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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 2, episode 7 (S02E07) |
| Episode no. | 59 of 104 |
| US premiere | 24 December 2016 · Boomerang |
| France | 8 April 2017 · C’est pas la mer à boire |
| Written by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| Storyboard | Jordi Valbuena |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 0.11 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
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I Can Sea Sonic’s Fear from Here is episode 7 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 24 December 2016 on Boomerang.
Synopsis
Eggman has a new theory of defeat: he keeps losing because he always fights Sonic on dry land. So the next battle goes underwater. From a submerged Eggmobile he starts an eight-hour countdown on a Wave Machine that will flatten the village, knowing how much Sonic hates water.
Sonic stalls, but the team gets the truth out of him: he never learned to swim, having skipped lessons to avoid being teased by kids. Even in Tails’ hi-tech wetsuit he can’t go in, so Amy calls in a professional: Soar the Eagle. Soar’s first lesson sets her house on fire; his second is to row Sonic out and push him overboard.
Eggman’s Crab Bots outmatch Amy and Knuckles, a laser blast pins Sonic under coral, and a crab claw cuts his air hose. Sticks, without a wetsuit, swims down a replacement salvaged from Tails’ plane, and a revived Sonic reins in two Shark Bots with seaweed and rams them into the machine. Down it goes, aimed the wrong way, and the doctor washes up at home to find his lair flattened. Fear conquered? Not a bit, and Soar’s next step, a cup of water in the face, doesn’t help.
Trivia
- Sonic’s inability to swim was established in the very first episode, “The Sidekick”.
- 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: C’est pas la mer à boire. 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.