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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 2, episode 1 (S02E01) |
| Episode no. | 53 of 104 |
| US premiere | 29 October 2016 · Cartoon Network |
| France | 8 April 2017 |
| Written by | Alan Denton & Greg Hahn |
| Storyboard | Jordi Valbuena |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 0.56 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
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Tommy Thunder: Method Actor is episode 1 of Season 2 of Sonic Boom, the CGI comedy series made by Technicolor Animation Productions with Sega of America. It premiered in the United States on 29 October 2016 on Cartoon Network.
Synopsis
Season 2 kicks off with a celebrity crisis. Action-film star Tommy Thunder is signing autographs at Meh Burger, and Sonic is the one villager who isn’t starstruck. Then Tommy watches him flatten Eggman’s Bee Bots with a stale baguette and wants to study him for his next role.
Sonic refuses, even when a melon carved into his likeness turns up as a bribe, but a fancy dinner in Meh Burger’s “VIP room” wins over his friends, and Amy talks him round. It’s a disaster. Tommy copies his every move, asks for a retake after the team ties up the Weasel Bandits, and lets Soar the Eagle credit him with the arrest. On Comedy Chimp’s talk show he inflates his exploits and dares Eggman to come and get him.
Eggman, watching between batches of muffins, obliges. Faced with real Badniks and the Obliterator Bot, Tommy crumbles and admits he is no hero (even his name is fake). Sonic saves him, then lets the star keep the credit when Soar hands him the microphone. His friends reward that maturity with a trip to Meh Burger, where Knuckles demands the VIP room and Dave insists there has never been one.
Trivia
- The Season 2 premiere, and the last new episode to debut on Cartoon Network before the rest of the season moved to Boomerang. It drew 0.56 million US viewers, by far the season’s biggest audience in Wikipedia’s figures.
- Tommy’s real name, according to Wikipedia’s character list, is Irwin Fertelmeister.
- On DVD in the US: NCircle’s Season Two, Volume One (May 2021), The Complete Season 2 (2021) and The Complete Series Blu-ray (2022).
- About 0.56 million US viewers watched the premiere broadcast (Nielsen figures as listed by Wikipedia).
Watch the Episode
NCircle Entertainment, the show’s US home-video label, has not uploaded this episode on its own to YouTube at the time of writing, though its official channel carries two-episode compilations and Season 2 marathons. Season 2 is on DVD from NCircle (The Complete Season 2, 2021) and has been on Hulu and Netflix; see the series page for details.
Part of our Sonic Boom Season 2 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.