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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 2, episode 21 (S02E21) |
| Episode no. | 73 of 104 |
| US premiere | 1 April 2017 · Boomerang |
| France | 1 May 2017 · Maman-bot |
| Written by | Joelle Sellner |
| Storyboard | Hugues Malety-Fischer & Milena Mardos |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 0.14 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
| Previous | Give Bees a Chance (S02E20) |
| Next | Muckfoot (S02E22) |
Mombot is episode 21 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 1 April 2017 on Boomerang.
Synopsis
Eggman’s Eggs-Boson Super-configurator can conjure a miniature black hole or give broccoli the flavour of applesauce, and it still loses the children’s science fair to Beth the Shrew’s model of the solar system. The judges rule him too tall to enter, and Beth wins a week as apprentice to the village’s leading scientist, who turns out to be Tails. Watching Lady Walrus dote on her son, Eggman realises what he’s missing and builds Mombot, a robot mother programmed to love him unconditionally.
At first it’s bliss, complete with a montage. Then she suggests he give up villainy for air-conditioner repair, arranges a peace-making movie date with Sonic, invites Sonic, Amy and Sticks to dinner, spots his Mantis Bot ambush without turning round and sends him to his room. Meanwhile Tails and Knuckles compete for Beth’s attention, science against smashing, until she wanders off with Sticks to learn about mind-control headphones.
Humiliated, Eggman plans to wipe Mombot’s memory with a magnet, but when the moment comes he can’t do it and sends her on a round-the-world cruise instead. As she hugs him, he turns to the camera and asks, “Does it always have to end on a joke?”
Trivia
- Eggman’s closing line, delivered straight to the viewer, is one of the show’s best fourth-wall breaks.
- On DVD in the US: NCircle’s Season Two, Volume Two (September 2021), The Complete Season 2 (2021) and The Complete Series Blu-ray (2022).
- French title: Maman-bot. The episode aired in France on 1 May 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.