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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 1, episode 9 (S01E09) |
| Episode no. | 9 of 104 |
| US premiere | 17 January 2015 · Cartoon Network |
| France | 17 December 2014 · Voyage au bout de la culpabilité |
| Written by | Adam Beechen |
| Storyboard | Gaston Jaunet |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 0.92 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
| Previous | Eggheads (S01E08) |
| Next | Dude, Where’s My Eggman? (S01E10) |
Guilt Tripping is episode 9 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 17 January 2015 on Cartoon Network.
Synopsis
The Gogobas are tiny, adorable and absolute masters of guilt. Sonic and Tails find this out after rescuing their village from the Weasel Bandits, a job that ends with the crooks catapulted away by a palm tree and the heroes trying, and failing, to say goodbye.
Every exit is blocked by kindness. There is a feast that will go to waste if they don’t eat it, a bed for the night with the nursery’s only blanket, and a whole village sitting up to watch over them. Even the defence system they build so they can leave ends up trapping the villagers. Sonic finally out-guilts the chief, pleading thirsty houseplants, only to get home and find the Gogobas have moved into his shack.
Help comes from an unlikely direction. Eggman attacks, and once his robots are scrap, Sonic convinces him that the Gogobas were the secret of Team Sonic’s success, then persuades the chief that the poor doctor deserves their pity more. The tribe follows Eggman home, and soon he is the one who can’t get any peace.
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).
- French title: Voyage au bout de la culpabilité. The episode aired in France on 17 December 2014, before its US premiere.
- About 0.92 million US viewers watched the premiere broadcast (Nielsen figures as listed by Wikipedia).
Watch the Episode
This episode does not have an official full upload on YouTube at the time of writing. Season 1 is on DVD from NCircle in the US (The Complete Season 1, 2021) and Universal in the UK (2016), and has been available on services including Hulu, Netflix and Tubi; see the series page for details.
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.