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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 1, episode 22 (S01E22) |
| Episode no. | 22 of 104 |
| US premiere | 18 April 2015 · Cartoon Network |
| France | 11 March 2015 · La malédiction du temple des Po-Potes |
| Written by | Doug Lieblich |
| Storyboard | Patrick Schwerdtle |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 0.90 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
| Previous | Sleeping Giant (S01E21) |
| Next | Let’s Play Musical Friends (S01E23) |
The Curse of Buddy Buddy Temple is episode 22 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 18 April 2015 on Cartoon Network.
Synopsis
An ancient temple swallows Sonic and Eggman mid-chase and slams its doors behind them, and the only way out is the one thing neither wants to do: cooperate. The Buddy Buddy Temple, its carvings explain, exists to deepen the bond between two people, and every chamber is built around that idea.
So the pair take turns saving each other. Sonic, nursing a twisted ankle, ends up in a harness hauling the Eggmobile; lava rises until they pull levers for one another, and darts and closing walls follow. Eggman even fakes an injury to lock Sonic in a crushing room, only to discover he can’t get through the next trial without him.
Outside, leaderless chaos. Orbot and Cubot happily abandon their boss, then come back because freedom is too much for them, while Amy and Knuckles spend the whole time arguing about who is in charge. The argument ends when the ground gives way and drops everyone into the temple, just in time for a mine-cart escape from the collapsing ruins. Eggman reckons they made a good team; Sonic is having none of it, and the two sides go back to being enemies.
Trivia
- The temple returns in Season 2’s “Return of the Buddy Buddy Temple of Doom”.
- 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: La malédiction du temple des Po-Potes. The episode aired in France on 11 March 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.