Hitting The Sky Note

"Hitting The Sky Note" is the first segment of the 3rd episode of the sixth season of Trolls: The Beat Goes On!, and the 68th overall episode in the series. It premiered on April 9, 2019.
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Poppy takes drastic measures to bring singing into Sky Toronto's life in time for the Funphibian anniversary, but Sky's singing has sour notes.
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Poppy begins the episode with a scrapbook introduction of the Funiphibian, a frequent visitor for the Trolls who likes music. The Trolls put on a yearly display for it, and if it enjoys hearing the music, it will reward the Trolls with a fantastic show, but it will leave with one single bad note.
Poppy has a choir of mostly male Trolls practicing their harmonization. Hearing how well the group pulls off, Poppy orders umbrellas for every Troll from Sky Toronto. Sky begins to hand them out, and as he does mentions casually that he has never sung in his life when Poppy asks him what he thought of their performance. As Poppy is reacting, Sky gets one of his assistants to pull put a chart. He then explains that his busy schedule doesn't allow him any time for singing, and departs via a ladder.
Poppy is trying to handle the prospect of a life without singing and how many other things Sky is missing out on if he doesn't sing as it is. Branch speaks from his experience of not singing for years, but this only horrifies Poppy more and she rushes off to help Sky.
She goes to Sky's Party Shop and tries to convince him to give singing a try, but he stands by his status on singing and demonstrates how effective his use of his time he has. He depends and notes that when it comes to singing, Poppy and he aren't talking the same language.
This makes Poppy go away and return with an approach that is more business-like, though Sky points out how bad she presents her point of view. He gives up as he realizes she will just keep showing up until he sings, so he decides to just get it over and done with. Poppy gets excited to hear his first note, but what comes out of Sky's mouth is awful. However, Sky finds that he enjoys singing, and keeps it on even though he can't do it well at all. He causes disruption in his own Party Shop. Now he sings at everywhere he goes, causing the Trolls around him to cringe at how bad he is and cover their ears. Singing late into the night and disturbing the peace.
Poppy is left wondering how to tell Sky about his singing without hurting his feelings. Smidge suggests saying it really fast while Biggie says to pretend to enjoy it, accidentally revealing that they didn't enjoy Branch's play he had put on previously and had pretended they did. As she talks about telling him that his singing needs work, he enters her pod and has noted his singing has caused a buzz in the village. Now Sky wants to be part of the Funiphibian show.
The following day is the day of the Funiphibian's visit, and every Troll is tuning their voice. But Sky can't still sing and is getting things awkward. As the Funphibian shows up, the Trolls divide into their sections. Poppy puts Sky in his own special section, and proceeds to get the choir to sing. The Funphibian waits eagerly. Sky notices that Poppy misses a cue to get him to join in, and proceeds to try and join whic ever section she's pointing at. But each time he gasps to sing, she shifts to another section. She drops her conductors baton and points at Sky as she catches it. He starts to sing, but is stopped within moments.
Poppy surrounds her and Sky to take a moment to talk to him, and finally confesses that his voice is terrible after she tries not to tell him. He receives the message, but she's left feeling guilty about telling him how bad he is.
She restarts from the beginning, but her guilt about excluding Sky gets to her as she knows Trolls sing. She tells the group that she simply can't leave one person out no matter what. Sky says that he can't join in as it will ruin the event. As he stands in the middle of the three groups, Poppy states that he can't match them, but they can match him and has him lead the song with the others joining in.
The Funiphibian enjoys the sound of the Trolls harmonizing and gives off its display. As Sky joins her, she admits they couldn't have done it without him and he thanks her.
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;Trolls
*Amanda Leighton as Queen Poppy
*Skylar Astin as Branch
*Gary Cole as Sky Toronto
*Kevin Michael Richardson as Smidge and Klaus Von Frousting
*David Fynn as Biggie
*Fryda Wolff as DJ Suki and Dr. Moonbloom
*Sean T. Krishnan as Guy Diamond
*Ron Funches as Cooper
;Other 
*David Fynn as Mr. Dinkles
*Gary
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*"Singing Solo"
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This episode is available on the "Trolls: The Beat Goes On! - Complete Seasons 5-8" DVD.
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*The title is a play on "hitting the high note" and "touch/reach the sky", referring to achievements that are aimed high.
*This episode is a reference to Trolls. When Poppy tries to get Branch to sing to cheer up Bridget in Trolls, he explains why he doesn't and Poppy remarks "I just presumed you couldn't sing". In this episode, she finally convinces Sky to sing, but whereas Branch turns out to sing "like an angel", Sky can't sing well at all.
**In both cases, because hugging, singing and dancing are the three social norms for Trolls, Poppy struggles with understanding why Branch or Sky wouldn't sing.
*Poppy's choir consists of sopranos, tenors and bass; except she has mixed up two groups. Poppy calls the tenors the sopranos, and the sopranos the tenors. It's blatantly obvious that she has muddled up the names by which Trolls are in these sections, as Branch and Biggie are both tenors.
**Thanks to his autotuning, Guy is able to do a soprano, which is normally a female vocalization. Excluding Smidge's group, Guy's section is the only one with 2 female vocalists in for this reason.
**As an additional note, Smidge is within the bass section despite being female likewise, but this is because her vocal is a baritone/bass. There's also another female in this section when Smidge should be the only female in it.
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Can Poppy Teach a Troll to Sing Well? TROLLS THE BEAT GOES ON!
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