Guilt Tripping

"Guilt Tripping" is the ninth episode in the Sonic Boom television series. It first aired on 17 December 2014 in France and on 17 January 2015 in the United States.

Summary
Sonic and Tails stumble upon a village being plundered by bandits. They save the town but can't leave because the villagers guilt them into staying every time they try.

Characters

 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Miles "Tails" Prower
 * Dr. Eggman
 * Gogobas
 * Chief
 * Weasel Bandits
 * Fastidious Beaver

Plot
Everything is at peace in Bygone Island amidst the jungle until Sonic and Tails come flying through it on hoverboards that Tails has made. Racing each other, the duo enters the treetops where Tails takes the lead due to his superior knowledge of their boards. Sonic pulls a stunt to retake the lead, but fails to notice a low branch which knocks him off his board and down on the ground. He finds his hoverboard in the bushes where he and Tails see some criminals, called the Weasel Bandits, ransacking and stealing from the Gogobas in Gogoba Village. The heroes approach the bandits and villagers, the latter who are at peace at the theft since they claim the bandits need their possessions the most. The leader of the bandits threatens Sonic, but Sonic quickly takes the bandits out. He and Tails tie them up before catapulting them away with a palm tree.

The Gogobas thank the heroes, though the village chief notes that they scattered their belongings in the battle. Regardless, one female Gogoba gently refuse Tails' offer to help re-gather them despite her back pains and the villagers throw Sonic and Tails a feast to honor them. Sonic wants to leave, but the Chief notes that the food would otherwise decompose if they left it, thus guilt tripping them to stay. As the hungry Gogobas watch them eat, the duo tries to leave after the meal, but the Chief guilts them to stay when he mentions how well they have treated them. Sonic and Tails are as such provided with a large bed, royal treatment and the blankets from the nursery, much to their dismay.

At night, Sonic and Tails try to sneak away but are met by the Gogobas and their Chief, who have been awake to watch over them. While the Gogobas approve of their departure, they bring up that their village would probably be destroyed by bandits when they return. Sonic and Tails are as such guilted into protecting the village from bandits, but in an attempt to leave, they build a defense system to protect the village for them in their absence. When Sonic and Tails show the defense system to the Gogobas however, the villagers get caught in it as the duo try to leave. Now forced to stay, Tails is at a loss of how they can fight guilt, but Sonic gets the idea of fighting it with more guilt. Sonic and Tails therefore face the Chief in a tense argument where they try guilting him with how they have to go home and water their plants. Eventually, the Chief concedes and Sonic and Tails are allowed to go.

At Sonic's Shack, Sonic and Tails are glad to be free, but to their shock the Gogobas have taken resident in the shack so that Sonic could keep protecting them. As the Gogobas show the tasks they have done for Sonic to guilt him, Sonic discovers on his answering machine that Dr. Eggman has been calling him to warn him that he was going to blow up the dam, only to admit a few messages later that it was a trick to ambush him when he did not show up. No sooner, Eggman shows up at the shack with his robots to attack them. However, Sonic and Tails are unable to fight the robots properly because the Gogobas are everywhere, so they use their hoverboards to take the fight to the air. After Sonic and Tails destroy the robots, Eggman and the Chief meet, and Sonic and Tails trick Eggman by convincing him that the Gogobas were the key to their victory and that he would be unstoppable if they joined his side. Though the Chief wants to stay, Sonic guilts him into helping Eggman. After a brief negotiation, Eggman made the Gogobas join him and takes them to his lair, to which Sonic and Tails celebrate. Meanwhile, at his lair, Eggman is bothered by the Gogobas' constant guilt trips.

Trivia

 * The Chief made a cameo in the previous episode, "Eggheads".
 * This episode is the first to feature Eggman as a side-role.
 * This is the first episode where Amy does not appear.
 * When Sonic and Tails get into the guilt tripping argument with the village chief, the music plays in the similar manner of the song "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly".
 * The hoverboard Tails uses in this episode is the same one he used in "The Sidekick".
 * The Fastidious Beaver's appearance in this episode to correct the Gogobas' grammar form of "who" mirrors the exact same thing he did to Sonic in "The Sidekick".