Tiny Diamond Goes Back To School

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Tiny Diamond Goes Back To School
Production Information
Directed by	Sean Charmatz
Produced by	Walt Dohrn Walt Dohrn (executive producer) David P. Smith (executive producer)
Written by	Sean Charmatz
Music by	Joseph Shirley
Studio	DreamWorks Animation
Release Dates	June 23, 2020 (Digital HD) July 7, 2020 (DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD)
Running Time	03:46

Tiny Diamond Goes Back To School is a 2D-traditional animated short film based upon Trolls World Tour directed and written by Sean Charmatz and produced by Walt Dohrn. It was included in the "Dance Party Edition" of Trolls World Tour on Digital HD, 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD, and has a length of 3 minutes & 46 seconds. 

Synopsis

Journey back to school with Tiny Diamond as he tries to figure out how to be the cool kid and "fit in".

Plot

The short opens with Tiny Diamond checking out his wardrobe to figure out what to wear for school. His father Guy Diamond wants to give him some school advice, only to be surprised by Tiny's outlandish fashion. Arriving at the school, Guy wonders what is the deal with Tiny's outfit, which Tiny simply answers that he just wants to look good in it for his day on going back to school, and leaves for school.

Tiny then greets two other Troll kids he sees, oblivious to the fact that his hair has caused several other Troll children to trip and fall over. The two kids consider Tiny tripping others over with his hair as uncool and leave him, but he misinterprets that they regard his appearance is not good enough, and accidentally trips the other children again. He rushes home to change his style into a hippie ninja, much to Guy's confusion, but once again runs back home to change his look after one of the kids says that he cannot understand what he is saying due to his mouth being muffled. Nonetheless, he isn’t satisfied with what he appears to be, and continues to keep swapping out different outfits, so Guy eventually decides to stop him. Tiny at first appears to understand him, only to turn out that he thinks that his dad is telling him that his belt buckle should be bigger and runs off again.

Tiny arrives back to school in a western outfit when everyone is lining up for class, and compliments Biggie for guessing his style right. However, this time he accidentally has his shades blind everyone and sets Biggie’s hair ablaze. As Biggie panics, Tiny decides to extinguish the fire with his outfit, but it gets burned as a result and exposes his shiny body, causing him to be ashamed of himself. But the other kids honestly tell him that they prefer him being himself like he did last year, and Guy tells him that he doesn't need to try so hard to please others.

Tiny then breaks into a song with the other kids about how life isn't about solely impressing others with looks, only to crash the car he's driving. Guy says that this is the fourth car his son has crashed in a week, closing the short.

Cast

• Kenan Thompson as Tiny Diamond
• Kunal Nayyar as Guy Diamond
• James Corden as Biggie
• Maree Cheatman as School Teacher
• Audyssie James as Coral Blush
• Connor Andrade as Funk Kid

Trivia

• The title is based on the Penguin Young Readers book Tiny Goes Back To School.
• It is the first and only short film dedicated to Trolls World Tour.
• Since the school is located in Pop Village, the students are mostly Pop Trolls, but a Funk Troll and Coral Blush are also shown attending the school. Coral is in his original blue design rather than his final green one, though.
• The school teacher resembles Miss Guffin, a cut character from the first Trolls movie who was meant to be Poppy's aunt and mentor when the original plot was about how the Trolls gained their colorful hair. She was cut from the film, and her character was split between Creek and Grandma Rosiepuff.
• This is one of the few media where Poppy doesn't appear in as a character. The only two previous animations she didn't appear in were the Trolls Holiday Short "Together" and the Trolls: The Beat Goes On! episode "Extreme Sleepover Club".