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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 1, episode 44 (S01E44) |
| Episode no. | 44 of 104 |
| US premiere | 19 September 2015 · Cartoon Network |
| France | 30 August 2015 · C’est pas moi, c’est l’autre |
| Written by | Reid Harrison |
| Storyboard | Jean-Francois Galataud |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 0.95 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
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It Wasn’t Me, It Was the One-Armed Hedgehog is episode 44 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 19 September 2015 on Cartoon Network.
Synopsis
Someone has made off with Eggman’s Particle Accelerator, plus a pile of the villagers’ belongings, and every crime scene is littered with footprints that match Sonic’s and the remains of chili dogs. The police want Sonic, Mayor Fink has a mob on his hands, and Sonic takes the classic wrongly-accused route: he slips away to find the real culprit himself.
Undercover as “Bob”, a warehouse hand in another village, he gets a tip-off from his workmate Earl, then a dilemma when Earl is flattened by a stray horseshoe: chase the lead, or fetch the orchid the local doctor needs for a cure? He fetches the orchid. Knuckles, who has volunteered to catch Sonic without the mob’s help, eventually catches up, and turns out to be on his friend’s side.
Together they find a remote shack and the real thief, Metal Sonic, who flattens Knuckles and juices himself up with the stolen machine. A cross-island chase ends when Sonic overloads it with, of all things, a horseshoe. Eggman, needless to say, knows nothing about any of it. A few villagers never get the news and are still out hunting the hedgehog after dark, until the jungle noises scare them home.
Trivia
- The title and plot spoof The Fugitive, in which a man wrongly accused hunts a one-armed man.
- One of three episodes on the bonus DVD in launch copies of Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice.
- 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: C’est pas moi, c’est l’autre. The episode aired in France on 30 August 2015, before its US premiere.
- About 0.95 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.