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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 2, episode 26 (S02E26) |
| Episode no. | 78 of 104 |
| US premiere | 6 May 2017 · Boomerang |
| France | 9 April 2017 · Les robots venus du ciel – partie 1 |
| Written by | Alan Denton & Greg Hahn and Bill Freiberger |
| Storyboard | Jordi Valbuena |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
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Robots from the Sky: Part 1 is episode 26 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 6 May 2017 on Boomerang.
Synopsis
A charity car wash turns into yet another brawl with Eggman, who wrongly blames the team for raiding his change cup, and nobody notices a ship crash nearby. Out climb Mighton and Bolts, two robots who watch the team gleefully smashing other robots and draw the obvious conclusion: these are the villains. Bolts ties up the heroes with a detachable stretchy arm, and the newcomers leave with Eggman.
Their home turns out to be a city in the clouds with no overlord, which Eggman means to fix. But when he pours apple juice over Orbot and Cubot’s heads, his guests see what he is really like and try to leave, only to be pinned by ceiling magnets. Orbot and Cubot sneak off to fetch Team Sonic, while Sticks plans a sneak attack with a brick.
The team storms the lair, Tails cracks Eggman’s feeble password to free the prisoners, and Bolts gives the doctor a parting zap. Mighton apologises for the mix-up, Tails patches the malware-riddled ship, and Sonic quietly stops Sticks’ brick as the visitors fly home. Then red-eyed figures in the bushes open fire, Tails is hit, and the screen fades to black. Cue Knuckles grumbling about cliffhangers.
Trivia
- The first of four parts, aired weekly from 6 May 2017; in France all four parts aired on 9 April 2017, a month before the US.
- After the screen goes black, Knuckles complains that he hates cliffhangers.
- 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: Les robots venus du ciel – partie 1. The episode aired in France on 9 April 2017, before its US premiere.
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.