Sonic the Hedgehog SAT AM Episodes 8-10 Review

latest episode of Pixels in the animation I am

one of your host, TFJ on mic and joining me in

this epic journey into Sonic Land is TV's Mr.

Nail! I'll look at you next time, Sonic. Next

time. He almost does that in one of the episodes,

I swear to God. Next time, Sonic! Dr. Claw? That

could be a good foil for Sonic. It might be a

better foil for Sonic. You can turn that chair

around and it is Dr. Robotnik. That's very true.

So as always, today we got a juice because it's

time we went Super Sonic. That's right here in

episode 73. We continue our Sonic the Hedgehog

coverage. We'll be talking about the next three

episodes from Sat AM. So join us, won't you?

Because pixels in the animation is way past cool

as we celebrate 26 years of Sonic. The Hedgehog,

Sega's title character. Oh boy. So today we got

three more episodes. We've got, um, Hooked on

Sonics. Works for me. I was waiting for that.

We got, uh, Harmonic Sonic, which I would rather

watch, um, Carnage and Sea Minor at this point.

Wow. Yeah, huh? And then we got Sonic's nightmare

So that's what's coming up today on pixels in

the animation the first So the last three weeks

of the summer so far at this point we've covered

the first technically ten episodes of Sonic the

Hedgehog and Coming up next hooked on Sonic's

Learn to read with Hooked on Phonics, the musical

reading program. Hooked on Phonics works for

me! Call 1 -800 -A -B -C -D -E -F -G Use that

energy to power his new sonic radar Alright folks

first up as I said hooked on sonics now I we've

not really talked about the writing crew or any

of the other crew on this show but the only reason

why I want to mention it here is because um I

Actually recognize the name that wrote hooked

on sonics Randy Rogel Anyone that doesn't know

Randy Rogel just listen to Yakko's world or Yakko's

universe or Wacko's America on Animaniacs. You'll

know who Randy Rogel is. He's the musical genius

of that show Yeah So hooked on sonics Antoine

goes after Robotnik himself in an insane bid

to impress Sally and earn personal glory Oh Lord

Antoine you doofus. What are you doing? So as

I'm watching this one I admire his gumption and

want to do it, but it's pretty much for all the

wrong reasons. Because Antoine the Fox is essentially

the Freddy Cat character of the series. He's

always bungling around, he's always, you know,

calling people fuels and everything else. That

that poor French accent on that Fox why why is

there a French Fox in this cartoon? Now as I

can think of his French rare bit You know cook

the bunny border lay a la Antoine I'm going to

do it Can we talk about Bugs Bunny cartoons instead

of this? Sonic going after Robotnik without a

power ring, that's a great idea. Yeah. And somehow,

someway, Robotnik has created a sonic radar tracker.

Okay then. Sure. Uh -huh. I can't believe that

actually worked. What did you think of this one?

I I Don't know it's You're still at the I don't

give a shit phase, right? Yeah, I'm still in

the I don't give a shit phase. It's I'm trying

to think of what to say. I mean I Think this

is one of those where I've just completely blanked

on it. I do recall and Antoine the Fox getting

the ring think i just kind of blanked on this

episode yeah that's kind of like me with harmonic

sonic because again i i guess i i guess i had

these out of order and i was watching them in

order on the playlist that you had sent me and

i'm like okay um yeah i i don't know exactly

what to put here but okay but hooked on sonics

again i like that they're spotlighting a specific

character that is not Sonic and Tails? Because,

you know, you look at the games, the majority

of the classic games, at least Sonic 1, 2, and

3, it's mostly, at least 2 and 3, after 2 obviously,

because 2 is when Tails gets introduced, it's

mostly either Sonic by himself or Sonic and Tails.

In the games, we see all these bunnies and other

woodland creatures jump out of the robotnik containment

units, but we don't really see any other characters.

And again, to me, this cartoon came out in 1993.

That's two years after the first game and a year

or so after the second game. So to me they're

basing it on they're kind of trying to base it

on certain aspects of those first two games And

they've gone ahead and created all these animal

characters, which is fine. I have no problem

with Princess Sally and The walrus dude and tails

and whatever else and and Bunny were at Roe bit

and whatever I have no problem with those characters,

but the fact is this is supposed to be coming

from a video game And in the Sonic video games,

he's either by himself or he's with Tails. There

are no other mainstays. You can argue later,

after they had some of the cartoons, they introduced

some of the cartoon characters into the games,

but that's not what we're talking about here.

So, I don't know. Harmonic Sonic is the next

episode. Robotnik launches a spy satellite. He

actually calls it a sky spy. The Autobots are

going to sue your ass. That's what it was. Think

back to me. Reference Transformers, my brain

turns on. Yes, sir. So we got Dinobot and the

sky spy. There were people on this cartoon who

loved Transformers, I think. Apparently so. So

he launches this thing in an effort to locate

Nothull Village, the Freedom Fighters' hidden

base. Sonic and Rotor head towards the satellite

using a makeshift rocket to destroy it. So that's

what's going on here. Now, when you see the term

harmonic outside of an actual harmonica, what

do you think of? You think of sound, right? Yeah.

Yeah, something to do with music, something to

do with sound, something to do with sound effects.

None of that in here. This is Robotnik launching

a spy satellite to spy on the village. I was

really... Look folks, when I look at stuff, if

I'm only looking at... When I go to create the

schedules for podcasts and I have to show a podcast

like Pixels in the Animation where I have to

list every single episode of like 13 different

video game cartoons, at first I'm only looking

at the titles, because that's what I need from

my episode lists. As I'm going back... and having

to get the descriptions and the titles and if

we want to talk about writers you know if it's

a writer that we know the name of things like

that I'll then notice the description that kind

of thing with this I wanted to go in kind of

cold because again like I said like I've been

saying in the last two episodes of the podcast

before this Haven't paid any attention to this

series or the other series that we'll talk about

later in adventures in a very long time I've

this has never been Again, you know I think you

said in episode 71 this when it was airing this

kind of was past your prime kind of thing And

for me it was kind of the same thing where I

was 13 14 years old when both of these series

were were were airing and I was Not in a place

where I could have watched this on a and enjoyed

it as a teenager an early teenager in you know

in good faith so again what I like about it is

the fact that I can come into this cold and Have

certain expectations and sadly get those expectations

shattered which is really depressing, but when

I see a title like harmonic sonic I expect Something

to do with sound and sadly that was not the case

here It seems like they're just picking puns

out of the air and just going with it. Well,

you already made the joke of, you know, Hooked

on Sonics. You know, I mean, you know, that was

the first thing I thought of too. I mean, next

thing you know, they're going to try to work

in Sonic and Britannica or something and well,

that's an encyclopedia. You know, I mean, I don't

know. But, you know. Could have been a musical

tie -in, although it would have cost the money.

There's the Judas Priest song, Electric Eye,

which is basically about a spy satellite. I don't

think Deke was going to pay for that. That would

have been awesome. It would have been the best

thing about this cartoon. Yup. Absolutely. Anything

else you want to say about Harmonic Sonic? Just

to prove that I actually watched this just because

I blanked out. I just want to mention the stupid

Resolution which is that they they brought it

down with a giant cartoon magnet Yes, they did

yeah, oh Again folks carnage and see minor was

more memorable than this episode for all the

wrong reasons Alright, last up we have Sonic's

nightmare. Oh boy. Sonic's paralyzed by a recurring

nightmare personifying his own personal fears.

Meanwhile, Robotnik unleashes a machine that

can literally destroy the world. Why do bad guys

do this? I don't know. If you destroy the world,

you stupid villains, you're not going to have

anything to rule. Don't know that's just too

too weird folks just absolutely too too weird

You can't destroy the world I live there. Yeah,

exactly so Sonic's nightmare I thought Robotnik

did have a decent plan until it went all to hell

And Sonic's nightmare, again, trying to give

the character development or growth, and it kinda

doesn't, but it almost gives Sally more growth

than it does Sonic at this point. And of course

at the end she goes up to him because she's going

to talk to him and give him words of encouragement,

and of course he's fast asleep seeing as how

he couldn't sleep earlier in the episode because

of his nightmare. and she just assumes she starts

blushing she just assumes he's going to be talking

about her having a dream about her and then the

chili dog uh... uh... so uh... just uh... i just

don't know what to do iraq this is a script doctrine

how i would have written it was that I would

have had Dr. Robotnik causing the bad dreams.

Yeah, that would have been interesting. But then

it would have turned into like a Super Friends

episode. My dream reverberator will paralyze

the Super Friends with... I... yeah... I really

don't think Robotnik is a dark side type where

he wants to get into Sally's pants every episode.

Oh my god. Because, okay... And we can talk about

this on another show another night, but seriously,

every time anyone mentions Super Friends to me,

the only thing I can think of is Darkseid wanting

to get in Wonder Woman's pants every single cartoon

episode of Super Friends. You can't blame him.

Well, I know you can't blame him, but at least

she shaves her pits. Oh, wow. I mean, some people

on Twitter get offended that, you know... That's

a... bad really really late pun folks personal

choice of hers if she wants to shave her she

can shave her alright, we're going to take a

quick break before i go to hell and spend some

time with Hades and after that we'll come back

with ratings and all that good stuff it's action

it's drama it's comedy Alright folks, we are

back and it's time to rate these episodes. Harmonic

Sonic, I'm going to give it a 2. It was okay.

It wasn't that great, but it wasn't god -awful.

What are you going to give Harmonic? I'll give

it a one and a half, just because of my apathy.

Like I said before, it's not terrible, it's just

that I didn't care. Hooked on Sonics works for

me. I'll give it a three. It's a very middle

-of -the -road episode. Yeah, I guess I'll give

it like a two. Okay. And Sonic's Nightmare, what

are you going to give that one? Guess a one and

a half. Oh really? Wow. We're really I'm actually

gonna give it a four. I am real. Yeah, I Kind

of enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I was

going to The only thing that would have put it

in a five is if as you said it was Robotnik doing

the dream Mastering and you know at some point

he had you know Some claws and a red and green

striped shirt with his face all melted off and

you know It was the final nightmare and the docking

can show up Oh, wow, you did not just say that

Oh, it's hilarious. Oh crap Uh, thank you for

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