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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 2, episode 32 (S02E32) |
| Episode no. | 84 of 104 |
| US premiere | 17 June 2017 · Boomerang |
| France | 3 September 2017 |
| Written by | Alan Denton & Greg Hahn |
| Storyboard | Jeremy Klein & Lola Etrivert |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| Previous | Lightning Bowler Society (S02E31) |
| Next | Sticks and Amy’s Excellent Staycation (S02E33) |
Planes, Trains and Dude-Mobiles is episode 32 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 17 June 2017 on Boomerang.
Synopsis
Dude-itude, the boy band Sonic, Tails and Knuckles formed to break a hypnotic spell on the village’s girls, has a gig on the far side of the island, and Tails has built the Dude-Mobile for the trip. The 15-hour drive stretches. Knuckles needs a bathroom every few miles, and Tails wants to see every roadside oddity, from a ketchup-bottle water tower to a record-breaking non-rocking chair.
Sonic takes over and hits a speed trap. Knuckles takes over at night, chooses the road under a thunderstorm because it seems like a sign, and picks up a hitchhiking opossum who turns out to be the wanted Bike Chain Bandit. Sonic boots him out, only for the same trooper to find the bandit’s bag of bike chains in the van and jail all three.
His one call goes to Amy, who thinks he’s pranking her. Their cellmate Salty, a fan who calls them “Dreamboat Express”, distracts the trooper while Tails’ magnet grabs the keys. At a lava river, Sonic launches Blue Force One from the van, Tails saves the pursuing trooper with his Enerbeam, and the bandit is caught. They reach the venue in time. A month early: Tails misread the date.
Trivia
- The title spoofs the 1987 film Planes, Trains and Automobiles, and the chase after “the Bandit” nods to Smokey and the Bandit.
- Its companion episode, “Sticks and Amy’s Excellent Staycation”, shows what the girls got up to at home the same weekend.
- 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).
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.