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"Cowbot" is the eleventh episode in the Sonic Boom television series. It first aired on 24 December 2014 in France and on 31 January 2015 in the United States.
Summary
Tails reprograms one of Eggman's robots and accidentally turns it into a killing machine determined to destroy Eggman. Because it's their fault, Sonic and Tails must protect their enemy and move into Eggman's evil lair for a night of bonding.
Characters
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Miles "Tails" Prower
- Knuckles the Echidna
- Amy Rose
- Sticks the Badger
- Dr. Eggman
- Orbot
- Cubot
- Cowbot (first appearance)
- Dave the Intern (mentioned)
- Spoonbot (mentioned)
- Crybot (mentioned)
- Mathbot (mentioned)
- Lamebot (mentioned)
Plot
On Bygone Island, Sonic and Knuckles are playing a game of Coconut toss, where Tails plays the role of commentator while Sticks and Amy watch, though Amy shows little interest. After Knuckles threw Sonic into a nearby coconut tree, it seemed like they were not going to win as only three coconuts fell down from the impact, but then one more falls down (on Amy), ensuring their victory. Sonic and Knuckles relish in their victory, but Amy finds it ridiculous as she hears they played against themselves. Suddenly, Dr. Eggman arrives in the Egg Mobile and announces the arrival of his most destructive creation yet to Team Sonic. After several awkward moments, a giant robot cow named Cowbot arrives. Team Sonic laughs at how ridiculous Cowbot is, but Eggman notes he has made worse robots. Eggman then leaves Cowbot to destroy Team Sonic, as he has to go get his laundry into the drier, but not before leaving a warning: they cannot destroy Cowbot, as it is filled with Mootonium which will vaporize everything within a twenty mile radius if Cowbot should be destroyed.
As Cowbot starts firing cud missiles, Team Sonic regroup and they make a plan: if Tails can reach Cowbot's access panel, he can reprogram it. With Sonic keeping Cowbot distracted, the rest of the team tip Cowbot, allowing Tails to reach its access panel. However, when Tails finishes, Cowbot's eyes turn red and it slowly flies away. Tails explains that since he reversed Cowbot's programming to go after Sonic, it was now going after Eggman. Sonic finds it hilarious, but Amy insists that it is not right to let Cowbot kill Eggman. Begrudgingly, Sonic leaves to warn Eggman and takes Tails with him for scientific situations.
Arriving at Dr. Eggman's lair, Sonic sneaks ahead, past Eggman's defenses, only to hear from Eggman (in his evil pajamas) when meeting him at the entrance that he used his defenses to built Cowbot. After Sonic told Eggman about Cowbot though, Eggman made him and Tails stay and protect him while he was defenseless. However, even if the defenses were brought back online, they learn that Cowbot's stage two directive has been activated, which would render Eggman's defenses useless. As such, the group's only option to stop Cowbot is to upgrade Eggman's defenses, with Sonic gathering the parts and Tails and Eggman assembling the equipment. Together, the unlikely allies put together a freeze ray and a force field to protect the lair.
As Cowbot appears in the horizon, Sonic, Tails and Eggman are ready and have a plan: when Cowbot gets in range, Eggman will lower the force field, allowing Sonic to immobilize with the freeze ray, thus enabling Tails to disable it. However, Cowbot is taken itself a long time to get to the lair, so Eggman invites Sonic and Tails inside while they wait. In the lair, they have some cookie and coco with garlic powder and watch a film, before playing another game of coconut toss where Sonic had to use a catapult to throw Eggman. As night falls and Cowbot still has not arrived, Sonic, Tails and Eggman spent their time roasting marshmallows and seemingly bond over their conversations, where Eggman would talk about Dave and ask Sonic of his deal with Amy.
The next morning, Cowbot has arrived and the allies begin their plan, only for it to fall apart due to their defense systems shorting out from the marshmallow gunk stuck on their fingers getting on them. However, this give Tails the idea of using the marshmallows to gunk up Cowbot's machinery. Going with this plan, Eggman catapults Sonic up to Cowbot where he empties a bucket of marshmallows into Cowbot and shorts it out. Upon celebrating their victory though, Eggman reveals this was a part of his master plan: using the threat of Cowbot, Eggman tricked Sonic and Tails into upgrading his security system with their tech which he could now use against them. However, Sonic puts a stop to Eggman's plan by swiftly dumping marshmallows into his new defenses, causing them all to short out. As Sonic and Tails take their leave, Orbot and Cubot come out of the lair and eat some of the marshmallows which instantly gunk up their circuitry.
Continuity
- Dr. Eggman recalls his dislike of his former intern Dave in "Double Doomsday".
Trivia
- This episode was mistakenly listed as "Cow Bot".
- This is the first episode in the Sonic Boom television series to reference the events of an earlier episode.
- The line "It's Game Over Man, GAME OVER!" is a reference to the film Aliens.
- The pajamas worn by Eggman is the same he wore in "Can an Evil Genius Crash on Your Couch for a Few Days?".
- Eggman is seen wearing his goggles for the first time.
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References
- ↑ Sonic Boom : Cow Bot. Zap2it. Retrieved on 20 January 2015.
