Manager Poppy/Transcript

The following is a transcript for the episode "Manager Poppy".
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(There is a huge line of Trolls waiting for Val’s concert.)
All: Thundershock! Thundershock! Thundershock! (Poppy, Branch, Smidge, and DJ Suki are in the line.)
Poppy: Wow! Val’s concert doesn’t even start for eight hours and look at all these Trolls already lined up!
Branch: Well, yeah! Word is Val’s concert is a non-stop thrill ride. I heard she opens by dropping from the sky.
Smidge: I heard she smashes her guitar into a million pieces!
DJ Suki: I heard the pieces transform into birds which carry you off to a city in the clouds where you’re the crowned greatest DJ of all time! (Poppy, Branch, and Smidge say nothing.) Wait, did I hear that or did I dream it? Either way, I’m ready to rock! (She, Poppy, Branch, and Smidge hold their hands up with the Rock Troll symbol.)
Poppy: Fantastic. Way to show support for a fellow TrollsTopian! And speaking of show support… (She goes to Rock Hollow to see Val.) Val! I came to say, break a hair! (An upset Val growls at her on a couch.) I can’t tell if you’re upset or this is just your regular face.
Val: Upset! My band manager, Demo, had an accident.
Poppy: Oh, no! What happened?
Val: He was sharpening up his hair spikes for the big show when… (We go to the past where Demo is sharpening his hair spikes.)
Past Demo: This should be the most epic night of my… nay, all our lives! Yeah! Woo-hoo! (He jumps into the air and one of his spikes gets stuck in a tree branch. He struggles to free himself and the branch breaks, sending him rolling down a hill. At the bottom, a purple male Glitter Troll and a purple female Pop Troll are having a picnic. The purple male Glitter Troll takes out a sandwich and Demo rolls into it. He then rolls into a piñata a pink female Pop Troll was about to smash and into a beehive with angry bees.) Ooh! (We go back to the present.)
Poppy: Geez! Is he OK?
Demo: Of course I’m not OK! (We seem him with more objects stuck on him including a Puffalo.) I can’t manage like this! The show will have to be cancelled!
Poppy: What?! No! All of TrollsTopia is lining up to hear Val play!
Val: Yeah! Besides, I can handle not having a manager for one night.
Demo: Oh, really, Val? So, you are gonna handle all the mundane logistics? Like scheduling?
Val: (groaning) So boring!
Demo: Equipment checks?
Val: So… not… hardcore!
Demo: Promotions? And publicity?
Val: No! OK, fine! We’ll cancel the show! (She walks away.) Ugh! I can’t believe it!
Poppy: Wait. What if I was your manager tonight?
Val and Demo: You?!
Demo: You sure about that? ‘Cause let me tell you, this job ain’t no glittering cupcake good-time jamboree! Or whatever you Pop Trolls do!
Poppy: Yeah, yeah, we do that.
Demo: Well, toughen up! ‘Cause Val is a handful.
Poppy: Got it!
Demo: Then it’s up to you to get her ready for the show. Up to you!
Poppy: I won’t let her out of my sight.
Demo: Where is she right now? (Poppy sees that Val is gone.)
Poppy: (chuckles) Ah! (She runs off to find Val. Meanwhile, she is at Striped Smiley’s Candy Bar.)
Striped Smiley: Welcome, friend, to Striped Smiley’s Candy Bar! What’ll it be? Liquorish? Lollipop? Or one of Stripe’s one-of-a-kind taffy sculptures? (He shows a taffy sculpture of himself and takes a bite.)
Val: Nah, just an Extreme Sour Blaster Puckerball. The kind that turns your face inside-out.
Striped Smiley: Coming right up! (As he gives Val her treat, Poppy appears.)
Poppy: (pants) Ah, Val! What are you doing? There’s so much we have to do to get ready for the show! (She takes out glasses and an agenda.) Wardrobe, hair and makeup, vulnerable manger-to-rockstar sharing time?
Val: Huh?
Poppy: (Removing her glasses) Sorry. I tried to sneak that last one in.
Val: Sorry, Popsqueak. That’s not how I get ready for a concert.  (She throws a crumbled piece of paper to Poppy.)
Poppy: A sweaty crumbled napkin?
Val: No. Val’s pre-show agenda!
Poppy: Bungee jumping?
Val: Bungee jumping!
Poppy: Volcano spelunking!
Val: Hot! So hot!
Poppy: Arctic slingshotting!
Val: Cool! So cool!
Poppy: Sticking your head through a predator’s mouth?!
Val: The risks are as high as they are pointless! Yeah!
Poppy: Val, give me a break. This is nothing but a list of reckless antics and mischief!
Val: Exactly. See, my show’s raw. Wild. And I have to do every item on that list of I’m gonna find… my edge.
Poppy: Sorry, Val. Not buying it. You don’t have to go tornado sledding for a good show. Val? (Val does not answer.) Val? (Striped Smiley takes a bite from a taffy sculpture of Val.) Val!
Striped Smiley: Looks like your friend pulled the old taffy-and-run! Classic!
Poppy: What?! I gotta find her! (She runs off to find Val. As she searches through TrollsTopia, she sings Running & Running. She soon asks some Bloodhound Bugs to find Val while she has fun. As she holds on to their leash, they take off and she holds on.)
(Poppy)
Where are you going?
I gotta know
I need some answers
Before you get out of control
Go, go, go, go
Oh, oh, oh
Go, go, go, go
Yeah, and I keep searching the Earth
Until you are found
I’ll keep my eye on the prize
And my feet on the ground
I’ll keep on running and running
And running around after you
I won’t be stopping
Until such time that I do
Oh, I’ll be ch-ch-ch-ch-chasing
After you! (While Val is skiing while holding onto the Vibe Town Spaceship, Poppy and the Bloodhound Bugs bump into her, causing them to fall.)
Poppy: Oh. Val, where have you been?
Val: I’ve been… Finding my edge, yeah! We’ve been over this!
Poppy: Ah! Fine, but your concert is in less than a half hour. We have to get to the venue, so we’re taking… (She whistles and the Dune Huggy appears. A light blue Fuzzling jumps out of it.) … the Dune Huggy.
Val: Ah! Hardcore! (She and Poppy get in the Dune Huggy and put on their seatbelts. Then it takes off at high speed.)
Both: Woo-hoo!
Val: Wow! This thing really moves!
Poppy: Yup! And it really hugs the turns! (She presses a button and the Dune Huggy sprouts arms, grabs a rock, and swings around it.)
Both: Woo-hoo!
Val: Yeah! Ha-ha! Rock on!
Poppy: Oh, you ain’t seen nothing yet. (She presses another button and the Dune Huggy’s arms grabs a tree branch and it goes up on it. Then it goes down and flies off the edge of the branch.)
Both: Wooooo-hooooo!
Val: Ha-ha! Yeah!
Poppy: Yeeeaaah! (The Dune Huggy lands on the ground.)
Val: This is awesome!
Poppy: See?! This is what happens when you let your manager help you!
Val: Yeah, full of disclosure? I didn’t hop in here so you could help me. I did it ‘cause joyriding is on the list.
Poppy: What? (She screams as Val grabs the wheel. The Dune Huggy goes up a hill as she and Val switch seats before it lands.)
Val: Woo-hoo!
Poppy: Hey! Val, no! Stop the car right now!
Val: Nah. (She presses a button and the seat Poppy is sitting in sends her flying. Luckily, she uses her hair as a parachute and lands in the bushes.) Later! (She drives off and Poppy gets up. She is covered in leaves.)
Poppy: (coughs) Oh… that… is… it! (Val is now driving the Dune Huggy around in circles.)
Val: Yeah!
Poppy: Val!
Val: (Stopping the Dune Huggy) ‘Sup?
Poppy: I’m done falling for your tricks. We are going to the venue, now!
Val: Nope! If I’m gonna get my edge, I still have bungee jumping, sticking my head in a predator’s mouth, and stunt-flying a Flyer Bug. Like that Flyer Bug! (We see a dark red Flyer Bug staying still.)
Poppy: Val, no!
Val: (Laughing as she jumps on a mushroom and onto the Flyer Bug) Woo-hoo! (She hears a splatting noise.) Splat?! (She struggles to make the Flyer Bug move, but nothing happens.) What is this?! (Striped Smiley appears.)
Striped Smiley: Why, that’s Striped Smiley’s fine taffy sculpture yet, friend! (He goes back in the bushes.)
Poppy: Consider yourself managed. (She grabs the taffy Flyer Bug with her hair and hums as she starts to drag Val to her show.)
Val: What?! But I haven’t finished my list! You are making a huge mistake. Poppy, I’m serious! (Poppy ignores her.) POPPY! (Poppy covers her with her hair.)
Poppy: Sorry, Val! Can’t seem to hear you!
Val: Poppy, stop! Poppy, noooo! (Back at Rock Hollow, the crowd is still huge.)
All: Thundershock! Thundershock! Thundershock! Thundershock! (Fuzzbert cuts a ribbon and the crowd cheers as it goes inside the stadium.) Thundershock! (Poppy is on the stage wearing headphones.)
Poppy: OK, people, it’s show time.
Demo: Queen Poppy! (He is seen with a new hairstyle.)
Poppy: Demo! You fixed your hair!
Demo: Indeed, Your Royal Trollness. I broke free from my shackles. And now the great blaze of my rock spirit shall be unleashed! (He jumps in the air, causing his hair to damage the top part of the stage and they fall.) Oh, oh, ah! Hey, hey, hey! Wo-ah, no, no! (panting) So! Looks like you’ve got everything under control here.
Poppy: Yep! I mean, not to polish my own, glitter, but I got Val into wardrobe, hair and makeup, and I got her up on stage, where she’s about to perform her legendary show-opening guitar smash! Observe. (The camera moves up to see Val on top of the stage.)
Val: (As she jumps) Aaah! (As soon as she lands, she plays her guitar.) Ah! (She tries to smash it, but nothing happens.) Huh? (The crowd gasps ands he tries several more times.) Why isn’t it breaking?
Poppy: What’s wrong with her?
Demo: Ah! I-I don’t know! Val’s always ready to rock by concert time! She has a whole pre-show agenda to be sure of it!
Poppy: Hold on. You mean her list of reckless antics and mischief? All of her excuses about needing to find an edge? Those were real?!
Demo: Of course! What do you think I meant when I said you had to get her ready for the show?
Poppy: (gaps) What are we gonna do?
All: Thundershock! Thundershock! Thundershock! (Val walks up to the microphone.)
Val: (Through the microphone) Uh… actually, w-w-we’re having some hardcore-centric difficulties, a-and… uh… I’m afraid the show will have to… (Poppy appears on the Flyer bug and grabs Val.) AAAAAAHHHH! What?! What are you doing?!
Poppy: Being your manager. Now, where’s that list? (She takes the list out of Val’s pocket.) First, Flyer Bug stunt piloting! (She makes the Flyer Bug go higher.)
Val: (Holding on to Poppy) Whoo! Whoo! Poppy! (The Flyer Bug goes through a cloud.) Whoo-oh! Whoo-oh! Whoo-oh!
Poppy: Next, sticking our head in a predator’s jaws! (She lowers the Flyer Bug to the ground while Val screams in excitement.)
Val:  SO AWESOME! (The Flyer Bug goes through a light red predator’s mouth and gets out of another.) YEEEEAAAH! WOO-HOO!
Poppy: Now, storm chasing!
Val: What?! (Storm clouds are seen and the Flyer Bug flies into it.) That’s not on my list.
Poppy: It is now, Thundershock! (Val screams as Poppy dodges the lightning.)
Val: Aaah!
Poppy: Now, how do you feel?!
Val: What?!
Poppy: HOW DO YOU FEEL?!
Val: I… I feel… edgy.
Poppy: Great! ‘Cause there’s only one thing left on your list! (She gives the list to Val.)
Val: Oh! (She chuckles as she wraps Poppy’s hair around her waist.) BUNGEEEEEE! (She soon lands on the stage.) Yay! (The audience cheers for her.) Let’s rock! Guitar smash! Ha! (She smashes her guitar and the audience cheers again.)
All: Thundershock! Thundershock! Thundershock! (Val’s guitar rises and it turns into birds.)
DJ Suki: Ah-ha! I knew it! (The birds carry her away. Val catches her guitar and starts playing it. Poppy lands with her hair as a parachute.)
Demo: Well, Poppy, gotta hand it to you. That was some excellent managing.
Poppy: Thanks, Demo.
Demo: If you ever wanna do it again sometime…
Poppy: Not a chance. Whoo! Val! (The camera moves up to the sky where DJ Suki is still being carried by the birds.)
DJ Suki: I knew it!
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