Sonic the Hedgehog SAT AM Recap

Welcome to the 79th episode of Pixels in the

Animation Island where we host TF2O and Mike.

Joining me in this epic journey is TV's Mr. Neil.

Yes, folks, it's time for a beer. I never drink

beer. I know you. Well, it's... But, you know,

under normal circumstances, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Today we put a full stop... ongoing way past

school that's right we're uh... done with the

sonic Satan series uh... i'm sorry but we're

gonna recap our thoughts on it so let's juice

and jam on over to Nothole one last time and

later in the episode folks we do have JT from

Saskatoon who will come in uh... to try to explain

to us why this was a good cartoon good luck I

know, right? So, how we're gonna do this is kinda

how I do most of my recaps. We talk about favorite

things, least favorite things, yada yada yada,

then we do the overall kinda thing. If there's

any trivia. I wish I almost did this with the

other recaps that we did for, I mean we've been

doing this show since 2013 or so, so I figure,

you know. can't go back and do it now but you

know I almost wish I had this idea then because

in this in this script that I put together for

us I said two things favorite video game based

thing that was in the cartoon and least favorite

video game based thing that was in the cartoon

and yeah I should have done that all those years

ago for each of the because I don't remember

doing that but So yeah, Sonic the Hedgehog We're

gonna start with favorite characters the list

is fairly short obviously I Like Sonic to a certain

extent I think as the series goes on he gets

less and less annoying Tails I don't tails didn't

really I've always liked Tails, but Tails didn't...

He didn't get a lot of time in this cartoon.

Like, he got time, but... He was inoffensive.

I mean, he didn't drag the story down. He should

have been in it more. You would think so. You

would think. I like Sally. She's alright. I like

Bunny. She's alright. I would have to say, out

of the entire cast, the... Even though he was

annoying as hell at first, you know, I just can't

stop saying fuel. And it's only because he's

Rob friggin' Paulson. It's really the only reason

why I love Antoine. It's because it's Rob Paulson.

You gonna munch this or what? Goin'? Goin'? Yeah,

Antoine grew on me. Who did you like from this

series for characters? Uh, let's see. I like...

Well, I like Sonic and Tails, basically. Tails

was... Like I said, he wasn't in it that much,

but he's one of those kid characters. But he

wasn't really as annoying as the typical kid

character. He just... I don't know, he was...

He was... Pleasantly... juvenile he wasn't like

he didn't have an attitude he was just kind of

there to be Sonic's buddy and I can't really

I'm having a hard time explaining why I like

tales in this but it's just that he was he was

just like the kind of kid character you'd want

to be around he wasn't like I wasn't like Daniel

with wiki and goddamn annoying character who's

skewed younger than then spike from the first

two seasons but I will take your Daniel and I

would raise you a Scott tracker. Come on now

Come on now Scott Scott is worse than than that.

You never watched masked really Wow Well, not

not at length. I've seen a few episodes. Yeah

What was what was Sally's little computer? Nicole

yeah, Nicole. I like Nicole after after she got

the attitude Because Sally's like, why are you

talking like that, Nicole? She's like, oh my

god, Sonic, what did you do? You know, right?

I gave her a personality. Yeah, yeah, Nicole

was awesome. All right, so for favorite episodes...

What I put for this one, even though I have the

episode list, I basically just wrote down one

that bring the continuity into something that's

manageable. The rest of it... There are certain

cartoons that just try too hard to do certain

things, and this is one of them. But... Another

one I think I enjoyed was the episode five from

season one, which is supersonic, where Robotnik

searches for the computer archive of spells.

And there was like one thing in that that I didn't

really care for, but other than that, I liked

that one. The finale for the series was good

as well. Again, going into the whole... continuity

of of everything the oh yeah my favorite one

how could I not even mention this my favorite

one out of them all the only one that is not

continuity driven the only one -off episode that

I absolutely would love and will probably go

back and watch at some point the odd couple what

about you on favorite episodes like you said

pretty much any of the story driven episodes

except for maybe the finale just because it wrapped

up so quickly and ended on such a such a popcorn

fart like you don't ever find out what happened

yeah but yeah I like I like the episodes that

had cohesion unfortunately it's like that's like

the last six episodes and maybe certain select

episodes from season one yeah it's like I can't

imagine if you would, if you could, if you were

to make a Sonic Sad Am abridged series, it wouldn't

be that long. Yeah, no. I mean, you could take

out most of the comedic episodes and string the

other ones together to make some sort of abridged

series that would actually make sense. uh...

favorite video game based thing in the cartoon

were there any i mean only i can really think

of his what's going on inside i get the he runs

he spends the you know pops on enemies and there

i'm sure that happened in the series but you

know it's kind of hard to pick one out yeah i

mean i think there was a point where like close

to the end of season one maybe the middle of

season two they started using the spin dash Because

again, this was two years after Sonic 2 had come

out. So maybe that... How they incorporated the

ring power was interesting, but strange. And

not at all based on the video game? No, not at

all. That was one thing that was not based on

the video game. So getting into least favorite

things least favorite characters For me, it's

the SWAT bots. They were boring as hell Ivy like

normally you expect these you know automaton

robot things to have some sort of not necessarily

individual personalities but some sort of most

of the time most cartoons in the eighties and

nineties would you know use these characters

to do like spider -man one -liners there's things

like that as they're fighting the villain these

guys are just more dumb than anything else uh...

i am only gonna say rotor a little bit though

the walrus dude that's in the freedom fighters

only because we didn't really see he didn't really

he was one character we did not really get a

whole lot from no he was there here and there

and everywhere but he wasn't really used all

that much and he basically led no importance

to the series what about you for least favorite

characters dulcy yeah i forgot annoying dulcy

yeah stupid nose ring and knee pads that only

show up once. And maybe any of the other freedom

fighters that showed up just because they didn't

really factor into the story at all. You mean

besides the core? Yeah. There was a bit about...

Sally's dad having a list and it didn't really

factor in it's like, okay What did these guys

do they they got captured in the last episode

and Sonic had to solve every? Sonic had to solve

everything himself. Anyway, it's like I don't

know. What are these characters here for go away?

Yeah, maybe if they weren't there we wouldn't

have had a slapdash ending That's true. And I

pretty sure you don't watch a lot of current

WWE stuff, but One of Jericho's gimmicks these

days has been, you just made the list! Yeah.

Yeah, that's the first thing I thought of. Alright,

least favorite episodes? Honestly, some of the

bad comedic ones. I mean, I like The Odd Couple

because that's just funny because that's Rob

Paulson going off on the deep end. But in Season

1, there are some bad... Episodes, um... I'm

trying to see here, like, uh... Like, as much

as I like Antoine, hooked on Sonics, that was

just stupid. That was just dumb. Hooked on Sonics,

it doesn't work for me. What about you for episodes?

Least favorite episodes. Maybe anything where

I had to put up with Dulce for an extended period

of time. I don't know. She's just... I have nothing

against the actress, Chris Summer. She was Penny,

Inspector Gadget's niece. She was sassy number

five in Kids Next Door. It's just like this performance.

I don't know what it is. She's way too babyish,

and I just don't like that character design.

Actually, none of the characters really match

the Sonic style. Sonic and Tails kind of look

like themselves. Tails has the big anime eyes,

and Sonic pretty much looks like he does in the

game. But all the other characters, in particular,

Dulcy, don't look like they belong in Sonic.

Yeah, no, I don't remember a giant dragon coming

out of one of those machines of Robotniks where

Sonic frees all the animals and they turn back

into the people. Exactly, she's like the most

out of place of any character. Absolutely. Let's

see here. Alright, so least favorite video game

based thing in the cartoon? Again, were there

any? Like, I'll say this, there are times when

he was facing against Robotnik and I don't remember

Robotnik's vehicles, some of them looking the

way they look in the cartoon series. Like, I'm

used to Robotnik coming in in this giant silver

and red thing with a giant wrecking ball, you

know, kind of thing. I don't know. This was like

they didn't... play the car play the video games

at all yeah it just i'm i'm really hard to think

of anything that was in this cartoon that was

based on the games i mean maybe the pinball yeah

the pinball contraption it's like but why are

they doing that it's like why did why did dr

robotnik make this pinball machine just for sonic

And the whole thing with the damn rings, I mean,

okay, I get for the cartoon they have to do some

sort of story and have to, you know, create some

sort of element, but they could have just left

it at the fact that his Uncle Chuck made them

for him and they come up out of this lake. We

didn't necessarily need to see that they come

up out of a machine that's buried at the bottom

of the lake. Right, and that episode was only

made explicitly to... Explain what that was.

I mean, there was no other point to that episode.

No, not really Do we have any trivia for this

show? I tried to dig up some trivia based on

Ken Pender's and the comics cuz a lot of these

characters continue on in the comics But I was

not able to figure out if the story continues

in the comics or if the comics are just their

own thing And I'm not I'm certainly not gonna

buy them I will say that over time, like what

I just commented on the character designs, over

time they gradually start looking more like Sonic

characters. So you can find pictures of Sally

Acorn and Bunny Rabot looking like traditional

Sonic game characters. And I think they actually

disappear from the comics because... Ken Pender's

and Archie comics had a big falling out and um

a lot of his characters had to be removed so

uh that's why like in more recent comics they're

back to just uh sonic and tails and knuckles

and all the chaotic characters so yeah oh that's

one thing that was that no knuckles Yeah, no

knuckles, but that's not what I was going to

say for least favorite video game -based thing

in the cartoon. They say nothing of the Chaos

Emeralds. Yeah, that's the weird thing. There's

no Chaos Emeralds. They were there from the start.

Yep, absolutely. uh... overall for me i don't

think i'll go back to watch this series i didn't

watch it was first on it took me twenty years

to watch it all the way through it's probably

going to be you know i'll probably be on my deathbed

before i watch this series again uh... i mean

overall it is a good fun series but it's not

what everyone keeps telling me that it is it's

not that We've even said in several of the episode

reviews This is supposed to be the dark sonic.

Why am I laughing my ass off every 10 minutes

here? Yeah for me it was just I was expecting

more of a story and if you're gonna have like

Episodes were like that aren't really Connected

to one another then it's not really it can't

really be a dark sonic because there's no consequence

for anything if there was if you're gonna have

a story then you have to have consequences you

can't just like reset the the status quo every

episode and Eventually it did get to that point.

But again, it was the last six episodes of the

series. Yeah, it was too little too late Absolutely,

and I assume you're never gonna watch this one

again, right? Oh, no, I'm glad that I finally

stomach through it and I could say that I've

seen it now but yeah, I'm never gonna watch this

again. Be gone, Satan! Oh lord. Yeah, so that's

gonna kinda, it's a very short episode for us

here, folks, on Pixels of the Animation. As I

said, this is our 79th episode. So next time

around in episode 80 we start the adventures

of Sonic the Hedgehog. It might be a couple of

months before we get releasing those because

I still have to go back and redo the entire schedule

with the proper episode order! So yeah, it's

gonna be a while before you guys get another

episode of Pixels and the Animation, but we will

finish! All 100 podcasts, we will finish episode

80 to 100 before December 31st, 2017. So this

podcast will end by the end of the year. When

we have the summer of Sonic, we can have the

winter of Sonic. Oh, God. What do you got going

on? What have you been up to? Well, since this

recording is in temporal purgatory, I can't really

verify anything at this moment, but I would say

just go to Decian .com and check what the latest

comic is. If it's somewhere within the last couple

weeks that I've updated, then you should check

it out. Or if you haven't read it yet, then it's

new to you. You should read it anyway. There

you go. uh... i x i also have like uh... a new

kind of side project that i'm working on it's

called uh... the big bad movie show it's on you

to be is cool it and there might be more episodes

there might just be three by this point i don't

know uh... we're going to take a quick break

because i almost forgot but uh... we're gonna

go see if j t can explain to us why sat a m is

is good so we'll be back after this Hey guys,

JT from Saskatoon here with my thoughts on Sonic

Sat AM. In my opinion, the best Sonic series.

And having said that, I can practically hear

TV's Mr. Neal's blood start to boiling. Now,

don't get me wrong, I never watched an episode

of The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog growing

up. I knew of it. Mainly from the initial Archie

Comics little mini -series that they put out

back in the day. And Sad AM, I loved it because

A, it was, I think it was a fairly solid cartoon

in terms of story, in terms of animation. You

know, Urkel, Jaleel White, Voices on the Hedgehog.

When I found that out years after the fact, because

I was a kid and I didn't pay attention to voice

credits at all, I loved the fact because seeing

some of his work like away from Family Matters

and that, I just, damn, this guy's actually a

lot of fun. and I love the cartoon mainly because

as the comic series went on it got a little darker

a little more mature you know it the comic was

the cartoon and the cartoon was the comic and

that's why I love the series now I know Neil

is a fan of neither and Mike's Mike he's got

his own you guys got your own opinions and I

don't decry them one way or the other It's just

my thoughts on the thing. I like Sad AM. I think

it's a solid series all around. Thank God it's

not Underground or Sonic X. You know, we dodged

a bullet there, folks. Anyway, this is JT from

Saskatoon, signing out. Sacrilege! You forgot

one! Which one did I forget? Thank God it's not

Sonic Boom! Well, I haven't seen Sonic Boom,

so I wouldn't know. Really? Wow! Decian the superhero

webcomic. Decian's got superhero antics and sexy

girls. For action, comedy, mayhem, and more,

read it now at Decian .com. D -A -S -I -E -N

.com. We are back. Thank you once again, JT.

Sorry, dude. You Canadians can explain it all

you want. We're not drinking that poutine or

whatever the hell that crap is that you all have

up there. Sorry about that. Canadian jokes. Sorry,

it won't happen again. Yes, again. I feel like

the rock and roll of Ayatollah at this point.

Anyway. We can talk it over a bag of milk. Oh

god. Yes, while eating Tim's Horton. Horton hears

a what? Anyway, that's going to do it for us

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