Friend Matching

"Friend Matching" is the first segment of the 2nd episode of the eighth season of Trolls: The Beat Goes On!, and the 92nd overall episode in the series. It premiered on November 22, 2019.
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Smidge helps Poppy with her Friend Matching campaign, but their efforts cause friction instead.
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Harper and Dr. Moonbloom are both waiting for a friend to play picnic checkers with. After their friends don't show, they ask each other if they want to play. The pair agree and go to play the game while Poppy gives a "Yes" from behind a bush. Smidge approaches her and thinks Poppy is playing hide and seek. Poppy explains she is friend matching Harper and Dr. Moonbloom. Smidge has no idea what she is talking about and Poppy takes her back to her pod to explain.
One of Poppy's goals as queen is to explain friendships in the village, and she has been friend-pairing various Trolls with each other. She has been doing this by surveying Trolls and finding ones with high compatibility with a chance they will become friends. Poppy and Smidge begin to compare survey data and Poppy eventually finds two Trolls that are highly compatible: Guy Diamond and Sky Toronto. They are the most compatible Trolls she has ever seen and she wants to try pairing them up. She envisions the two getting along very closely together and Smidge can't wait to tell them. Poppy stops Smidge and tells them that they can't know they are a match, as it ruins the chemistry due to there being too much pressure. She flashbacks to a time she paired Biggie and Ripley Wisp with each other and how awkward it was. So she keeps the matching on the down-low and the pair prepare to make the match between Sky and Guy happen.
Poppy tries to bring Guy to Sky so that he can ask him for items in order to help complete his rare party items collection. The pair say they thought they were the only collectors in town and Poppy gets excited. Sky then has his assistant show Guy his collection and walks off. Poppy doesn't understand why the pair didn't hit it off as they're such a strong match. Smidge suggests that they should approach Sky when he's not in "work mode". At a Glitterball match, Poppy and Smidge try and once again match the pair, who both have interests in Glitterball. But the problem is while they both like the same game, both of them like opposing teams. This encounter ends with the pair fighting each other with glitter farts. The next is a picture drawing game where Guy draws something and Sky guesses what it is, but no matter how obvious Guy makes his tree drawing, Sky doesn't get it. This time, they end up in a row and the pair demand apologies from each other and walk away, leaving Smidge wondering how they are going to fix things.
Poppy sends both apologize letters supposedly from each other hoping this would bring them together. But when Poppy and Smidge deliver Sky's "letter from Sky" to Sky, Guy lets out his outrage as he thinks Sky is full of himself. He recruit Poppy and Smidge that when Glitter Trolls write letters they sign their name in glitter as a way to show they mean it otherwise the note sounds sarcastic and forced. Likewise, Sky also doesn't accept Guy's apology and demands him to come out of his pod. Despite how desperate the situation looks, Poppy is still trying to make the friendship work and Smidge is dismayed.
Outside the two just demand apologize from each other getting nowhere. Poppy tries to stop the bickering Trolls by singing. The two glare at each other and state how "perfect" that idea is. Guy believes Sky won't do well as he is not a great singer, but then Sky reveals that his staff have been working on a microphone that mimics Guy's auto-tuning effect.
A song battle pursues and the pair just dig into each other until Poppy stops them. Poppy finally confesses their mad at each other because she tried to make them be friends. She tells them about the survey and Sky reveals that sort of thing usually gets filled in by his assistant. Poppy then realizes Guy is actually a perfect match for Sky's assistant, not Sky himself. The pair of Trolls agree that a Sky-Guy friendship seems highly unlikely and the two part ways.
As they walk off, they stop and Sky admits that they did sound good together. The two are soon singing together, and Poppy celebrates them actually pulling off their friendship.
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*Amanda Leighton as Queen Poppy
*Kevin Michael Richardson as Smidge
*Sean T. Krishnan as Guy Diamond
*Gary Cole as Sky Toronto
*Fryda Wolff as Dr. Moonbloom
*Kari Wahlgren as Harper and Ripley Wisp
*David Fynn as Biggie
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*"Ready, Set, Go! (Sing-Off)"
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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 matchmaking, but instead of the matches being romantic, Poppy is just pairing up people who will hopefully get along and become friends.
*The pairing of Sky Toronto and Guy Diamond is most likely based on their skin colors; Sky is gold-skinned and Guy is silver-skinned. Traditionally, gold and silver are highly-ranked precious metals.
*This episode marks the only time Sky farts glitter.
*Sky found out he couldn't sing well in "Hitting The Sky Note". The device he uses utilizes a form of Auto-Tuning, which ironically is what Guy's electronic vocals are mimicking to begin with. Auto-Tuning software has the ability to change a vocal to make it sound better, often it is used by singers who have weak vocals or can't even sing to make it so they can.
*Poppy would pair up Trolls again in the Trolls: TrollsTopia episode "The Buddy System", though this case would be via a random selection system, with the pairs consisting of a member of the Snack Pack and a Tribe ambassador each.
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