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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 2, episode 17 (S02E17) |
| Episode no. | 69 of 104 |
| US premiere | 4 March 2017 · Boomerang |
| France | 9 April 2017 · Coupure générale |
| Written by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| Storyboard | Jordi Valbuena |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 0.18 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
| Previous | Knine-to-Five Knuckles (S02E16) |
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Blackout is episode 17 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 4 March 2017 on Boomerang.
Synopsis
The lights go out across the village halfway through Comedy Chimp’s show, and for once Sticks’ prime suspect has an alibi: Eggman needs electricity for his robots too. Then the mayor confesses. The village has always run on the Meroke Crystal, an Ancient relic handed down from mayor to mayor, and it has run dry. A replacement sits in a temple in the frozen wilds, and he has a map.
Blue Force One, it turns out, has a snowmobile mode (news to Amy), and the team reaches a sealed door whose riddle advises the lazy way in. Brute force gets nowhere and Tails reckons his puzzle will take centuries, so Knuckles opens the door by plonking himself down on a rock.
Inside, stone guardians set three more riddles with deadly forfeits: poison gas, a shrinking floor over spikes, a closing ring of guardians. Knuckles, of all people, cracks all three, two of them by accident, with “two sides”, “dust in the wind” and a shout for “silence”. Taking the crystal brings the temple down, but the team snowboards to safety and plugs it in, ending the riot back home. Sonic praises Knuckles’ brains, then takes it back.
Trivia
- 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: Coupure générale. The episode aired in France on 9 April 2017.
- About 0.18 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.