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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 2, episode 34 (S02E34) |
| Episode no. | 86 of 104 |
| US premiere | 1 July 2017 · Boomerang |
| France | 18 April 2017 · Le Grand Hôtel Eggman |
| Written by | Sam Freiberger |
| Storyboard | Gael Leroux & Selena Piques |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| Previous | Sticks and Amy’s Excellent Staycation (S02E33) |
| Next | Mister Eggman (S02E35) |
Inn Sanity is episode 34 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 1 July 2017 on Boomerang.
Synopsis
Eggman’s trash hasn’t been collected for weeks, and Mayor Fink, chasing votes in an election year, sends the binmen, then hits him with a fee he can’t pay and threatens foreclosure. Selling off gadgets, starting with the never-fired Doomsday Device, is Orbot’s idea. Eggman’s is far worse: Eggman Towers, a luxury resort in his own lair.
Team Sonic checks in to watch him, and the doctor grits his teeth through their every demand, while Sticks builds a fort out of stolen pillows. Just as the money arrives, Fink adds a hotel permit and a fine for running a hotel without one, wiping him out. Then word of a secret reviewer from Secret Review Magazine has Eggman fawning over the wrong guests: a heron who turns out to be an insurance adjuster, and a vacuum-cleaner salesman.
The real reviewer is Amy, and Eggman’s public meltdown ends with his old standby, a force field around everyone. Sticks, who skipped dinner, frees them, and in the brawl Sonic knocks a Scorpion Bot into the Doomsday Device. The hotel explodes, the guests land safely in the pillow fort, and the grateful heron’s insurance payout rebuilds the lair, rubbish problem and all.
Trivia
- Packed with meta jokes: Sonic says the writers are phoning it in, and Orbot notes that Eggman has not used his Doomsday Device since early in Season 1.
- 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: Le Grand Hôtel Eggman. The episode aired in France on 18 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.