"Fastest Draw in the West" is the second segment of the 1st episode of the sixth season of Trolls: TrollsTopia, and the 79th overall episode in the series. It premiered in February 17, 2022.
Synopsis[]
Holly and Minuet Sonata team up for a "Guess and Draw tournament", but quickly realize they'll have to forge a stronger friendship connection to have any chance at victory.
Plot[]
Poppy, Minuet, Smidge, and Cooper watch Holly and another Country Troll square off. Holly calls "draw" and Haystack Wiggins appears. He tries to guess the other Troll's drawing. Meanwhile, Holly and Gust Tumbleweed team up and Gust guesses Holly's drawing correctly. Poppy tells the other Trolls that this is how Country Trolls play "guess and draw". Tomorrow they will be playing guess and draw at high noon. Smidge points out this will interfere with the Checkers tournament so Poppy shifts the time to 3 pm.
Poppy approaches Holly to ask her something. Poppy wants to pair up Minuet, who is the Classical Trolls best Guess and Draw player, as Holly is the Country Trolls best guess and draw player. Both act humbled but Poppy tells them to stop pretending their not, the duo then agree to the pairing as it forms a sort of "dreamteam". Poppy has told everyone and their totally bonkers about the idea of the duo's dreamteam pair up. While the others are chanting, Cooper comments to the Country Troll he knew his drawing was a hat and proceeds to put on an identical hat to the drawing.
Holly and Minuet escape the crowd and comment how the other Trolls are eager to see what the Dreamteam can do as are they. Holly and Minuet have a practice round and Minuet mistakes Holly's cake for finely aged cheese. Minuet draws a Treble Clef which Holly mistakes for a "boot snake". In anger, Minuet rips the page off. Soon a pile develops of pages the pair have ripped off the pad. Minuet can't understand why the pair are failing. Holly believes it is because they don't have a tight-knit bound and therefore they don't know each other's method of thinking. This means they have to fit a lifetime of friendship experiences into one day or risk letting the other Trolls down. They write a list of experiences to do together.
They begin a montage of them doing activities together, all which are hurried along to get them done quickly. They restart the game and Minuet draws her first image, which turns out to be Holly. It turns out that the only defining trait Minuet has of Holly is her big hair, which she has drawn in exaggeration. Holly is upset because she believes there is more to her then her big hair. Holly draws Minuet, which she draws engaging wedding vows with her own violin, noting that is her defining trait is that she loves her own violin so much she should marry it. The two get angry with each other and realize they couldn't make any friendship connections at all in one day. Holly goes to storm off, then remembers it is her pod and Minuet should go.
At the Guess and Draw Tournament, Biggie and Cooper face off against Smidge and Guy Diamond. The two pairs end with a draw-draw since neither of them guess the object being drawn (despite Biggie drawing an obvious cake for Cooper). Poppy brings in the Dreamteam. The two apologize to each other and admit they enjoyed their day together. Holly draws the first item and Minuet guesses a "banana split". This turns out to be correct in a record time. It turns out the duo are capable of guessing things that the other draws.
While they banter they cannot figure out how they connected until they mention their first argument. And Poppy notes that that is when they connected and that is a friendship millage. When Trolls argue and apologize, they form a deeper connection, which Holly is surprised Poppy was able to analyze. Holly then draws a image of the duo winning the tournament and Minuet says "let's draw!".
Cast[]
- Amanda Leighton as Queen Poppy
- Kevin Michael Richardson as Smidge
- Guy Diamond (non-speaking)
- Biggie (non-speaking)
- Others
Songs[]
Trivia[]
- "Fastest Draw in the West" is a nickname from old western films, wherein a gunslinger would either earn or brag that they were the quickest person in the west to draw their gun. The reason for the brag is that often gunfights were resolved within the first gunshot, and the faster you could draw your gun in a duel the better chance of survival you had.
- Cooper mentions having two cousins named "Eddy and Freddy" in this episode during the Guess and Draw. However, no other details such as their tribe were given. It is unknown "who" Eddy and Freddy are as a consequence.
- The drink "Glitterade" is mentioned, this was introduced in "Unhealthy Competition".
- Having disagreements worked for Poppy in the past several times, including her relationship with Branch itself.
- This is one of the only few examples of two Trolls becoming friends fast in the series. Since Trolls World Tour, most Troll friendships have been made over the course of time, whereas prior to the movie they had been formed fairly quickly.