Robotnik’s Rival, The Magic Hassle, Sonic the Matchmaker, Tails Prevails, and Zoobotnik

Hello and welcome to Pixels in the Animation.

This is episode 91. This is our penultimate episode

for Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. I'm of

course TF2 and Mike. Joining me is TV's Mr. Neil.

Kill me now. We're not going to wait until we

get home, folks. Kill me now. So close to the

end and yet so far. to cut these things so damn

close I was right they got worse I forget which

one it is but there's one either in this episode

in either 91 or 92 I forget Where they go back

to the Chaos Emerald stuff for like one episode

and I'm thinking take that episode Put it at

the end of free us like put it after prehistoric

sonic take those five episodes and put them at

the end of the fucking series already Jesus You

can't create story Episodes a four part five

part whatever in the middle of a friggin show

and then just go back to the the yucks and the

yucks Every time I've had to watch these cartoons,

I've gone over to the Boomerang streaming service

and watched like five hours of Looney Tunes stuff

to wash my brain out. I mean seriously, oh my

god. Alright, starting off tonight we have...

Roadhog. Sonic and Tails are arrested for speeding.

As a result of Robotnik having hypnotized the

law through pollen. The Sonic segment was all

about calling for help. Uh, uh, what? What the

hell is this shit? I don't know. I told you that

the Sonic Says segments most likely have nothing

to do with what the actual app - So does about

it's just some yeah somebody shoehorning a message

into the program because FCC regulations or something

Some of them have to deal with the episode and

some of them don't Yeah, but there's no priority

put on that. Oh, no I mean no not at all. I mean

just look at the mask PSA's You know you could

have venom Going after Las Vegas gold and the

PSA would be about not setting forest fires or

kitchen fires or Crossing the street read a book.

Yeah, read a book. Don't burn a book read a book

But this is a mind control episode with pollen

no less and Since like the entire planet of Mobius

everywhere that they go on this planet They know

Sonic is the fastest thing alive and they know

that tails follows him regardless if it's a mind

control thing it just makes no sense that the

police would pull it like i could see you know

sonic dressing up as a cop and you know doing

the pullover to to robotnik because that's you

know he but oh my god really seriously and then

he gets put in charge of a gang of bikers like

yeah Don't know if I can get through these final

10 or 11 episodes because already my mind is

just like What the hell did I just watch? Well,

somehow he gets unhypnotized then gets hypnotized

into being the leader of a biker gang and I'm

like Okay, and it took us like 15 minutes to

get to that So the title of the episode is based

on something that happens more than halfway through

the show. Mm -hmm The only cool thing about this

was They didn't really use it to very well, but

I liked they did it was that they used all of

his catchphrases and yada yada yada's To kind

of get him out of being mind control But it's

like everybody else saying it and then there'd

be like a half a second of him Just kind of like

standing there or whatever trying to think of

oh should I remember? Way past cool, or should

I remember this? Should I be doing something

else? Should I be a good guy, or should I be

a bad guy? I just don't know. Any other thoughts

on Roadhog? Oh, god. This is a typical amnesia

episode. That's basically what it was, because

they'd go, hey, Sonic, who's Sonic? It's just

another variant of the amnesia episode so that's

all I have to say Kermit the frog did it better.

I just don't feel like myself lately Up next

is the robots robot You know As an artist, you

know, you're gonna do the love child of Scratching

grounder you could have done it a lot funnier

than that. I mean that that design it's like

what the hell I would have been I would have

been like, you know, just put me in a room I'll

come up with funny designs all day and then you

could pick one they they did something. What

was it like a like a It looked like a VTEC child's

computer attached to like a tricycle. Yeah pretty

much Scratch and grounder build a robot of their

own who soon runs away and ends up befriending

Sonic Oh God the Sonic says segment was all about

fire I Think is it this episode that they kind

of go back and do flashbacks to jr. And breezy

and all that. Oh, no. No, that's that's later

Okay, that's later. All right, I mean The only

reason why Scratch and Gratter built this thing

is so they wouldn't have to do what Robotnik

always tells them to do, so they could have something

to boss around. And then they try in the middle

of it to turn it into a parenting episode and,

oh, but I miss my parents and yada yada yada

and uh... What's the thing that kind of sucks

is that they threw it out at the end of the episode.

They're... Sonic's like... Hey kid, you wanna

hang out with me instead of Robotnik and he has

this sentimental picture of scratching ground

and he just tosses it aside and I'm like, no,

no, no, you don't do that. He should love them.

Even if they're evil, he should absolutely love

them. Yeah. And my only thought is when the hell

was that picture taken? Oh my God. Well, we'll

rate the I we got a bullet train through these

folks we'll do all the ratings and stuff at the

end of the podcast because These episodes are

just so bad up next is tales tale which has nothing

to do with Tails, honestly. I mean, yes, Sonic

does mysteriously vanish in Tails. Professor

Von Schlemmer and a pilot named William Ledoux

searched for him in the Pyramid of... Oh, Pyramid

of the Comanches or something or other. Sonic

says segment was all about computers, yay. The

episode... I think it's in Satan. Where... they

do the adopting thing with Tails. That was more

of a Tails episode than this was. I mean, yes,

Sonic does disappear. Yes, this episode does

focus on the secondary characters. But I thought

this was going to be some sort of backstory for

Tails or some sort of flashback to his childhood

or something. The name of the episode and what

actually happens in this episode has nothing

to do with each other whatsoever. Right. Yeah,

it's just kind of like a weird hodgepodge of

ideas and it almost seems like it's maybe an

adaptation of the Tales adventure game on on

the game gear mm -hmm because that's that's kind

of a weird game in the in the Sonic series where

it's uh I know this is the wrong game to compare

it to but it's almost like a Metroid game how

it's open -ended and It just made for exploration

and I'm like well that that might be what they're

doing with the temple here is You know, I don't

know, maybe, but I really don't understand this

episode because it's such a weird amalgam of

shit. You introduce this one character who's

only around for one episode and he has nothing

to do with the plot. He's just kind of there,

you know, to have probably just so Tails has

someone to talk to over the episode because he's

not with Sonic. Yeah, I guess I would. Well,

this was. Oh, hell, this was 93. This is still

November 25, 1993. I wish that they would have

almost done a Bueller thing with this and turn,

not necessarily turn tales into Ferris Bueller,

but use the breaking of the fourth wall camera

talk angle instead. So we would feel that we're

actually doing something with the cartoon. That's

not obviously what happened. Right. Hero of the

Year might be the best episode of today because

Wes Weasley pretends to host a roast, actually

a clip show to Sonic, that Robotnik uses to force

his surrender. The Sonic Says segment was all

about alcohol. Don't drink for kids, please.

No drinking, no driving, no nothing. They're

imagining what you'd want to do after watching

this show. This one wasn't like... Like I said,

anytime Wes shows up, I like that guy because

he makes the show that much more fun. And I just

love his voice. I wish I could remember what

character actor they're impersonating there.

Yeah, it is just a clip show, but it is kind

of a fun clip show. Any thoughts on Hero of the

Year? Well, I wasn't going to shit on it before

being a clip show. I'm like, oh my god. I forgot

that they actually did episodes like this back

in the 80s and 90s. And I'm a little surprised

to see it show up in a show like this in the

90s. Because by that point, those were becoming

rare. Yeah. So here it is an episode where they're

just they're just have an excuse to show You

know clips from older episodes, and I do believe

that nearly every single character Secondary

character that it's shown up in the series prior

it shows up in this episode Including the fucking

robot that we were just introduced to two episodes

ago So it's just kind of like there's no plot

in this episode. It's literally just something

bad happens to Sonic's or Sonic gets double cross

And something bad happens and it's just an excuse

to have a bunch of clips in the show. Mm -hmm

Very true and last one up for today is fast and

easy which this cartoon is not A pickpocket named

Easy Eddie picks at Robotnik's Chaos Emerald

Ring. Much to his anger, Sonic must keep Easy

Eddie hidden so that he can discard the ring.

And don't forget folks, breakfast is the most

important meal of the day. Right. Wake up early,

eat some breakfast so you can go pickpocket everybody.

If they took the pickpocket angle out of this

and just left the chaos emerald ring thing in,

this is the one that I said that should butt

up against prehistoric because it has something

to do with chaos emeralds again. But yeah, this

was... Easy Eddie is about as annoying as Scott

and T -Bob. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah, uh... I... It's

just another episode to get the chaos emeralds

in there again It's just it's so weird how rarely

they show up in this show or how rarely they

show up in either show They weren't in the other

show at all. No Where they should have been in

Saddam. It would have made a lot more sense.

Mm -hmm Yeah, we only get to see easy Eddie the

one time the easy Eddie the pickpocket you know

what the difference is between a pickpocket and

a peeping tom one snatches watches oh that's

not right dude that's not that's all i have to

say that is so not right oh god Man, this is

a fast podcast. That's it! And honestly, the

entire episode was a PSA for Fast and Easy. The

whole episode was, don't steal, don't pickpocket,

you know, Eighth Commandment, this, that, and

the other thing, and everything else. I don't

know. Don't be Eddie Guerrero. lying, cheating,

stealing. That's a low blow. Oh, it's not. That's

what his gimmick was. I know that's what his

gimmick was, but the man is dead. Well, he'd

laugh. I'm not taking him for being dead. He

stole the title from Brock Lesnar. That was the

best part of that. All right, so what are we

gonna give these starting with a roadhog? I Guess

I'll give it like a one. I'm right there with

you cuz none of that episode made sense He got

well, here's the part that didn't make sense

the most it was there's one part where he gets

hit with the With the pollen again, and then

he gets hypnotized back into being sonic. I'm

like, wait a minute. That's a little too meta

That's it's like how do you get? How do you get

hypnotized back into not being hypnotized? Yeah,

that's, no, not good. Uh, the robot's robot?

I'll give it a two and a half. It's a funny premise,

not executed very well. Yeah, I'm kind of right

there with you. I mean, I... Oh, I'm gonna give

it a one and a half for the simple reason that,

and I forgot to bring this up when we were talking

about it. There's a part in this where they get

the robot wet or no sonic uses water against

Scratching grounder, and I'm like who the fuck

are you he man? You can't do that crap. You're

not supposed in robots I mean, you know you think

that you know has no well it wasn't out yet I

was like has anybody learned from Mel Gibson

don't put a radio in the bathtub, but it's one

of those things where it's like The robots are

metal. They're made of circuitry. They're made

of wires. We've seen them get electrocuted before

in other episodes and yet you're going to Defeat

them with water. Mm -hmm Tales tale Kind of a

dumb episode Actually, it's another episode in

which Robotnik is screwing another villain You

know, it's funny how often counterfeit money

comes up in these last few episodes. Yeah. You

know what? I'll give it a two. I gotta go with

a one and a half. It really had nothing to do

with Tails other than trying to put him in charge.

Hero of the Year. I'll give it a half a point

just for being a clip show. I gotta give it a

three. I love Wes Weasley. Fast and easy I'm

right there with you I I Liked easy Eddie a little

bit, but there are better characters that do

that gimmick than he did than he did so Alright

folks, we're gonna take a quick break. I know

this is a short one, but can you blame us? We've

gone through almost 65 episodes of this show

and we got five left to go for next week. So

we'll be back after this. Alright, we are back

and it is time to close this one out. Five episodes

left. Can it get any worse? Probably. That's

all Neil can do now, folks, is just sigh. At

least it's almost over. We're in the home stretch,

that's right. I feel like Jack from Hook. Run

home, Jack, run home. Oh boy, where can the people

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of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, which include

Lifestyles of the Sick and Twisted, Sonic is

Running, Robo Ninjas, Sonically Ever After, and

the truncated Christmas -themed podcast entitled

Sonic's Christmas Blast. Yay! Thank you for listening

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