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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 2, episode 37 (S02E37) |
| Episode no. | 89 of 104 |
| US premiere | 22 July 2017 · Boomerang |
| France | 2 September 2017 |
| Written by | Sam Freiberger |
| Storyboard | Hugues Malety-Fischer & Milena Mardos |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| Previous | The Haunted Lair (S02E36) |
| Next | Eggman’s Anti Gravity Ray (S02E38) |
Return of the Buddy Buddy Temple of Doom is episode 37 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 22 July 2017 on Boomerang.
Synopsis
Eggman wants a mech suit like Charlie’s, but his new MeBot, packed with weapons right down to power windows, dies the moment he switches it on. Amy politely declines to help, and Charlie lets slip the cure: the Tummel Crystal, a legendary power source in the catacombs under the Buddy Buddy Temple.
Underground, a magnetic pulse fries his robots, but the Froglodytes mistake him in his Eggmobile for a kingly centaur and pledge eternal service. His new subjects round up the Gogobas as slave labour. The Gogoba Chief guilt-trips Sonic, Tails and Amy into a rescue, which ends in a trap net and chains.
A spot of reverse psychology wins Amy her hammer back, the chains are history, and Sonic bumps Eggman from his seat to show the Froglodytes their “king” is a fraud. The crystal powers MeBot anyway, and Sonic summons his own mech suit for a giant-robot slugfest that ends with MeBot’s missiles exploding in its face and a dud self-destruct (Eggman blames the power windows). The Froglodytes bow to Sonic instead, and as the episode closes, Tails panics that there’s no final gag. Three cream pies fix that.
Trivia
- A sequel to Season 1’s “The Curse of Buddy Buddy Temple”; the title spoofs Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
- 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).
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.