In the Midnight Hour

"In the Midnight Hour" is the sixtieth episode in the Sonic Boom television series. It first aired on 31 December 2016 in the United States.

Synopsis
Sticks discovers a mysterious figure indoctrinating the village in the middle of the night, but the gang thinks it’s just Sticks’ paranoia.

Appearances
Characters:
 * Admiral Beaverton
 * Badnik
 * Bee Bot (multiple)
 * Beetle Bot (multiple)
 * Crab Bot (multiple)
 * Motobug (multiple)
 * Beaver Policeman
 * Beth the Shrew
 * Child Monkey
 * Comedy Chimp
 * Cubot
 * Dreamcaster
 * Dr. Eggman
 * Fastidious Beaver
 * Fennec Male
 * Gentleman Wolf
 * Lady Goat
 * Lady Walrus
 * Mayor Fink
 * Mike the Ox
 * Mrs. Vandersnout
 * Old Monkey
 * Orbot
 * Rabbit Girl
 * Reindeer Girl
 * Sheep Villager
 * Team Sonic
 * Amy Rose
 * Knuckles the Echidna
 * Miles "Tails" Prower
 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Sticks the Badger
 * Warthog Male
 * Walrus Camera Man
 * Walrus Child
 * Walrus Male
 * Wild Cat
 * Wolf Policeman
 * Wolfie

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

Items:
 * Amy's Hammer
 * Communicator
 * Meh Burger
 * Super Slumber Satellite
 * Wrist controller

Vehicles:
 * Blue Force One
 * Eggmobile

Misc.:
 * Comedy Chimp Show
 * Ju-jutsu Realism

Continuity

 * One of the paintings Sticks has in her burrow was the painting Amy made in "Aim Low".

Goofs

 * Lady Goat's fur color is much darker in this episode.
 * In the scene with the jail where Sticks says that she knew that Dreamcaster was real, her window's metal bars are much thicker and more evenly positioned between each other.
 * As the hypnotized Beth backs away from the cargo being dropped by the Beetle Bot, she almost slides across the ground.
 * As Sticks flips through the crowd of zombies to reach Amy, the Fennec Male ends up behind her. However, in the following shot where Sticks puts her tin foil hat on Amy, the Fennec Male has ended up behind Amy.
 * When villagers are released from the mind control, the Old Monkey's eyes are much smaller than normal.

Trivia

 * Two days before this episode aired on Boomerang, Bill Freiberger released the title card for this episode on Twitter as a teaser.
 * After her talk of the TV being a mind control device, Sticks breaks the fourth wall telling the viewer that she was not talking to them and tells them to keep watching.
 * Dreamcaster is likely named after Sega's last game console, the Dreamcast.
 * Dreamcaster's eyes appear to be based on the Dreamcast logos.
 * Dreamcaster's color scheme bares a resemblance to the Dreamcast's American marketing of the orange swirl logo and white plastic casing.
 * Dreamcaster's metaphor of sugar plums is based on the Christmas poem from Clement C. Moore's A Visit from St. Nicholas (1823). The line "Visions of sugar plums danced in their heads," of children sleeping and dreaming.
 * Team Sonic's responses to Dreamcaster's name might be a reference (used both in context and ironically) to the fact that some of the most prominent Sonic games first debuted on the Dreamcast console, such as Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2.
 * The dance that Dreamcaster had everyone do and the music playing in that scene is a reference to the song "Thriller" by Michael Jackson.
 * Eggman asking Sticks what she is doing on Saturday mornings without a TV is a nod to how the Sonic Boom television series (at the time) aired new episodes at 6:00 PM on Saturdays in the United States.
 * When everyone starts building the Super Slumber Satellite, an altered version of "Funkytown" plays.
 * Sticks using a tin foil hat to block out Dreamcaster's mind-control is a nod to the real-world belief that such hats can shield against mind-control.
 * Wild Cat's epiphany about his life is an allusion to how he is a background character in a TV show.
 * Deespite appearing, Cubot has no line in this episode.