Sticks' Experiment (episode)

Sticks' Experiment is a Sonic Boom Stop-Motion special short that premiered on YouTube on June 19, 2021 as part of a collaboration contest. It runs for 3 minutes and 8 seconds, and stars Sydney Paige. The episode was also created to give insight on how future episodes would look, run, and be animated.

Synopsis
Sticks creates a tape to record her latest experiments, alongside the help of her newly recruited assistant, Orbot.

Plot
In Eggman’s Lab, Sticks begins her experiment by Turing on the camera and stating that if someone is seeing the video it must mean that she is dead. Orbot, curious, asks Sticks why she wold be dead, and she responds with a long pause and then a scream. The video then statics out.

In the next scene, Sticks introduces herself and demands that the experiment begins. She then introduces Orbot as her assistant, and he interrupts and corrects her by saying that he was not programmed to be of any resource to her. She then screams at him, and the video statics out.

Orbot begins running away from Sticks, screaming. She tries to catch him but the video statics out once more.

Next scene, Sticks begins by holding a canister of flammable gas and assumes its fun to play with by its pattern and technical designs. She laughs and says she’ll go get the fire, and Orbot enters and warns the potential audience not to try the expirement. Sticks shouts saying she heard it. The video statics once more.

The next scene consists of Sticks holding the can of gas while Orbot handles to fire in the back. Orbot warns Sticks to be careful as it is dangerous. Sticks assures nothing will go wrong, but quickly changes her mind about the experiment and wants to start something new. She throws the can and starts talking about how to deal with enemies. In the back, the canister lands on Orbot’s head and touches the fire and explodes shortly after Orbot’s warning to Sticks. Then the video cuts to static again.

In the last scene, the lab has been exploded, and Sticks acclaims how cool the explosion was, Orbot not liking it. Sticks is happy, but Orbot says Eggman won’t when he returns because of the destruction they’ve caused. Sticks quickly leaves before Eggman returns, and he ends up getting mad at Orbot by punching him out of the scene, an the video cuts to static for the final time.

Cast

 * Sydney Paige as Sticks the Badger
 * Daniel Nemitz as Orbot
 * Connan Staber as Doctor Eggman (archive footage)

Trivia

 * The video (or the recorded experiment) was pre-recorded and isn’t live.
 * This was the first episode to premiere on YouTube.