Shout Out / Trolls: The Beat Goes On!

• A number of episodes are named after diverse media, ranging from other TV series and movies to songs and literature:
  • "Bad News Bergens" - The Bad News Bears
  • "Bellow Bug Day" - Groundhog Day
  • "Adventures In Dinkles-Sitting" - Adventures in Babysitting
  • "Eye'll Be Watching You" is a pun on the lyric line "I'll be watching you" from The Police's song "Every Breath You Take".
  • "Big Poppy" - The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Big Poppa"
  • "The Poppy Horror Picture Show" - The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  • "Model Behavior" has the exact same title as the made-for-TV movie in which Justin Timberlake debuted as an actor.
  • "Meet the Peppy" - Meet the Parents
  • "Coop, Where's My Guy?" - Dude, Where's My Car?
  • "Scrap to the Future" - Back to the Future
  • "The Partier's Apprentice" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"
  • "The Fast and the Friendliest" - The Fast and the Furious
• In "Bad News Bergens", Gristle sits on a throne decorated with rackets.
• There are several in the episode "Prank Day":
  • You might find Poppy's morning song to be rather familiar.
  • Poppy puts shaving cream on Fake!Branch's hands, which he "accidentally puts it on himself" when he is tickled by her to "wake up"—something that DreamWorks had already done before.
  • Smidge, while in her "revenge streak":
    • Spins her head through 360º.
    • "Here's SMIDGEY!" This also counts as an example of "Here's Johnny!" Homage.
    • Has her hair fall straight down her body while creepily walking towards Branch and Poppy.
• Gallagher is referenced twice via the act of smashing things, in "Remote Out Of Control" and "Guy Misses Out".
• In "The Party Games", Harper stuck in a body cast struggles to perform well at charades, but everyone has fun making random guesses anyway. Poppy suggests she's a fun-loving ring-tailed lemur, while Branch guesses she's a Norse teenager with progressive views riding a dragon.
• Nova Swift, given both her name and fashionista nature, is likely a reference to Taylor Swift.
• "Pillow War" contains several - when the war is still small, there are several scenes framed to be like West Side Story. When it escalates, it turns into Braveheart, while Branch gives a Rousing Speech that has more than a few parallels to the St. Crispin's Day speech.
• "Three Trolls-Keteers" is clearly a parody of ¡Three Amigos!.
• The background music at the ending of "Branch Bum" is made to sound like the Pirates of the Caribbean theme song.
• In "Glitter Loss":
  • The entrance of the temple has a platform similar to DanceDanceRevolution.
  • Smidge makes a series of dances popularized by Michael Jackson.
• The entire plot of "Mr. Glittercakes" is a reference to the M*A*S*H episode "Tuttle".
  • Dennis' introduction scene is based on Mary Poppins.
• Guy Diamond's pose and spotlight in "The Partier's Apprentice" are a reference to Batman.
• The video game featured in "Troll Playing Game" is based on Dungeons & Dragons, as a tribute to the fact that a number of the series' creators are regular players of it.
• The stories told in the "Trolly Tales" episodes are adaptations of fairy tales, greek myths and nursery rhymes, with the names of the characters from the former two often being a pun between those from the original stories' characters and the Trolls who play the characters. Keith's story in the second episode, however, stands out by starting with like a myth and then jumping to a huge reference to Star Wars.
  • Icarus shouting "Noooooo!" is also a reference to Darth Vader's Big "NO!" in Revenge of the Sith.
  • The witch's time machine in Keith's story from the first episode is another reference to Back to the Future.

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