WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:01.390 Hello. 00:00:01.640 --> 00:00:04.620 You're probably wondering if I'll ever make any more videos. 00:00:04.620 --> 00:00:06.930 Well, truth is, I've made some, 00:00:06.930 --> 00:00:10.890 however, due to copyright reasons, no one's ever gonna be able to see them... 00:00:11.550 --> 00:00:13.740 So with that said. 00:00:19.280 --> 00:00:20.190 SONIC'S ASS! 00:00:20.560 --> 00:00:25.550 Yep, that is how the first American animated series of Sonic the Hedgehog starts. 00:00:26.220 --> 00:00:29.870 Actually it starts off with Sonic continuously showing off his name, 00:00:29.870 --> 00:00:33.030 to make sure everyone knows that this is Sonic's show, 00:00:33.030 --> 00:00:35.220 and no one else's but Sonic's show. 00:00:35.220 --> 00:00:36.920 I AM SEGA! 00:00:39.110 --> 00:00:45.320 Otherwise, this exactly what the American kids wanted to see if Sonic was ever drawn in 3 dimensions. 00:00:48.300 --> 00:00:52.500 For those of you who are just crawling out of a rock and wondering 'Who is this Sonic?', 00:00:52.500 --> 00:00:55.180 allow me to give you a brief run-through... 00:00:55.720 --> 00:00:56.760 He is: 00:00:56.760 --> 00:00:58.950 a 15 year old cobalt blue hedgehog 00:00:58.950 --> 00:00:59.740 an only child 00:00:59.740 --> 00:01:00.710 with 5 sisters 00:01:00.710 --> 00:01:02.010 his mother is Queen Aleena 00:01:02.010 --> 00:01:03.340 who had the following 3 kids 00:01:03.510 --> 00:01:04.410 Prince Sonic 00:01:04.410 --> 00:01:05.090 Prince Manic 00:01:05.090 --> 00:01:06.190 and Princess Sonia 00:01:06.190 --> 00:01:07.530 and together with his best buddy 00:01:07.530 --> 00:01:07.940 Tails 00:01:07.940 --> 00:01:08.380 Knuckles 00:01:08.380 --> 00:01:08.710 Amy 00:01:08.710 --> 00:01:09.080 Sally 00:01:09.080 --> 00:01:09.440 Rotor 00:01:09.440 --> 00:01:09.880 Bunny 00:01:09.880 --> 00:01:11.880 he goes off to fend off the evil doctor 00:01:11.880 --> 00:01:12.310 Julian 00:01:12.310 --> 00:01:12.740 Ivo 00:01:12.740 --> 00:01:13.240 Eggman 00:01:13.240 --> 00:01:14.040 Baldy McNosehairs 00:01:14.040 --> 00:01:14.740 Robotnik 00:01:14.740 --> 00:01:16.960 who plans to take over the world with the aid of 00:01:16.960 --> 00:01:17.910 his nephew, Snivley 00:01:17.910 --> 00:01:20.180 2 bounty hunters named Sleet and Dingo 00:01:20.180 --> 00:01:21.820 and his family of 3 robots 00:01:21.820 --> 00:01:22.210 Scratch 00:01:22.210 --> 00:01:22.580 Grounder 00:01:22.580 --> 00:01:23.310 and Coconuts 00:01:23.310 --> 00:01:23.710 Decoe 00:01:23.710 --> 00:01:24.010 Bocoe 00:01:24.010 --> 00:01:24.800 and Bokkun. 00:01:25.350 --> 00:01:26.690 Confused? 00:01:26.690 --> 00:01:30.280 Well, just blame all these adaptations for creating so many versions, 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:32.280 which we'll be diving into right now! 00:01:33.180 --> 00:01:40.870 In 1993, DiC Entertainment decided to create a cartoon of Sonic titling it The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. 00:01:40.870 --> 00:01:43.010 Loosely based on Sonic 2, 00:01:43.010 --> 00:01:46.040 it followed the plot of a pair of anthropomorphic animals 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:48.530 defending the freedom of their planet Mobius 00:01:48.530 --> 00:01:52.240 from the clutches of Dr. Ivo Robotnik (a human if you hadn't guessed). 00:01:53.460 --> 00:01:56.200 The whole show is mostly just slapstick comedy. 00:01:56.200 --> 00:01:59.300 Kind of reminds me of classic Warner Brothers cartoons. 00:01:59.300 --> 00:02:00.090 Why? 00:02:00.090 --> 00:02:02.220 Lets take a quick look at the introduction... 00:02:02.220 --> 00:02:04.590 I hate that hedgehog! 00:02:05.710 --> 00:02:08.300 He ruins my schemes! 00:02:08.780 --> 00:02:10.780 Boooo! 00:02:10.780 --> 00:02:12.780 He escapes my traps! 00:02:13.380 --> 00:02:14.510 Boooo! 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:18.220 He helps nice people! 00:02:19.510 --> 00:02:21.510 Boooo! 00:02:21.750 --> 00:02:23.450 But no more. 00:02:23.450 --> 00:02:25.160 No more! 00:02:25.160 --> 00:02:28.500 I am hereby declaring Sonic the Hedgehog 00:02:28.500 --> 00:02:31.360 as Mobius's most wanted fugetive. 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:33.980 To ensure his immediate capture, 00:02:33.980 --> 00:02:38.240 I am offering you the biggest reward in bounty hunter history: 00:02:38.780 --> 00:02:40.670 One Billion Mobiums! 00:02:40.670 --> 00:02:41.950 Alive, 00:02:41.950 --> 00:02:44.140 or otherwise... 00:02:44.140 --> 00:02:45.780 Question from the crowd? 00:02:45.780 --> 00:02:47.300 What is it? 00:02:47.300 --> 00:02:49.860 I'm worth way more than that! 00:02:55.520 --> 00:02:57.520 There he is! Get him! 00:02:57.520 --> 00:02:59.770 I want that hedgehog! 00:03:07.010 --> 00:03:09.510 I'm waiting... 00:03:17.440 --> 00:03:19.440 I'm over there. 00:03:27.940 --> 00:03:29.830 Ah, the power of suggestion. 00:03:29.830 --> 00:03:32.200 This ain't the hedgehog you're looking for... 00:03:36.140 --> 00:03:38.650 Split up and surround him! 00:03:42.310 --> 00:03:44.000 Step right up, step right up! 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:45.380 Don't crowd, don't push! 00:03:45.380 --> 00:03:48.080 You'll all get a chance to see the greatest show on Mobius. 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:52.280 And remember, for all bounty hunters, admission is free! 00:03:57.880 --> 00:03:59.760 Where is he? Where's the patient? 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:01.400 Who? 00:04:01.400 --> 00:04:04.140 Woa-oh! You sound pretty bad. 00:04:04.810 --> 00:04:06.880 I do? 00:04:07.790 --> 00:04:08.880 Have a seat please. 00:04:09.860 --> 00:04:13.450 Now who else do we know that dresses up and fools almost anyone? 00:04:14.060 --> 00:04:15.940 Leopold! 00:04:17.770 --> 00:04:21.360 Leopold! 00:04:21.660 --> 00:04:24.160 Anyways, getting back to the show... 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:27.260 After Robotnik's Badnik's fail at capturing Sonic... 00:04:27.260 --> 00:04:30.970 This will take all my vile and wicked genius 00:04:30.970 --> 00:04:34.740 to create the perfect robots to capture that hedgehog. 00:04:34.930 --> 00:04:36.750 I'll make them strong! 00:04:40.890 --> 00:04:42.230 Fearless! 00:04:43.020 --> 00:04:44.960 Ferocious! 00:04:45.690 --> 00:04:49.100 Supremely rotten like me! 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:54.150 But unlike the other robots, 00:04:54.150 --> 00:04:57.190 these two will be brilliant! 00:04:57.190 --> 00:04:58.110 YES! 00:04:58.110 --> 00:05:03.460 Honestly, an IQ of 300 and he throws random stuff into a Badnik Automat, 00:05:03.460 --> 00:05:05.460 and he comes up with... 00:05:06.020 --> 00:05:08.690 Who... Who am I? 00:05:08.690 --> 00:05:11.060 Why... Why am I here? 00:05:11.060 --> 00:05:13.320 Are... Are you my mother? 00:05:18.180 --> 00:05:19.340 NO! 00:05:19.830 --> 00:05:23.170 You are the very first member of my new 00:05:23.170 --> 00:05:27.370 Super Special Sonic Search and Smash Squad. 00:05:27.370 --> 00:05:32.240 I have designed you to be the ultimate in hedgehog hunters. 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:35.890 And now, to make you twice as effective, 00:05:35.890 --> 00:05:38.380 I'm going to clone you! 00:05:38.500 --> 00:05:39.780 Clone me? 00:05:39.780 --> 00:05:41.060 Will it hurt? 00:05:41.060 --> 00:05:43.250 I can't stand pain. 00:05:46.350 --> 00:05:48.720 Perhaps I made you... 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:50.310 too chicken. 00:05:50.310 --> 00:05:51.640 Wait a minute... 00:05:51.640 --> 00:05:53.830 I'm seeing a flaw here... 00:05:55.960 --> 00:05:59.250 Will be brilliant! 00:06:01.440 --> 00:06:03.140 Fearless! 00:06:05.090 --> 00:06:06.730 And his robot is... 00:06:06.730 --> 00:06:07.770 ...chicken. 00:06:13.080 --> 00:06:15.080 You forgot to pull this one. 00:06:16.350 --> 00:06:17.560 Fualla! 00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:20.540 Your identical twin brother. 00:06:21.150 --> 00:06:22.490 My twin? 00:06:22.490 --> 00:06:24.010 Am I that ugly? 00:06:24.010 --> 00:06:26.010 However, we end up with a burrow bot. 00:06:27.300 --> 00:06:30.700 And these are supposed to be Super Special Sonic Catchers. 00:06:31.860 --> 00:06:35.690 It's not stupid, it's advanced! 00:06:35.690 --> 00:06:38.670 So yeah, that's basically the plot of 3 whole years. 00:06:38.670 --> 00:06:42.630 Robotnik tries to come up with different inventive ways of getting rid of Sonic, 00:06:42.630 --> 00:06:45.490 he entrusts his dumbots to carry out his plans, 00:06:45.490 --> 00:06:48.410 and Sonic ultimately ruins those plans. 00:06:49.870 --> 00:06:53.090 Ok, there are times when Sonic does get beaten. 00:06:53.090 --> 00:06:57.050 Oops, that's one fast talk trick that just backfired... 00:07:01.010 --> 00:07:04.650 Throw the race! The Mobians or Tails! 00:07:04.650 --> 00:07:06.650 I can handle it... 00:07:17.540 --> 00:07:21.500 But thanks to some quick thinking and a pair of brainless bots, 00:07:25.010 --> 00:07:28.930 or thanks to his friends he manages to save the day. 00:07:28.930 --> 00:07:32.450 Those would be the only times when Tails gets to be the hero. 00:07:32.700 --> 00:07:35.070 ...and this time I won't let them trick me. 00:07:35.070 --> 00:07:37.070 Ok, not all the time, 00:07:37.070 --> 00:07:40.490 but it's nice that the little guy gets to be the big guy at times. 00:07:40.490 --> 00:07:42.370 I'm only 4½ years old! 00:07:42.370 --> 00:07:43.830 I don't know how to write yet. 00:07:43.830 --> 00:07:45.830 Ah, such a young genius. 00:07:45.830 --> 00:07:49.430 At the age of 5 he managed to build himself a working contraption. 00:07:49.430 --> 00:07:51.560 Other than a little character development, 00:07:51.560 --> 00:07:55.270 we could say it resembles Wile E. Coyote vs the Road Runner. 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:11.090 Well, what can one do with a game that has barely a story in it. 00:08:12.060 --> 00:08:15.350 Actually, there is some kind of story in the Sonic 2 manual: 00:08:15.590 --> 00:08:17.900 How Sonic and Tails Met. 00:08:17.900 --> 00:08:22.400 So yeah, this show is pretty much made up scenarios based on the games, 00:08:22.400 --> 00:08:24.400 complete with Zones and Warps, 00:08:24.400 --> 00:08:26.180 Badnik's and Time Travel, 00:08:26.180 --> 00:08:27.510 Drift and Rings, 00:08:27.510 --> 00:08:29.100 and, 4 Chaos Emeralds? 00:08:29.100 --> 00:08:29.460 I mean... 00:08:29.460 --> 00:08:31.460 5 Chaos Emeralds? 00:08:31.460 --> 00:08:33.480 With them, I will poses: 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:35.060 Invisibility! 00:08:39.130 --> 00:08:41.080 Invincibility! 00:08:47.230 --> 00:08:49.110 Immortality! 00:08:54.530 --> 00:08:56.470 And finally... 00:08:56.470 --> 00:08:58.790 the Power of Life itself! 00:08:58.790 --> 00:09:02.440 I command the lava to come to life! 00:09:07.380 --> 00:09:08.580 I thought there were 6 00:09:10.410 --> 00:09:13.020 Sorry, 7 Chaos Emeralds. 00:09:13.580 --> 00:09:16.550 Finally, I got them all. 00:09:16.550 --> 00:09:19.170 And once you collect and use all 4 of them... 00:09:19.170 --> 00:09:22.150 Invulnerability! 00:09:22.150 --> 00:09:24.950 Invisibility! 00:09:24.950 --> 00:09:27.870 Immortality! 00:09:27.870 --> 00:09:31.580 And the Power of Life! 00:09:32.730 --> 00:09:36.140 Put them all together it spells: 00:09:39.490 --> 00:09:40.820 Not quite. 00:09:41.620 --> 00:09:45.270 THE SUPREME HIGH ROBOTNIK! 00:09:45.270 --> 00:09:48.550 MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE! 00:09:48.550 --> 00:09:49.950 Remind you of anyone? 00:09:50.740 --> 00:09:53.300 Yesss..... 00:09:53.300 --> 00:09:55.300 YESSS! 00:09:55.970 --> 00:09:57.800 The power! 00:10:00.540 --> 00:10:03.090 The absolute 00:10:03.090 --> 00:10:05.090 POWER! 00:10:05.090 --> 00:10:09.420 Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't emeralds supposed to be green? 00:10:09.420 --> 00:10:11.790 In which case this series has got it right! 00:10:11.910 --> 00:10:15.080 By the way, anyone know who does the voice of Sonic here? 00:10:15.500 --> 00:10:18.670 I see you! 00:10:18.790 --> 00:10:20.310 His name is Jaleel White. 00:10:20.310 --> 00:10:21.830 Don't recognize the name? 00:10:21.830 --> 00:10:23.170 What if I do like this: 00:10:23.170 --> 00:10:25.170 Did I do that? 00:10:27.370 --> 00:10:30.830 Yep, just when you thought the show couldn't get any more annoying... 00:10:34.210 --> 00:10:36.070 And at the end of each episode, 00:10:36.070 --> 00:10:38.380 Sonic gives a moral lesson to the kids. 00:10:39.410 --> 00:10:40.630 Race you across! 00:10:40.630 --> 00:10:41.660 Ready! 00:10:41.660 --> 00:10:42.390 Set! 00:10:42.390 --> 00:10:44.580 Wait! Did you feel that? 00:10:45.130 --> 00:10:46.900 There's a train coming! 00:10:46.900 --> 00:10:48.900 Come on, you big coward, GO! 00:10:54.500 --> 00:10:56.270 I'd call it a tie. 00:10:56.270 --> 00:11:00.160 But I'd hate to see any of my friends wiped out over some dumb dare. 00:11:00.160 --> 00:11:02.160 Play it safe! Use your head! 00:11:02.160 --> 00:11:03.930 Don't end up dead! 00:11:04.170 --> 00:11:06.610 So what is my verdict on this circus? 00:11:06.610 --> 00:11:08.860 I give it a thumb and 2 fingers! 00:11:08.860 --> 00:11:09.950 No, um... 00:11:09.950 --> 00:11:12.270 3 thumbs and 4 fingers! 00:11:12.270 --> 00:11:16.950 I'd say it is something to watch for the LOLs and WTFs when you have nothing better to do. 00:11:16.950 --> 00:11:19.080 Or when you need a no-brainer. 00:11:19.080 --> 00:11:20.420 However, in the same year 00:11:20.420 --> 00:11:24.620 DiC Entertainment decided on a different approach with the Sonic cartoon. 00:11:24.620 --> 00:11:28.210 A more complex and darker atmosphere... 00:11:30.030 --> 00:11:31.000 Interested? 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:32.590 Check in for part 2!