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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 1, episode 39 (S01E39) |
| Episode no. | 39 of 104 |
| US premiere | 15 August 2015 · Cartoon Network |
| France | 29 August 2015 · La guerre des boys band |
| Written by | Alan Denton & Greg Hahn |
| Storyboard | Jeremy Corbeaux |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 0.65 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
| Previous | New Year’s Retribution (S01E38) |
| Next | Tails’ Crush (S01E40) |
Battle of the Boy Bands is episode 39 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 15 August 2015 on Cartoon Network.
Synopsis
The village has a bad case of Beaver Fever, and the patients include Amy, who swears pop star Justin Beaver’s songs speak to her personally, and Sticks, who has papered her burrow with his merchandise. Every female fan in town is behaving very strangely. Sonic, Tails and Knuckles smell a rat, but the only way backstage is to be in the music business.
So they become a boy band. After much debate they reject Knuckles’ suggestion, Dude-itude, for sounding too cool, and settle on Dreamboat Express because it sounds terrible. Posing as the opening act, they overhear Justin’s producer, Dixon, explaining the plan: the music is mind control, designed to turn fans into mindless shoppers, and the next concert will brainwash every woman for five miles.
Amy and Sticks won’t hear a word against Justin, so Tails builds a gadget to measure his frequency, and a sing-off on stage gives him the reading he needs. Then the boys switch to rock as Dude-itude after all, and Sonic’s guitar solo floors Justin and breaks the spell. The merchandise goes in the bin, Justin quits music for reality TV, and Dixon is left counting his losses.
Trivia
- Dude-itude are back on the road in Season 2’s “Planes, Trains and Dude-Mobiles”.
- 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: La guerre des boys band. The episode aired in France on 29 August 2015.
- About 0.65 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.