Counter Productive (episode)/Transcript

This is the transcript of the Sonic Boom episode, "Counter Productive."

[Scene: Tails' workshop at night]
 * [Sticks, Knuckles, Tails and Amy sitting whilst Sonic is running around a table.]
 * Tails: We're approaching hour 23 of Sonic and Knuckles' stay awake challenge and it's still anybody's game. Sticks, what do you make of their strategy so far?
 * Sticks: It appears Sonic is jogging in circles to stay awake while Knuckles keeps his fokus by watching late night TV. Both strong approaches, but personally, I find the grim knowledge that our freedom is slowly eroding enough to keep me awake at night.
 * Sonic: Give it up, Knuckles. I can keep moving all night. The second you find something boring on TV, you're going to be out like a light.
 * Knuckles: Don't be silly, Sonic, TV is never boring.
 * [Knuckles changes channel]
 * Comedy Chimp:So Soar, tell us more about your dried, dense and complicated new book about introspection and selfbetterment.
 * Knuckles: Aww...
 * Soar: My new book, counter productive, is about fixing your old mistakes, times when you made a mess of things.[Knuckles watches him interested] When you were a bad apple, active like a basket case.

[Knuckles' flashback]
 * [Knuckles is at a market, talking to Charlie who is holding two baskets]
 * Knuckles: Hey Charlie, can I borrow your basket? It's really important![Grabs the baskets without waiting for an answer, the content falls on the ground.]
 * Knuckles:(having the baskets on his feet) Haha, neat! I'm all tall and stuff!

[Back at Tails' workshop]
 * Sticks: (waving her hand in front of Knuckles) His eyes are open, but his brain is definitly asleep. Sonic wins!
 * [Knuckles wakes up]
 * Knuckles:Gah! Am I ... counter productive?
 * Sonic: Nope, just someone who can't stay awake for twenty-three hour straight.
 * Soar: If you don't go back to the people you've wronged and make up for your misdeeds then you're basically a monster and that's science.
 * Knuckles: (screaming) Aaaah! Don't look at me! I'm a monster! A monster!
 * Sonic:[sighs] Hope this turns out better than when he thought he was a ballerina.

[Flashback: The whole Team at Sonic's house]
 * Knuckles: Don't look at me! I'm a ballerina! A ballerina! [starts dancing]

[Scene switches back]
 * [Sonic shudders]
 * [Scene Changes: Next Day, at the market]
 * Knuckles: (talking to a citizen) I'm looking for Charlie.
 * Citizen: You mean that guy who kept dropping my apples? Fired him years ago. Last I heard he was working at a dig-sight just outside the village. Probably mocking that up too.
 * Knuckles: Thanks! And as a token of my appreciation I will buy one apple. [Grabs one apple out of a basket and all baskets fall down.] Now that those baskets are empty you mind if I borrow some?

[Knuckles walks away with two baskets on his feet.] [Scene Change: dig-sight outside the village]
 * Charlie: Careful... careful
 * Knuckles: (runs to him and startles him) Charlie! [Charlie almost drops the artifact] Remember me? The guy that turned those apple baskets into stilts at your old job? Man, that was fun. But it turns out it wasn't fun! It was counter productive. So I'm here to make it up to you.
 * Charlie: Oh. Wow. I totally forgot about that. Don't worry about it, my life is great now. I've got a wife, a nice house, this wonderful job, digging up ancient artifacts.
 * Knuckles: Doesn't matter, I gotta make this right.
 * Charlie: Honestly, you really don't have to.
 * Knuckles: Can it! I'm trying to be nice to you. We'll start with your lunch order.
 * Charlie: [gets a sandwich out of his pocket] But I brought my lunch.
 * Knuckles: [grabs the Sandwich] Not good enough. [throws it into a nearby lake]