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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 2, episode 16 (S02E16) |
| Episode no. | 68 of 104 |
| US premiere | 25 February 2017 · Boomerang |
| France | 9 April 2017 · L’employé Knuckles |
| Written by | Benoit Grenier |
| Storyboard | Hugues Malety-Fischer & Clemence Liberge |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 0.16 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
| Previous | Og Man Out (S02E15) |
| Next | Blackout (S02E17) |
Knine-to-Five Knuckles is episode 16 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 25 February 2017 on Boomerang.
Synopsis
Knuckles wins a lamp on Comedy Chimp’s show and suddenly has a problem: a lamp needs a home. T.W. Barker is happy to sell him one, a wreck with a hole in the roof, and once the contract is signed Knuckles learns that lamps also need electricity, which needs money, which needs a job.
The library is out (he can’t read) and a shop job ends in chaos, but ad-agency boss Diane sees his mess as art and hires him, to colleague Gunther’s disgust. When Barker and his Stunt Bears demand more cash and threaten to take the house, and the lamp, Knuckles quietly takes a second job at Meh Burger under Dave, and keeps it even after promising his friends he’d quit.
It all collides in one afternoon: the ad team celebrates at Meh Burger while Eggman attacks outside. Juggling three roles, Knuckles serves Eggman fries and hurls Gunther into a cup display, and both bosses fire him on the spot. Back at the house, Amy reads Barker’s contract, declares it a swindle and snarls him into releasing Knuckles from it. Knuckles loses the house but not the lamp, which gets a spot at Tails’ workshop.
Trivia
- When asked if he likes nature, Knuckles answers that it says so in his character description, one of the show’s fourth-wall gags.
- 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: L’employé Knuckles. The episode aired in France on 9 April 2017.
- About 0.16 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.