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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 1, episode 17 (S01E17) |
| Episode no. | 17 of 104 |
| US premiere | 14 March 2015 · Cartoon Network |
| France | 11 February 2015 · Ne me jugez pas |
| Written by | Reid Harrison |
| Storyboard | Patrick Schwerdtle |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 0.87 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
| Previous | How to Succeed in Evil Without Really Trying (S01E16) |
| Next | Dr. Eggman’s Tomato Sauce (S01E18) |
Don’t Judge Me is episode 17 of Season 1 of Sonic Boom, the CGI comedy series made by OuiDo! Productions with Sega of America. It premiered in the United States on 14 March 2015 on Cartoon Network.
Synopsis
Sonic Boom does courtroom drama. After a night-time scrap with Eggman’s Moth Bot, settled with a giant catapult, a glowing light bulb and some moth balls, the doctor is carried off clutching his neck, and the next day a process server hands Sonic a lawsuit. Sonic laughs it off, until Soar the Eagle starts calling it the trial of the century.
Amy is away on a beekeeping course, so Knuckles defends him. The other side has a wheelchair-bound Eggman, the smooth T.W. Barker and a robot judge who looks a lot like Burnbot. Barker paints the attack as an innocent evening drive, Orbot screens a heartwarming (and fake) home movie, and even Tails’ glowing character reference is turned against Sonic. Knuckles’ masterstroke is to question himself, arguing that Sonic is far too weak to hurt anyone, until his furious client incriminates himself.
The village jury dithers, and Judge Bot is about to declare Sonic guilty when Amy storms back in and slams her hammer on the floor. The room shakes, Eggman’s “broken” neck swivels round to see what happened, and the case collapses into a brawl that spills out of the courthouse in the middle of Soar’s live report.
Trivia
- On DVD: Universal’s UK volume Hedgehog Day (30 May 2016); in the US, NCircle’s Season One, Volume One (2019) and The Complete Season 1 (2021).
- French title: Ne me jugez pas. The episode aired in France on 11 February 2015, before its US premiere.
- About 0.87 million US viewers watched the premiere broadcast (Nielsen figures as listed by Wikipedia).
Watch the Episode
This episode does not have an official full upload on YouTube at the time of writing. Season 1 is on DVD from NCircle in the US (The Complete Season 1, 2021) and Universal in the UK (2016), and has been available on services including Hulu, Netflix and Tubi; see the series page for details.
Part of our Sonic Boom Season 1 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.