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• 'You Are a Pirate' and 'Cooking by the Book' (and its Lil' Jon mix). Also, Stephanie herself used to be a major internet meme on 4chan, where she was usually photoshopped to be shown... working out with a Pedo Bear.
  • As well as, within the 'You are a Pirate' song, a line about 'precious booty.'
  • A NSFW-ish fan-animation of 'You Are a Pirate', 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.
• Julianna Rose Mauriello (Stephanie's actress) turned 18 in 2009; the internet as a whole had much rejoicing, if all of the posts of 'She's legal now!' are to be believed.
• This entire scene from 'The First Day of Summer' has gained exposure on 4chan and iFunny.
  • 'Who did you expect? Sportaflop?'
• 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).

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  • A number of quotes from the song have become standalone memes.
    • 'No, don't touch that!'
    • 'Now look at this net, that I've just found!'^note
    • 'Throw it at him, not me!'
    • 'Now watch and learn, here's the deal...'
  • 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

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  • 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!'^note
• 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?'
• 'The Mine Song' has quickly risen to this level.
  • 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.
  • In a similar fashion, 'What episode of LazyTown is this?', particularly because Stephanie resembles Alice Ayres, complete with pink hair.
• 'sportacus eats raw lemons' is becoming very popular 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.
• This Nick Jr. intro vid became a minor meme on YTMND, creating afewedits.
• 'I cannot come to the party. Tomorrow, I'm going to have a *Beat* cold.'

We Are Number One Dank 10 Hours

'We Are Number One' is a song from the English language Icelandicchildren's television seriesLazyTown, composed by Máni Svavarsson. The song was featured in the twelfth episode of the show's fourth season, entitled 'Robbie's Dream Team', which is the 103rd episode overall.^[3]

Following its release, the song gained a significant online popularity and became common among internet memes and comical remixes, especially in support of the lead singer who had been diagnosed with cancer.

The official music video has over 59 million views on YouTube as of May 30, 2019 and is the most viewed video of the LazyTown YouTube channel.

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Composition[edit]

The song is written in common time and has a tempo of 162 beats per minute. It is written in the key of Fharmonic minor and also incorporates elements from the Hungarian gypsy scale such as a raised fourth scale degree. It follows the chord progression of Fm–Db–C.^[4]

Music video[edit]

The music video is composed of clips from the Lazytown episode Robbie's Dream Team. Robbie Rotten, the primary antagonist of LazyTown, attempts to teach his 'dream team' of villainous accomplices (three fictional doppelgänger actors for children's parties, named Bobbie, Tobbie, and Flobbie Rotten) how to successfully catch a superhero (specifically Sportacus).

Robbie Rotten demonstrates multiple methods to his team: an overhead cage attached to a tree (which ends up trapping Robbie), a large butterfly net, a false apple containing enough sugar to induce an overdose and consequently temporary unconsciousness to the sugar-averse Sportacus, a somewhat small fishing net, and banana peels intended to cause Sportacus to slip, but instead causing Robbie's own team to do so.

The sugar apple proves to be an effective trick, successfully sedating Sportacus and giving Robbie and his team a chance to put him in a portable cage. Robbie's three teammates relocate the trapped Sportacus to Robbie's underground headquarters while Robbie stays on the surface to set up a cannon, revealed in the full episode to be the way Robbie intends to run Sportacus out of town. However, his plans are thwarted when Stephanie and Stingy open the base's periscope and use its cylindrical interior as a means of transporting a real apple to Sportacus. The apple rolls towards the cage undetected by the now-sleeping Bobby, Tobby, and Flobby, with Sportacus reaching it and regaining his power, of which he was deprived by the sugar overdose. He then uses his reclaimed strength to break free from the cage and coax his three captors to play sports with him on the surface of LazyTown.

Robbie watches as his previous companions play sports with Sportacus, and out of apparent anger, walks over to them disregarding a bucket on the ground. This bucket is kicked, hitting and triggering Robbie's cannon and blasting Robbie away from the scene on the cannonball. The video ends with Bobby, Tobby, and Flobby accidentally falling into a trapping pit constructed to capture Sportacus, reinforcing for a final time the clumsiness of the team.

History[edit]

The song originally had the working title called 'Villain Number One' before it was changed to 'We Are Number One'.

During production there were many lyrics that did not get approved; many of these lyrics have Robbie singing something different than what he actually sung in the final version. These lyrics first surfaced to the public when it was revealed by Máni during the live stream that Stefán Karl held on Facebook on 11 December 2016, at the Icelandic studios where the show was filmed.^[5] These unused lyrics were released to the public on SoundCloud by user 8847444 on 13 December 2016.^{[6][better source needed]}

Internet popularity[edit]

Two years after the LazyTown episode aired, 'We Are Number One' became an Internet phenomenon due to Robbie Rotten's performer Stefán Karl Stefánsson having announced that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.^[7][8] A campaign was created by Mark Valenti, head writer for LazyTown, on the crowdfunding platform GoFundMe^[9] to pay for Stefán Karl's living costs while he was too unwell to work, and the creators of these parodies used their videos to raise awareness for the campaign.^[10][11] As of 20 December 2016, the campaign had surpassed its $100,000 goal.^[12]

To thank the contributors, Stefán Karl held a live stream on Facebook on 11 December 2016, where he performed 'We Are Number One' with the other actors (Björn Thors, Bergur Þór Ingólfsson, Snorri Engilbertsson) from the original music video^[13] which was later uploaded to his personal YouTube channel.^[5]

Internet memes[edit]

The song gained popularity in September 2016, when the first remix was uploaded onto the YouTube channel SiIvaGunner.^[3] Various parodies have been subsequently uploaded since, most prominently by the YouTuber and diskjockey Grandayy,^[13] as well as proper cover versions by bands such as comedy punk group The Radioactive Chicken Heads.^[14]

Typically, these parodies take the form of the original music video edited in some irregular and often highly complex way. A common title format would begin with the phrase 'We Are Number One but...', followed by a list of changes from the original, for instance 'We Are Number One but it's 1 hour long' or 'We Are Number One but it's co-performed by Epic Sax Guy'. Due to the extent of modification and resulting length of the title, they would occasionally be placed in the video description.^[10] This type of remix was common in 2016, particularly during the year's waning months; a The Verge article described 'We Are Number One' and other, similar remixes as 'weird solipsistic creation[s]'.^[15]

Alternative versions[edit]

The official LazyTown YouTube channel has posted several videos relating to the song, including an hour loop of the original song, an instrumental version, a reversed instrumental version, every 'one' being replaced by 'The Mine Song' (another song from the series, also with numerous parodies, which later became an internet meme in November 2016), a compilation of the songs with other well-known songs from the series (however, in PAL speed) and the full episode that the song appeared in, 'Robbie's Dream Team' from 2014.^[13] The original tracks (otherwise known as the 'stems') used in composing the song were released shortly after.^[16]

Eurovision petition[edit]

A petition was set up to have Stefán Karl perform the song to represent Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest, receiving over 12,000 signatures.^[17] The petition wanted him to participate in the 2017 edition, but he did not apply, acknowledging that he was unlikely to do so, as recovering from his cancer was a bigger priority. Stefán Karl died from bile duct cancer on August 21, 2018.

References[edit]

1. ^'R.I.P. Stefán Karl Stefánsson, LazyTown's Robbie Rotten, dies of cancer at 43'. Consequence of Sound. 21 August 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
2. ^'LazyTown (TV Series 2002–2016)'. Retrieved 15 February 2019 – via www.imdb.com.
3. ^ ^abAsarch, Steven (17 December 2016). ''We Are Number One' Meme: Why Do People Keep Remixing a Children's Show Song?'. iDigitalTimes. IBT Media. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
4. ^MuseScore. 'We Are Number One but it's a piano transcript'. MuseScore.com. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
5. ^ ^abStefán Karl Stefánsson. 'We Are Number One live but it's the live version with a interview 12.11.16'. YouTube.
6. ^'WE ARE NUMBER ONE - REJECTED LYRICS'. soundcloud.com.
7. ^Sunna Kristín Hilmarsdóttir skrifar (22 September 2016). 'Stefán Karl alvarlega veikur'. Visir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 11 December 2016.
8. ^Einar Þór Sigurðsson (22 September 2016). 'Stefán Karl lagður inn á sjúkrahús um helgina'. DV (in Icelandic). Retrieved 11 December 2016.
9. ^'Robbie Rotten, villano de LazyTown sufre de cáncer'. La Prensa. 19 October 2016.
10. ^ ^abTownsend, Benedict (30 November 2016). 'YouTubers Are Using Memes To Help The Robbie Rotten Actor Fight Cancer'. We the Unicorns. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
11. ^Shamsiand, Jacob (2 December 2016). 'This YouTube video that has been viewed over 12 million times could be the heralding of a new meme'. Insider. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
12. ^Foley, Kyle (20 December 2016). 'How a Flurry of Internet Memes Are Helping a 'LazyTown' Actor Battling Cancer'. Heat Street.
13. ^ ^abcRogers, Zachary (12 December 2016). 'Fans of children's show actor support his fight against cancer, raise over $80k'. NBC 10. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
14. ^'We Are Number One But We're The Radioactive Chicken Heads'. YouTube. 16 January 2017.
15. ^McCormick, Rich (30 December 2016). 'The latest in a weird new meme trend'. The Verge.
16. ^Rollins, Krister (15 December 2016). 'It's an Internet Meme, But It Helped to Fight Cancer!'. WCSH.
17. ^Granger, Anthony (6 January 2017). 'Iceland: 10,000 People Sign Petition For Robbie Rotten To Compete At Eurovision'. Eurovoix. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

External links[edit]

• Lazy Town We are Number One Music Video – (25 July 2015) LazyTown official YouTube channel