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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 2, episode 18 (S02E18) |
| Episode no. | 70 of 104 |
| US premiere | 11 March 2017 · Boomerang |
| France | 9 April 2017 · L’épisode sans nom |
| Written by | Benoit Grenier |
| Storyboard | Gael Leroux & Selena Piques |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 0.09 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
| Previous | Blackout (S02E17) |
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Unnamed Episode is episode 18 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 March 2017 on Boomerang.
Synopsis
A plan for souvenir T-shirts raises an awkward question: what is the Unnamed Village actually called? A web search by Tails turns up the answer: Badgerville, named for Jebediah Badger, a crooked banker and land grabber who evicted families until the locals drove him off. On a technicality the name still stands, and Jebediah was Sticks’ great-great-grandfather.
The village turns on Sticks overnight, and the renaming turns ugly. Amy’s suggestion, Pleasant Valley, has the crowd’s support until Eggman demands an election, wins it with free T-shirts and a smear campaign against Amy for being friends with Sticks, and renames the place Eggman City. A hidden clause hands him absolute power, and his first big project is bulldozing the town for a theme park.
The boys skip library duty, so Amy alone finds the loophole in the public records: Jebediah never gave up the land, so the whole village belongs to his latest descendant. Sticks, already packing to leave, hands power back to the people, then jams Eggman’s bulldozer into reverse with her staff. Offered Badgerville as an honour, she renames the place Hedgehog Village, not after Sonic, as he assumes, but after Amy.
Trivia
- The episode’s title is a joke on the village’s name, and the episode finally gives it one. Sticks being the legal owner of the village comes from this episode.
- 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: L’épisode sans nom. The episode aired in France on 9 April 2017.
- About 0.09 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.