"The Giver" is the first segment of the 6th and final episode of the first season of Trolls: The Beat Goes On!, and the 11th overall episode in the series. It premiered on January 19, 2018.
Synopsis[]
Poppy tries to figure out who has been anonymously leaving gifts every harvest moon.
Plot []
During the night of every harvest moon, every Troll would be given a present by an unknown Troll who is only known as "the Giver". Poppy is announcing her commencement on her annual hunt for the identity of the Giver, in order to finally offer the Giver a "thank you" card. Branch finds Poppy's mission absurd, suggesting to respect the Giver's anonymity, but Poppy refuses to listen and begins her hunt when she hears that Satin and Chenille are absent this year's harvest moon, leading her to investigate.
Using their Good Cop and Great Cop technique, they interrogate Satin and Chenille to confess, but find that they're not the Giver, with Satin's sickness being the reason for their absence. Branch, who is been watching their investigation, laughs at their embarrassing findings and inadvertently knocks over a roll of red gift wrapping paper, the main color the Giver uses for presents. Satin and Chenille claim that it isn't theirs due to how old it is. Smidge finds a clue that the paper comes from one of Sky Toronto's factories.
Sky inspects the red gift wrapping paper and familiarizes them as to the one of the 100 rolls he sells to a Troll every year. Finding this to be the Giver, Poppy asks Sky to give a description of the Giver's appearance to her sketch artist, Harper. Unfortunately, Sky is only able to give description to the Giver's cloaked figure, but Harper recognizes the Troll as the one she saw earlier. Harper leads them to the tree roots of Misty Meadows, in the outskirts of Troll Village, and they find the Giver's stash of presents. Poppy figures that the Giver has to come here for the presents so she and Smidge decide a stakeout.
A while later, Poppy and Smidge hears footsteps and commences their "thank you" surprise, only to find that it was Cooper who came. Poppy is shocked that Cooper may be the Giver, and asks him to explain everything. Cooper literally explains everything from the beginning up to the present all throughout the early evening, and finally gets to the part where he explains that the Giver sent Cooper to the Tree Roots. A spider suddenly drops a present, coming from the Giver, containing a note in which the Giver apologizes for setting them up. Poppy realizes this too late, and when she reaches Troll village the Giver has already triumphed on offering every Troll a present. Defeated, Poppy declares that the Giver got away again this year. When she unwraps her present, she can't help but complain on how awful the wrapping is and that only a "Troll who lives under a rock" can do this kind of work. This suddenly struck her to realize who the Giver's identity really is, and rushes off to find that Troll.
Somewhere in Troll Village, the Giver is revealed to be Branch, who was about to head back to his bunker when Poppy faces him. Branch tries to wiggle out, but Poppy knows that he is the Giver and deduces his entire plan through scrapbook; Branch followed Poppy in the Twins' home, where he was the one who planted the red gift wrapping paper so that it would appear Poppy's investigation would lead to the identity of the Giver, but instead intentionally let himself be recognized by Harper in Misty Meadows, leading Poppy away from Troll Village and to make sure, had Cooper sent to keep her busy, allowing Branch to give gifts freely. All this leads Poppy to ask Branch why he kept his second identity a secret. He explains that during his years of isolation, he felt so lonely that giving gifts was his only way of still being connected with the other Trolls, but didn't want to tell anyone it was him so no one could know he still has feelings for the Trolls.
Smidge catches up with Poppy and asks if she thanked Branch after finding out he is the Giver. Poppy decides to tell no one of Branch's secret, and lies to Smidge that Branch couldn't be the Giver meaning their annual hunt continues, leading Smidge to leave convinced. Poppy offers the repaired "thank you" card to Branch, and both give thanks to each other.
Cast[]
- Amanda Leighton as Queen Poppy
- Skylar Astin as Branch
- Kevin Michael Richardson as Smidge
- Fryda Wolff as DJ Suki, Satin & Chenille
- Ron Funches as Cooper
- Gary Cole as Sky Toronto
- Kari Wahlgren as Harper
- Biggie (non-speaking)
- Guy Diamond (non-speaking)
- Other
- Mr. Dinkles (non-speaking)
Physical distribution[]
This episode is available on the "Trolls: The Beat Goes On! - Complete Seasons 1-4" DVD.
Trivia[]
- This episode is a reference to Christmas Eve, with Branch acting in place of Santa Claus.
- The episode helps to put dates on certain events in Branch's life. In Trolls, no date was ever given for when Branch decided to separate himself from Troll Village; in this episode, the date of 10 years was given. 10 years places Branch in his early mid-teens when he separated.
- In Trolls World Tour, Cooper's backstory is told again, and it is nothing like the one here. Given the fact that the episode was written before the movie even begun production in Summer 2018, the Trolls movie still gave some basics of his conceptual origin. In the original concept, Cooper wandered into Troll Village and no one knew where he was from, but knew he was a Troll; this was the story as given by The Art of DreamWorks Trolls.
- As shown in a cut scene for the film, the Trolls were originally meant to be viviparous up to some point in its development.[1]
- However when he mentions that he was born with his hat which was most likely reused since in Trolls World Tour he got his hat when he hatched.
- This episode is referenced in the Trolls Mad Libs, where the page is written as a "thank you" letter from a Troll thanking the Giver for their gift. However, to the nature of the book, the letter can end up somewhat bizarre.
- Branch would be spared fame once again in the Trolls: TrollsTopia episode "Life of Pie".
- Branch would be left in the same position in the later episode "Marshtato Fairy" where he is torn between revealing a secret.
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