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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 2, episode 36 (S02E36) |
| Episode no. | 88 of 104 |
| US premiere | 15 July 2017 · Boomerang |
| France | 3 September 2017 · Le repaire hanté |
| Written by | Sandrine Joly |
| Storyboard | Jeremy Corbeaux |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| Previous | Mister Eggman (S02E35) |
| Next | Return of the Buddy Buddy Temple of Doom (S02E37) |
The Haunted Lair is episode 36 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 15 July 2017 on Boomerang.
Synopsis
T.W. Barker’s Haunted Forest is the cheapest scare on the island, and it still sends Eggman screaming. Sonic and Tails fake a haunting at the library for laughs, then guiltily show him the forest’s sheets-on-ropes ghosts by daylight. Cured, Eggman goes home and meets a convincing ghost in his bedroom.
Barker has an explanation: haunted attractions upset the spirits, and, as Barker puts it, “ghosts are powerless against red tape”, so Eggman should sign over his lair and everything in it. He signs, then turns up with a hammer to build himself a new home beside Sonic’s shack. Horrified, Sonic takes him back to find Barker running the lair as a haunted attraction, its ghost nothing but a projection bounced off a mirror into smoke.
Eggman’s own robots, now Barker’s property, throw him out, though his rant tips off the villagers that the attraction is a sham. Worse, Barker proves a smarter tactician with the Badniks than Eggman ever was. Help comes from an unlikely place: Cubot plants an Anti-allegiance Virus that turns the robots on their new master, Barker tears up the contract, and Eggman, back in charge, squares up to Team Sonic as usual.
Trivia
- 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: Le repaire hanté. The episode aired in France on 3 September 2017.
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.