Creek Week

"Creek Week" is the second segment of the 5th episode of the first season of Trolls: The Beat Goes On!, and the 10th overall episode in the series. It premiered on January 19, 2018.
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The traitorous Troll Creek returns to Troll Village after surviving from getting eaten at the end of Trolls.
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Poppy is welcoming the Trolls taking part in Creek Week, a week where Trolls do yoga practices. Since the former teacher, Creek, is no longer present after betraying the Trolls during the last Trollstice, Cooper will serve as the replacement. Despite this, Branch thinks that the entire event should be removed or at least renamed, but Poppy, even though she rages at the idea of Creek's presence, still admires of how he was a great yoga teacher. To their shock, Creek actually survived and returns to Troll Village, messy and battered. Branch's immediate response is to ward him off, even though he came peacefully. Poppy demands to explain the traitor's return. Creek solemnly gives his sincerest apology to the Trolls, pledging that, if they were ever at a situation during Trollstice again, he would sacrifice himself. Branch still doubts him, but The Snack Pack actually forgive him and reintegrate him back to Troll society.
Branch suggests that he and Poppy should get rid of him, but Poppy believes that Creek could change, even after his betrayal. She accepts Branch's doubt about him but asks him to eventually forgive, or he'll wind up all alone if he lets his hatred of him continue. Branch instead decides to find proof that Creek still can't be trusted. Far out in the village, Branch plants a gift basket with cupcakes that are intended for Poppy. Creek stumbles upon the basket, and even after acknowledging who is it meant for, decides to take it and even eats a few of the cupcakes, all of which are photographed by Branch. When Branch is about to give Poppy the evidence about Creek stealing, he discovers that Creek is already at Poppy's home, sharing the cupcake basket with her.
Hours later, Creek is meditating atop a rock near the falls. Branch is plotting his second attempt to expose Creek when he leads the Snack Pack to a hike where Creek is apparently meditating. Branch pretends to clumsily set himself in danger by falling down the rapids, grabbing a rock very near the waterfall, and shouting for Creek to rescue him. With the Snack Pack still far off, Creek realizes he has to save Branch by himself, but he fears more for his safety rather than Branch, even so far as admit that his earlier statement about sacrificing himself was premature, but his controversial statement is overheard by the Snack Pack. Seeing that he has achieved his goal, Branch easily jumps back to the ground gloating how he staged the whole thing just so he can expose Creek as untrustworthy. Creek finally admits that he's a coward and apologetically leaves the Snack Pack, upset about his failure.
Branch joyfully dances for having Creek exposed, but Poppy and the Snack Pack are not delighted since they already knew Creek had weaknesses and they were trying to accept him back, only for Branch to ruin it. Branch tries to apologize, but Poppy and the Snack Pack demands that he apologizes to Creek instead, so that he can be forgiven. Branch reluctantly does so, and finds him a while later raking on the ground. He tries to seek Creek's forgiveness, but he can't see how Branch still has anger towards him. So he tells him of another way, apologizing in front of the whole village by singing a special song he made. Branch refuses, declaring he'd rather have the whole village mad at him forever instead of doing his way.
Branch reverts back to his cynicism and isolates himself at the bunker once again. But once down there, he can't escape the memories of friendship he made when he accepted the Trolls back in his life again. He finally relents after being reminded by Poppy's earlier statement that he let go of anger and forgive or he'll wind up alone.
After gathering Creek and the Snack Pack altogether, Branch proceeds to do Creek's request in order he'll be forgiven by greatly performing the song "Forgive Me". Despite not being in A-sharp like he requested, Creek finally decides to forgive Branch and the group celebrates. Poppy approaches Branch, appreciating the action he made to finally forgive; she even wants to hear Branch's song again, calling DJ Suki to play it in remix, where they all dance through it.
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;Trolls
*Amanda Leighton as Queen Poppy
*Skylar Astin as Branch
*Sean T. Krishnan as Guy Diamond
*Ron Funches as Cooper
*Matt Lowe as Creek
*Biggie (non-speaking)
*DJ Suki (non-speaking)
*Satin & Chenille (non-speaking)
*Smidge (non-speaking)
*Fuzzbert (pictured)
;Other
*Mr. Dinkles (non-speaking)
*Gary
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*"Forgive Me (Branch's Apology Song)"
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This episode is available on the "Trolls: The Beat Goes On! - Complete Seasons 1-4" DVD.
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*This episode re-introduces Creek, and references his betrayal in Trolls. Despite his return in the 2D series, Creek is officially gone from 3D media, and doesn't return in further movie installments after Trolls.
*This is the first episode to have Creek's name in the title.
*Smidge does not reappear after the Snack Pack isolates Branch. Supposedly, she is replaced by DJ Suki, who did not appear on the hike but appears at the end during Branch's apology to Creek.
*This episode shows why Branch simply can't go back to the way things were before Trolls, and provides a insight in the problems Branch now has going forward for the rest of the series.
*The moral of the story is about forgiveness towards someone who hurt or caused harm to others as Creek did in Trolls. The idea of forgiving someone who has wronged you is the idea that a person will always have built up angry and hatred that will cloud over the rest of their life, even extending to mistrust and the inability to let something go. Branch refuses to forgive Creek as his suspicious of him, and proving him as a traitor still consumed him, which is what Poppy was trying to teach him.
**One of the issues Branch brings up is how quick the Trolls were to forgive and forget what Creek did, thus never went through any kind of punishment for his actions. In "Funishment", it is revealed that they don't like to give out punishment, especially Poppy, while in later episode "Haircuffed", it is shown that the Trolls don't challenge Creek's behaviors at all, in addition by this point Poppy had learnt that she had to give out punishments from time to time.
**In Trolls: TrollsTopia, the other Tribes are not so reluctant with punishments with "The Funk Wash" revealing that Funk Trolls do on the other hand give out punishments.
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