Trolls (2016)

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Who talked about it

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Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Adventure Time (TV series): 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Adventure Time (TV series) ⇒ Trolls (the host's read). Trolls' look is the end of a chain from webcomics and Adult Swim through Adventure Time to mainstream kids animation.
    “So you end up getting things like adventure time that feel more like what adult swim used to feel like than what a children's show used to feel like.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:01:36 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Shrek: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Shrek ⇒ Trolls (the host's read). Trolls has Shrek-distilled humor: self-referential asides for the parents.
    “this weird, annoying Shrek, you know, as you say, Shrek, distilled or whatever, like type of humor”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:02:37 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Toy Story 2: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Toy Story 2 ⇒ Trolls (the host's read). Branch's grandmother backstory is likened to Jessie's flashback in Toy Story 2.
    “they like try to do the like Jesse Toy Story 2.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:44:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Trolls World Tour: 2 lines programming ×2

  1. programming (programming): Trolls → Trolls World Tour. Trolls had to be watched first because the sequel releases the day this episode comes out.
    “knowing that the day this episode comes out, trolls world tour will also be unleashed upon the world.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:10:54 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

A. R. Rahman: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): A. R. Rahman → Trolls. The Slumdog Millionaire composer was announced to do music for the earlier musical version.
    “A.R. Ramini, the Slumdog Millionaire guy, was announced to be doing the music.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:53:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Adventure Time (TV series): 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Trolls → Adventure Time (TV series). Trolls' look is the end of a chain from webcomics and Adult Swim through Adventure Time to mainstream kids animation.
    “So you end up getting things like adventure time that feel more like what adult swim used to feel like than what a children's show used to feel like.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:01:36 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Anand Tucker: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): Anand Tucker → Trolls. An earlier Trolls was to be a musical directed by the Shopgirl director with Chloe Grace Moretz, Jason Schwartzman and Rahman music, and kept being canceled.
    “The director of Shopgirl was announced to direct a DreamWorks animated troll movie that was supposed to be a musical”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:53:26 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Antz (said as 'ants'): 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Trolls → Antz (said as 'ants'). The mismatched-pair quest through the big world is compared to the plot of Antz.
    “much like the plot of ants”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:10:23 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Benj Pasek and Justin Paul: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Benj Pasek and Justin Paul → Trolls. The speaker says the one original song Pasek and Paul wrote for Trolls sounds like all their other songs.
    “It sounds like all their other songs.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:13:10 · unclear (Griffin Newman, David Sims or Richard Lawson) (0.30 sure it was them)

Cabaret: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Trolls → Cabaret. Can't Stop the Feeling starts as a pleasure and by the end feels menacing, like Tomorrow Belongs to Me in Cabaret.
    “It's like in cabaret when, you know, when the Nazis all start singing, what's it called?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:23:36 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Cars: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Trolls → Cars. DreamWorks bought the Trolls rights as a toy brand, hoping it would be their Cars merchandise engine.
    “They're like, this is going to be our cars.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:54:07 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Cinderella: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Trolls → Cinderella. The roller skate left behind makes the Bergen prince plot a Cinderella story.
    “So then it becomes a Cinderella thing”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:19:16 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Cyrano de Bergerac: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Trolls → Cyrano de Bergerac. The middle of Trolls turns into a gender-flipped Cyrano with the trolls hiding in Bridget's wig.
    “And then the movie becomes like Cyrano?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:14:02 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Doctor Strange: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Trolls → Doctor Strange. Trolls (2016) opened the same weekend as Doctor Strange, the election weekend.
    “This came out the same weekend as Dr. Strange.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:40:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fraggle Rock (TV series): 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Trolls → Fraggle Rock (TV series). The Trolls society of different-sized species has a Fraggle Rock structure.
    “a fraggle rock structuring of society where there are different species of different sizes”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:59:43 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Gran Torino: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): Trolls → Gran Torino. Joke: what if Clint Eastwood had played the singing grump and sung Gran Torino instead of True Colors.
    “Like, what if Clint Eastwood had played the, he likes singing?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:36:30 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Justin Timberlake: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Justin Timberlake → Trolls. Timberlake was cast as Branch and produced the music; Katzenberg promised him the Elton John role of the movie.
    “you get to be the Elton John of this movie and get to be the lead character, even if you are a miscasting.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:13:23 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

La La Land: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Trolls → La La Land. City of Stars beat Can't Stop the Feeling and the speaker resents it as the La La Land song; the opening numbers are the film's best.
    “I still am so resentful that that's the La La Land song.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:24:30 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Moana: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): Trolls → Moana. The speaker would have given the Oscar to the Moana song instead, and says Moana could have filled five nominees.
    “obviously, I would have picked the Moana song”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:25:01 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Ron Funches: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Ron Funches → Trolls. Funches plays Cooper and returns for the later shows; he was nearly a Blank Check guest.
    “Funches is another person who was almost on blank check.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:34:19 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Shrek: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Trolls → Shrek. Trolls has Shrek-distilled humor: self-referential asides for the parents.
    “this weird, annoying Shrek, you know, as you say, Shrek, distilled or whatever, like type of humor”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:02:37 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

The Manchurian Candidate: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Trolls → The Manchurian Candidate. Joke that after watching Trolls he wanted to assassinate a presidential candidate, so maybe there is a Manchurian thing going on.
    “I wanted to assassinate a presidential candidate, so maybe there's a whole Manchurian thing happening there too.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:48:14 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Toy Story 2: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Trolls → Toy Story 2. Branch's grandmother backstory is likened to Jessie's flashback in Toy Story 2.
    “they like try to do the like Jesse Toy Story 2.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:44:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Trolls: The Experience: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Trolls: The Experience → Trolls. David's text says the experience was practical, engaging and well performed, far better than the movie.
    “It was far better than the movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:45:55 · David Sims (0.75 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Justin Timberlake → Trolls. Timberlake was cast as Branch and produced the music; Katzenberg promised him the Elton John role of the movie.
    “you get to be the Elton John of this movie and get to be the lead character, even if you are a miscasting.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:13:23 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Ron Funches → Trolls. Funches plays Cooper and returns for the later shows; he was nearly a Blank Check guest.
    “Funches is another person who was almost on blank check.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:34:19 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

contrast (2)

  1. contrast (contrast): Trolls: The Experience → Trolls. David's text says the experience was practical, engaging and well performed, far better than the movie.
    “It was far better than the movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:45:55 · David Sims (0.75 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Trolls → La La Land. City of Stars beat Can't Stop the Feeling and the speaker resents it as the La La Land song; the opening numbers are the film's best.
    “I still am so resentful that that's the La La Land song.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:24:30 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Benj Pasek and Justin Paul → Trolls. The speaker says the one original song Pasek and Paul wrote for Trolls sounds like all their other songs.
    “It sounds like all their other songs.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:13:10 · unclear (Griffin Newman, David Sims or Richard Lawson) (0.30 sure it was them)

industry (2)

  1. industry (industry): Trolls → Cars. DreamWorks bought the Trolls rights as a toy brand, hoping it would be their Cars merchandise engine.
    “They're like, this is going to be our cars.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:54:07 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Trolls → Doctor Strange. Trolls (2016) opened the same weekend as Doctor Strange, the election weekend.
    “This came out the same weekend as Dr. Strange.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:40:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (7)

  1. lineage (lineage): Trolls → Fraggle Rock (TV series). The Trolls society of different-sized species has a Fraggle Rock structure.
    “a fraggle rock structuring of society where there are different species of different sizes”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:59:43 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Trolls → Adventure Time (TV series). Trolls' look is the end of a chain from webcomics and Adult Swim through Adventure Time to mainstream kids animation.
    “So you end up getting things like adventure time that feel more like what adult swim used to feel like than what a children's show used to feel like.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:01:36 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage): Trolls → Shrek. Trolls has Shrek-distilled humor: self-referential asides for the parents.
    “this weird, annoying Shrek, you know, as you say, Shrek, distilled or whatever, like type of humor”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:02:37 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage): Trolls → Antz (said as 'ants'). The mismatched-pair quest through the big world is compared to the plot of Antz.
    “much like the plot of ants”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:10:23 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (lineage): Trolls → Cyrano de Bergerac. The middle of Trolls turns into a gender-flipped Cyrano with the trolls hiding in Bridget's wig.
    “And then the movie becomes like Cyrano?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:14:02 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  6. lineage (lineage): Trolls → Cinderella. The roller skate left behind makes the Bergen prince plot a Cinderella story.
    “So then it becomes a Cinderella thing”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:19:16 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  7. lineage (lineage): Trolls → Toy Story 2. Branch's grandmother backstory is likened to Jessie's flashback in Toy Story 2.
    “they like try to do the like Jesse Toy Story 2.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:44:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

programming (2)

  1. programming (programming): Trolls → Trolls World Tour. Trolls had to be watched first because the sequel releases the day this episode comes out.
    “knowing that the day this episode comes out, trolls world tour will also be unleashed upon the world.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:10:54 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. programming (programming): Trolls → Trolls World Tour. Katzenberg milked properties into cartoon shows, specials and sequels; Universal owns Trolls outright now and will continue.
    “Casenberg always milks every property dry.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:34:57 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

theme (2)

  1. theme (theme): Trolls → The Manchurian Candidate. Joke that after watching Trolls he wanted to assassinate a presidential candidate, so maybe there is a Manchurian thing going on.
    “I wanted to assassinate a presidential candidate, so maybe there's a whole Manchurian thing happening there too.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:48:14 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): Trolls → Cabaret. Can't Stop the Feeling starts as a pleasure and by the end feels menacing, like Tomorrow Belongs to Me in Cabaret.
    “It's like in cabaret when, you know, when the Nazis all start singing, what's it called?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:23:36 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): Trolls → Moana. The speaker would have given the Oscar to the Moana song instead, and says Moana could have filled five nominees.
    “obviously, I would have picked the Moana song”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:25:01 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (3)

  1. what-if (what-if): Anand Tucker → Trolls. An earlier Trolls was to be a musical directed by the Shopgirl director with Chloe Grace Moretz, Jason Schwartzman and Rahman music, and kept being canceled.
    “The director of Shopgirl was announced to direct a DreamWorks animated troll movie that was supposed to be a musical”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:53:26 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): A. R. Rahman → Trolls. The Slumdog Millionaire composer was announced to do music for the earlier musical version.
    “A.R. Ramini, the Slumdog Millionaire guy, was announced to be doing the music.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:53:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. what-if (what-if): Trolls → Gran Torino. Joke: what if Clint Eastwood had played the singing grump and sung Gran Torino instead of True Colors.
    “Like, what if Clint Eastwood had played the, he likes singing?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:36:30 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Trolls: David's text review: the experience was far better, and the movie is like eating mayonnaise straight from the jar.
    “This movie is like eating mayonnaise straight from the jar.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:46:21 · David Sims (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Trolls: One reaction: the movie feels chemically designed for kids to watch on loop, like Pringles.
    “this thing is chemically designed to be played on loop.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:47:00 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Trolls: Released about four days before the 2016 election and four days after Halloween, a missed costume opportunity.
    “You have to wait a full year for kids to buy their branch and Cooper costumes.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:49:04 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Trolls: Trolls the dolls: the Russ and Norfin companies, Danish woodcutter origin, then mass-licensed dolls with no mythology.
    “there were the 2 companies.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:54:38 · Richard Lawson (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Trolls: The Trolls look is described as a CBGB t-shirt bought at Hot Topic versus the vintage one.
    “Trolls the movie is like a CBGB's t-shirt bought at a hot topic.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:02:10 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Trolls: The Bergens eat trolls once a year on Trollstice to become happy, treating them like MDMA.
    “They use the trolls as like MDMA.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:08:31 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Trolls: Branch refuses to sing because 'singing killed my grandmother,' a ninety-second flashback; later riffed with a joke about a pulmonary embolism.
    “because singing killed my grandmother.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:17:24 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Trolls: Can't Stop the Feeling: they joke it's evil, and compare the lyrics' menace to Cabaret's Tomorrow Belongs to Me.
    “this song is not only bad, but evil.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:23:07 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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