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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 2, episode 9 (S02E09) |
| Episode no. | 61 of 104 |
| US premiere | 7 January 2017 · Boomerang |
| France | 8 April 2017 · Multi-Tails |
| Written by | Marine & Cedric Lachenaud |
| Storyboard | Jean-Charles Andre |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 0.14 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
| Previous | In the Midnight Hour (S02E08) |
| Next | Strike! (S02E10) |
Multi-Tails is episode 9 of Season 2 of Sonic Boom, the CGI comedy series made by Technicolor Animation Productions with Sega of America. It premiered in the United States on 7 January 2017 on Boomerang.
Synopsis
Tails’ new force field, the “Dome-pocalypse”, stops Eggman’s Bee Bots cold and wins him the Trophy of Valor, right up until Eggman tunnels in from below with a drill tank and Scorpion Bots. His shots ricochet inside the dome and wreck half the village, and Mayor Fink relabels the prize the Trophy of Shame.
Sonic tells the crowd nobody can expect one fox to think of everything, and Tails takes him literally. He climbs into his cloner to build a five-fox brain trust, and out come five Tails with a fifth of his brain power each. One punches a hole in Amy’s wall, one answers everything Sticks says with “Why?”, and one lounges in Sonic’s hammock. Trying to merge them only splits him further.
Knuckles herds most of the clones with the promise of a Fink-shaped cheese puff, but one wanders into Eggman’s lair mid-shower, and soon a pack of them are trashing the place. The horrified doctor joins the roundup, and nobody but him can work out how to reverse the cloner. Restored, Tails admits he really needed his friends, though one innocent “Why?” still gets him tackled by Sticks.
Trivia
- On DVD in the US: NCircle’s Season Two, Volume One (May 2021), The Complete Season 2 (2021) and The Complete Series Blu-ray (2022).
- French title: Multi-Tails. The episode aired in France on 8 April 2017.
- About 0.14 million US viewers watched the premiere broadcast (Nielsen figures as listed by Wikipedia).
Watch the Episode
NCircle Entertainment, the show’s US home-video label, has not uploaded this episode on its own to YouTube at the time of writing, though its official channel carries two-episode compilations and Season 2 marathons. Season 2 is on DVD from NCircle (The Complete Season 2, 2021) and has been on Hulu and Netflix; see the series page for details.
Part of our Sonic Boom Season 2 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.