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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 1, episode 37 (S01E37) |
| Episode no. | 37 of 104 |
| US premiere | 1 August 2015 · Cartoon Network |
| France | 29 August 2015 · Il y a un nouveau méchant en ville |
| Written by | Reid Harrison |
| Storyboard | Hugues Malety-Fischer |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 0.62 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
| Previous | Beyond the Valley of the Cubots (S01E36) |
| Next | New Year’s Retribution (S01E38) |
Next Top Villain is episode 37 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 1 August 2015 on Cartoon Network.
Synopsis
In his bedroom, with a cape, a helmet and a box of action figures, Dave the Intern is the greatest supervillain of all time. In real life his homemade schemes fizzle, Team Sonic barely notices, Eggman mocks him, and his mother wants to know why he can’t be more like the doctor.
Then luck intervenes. A Dave tantrum spooks one of his attack rabbits onto the Eggmobile’s controls, a laser fells a palm tree, and Eggman wakes up locked in his own Electrocage in Dave’s bedroom. Orbot and Cubot haven’t noticed he is gone. Dave announces on the news that he is the island’s new top villain, and when Sonic laughs it off on camera, he steals the Octopus Bot to prove it.
In Dave’s head, the village flees in terror; in reality, he just drives into things. Sonic has to spring Eggman to find out how to stop the robot, and the doctor only reveals the off switch under its head once he sees Amy and Knuckles tearing it apart. A selfie at the wheel sends Dave careering into his own home, Sonic flips the switch, and Dave’s mother is thrilled: her boy is finally a real villain.
Trivia
- Dave’s mother, also a villain, is revealed in this episode.
- 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: Il y a un nouveau méchant en ville. The episode aired in France on 29 August 2015.
- About 0.62 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.