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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 1, episode 25 (S01E25) |
| Episode no. | 25 of 104 |
| US premiere | 9 May 2015 · Cartoon Network |
| France | 1 April 2015 · Dans la nature |
| Written by | Reid Harrison |
| Storyboard | Hugues Malety-Fischer |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 1.05 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
| Previous | Late Fees (S01E24) |
| Next | Eggman Unplugged (S01E26) |
Into the Wilderness is episode 25 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 9 May 2015 on Cartoon Network.
Synopsis
Sonic reckons all those battles with Eggman make him a survival expert, a claim slightly undermined when he falls down a well while making it. So Sticks sets a challenge: girls against boys, in a race through the jungle to Hidden Meadows, about four days away on foot. Sonic could run there and back in a second, but the rules say he has to bring Knuckles.
While Sticks drills Amy in fires, knots and which plants won’t kill you, the boys train by eating burgers in front of the TV. The boys’ plan to tail the girls and sprint past at the end collapses when they party all night and oversleep, waking up lost, and the girls’ secret attempts to steer them home get nowhere.
Then Amy and Sticks tumble into one of Eggman’s abandoned missile silos, and the boys leave them there. Bad move. Sticks rigs a launch, and the girls ride the missile over the boys’ heads and parachute onto the finish line. Sonic cries foul; Amy argues that improvising is what survival is all about. The missile, meanwhile, has been stamped “Return to Sender”, as Eggman discovers a moment too late.
Trivia
- On DVD: Universal’s UK volume Hedgehog Day (30 May 2016); in the US, NCircle’s Season One, Volume Two (2020) and The Complete Season 1 (2021).
- French title: Dans la nature. The episode aired in France on 1 April 2015, before its US premiere.
- About 1.05 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.