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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 2, episode 14 (S02E14) |
| Episode no. | 66 of 104 |
| US premiere | 11 February 2017 · Boomerang |
| France | 8 April 2017 · Ennemi-Bot |
| Written by | Alan Denton & Greg Hahn |
| Storyboard | Jean-Charles Andre |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 0.15 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
| Previous | Mech Suits Me (S02E13) |
| Next | Og Man Out (S02E15) |
FiendBot is episode 14 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 11 February 2017 on Boomerang.
Synopsis
Eggman’s new robot has studied every Sonic battle on record, so FiendBot can predict the hedgehog’s banter, block his spin attack and knock him flat. But the footage taught it something Eggman never planned for. When Sonic breaks off the fight to save Perci from a falling tree and catch little Chumley, FiendBot decides Sonic is a hero, and a friend, and chases Eggman off with missiles.
Sonic renames his giant new buddy FriendBot, but the team isn’t convinced. Volleyball, a dance party and rounds of the rare game Tomatopotamus 2 (Knuckles has just taken Sonic’s crown) all end in FriendBot-sized wreckage. Eggman, for his part, concludes that his error was giving FiendBot a mind, so his next weapon, a cannon on treads, gets none.
When the blaster corners Sonic, FriendBot takes the shot and shuts down, which finally wins the others over. Repairs need Sparcium, a rare alloy, and the only supply to hand is the chip inside their Tomatopotamus 2 cartridge, so Knuckles’ high score is sacrificed. Too big for anyone’s house, the revived robot moves to the canyon to look after the Cubot prototypes, but not before Knuckles makes him remember who the champion is.
Trivia
- FriendBot’s new home is the canyon of rejected Cubot prototypes from Season 1’s “Beyond the Valley of the Cubots”.
- 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: Ennemi-Bot. The episode aired in France on 8 April 2017.
- About 0.15 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.