"FOMO-OPUP" is the first segment of the 6th and final episode of the third season of Trolls: The Beat Goes On!, and the 37th overall episode in the series. It premiered in August 24, 2018.
Synopsis[]
Guy Diamond enlists the Snack Pack to hunt down Nova Swift's next pop-up party.
Plot[]
Guy Diamond starts off explaining the story that recent pop-up parties run by Nova Swift have randomly been popping up. Trolls would be going about their day, and suddenly a party would appear. The parties are an experience of a lifetime, but Trolls have to be in the right place at the right time, or they will miss out.
Guy, Satin and Chenille, Biggie and Mr. Dinkles, as well as Cooper, are all missing out and suffering from "FOMO-OPUP" or "Fear of missing out on pop-up parties". Poppy tells them they should be at the stargazing club for fun and they're suffering from "MOOTBS" or "Missing out on this beautiful sky". As Guy starts to admire the sky, DJ Suki appears and tells them that there's a pop-up party happening right now. Guy states nature is lame, and runs off to the party. Poppy tells them that if they miss out on something cool, they shouldn't come crying to her. In the background, a planet eclipses the sun and gets destroyed.
They arrive just as the party ends, and the Trolls leaving express how they feel different. Guy runs up to Nova and begs her to tell them where the next pop-up party will occur, but she notes that telling would rob it of its meaning. She explains that a party being watched doesn't pop. As Biggie comforts his friends, Branch states that he's wrong; Branch had been on his way to the Stargazing Club when the pop-up party just occurred, with him being there to witness it. Branch tells Guy that he has to attend one before going home to rethink his life. The group tries to figure out how to attend a party, but as Nova stated a watched party never pops; yet, Guy thinks that maybe it will if it doesn't know it is being watched.
Guy tells Cooper to put a tail on her, which he almost does then remembers Guy stating that means follow her. Biggie is set as the groups eyes, and follows her taking pictures, until a butterfly distracts him and he starts taking photos of that instead. The twins distract Nova while DJ plants a bug on her.
They listen to the bug later, and hear that Nova plans to make the pop-up party occur at the ice cream stand tomorrow. Before they can get the time, the bug falls and goes dead - or falls asleep as they're apparently very unreliable. The group turns to Guy, who states they don't know when the party is going to happen but they do know where, so all they have to do is a stakeout.
They arrive back and stakeout the ice cream stand, excited about waiting. Night falls and the party still hasn't popped. Biggie is worried about Cooper, who has gone for hours without doing anything silly and is getting stir crazy with boredom. Cooper is having to fight the urge to be silly. The twins try to keep Cooper under control while they continue to wait. Nova arrives at that moment and is about to pop the party in 30 seconds, but Cooper is proving so hard to control that DJ and Biggie have to join in.
The group fails to control Cooper, who sees Biggie as a whoopee cushion. He leaps at him, revealing the group has been watching Nova, who quickly realizes about it. She immediately leaves. Biggie tells the group that he considers going to a later meeting of the Stargazing Club instead, but he's interrupted by the bug waking up. They realize that Nova had a second location planned in case.
Desperate to meet the second location, the group steals the ice cream stand's bug and goes after her. As they do so, the sound of the ice cream bug attracts Trolls all around them and they're followed by a mob of hungry Trolls. The bug crashes eventually and the group ends up at the Stargazing Club's meeting. Defeated, they decide that rather than chasing the fun, they will have fun at the moment and take part in the Stargazing Club. So they settle down to watch the night sky.
The bug picks up Nova, saying the alternative location, which turns out to be the same place as where the Stargazing Club was meeting. Biggie, Guy, DJ, Cooper, Satin and Chenille finally get to attend a pop-up party.
Cast[]
- Amanda Leighton as Poppy
- Skylar Astin as Branch
- Fryda Wolff as DJ Suki, Satin & Chenille
- Sean T. Krishnan as Guy Diamond
- David Fynn as Biggie
- Ron Funches as Cooper
- Sainty Nelsen as Nova Swift
- Gary Cole as Sky Toronto (non-speaking)
- Other
Physical distribution[]
This episode is available on the "Trolls: The Beat Goes On! - Complete Seasons 1-4" DVD.
Trivia[]
- The FOMO from the title likely refers to the mental health issue Fear of Missing Out.
- Usually, Poppy is the one who narrates the scrapbook introduction scenes in Trolls: The Beat Goes On!, but for this episode, Guy Diamond tells it.
- The scrapbook introductions also aren't without their share of darkness; the one in this episode featured a Troll dying and becoming a ghost.
- The only members of The Snack Pack missing in this episode are Smidge and Fuzzbert. This is one of the few episodes in which most of the group appears together.
- In the subtitles, Sky Toronto is not acknowledged. When he whistles, it says "Troll whistles".
- A worm appears in the episode. In "The Helper", the worm was later named as "Mr. Blinkles".