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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 1, episode 24 (S01E24) |
| Episode no. | 24 of 104 |
| US premiere | 2 May 2015 · Cartoon Network |
| France | 1 April 2015 · Pénalités de retard |
| Written by | Freddie Gutierrez |
| Storyboard | Jean-Francois Galataud |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 1.07 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
| Previous | Let’s Play Musical Friends (S01E23) |
| Next | Into the Wilderness (S01E25) |
Late Fees is episode 24 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 2 May 2015 on Cartoon Network.
Synopsis
Sonic and Knuckles are busy turning the Tailsmobile into a death-defying fairground ride when Amy calls about the library book Sonic borrowed. It is due back today, and he has no idea where it is. By the time he has tracked it down, the library closes in seven minutes, which for the fastest thing alive should be plenty.
The island has other ideas. A chatty elderly monkey keeps crossing the road in front of him at a crawl, and Sticks’ alien hunt and the Gogoba chief’s guilt trips cost him precious seconds. Worst of all, a detour for a chili dog ends with Sonic sprinting to a warehouse two villages away to fetch one for Eggman, who then complains about the topping.
Sure enough, the ungrateful doctor attacks just short of the finish, and the whole team has to pitch in against his robots. Then the book goes missing in the scuffle (Knuckles is busy enjoying the pictures), and when Sonic finally arrives, the library has shut early. Luckily the doctor fires one last shot on his way out, and the hole it leaves in the wall is just big enough to pass the book through.
Trivia
- On DVD: Universal’s UK volume Hedgehog Day (30 May 2016); in the US, NCircle’s Season One, Volume Two (2020) and The Complete Season 1 (2021).
- French title: Pénalités de retard. The episode aired in France on 1 April 2015, before its US premiere.
- About 1.07 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.