The Imposter

"The Imposter" is the first segment of the 1st episode of the third season of Trolls: The Beat Goes On!, and the 27th overall episode in the series. It premiered in August 24, 2018.
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Someone poses as one of the Trolls, and Poppy and Branch must figure out who that imposter is.
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The episode continues from the end of Pillow War and takes place on the same day as the Pillow War between Poppy and Branch ending. Poppy does a scrapbook recap of Pillow War and the episode starts.
The Trolls stand around a box containing a journal of their habits and routines, as well as costumes of various Trolls. When Branch suggests that there is an imposter among the Trolls, Poppy laughs. She notes his habit of coming up with conspiracy theories all the time, and puts this down as another. Branch defends his theory, and Poppy begins to sing how life is great and the Trolls shouldn't listen to Branch.
As soon as the song ends, the Trolls go back to their day-to-day lives. Poppy then turns to Branch, and says that there really is an imposter and they need to find them. Branch comments that she just sang a whole song discrediting him, to which Poppy replies she had to sell the idea everything is fine; she was worried about the Trolls overreacting.
They begin their search at the Big Picnic, the "can't miss" event of the week. As the pair talk, a pair of hands tries to grab the journal. They begin secretly pulling the hairs of other Trolls to find the imposter, starting with each other's.
This continues until Branch pulls Fuzzbert's hair. Seemingly annoyed by this, Fuzzbert pulls Branch into his hair, where Branch sits in a pocket dimension. Three other Fuzzlings appear and ask him "Did you find the imposter?", annoyed he pulled Fuzzbert's hair and being fully aware that there's an imposter, but reassuring him it's not among them. Branch appears outside of the hair of another Fuzzling, and Fuzzbert and it walk off.
Branch picks himself up and notes no imposter is worth all this hassle. He's approached by Archer Pastry, who claims that he saw someone acting suspicious and Branch should come see. The pair walk off-screen and Branch yells.
Poppy sees Branch and asks how his search is going. Branch states he believes he's wrong and Poppy is surprised. The quotes the lyrics of her earlier song and walks off. Poppy is relieved and watches how great the day's going, until she sees Branch tied up. Branch calls the imposter loudly, and states it was Archer Pastry, which causes all Trolls to react and freak out which the imposter, still disguised as him gets annoyed.
Chaos begins as the Trolls freak out until Poppy hits her cowbell and grabs the attention of all the Trolls. She manages to calm them down and gets everyone to tug each other's hair. Creek notes Aspen Heitz is the imposter, and it turns out there is two of them. Attention is turned to the second, who won't let Creek tug his hair. After Poppy tugs his hair, Branch is revealed; Branch has to remind her that's not him. She tugs again, going through several disguises until she finds the real imposter.
Branch asks Poppy what she wants to do with him. Poppy states she wants answers. Archer is taken to the Fun Dungeon, where Poppy demands him to tell her everything.
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;Trolls
*Amanda Leighton as Queen Poppy
*Skylar Astin as Branch
*David Kaye as King Peppy
*Declan Churchill Carter as Keith
*Ron Funches as Cooper
*Sean T. Krishnan as Guy Diamond
*Kevin Michael Richardson as Smidge
*Arnie Pantoja as Archer Pastry
*Matt Lowe as Aspen Heitz and Creek
*Gary Cole as Sky Toronto
*Kari Wahlgren as Harper
*David Fynn as Biggie
*Walt Dohrn as Fuzzbert
*DJ Suki (non-speaking)
*Satin & Chenille (non-speaking)
;Bergens
*King Gristle Jr. (as a costume, non-speaking)
;Other
*David Fynn as Mr. Dinkles
*Cloud Guy (as a costume, non-speaking)
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*"Life Is Great"
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This episode is available on the "Trolls: The Beat Goes On! - Complete Seasons 1-4" DVD.
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*The contents of the chest changed between seasons, with the chest itself and the journal being the only things that remained the same.
*Archer went to see a dentist for a reason.
*Despite Biggie appearing in the flashback to "Pillow War", he did not appear in the actual episode.
*Branch refers to the rare occurrence of babies switched at birth, which occurs when babies are mixed up at hospitals. In the case of Satin and Chenille, being conjoined twins, they laugh at the idea of them being mixed up with each other.
*Branch's line "The man in the moon is really a little boy fishing." is a reference to the DreamWorks logo, which depicts a boy sitting on a crescent moon fishing; a silhouette of the logo is immediately shown after Branch says the line. It also refers to the "Man in the Moon" allusion.
**The DreamWorks logo would be later referenced again in Trolls: The Beat Goes On! with the episode "Haircuffed", again involving Branch.
*It was mentioned that the concept behind the Party Crashers came about the time of the production of Trolls World Tour, and the staff had to make a lot of changes to their planned story arc for the group as it risked interfering with the movie's plot. One of the dropped concepts was that when Branch went inside of Fuzzbert, he was meant to be teleported in front of a group of Fuzzlings wearing obivously fake masks. They drop him into a concert of a group called "The Imposters", which was a concert with Trolls that looked like himself but had the same disturbing faces as the masks worn by the Fuzzlings and a crowd of Fuzzlings made up the group's audience. The issue with the concert is that it was a Rock concert, and at the time the Trolls World Tour staff had already planned the introduction of Rock Trolls.https://www.patpakula.com/trolls-the-beat-goes-on
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The Imposter TROLLS THE BEAT GOES ON!
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Category:Trolls: The Beat Goes On! episodes
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