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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 2, episode 10 (S02E10) |
| Episode no. | 62 of 104 |
| US premiere | 14 January 2017 · Boomerang |
| France | 8 April 2017 · En grève ! |
| Written by | Marie Beardmore |
| Storyboard | Hugues Malety-Fischer & Clemence Liberge |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 0.11 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
| Previous | Multi-Tails (S02E09) |
| Next | The Evil Dr. Orbot (S02E11) |
Strike! is episode 10 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 14 January 2017 on Boomerang.
Synopsis
Orbot suggests impact grenades might have worked better, Eggman hears blame, and his two helpers are left to find their own way home. After paddling home on a raft, they are sent out for a hundred garden rocks, then told to take them back. Facing the trash compactor, and egged on by Amy, they down tools.
Eggman scoffs that the strike won’t last, until he drops a coffee mug and nobody is there to clean it up. Every robot he insults for botching the job joins the picket line, which soon gets catchier chants from Rhyme Bot. So Eggman holds a job fair and tempts Wolfie, Mike the Ox and Fastidious Beaver with outrageous pay.
Sonic and Amy rush to rescue the “kidnapped” villagers, only to find they signed up willingly. They make terrible minions anyway, questioning every order, proposing to vote on evil deeds and fleeing the moment Sonic glares at them. A tearful Eggman begs his robots to come back, and Amy brokers a deal: better care, better motor oil and use of the Eggmobile for water crossings (Orbot kindly drops the demand for respect). Amy’s reward? Paddling home on the raft.
Trivia
- One of the episodes on NCircle’s Robot Uprising! DVD (2020).
- On DVD in the US: NCircle’s Season Two, Volume One (May 2021), Robot Uprising! (2020), The Complete Season 2 (2021) and The Complete Series Blu-ray (2022).
- French title: En grève !. 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.