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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 2, episode 51 (S02E51) |
| Episode no. | 103 of 104 |
| US premiere | 11 November 2017 · Boomerang |
| France | 29 September 2017 · Eggman : le jeu vidéo – partie 1 |
| Written by | Jean-Christophe Derrien |
| Storyboard | Jeremy Corbeaux & Lola Etrivert |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 0.17 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
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Eggman: The Video Game – Part 1 is episode 51 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 11 November 2017 on Boomerang.
Synopsis
Mud splashed, robots smashed, jeers from the crowd: Eggman decides he has an image problem. Inspired by Tommy Thunder’s new video game, he makes one starring himself, ‘Stache Smash, and when Tails and Knuckles call it old-fashioned, he starts on a motion-capture sequel, Super ‘Stache Smash.
Spy Bots film Team Sonic in battle and Eggman performing his own clumsy stunts, which are too embarrassing to use. Orbot’s suggestion is a fighter who would make anyone look good: Shadow. Still sore about their last partnership, Shadow says no, so Eggman lures Sonic into an on-camera chat and cuts it into crude trash talk about Shadow. It’s a botched edit job, yet it works: Shadow is out for revenge.
With Spy Bots filming every angle, Shadow tears through Team Sonic. He teleports so that Knuckles’ punch lands on Tails, flattens Knuckles, and throws Amy and Sticks to the ground. Amy calls Sonic with her last strength. He arrives to find his friends beaten, and a single charge from Shadow smashes him through a row of trees. Cut to black, with Shadow looming over his rival.
Trivia
- Part one of the series finale; both parts premiered on the same day, 11 November 2017, as a half-hour finale on Boomerang, according to Luke’s list, Sonic Retro, Sonic Wiki Zone and Toonzone’s November 2017 schedule (Wikipedia gives 18 November for part two, without a citation).
- According to Sonic Wiki Zone, Knuckles grumbles about the cliffhanger after the screen goes black, as he did in “Robots from the Sky”.
- 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: Eggman : le jeu vidéo – partie 1. The episode aired in France on 29 September 2017, before its US premiere.
- About 0.17 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.