Race to the Crest/Transcript

The following is a transcript for the episode "Race to the Crest".
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(Poppy, Val, Dante, and other Trolls are about to have a bubble blowing party.)
Poppy: Trolls, time to blow the big bubble! Present your chewables… (The Trolls take out chewable gum.) … and chew! (She and the others start chewing their gum.)
Val: Ha. Chewing gum rocks so hard. And it’s good practice for when I gnash my teeth in defiance of the man. (She gnashes her teeth.)
Poppy: Yeah, it really is the best. Don’t you think, Dante? (Dante shivers as he watches the Trolls chew their gum.)
Dante: The horror. (He starts to leave.)
Poppy: Dante, where are you going?
Val: (Taking out her gum.) Yeah! Where’s your gum wad man?
Dante: Apologies, you gum en-chew-siasts, but Dante Crescendo never puts anything in his mouth that one would describe as a… (gulps) … “wad”. You see, when I heard about this “Bubble Blowing Party,” I was picturing… (He pictures himself in a hot tub with bubbles.) … something very different.
Poppy: Aw, but don’t you wanna be a part of the biggest bubble ever bubbled? Let’s show ‘em, Trolls! Blow! (She and the others start blowing bubbles. They merge into a huge bubble that grows bigger. Dante watches in fear.)
Dante: Someone wake me from this nightmare! (He tries to leave, but Val stops him.)
Val: Come on, Dante, stay! It’s good for you to try new things. You know, step outside your comfort zone.
Dante: I’m sorry, Val. You want me to leave a place called “the comfort zone”? Are you hearing how absurd that sounds? (He hears a bell ringing and gasps.) Treble my clef, it’s finally happening! The bells are an alarm system designed to alert me that a moment I’ve long awaited is finally coming to pass up in Classical Crest! It’s an event that happens only once every 20 years, and only for 20 minutes, the blooming of the rarest flower known to Classical kind, the Organ Orchid. It makes music so sweet and pure, they say it causes all who hear it to-
Val: Let me guess, weep with joy?
Dante: No, bark like a dog with joy.
Val: Huh?
Dante: I know, odd, but that’s what they say. Anyway, I must make haste! (Val gasps because the bubble is getting too big.) No, wait! Dante!
Dante: Huh? 
Val: IN-GUMMING! (She runs into Dante and they take cover behind a rock. The bubble bursts, covering Poppy and the Trolls in gum. They struggle at first, but start laughing. Val laughs and Dante screams twice.) Dude! You gotta relax.
Dante: Relax?! I’m covered in flecks, Val! Flecks!
Val: Yeah, I know. But you just said you only have 20 minutes to get to that Orchid.
Dante: (gasps) Heavens, you’re right! I cannot delay! The musical experience of a lifetime awaits! Ta-ta! (He tries to fly away, but he falls down. He sees that his wings are stuck together with gum.) My wings! (He struggles to pull them free.) They’ve been gum-promised! H-how am I going to get back to the crest before the Orchid closes?!
Poppy: Um… what about the Metroll?
Dante and Val: Hm. (They see that the Metroll is stuck in the gum.)
Poppy: (offscreen) Try the Dune Huggy? (The Dune Huggy is also stuck.) Maybe the Shroom Bounce?!
Val: Hey! Yeah! 
Dante: Sorry, the what?
Val: The Shroom Bounce! (The camera zooms out to reveal bouncy mushrooms. Some are covered in gum.) The fastest way to boing across TrollsTopia! (She throws a rock and it bounces on the mushrooms.)
Dante: (gasps) No! I shan’t boing! I shan’t!
Val: Well, I hate to say I told you so, Dante, but if you wanna get home in time to hear that organ, you better step outside your comfort zone, don’t ya think?
Dante: Oh, really? Well, if I’d taken that advice, I wouldn’t have stepped away from the Bubble Blowing Party and we’d both be stuck in a pile of gum with the other Trolls, don’t ya think?
Val: Fine! Suit yourself, but there’s no other way to the crest.
Dante: Oh, really? (He sees a hot air balloon and gasps.) Val, look! A delightfully comfortable hot air balloon! (He starts walking backwards.) But how can this be? You said there was no other way to the crest. Heavens, I guess that can only mean… you were wrong. (He laughs and gets in the hot air balloon.)
Val: (As the hot air balloon rises) Please! Look how slow you’re going! You’ll never make it in time!
Dante: Pish posh. We can address that. Excuse me, Madame Balloon, would you be a dear and apply your foot to the pedal so as to depress it against the medal, as they say?
Hot Air Balloon: You mean go faster? Hm. I guess I could, if I used some “pft.”
Dante: Hear that, Val? All she has to do is use some… Sorry, use some what? (The hot air balloon springs a leak and flies around out of control. Dante screams and holds on. He then sees Classical Crest.) The Orchid! I’ve made it! (laughs)
Hot Air Balloon: Uh-oh! I’m all out of “pft!” 
Dante: Out of what?! (The hot air balloon stops for a moment and falls.) WHOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAA!!! (He lands on the ground. Val is seen bouncing on the Shroom Bounce while laughing. Dante uncovers himself and turns over.)
Val: Well, that looked comfortable. (Dante gets up.)
Dante: Oh. Never mind that. The point is that I made here to the Troll Tree, and now I can simply take a gentle ride up the elevator to Classical Crest.
Val: Yeah, you could. If you haven’t smashed the elevator to bits. (Dante turns around and sees the smashed elevator. A red male Pop Troll falls out of it. Dante gasps in shock.) Relax. We have another option. (She and Dante go to a ladder.) See, the Pop Trolls built this maintenance ladder for repairs. (A Flying Sluggy Bug lands on the ladder. Dante is disgusted.)
Dante: Val, this ladder is completely overrun with… with… 
Val: Flying Sluggy Bugs? Yeah, but they won’t hurt you. They’ll just drip slime on you and make you feel super gross.
Dante: Oh… 
Val: OK, up we go! (She starts climbing the ladder.) 
Dante: Oh! I would rather boing. (He folds his arms.) Hold the sousaphone, what is that? (The camera shows a slide.) It looks so ooze-free.
Val: What, the maintenance slide? Yeah, the Pop Trolls built that ‘cause slides are sweet. But, uh, you can’t go up a slide.
Dante: Watch me! (He starts climbing the slide. As he gets closer to the top, he slips a little and sobs.)
Val: Uh, I’m not gonna laugh at you ‘cause, you know, we’re Trolls. But watching you struggle up that slide is objectively hilarious. 
Dante: Oh… (He continues climbing.)
Val: Come on, Dante. You should really step out of that comfort zone of yours, embrace a little slime, and come join me on the ladder.
Dante: Never! I shall overcome! (Soon, he sees the top of the slide.) The exit! Now who’s objectively hilarious? (He laughs with joy. Then he hears a noise.) Huh?
Val: Oh, right. Forgot. It turns into a water slide from 2 to 4. (Dante gasps in horror and water rushes toward him, washing him down the slide.)
Dante: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! (He continues screaming. When he reaches the bottom, he hits and breaks the ladder. Val lands on the slide.)
Val: Whoooooooooooo! Yeah! So awesome! (She lands at the bottom with Dante and laughs.) Whoooooo!
Dante: No! (He runs over to the tree.) It would be impossible for me to climb a water slide! How will I get to the Orchid now?! I know! I will walk straight up this tree through sheer willpower!
Val: What? No way, man. (Dante tries and fails to run up the tree a few times.)
Dante: So, that’s how it’s going to be, eh, gravity? Then have at you, sir, Have at you! (He fails to run up the tree again.)
Val: Dante! Dante, stop! (Dante lands on her and they roll like a ball. Dante begins to cry.)
Dante: It’s no use. I’m going to miss my once-in-a-lifetime chance. Perhaps you were right, Val. If I had stepped outside my comfort zone… (sniffs) … I might have made it.
Val: Sorry, man. I know I’ve been giving you a hard time today, but… I was pulling for you to play that orchid. And that’s not just because I wanted to hear you bark like a dog with joy. I really… (Her hand gets stuck in Dante’s gum.) Huh?
Dante: (gasps) Wait… Perhaps there is still a chance. (He gets up, walks to the tree, and puts gum on his feet and tummy.)
Val: Dude, what are you doing?
Dante: Getting uncomfortable… (He screams and jumps onto the tree. His feet stick to it. He laughs while Val gasps. As Dante climbs up the tree, he sings Not Giving Up.)
(Dante)
Not giving up marching on 
Bout to be sick
But be strong
Classical Crest
In your sights
This is the time
You must fight
Oh
Nothing can stop me
No matter how yucky 
Not giving up
See, I’m marching on
Come to me!
Grimy and drippy
About to be sick 
But determined and strong (He reaches Classical Crest with the help of Flying Sluggy Bugs. He kisses one of them.) 
Dante: Gross. (A ding is heard and Val comes out of the elevator.)
Val: Check it out! I was actually able to fix the elevator! (Dante sighs.) Sorry. Not the most hardcore timing.
Dante: No, no, no apologies, Val. After all, it’s good for me to step out of my comfort zone. (He and Val wink at each other.) And now, to play… (He walks to the Orchid.)
Val: Whoa! (Dante starts playing the Organ Orchid and Val barks and howls with joy. Then she and Dante bark and howl together.)
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