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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 1, episode 15 (S01E15) |
| Episode no. | 15 of 104 |
| US premiere | 28 February 2015 · Cartoon Network |
| France | 14 January 2015 · Coaching perdant |
| Written by | Alan Denton & Greg Hahn |
| Storyboard | Patrick Schwerdtle |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 1.18 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
| Previous | The Meteor (S01E14) |
| Next | How to Succeed in Evil Without Really Trying (S01E16) |
Aim Low is episode 15 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 28 February 2015 on Cartoon Network.
Synopsis
Eggman’s latest robot is wrecked before it can fire a shot, and this time the doctor doesn’t even get angry. He just goes home and mopes, until a TV advert offers salvation in the shape of Soar the Eagle, life coach.
Soar’s programme is all baby steps: pinch Dave’s lunch at Meh Burger, spoil some children’s ice creams, blow up a hillside to make a statue of yourself. It works too well. A swaggering Eggman fires his coach, then finds he can’t make a single decision without him and sinks deeper into his sofa than ever.
Peace should suit Sonic, but with no villain to fight he turns into a bored, twitchy menace, and Tails, Amy and Knuckles all lose a project to his restlessness. In self-defence, they try to get Eggman back on his feet. Staging a fake defeat to lure Sonic over fools nobody, but when Eggman calls Amy’s plan stupid, Sonic leaps to her defence, the old rivalry flares up and the robots roll out. Everyone smiles: normal service has resumed.
Trivia
- On DVD: Universal’s UK volume Hedgehog Day (30 May 2016); in the US, NCircle’s Season One, Volume One (2019) and The Complete Season 1 (2021).
- French title: Coaching perdant. The episode aired in France on 14 January 2015, before its US premiere.
- About 1.18 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.