"Wormhole" is the first segment of the 1st episode of the fifth season of Trolls: The Beat Goes On!, and the 52nd overall episode in the series. It premiered on January 18, 2019.
Synopsis[]
The Snack Pack travel through a vortex where different wormholes lead to different parallel dimensions.
Plot[]
The episode is a continuation of Branch Bum and picks up with the group of Trolls consisting of Poppy, Branch, Cooper, DJ Suki and Smidge going back through the wormhole. They land in the wormhole and end up going straight through another.
Poppy is celebrating, but walks straight into a tiny Pod. She soon finds out that this is the pod of King Gristle Jr. and Bridget who are tiny. Branch realizes they are in a dimension where the Trolls and Bergens have swapped places. They go back through the portal, fall through another one and Smidge gives the alert for a volcano. Poppy saves the group with her hair and they are sent back out.
They end up in the main hub of a lot of wormholes. Poppy asks Branch to explain things in a way that doesn't bore them. He eventually does so, and explains each portal is like a slide that leads to a different dimension with reality slightly different to their own.
The next portal is a world filled with Cloud Guys. Branch pulls them out. They then enter a world filled with clones of Branch. The next is a world with a giant Mr. Dinkles yelling at them. Poppy and Branch peer into another world where they meet another "Poppy and Branch", but the physical traits of this world's Poppy and Branch are mixed up. This freaks them out and they go back through. Another portal takes them to a world centered on the "North Troll Pole", followed by an upside-down world. The next is a world where they're just abstract shapes, then hand puppets and a world filled with the old 1980s Troll Dolls of which they are based upon. The next is a world with the characters from Trolly Tales 2 in it.
Finally, they arrive in a world where King Peppy greets them saying he is finally happy his daughter Poppy is home. This makes her feel she is home at last - until she realizes that Peppy doesn't know what a hug is.
Poppy decides to rest in the main wormhole hub for a bit, sad and missing home. Branch reassures her that they will find home. As she feels reassured by Branch, they suddenly hear noises from the other wormholes; they are becoming unstable and the portals are closing. Branch states that if the portals close, they'll be stuck in the hub forever. The Trolls decide to split up and meet back at the next hug time.
Some time later, DJ leaves a portal covered in crabs, Branch in leaves, and Smidge in slime. They don't want to talk about their experiences. Cooper states he found the worst wormhole portal yet, and that led to a strange world just like theirs, except they're not in it. He then tries to hide the fact he didn't realize it and hopes they wouldn't figure it out. Hug time hits, and they realize Poppy isn't back.
They go through her portal to look for her, and find themselves in a scrapbook world. The world is complete with pop-up tabs that change things like the environment. Cooper plays with tabs that change the weather; and upon hearing him, Poppy calls to them. She got trapped in the world when something surprised her that caused her to fall apart. She is put back together again, and the surprise was that this scrapbook world belonged to Keith. Keith begins to stamp the page with a rainbow stamp madly, and they run back to the portal.
Back in the main hub, Branch tells Cooper to tell them which portal leads home. The portal begins to close, but Poppy grabs it and pulls it open.
Once again, Poppy finds her dad and they are greeted home. This time he hugs her. The Trolls all cheer and hug and a rainbow forms over Troll Village.
Cast[]
- Amanda Leighton as Queen Poppy
- Skylar Astin as Branch
- Kevin Michael Richardson as Smidge
- Fryda Wolff as DJ Suki
- Ron Funches as Cooper
- David Kaye as King Peppy
- Declan Churchill Carter as Keith
- David Fynn as Biggie
- Sean T. Krishnan as Guy Diamond
- Other
Physical distribution[]
This episode is available on the "Trolls: The Beat Goes On! - Complete Seasons 5-8" DVD.
Trivia[]
- This is the first episode to air in 2019.
- This episode returns a then-occasional running gag in the series where the common classic cartoon logic of "gravity doesn't work until you look down" is referenced; it had already happened in "Fun Branch", "Remote Out Of Control" and "Coop, Where's My Guy?". The gag would begin to occur on a more regular basis since this episode.
- The large Mr. Dinkles rising up is a reference to a scene from Jurassic Park.
- This is the first appearance of Cloud Guy since Season 3's "Rainbowmageddon".
- Russ Trolls "Rainbow Trolls" appear in one of the worlds that the Trolls visit. These were among the most popular of the Troll Dolls, and are behind the name of Rainbow Trolls such as Branch and Poppy in the DreamWorks Trolls franchise.
- A storyboard for the wormhole sequence was put up online.[1]
- The episode is considered the introduction to what would be labelled as The Multiverse by Lownote Jones in "To Hug A Snug-A-Lug".
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