Don't Worry Be Peppy/Transcript

The following is a transcript for the episode "Don't Worry Be Peppy".
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(Poppy is humming a tune while going to her father’s pod. She sees a delivery bug spitting out a crate of hair.)
Poppy: Hair delivery? That’s weird. (She continues humming and goes inside her father’s pod. Hey, Dad? Dad? (Peppy does not answer.) Dad, why is there hair all over the place? (She sees her father’s hair in a pile and gasps as he turns around.)
Peppy: Morning, sweetie. Just doing a few hair-hobbies. (He starts using a machine to make some purple hair bigger.)
Poppy: A few?
Peppy: Yeah, you know, hair-pottery, hair-quilting, hair-igami. (A ball dings.) Ooh! And a new one I invented. (He takes a cake made of hair out of his oven.) Hair baking. (He blows out the candle.)
Poppy: Ew.
Peppy: Yeah, I don’t know what I was thinking. (He throws the hair cake away.) Anyway, now that I’m no longer king, crafting gives me something to do, and it keeps my mind as sharp as a… Uh… Um…
Poppy: A tack.
Peppy: No, no. They’re furry and they eat nuts.
Poppy: A squirrel?
Peppy: That’s me! Sharp as a squirrel!
Poppy: Uh-huh. (Fuzzbert is heard yelling and he comes inside. He does various moves to tell Peppy something.)
Peppy: What’s that, Fuzzbert? (Fuzzbert forms an explosion and a hug.) A bunch of kids got tangled up in a group hug? (Fuzzbert mimics the sound of a horn.) Well, it’s a good thing you got me.
Poppy: Um… (Peppy runs to get his staff, cape, and crown.)
Peppy: No Troll left behind!
Poppy: Uh… (Peppy lets out a war cry and tries to run, but stops.)
Peppy: Oh, right. (chuckles) He was talking to you.
Poppy: Yeah. But you can still come.
Peppy: (Feeling sad) No, no. I’m fine, honey. The village is your responsibility now. (He goes to a table and removes his crown.) Oh, good to see you again, old friend. (He blows a kiss on the crown. Poppy groans because she feels bad for her father. Outside, a lot of Troll children are tangled up in a group hug.)
Keith: Worst hairball-hug ever. (Poppy, Branch, and Smidge help the children get free.)
Poppy; Branch, you should have seen the look on his face when Fuzzbert asked me for help. (She helps another child get free.)
Troll Child #1: Yay!
Poppy: I could just tell he really misses being kind.
Branch: Uh… I don’t know, Poppy. It sounds to me like he’s just getting used to life after royalty. He’ll be fine.
Poppy: You’re right, Branch. He will be fine. Because we’re gonna hatch an overly-elaborate plant to cheer him up!
Cooper: Whoo!
Smidge: Yay!
Branch: (sighs) I don’t even know why I try.
Poppy: Spread the word! For the next week, I want everyone to bring their problems to my dad. Big problems, small problems-
Cooper: Math problems!
Smidge: But, Poppy, what if we don’t have any problems for Peppy to solve?
Poppy: Find some. Anything. We’ve to make him feel helpful again. (Back at his pod, Peppy is making a ship out of hair in a bottle.)
Peppy: Easy. (He pulls up the flag.) Easy. (He gasps happily at first, but the ship soon collapses.) Drat!
Poppy: Sorry, Dad. I’m sure that hair boat in a tiny bottle was… important to you?
Peppy: Oh, that’s OK, honey. Nothing 36 hours of meticulous work can’t fix.
Poppy: Hm. (Smidge appears.)
Smidge: Help! Help!
Poppy: (gasps) Smidge? What are you doing here?
Smidge: The big hair-a-thon is in two days and I have no-one to train me. (She kneels down.) I need help!
Poppy: Don’t worry. I’m on it.
Smidge: Actually, I was asking King Peppy.
Peppy: (chuckles and scoffs) Me? Why me? Why now?
Smidge: You’re the only person I trust to do the job.
Peppy: Well, I don’t want to toot my own horn… (He toots a horn.) … but I am something of a hair-a-thon expert. I’ll do it!
DJ Suki: King Peppy! King Peppy! (She appears at the entrance.) Uh… Thank goodness you’re home! My Wooferbug is acting up again.
Peppy: Another request? For me? (Satin and Chenille appear next.)
Satin and Chenille: King Peppy! We need a model for our new fashion show! (Branch appears next.)
Branch: King Peppy, please! (He shows a jar.) I can’t open this jar!
Poppy: A jar?!
Branch: It’s the best I could think of.
Peppy: Now, now, everyone, stay calm. There’s enough of King Peppy to go around. (He goes into a clothes wall and puts on his crown, cape, and staff.) No Troll left behind! (As he helps some Trolls like feeding a hungry Mr. Dinkles milk from a bottle, fixing DJ Suki’s Wooferbug, and being part of Satin and Chenille’s fashion show, he sings Back In The Game.)
(Peppy)
I’m back in the game
(Back-up Singers)
(singing into the microphone) He’s back in the game
(Peppy)
Hey, yeah, and I’m feeling the burn
(Back-up Singers)
He’s feeling the burn
(Peppy)
Hey, yeah, I said I’m back in the game
(Back-up Singers)
He’s back in the game
(Peppy)
Whoo!
(Back-up Singers)
Back in it, baby, back in it
(Peppy)
I had my day in the sun
And now it’s your turn
So let me show you how to whip it
(Back-up Singers)
Whip that hair around
(Peppy) 
Ooh! Lift it just like that, ha!
(Back-up Singers)
Lift it up and down
(Peppy)
You got this
Let me show you how to flip it
(Back-up Singers)
Flip that hair about
Oh, yeah
(Peppy)
Let me show you how I used to do
When I was back in the game Whoo!
(Back-Up Singers)
He’s back in the game
(Peppy)
Hey, yeah, and I’m feeling the burn
(Back-up Singers)
He’s feeling the burn
(Peppy)
I said I’m back in the game
(Back-up Singers)
He’s back in the game
(Peppy)
Whoo!
(Back-up Singers)
Back in it, baby, back in it
(Peppy)
I had my day in the sun
And now it’s your turn
So get back in the game (After a while, Peppy is in his pod doing his workout.)
Peppy: One and two and shake your tush and feel that burn and… Woo-hoo-hoo!
Poppy: Hey, Dad. Huh. Where did your crafts go?
Peppy: Oh, no time for that. Too busy helping everyone. Besides, I needed to make room for my hair-obic exercises. (He lies down to do sit-ups.) I’ve got to stay in shape if I’m gonna be everyone’s favorite go-to Troll.
Poppy: Great! I’ve got to say, you really do seem happy.
Cooper: Help! Help! We’re in danger! (He runs into Peppy’s pod.)
Peppy: What is it, Cooper?
Cooper: I saw a m-m-m-
Poppy: A mouse?
Cooper: M-m-m-
Poppy: A mushroom?
Cooper: M-m-m-
Poppy: A mouse eating a mushroom? Aw!
Cooper: No, a m-m-monster! From the swamp! (Poppy and her father gasp.) It was dripping in mud, it had beady eyes, and it made this noise. (He does guttural yelling.) What should we do, King Peppy?!
Peppy: Leave it to me, Cooper. No Troll left behind! (He lets out a war cry and runs off.)
Poppy: Dad, wait! (groans) Come on. We can’t let him face that swamp monster alone!
Cooper: Swamp monster? Oh, I made it up, like you said.
Poppy: What? I didn’t say “make it up.” I said “find a problem.”
Cooper: I did find it… (whispers) … in my imagination. (He laughs while Poppy groans.)
Poppy: Cooper, if my dad finds out it’s not real, he might catch on that we didn’t need his help as much as he thinks that we did. He’ll be crushed.
Cooper: Well, then I guess that leaves us with just one option.
Poppy: Get more help!
Cooper: Work on my novel! Right. “Get more help.” Chapter 72 can wait! (He runs off. Outside, Peppy is telling some Trolls about the swamp monster.)
Peppy: Attention, Trolls. There’s word of a swamp monster on the loose. (The crowd gasps. Poppy, Cooper, and Guy Diamond watch in a bush.)
Poppy: OK, Guy, we need to get my dad to stop searching. So quick. Go use your acting chops to convince him you chased off the monster.
Guy Diamond: Mm-hm. I like this But first, what’s my character?
Poppy: You’re you.
Guy Diamond: Ah, the part I was born to play. And my backstory?
Poppy: It’s your backstory.
Guy Diamond: Ooh! I buy that. And my motivation?
Poppy: Guy!
Guy Diamond: Fine! I suppose I’ll just go make miracles happen. (He gets out of the bush and jumps onto a mushroom.) Be ye not afraid! (The crowd gasps.) I, Guy Diamond, confronted the monster, mano a glitter-o… Hi-yah! … and sent him packing.
Peppy: You mean… the monster is gone?
Guy Diamond: That’s right!
All: Ooh!
Poppy: (chuckles) Nice work, Guy. Now just make a smooth exit and…
Guy Diamond: He took one look at my ferociousness and said…
Poppy: No, no, no! Guy, don’t overdo it!
Guy Diamond: (shrieks) “You’re too intimidating for me, Guy Diamond! I will go deep into the forest and never show my face to another soul again!”
Peppy: “Never”? That sounds so… lonely.
All: Aw! (Poppy lets out a sad gasp.)
Smidge: That poor swamp monster.
Peppy: Trolls, we can’t let him live in isolation. We must hunt day and night if we have to until we’ve offered him our friendship.
Smidge: Yeah! Let’s show this beast some compassion! Form a friendly mob! (The Trolls’ hair glow.)
Peppy: Follow me!
All: Love the beast! Love the beast!
Poppy: Guy!
Guy Diamond: I know! I was so good. (Later, Branch meets Poppy in the swamp.)
Branch: You see, Poppy, this is the problem with elaborate schemes. Eventually they get out hand, and then you end up going too far and- (He cries out as Poppy puts a swamp monster costume on him.) Hey! (Poppy throws mud at the costume.)
Poppy: Quiet, swamp monster.
Branch: I’m the swamp monster?! Why me?!
Poppy: (Throwing more mud at the costume) Because you’re already half-covered in mud. (Branch grunts.) OK, my dad is worried the monster is lonely, so when he gets close, shout… (She talks like a monster.) “I prefer to live alone!” and then run off.
Branch: Dumbest plan I’ve ever heard.
Poppy: Whatever. Just don’t get caught. He can’t find out it’s not real.
Branch: Poppy, he’s one guy and he’s three times my age. He can’t catch me.
Poppy: Oh, right. About that… Did I mention-
All: Love the beast! Love the beast! (Poppy sees the Trolls coming.)
Poppy: … there’s a whole mob of them?
Branch: What?!
All: Love the beast! Love the beast!
Poppy: And they’re kind of closing in fast. Go! I’ll try to stall them. (She runs to her father.)
Peppy: Poppy, what’s going on?
Poppy: Dad! I um… I had a run-in with the monster. I’m pretty sure it wants to be left alone. OK, let’s go home, everybody.
Peppy: No. I need to give this monster a good look.
Poppy: From… way back here?
Peppy: No. I need to get closer…
Poppy: No, wait! Um…
Peppy: … and hug some sense into it. (Branch growls.) It’s OK, my muddy friend. Just because you’re a monster doesn’t mean you’re a monster. It’s not your fault. It’s not your fault. It’s not your fault. (Branch roars and he backs up.) Perhaps you’re not ready for that. And that’s OK. You come to us whenever you are.
Poppy: Wow. That actually worked! (She chuckles and the Trolls’ watches ring. Branch’s watch rings and Peppy sees his shadow through the costume.) Or not.
Smidge: That’s not swamp monster! There’s a Troll under there! (The Trolls gasp and Peppy removes the costume.)
Peppy: Branch?!
Branch: Um… Uh… Grr?
Peppy: Is this your idea of a joke?
Poppy: No, Dad. I put him up to it. I though you missed helping Trolls, so I asked my friends to bring you their problems. Cooper just took it a little too far with the whole swamp monster thing.
Cooper: Good old Cooper, always causing trouble. (laughs) Oh, I like that guy.
Peppy: So, no-one actually needs my help? (sighs) Well… I just have one thing to say about that. (Poppy groans nervously.) Thank goodness! (sighs) All this helping is exhausting.
Poppy: Wait. So, you don’t miss being kind?
Peppy: Well, sure I do, sometimes, but that doesn’t mean I’m not enjoying this new stage of life. I love hair-crafting! I just never had time for hobbies until now.
Poppy: Really? You’re not just saying that?
Peppy: Really.
Poppy: Well, I hope you can still spare some time because I can think of one Troll who needs your help. Me. I’ve clearly got a lot to learn. (She and her father hug.)
All: Ooh!
Cooper: Aw! (The Trolls start to leave the swamp.)
Peppy: And I have to admit, I’ll sleep better not knowing there’s not a lonely swamp monster out there. (As he chuckles, a swap monster rises out of the mud.)
Swamp Monster: (sighs) I could use a hug.
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