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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 2, episode 11 (S02E11) |
| Episode no. | 63 of 104 |
| US premiere | 21 January 2017 · Boomerang |
| France | 8 April 2017 · Le maléfique docteur Orbot |
| Written by | Benoit Grenier |
| Storyboard | Jordi Valbuena |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 0.14 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
| Previous | Strike! (S02E10) |
| Next | Knuck Knuck! Who’s Here? (S02E12) |
The Evil Dr. Orbot is episode 11 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 21 January 2017 on Boomerang.
Synopsis
Crime is bankrupting the village, so Mayor Fink does the bureaucratic thing: villains now need a permit, which means passing an evil competency test. Eggman forgets his pencil, overthinks question one and fails, and faces a 90-day wait to retake it. His workaround: make Orbot the lair’s licensed villain and pull the strings himself.
Orbot downloads an evil textbook, aces the test and starts having ideas of his own. He steals Tails’ weather-control gadget his way, zaps his boss with lightning and fixes Eggman’s Fuzzy Puppy figurine problem with a slick market trick instead of senseless destruction. Tired of taking orders, he declares himself the Evil Dr. Orbot, and Cubot switches sides too, eager to back a winner for a change.
Orbot’s rampage ends when a heat-seeking missile blows up City Hall’s file of villain permits, which voids the law. Eggman swoops in to claim it was his plan all along, Cubot hits Orbot’s reset button to get his old friend back, and the pair go off to play charades. Sonic is almost impressed by the scheme, until Eggman admits he made it up on the spot, and Tails’ weather machine zaps him one last time.
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: Le maléfique docteur Orbot. The episode aired in France on 8 April 2017.
- About 0.14 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.