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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 1, episode 43 (S01E43) |
| Episode no. | 43 of 104 |
| US premiere | 12 September 2015 · Cartoon Network |
| France | 30 August 2015 · Question de points de vue |
| Written by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| Storyboard | Jordi Valbuena |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 0.73 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
| Previous | Late Night Wars (S01E42) |
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Fire in a Crowded Workshop is episode 43 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 12 September 2015 on Cartoon Network.
Synopsis
Tails comes home to a smoking workshop, three singed friends and a stranger, Perci the bandicoot, nursing a hurt arm. Everyone agrees they were only trying to help her mend her bike. On every other point, they disagree completely.
Cue the show’s riff on Rashomon. Sonic’s account is a hero’s tale with Sonic as the hero. Knuckles reimagines himself as a dashing sea captain who saves the day with frosty breath. Amy’s is a story about one sensible grown-up surrounded by boys making fools of themselves over a flirt. Each version blames someone else for the fire, and in every one Sticks rushes past with a new conspiracy theory.
Perci, sick of the lot of them, offers her own unflattering version, and it settles nothing either. The answer comes from Tails himself: how did they get in past his brand-new laser alarm? The culprit was his own glitchy alarm. Cleared, the trio wander off for lunch, while Perci stays to flirt with the fox fixing her bike.
Trivia
- A Rashomon-style story told from several conflicting points of view. On NCircle’s first pressing of Season One, Volume Two this episode played in Spanish whatever the audio setting.
- On DVD: Universal’s UK volume No Robots Allowed (10 Oct 2016); in the US, NCircle’s Season One, Volume Two (2020) and The Complete Season 1 (2021).
- French title: Question de points de vue. The episode aired in France on 30 August 2015, before its US premiere.
- About 0.73 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.