The following is a transcript for the episode "Cloud Control".
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(Branch is sleeping peacefully in his bed. Suddenly, two eggs land on his eyes and he sits up.)
Branch: Wha-?! Who did that?!
Cloud Guy: (As he appears) It was… me. (He cooks breakfast food on Branch’s bed while humming a tune.)
Branch: Cloud Guy, what do you want?!
Cloud Guy: It’s our annoyversary, bud! A day to honor me harassing you. (He takes a form of hashbrowns.) And what better way to celebrate than breakfast in bed. (He kisses Branch and changes back to his original form. Annoyed, Branch gets up and wipes the hashbrown off his face.)
Branch: (grunts) You serve breakfast in bed, not make it in bed.
Cloud Guy: Heh. You say hashbrowns, I say haishbrowns.
Branch: NO-ONE SAYS HAISHRBOWNS! (Breakfast food is thrown in his face. The bacon is the eyebrows, the eggs are the eyes, and the hashbrowns are the beard. Branch grunts angrily. Outside, he walks in the Pop Village Market as Cloud Guy follows him.)
Cloud Guy: Ah. What better way to celebrate our special than a stroll down Irritation Lane. Look! That’s where you gave me your first eyeroll. And over there, you sad those three little words.
Branch: (Grabbing Cloud Guy) You are infuriating!
Cloud Guy: Aw! (sniffs) You remember! (He gets out of Branch’s grasp.) Best anniversary ever! (Poppy appears.)
Poppy: Annoyversary?! What’s that? Never mind. It has “versary” in it. I’m getting you a gift. Ah! This is gonna be so fun! (She runs off to find a gift.)
Branch: Listen up, you be-socked puff of vapor and cheap gags, I am not-
Cloud Guy: (Covering Branch’s mouth) Hm. Hold that rant. (He runs off.)
Branch: Huh? (Meanwhile, Laguna is brushing something she found in the dirt. She soon blows the rest of the dirt off.)
Laguna: (gasps) An ancient Pop Tribe discoball! (She picks up the discoball.) So rare and preserved and- (It is revealed that the discoball was actually Cloud Guy in disguise.)
Cloud Guy: … oozing with charm.
Laguna: (gasps) Cloud Guy, not again! (Branch shows up.)
Branch: You two know each other.
Laguna: Unfortunately, yes. I’m all to familiar with this particular example of cloudicus irritatem.
Cloud Guy: Ha. I love it when she classifies me. (He holds out a hand.) Down low? (Laguna gasps as he wiggles his fingers.)
Laguna: Note: I must not engage the cloud. He will simply pull his hand away and say, “Too slow!”
Cloud Guy: (Showing his face in Laguna’s notes) Interesting theory. (Laguna throws her notebook away.) But you’re the type of Troll who can’t resist testing a hypothesis, can you?
Branch: Laguna, don’t!
Cloud Guy: (With cute eyes) Do it. (Laguna whimpers and screams.)
Branch: (In slow-motion) NOOOOO! (Laguna tries to give Cloud Guy a high-five, but he moves his hand away and she falls.)
Cloud Guy: Too slow! (He laughs while Branch does a facepalm.) I really gotta thank Poppy for this whole “TrollsTopia” thing. Having all my favorite Trolls in one place is really gonna cut down my commune.
Branch: Wait. All your favorite Trolls? How many of us are there? (At his bunker, he has a meeting with Laguna, Holly, Dante, and Lownote.) Hear ye, hear ye. I call the first meeting of the United Council against Cloud Guy to order. All of us are victims of his antics, yes?
Laguna: That is accurate.
Branch: If we share what we know, together we can beat Cloud Guy.
Holly: All right. I guess I’ll share, y’all. I remember the first time Cloud Guy drifted into town. (We go to the past where she is on a stage in a fancy dress and hairstyle.) I was well on my way to winnin’ the record-breakin’ 4th straight Lonesome Flatts’ Cutie Pageant, when he showed up. (Cloud shows up wearing a mint green gown and hair bigger than Holly’s.) Lemma tell ya. My hair was big, y’all, but Cloud Guy’s… (Cloud Guy takes a deep breath and pinches his nose, causing his hair to grow even taller.) But I knew he had no true passion for the pageant tarts. He only we only won that crown to mess with me. (She grunts in anger and we go back to the present.) D’oh! Now I’m all worked up, y’all!
Branch: Come on. Someone’s gotta know something we can use against him. Lownote, surely he didn’t get the best of you. You’re the coolest Troll alive.
Lownote: (chuckles) You got that right, baby. (His glasses shatter as he becomes angry and raises his voice.) EXCEPT WHEN IT COMES TO THAT CLOUD! (Holly and Dante gasp. Lownote takes a deep breath and puts a new pair of glasses on.) I’m sorry. It’s just… I’ve suffered from his aggravations too many times. (Holly and Laguna get up to comfort him.)
Holly: Oh, hush now.
Laguna: There, there.
Dante: Bah! This is futile! No one can best that loathsome cloud. No one!
Branch: Wait a second. We’re missing somebody.
Laguna: Huh?
Holly: Huh?
Laguna: Perhaps we should find the attendance sheet.
Branch: There’s a Troll here from every Tribe except the Hard Rock Trolls. (He, Laguna, Holly, Lownote, and Dante go to Rock Hollow to talk to Val.)
Val: Cloud Guy? Oh, yeah. He tried to play his little games with me, once. (We go to the past where Cloud Guy is about to annoy her.)
Past Cloud Guy: Down low? (Val ignores him.) Down low? (Val gives him the icy glare.) Aah! Not the icy glare! (He freezes solid.) Argh! (He then breaks into pieces and we go back to the present.)
Branch: You turned the tables on Cloud Guy? Tell us how to do that!
Val: Eh. That’s better if I just show you. (Soon, Branch, Laguna, Holly, Lownote, and Dante take a walk.)
Branch: (laughs) Oh, man. Val is so hardcore. I can’t wait until we find Cloud Guy-
Cloud Guy: (offscreen) Find me? (He appears above the Trolls.) I’m right here. (He wraps Branch, Laguna, Holly, Lownote, and Dante in his arms.) Annoyversary group photo time! (He takes out a camera and takes a picture. He takes a picture under the water, in the snow, in a place in the appearance of a video game, a place with many Mr. Dinkles, and with a curtain with cloud patterns.) And now someone with the lens cap off. (Branch, Laguna, Holly, Lownote, and Dante groan. Val’s laughing is then heard.) Huh? Val?
Val: Cloud Guy, Cloud Guy, Cloud Guy. You and your jokes. You ever hear the one about the cloud who wasted everyone’s time with irritating pranks?
Cloud Guy: (chuckles) Huh?
Val: Oh, you’ll love it. See, there was this really cool Rocker Troll. Let’s call her… me. Who wouldn’t give the upper hand on this cloud to find his weaknesses. So… (She does the icy glare and talks quickly.) … she talked every single person he knew to take up every single dirt from his past.
Cloud Guy: Huh?!
Val: (Taking out papers with pictures of Cloud Guy) Like how you got kicked out of Cloud College. (She shows a report card with a bad grade.)
Cloud Guy: I found physic precipitation.
Val: His failed high-end leggings boutique.
Cloud Guy: Socks 5th Avenue?
Val: She even found out about how he’s always lived in the shadow of his vastly more impressive objectively handsome older brother, Cloud Man. (She shows a picture of Cloud Guy’s brother.)
Cloud Guy’s Brother: Hey.
Cloud Guy: Aah! This isn’t as fun than it usually is. (He starts raining and runs away while Branch, Laguna, Holly, Lownote, and Dante gasp.)
Val: (laughs) Ah, man. That rocks so hard.
Branch: We… beat… Cloud Guy! (He and his friends cheer. They ride on Flyer Bugs, eat ice cream, dance while holding, hands, and jump.)
Holly: Woo-hoo!
Laguna: Yaaaaay!
Dante: Great! (An angry Poppy interrupts the celebration.)
Poppy: Hey!
Branch: Huh?
Poppy: What did you do to Cloud Guy?
Branch: Cloud Guy? What? (We go to a cliff where Cloud Guy is playing a harmonica. He has a beard and has no socks.)
Poppy: I spent all day looking for the perfect annoyversary present and this is how I find Cloud Guy? (Cloud Guy sighs and continues playing his harmonica.)
Branch: I’m sure he’s fine. (He walks over to Cloud Guy.) Cloud Guy, what is all this?
Cloud Guy: Oh, hey guys. Was I wallowing too loud? Sorry. I… I’ll give it a rest.
Branch: Are you living out here?
Cloud Guy: Oh… (chuckles) Yeah. I just realized Val was right about me. I… I do waste everyone’s time with my annoying pranks. So I’ve decided it’s best to live out here in the wilderness, alone.
Poppy, Holly, Laguna, and Lownote: Aw.
Cloud Guy: And, yeah. It gets a little cold and a Growl Beast ate my last pair socks, but I just fashioned these new ones out of tree bark. (He puts on the sock made of tree bark and screams in pain. He does it again when he stands up. He does it once more after panting.) OK, I think I’ll go rest up a bit before I try the 2nd one. (He limps to his tent made of sticks.) But I just wanted you to know how sorry I am… for all the trouble I caused you. (He walks into his stick tent and screams in pain.)
Branch: See, he’s fine. Guys, come on. Back me up here. (Laguna, Holly, Lownote, and Dante gasp.)
Lownote: Lownote Jones has to admit, this is pretty sad stuff. Maybe we went to far getting Val involved. Maybe we have to help him.
Branch: Help him? Are you out of your minds?! Guys, we finally beat him!
Holly: Yeah, but, y’all, no-one deserves to live out here all alone, y’all.
Branch: Holly, he ruined your Pageant!
Holly: True, but… honestly, I was taking that Pageant too seriously anyway. Losin’ to Cloud Guy actually breed me up to try new things.
Poppy: Wow. It sounds like in his own way, Cloud Guy actually helped you. Hm?
Branch: Well, not me! All he’s ever done is push my buttons, push me right out of my comfort zone! Which improved my friendships… and made me a better Troll. (He looks at Cloud Guy’s tent and it is knocked down by the wind. He is then blown by the wind.) OK, we gotta fix this. (He goes over to Cloud Guy.) Uh, Cloud Guy? Look, we don’t want you to live alone out here. ‘Cause even though you push our buttons, you always end up helping us, in your own way.
Cloud Guy: I do? (Branch starts singing In Your Own Way.)
(Branch)
In your own way
You take a day
Turn it upside down
But it turns out great
You showin’ us love
The way you show love
And it’s OK
(Branch, Laguna, Holly, Lownote, and Dante)
But now we got you feelin’
All the way low
Like you don’t have
Anywhere to go
But we came out now
To show you how
You make our day
In your own way!
You makin’ us better
There’s no rainbows with no rain
In your own way!
You show you love us
Yeah, all of us every day
In your own way!
Cloud Guy: You guys really mean all that?
Branch: Yeah. We appreciate you.
Laguna, Holly, Lownote, and Dante: Mm-hm.
Cloud Guy: Wow. That means so much to me. ‘Cause… (He changes back to his old socks and gets rid of his beard.) … it’s all I’ve been waiting to hear, bagel shmear.
Branch, Laguna, Holly, Lownote, and Dante: Huh?
Cloud Guy: Told you it’d work, Val. (Val laughs and Cloud Guy wraps his arms around her. They then fist bump each other.)
Branch: You were working together this whole time, just so we’d… so we’d-
Cloud Guy: Tell me how much you appreciate me in a very heartfelt way. Preferably through sob.
Cloud Guy and Val: And boy did you sing, onion ring. (Branch, Laguna, Holly, Lownote, and Dante grunt angrily.)
Val: Ha! You were right. They do look hilarious when they’re annoyed.
Cloud Guy: Ah, don’t be glum, chums. It’s our annoyversary. (He hugs Branch, Laguna, Holly, Lownote, and Dante and takes out many pictures.) Annoyversary group photo time! (He takes a picture and the screen goes black.) Oops. Lens caps on.