Recap / Sonic Boom S 1 E 23 Lets Play Musical Friends

After a vicious computer virus hijacks Dr. Eggman's nefarious technology, Orbot and Cubot must enter cyberspace in order to get it back.

Tropes featured in this episode:

• A Day in the Limelight: This is the second episode that focuses on Orbot and Cubot (though, technically, the first, as most episodes of the show aired out of production order).
• Any Last Words?: When Orbot and Cubot find themselves trapped in a room with closing walls and about to be crushed, Orbot asks Cubot this. Cubot proceeds to recite the Konami Code, which opens up a trapdoor and saves them.
• Art Shift: The scenes with Orbot and Cubot inside the video game are presented in a style somewhat reminiscent of 16-bit graphics.
• Calvinball: Orbot and Cubot's game "Rock, Donut, Thursday". It's a game so illogical that it ends up defeating Nominatus.
• Omnicidal Maniac: Nominatus wants to destroy all lifeforms simply because he can.
• Self-Deprecation: Tails gives Orbot and Cubot a video game to play that sounds suspiciously like the original Sonic the Hedgehog game.
  Tails: Try out this video game. You run, roll, and collect rings as fast as you can.
  Cubot: Ah, that sounds terrible!
• Rock–Paper–Scissors: Orbot and Cubot have their own version called "Rock, Donut, Thursday". Its rules are nonsensical enough to act as a Logic Bomb that defeats Nominatus.
• Shout-Out:
  • This exchange between Orbot and Cubot when they encounter Tails' plane in the video game:
    Orbot: You thinking what I'm thinking?
    Cubot: Yeah! What if the princess is in another castle?
    Orbot: Get in the plane!
  • Cubot later recites the Konami Code, opening up a trapdoor that saves him and Orbot from being crushed into scrap.

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