Snow Day

"Snow Day" is the first segment of the 5th episode of the fifth season of Trolls: The Beat Goes On!, and the 60th overall episode in the series. It premiered on January 18, 2019.
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Poppy, Branch and Smidge try to make the most of the only day of the year with a snowfall.
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Poppy begins the episode explaining via a scrapbook that most of the year the seasons are warm and sunny. Winter, however, lasts only one day, and the Trolls have to cram an entire season worth of events into it, calling it "Snow Day". Poppy stands in the town in front of a countdown to the snowfall. Poppy hands things over to Tug Duluth, who is this year's sponsor of the Frosty Fun Games and she points to where Trolls can sign up for the games.
Smidge rushes through the crowd to sign up for every event. Poppy questions the amount of events she is signing up for. Smidge explains that the more events she signs up for means the more chances of a 1st place; she has never won this position before in any event. Branch interrupts Smidge's diabolical laughter to ask them what activities are the most fun for Snow Day. Branch asks them to rank building a snowman, to which they react by giving it the highest ranking. Branch tells them that they need to be honest, increasing their ranking in response. He explains this is his first Snow Day as he has missed out on so many in his bunker and he wants it to be good. He has decided on three activities: snowboarding, sleighing and ice climbing.
Poppy suggests snowball fighting, which attracts her father's attention. He hopes her remark means she's ready for their annual father-daughter snowball fight. Branch and Smidge find it cute that the pair have this thing every year, until Poppy turns around and says she will destroy her father. Poppy claims that she has never been able to hit her dad with a snowball once in her entire life, and has been preparing all year for this event.
Just then, their attention is turned to the countdown approaching its final moments. Branch rushes to get the scarf for Gary. When 3 seconds are left to go hit, snow falls as winter has come early.
At his bunker, Branch has Gary's scarf, but when he goes to leave he finds him snowed in; this means he cannot leave his bunker.
In Troll Village, Poppy and Peppy begin their fight, with Poppy trying to sneak-attack her dad and failing.
At the Frosty Fun Games, Aspen Heitz is in the ice skating contest, skating while Smidge and Ripley Wisp wait their turn. Smidge really wants the first place medal, but her attention is drawn on Ripley, who is sharpening her blade. Ripley hands Smidge her whetstone to sharpen her blades on, but Smidge overdoes it. When it's her turn, she ends up cutting through the ice.
Branch is desperately trying to get out of his bunker. He melts the snow covering it, but water pours in. Branch's bunker is now frozen over with ice. He puts on a scarf and then slips on the ice.
Poppy is getting more determined to hit her dad with a snowball. She chases him on a critter to a dead end, and grabs snowballs with her hair. Peppy does a woe of defeat, mentioned if only he had trained her critter to obey his command. She suddenly questions why he said those specific words, and it turns out that's what he had done. Winston tosses her off him and Peppy rides off on her critter, mocking her in the process.
Smidge is doing the sled race and racing against Ripley, who is taking the lead. Smidge pulls a cake on a stick and holds it in front of her critter, making it go faster. But as Tug says no critter can resist the temptation; a random critter comes out of nowhere and pulls her away, letting Ripley get the first place. Several critters come and try to eat each other, leaving Smidge in the center of it all.
Back at the bunker, Branch has geared up to tackle his problem. He tries to slide to the elevator, but misses and hits a book case. He tries several more times and continues to miss the lever.
Outside, Poppy is making a very large snowball, and pushes it to the top of a hill.
At the Bobsled event, Smidge has her final chance to get 1st place, and prepares to give it her all. Branch uses a board to get to the lever at last, only to find it's stuck. Using two screwdrivers, he begins to climb the elevator shaft, as he yells how he'll redeem his lost childhood. All 3 Trolls are shown onscreen, pushing their limits.
At the top of the hill, Peppy waits; he had expected this and pushes the snowball in Poppy's direction. Suddenly, Poppy is running from her own snowball. Despite her boasted start, Smidge is hit by the snowball and carried with it, leaving her bobshed behind. Trolls run out of the way, and then admire the snowball as it flies through the air. Branch celebrates escaping his bunker and seeing snow. He then looks up and sees the snowball, just accepting his fate as it lands on him. The 3 disgruntled Trolls try to make the most of things, as Smidge never got her first place and Branch missed out on his first snow day. But as Poppy does her usual positive thing, the snow vanishes and snow day is over.
As Tug hands out the 1st place medals, the 3 Trolls growl at their bad luck. Branch lists all his things that went wrong and stated he did none of his planned events, but Poppy points out the 3 things he lists were the activities he had planned to do anyway. Realizing he actually did these events, he celebrates Snow Day. Smidge is down at Branch, at least getting to do what he wanted on the day. She's awarded a medal at that moment for her long jump via the snowball.
Poppy is greeted by her dad, who's happy to see his daughter smiling. He tells he that at least she learned that distractions cause them to forget the important things on Snow Day: the people they love. Poppy corrects him and states it is "because of this", dropping snow all over him. She kept the snow around via 3 cooling packs, and had hit him when he least expected it. She runs off celebrating, with Peppy saying "That's my girl!".
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;Trolls
*Amanda Leighton as Queen Poppy
*Skylar Astin as Branch
*Kevin Michael Richardson as Smidge and Rufus
*David Kaye as King Peppy
*Kari Wahlgren as Ripley Wisp
*Alexa Kahn as Tug Duluth
*Aspen Heitz (non-speaking)
*Biggie (non-speaking)
*Cooper (non-speaking)
*Satin & Chenille (non-speaking)
*Keith (non-speaking)
*Harper (non-speaking)
;Other
*Gary
*Mr. Dinkles (non-speaking)
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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 reference to weather events involving large amounts of snowfall. When unexpected snowfall is too great, it becomes too dangerous to attempt travel in areas where snow is an uncommon occurrence and many places such as schools close for the day to avoid students or employees from endangering themselves and those around them from dangerous weather conditions. This day is called a "Snow Day".
*The start of the episode shows the last minute counting down, but by the time it reaches 10 seconds, Smidge, Branch and Poppy have spent two and a half minutes talking.
*This episode is the sixth one in the series to feature the running gag referencing the common classic cartoon logic rule of "gravity does not work until you look down".
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