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"Multi-Tails" is the sixty-first episode in the Sonic Boom television series. It first aired on 7 January 2017 in the United States and on 8 April 2017 in France.

Synopsis

Tails takes a failure during a battle with Dr. Eggman to heart. He feels that even though he's the smart one in the group, he's just not smart enough to help Sonic and the gang. So he creates a machine to duplicate himself and form a "brain trust." But will he and his duplicates be smart enough to defeat anything that Dr. Eggman can come up with?

Appearances

Characters:

• Badniks
  • Bee Bot (multiple)
  • Scorpion Bot (multiple) (first appearance)
• Child Monkey
• Cubot
• Dr. Eggman
• Fastidious Beaver
• Ice Cream Vendor
• Lady Goat
• Lady Walrus
• Male Fennec
• Mayor Fink
• Mike the Ox
• Mrs. Vandersnout
• Obliterator Bot
• Old Monkey
• Orbot
• Team Sonic
  • Amy Rose
  • Knuckles the Echidna
  • Miles "Tails" Prower
  • Sonic the Hedgehog
  • Sticks the Badger
• Walrus Male
• Wild Cat
• Wolfie

Races and species:

• Animal people
• Human

Locations:

• Sonic Boom World
  • Earth
    • Dr. Eggman's Lair
    • Seaside Island
      • Amy's House
      • Sonic's Shack
      • Sticks' Burrow
      • Tails' House
      • Tails' Workshop
      • Unnamed Village
        • Village Center
          • Mayor's Mansion
          • Meh Burger

Items:

• Amy's Hammer
• Boomerang
• Communicator
• Dome-pocalypse (only appearance)
• Meh Burger
• Tails' cloning machine (only appearance)
• Trophy of Valor/Shame (only appearance)
• Wrist controller

Vehicles:

• Blue Force One (cameo)
• Egg Tank
• Eggmobile
• Tails' Plane

Plot

In the Village Center, Tails shows his new invention to his friends to which they hope to be ice cream, only to find out that it is something else, much to their dismay. Just then, Dr. Eggman and his Bee Bots appear to attack Team Sonic. Tails activates his new invention, creating a force field surrounding the Unnamed Village, successfully repelling the Bee Bots. Tails calls it the "Village Fortifying Electromagnetic Protective Hemisphere" which his friends are unimpressed about until he renames it the "Dome-pocalypse". Dr. Eggman tries to take down the barrier which results the destruction of the remainder of his Bee Bots. He then commands Obliterator Bot to the job, but it only ends up knocking Eggman away and destroying itself.

The villagers praise Tails for his invention, and Tails is presented with the "Trophy of Valor" from Mayor Fink. Tails proudly claims that the Village is now safe from all aerial attacks with his "fool-proof" Dome-pocalypse, only for Eggman to emerge from underground in a drill-equipped Egg Tank with a group of new minions: the Scorpion Bots. Team Sonic deals with the robots, but Eggman is able to fire shots at the Dome-pocalypse, causing them to bounce off the inside of the force-field and damage much of the Village. Sonic tells Tails to turn off the barrier, but Tails can't reach it due to the Scorpion Bots nearby. He therefore tells Knuckles to do it, but not knowing how to turn it off, Knuckles grabs the device and tries to push its force-field against Eggman's Egg Tank, causing even more damage to the Village. Sonic, however, is able to destroy the Egg Tank, causing Eggman to retreat on foot.

Shortly after, a public gathering is held where Fink decides to revoke the Trophy of Valor from Tails as a result of the Dome-pocalypse's flaws while the crowd boos negatively at Tails. Sonic steps in to defend Tails, stating that no one can expect Tails to think of every possible outcome himself, though Tails still accepts the blame. Fink then decides to reward the same trophy to Tails, but re-labels it the "Trophy of Shame".

Back at his workshop, Tails ponders about Sonic's statement earlier and comes up with the idea of splitting himself into five geniuses to form a "brain trust". He steps into a cloning machine and out comes five identical clones of Tails. However, each of them behaves very differently compared to the original Tails in front of his friends namely showing a considerable lack of intelligence. The first Tails clone visits Sonic at his shack who shows him a simple invention. Thinking that Tails might not be feeling well, Sonic visits Meh Burger to get Tails some food, only to find another Tails clone there, already eating a burger. Sonic then returns to see the Tails clone resting in his hammock in a strange manner. Meanwhile, another Tails clone is over at Amy's House and tries helping Amy hang up a picture on a wall, only for him to smash a hole in the wall. At Sticks' Burrow, another Tails clone annoys Sticks by constantly responding "Why?" until she angrily tackles him. Additionally, Knuckles and a Tails clone compete to squirt cream cans into their mouth although the Tails clone remains idle, only following instructions via "Simon Says".

Eventually, each of Tails' friends and their respective Tails clone meet up at Tails' House and come to the realization there are more than one Tails. Sonic deduces that Tails decided to use his cloning machine to split himself, while Sticks notes that each of the clones "have only ⅕ of [Tails'] brain power", explaining their questionable behavior. Tails' friends lead the clones into the cloning machine to fuse them back together, only to split Tails even further. Each clone goes crazy in the Village while Tails' friends struggle to gather them up. As all seems lost, Knuckles volunteers to keep the clones in order and gets the clones to follow him by offering to show them a cheese puff that looks like Fink (meaning he will lead them to the workshop). He then tells Sonic, Amy, and Sticks to find Fink-shaped cheese puff (meaning they will find some help to get Tails back to normal) while he keeps the clones distracted.

However, one Tails clone ends up travelling all the way to Eggman's lair and interrupts Eggman in the middle of a shower. Despite being surprised at first, Eggman uses the clone's stupidity to his advantage as a potential ally, and he asks him to fetch him a towel. The Tails clone, however, eventually returns with pudding and a hand towel. So, Eggman is forced to cover himself with the shower curtain. Upon leaving the bathroom, Eggman is shocked to find more Tails clones making a mess in his lounge with his pudding.

At the workshop, Sonic discovers there are some clones missing, only for Eggman to appear in the workshop. Eggman and the heroes thus work together, while leaving Knuckles to look after the clones, to round up the remaining Tails clones in Eggman's lair and bring them back to the workshop. As Eggman turns to leave, Sonic gets Eggman to configure the cloning machine into fusing the Tails clones back together, as currently only Eggman is smart enough to figure out how to work the machine, which Eggman handles easily. Moments later, the Tails clones are gathered together inside the machine and are successfully merged back into the original Tails.

Emerging, Tails admits his idea was not smart and what he really needed was his friends. Eggman refutes with his involvement and then tells Tails how mad he is at him for forcing him to go on a pudding run, to which Tails asks why, prompting him to get tackled by Sticks once again.

Continuity

• This episode confirms Cubot's statement in "Let's Play Musical Friends" that Eggman sings in the shower.

Goofs

• When Tails first activates Dome-pocalypse, Amy has two separate eyes instead of one monoeye like Sonic.
• Obliterator Bot's eyes are already turned off before the laser actually shoots its head.
• When Sticks attacks her first Scorpion Bot, the robot's legs can be seen passing through its armor.
• As the Egg Tank spins around in the Village Center, its drill passes through several objects, as if the drill was intangible.
• When the Egg Tank first appeared, it was inside the force field. Yet, when Knuckles picks up Dome-pocalypse, it has somehow gotten outside the force field.
• Sonic somehow goes through the force-field to hit the Egg Tank, despite the fact that objects cannot pass through the field from the inside.
  • However, since the Egg Tank was able to enter the village from under the force field, it is possible that the force field does not extend all the way around, and might have an opening at the bottom, allowing Sonic to get outside the force field.
• In some scenes of the cloning machine, the handle bar near the exit chamber is black instead of yellow.
• When Sticks said "Stop asking me 'why'", two of Tails' clones' mouths (one on Tails' bed and the other one following Sticks) moved when it sounds like one of them responded with, "Why?"
  • A similar thing happens during the scene where Dr. Eggman discovers the clones in his living room, where only one Tails is heard laughing while it shows four of them laughing.
• Dr. Eggman's room is shown to be covered with pudding when Team Sonic arrives in the lair. When Sonic captures five Tails clones, the room appears clean (with the exception of the drawing).
• When Amy runs to the cloning machine, her skin is darker.

Title in other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	تايلز المضاعف	Double Tails
French	Multi-Tails	Multi-Tails
Italian	Multi-Tails
Polish	Multi-Tails
Portuguese (Brazil)	Multi-Tails
Portuguese (Portugal)	Muitos Tails	Many Tails
Spanish (Latin America)	Multi-Tails	Multi-Tails
Ukrainian	Мульти-Тейлз
Russian	Плохая идея	The bad idea

Trivia

• Five days before this episode aired on Boomerang, Bill Freiberger released the title card for this episode on Twitter as a teaser.^[2]
• Tails' use of the Dome-pocalypse could be based on Stephen King's novel, Under the Dome.
• The drill attachment for the Egg Tank uses the same model as the drill used by Drill Bot.
• The picture that Amy tries to hang up depicts her and a penguin in a frozen landscape. This might be an allusion to her contributions to Operation: Toasty Beak in "Dude, Where's My Eggman?"
• The drawing that one of the Tails clones drew on the wall in Eggman's lair is of the Blue Force One.
• This marks the first episode where Eggman removes his gloves.

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