The sugar apple is an effective trick, successfully fainting Sportacus and giving Robbie and his team a chance to put him in a portable cage.

The video ends with Bobbie, Tobbie, and Flobbie accidentally falling into the trapping pit constructed to capture Sportacus, reinforcing for a final time the clumsiness of the team.

These lyrics first surfaced to the public when it was revealed by Máni during the live stream that Stefán held on Facebook on 11 December 2016, at the Icelandic studios where the show was filmed.

Shortly afterwards, on October 13, Robbie Rotten's performer Stefán Karl Stefánsson announced that he had been diagnosed with bile duct cancer after news of him being ill had spread locally.

[10] To thank the contributors, Stefán 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[11] which was later uploaded to his personal YouTube channel.

[3] Various parodies have been subsequently uploaded since, most prominently by the YouTuber and disk jockey Grandayy,[11] as well as proper cover versions by bands such as comedy punk group the Radioactive Chicken Heads.

[12][non-primary source needed] Typically, these parodies take the form of the original music video edited in some irregular and often highly complex way, an evolution of an existing but dormant-prior internet meme format that had seen mild popularity in the mid-2000s where editors would replace proper nouns in the opening cutscene of the video game Hotel Mario with humorous clips and quotes from within Hotel Mario or other media, a format that had received a nostalgic resurgence through memes relating to the Filipino-American animated sitcom The Nutshack, also popularised by SiIvaGunner.