Strike!

"Strike!" is the sixty-second episode in the Sonic Boom television series. It aired on 14 January 2017 in the United States.

Synopsis
Orbot and Cubot have had enough of Eggman. Down tools! They’re going on strike!

Appearances
Characters:
 * Badniks
 * Bee Bot (multiple)
 * Crab Bot (multiple)
 * Motobug (multiple)
 * Ball Bot
 * Ballot Stuffer Bot
 * Burnbot
 * Child Monkey
 * Cubot
 * Dr. Eggman
 * Fastidious Beaver
 * Fire Bot
 * Gogoba Chief
 * Ice Cream Vendor
 * Lady Goat
 * Lady Walrus
 * Leroy the Turtle
 * Mega
 * Mike the Ox
 * Mrs. Vandersnout
 * Obliterator Bot
 * Old Monkey
 * Orbot
 * Rhyme Bot
 * Soar the Eagle
 * Rock Transport Bot
 * Team Sonic
 * Amy Rose
 * Miles "Tails" Prower
 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Wild Cat
 * Wolfie

Locations:
 * Sonic Boom World
 * Dr. Eggman's Lair
 * Seaside Island
 * Unnamed Village
 * Village Center
 * Mayor's Mansion
 * Meh Burger

Items:
 * Amy's Hammer
 * Communicator
 * Wrist controller

Vehicles:
 * Blue Force One
 * Egg Tank
 * Eggmobile
 * Tails' Plane

Msic.:
 * Eggman Industries

Plot
In the Village Center, Dr. Eggman, Orbot and Cubot are attacking in the Egg Tank while Team Sonic are at the scene to stop them. Sonic and Amy are facing the Egg Tank head-on while Tails is scouting from above in his plane. As the Egg Tank fires a timed grenade at Amy, Amy knocks it away with her hammer, but accidently hits Tails' Plane, much to Tails' annoyance. Though Amy apologizes, she accident does it again when Eggman fires at her once more, irritating Tails' further. Inside the Egg Tank, Eggman rudely orders Orbot and Cubot to load the cannon faster. In response, Cubot asks for the "magic word", to which Eggman says "pawnshop", prompting the robots to load a grenade. However, Sonic grabs the grenade that is fired and throws it back into the Egg Tank's cannon, destroying the vehicle (almost hitting Tails' Plane with a flying fragment in the process). As Team Sonic celebrates their victory, Orbot suggests to Eggman that he should have used grenades that explode on impact instead of after they are fired. Although Orbot does say it (regardless of how true it is), Eggman believes he is being blamed for his own defeat. As punishment, Eggman leaves Orbot and Cubot to get home on their own while he leaves in the Eggmobile.

As they tries to hitchhike home, Orbot and Cubot asks the Gogoba Chief for a lift in his wagon, but the chief guilt-trips them to let him go. The duo then tries asking the jetpack-riding Soar the Eagle for a lift, but Soar deceives them into meditating while he gets away. No sooner, Leroy the Turtle passes by in his postal scooter and splashes Orbot and Cubot with mud. In disbelief over how Eggman has abandoned them, Amy confronts Orbot and Cubot with how they can put up with Eggman's mistreatment, to which they reply that Eggman is not so band and that he does care in his own funny way. As Sonic then arrives on his Blue Force One, he declines Amy's attempt to make him give Orbot and Cubot a ride home.

Eventually, Orbot and Cubot are forced to make a raft and sail back home. When they arrive, however, Eggman is at the lair's entrance complaining before sending them back to the Unnamed Village to get one hundred decorative rocks for his garden, much to Orbot and Cubot's disappointment. Sailing back to the Village, Orbot and Cubot meet Amy again as they drag sacks of rocks with them. Had enough of this pathetic behavior, Amy tells the robots to stand up to Eggman by going on strike if he keeps this up. Orbot and Cubot, however, does not think it is a good time for this since Eggman told them that he needs those rock. After eighteen hours underway, Orbot and Cubot finally bring the rocks to Eggman in the lair, only for Eggman to tell them that they took too long and orders to return them. Exhausted, Orbot and Cubot wants a break, but instead, Eggman threatens them. Deeming this the final straw, Orbot and Cubot proclaims they are going on strike.

As Orbot and Cubot protest outside the lair, Eggman confronts the duo, who is dead-set on striking. Eggman, however, is not concerned, believing they will not last long, and leaves them to their poor protest rhythms. Watching Orbot and Cubot over surveillance, Eggman insists they need him more that he needs them. However, when Eggman drops his coffee mug, h realizes he does not have Orbot and Cubot to clean it up. He tries having his other robots clean it up, including Burnbot, Ballot Stuffer Bot and Fire Bot, only to insult them when they fail (as they are not designed for this), prompting each of them to leave Eggman and join Orbot and Cubot's strike action. Eventually, all of Eggman's robots have left him to strike alongside Orbot and Cubot. While Eggman remains adamant in the face of this group, he secretly realizes he cannot run his lair alone, and so decides to break this strike by hiring new minions.

Continuity

 * Eggman mentions his meditation garden which was introduced in "Sleeping Giant".
 * Eggman mentions the Rumpus Room in his lair which was mentioned by Orbot back in "It Wasn't Me, It Was the One-Armed Hedgehog".

Goofs

 * The shade of Cubot's yellow color scheme differs between his body and gloves.
 * Soar's eyelids are slightly brighter than they should be when in the shadows.
 * When zooming up to Mike at Eggman's lair, Sonic does not give off his usual running sound.
 * When Sonic speeds out of Eggman's lair, his running sound returns, but his usual speed trail disappears.

Trivia

 * Eight days before this episode aired on Boomerang, Bill Freiberger released the title card for this episode on Twitter as a teaser.
 * Unlike this other teasers released by Freiberger, this one was released before the previous episode aired.
 * This is the first episode where Sonic is seen using his Blue Force One vehicle as all previous episodes have only shown it parked outside Sonic's Shack.
 * This episode marks the second time Orbot and Cubot got fed up with Eggman's behavior, the first time being in "Let's Play Musical Friends".
 * Although Eggman stated that the Mega is bigger than his other robots in "Unlucky Knuckles", this episode depict Obliterator Bot as being larger than the Mega.
 * This episode featured the largest number of different Eggman robot models in one episode to date in the Sonic Boom television series.
 * This episode implies that Eggman is very wealthy, which was stated by Bill Freiberger in season one of Sonic Boom.
 * This is the first episode in the Sonic Boom television series to depict banknotes; before then, the only currency shown were coins.
 * Sonic's spinning symbol in this episode is a reference to the 1966 Batman television series.
 * Knuckles and Sticks do not make appearances in this episode.