The Cloudback Whale/Transcript

The following is a transcript for the episode "The Cloudback Whale".
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(Branch and Holly are going for a walk.)
Branch: So, is it “yee-haw”, or “hee-haw? (Poppy runs by while carrying fireworks.)
Branch and Holly: Huh?
Poppy: (gasps) Branch, Holly, come launch fireworks with me!
Holly: What’s the occasion?
Poppy: I don’t know. It’s Tuesday and we’re Trolls? (Holly and Branch look at each other.)
Holly: Heh.
Branch: Whoooooo!
Holly: Yeeeee-haaaaw! (She, Branch, and Poppy put the firework launchers on the edge of a cliff. As they fire them in the sky, they cheer.)
Branch and Holly: Whoa!
Poppy: Whooooooo! (She places a big firework launcher in the ground and launches it.)
Branch and Holly: Woo-hoo! (One of the clouds bellows.)
Poppy: Um… did that cloud just… bellow? (The cloud changes to a whale, turns gray, and flies away.)
Branch: That’s odd.
Poppy: It’s almost like it was…
Cloud Guy: (offscreen) Oh, it’s definitely alive.
Poppy: Who said that?
Cloud Guy: (Rising from the ground) It was… me. (As he rises, Branch ends up on him. He is then thrown face-first to the ground.)
Branch: Ow-how! Cloud Guy! Oh, I should have known! Is this all some big cloud thing you design to pester me?
Cloud Guy: OK, first, it’s not always about you, Branch. And second, if I was here to pester you with clouds, I’d do something like this. (He snaps his fingers and a little dark cloud appears. It strikes lightning on Branch’s bottom.)
Branch: Aah! Hey!
Cloud Guy: No. I’m here to say that you Trolls just encountered the majestic Cloudback Whale, one of the most gentle and wonderous creatures of all the world. And then Poppy blasted it with fireworks.
Poppy: (gasps) Oh, no! No, no, no! I didn’t know it was alive! Did I hurt it?!
Cloud Guy: (chuckles) Oh, Poppy, please. The Cloudback Whale is quite resilient. It’s impossible to hurt it… physically.
Poppy: (moans) Well, what do I do to make it right? I got to apologize.
Holly: Poppy didn’t mean anythin’ by it.
Branch: Yeah. There’s gotta be a way.
Cloud Guy: Guys, come on. It’s a gigantic sky whale. What are you gonna do, say sorry? Give it a lollipop and expect everything to be OK?
Poppy, Branch, and Holly: Well… (Cloud Guy appears above them.)
Cloud Guy: ‘Cause that’s exactly what you should do.
Poppy, Branch, and Holly: Huh? (Cloud Guy takes out a lollipop.)
Cloud Guy: Cloudback Whales love lollipops. So there’s no better way to say “I’m sorry” than with a lollipop-ology. (giggles) Lollipop-ology! That’s fun to say. Lollipop-ology. Lollipop-ology.
Cloud Guy, Poppy, and Holly: Lollipop-ology. Lollipop-ology. (Branch remains silent with his arms folded.)
Cloud Guy: Branch, say it. (The little dark cloud strikes lightning at Branch’s bottom.)
Branch: LOLLIPOP-OLOGY!
Poppy: Cloud Guy, are you sure this is the best way to make amends?
Cloud Guy: Oh, yeah. You get this sucker in its mouth and all will be forgiven. (He puts the lollipop away.) In fact, if the Cloudback is truly moved by the gesture it’ll spout a rainbow of joy and good will, right out of its blowhole. (His head spouts a rainbow. Poppy gasps in amazement. Cloud Guy soon stops and laughs.) Rain-blow hole. (The little dark cloud reappears.) Say it, Branch. (The cloud strikes lightning on Branch.)
Branch: GAH! RAIN-BLOW HOLE! (The cloud strikes lightning on him once more.)
Poppy: OK, it’s settled I lollipop-ologize so the Cloudback rain-blow holes. I just got to figure out a way to up there.
Cloud Guy: Oh, you can leave that to… (He creates a huge pirate ship made of clouds.) … Captain Cloud Guy! (He is wearing a pirate hat, an eyepatch, a hook, and a peg.) Argh!
Poppy and Holly: Ooh!
Branch: Don’t “ooh”. We can’t even stand on that thing. It’s made of clouds!
Cloud Guy: Oh, I can make it as solid as I want when I want. (He jumps onto the pirate ship.)
Poppy and Holly: Ooh! (They jump onto the pirate ship.)
Branch: Oh. (He tries to jump onto the pirate ship, but falls through it instead.) WHOOOOOOOAAAAA!!!
Cloud Guy: But only when I want. (Soon, the pirate ship is flying through the sky. Poppy is on the top of one of the sails searching for the Cloudback Whale.)
Poppy: Oh, come out, little Cloudback. I just know if you give me a chance to apologize, you’ll want to rain-blow. (She jumps to the bottom.) I don’t see him anywhere! (Cloud Guy takes out a telescope and looks around.)
Cloud Guy: Hm. Thar she blows!
Poppy: (gasps) The whale?!
Cloud Guy: Nah. Holly’s blowing bubbles. (We see that Holly is blowing bubbles.)
Holly: Don’t worry, y’all. I brought plenty for everyone.
Cloud Guy: Oh, and also, there’s the whale. (Poppy and Holly gasp and see the Cloudback whale flying ahead.)
Poppy: Yes! Can we catch him?
Cloud Guy: Only if ye land-loving crew does your duty. Holly, Poppy has boat swains. You tend to the sails.
Poppy and Holly: Aye aye, captain!
Cloud Guy: And, Branch.
Branch: (With his arms folded) What?
Cloud Guy: As cabin boy, you swab the poop deck. (He gives Branch a mop.)
Branch: Swab the poop deck?! No way! (The little dark cloud reappears. He reluctantly accepts to clean the deck.) Aye, aye, captain.
Cloud Guy: Good. And as for me, I’ll be tending to me velvety pipes. The captain feels a shanty coming on! Argh! (He plays an accordion and sings Skyrate Shanty. Poppy and Holly help the pirate ship move faster.)
(Cloud Guy)
Up, up, up, and away we go
Off to find the Cloudback Whale
Hand o’er fist we haul our ropes
Hoist the jib and off we sail
Searching high and searching low
Never stop cuz we got grit
Singing loud as we heave ho
Through the clouds I’ll fly my ship
(All)
Ho, yo ho
(Cloud Guy)
As we sing this skyrate song
Raise your voice and sing along
(All)
Ho, yo ho (Branch ends up getting his foot caught in a rope and hangs.)
Branch: Cloud Guy!
(Cloud Guy)
Of to find the Cloud Back whale, yo ho
(All)
Yo ho, yo ho, yo ho (Branch screams as he swings around the ship and hangs below it.)
Branch: CLOUD GUUUUUUUUUUUY!!! (Soon, the ship is approaching a storm and the Cloudback Whale is flying into it.)
Cloud Guy: It’s making its way toward yonder storm! Ye Trolls won’t survive a squall that magnitude! So it’s now or never, Poppy! (Poppy gets ready to throw a lollipop to the Cloudback Whale, but it goes higher.)
Poppy: Higher! (Cloud Guy makes the pirate ship go higher. Branch and Holly pulls one of the sails down. The whale bumps into the pirate ship, knocking Poppy, Branch, and Holly down. Poppy looks around and sees that the whale is gone.) Where’d it go?
Cloud Guy: Ooh, you must’ve really offended this Cloudback, Poppy. It looks like it’s giving you the cold shoulder.
Poppy: (gasps) It’s ignoring me?!
Cloud Guy: Ignoring you? Is that what its expression means? Huh. I always thought it meant to dive bomb with one shoulder.
Poppy: Huh? (She sees the Cloudback Whale flying higher. Then it charges at the pirate ship. Frightened, Cloud Guy disappears.) Hmph. I’m so sorry. (She throws the lollipop at the whale and it smiles.) Yes! (She, Branch, Holly, and Cloud Guy watch as the whale turns white.)
Cloud Guy: Argh! He forgives thee!
Branch: Yeeeeeaaaah!
Holly: Woooooo-hoooooo! (Poppy watches as the whale flies away.)
Poppy: No. It… it didn’t rain-blow hole.
Branch: Poppy, what’s wrong? It turned from gray to white.
Holly: Yeah. Seems pretty obvious that means it forgives you, right, Cloud Guy?
Cloud Guy: Mm-hm.
Poppy: But you said if it was really moved by my sincerity, it would spout a rainbow. So?
Cloud Guy: So… I guess it wasn’t really moved by your sincerity. I guess it just forgave you.
Poppy: But I wanted to know how sorry I am. I wanted to feel joy and good will and for it to be like… the whole thing never happened.
Holly: But, Poppy girl, we get it. But that’s outta your hand, sugar.
Branch: Yeah. What’s up to you is that you make the apology. How someone receives it, that’s up to them.
Poppy: (sighs) Yeah.
Cloud Guy: Then step lively, me hearty! The storm approaches! To your positions, you sky dogs! (He takes out the accordion again.) Your captain just thought of a 2nd first!
(Cloud Guy)
Ho- (He hears a splash and he, Branch, and Holly look below the pirate ship.)
Branch: Poppy! (Poppy is seen in a rowboat made of clouds and rows off.) Where are you going?!
Poppy: To apologize again! And this time, it’ll be so sincere, that Cloudback will double rain-blow hole!
Holly: Oh, dang!
Branch: Oh, no! (Lightning strikes and it begins to rain. Poppy is struggling to row because there are waves in the clouds.)
Poppy: Wait! Just a friend! Let’s talk this out!
Branch, Holly, and Cloud Guy: Poppy! (Poppy sees the pirate ship approaching her.)
Branch: You got to turn back! Those waves are too strong!
Poppy: I DON’T CARE! (A huge wave crashes on her.)
Holly: And your boat’s springin’ leaks! (Poppy sees a leak in her boat.)
Poppy: (Putting clouds in the leak) I DON’T CARE!
Cloud Guy: And you’re surrounded by cloud sharks!
Poppy: I DON’T- Wait, what? (She sees cloud shark fins.) Oh! Actually, that I care about! (As she cowers, a cloud shark pops out. She screams as its teeth shows lightning and bites on the boat. She jumps off and through the clouds.) WAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!! (Holly screams in horror.)
Branch: Quick! Cloud Guy, you could solidify a cloud to catch her!
Cloud Guy: No! I can only do that with clouds I generate myself!
Branch: Fine. Then I’ll just go save her on my own! (He jumps off the ship.) I’M COMING, POPPY! (He lands on a cloud and groans in pain while Cloud Guy laughs.)
Cloud Guy: Just kidding. (Poppy lands on a soft gray cloud.)
Poppy: What? (Holly and Cloud Guy cheer for her.) Ha-ha-ha! Whooooo! (Branch is still on the cloud he landed on and groaning in pain. Soon, the ship leaves the storm and the Cloudback whale leaves. Poppy sighs sadly.) Sorry, guys. I genuinely thought a 2nd apology was best, but now, honestly, I have no idea what I was supposed to learn from this adventure.
Holly: Well, I know it’s not what you wanted here, Poppy, but it’s like we said: When it comes to sayin’ you’re sorry, what’s up to you is makin’ the apology. How someone receives it… hm… that’s up to them.
Poppy: No, no, no, no. That can’t be right. You know, it’s probably not even about a lesson. It’s about the friends we make along the way.
Holly: Hm… I don’t think so, Poppy.
Branch: We were friends already.
Poppy: Huh. Yeah. Then it’s about the power of teamwork in the face of diversity.
Holly: You’re reachin’.
Branch: Yeah, that’s tendential at best.
Cloud Guy: Yeah, no. It’s definitely that thing they said about apologies.
Poppy: Well, that’s a hard one for me to accept, but… I’ll get there. (She, Branch, Holly, and Cloud Guy hug.)
All: Aw!
Cloud Guy: Join the hug, Branch.
Branch: I am joining- (The little dark cloud strikes lightning on him again.)
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