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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 1, episode 4 (S01E04) |
| Episode no. | 4 of 104 |
| US premiere | 15 November 2014 · Cartoon Network |
| France | 22 November 2014 · Sidney le déchet (sources differ) |
| Written by | Eric Trueheart |
| Storyboard | Jordi Valbuena |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 1.02 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
| Previous | Translate This (S01E03) |
| Next | My Fair Sticksy (S01E05) |
Buster is episode 4 of Season 1 of Sonic Boom, the CGI comedy series made by OuiDo! Productions with Sega of America. It premiered in the United States on 15 November 2014 on Cartoon Network.
Synopsis
Sticks is a lot of things, but gentle with animals is not one of them, so her friends prescribe a pet. She turns her nose up at everything cute in the pet shop and falls for a little robot dog fished out of the trash, who never stops leaking slime. Sticks christens him Buster and declares him perfect.
Within a week he has slimed every member of the team and most of their belongings. Worse, when Orbot and Cubot rob the DangerCo warehouse disguised as Sonic and Tails, Sticks won’t join the fight in case Buster gets hurt, and the pup gets under Sonic’s feet. Her friends make her choose: them or the dog.
Then the doctor himself drops in with a metal chew toy and a confession: the pup is one of his own creations, and the robbery was all about upgrading him. One chew and he becomes a tentacled monster with the team in his grip. Sticks, of all people, wins him back with a stern telling-off, and he sends his maker packing. Sticks sets her pet free on the beach, and Tails’ plan for a pet octopus is over almost before it begins.
Trivia
- On DVD: Universal’s UK volume The Sidekick (8 Feb 2016); in the US, NCircle’s Season One, Volume One (2019) and The Complete Season 1 (2021).
- Sources disagree on the French premiere: we use 22 Nov 2014 (Luke, Sonic Retro); 19 Nov 2014 (Wikipedia list) gives a different date.
- French title: Sidney le déchet. The episode aired in France on 22 November 2014.
- About 1.02 million US viewers watched the premiere broadcast (Nielsen figures as listed by Wikipedia).
Watch the Episode
The full episode, uploaded by NCircle Entertainment, the show’s US home-video label, on its official YouTube channel (checked 6 November 2026).
Part of our Sonic Boom Season 1 guide. See the series page for the cast, the redesigns, the games and the comics.
Sources: air dates, writers and storyboard artists from Luke’s original Sonic Scene episode list, cross-checked with Wikipedia, Sonic Retro (Wayback copy) and Sonic Wiki Zone; synopsis written for Sonic Scene from the episode summaries on those sites; title card and screenshots via Sonic Wiki Zone, copied to our media library.