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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 1, episode 18 (S01E18) |
| Episode no. | 18 of 104 |
| US premiere | 21 March 2015 · Cartoon Network |
| France | 11 February 2015 · La sauce tomate du Dr Eggman |
| Written by | Alan Denton & Greg Hahn |
| Storyboard | Gaston Jaunet |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 0.90 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
| Previous | Don’t Judge Me (S01E17) |
| Next | Sole Power (S01E19) |
Dr. Eggman’s Tomato Sauce is episode 18 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 March 2015 on Cartoon Network.
Synopsis
Has Eggman gone straight? He is handing out free tasters of his own tomato sauce in the village, and even Sonic, who knocks the first spoonfuls out of the villagers’ hands, has to admit it tastes great. Tails tests a few cans and finds nothing sinister, and within weeks the doctor is a local star, with a young fan, Stratford, to prove it.
Meanwhile gadgets all over the island start playing up, including Tails’ beloved plane. The explanation arrives on Meh Burger’s TV, which refuses to switch off, as the doctor tells Comedy Chimp’s viewers that the sauce was never the danger. The cans were, little robots that have spent weeks rewiring everyone’s electronics into an army.
One flick of a switch and the village’s appliances turn on their owners. Tails stays behind to tame his own plane while the others storm the lair to free the talk-show host and take on Scrapheap Bot, which keeps rebuilding itself from cans. Victory only comes when Tails plucks the controller out of Eggman’s hand mid-gloat. With a camera still rolling, Eggman then boasts that he will do it all again, and ends the day surrounded by boxes of unsold sauce.
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: La sauce tomate du Dr Eggman. The episode aired in France on 11 February 2015, before its US premiere.
- About 0.90 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.