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Sonic Boom S 1 E 23 Lets Play Musical Friends

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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.
  • Expy: The look and powers of sinister, destructive computer virus Nominatus is quite reminiscent of Kilokhan from Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad.
  • Omnicidal Maniac: Nominatus wants to destroy all lifeforms simply because he can.
  • 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.
  • Security Cling: Orbot and Cubot hug each other in terror when Eggman orders them to give him a sponge bath.
  • Self-Deprecation: Tails gives Orbot and Cubot a video game to play that sounds suspiciously like the original Sonic the Hedgehog 1 game.
    Tails: Try out this video game. You run, roll, and collect rings as fast as you can.
    Cubot: Ah, that sounds terrible!
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Orbot and Cubot manage to defeat Nominatus with their ridiculous game of "Rock, Donut, Thursday," arguing endlessly about which beats what. The rules are so absurd that Nominatus can’t comprehend them, and his head literally explodes from the confusion.

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