Sonic Boom (TV Series, 2014–2017): Episodes, Characters & More

Sonic Boom · Cartoon Network / Boomerang · 2014–2017
Format	CGI-animated comedy series, 11-minute episodes
Seasons	2 · Season 1 (2014–15) · Season 2 (2016–17)
Episodes	104 (52 per season)
Developed by	Evan Baily, Donna Friedman Meir and Sandrine Nguyen
Showrunners	Evan Baily and Bill Freiberger
Directed by	Natalys Raut-Sieuzac
Voice director	Jack Fletcher
Music	Michael Richard Plowman
Studios	OuiDo! Productions (Season 1), Technicolor Animation Productions (Season 2), with Sega of America
First shown	8 November 2014, Cartoon Network (US) · 19 November 2014, Canal J (France)
Last new episode	11 November 2017, Boomerang (US) (Wikipedia gives 18 November 2017 for Part 2, without a citation; see Broadcast)
In Japan	Sonic Toon (Netflix, from 1 July 2017)
Part of	The Sonic Boom spin-off: Rise of Lyric, Shattered Crystal, Fire & Ice, an Archie comic and Tomy toys

Seasons · Story · Characters · Redesigns · Spotlight · Fourth wall · Cast · Production · Broadcast · Games · Comics · Releases · Reception · Sources

Sonic Boom is the fifth Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon and the first made in CGI. Sega of America made it with the French studio OuiDo! Productions as a sitcom rather than an action serial: Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy and newcomer Sticks the Badger live on a jungle island next to a village of talking animals, and Doctor Eggman lives up the road in his lair. He attacks, they win, and everybody complains about it afterwards.

Two seasons of 52 eleven-minute episodes ran from November 2014 to November 2017, on Cartoon Network and then Boomerang in the United States. The show arrived alongside the much-mocked Rise of Lyric, but it outlived the games’ reputation: its deadpan writing, running gags and habit of talking straight to the audience earned it a cult following, and fans often call it the best thing to come out of the Boom experiment.

This page covers the whole show: the story and setting, every main character, how the heroes were redesigned, our favourite fourth-wall gags, the cast, how the show was made and broadcast, the games and comic around it, and where to watch it today. Every episode has its own page, starting from the two season guides below.

• 104episodes
• 2seasons
• 11 minper episode
• 2014–17first run
• 5heroes in Team Sonic
• 3tie-in games

Seasons & Episode Guides

Season 1 (2014–15)52 episodes on Cartoon Network, from The Sidekick to It Takes a Village to Defeat a Hedgehog. Synopses, air dates, writers, cast and more.Season 2 (2016–17)52 more, mostly on Boomerang: the four-part Robots from the Sky, Vector, D-Fekt and the two-part finale Eggman: The Video Game.

Season 1 episodes: The Sidekick · Can an Evil Genius Crash on Your Couch for a Few Days? · Translate This · Buster · My Fair Sticksy · Fortress of Squalitude · Double Doomsday · Eggheads · Guilt Tripping · Dude, Where’s My Eggman? · Cowbot · Circus of Plunders · Unlucky Knuckles · The Meteor · Aim Low · How to Succeed in Evil Without Really Trying · Don’t Judge Me · Dr. Eggman’s Tomato Sauce · Sole Power · Hedgehog Day · Sleeping Giant · The Curse of Buddy Buddy Temple · Let’s Play Musical Friends · Late Fees · Into the Wilderness · Eggman Unplugged · Chez Amy · Blue with Envy · Curse of the Cross Eyed Moose · Chili Dog Day Afternoon · Closed Door Policy · Mayor Knuckles · Eggman the Auteur · Just a Guy · Two Good to Be True · Beyond the Valley of the Cubots · Next Top Villain · New Year’s Retribution · Battle of the Boy Bands · Tails’ Crush · Bro-Down Showdown · Late Night Wars · Fire in a Crowded Workshop · It Wasn’t Me, It Was the One-Armed Hedgehog · Robot Battle Royale · No Robots Allowed · Fuzzy Puppy Buddies · Designated Heroes · Role Models · Cabin Fever · Counter Productive · It Takes a Village to Defeat a Hedgehog

Season 2 episodes: Tommy Thunder: Method Actor · Spacemageddonocalypse · Nutwork · Alone Again, Unnaturally · The Biggest Fan · Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Worse-er · I Can Sea Sonic’s Fear from Here · In the Midnight Hour · Multi-Tails · Strike! · The Evil Dr. Orbot · Knuck Knuck! Who’s Here? · Mech Suits Me · FiendBot · Og Man Out · Knine-to-Five Knuckles · Blackout · Unnamed Episode · Robot Employees · Give Bees a Chance · Mombot · Muckfoot · Nominatus Rising · Eggman’s Brother · Do Not Disturb · Robots from the Sky: Part 1 · Robots from the Sky: Part 2 · Robots from the Sky: Part 3 · Robots from the Sky: Part 4 · Flea-ing from Trouble · Lightning Bowler Society · Planes, Trains and Dude-Mobiles · Sticks and Amy’s Excellent Staycation · Inn Sanity · Mister Eggman · The Haunted Lair · Return of the Buddy Buddy Temple of Doom · Eggman’s Anti Gravity Ray · Victory · Three Men and My Baby! · Where Have All the Sonics Gone? · If You Build It They Will Race · Chain Letter · Vector Detector · Three Minutes or Less · Lair on Lockdown · You and I Bee-come One · Don’t Make Me Angry · Eggman Family Vacation · Return to Beyond the Valley of the Cubots · Eggman: The Video Game – Part 1 · Eggman: The Video Game – Part 2: The End of the World

Luke’s original Sonic Scene page for the show (2017) was a full episode table with writers, storyboard artists and US and French air dates. Every row of it now lives on the season and episode pages, checked against other sources; where they disagree, the pages say so.

Story & Setting

There is no grand quest in Sonic Boom. Team Sonic are local heroes on a tropical island of jungles, beaches and ancient ruins, and most episodes start with an ordinary problem: a roommate who will not leave, an overdue library book, a cooking contest, a job interview or a garage sale. Eggman’s latest robot usually crashes into the plot somewhere around the middle.

The village next door is full of animal townsfolk who would rather complain than say thank you: a mayor obsessed with re-election, a beaver who corrects everyone’s grammar, a fast-food joint called Meh Burger where Dave the Intern works the counter, and a walrus whose baby is forever being menaced by giant robots. Sonic lives in a shack, Tails in a workshop, Sticks in a burrow and Knuckles, for most of the show, nowhere in particular.

Eggman himself is less a world-conquering tyrant than a needy neighbour. He wants to flatten the village so he can build a theme park on the ruins, but he also craves respect, from the villagers and from other villains alike, and dreads being laughed at. Nearly every episode stands alone, so you can start anywhere; the few multi-part stories are flagged on the season pages.

Characters

Five heroes, one villain and two robot henchmen carry the show, with a huge supporting cast of villagers and guest villains. Voice actors are from the show’s credits as listed by Wikipedia and Sonic Retro; most of the main cast also voiced the characters in the Sega games of the time.

Team Sonic

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  Sonic the HedgehogThe self-appointed leader and the village’s regular saviour. Fast, cocky and allergic to competition, he loves being a hero a little more than he should, but he always comes through in the end.Voice: Roger Craig Smith
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  Miles “Tails” ProwerSonic’s best friend, pilot and mechanic, the youngest of the team. His inventions save the day about as often as they cause the problem, and he is the group’s resident sceptic.Voice: Colleen O’Shaughnessey (credited as Colleen Villard)
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  Knuckles the EchidnaThe muscle: huge, sweet-natured, nature-loving and spectacularly dim. Knuckles gets many of the show’s best lines and most of its jokes about being a cartoon.Voice: Travis Willingham
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  Amy RoseThe organiser, joiner of every club and charity in the village, and the closest thing the team has to a voice of reason. She keeps her crush on Sonic mostly to herself, and her temper is shorter than her hammer.Voice: Cindy Robinson
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  Sticks the BadgerA jungle-raised badger with a boomerang, a staff and a conspiracy theory for every occasion. Created for Sonic Boom, she is often wrong in fascinating ways, and occasionally exactly right.Voice: Nika Futterman

Team Eggman

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  Doctor EggmanA mad scientist with a grudge, a lair, and a fragile ego. He wants to beat Sonic just once, but he also hangs out with the heroes surprisingly often.Voice: Mike Pollock
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  OrbotEggman’s red, round and dry-witted assistant; the smarter half of the henchman double act.Voice: Kirk Thornton
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  CubotOrbot’s yellow, cube-shaped partner, cheerful and not overburdened with brains.Voice: Wally Wingert
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  Shadow the HedgehogA guest villain here: angrier and more destructive than his game self, and openly admired by Eggman for his popularity.Voice: Kirk Thornton

The village and other regulars

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  Dave the InternA nutria who works at Meh Burger, idolises Eggman and briefly becomes his intern. Far more ambitious than his boss would like.Voice: Roger Craig Smith
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  Mayor FinkThe village’s mayor, whose first priority is staying mayor.Voice: Mike Pollock
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  Fastidious BeaverThe librarian, and the village’s unofficial grammar police; he usually begins with “Actually…”.Voice: Mike Pollock
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  Lady WalrusMother of Stratford and baby Chumley, who is in peril from Eggman’s robots with suspicious regularity.Voice: Bill Freiberger
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  Comedy ChimpHost of the village’s late-night talk show, voiced by the showrunner himself.Voice: Bill Freiberger
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  Soar the EagleLocal newsreader, motivational speaker and, once, Eggman’s life coach.Voice: Travis Willingham
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  T.W. BarkerA crooked circus ringmaster turned crooked lawyer.Voice: Kirk Thornton
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  ZooeyA fox from the village and the object of Tails’ crush.Voice: Colleen O’Shaughnessey
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  The Lightning Bolt SocietyA secret society of small-time villains whom nobody, including Eggman, takes seriously.
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  NominatusA computer virus with big ideas, first met in “Let’s Play Musical Friends”.Voice: Wally Wingert
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  Tommy ThunderA martial-arts movie star who shadows Sonic to research a role in the Season 2 premiere.Voice: Wally Wingert
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  MorphoA shape-shifting robot from another dimension who usually poses as Eggman’s “brother”, Steve.Voice: Roger Craig Smith
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  MightonA heroic robot from a city in the clouds who, with his partner Bolts (Mike Pollock), mistakes Team Sonic for villains in “Robots from the Sky”.Voice: Wally Wingert
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  D-FektA magnet robot from Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice who appears in one Season 2 episode, Return to Beyond the Valley of the Cubots.Voice: Wally Wingert

Other recurring faces include Vector the Crocodile (Keith Silverstein), Metal Sonic, Charlie the archaeologist and his wife Belinda, Leroy the postal turtle, Mrs. Vandersnout and the Gogobas. Character art via Sonic Wiki Zone and Sonic Scene’s own Sonic Boom galleries.

Boom Redesigns: Old Friends, New Looks

When Sega showed the first trailer in February 2014, the redesigns were the talking point. Sonic Boom gave the familiar cast longer limbs, sports tape and scarves, and Knuckles a whole new body. Sega presented the look as a separate branch for Western audiences, running alongside the main games rather than replacing them; Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka supervised. Here is each hero in the official game art of the time next to the Boom version.

Sonic

Leaner and longer-legged, with blue arms instead of bare peach ones, a brown neckerchief and white sports tape round his wrists and shoes.

Tails

Goggles on his head and a tool belt round his waist suit the show’s version, the team’s hands-on engineer and pilot.

Knuckles

The biggest change of the lot: much taller and far more muscular, with taped hands in place of his spiked gloves. The personality changed too, from gullible guardian to lovable lunk.

Amy

Amy keeps her pink quills and hammer but swaps the red dress and boots for a pink dress with a white band, purple leggings and trainers, with a taller, slimmer build to match the rest of the team.

Eggman

Still the red coat and the moustache, but with a barrel chest, grey trousers tucked into tall black boots, and goggles pushed up on his head.

Orbot & Cubot

The two henchmen, introduced in Sonic Colours, came over almost unchanged; the show simply gave them much bigger parts.

Design notes from the images themselves and from Wikipedia’s description of the redesigns (citing Sega and Polygon). Game art from Sonic Scene’s galleries; Boom art from the Fire & Ice gallery and Sonic Wiki Zone.

Spotlight: Sticks, Orbot & Cubot and Dave

Three characters did more than anyone to give Sonic Boom its own flavour. Only one of them was brand new, but all three became fan favourites.

Sticks the Badger

New for Sonic Boom · announced 29 May 2014 · voice: Nika Futterman

Sega introduced Sticks as a wild jungle badger who had lived alone for years before meeting Sonic. On screen she became the team’s wild card: paranoid about machines, spies and aliens, devoted to her friends and always ready with a boomerang. She was playable in Shattered Crystal and Fire & Ice and later turned up outside the Boom brand in Sonic Runners and Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. In Season 2 we learn she is the legal owner of the whole village.

Orbot & Cubot

From Sonic Colours (2010) · voices: Kirk Thornton and Wally Wingert

Eggman’s robot assistants were not invented for the show; they first appeared in Sonic Colours. Sonic Boom turned them into a proper comedy double act: polite, neutral and often on better terms with Team Sonic than with their boss. Overworked and underappreciated, they go on strike in “Strike!”, Orbot gets an evil promotion in “The Evil Dr. Orbot”, and Cubot discovers his discarded prototypes in “Beyond the Valley of the Cubots”.

Dave the Intern

New for Sonic Boom · voice: Roger Craig Smith

A Meh Burger employee and Eggman’s biggest fan, Dave lands an internship in “Double Doomsday” and proves frighteningly keen. He comes back to steal Eggman’s robot army in “Next Top Villain”, joins the Lightning Bolt Society, and goes back to flipping burgers in between.

Breaking the Fourth Wall

Running gags

• Lady Walrus’s baby, Chumley, ends up in the path of Eggman’s robots again and again.
• Fastidious Beaver corrects everybody, usually starting with “Actually”.
• Meh Burger, the village’s fast-food restaurant, lives up to its name.
• Sticks’ conspiracy theories about machines, spies and the government get eye-rolls from the team, and every so often she turns out to be right.
• Eggman is rival and neighbour at once: he has crashed on Sonic’s couch, swapped brains with him and been trapped in a temple with him.
• Knuckles’ obliviousness, played for laughs in almost every episode, and his habit of commenting on the show itself.

What’s in a title?

Many episode titles are puns on films, songs and sayings. A few favourites: Hedgehog Day (a time loop, like Groundhog Day), Chili Dog Day Afternoon (Dog Day Afternoon), Dude, Where’s My Eggman? (Dude, Where’s My Car?), My Fair Sticksy (My Fair Lady), Three Men and My Baby! (Three Men and a Baby), Planes, Trains and Dude-Mobiles (Planes, Trains and Automobiles), Return of the Buddy Buddy Temple of Doom (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom) and Give Bees a Chance (“Give Peace a Chance”). Even the village gets in on it: Season 2’s Unnamed Episode digs up what the nameless village used to be called.

Voice Cast

Sonic Boom used the English voice cast of the Sega games of the time, directed by Jack Fletcher, the games’ voice director since 2010. The one change was Tails: Colleen O’Shaughnessey (credited as Colleen Villard) took over from Kate Higgins, and Sega confirmed she would voice Tails in the games from then on. Nika Futterman joined as Sticks, and showrunner Bill Freiberger voiced a few villagers himself.

Cast from Wikipedia’s cast list (citing Sega, the show’s credits and its producers’ posts) and Sonic Retro’s voice actor tables.

Making Sonic Boom

Sega announced a new Sonic cartoon on 2 October 2013 with a teaser of four silhouettes, and showed the first trailer, with the new designs, on 6 February 2014, together with two games. Takashi Iizuka told Polygon that the idea was to reach Western audiences, a decade after the Japanese anime Sonic X, with a branch of the series that would run alongside the modern games.

Evan Baily, Donna Friedman Meir and Sandrine Nguyen developed the show, and Baily and Bill Freiberger ran it as showrunners. Sega of America made it with the French studio OuiDo! Productions, which was producing as Technicolor Animation Productions by the second season, working with Lagardère Thématiques and Jeunesse TV. Michael Richard Plowman composed the music. Natalys Raut-Sieuzac directed every episode and also wrote several. Baily described the plan as action plus comedy, with stand-alone episodes rather than a serial.

The writing room mixed American and French writers. Alan Denton and Greg Hahn, Reid Harrison and Sam Freiberger wrote many episodes, and for Season 2 the team was joined by Ian Flynn and Evan Stanley, the writer and artist of the Archie comic, and by Ken Pontac and Warren Graff, the writers of Rise of Lyric and Fire & Ice.

Cartoon Network put Sonic Boom on its slate for 2015–16 in February 2015, though Freiberger stressed that this was not a renewal. A second season was announced in October 2015 and began on 29 October 2016. Sega has never announced a third; a storyboard artist hinted at one in December 2016, but nothing came of it.

On Air: Broadcast & Ratings

Cartoon Network premiered the first two episodes on Saturday 8 November 2014, three days before the games reached North American shops. France got the show eleven days later on Canal J, and French channels often ran episodes weeks or months before America did. Season 1 ran in the US until 14 November 2015, with a two-month gap in the middle and a run of weekday premieres in July 2015.

Season 2 opened on Cartoon Network on 29 October 2016, after which new episodes moved to the smaller Boomerang channel, while Cartoon Network showed reruns. The finale aired on 11 November 2017: Toonzone’s November 2017 schedule listed both parts of “Eggman: The Video Game” as a half-hour season finale on Boomerang that evening, and Showbuzz Daily’s cable ratings for the night include it. Wikipedia’s list gives 18 November for Part 2, without a citation; Luke’s list, Sonic Retro and Sonic Wiki Zone all say the 11th.

Outside the US the show went out on Australia and New Zealand’s Cartoon Network (April 2015), Boomerang in the UK and Ireland (June 2015), Family CHRGD in Canada (October 2015) and many more channels, and Japan got Season 1 on Netflix as Sonic Toon in July 2017.

Ratings: Nielsen figures as listed by Wikipedia’s episode list; Boomerang figures were not published for many Season 2 episodes.

The Games: Prequels and Tie-ins

Sonic Boom was planned as a franchise, and the games came first in the story. Sonic Scene has a full page for each:

• Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric (Wii U, November 2014). Big Red Button’s 3D adventure is a prequel to the show, set in the same world with the same voice cast. Its glitches and reviews made it infamous, which is one reason the cartoon’s good reputation surprised people.
• Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal (3DS, November 2014). Sanzaru’s handheld companion, also a prequel, released the same day as Rise of Lyric, three days after the show began. It was the first game where Sticks was playable.
• Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice (3DS, 2016). According to Bill Freiberger it takes place during the show’s second season. Its robot D-Fekt later appeared in the episode “Return to Beyond the Valley of the Cubots”, and launch copies came with a bonus DVD of three Season 1 episodes.
• Sonic Dash 2: Sonic Boom (iOS/Android, 2015). The endless runner rebuilt in the world and designs of the show.

The games and the show share characters, designs, voices and the island itself. The first two games are set before the series, but every episode stands on its own, so you do not need to have played them. In Japan the games, and later the cartoon, were sold under the name Sonic Toon.

The Archie Comic

Boom reached comic shops just ahead of the cartoon. Archie Comics, then home of the long-running Sonic the Hedgehog comic, started a monthly Sonic Boom title in October 2014, written by Ian Flynn and drawn by Evan Stanley, and showrunner Bill Freiberger wrote several issues himself. The creative traffic later ran the other way: Flynn scripted the Season 2 episodes Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Worse-er and Og Man Out, and Stanley wrote Three Men and My Baby!.

The comic lasted 11 issues, closing in September 2015. Its last stretch was swept into Worlds Unite, Archie’s 2015 crossover between its Sonic and Mega Man comics, with issues 8, 9 and 10 carrying chapters 2, 6 and 10. Boom stories carried on afterwards inside Archie’s Sonic Super Digest and Super Special Magazine collections.

Reviewing issue 1 for IGN, Jesse Schedeen settled on 7.2: the story felt disjointed to him and Sticks seemed to be there mainly to explain things, but the fourth-wall gags worked and the art was, in his words, “clean” and “expressive”.

French readers got Boom in book form too: in 2016 Hachette’s Bibliothèque Verte imprint published children’s books based on episodes.

DVDs, Blu-ray & Streaming

Sonic Boom has been released in several waves. In the UK and France, Universal put the whole first season out in 2016 as four 13-episode DVDs. In the US, NCircle Entertainment released themed collections from 2019, then season volumes, complete seasons and a complete-series Blu-ray.

France had all four Universal volumes in 2016 too, released in pairs on 12 April and 27 September, so Hedgehog Day and No Robots Allowed reached French shops before British ones. The first two volumes came out in Brazil, also from Universal, in 2017. One known fault: early copies of NCircle’s Season One, Volume Two played “Fire in a Crowded Workshop” with Spanish audio; NCircle offered replacement discs.

Streaming

• Hulu (US) added Season 1 on 22 May 2016 under an exclusive deal with Sega and OuiDo!, and Season 2 on 19 November 2017.
• Netflix carried the show outside the US from December 2016, and in Japan as Sonic Toon from 1 July 2017; both seasons came to Netflix in the US in early 2023.
• The free service Tubi has also carried the series.
• NCircle Entertainment’s official YouTube channel has full uploads of the first six episodes, plus two-episode compilations and marathons; we embed them on the episode pages.

Streaming line-ups change often; check your local service. Release details from Wikipedia (citing the retailers’ listings, Variety, Nintendo Life and What’s on Netflix), Sonic Retro and Sonic Wiki Zone; the NCircle uploads were checked on 6 November 2026.

Reception & Legacy

The redesigns got a mixed response in 2014, and the games that launched with the show were critical and commercial flops. The cartoon fared better. Writing in 2015, The A.V. Club hailed it as the first great Sonic cartoon for over two decades and found the new cast well suited to a hang-out comedy; Common Sense Media flagged the cartoon violence but saw plenty to enjoy, and in 2024 Screen Rant called it easy, colourful fun, though its jokey tone ranked it below the more serious Sonic stories.

Polygon singled out a Season 2 scene in “Eggman’s Anti Gravity Ray” in which Knuckles explains why pointing out broken gender roles undermines equality, then declares himself a feminist. In 2017 the show earned a Teen Choice Award nomination (Choice Animated TV Show) and an animation nomination at the TV France International Export Awards, and director Natalys Raut-Sieuzac took the Chico Independent Film Festival’s Best Animation prize.

Since it ended, Sonic Boom has picked up a cult following online for its self-aware humour. Nintendo Life looked back over the whole Boom sub-franchise for its tenth anniversary in 2024, Den of Geek argued that the 2024 Knuckles series owes the show a debt, and Sticks has stayed in the wider Sonic universe.

Sources

Facts on this page were checked against these sources in November 2026. Where they disagree, we say so.

• Wikipedia: Sonic Boom (TV series) (revision of 21 October 2026): production, cast, broadcast, home media, reception and awards, with its citations (Sega, Polygon, Variety, The A.V. Club, Screen Rant, Common Sense Media, Billboard, C21Media, IGN, Nintendo Life, Den of Geek, What’s on Netflix).
• Wikipedia: List of Sonic Boom episodes (revision of 19 October 2026): writers, storyboard artists, US and French air dates, US ratings.
• Toonzone forums: “Cartoon Network November 2017 Premiere Info” (Wayback Machine; the forum now runs as Anime Superhero) and Showbuzz Daily: Saturday cable ratings for 11 November 2017 (Wayback Machine): the 11 November 2017 finale.
• Sonic Retro: Sonic Boom (TV series) (Wayback Machine, December 2024): studios, voice cast, US and French air dates and titles, broadcasters, the Fire & Ice DVD, awards.
• Sonic Wiki Zone: List of Sonic Boom episodes, episode pages and transcripts: director credit, DVD contents, fourth-wall moments (checked against the transcripts), character art.
• Sonic Wiki Zone: Sonic Boom (comic series): launch and end dates of the Archie comic.
• Luke’s original Sonic Boom episode list on Sonic Scene (2017).
• NCircle Entertainment’s official YouTube channel (episode uploads, checked 6 November 2026).
• Sonic Scene’s own pages on Rise of Lyric, Shattered Crystal, Fire & Ice and Sonic Dash 2 for the games.