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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 1, episode 14 (S01E14) |
| Episode no. | 14 of 104 |
| US premiere | 21 February 2015 · Cartoon Network |
| France | 21 January 2015 · L’échange |
| Written by | Story by Romain van Liemt and Jean-Christophe Derrien; teleplay by Romain van Liemt |
| Storyboard | Jean-Francois Galataud |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 0.94 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
| Previous | Unlucky Knuckles (S01E13) |
| Next | Aim Low (S01E15) |
The Meteor is episode 14 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 21 February 2015 on Cartoon Network.
Synopsis
A purple space rock lands near Team Sonic’s campfire, Sonic and Eggman race to claim it, and both touch it at once. When the flash fades, Sonic is waking up in the lair with a moustache, no speed at all and Mike Pollock’s voice, while a blue Eggman is being fussed over by Amy.
The doctor soon masters super speed and plots to wipe out the team, but keeps postponing it because Sonic’s friends are more fun than he expected. Orbot and Cubot only believe the real Sonic when he thanks them, something their boss never does, but his friends just laugh, and when “Sonic” cries assault, they chase him off.
Cubot points out the obvious: Sonic now commands an army. He sends in the robots with orders to go easy on his friends, while Tails works out how the swap happened after a lizard and a fly touch the meteor together. Eggman would rather stay fast, thank you, and only gives in when Sonic threatens to trim his moustache. Home in his own body, the doctor finds a nasty sunburn with a Sonic-shaped pale patch on his forehead, Orbot and Cubot’s idea of a joke.
Trivia
- The voices stay with the bodies: while the minds are swapped, Mike Pollock voices Sonic trapped in Eggman’s body and Roger Craig Smith voices Eggman in Sonic’s (Sonic Wiki Zone’s plot summary and trivia).
- On DVD: Universal’s UK volume Hedgehog Day (30 May 2016); in the US, NCircle’s Season One, Volume One (2019), Here Comes the Boom! (2019) and The Complete Season 1 (2021).
- French title: L’échange. The episode aired in France on 21 January 2015, before its US premiere.
- About 0.94 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.