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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 2, episode 2 (S02E02) |
| Episode no. | 54 of 104 |
| US premiere | 19 November 2016 · Boomerang |
| France | 8 April 2017 · Apocalypsmageddon de l’espace |
| Written by | Joelle Sellner |
| Storyboard | Jeremy Corbeaux |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 0.18 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
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Spacemageddonocalypse is episode 2 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 19 November 2016 on Boomerang.
Synopsis
For once, Eggman isn’t making it up: a giant asteroid really is about to hit the planet. He spots it from his Egg Rocket, hurries home to a secret jungle bunker and starts selling places inside. Tails confirms the danger through his “Tail-escope”, while a crisis meeting with Mayor Fink goes nowhere.
The fix comes from Sonic’s vanity: seeing him admire himself in a mirror inspires Tails’ Solar Convergence Device, a mirror rig that focuses sunlight into a beam to nudge the rock aside. Space junk scatters the beam, so someone must fly closer. Sonic gets Eggman’s rocket towed for illegal parking, but the team picks Knuckles as pilot. How often does Sonic get to save the world? According to Knuckles’ TV listings, about once a week.
Knuckles’ picture instructions turn out to be Tails’ grocery list, so he breaks the device, shatters the asteroid with a ground pound and rides Eggman’s satellite back to the rocket. Sonic gets his moment when the pieces keep falling, batting them away with Amy’s hammer. He counts 30. There were 31, and the one he missed is now blocking the entrance to Eggman’s bunker, with the doctor and his guests stuck inside.
Trivia
- Knuckles’ line about the TV listings is one of the show’s best-known fourth-wall jokes. The title mashes up “Armageddon” and “apocalypse”.
- 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).
- French title: Apocalypsmageddon de l’espace. The episode aired in France on 8 April 2017.
- About 0.18 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.