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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 2, episode 22 (S02E22) |
| Episode no. | 74 of 104 |
| US premiere | 8 April 2017 · Boomerang |
| France | 1 May 2017 · Boufoot |
| Written by | Kevin Burke & Chris “Doc” Wyatt |
| Storyboard | Gael Leroux & Milena Mardos |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 0.13 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
| Previous | Mombot (S02E21) |
| Next | Nominatus Rising (S02E23) |
Muckfoot is episode 22 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 8 April 2017 on Boomerang.
Synopsis
Sticks swears a vine-covered beast called Muckfoot roams the jungle, and Tails scoffs until he spots one through his Tail-escope that night. A tripwire camera gets the proof, and soon the village is gripped by Muckfoot Mania, Tails is a celebrity and Tommy Thunder has him on a TV show, Muckfoot Hunters, where Tommy hits the beast with an electric arrow.
Then Knuckles appears, bandaged, with a mystery burn he blames on the moon. Sticks smells a connection, and a stakeout proves her right: the berries beside Knuckles’ new hammock make him sleepwalk, and a muddy stroll turns him into Muckfoot. Tails admits his mistake, then, faced with Muckfoot Day and a cheering crowd, tells everyone the monster is real.
T.W. Barker knows the truth too, and cages the sleepwalking Knuckles to take on tour, backed by Eggman, who has quit villainy to run away with the circus (and insists it has nothing to do with the clown make-up he’s been wearing all episode). Some of those berries, saved in Tails’ pouch, send the villains sleepwalking away, and he tells the village the truth at the cost of his fame. Nobody notices the real Muckfoot grabbing a souvenir hat.
Trivia
- On DVD in the US: NCircle’s Season Two, Volume Two (September 2021), The Complete Season 2 (2021) and The Complete Series Blu-ray (2022).
- French title: Boufoot. The episode aired in France on 1 May 2017.
- About 0.13 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.