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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 2, episode 38 (S02E38) |
| Episode no. | 90 of 104 |
| US premiere | 29 July 2017 · Boomerang |
| France | 3 September 2017 · Le rayon anti-gravité d’Eggman |
| Written by | Marie Beardmore |
| Storyboard | Gael Leroux & Milena Mardos |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| Previous | Return of the Buddy Buddy Temple of Doom (S02E37) |
| Next | Victory (S02E39) |
Eggman’s Anti Gravity Ray is episode 38 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 29 July 2017 on Boomerang.
Synopsis
Eggman is sick of the Sunday breeze scattering his newspaper, so he builds an Anti Gravity Ray to rotate his lair out of the draught. Cubot decides it makes a sweet hat. It gets stuck on his head, Orbot snaps off the control knob, and Cubot becomes a floating gravity well, towing Orbot, Eggman and a cloud of robots to the village on the wind.
On the beach, Sonic bans Knuckles from digging tunnels, and Knuckles reveals a feminist streak. The airborne Cubot sweeps up towels, villagers and a cannon, and a jolt to his scrambled circuits gives him control of the ray and a new philosophy: everyone should drift up to the stars. Eggman leaves it to Sonic and goes to perfect his fries in Meh Burger’s empty kitchen.
Sonic and Tails chase Cubot skyward in spacesuits before his captives run out of air, and Orbot passes Sonic the knob. But Sonic sets the ray to reverse instead of off, pinning everyone to the ground. The fix is the very thing Sonic banned: Knuckles tunnels under the ray until it drops within reach, then smashes it. Eggman’s new answer to the wind? Robots pushing his lair round by hand.
Trivia
- Polygon praised the scene in which Knuckles declares himself a feminist as a progressive message for young viewers (via Wikipedia).
- 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: Le rayon anti-gravité d’Eggman. The episode aired in France on 3 September 2017.
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.