The Helper

"The Helper" is the second segment of the 4th episode of the fourth season of Trolls: The Beat Goes On!, and the 45th overall episode in the series. It premiered on November 2, 2018.
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Smidge is eager to prove how helpful she can be.
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Poppy is awaken with a start when Smidge reports for duty as her official helper. Poppy tells Smidge she doesn't have to be there when she wakes up. Smidge explains that she doesn't have to; she gets to be there when she wakes up. Poppy has a busy dance ahead of her, ending with her visiting Bergen Town for a week-long Peace and Keyboarding Festival, which she is convinced that is just King Gristle Jr. playing the keyboard all the time.
While laying down a red carpet, Smidge begins to yell at the Trolls and Poppy reminds her she doesn't have to yell. So instead she just starts tossing Trolls out of the way. Poppy scrapbooks the problem Smidge is presenting by going overboard with her aggressive helping. While she is explaining this, Smidge has lifted Poppy above her head and is now carrying her. Smidge rushes Poppy to her hair-gliding session with Biggie but not more than a few paces Poppy stops and explains this is a one-on-one session and that Smidge should take the morning off.
While hair-gliding, Poppy tells Biggie how great it is Smidge listened. Moments later, Smidge appears out of her hair to tell her to look out for a tree. The trio fall with Biggie landing on Poppy. Smidge gently parachutes down and says how great it is that she was there to help her dodge a tree - which turned out to be a sapling. This makes Poppy lose her temper with Smidge.
To Smidge's horror, Poppy tells her that she needs a break from her. When Smidge panics and asks repeatedly how long it is, Poppy says she will tell her. Smidge walks away slowly, with Biggie noting how upset she is.
Biggie approaches Smidge, who cries over being let off. This causes Biggie to also cry. Biggie says he understands, as sometimes Mr. Dinkles asks for space. This causes Biggie to play with Mr. Blinkles instead, a rival of Mr. Dinkles and another worm, which causes his pet to come back out of jealousy. Biggie thinks the same will work for Smidge and Poppy if Smidge helps another Troll.
She begins to help other Trolls, but every time Poppy comes near happens because Smidge is trying too hard. Satin and Chenille are nearly hit by fireworks Smidge accidentally set off. After saving the twins, she goes to help them with a photoshoot. Biggie says that Smidge needs to keep helping until Poppy comes back, but Poppy arrives sooner than expected.
Poppy is about to speak up on the help Smidge gives her when the twins call for Smidge, who's still helping them. Poppy can see Smidge is busy, so she says that they will talk when she gets back next week. Smidge thinks a week is a long tim, and asks the twins if it will be that long. They need the models in place and for her to find them models.
Smidge rushes and finds 3 random Trolls, interrupting what they are doing to bring them to the photoshoot. The models now don't fit the backdrop and they ask her to pick flowers, which she does. Now they need lattes; this takes time, and by the time she gets back Poppy has left. Poppy left a letter explaining how happy she was for Smidge that she found the twins to help. Biggie does a perfect impression of Poppy, which freaks out Chenille while Satin asks for another latte, making Chenille want one too.
Smidge tells the pair to give her space, then realizes this is why Poppy told her to take a break, as she wasn't giving Poppy space herself.
Poppy is leaving on Air Force Fun without Smidge. The Fuzzling pilot asks if her "helper" is coming at all, to which Poppy says "no". Smidge calls her from the window of Air Force Fun to get her attention and an apology. Poppy tells Smidge that she is happy to have her as her helper again. Poppy says she will see her next week, to which Smidge breaks onto Air Force Fun and goes with her to Bergen Town.
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;Trolls
*Kevin Michael Richardson as Smidge
*Amanda Leighton as Queen Poppy
*David Fynn as Biggie
*Fryda Wolff as Satin & Chenille and Gia Grooves
*Kari Wahlgren as Bella Brightly & Smarge
*Sean T. Krishnan as Guy Diamond (non-speaking)
*Cooper (non-speaking)
*Fuzzbert (non-speaking)
;Bergens
*King Gristle Jr. (non-speaking)
*Chad (non-speaking)
*Todd (non-speaking)
;Other
*David Fynn as Mr. Dinkles
*Mr. Blinkles
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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 overall episode is a nod back to "Royal Review", where Poppy noted that Smidge being everywhere was creepy, telling her to cut it out.
*The episode's subtitles on Netflix names the Fuzzling pilot as Fuzzbert, even though it's only a generic random Fuzzling.
*Gristle's keyboard was already seen before in Trolls Holiday.
*Guy Diamond is seen leaping into Biggie's arms in one scene, and the next he's in front of Smidge to get tossed away.
*Biggie is noted in website sources to be a bit of a crybaby, crying tears of joy the most of any Troll and being a big softy. Yet this episode is the only time where he was really shown to cry so far, and at best he had only shown a small tear, or simply cried to get past a game as seen in "Bunker Break-In".
*The only members of The Snack Pack membership missing in this episode are Branch and DJ Suki. This is one of the few episodes in which most of the group appears individually.
*The title cards of this episode and "Three Trolls-Keteers" have the Season 3 background, despite the fact that Season 4 already had its own background.
*The episode marks the introduction of the Air Force Fun. The name is a reference to Air Force One.
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