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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 2, episode 6 (S02E06) |
| Episode no. | 58 of 104 |
| US premiere | 17 December 2016 · Boomerang |
| France | 8 April 2017 |
| Written by | Ian Flynn |
| Storyboard | Gael Leroux & Jeremy Klein |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 0.19 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
| Previous | The Biggest Fan (S02E05) |
| Next | I Can Sea Sonic’s Fear from Here (S02E07) |
Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Worse-er is episode 6 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 17 December 2016 on Boomerang.
Synopsis
Eggman loses again, then plants a seed: catching Sonic, he tells Tails, is harder than it looks. Before long the pals have a wager, and the forfeit is brutal: the loser croons a soppy ballad on karaoke night at Meh Burger. Amy, remembering a monkey-hat contest between Sonic and Knuckles, predicts trouble.
She’s right. Sonic breezes through a chili-dog cage, a hammock slingshot and a barrel trap, grading each attempt while the traps collect the wrong targets: Knuckles in a barrel, Amy under a homing boulder, Sticks in a bear trap. The doctor’s flying spy camera is watching, and he is happy to let Tails do the hard work.
Tails’ masterpiece plays on Sonic’s ego: a fake sulk on a frozen lake, a chili dog as a consolation prize and a cannon-fired bowling ball that cracks the ice under a hedgehog who can’t swim. Eggman swoops in, and Tails realises his friends are still stuck. He frees them in time, helped by Eggman’s minions bickering over “Hedge-cicle” versus “Hedge-cube”, and Knuckles hurls Sonic into the Eggmobile. Tails still ends up at the karaoke mic, though Sonic privately admits he probably lost. Best not to tell Tails.
Trivia
- The first episode written by Ian Flynn, writer of Archie’s Sonic Boom comic; Bill Freiberger announced the episode as production number 206. The title borrows from the song “Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)”.
- 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 0.19 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.