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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 2, episode 19 (S02E19) |
| Episode no. | 71 of 104 |
| US premiere | 18 March 2017 · Boomerang |
| France | 9 April 2017 · Les employés 2.0 |
| Written by | Anne Baraou |
| Storyboard | Jeremy Klein |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 0.14 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
| Previous | Unnamed Episode (S02E18) |
| Next | Give Bees a Chance (S02E20) |
Robot Employees is episode 19 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 18 March 2017 on Boomerang.
Synopsis
Eggman orders a chili dog at Meh Burger, gets a burger and decides the restaurant needs fixing. His pitch to owner Mr. Slate, a staff of efficient robot employees, goes down well, and Dave the Intern has to beat the machines at grilling, cleaning and taking orders to keep his job. He loses every round.
The village loves the new Meh Burger, apart from Sticks, who stalks off to forage in the woods. Dave’s Lightning Bolt Society plot to sabotage the grand re-opening collapses when the other members are tempted inside by free cheeseburgers. Then Eggman raises a toast, traps the restaurant and everyone in it inside a force field, turns the robots on Team Sonic and fires up thrusters that carry the whole building skyward.
That leaves the two robot haters to save the day. Talked through it by Tails, Sticks borrows his plane and recruits a reluctant Dave as co-pilot. In spacesuits, they knock out half the thrusters with her boomerang, and Sticks builds a blaster from parts grabbed at Tails’ workshop to break the force field. The villagers float down on tablecloth parachutes, Meh Burger crashes back into its own crater, and Mr. Slate makes Dave manager.
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: Les employés 2.0. The episode aired in France on 9 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.