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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 1, episode 40 (S01E40) |
| Episode no. | 40 of 104 |
| US premiere | 22 August 2015 · Cartoon Network |
| France | 29 August 2015 · Leçons de séduction |
| Written by | Reid Harrison |
| Storyboard | Jordi Valbuena |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 0.81 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
| Previous | Battle of the Boy Bands (S01E39) |
| Next | Bro-Down Showdown (S01E41) |
Tails’ Crush is episode 40 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 22 August 2015 on Cartoon Network.
Synopsis
Tails has stopped making sense. He forgets to time Sonic and Knuckles’ wheelbarrow race, he grins at nothing, and when a fox called Zooey says hello, he can only stammer. Sonic diagnoses the problem at once: a crush. The cure is harder to find.
Every friend has a method, and every method backfires. Playing it cool makes Zooey think he isn’t interested; Knuckles’ macho act involves ordering a very rare steak; a romantic film inspires a serenade that leaves her baffled; and Sticks’ courtship dance, feathers and all, mostly makes Zooey worry about his health. Meanwhile Eggman is having an exasperating day of his own, stuck waiting for a parcel at the post office.
It is Eggman, watching the disaster unfold, who gives the only sensible advice: stop copying people and be yourself. His parcel finally arrives, a Background Music Generator to give his attacks a proper soundtrack, and his robot promptly grabs Zooey. Tails waves off the team and rescues her alone, earning a kiss, and the defeated doctor is pleased enough with his advice to play them something romantic.
Trivia
- Eggman’s closing comment about the heart-shaped iris is one of the show’s fourth-wall gags. Zooey is voiced by Colleen O’Shaughnessey, the voice of Tails.
- On DVD: Universal’s UK volume No Robots Allowed (10 Oct 2016); in the US, NCircle’s Season One, Volume Two (2020) and The Complete Season 1 (2021).
- French title: Leçons de séduction. The episode aired in France on 29 August 2015.
- About 0.81 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.