"CJ's Wooferbug" is the first segment of the 5th episode of the eighth season of Trolls: The Beat Goes On!, and the 98th overall episode in the series. It premiered on November 22, 2019.
Synopsis[]
DJ Suki gets a new Wooferbug for CJ Suki's birthday, but it won't budge until music is played.
Plot[]
Keith is yelling at the top of his voice about a rock. Poppy tells Keith it was "show and tell" not "show and yell", but Keith claims that he just loves yelling. Onstage is CJ Suki, who has exciting news: her birthday is next week and she has always wanted a Wooferbug of her own. CJ gets so excited that she can't finish her words and DJ fills in what she was going to say. For her birthday, CJ is getting a Wooferbug of her very own, as she is the same age DJ got hers. She also can do her first set in front of her friends. CJ thanks her aunt.
At her pod, DJ has been counting down the days for a long time and Poppy notes the numerous calendar pages. DJ says this is a super important moment and she doesn't want anything to go wrong. At that moment, Rufus delivers the new Wooferbug. He lives DJ and Poppy with the new Wooferbug and heads out. DJ attempts to make it head to CJ's birthday party, but it goes nowhere and instead munches on grass. It turns out the new Wooferbug is much more stubborn than DJ's and it will need training, but DJ doesn't have time now.
They try to make it walk with a cupcake on a stick but its long tongue eats it. They make the stick longer but the tongue can produce a smaller one. Pulling it with their hair doesn't work either. The party has started by now, and DJ has a mini freakout because CJ is going to be upset when DJ doesn't show. Poppy calms her down a bit and pulls out a box of skates as she says they need to think outside the box; DJ points out that doesn't make sense as the skates are inside a box.
The girls are almost to CJ's birthday party, but the Wooferbug gets stuck as it chews on a plant. When they are finally free, they are catapulted backwards. At that moment hug time hits and Guy Diamond and Smidge hug; they suddenly look up to see the bug falling towards them, being left with the prospect of breaking their hug or die. Poppy and DJ manage to tilt it as they fall, avoiding the hugging pair of Trolls.
The Wooferbug hasn't fallen far, and DJ ties balloons to it to float it in air. Then paper airplanes begin to fly through the air and a few hit balloons. A swarm of Cactus Birds fly by, popping more balloons. Followed by a kite the girls lost the previous week. Finally, Cloud Guy bumps into the balloons and releases the last ones. Cloud Guy realizes Poppy is there, and asks her to forgive him; she says it's fine and he wanders off.
CJ's party is halfway over, and they aren't even close to getting the bug to her. They notice that it's following Cloud Guy, who's whistling. They eventually realize that it's attracted to music since Wooferbugs play music.
The pair begin to sing and the bug begins to follow them to CJ's party. They make it to the party, but they turn around to find the bug has wandered off again; it has been attracted to a Troll playing the banjo. As soon as that Troll is stopped, it is attracted to Biggie playing the accordion. Then a marching band walks by and it starts to follow it. Poppy ends up making an announcement that everyone has to stop making music as this is an emergency. Finally they have silence, but no sooner then this happens, Songbirds come by. To the pair's horror, the bug opens its wings and flies off, which is something DJ didn't know it could do. There is no hope of getting the bug back now.
CJ's birthday party is almost over, and CJ can't see her aunt DJ anywhere. DJ appears and has to break the disappointing news to her niece about the bug. She says she came to tell her that she has to go back out and find it if she wants her to have the present she promised tp her niece. CJ is disappointed, but is grateful that her aunt showed up to her party as that's what she wanted more. DJ lets CJ make her first set on DJ's Wooferbug.
As CJ uses DJ's Wooferbug, their attention is drawn to a surprise: CJ's Wooferbug has been drawn to the sound of DJ's Wooferbug. CJ asks her aunt if it was her plan all along to think she wasn't getting a Wooferbug to surprise her and she goes with it. The Trolls party out to the sound of Wooferbug music.
Cast[]
- Amanda Leighton as Queen Poppy
- Fryda Wolff as DJ Suki and Gemma Fur
- Kyla Carter as CJ Suki
- Abby Ryder Fortson as Priscilla
- Declan Churchill Carter as Keith
- Kevin Michael Richardson as Rufus and Smidge
- Sean T. Krishnan as Guy Diamond
- Biggie (non-speaking)
- Other
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Physical distribution[]
This episode is available on the "Trolls: The Beat Goes On! - Complete Seasons 5-8" DVD.
Trivia[]
- This is the last episode of the series in which Branch does not appear in.
- DJ Suki says that she got her Wooferbug when she was CJ's age, but she was already seen with her Wooferbug in her baby photo from "Big Poppy".
- Rufus says that CJ's wooferbug is a "she". While that could be a figure of speech, one note is that the two Wooferbugs are very likely opposite genders as DJ's Wooferbug attracted CJ's, as in nature many insects use sound as a mating call to attract others of the opposite gender. However, there's more indication that DJ's is female and CJ's is male:
- CJ's Wooferbug has the ability to fly, but DJ's doesn't. In many species of insects such as the Bagworm moth and certain fireflies the female may lack the ability to fly despite the male still having the ability. This is because for those such species of insects, the male seeks out the female, with the female either lacking wings entirely or not being able to make use of them if they do have them.
- Another suggestion of it being male is due to how brightly colored it is compared to DJ's. In the majority of insect species, the male is much more colorful than the female.
- DJ's bug also has eyelashes, which in the Trolls franchise tends to indicate a female (though it doesn't always).
- The Songbirds would be later seen again in the Trolls: TrollsTopia episode "Glitter Rush".
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