when the vendor Robbie takes off his disguise to which the regular one shows surprise, he replies with this line, which is probably the most remembered line from the scene.
• A link to the song "Master of Disguise" used to be a popular reaction to posts suspected of sock-puppeting or strawmanning.
• It's become popular to state that "Stingy is a psychopath", in a response to him running over Sportacus with his car (twice!) and the scene where Stingy asks the mayor some questions about sports only for the conversation to take an unexpected turn.
• "We Are Number One" blew up in popularity through becoming a meme, partially through it being a running gag in SiIvaGunner videos. The meme was eventually used to help spread the link for a GoFundMe to support Stefan Karl Stefansson (the actor who played Robbie Rotten) while he recovered from cancer. It ended up becoming so popular and widespread that the official LazyTown YouTube channel took notice of the meme... and embraced it tightly, going so far as contributing to the meme themselves (with three 10 hour long videos of the original, the instrumental, the instrumental played in reverse and the full episode that the song is from).
  • A number of quotes from the song have become standalone memes.
    • "No, don't touch that!" ^note What the regular Robbie says when his clones step on a branch. Video edits change what "that" (the branch) is or change the line altogether.
    • "Now look at this net, that I've just found!"^note Got turned into the snowclone "Now look at this X that I just found".
    • "Throw it at him, not me! Ugh, let's try something else." ^note After the Robbie clones throw the net at him instead of Sportacus; videos usually mess up the line in some form.
    • "Now watch and learn, here's the deal..." ^note What Robbie says before he introduces the banana peel.
    • "Here's a little lesson in trickery..." ^note The first line of the song after the title and "Now listen closely"; it's since become heavily associated with the memes and is typically used when someone is up to no good.
    • "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" ^note The original Robbie shouts this after his clones slip on the banana peels. Video edits usually make this line even louder.
  • People on YouTube have created mashups of We Are Number One with Bonetrousle due to the similarities in the music.
  • All of the stems for the song have been released.
  • On December 11, 2016, Stefan Karl Stefansson and the other actors from the number posted a live version of the song, complete with an interview with LazyTown composer/songwriter Máni Svavarsson.
  • Another variant of the "We Are Number One" memes is the "We Are Number One but X", in which the X will change several parts of the audio and/or video with something that the meme creator wants. While the X can be anything, the most common format of the X is "but every "One" is replaced with X".^note Basically, every time Rotten and co. says the word "One" in the music video, it will be replaced by whatever X is.
  • 2016 Meme of the Year
  • The phrase "Cancer Status: Number Two" spread rapidly over the internet in July 2017 when it transpired that Stefan Karl's Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer had entered remission. (Although it eventually came back)
• "Don't let your kids watch it!" ^Explanation Robbie Rotten says this in reference to LazyTown in the Season 3 trailer, covering the screen. This became a snowclone meme, replacing the background with other videos, usually to accuse something of being inappropriate for children and/or make a Take That! to something the creator dislikes.
• The entire show became one on Tumblr in mid-November 2016 with a flood of funny posts relating to it and "Number One" in particular.
• "Have you ever heard the sound of a rubber ball breaking a window?" "Uh-uh." "WOULD YOU LIKE TO?" ^Explanation An exchange from the first episode where Robbie asks Trixie this question. It initially became popular for its memorability, especially for Robbie's delivery of the last line, and it became more popular due to the variation below.
  • "Have you ever [set of actions]?" "No..." "WOULD YOU LIKE TO?!" ^Explanation A quote used in reference to new members of a group, meaning that they're so new that they don't even know of the overused memes in said group.
• "The Mine Song" became a pretty popular meme around the same time "We Are Number One" did.
  • The line "All your feelings are mine" has gained quite notability, due to how creepy and out of place it is.
  • Another submeme of this meme is the fact that "Mine mine mine mine mine" is also from "How Bad Can I Be." Oftentimes either meme lampshades this by including a part with Stingy in HBCIB, or the Once-Ler in The Mine Song.
  • The original version of the song from the 90s stage show seems to be approaching meme status on YouTube, particularly Nenni's ensuing argument with Íþróttaálfurinn.
  • "X but Stingy claims everything" videos have become extremely popular after "We Are Number One but Stingy claims everything" was uploaded in November 2016. These videos involve a song but Stingy claims certain words in it by saying "This [word] is mine!" It then shows a zoom of the face of the person who sung it, then Stingy's face. If the word is mentioned in the song again, it is cut and replaced by a YouTube-style error message saying "This word is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Stingy."
  • Replacing the word 'triangular' with the word 'triagonal', after Stingy refers to 'this triagonal sign'.
• Comparisons to Diamond is Unbreakable have become incredibly popular, particularly as Robbie Rotten resembles Josuke.
  • Some would say that◊ Robbie Rotten is the one who saved Josuke in 1989.
  • In a similar fashion, "What episode of LazyTown is this?", particularly because Stephanie resembles Alice Ayres, complete with pink hair.
• "sportacus eats raw lemons" was at one point a popular meme on Tumblr.
• In "Prince Stingy", to save Stingy from falling into a manhole, Sportacus covers the hole, and ends up getting run over by Stingy. Even though it isn't as popular, it still counts.
• Compilations of "Savage Stingy" have also become quite popular. They usually involve scenes of Stingy being either a Deadpan Snarker or a complete Jerkass.
• During the show's early years, this Nick Jr. intro vid became a minor meme on YTMND, creating a few edits.

• Comparing Robbie Rotten to similar villainous characters, with Waluigi being the most common due to him being just as memetic as Robbie.
• "I should have made a sandwich, instead of making you!" ^Explanation A line said by Robbie Rotten in "LazyTown's New Superhero" when his robotic dog chases him up a billboard. It is commonly used for memes in which a parent or even a god figure expresses disappointment with the actions of their offspring or a person they created.

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