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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 2, episode 30 (S02E30) |
| Episode no. | 82 of 104 |
| US premiere | 3 June 2017 · Boomerang |
| France | 23 April 2017 · Les sacs à puces |
| Written by | Marie Beardmore |
| Storyboard | Jean-Charles Andre |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 0.08 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
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Flea-ing from Trouble is episode 30 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 3 June 2017 on Boomerang.
Synopsis
HugeBot loses, like every big robot before it, so Eggman thinks small: FleaBots, nanobots that turn the cleanest host into an itchy wreck. Orbot and Cubot plant them on each member of Team Sonic, firing them at Sonic over lunch, slipping them into Amy’s perfume, launching them at Knuckles mid-workout and dropping them through Sticks’ roof and Tails’ air vent.
Each hero tries to hide the scratching until Sticks cheerfully admits she has “fleas”, and the accusations fly. A trip for anti-itch lotion gets them quarantined in Tails’ house, where flea spray and a flea collar only make things worse, and with the team locked away, Eggman cleans out the village’s stock of Choco Num-num Bars, the snack whose price rise started all this.
Mayor Fink lifts the quarantine and wonders aloud whether these fleas are fleas at all. Under Tails’ microscope, they’re robots. A round of well-meant punches between friends squashes only two, so the team takes the fight to the lair, using Eggman’s Motobugs and Mantis Bots as scratching posts. Sonic knocks the controller loose, Tails reverses it, and the FleaBots jump ship to Eggman, who ends up in the bath while his minions pick him clean.
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: Les sacs à puces. The episode aired in France on 23 April 2017, before its US premiere.
- About 0.08 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.