It's Sports Day in LazyTown, and Robbie Rotten is determined to put an end to the Super Race by buying the sports field to make a feather pillow stuffing factory. When the kids protest, Robbie agrees to challenge Sportacus and the kids to a race. If he wins, the sports field is his and Sportacus has to leave town, but if Sportacus wins he'll leave it alone. To beat Robbie, Sportacus puts everyone through a solid training regimen—and to get energy, he needs lots of sportscandy.
Ziggy thinks he means regular candy, but Sportacus tells him that fruits and vegetables are sportscandy, and candy has processed sugar that would make him lose energy. Robbie decides to exploit this and creates an apple made entirely of confections that looks just like the real thing. On the day of the race, Ziggy is tricked into giving Sportacus the sugar apple, and he collapses. It's up to the kids to help Sportacus and stay in the race!
This episode contains examples of:
- The Bet: If Sportacus wins the race, Robbie will leave the sports field alone, but if Robbie wins, he gets the field himself and Sportacus will have to leave forever.
- Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": This episode is the first instance of healthy food being called sportscandy.
- Cheaters Never Prosper: Robbie gave himself a huge advantage by tricking Ziggy into giving Sportacus a sugar apple. He also tried to slip up Trixie with marbles and has his gear equipped with turbo boosters. Despite this, Sportacus was able to beat him after recovering and win the race foiling Robbie's plans.
- Super-Speed: After regaining his strength from eating a real appeal, Sportacus proceeds to blitz around Robbie in the race. According to Pixel, Sportacus was moving 22.7 times faster than Robbie!
- Weaksauce Weakness: This episode introduces Sportacus' weakness being candy as he revealed that it causes him to have a sugar meltdown. Robbie, also a first in the series, creates the sugar apple to trick Sportacus into eating it causing him to have the meltdown. Robbie would continue to use sugar apples to weaken Sportacus in future episodes.
