At eight years old Lucy has her own view on life: why tire yourself out doing something, when you can find a lazier way? Lucy redoubles her energy to work out original and amusing solutions: from the room which tidies itself, to the dance for planting strawberries, she proves that she has more than one trick up her sleeve!
Writer: John Chambers
Air date: 2004-09-04
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Watering all the plants on the balcony one by one, what a nuisance! Lucy invents the first automatic plant watering system to save energy!
Writer: Fethi Nedjari
Air date: 2004-09-06
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Picking up all the tennis balls, what a nuisance! And the way to avoid this chore? By returning all the balls to the opposite side of the court. Easier said than done, but Lucy isn't one to give up.
Writer: John Chambers
Air date: 2004-09-07
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Licking a whole load of stamps to stick them on, what a nuisance! It's best to leave such a task to an expert and who better than Flinki, a nice companion with a long lolling tongue!
Writer: Fethi Nedjari
Air date: 2004-09-08
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Taking all of these things to the street market, what a nuisance! Why not just take a photo; it's a lot easier to carry. Snappy snap and it's in the bag!
Writer: Jean de Loriol
Air date: 2004-09-09
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Waving your arms around everywhere trying to fly-fish, what a nuisance! Playing with a kite and a cow, now that's much more fun. Happy fishing Lucy!
Writer: Isabelle de Catalogne
Air date: 2004-09-10
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Lifting a heap of leaves to find a hairclip, what a nuisance! Lucy embarks on developing the first "hairclip detector"!
Writer: Pascal Meunier
Air date: 2004-09-11
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Singing for hours to get her little brother to sleep, what a nuisance! Lucy works out a better technique: the automatic lullaby.
Writer: Galéane LeClerc
Air date: 2004-09-13
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Digging the sand to build a castle, what a nuisance! There has to be a lazier way! And there is- with the help of a dinghy, a dog, her little brother and above all lots of imagination!
Writer: Fethi Nedjari
Air date: 2004-09-14
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Taking the bin out every day, what a nuisance! It would be so much better if the bin could take itself out! Take itself out? What an excellent idea!
Writer: Stefanie Schütz
Air date: 2004-09-15
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Hanging out the washing in the garden, what a nuisance! Especially when there are so many fun games to play nearby. What will inspire Lucy for her latest challenge?
Writer: Stefanie Schütz
Air date: 2004-09-16
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Having to carry a parasol on the beach, what a nuisance! There has to be another way of protecting yourself from the sun. But of course! All you have to do is make use of your own shadow!
Writer: Isabelle de Catalogne
Air date: 2004-09-18
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Paul, you should knock before coming into the room. Always repeating the same thing to her little brother, what a nuisance! And Lucy does not intend to become a parrot!
Writer: Sébastien Dejardin
Air date: 2004-09-20
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Running around the park to catch a butterfly, what a nuisance! What to do? There's no point in running- just attract the butterflies to you!
Writer: Jean de Loriol
Air date: 2004-09-22
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Making a load of adjustments in a booth for a tiny identity photo, what a nuisance! Lucy has a solution: setting up the "home identity photos"!
Writer: Christoph Cantzler
Air date: 2004-09-23
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Carrying a ladder under the tree to pick some apples, what a nuisance! To avoid tiring herself out, Lucy stops at nothing and proves that she most certainly doesn't lack spirit!
Writer: Dennis De Visscher
Air date: 2004-12-20
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Shoveling up all this snow, what a nuisance! Lucy prefers to find a way to walk on the snow without sinking.
Writer: Isabelle de Catalogne
Air date: 2004-12-21
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: The farm rooster wakes the girls at the break of day. Getting up early even when you're on holiday, what a nuisance! It's up to Lucy to persuade the rooster to have a lie in!
Writer: John Chambers
Air date: 2004-12-22
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Running around until you're out of breath to get a kite off the ground, what a nuisance! If only you could make it fly with its own wings...
Writer: Sébastien Dejardin
Air date: 2004-12-23
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Cutting all this paper just to make a costume, what a nuisance! But Lucy has plenty of ideas to do a great fashion show without tiring herself out!
Writer: Emma Perret
Air date: 2004-12-29
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Turning massive needles in all directions to knit something, what a nuisance! There has to be a lazier way! Lucy transforms this challenge into a real competition: three, two, one, knit!
Writer: Fethi Nedjari
Air date: 2004-12-30
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Doing a load of drawings one after the other, what a nuisance! It would be much more fun if you could do several drawings at the same time. And to do that Lucy is ready to bend over backwards.
Writer: John Chambers
Air date: 2004-12-31
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Washing up after a picnic, what a nuisance! But Lucy has the knack for transforming the slightest chore into a great children's game.
Writer: Fethi Nedjari
Air date: 2005-01-03
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Spending time going to find your ball in the neighbour's garden, what a nuisance! To avoid this, Lucy is ready to do anything, even if it means changing the rules of the game!
Writer: Stefanie Schütz
Air date: 2005-01-04
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Pushing the sledge to the top of the slope, what a nuisance! There has to be a lazier way! Lucy turns her attention to a new type of mechanical lift.
Writer: Isabelle de Catalogne
Air date: 2005-01-05
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Making your arms ache tickling your brother, what a nuisance! Lucy sets about inventing the first "tickle machine."
Writer: Fethi Nedjari
Air date: 2005-01-06
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Putting up a tent, what a nuisance! Lucy has a better idea to avoid tiring herself out: she prefers to sleep under the stars!
Writer: Dennis De Visscher
Air date: 2005-01-07
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Tidying the bedroom, what a nuisance! It would be much better if the room could tidy itself!
Writer: Dennis De Visscher
Air date: 2005-07-14
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Refraining from sleeping to watch out for Father Christmas, what a nuisance! Especially when Lucy really wants to go beddy-byes. To be sure not to miss Father Christmas, Lucy tells us an unlikely story!
Writer: John Chambers
Air date: 2005-07-15
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Making a candle out of a pumpkin for Halloween? What a nuisance! There must be a less tiring way to do it.
Writer: Emma Perret
Air date: 2005-07-30
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Pushing the lawnmower to cut the grass in the garden, what a nuisance! Lucy chooses a much more fun and ecological approach: a 100% natural solution.
Writer: John Chambers
Air date: 2005-08-01
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Moving your arms around to brush your teeth, what a nuisance! But there's no way Lucy's going to abandon her pretty little toothy-pegs! What must be done is to find another solution. It's not easy, but she won't give up: Lucy has stacks of ideas!
Writer: Emma Perret
Air date: 2005-08-02
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Paddling one stroke to the right, one stroke to the left, what a nuisance! Lucy doesn't really want to struggle to get her boat out onto the lake... but it's too late for her to duck out now!
Writer: Chris Arsonneaud
Air date: 2005-08-03
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Clearing the table, what a nuisance! In order to have nothing to carry, it's best to find a way to send the washing up directly to the kitchen! And there, as if by magic...!
Writer: Jeanette Leitmont
Air date: 2005-08-04
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Digging loads of holes to plant some strawberries, what a nuisance! Rather than wearing herself out with a spade, Lucy would rather dig around for an idea in her head... and it works! Lucy's way of planting is much more fun!
Writer: Martin Quaden
Air date: 2005-08-05
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Wearing out your arms to move the puppets, what a nuisance! In the process of finding a less tiring solution, Lucy puts on quite a show for us!
Writer: Emma Perret
Air date: 2005-08-06
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Pushing a mop back and forth across the floor, what a nuisance! To clean the kitchen floor, Lucy would rather try something more... sporty. The Formula 1, perhaps, or running or maybe even figure skating!
Writer: Sébastien Dejardin
Air date: 2005-08-08
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Skiing is great fun... except when you fall over! Spending loads of time getting up again, what a nuisance! To resolve this problem once and for all, Lucy decides to invent some anti-fall skis...
Writer: Fethi Nedjari
Air date: 2005-08-09
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Practising for hours to play a small piece of music at the school fete, what a nuisance! Luckily Lucy knows the song and she goes to great lengths to find a fun way to play without making any mistakes!
Writer: Fethi Nedjari
Air date: 2005-08-10
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: All this effort to hoist herself onto the saddle of a pony, what a nuisance! Lucy comes up with the first pony lift. An astounding solution...
Writer: Sébastien Dejardin
Air date: 2005-08-11
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Picking up scraps of wood to build a den, what a nuisance! Lucy invents her own way to make her "express den": a challenge within her capabilities!
Writer: John Chambers
Air date: 2005-08-12
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Grooming Flinki, what a nuisance! To avoid tiring herself out by cleaning her doggy, Lucy is prepared to do anything, even if it means going round a real obstacle course!
Writer: Dennis De Visscher
Air date: 2005-08-13
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Folding her things to make them fit in her backpack, what a nuisance! To pack her bags without tiring herself out, Lucy just needs to use her imagination. This isn't a problem for Lucy- it's in the bag!
Writer: Ishel U. Eichler
Air date: 2005-08-15
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Beating a rug to get rid of the dust, what a nuisance! Lucy organizes, in her own special way, a big spring clean in Jasmine's garden- it's quite a circus!
Writer: Emma Perret
Air date: 2005-08-16
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Scrubbing shoes to get them clean, what a nuisance! How can Lucy and Jasmine make their shoes look pretty for the ball? Thanks to a flash of inspiration, they end up wearing the most beautiful shoes there ever were.
Writer: Stefanie Schütz
Air date: 2005-08-17
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Blowing to inflate balloons, what a nuisance! Lucy comes up with her own way: why tire yourself out blowing up balloons when you can use all the air that is already there?
Writer: Stefanie Schütz
Air date: 2005-08-18
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Climbing up and down stairs to say something to Tom, what a nuisance! How can she communicate with her neighbor opposite without moving? To achieve her ends, Lucy uses some crafty tactics.
Writer: Sébastien Dejardin
Air date: 2005-08-19
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Running from the fridge to the garden with cold drinks, what a nuisance! It's up to Lucy to find some less exhausting ways to provide her friends with refreshments... even if it means transforming the garden into an amusement park!
Writer: Martin Quaden
Air date: 2005-08-20
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Cramming straw into bags to make a scarecrow, what a nuisance! But they can't let the birds come and peck at the vegetable garden. To protect the strawberries, Lucy and Jasmine build an extremely original type of scarecrow.
Writer: Emma Perret
Air date: 2005-08-22
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Ringing at all the neighbors' doors to sell tombola tickets, what a nuisance! To avoid having to move, Lucy decides to make the customers come to her and sets up a far-reaching publicity campaign!
Writer: Chris Arsonneaud
Air date: 2005-08-23
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Rubbing everything with a cloth to dust her room, what a nuisance! Lucy prefers to organize some anti-dust games: they're much more entertaining!
Writer: Ishel U. Eichler
Air date: 2005-08-24
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Painting the whole shed by hand, what a nuisance! Lucy comes up with a heap of farfetched solutions to paint the shed without tiring herself out.
Writer: Fethi Nedjari
Air date: 2005-08-25
Runtime: 5 min
Overview: Carrying her school bag on her back, what a nuisance! To avoid this burden, Lucy decides that it's about time her bag made its own way to school! The only problem is that it has trouble finding its way.
