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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 1, episode 33 (S01E33) |
| Episode no. | 33 of 104 |
| US premiere | 21 July 2015 · Cartoon Network |
| France | 20 May 2015 · Eggman fait son cinéma |
| Written by | Sam Freiberger |
| Storyboard | Jordi Valbuena |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 1.37 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
| Previous | Mayor Knuckles (S01E32) |
| Next | Just a Guy (S01E34) |
Eggman the Auteur is episode 33 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 July 2015 on Cartoon Network.
Synopsis
Eggman has gone Hollywood. His new film tells the story of his rivalry with Sonic, as Sonic learns when he and Tails wreck a robot in the middle of a take. Sonic wants nothing to do with it, so the doctor casts Dave the Intern as Sonic, and Dave plays him as a complete dimwit.
That is too much to bear. Sonic agrees to star, with Amy as his pushy agent, and the production becomes a battle of egos. Amy won’t let her client do dangerous stunts, so a blue-painted Knuckles takes the falls; the star brings in Tails as script doctor; Eggman hates the changes, and his star walks off the set.
Then Orbot and Cubot tip Sonic off that the film is a cover for drilling out a rare mineral to build a new robot army. Sonic wrecks the drilling robot with the cameras catching every second: the tip was bait to get the finale in the can. At the premiere the audience laughs in all the wrong places, and Eggman realises his real scheme has failed too. He forgot to fit the camera with the gadget that was meant to hypnotise everyone watching.
Trivia
- On DVD: Universal’s UK volume Mayor Knuckles (25 Jul 2016); in the US, NCircle’s Season One, Volume Two (2020) and The Complete Season 1 (2021).
- French title: Eggman fait son cinéma. The episode aired in France on 20 May 2015, before its US premiere.
- About 1.37 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.