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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 1, episode 48 (S01E48) |
| Episode no. | 48 of 104 |
| US premiere | 17 October 2015 · Cartoon Network |
| France | 6 September 2015 · À qui le tour ? |
| Written by | Reid Harrison |
| Storyboard | Hugues Malety-Fischer |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 0.72 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
| Previous | Fuzzy Puppy Buddies (S01E47) |
| Next | Role Models (S01E49) |
Designated Heroes is episode 48 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 17 October 2015 on Cartoon Network.
Synopsis
Five against one isn’t fair, Eggman complains after yet another defeat, with Orbot and Cubot providing sports-style commentary from the sidelines. If the heroes really believe in fair play, he says, they should take him on one at a time. Sonic, never one to back down, agrees for all of them.
It is a terrible idea. The doctor beats each hero by turning their personality against them: Amy hands over her hammer for “charity”, Sticks is spooked by talk of aliens, Tails is flattered into giving up the controls to his new force-field gadget and Knuckles warms up so enthusiastically he never gets round to fighting. Sonic laughs at them all, then waits so long for his turn that he holds a tea party with some rocks and dozes off.
He wakes in a cage built from his friends’ confiscated gear. Still smarting, they come to help anyway, sticking to one-on-one but tagging in and out like a wrestling team, and Eggman ends up in the cage instead. Then Sonic boasts that he landed the final blow, so the others leave him locked in with the doctor, who passes the time singing.
Trivia
- On DVD: Universal’s UK volume No Robots Allowed (10 Oct 2016); in the US, NCircle’s Season One, Volume Two (2020), Go Team Sonic! (2019) and The Complete Season 1 (2021).
- French title: À qui le tour ?. The episode aired in France on 6 September 2015, before its US premiere.
- About 0.72 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.