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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 2, episode 3 (S02E03) |
| Episode no. | 55 of 104 |
| US premiere | 26 November 2016 · Boomerang |
| France | 8 April 2017 · Sticks contre le système |
| Written by | Sam Freiberger |
| Storyboard | Jean-Charles Andre |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 0.11 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
| Previous | Spacemageddonocalypse (S02E02) |
| Next | Alone Again, Unnaturally (S02E04) |
Nutwork is episode 3 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 26 November 2016 on Boomerang.
Synopsis
Sticks always knew the system was rigged, and a dry tap gives her proof, or at least a theory. The village’s water is vanishing, yet Soar the Eagle would rather film a scissor factory opening and Mayor Fink is busy clipping coupons. So Sticks becomes the news, swallowing her distrust of technology to let Tails turn her burrow into a pirate radio station.
Her call-in show names Eggman as the culprit, and a raid on his lair catches him on Tails’ camera, boasting he is siphoning the water to sell it back. Listeners flock in, and TV boss Dixon fires Soar to give Sticks her own show. Compromises follow: a “happy” story about Fink’s puppies, Eggman Industries as her sponsor, an Eggman hat and a ban on investigating him.
When the village brands her a sell-out, Sticks urges everyone to question what TV tells them and fight the power. They riot, which is not quite what she meant, until Sonic calms them. Then Eggman rolls up with a Mega Microwave Water Vaporizer, and the fired-up crowd tears it apart themselves. Sticks quits, Soar gets his job back, and her lecture on truth lasts him until his next puppy story.
Trivia
- Written by Sam Freiberger, who also wrote “Eggman the Auteur” in Season 1.
- 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: Sticks contre le système. The episode aired in France on 8 April 2017.
- About 0.11 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.