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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 1, episode 30 (S01E30) |
| Episode no. | 30 of 104 |
| US premiere | 16 July 2015 · Cartoon Network |
| France | 22 April 2015 · Chaud le piment |
| Written by | Reid Harrison |
| Storyboard | Christophe Malcombe |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 1.45 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
| Previous | Curse of the Cross Eyed Moose (S01E29) |
| Next | Closed Door Policy (S01E31) |
Chili Dog Day Afternoon is episode 30 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 16 July 2015 on Cartoon Network.
Synopsis
Mrs. Vandersnout has been busy. Every member of Team Sonic has bought a “one-of-a-kind” pepper from her for the village Chili Dog Cook-Off, and every one of them is identical. Knuckles goes foraging for something better and bites into a wild red pepper. He keels over on the spot.
What follows is gloriously strange. At the contest, Eggman’s chili is so hot it sets fire to its bowl, so Knuckles buys a map to the Lost Pepper of Claggerhorn and braves the Lands of the Doomed and a field of exploding ducklings. His quarry is no vegetable but a sword-wielding scotch bonnet, captain of a pepper tribe whose prophecy promises “a big, dumb oaf” to lead them home. Knuckles fits the bill.
Their lost homeland is, it turns out, the village, and Knuckles leads a kilted invasion of the cook-off, until he refuses to let his new captain hurt Sonic and knocks him into a chili pot. The pepper finds it as relaxing as a hot spring, a deal is struck, and Knuckles’ pepper-juice chili wins. Then he wakes up in the woods, a day late for the real contest, and burps fire at his laughing friends.
Trivia
- With 1.45 million US viewers, the second most-watched episode of the series by Wikipedia’s figures; the title puns on the 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon.
- One of three episodes on the bonus DVD packed with launch copies of Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice.
- On DVD: Universal’s UK volume Mayor Knuckles (25 Jul 2016); in the US, NCircle’s Season One, Volume Two (2020) and The Complete Season 1 (2021).
- French title: Chaud le piment. The episode aired in France on 22 April 2015, before its US premiere.
- About 1.45 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.