"A New Bergen-ing" is the first segment of the 1st episode in the first season as well as the series premiere of Trolls: The Beat Goes On!, and the 1st overall episode in the series. It premiered on January 19, 2018.
Synopsis[]
Poppy invites the Bergens to a village party, but it seems that the other Trolls (especially Branch) may not be ready.
Plot[]
The episode begins with Poppy re-explaining the events of Trolls with the Bergens' tradition of eating Trolls to Branch, who asks why she is telling him that when he was there.
Poppy decides to celebrate the day of their liberation by throwing a village party. When Poppy announces to the Trolls that she has also invited the Bergens, she is shocked to find out that they, especially Branch, still doubt and are afraid of the Bergens. Regardless, Poppy remains adamant on her decision that the party will go smoothly, even with the Bergens around.
The next day, things go sour quickly, as both Bergens and Trolls refuse to party with each other. Poppy tries to save it by having them play a game of "guess the drawing", in which a Bergen named Groth draws a traumatizing depiction of a Bergen eating Trolls for breakfast; this frightens the Trolls. She then invites them to dancing, but due to the Bergens' towering size the Trolls flee in panic. Poppy lastly commences the gift exchange, where King Gristle Jr. seems to have the Trolls' favor when he offers what is assumed to be a parade float of a Troll, but is actually a pinata that is violently bashed in front of the Trolls, and once again makes them run away when Gristle reveals that it is filled with meat as treats.
Poppy tries one last attempt to help the Trolls overcome their fears of the Bergens by asking Bridget if she'd eat her. Bridget says she wouldn't, but Poppy goes even further by having herself bathed in syrup, volunteering to put her head near her mouth, and even bounces on her tongue repeatedly. When the Trolls seem to be finally accepting her example, she slips and is inadvertently swallowed by Bridget. This finally confirms the Trolls' worst nightmare of the Bergens being Troll-eaters once again, and they panic. The resulting chaos of scattered Trolls and glitter bombardments agitates the Bergens. Branch calls for Poppy at Bridget's mouth, who's fortunately safe from getting swallowed by hanging onto Bridget's uvula. Poppy and Branch watch the disaster unfold around them, forcing her to finally admit that Branch was right about the Trolls not ready to have the Bergens integrate with their livelihood. Having enough, Poppy decides to use Branch's remote control, "Gary", to activate the old Bergen defense system and control the ensuing chaos.
After both parties calm themselves, Poppy tells the Trolls and Bergens of her realization that the party was premature and that they both need time to change their ways in order to co-exist. Bridget and Gristle offer their suggestions that, when dancing, they need to hold up the Trolls in their palms so that they can avoid crushing them, they would remove sensitive depictions in their games, and replace their Troll pinatas with rainbows. Poppy asks the Bergens if she could do anything for them; Gristle recommends that they should stop farting glitter in their faces, keep the volume down a bit and less bright lights. The Trolls happily accept the terms.
Bridget does the honor of restarting the party, but this time on the accepted changes. The episode ends with the Trolls and Bergens finally celebrate together harmoniously, dancing as they all once again sing "Happily Ever After".
Cast[]
- Amanda Leighton as Queen Poppy
- Skylar Astin as Branch
- Sean T. Krishnan as Guy Diamond
- Kevin Michael Richardson as Smidge
- David Fynn as Biggie
- Fryda Wolff as DJ Suki, Satin & Chenille
- Ron Funches as Cooper
- Fuzzbert (non-speaking)
- Sam Lerner as King Gristle Jr.
- Kari Wahlgren as Bridget
- Kevin Michael Richardson as Groth
- David Koechner as Buzby
- Chad (non-speaking)
- Todd (non-speaking)
- Other
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Physical distribution[]
This episode is available on the "Trolls: The Beat Goes On! - Complete Seasons 1-4" DVD.
Trivia[]
- The episode title is a pun to the phrase "a new beginning".
- This is the first episode to air in 2018, and also the first eleven-minute season premiere.
- The parade is called "the first annual parade". However, it isn't stated that the episode takes place a year after the events of Trolls.
- The episode highlights that being at peace with the Bergens doesn't mean they'll instantly get along, an issue left over from the film.
- How Poppy survived being swallowed by Bridget is how Creek survived being swallowed by King Gristle Jr.
- This episode was a subject of one of the Trolls' Mad Libs stories.
- This is one of the few episodes of Trolls: The Beat Goes On! in which the entire Trolls-era membership of The Snack Pack is present together.
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