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Title card of “Sleeping Giant” (Sonic Boom, S01E21)

Sleeping Giant – Sonic Boom Season 1, Episode 21

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Title card of Sleeping Giant (Sonic Boom, 2015)
SeriesSonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017)
SeasonSeason 1, episode 21 (S01E21)
Episode no.21 of 104
US premiere11 April 2015 · Cartoon Network
France11 March 2015 · La berceuse
Written byDouglas Tuber & Tim Maile
StoryboardJean-Francois Galataud
Directed byNatalys Raut-Sieuzac
US viewers1.02 million (Nielsen, premiere)
PreviousHedgehog Day (S01E20)
NextThe Curse of Buddy Buddy Temple (S01E22)

Sleeping Giant is episode 21 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 11 April 2015 on Cartoon Network.

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Synopsis

Amy sings to the giant (Sleeping Giant)
Amy sings to the giant.Screenshot: Sonic Boom (2015), “Sleeping Giant” · via Sonic Wiki Zone

Parasailing behind a running Sonic seems like a great idea to Knuckles, right up until he flies face-first into a rock formation that turns out to be asleep. Amy identifies it as a Granifer Giganticus, an ancient mountain-dweller unseen for centuries, and this one is cranky. It swats Tails’ plane out of the sky and stomps about until Tails spots the symptoms of insomnia: it just wants to sleep.

A lullaby seems the obvious answer. Amy’s sweet rendition sends it running with its hands over its ears; Sticks’ tuneless screeching, which has her friends covering theirs, puts it straight to sleep. Then Eggman tries to cage “Rocky” with his Bee Bots, and in the confusion the giant slips away with Sticks, its new favourite singer.

Tails’ Disasterometer tracks her down, the team parasails to the rescue, and Sonic has a plan for their enormous pursuer: lead it into Eggman’s meditation garden, then play a looped recording of Sticks. Rocky settles down for a nap, which, Amy notes, takes about a year to get going properly. To spare his lair any more damage, the doctor gives in and replants his garden on top of his new guest.

Tails’ Disasterometer (Sleeping Giant)
Tails’ Disasterometer.Screenshot: Sonic Boom (2015), “Sleeping Giant” · via Sonic Wiki Zone

Trivia

  • Amy’s “fun fact” aside to the audience is one of the show’s fourth-wall gags.
  • On DVD: Universal’s UK volume Hedgehog Day (30 May 2016); in the US, NCircle’s Season One, Volume One (2019), Here Comes the Boom! (2019) and The Complete Season 1 (2021).
  • French title: La berceuse. The episode aired in France on 11 March 2015, before its US premiere.
  • About 1.02 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.

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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.