Sonic the Hedgehog SAT AM Episodes 16-18 Review

Welcome to Pixels in the Animation. This is episode

76 and we gotta juice, folks, because it's time

for more Sonic stuff. I'm, of course, TF2 and

Mike. Joining me is TV's Mr. Neil. Oh, boy. More

of this. Yeah. It's kind of like, oh, you again?

So yes, we have more Sonic on tap for today.

Hope everyone liked our 75th episode at the end

there when we were talking about the Sonic music

from the first two games. And yeah, more of this.

I am actually very much looking forward to Adventures

of Sonic the Hedgehog at this point. I gotta

say that it better not suck because this is...

By the way, after the first episode went up,

did anyone contact you about like, you better

not just Sonic Saddam because it's like the best

one. I got that and I was like, what the fuck?

Why do people like this? Where did you get that

on Facebook? Yeah, a couple private messages.

I'm like, what the hell? Leave me alone. No,

nobody contacts me. Nobody interacts with me.

I just record, edit, spend, you know, 20 -something

hours on, you know, 40 or 50 different podcast

episodes. You know, nobody ever emails me. Nobody

ever says shit. And if somebody does say shit

to me, they ask me, are you going to be doing

this because this is coming out? Like somebody

asked me, um... And it is a fan of ours and I'm,

you know, asked me if we were going to do something

on the new Power Rangers movie and I, because

I used to do the Power Rangers from the Command

Center podcast with Scotty Cash and Spade of

the Ball Matrix and we haven't, the show hasn't

been in production for more than two years at

this point. I said we might, but it's highly

doubtful because I probably won't see the movie

until it gets released to media. But yeah, no,

I did not Apparently you're more popular than

I am And as I've been saying folks, you know,

I See certain things in this cartoon that I like

and I enjoy But as I said all of last episode

that they need to pick that they should have

chosen a path Either episodic individual things

or an overarching story and While there is an

overarching story. It kind of comes too little

too late Yeah, yeah, they kind of like backloaded

one into the second season where it wasn't there

at all and yes pretty much So kicking this one

off we've got no brainer Sonic loses his memory,

Snively takes advantage and gets the hedgehog

to infiltrate Knothole. So, Snively has this

brain reducer or forgetfulness maker or whatever

the hell it's called and he shoots Sonic with

it and Sonic's eyes turn purple and he's brainwashed

and Snively wants to take over. I wonder if anyone

got mad at this because everybody knows that

canonically, Sonic has green eyes. Yeah. Well,

at least he doesn't have blue arms. That's true.

I mean, yeah. I don't know if this is an animation,

if this is a cheap animation thing for them,

but in this series he has nothing but black eyes.

Yeah. Oh, that's the other thing about this is

that I noticed throughout the entire series that

his pupils are blinking and not his eyelids.

And in this episode, it's really apparent because

now he has these big blue circles around his

pupils and still his pupils are what's blinking.

And I'm like, God, that looks so weird. And everyone

else has eyelids, so I don't know what's going

on. And I think everybody else has actual eyes

like they don't just have pupils Like yeah, Sonic

has like the has like the you know, I where it's

like they connect. It's kind of like the unibrow.

Oh my god So no brainer, let's see what I like

about no brainer a mind control episode, okay

mind control episode mixed with an amnesia yeah

yeah they should have decided on which one they

wanted to do like if they wanted to have him

hit his head and and go into this fantasy world

where he eventually is gonna marry Miss Piggy

or something you know whatever see now you just

turned it into the Muppets take Manhattan and

I could have been watching that I know right

I just don't feel like myself lately. That's

right And then I do like them working more with

Chuck that that was one thing about this episode

I did enjoy the whole Chuck angle of passing

the message back and forth and things like that.

That was good The rest of it is just kind of

okay. The henchman is gonna try to take over

and of course at the end of the episode Robotnik

is gonna come in and You know read him the riot

act she does I Don't know this show Somebody

I'm legitimately asking I'm not trying to be

funny. I'm not trying to be sarcastic somebody

Please write in I will even give you my my email

address to write this to so I will get it tfg1

Mike at gmail .com Whoever is a fan of sad am

Please explain to us why you are a fan and why

you like this series so much Because so far right

I'm not seeing Why yeah, we're about 60 % through

this and it has yet to pick up Yeah, we have

three. This is episode 76. We have 77 78 79 and

8 we have like four episodes left of of this

show and of this specific cartoon show And yeah,

I mean, there's stuff here to like, but there's

not an overall thing here to like. Actually,

79, so we've got three episodes left. 80 is when

we start adventures. And honestly, I cannot wait

until episode 80 at this point. What did you

think of No Brainer? Just kind of the typical

Amnesia episode. It's like... It's another episode

where a character either bumps their head or

gets hit with a ray or whatever and it causes

them to lose their memory and then the bad guy

says, oh you work for me. There was an episode

of this in that stupid Donkey Kong Country multi

-part movie that I talked about a few episodes

ago. Remember I said that was the clip show episode?

They did that. Think every cartoon has done this

there's always there's always a an amnesia episode

and It's just so contrived. I wanted to turn

it off Yeah, I mean I would rather watch a bad

soap operas amnesia episode than this one Insert

any soap opera you want folks with the amnesia

storyline and I guarantee you it's better written

than this So then we have What I assume to be

the only two -parter of the series we have blast

from the past or blast to the past And this one

is where we get again back on a track of continuity

back on a track of learning things from Sally

in her past and Sonic in his past because We

go back to before Robotnik was Robotnik. He was

just Julian Okay, then and he was advisor or

something military advisor or something to King

Acorn who is Sally's dad so we finally get to

see King Acorn which I do like because um well

he's voiced by another great villain voice actor

Tim Curry is a good guy folks who knew yes what

is that um I like seeing all the main freedom

fighters as kids, that was kind of fun. Little

annoying with little Sonic and big Sonic, but

Sonic in general is annoying, but... See, this

is another case where Sonic is just too cool,

and having two of them is double annoying. Yep.

But at least it wasn't like the pollution episode

where it opens with him playing a guitar. With

that I just wanted to put my foot through the

screen. This is another continuity episode, but

oddly enough it destroys its own continuity.

Yeah, it kind of does. As does every time travel

episode. Basically what it does is it says everything

that happened was Sonic and Sally's fault. Yeah.

Because notice that they enact a lot of the things

that end up happening in the future. Like, for

example, the whole reason Robotnik has a metal

arm is that he's complaining about Future Sonic

and he just happens to get his arm caught in

the beam that turns it roboticized. So if they

didn't go back in time, maybe that wouldn't have

happened. Yeah, pretty much. You should never

go back in time, folks. I mean, no one person

should know anything about... You know, too much

about their own past or future. And they had

to give themselves alternate names. So Sonic

was named Juice for this episode. But oddly enough,

Sally just kept calling him Sonic right in front

of Little Sonic. Over and over again. And Little

Sonic never said, hey, wait a minute. Yeah. Again.

Probably the same writer not knowing what they're

even doing. I don't even remember if these, let's

see here. No, Blast of the Past, according to

this, it was written by the same person, so it's

not like it was two different writers. No, I

just think that it was somebody not really paying

attention to their own script and not realizing

that the character that shouldn't be hearing

this is standing right there. And this is the

episode where I expected Bunny Rabbot's cyborg

arm and legs to be explained, but they never

were. Nope. They just let it go. I'm like, wait

a minute. Of all the things that should have

been explained in this episode, that never was.

Yeah. That's not good. At all. And then we get

probably the worst episode The only combined

episode like okay, so we get You know how most

cartoons will do what okay I I guess I'm hoping

you're you're not that negative towards this,

but you've seen Phineas and Ferb, right? Okay,

well anyway It's a good show, but I I don't know

it probably wouldn't be for you It'd probably

be something for your sister's kids or something

they could watch, but I don't know Anyway, they

take two 11 minute cartoons and put them in the

same 30 minute 22 minute time It's basically

you know like like how the old Looney Tunes do

seven minute cartoon things You know sure you

know so it's so it's that kind of thing so Fed

up with Antoine slash Ghostbusted. I'm sorry,

Sonic. At this point, busting doesn't make me

feel good. Oh, my God. I just know. Um. So, yeah,

the final episode for today, we've got two cartoons

and it fed up with Antoine and Ghostbusted. As

I said before, no disrespect to Rob Paulson,

but Antoine is by far the most annoying character

in the entire show. And this entire episode basically

dedicated to him proves that Antoine is appointed

king of a biker gang unaware of their secret

cannibalistic traits So he's essentially Rob

Schneider from Judge Dredd Oh God I'm trying

to remember the the running gag with with Rob

Snyder in that movie where he kept he keeps saying

something stupid and like and Stallone just looks

at him. I forget what the joke was but Yeah Cuz

Anton is the jail and again, you know, I keep

saying that Sonic is a Sonic the Sonic cartoon

is a bunch of other cartoons another one I've

made mention to it is essentially this is Captain

and the Game Master because Sonic is Captain

and Princess Sally is Lana and and Simon is is

Antoine is Simon and Even Simon Belmont has more

dignity than this guy does That's see you're

starting to see the pattern that I always see

which is that nothing is ever new all cartoons

are the same They just keep recycling the same

basic premise over and over, and you'll see the

same archetypes again and again. Yep. Congratulations,

you've seen it. Yep, pretty much. And now that

you've seen it, you will always see it. Yeah,

pretty much. And that's very, very sad. What

did you think of Fed Up with Antoine? Kind of

a nothing episode. It's just kind of stupid.

The only note I really have is that I didn't

understand that the That it transitioned to another

episode because the version that I watched didn't

have like a title card or anything So it's like

all the sudden the plot switched. I'm like, I'm

like what that wait what? So you had sent me

a YouTube playlist with all these episodes on

it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah You didn't notice and I

noticed this in the very beginning the title

card at the very beginning has both of them listed

Okay, I must have turned away because I didn't

see that but Yeah, it's like all of a sudden

it fades out, then it fades back in, and there's

another story going on. I'm like, wait, this

doesn't connect at all. I didn't understand that

it moved on. Yeah, it had moved on, and not in

a good way, because Ghostbusted is by far...

There are bad episodes in this show, but this

is by far the dumbest one yet. Sonic and Tails

investigate a possible ghost problem while camping.

Okay then. um yeah no this is your traditional

campfire this is your traditional little kid

goes to a scary movie thing without the movie

theater without a movie but it's sonic telling

tales ghost stories you know while you know sitting

around a campfire Of course we see that Antoine

gets scared shitless from these things and ends

up You know just trembling in his sleeping bag

all night Whereas you know tails goes off and

has this dream of all this other stuff and gets

spooked and whatever else I I'm just gonna say

it right now. I do not believe in ghosts You

know I believe everybody goes you know You know

back into the ether or whatever and all that

stuff and everything else, but it's one of those

things where you know the state pump marshmallow

man is not gonna you know rip off the top of

my apartment building and peek in and look at

me or you know the Scalari brothers are not gonna

haunt my You know my apartment here and any of

those ghost shows and crap. Oh, yeah, you want

to talk I know reality TV is bad folks, but honestly

for me the worst reality television programs

are these ghost hunting things. Why would you

waste your time? But then again, I'm wasting

my time doing a podcast. So, you know, I guess

it's all relative, right? Yeah. See, the way

I saw this is that this is basically the Scooby

Doo episode. Like there's a ghost. Oh, wait,

no, it isn't. It's just Anton and he's trying

to steal the treasure wait, no, he's not but

you know It's yeah, it's one of those bait and

switches where you think you think something's

going on and it's really something else. Yeah

All right, so we're gonna take another final

quick break And we are gonna come back with ratings

for these four episodes And then we're gonna

get the heck out of here and go actually watch

something that's enjoyable I might actually cry

at it watching a This Is Us episode, which has

not happened yet. daily in audio form and undetectable

by radar, something that screams summer. I know,

let's do a Phineas and Ferb review podcast. We'll

call it the Podcast Organization Without a Quillacronym,

or Pauka for short. What do you think? I think

if we're not careful, Candice is going to bust

us. You can find Pauka on the GeekCast, Radio

Network, iTunes, Blog Talk Radio, and all of

the other methods you find podcasts. Alright

folks we are back and it is time to rate these

episode no -brainer. What are you gonna give

it? All right, I'll give it a two and a half

I It was wasn't as bad as some of the other ones

blast to the past Guess I give it a one and a

half really I'm gonna give it a four I liked

it even though it ruined its own continuity I

still enjoyed it because Of all the story that

we got in it what about fed up with Antoine How

do we even rate this because it's two episodes

in one You know what it totally baffled me, so

I'll just give it a one and ghost busted for

me. It's I It's the first one so far. It's the

first zero for me. I'm sorry. I just know I Can't

yeah, I'll give it like a half. All right, you're

gonna give it a half all right Join us next time

folks when we talk about Dulcy the void and We

have another double episode which is so silly.

We have the odd couple out and Ro Becca So that's

what's coming up on episode 77 Of pixels in the

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