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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 1, episode 23 (S01E23) |
| Episode no. | 23 of 104 |
| US premiere | 25 April 2015 · Cartoon Network |
| France | 1 April 2015 · Nominatus |
| Written by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| Storyboard | Jordi Valbuena |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 0.83 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
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Let’s Play Musical Friends is episode 23 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 25 April 2015 on Cartoon Network.
Synopsis
Eggman’s latest pal is strictly online. Nominatus is a living virus with a superior sneer, and the doctor is so taken with him that Orbot and Cubot, ignored and fed up, go looking for new friends. Team Sonic flees at the mention of charades, leaving Tails to palm them off with a laptop game.
That laptop happens to show what is really going on in the lair: Nominatus is taking over every machine Eggman owns. Before long the doctor is fleeing his own Bee Bots, and the virus announces a plan to wipe out all life as illogical and messy. Only an artificial intelligence can get past the firewall, which means everyone’s fate rests with Orbot and Cubot.
Uploaded into a cyber world that looks like a 16-bit game, the bots accidentally fly Tails’ real plane, set Burnbot loose and escape a crushing room with a lucky cheat code. Face to face with Nominatus at last, they settle who has to fight him with a round of Rock-Donut-Thursday, a game so illogical that the virus’s head explodes. Worn out, hero and villain agree they could both do with fewer battles, and book the next one for a week’s time.
Trivia
- Nominatus returns in Season 2’s “Nominatus Rising”. The French title is simply Nominatus.
- On DVD: Universal’s UK volume Hedgehog Day (30 May 2016); in the US, NCircle’s Season One, Volume One (2019), Go Team Sonic! (2019) and The Complete Season 1 (2021).
- French title: Nominatus. The episode aired in France on 1 April 2015, before its US premiere.
- About 0.83 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.