Line #34 Trivia/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog


1	* ActingForTwo:
2	** Katella and Mama Robotnik are both voiced by Kathleen Barr. When she was playing Mama Robotnik in "Zoobotnik", she made her voice lower and gruffer than she had sounded previously.
3	** In the French dub, Robotnik and Scratch are both voiced by Patrice Baudrier, Grounder and Coconut are both voiced by Marc Bretonnière, and Dr. Warpnik and Professor Von Schlemmer are both voiced by Thierry Mercier. Bretonnière et Mercier also provided several additional voices.
4	* AdoredByTheNetwork: Although the series didn't join the Creator/ToonDisney lineup until a little while after its April 1998 launch, it eventually did in September 1998, and afterward it aired every day on the network for over four straight years, and the channel even dedicated a marathon of the entire series called the "Sonic Hog-A-Thon" for Groundhog Day 2001. This made it easy to record every single episode for those who were into the hobby of recording cartoons, and it may have [[VindicatedByCable played a role in keeping the series from going into obscurity]]. The show left the network alongside other older Disney and DIC cartoons in August 2002, before the channel's rebranding.
5	* BannedEpisode:
6	** The episode "Mass Transit Trouble" was stricken from the airwaves ''twice''. The first time was in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing because of the episode's references to terrorism. The second time was during Creator/ToonDisney[='=]s run, in the aftermath of the [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror September 11th attacks]].[[note]]Before then, Toon Disney decided to {{Bowdlerise}} one scene where Sonic finds a bomb under a chair when they aired it prior to the attacks.[[/note]] The Toon Disney version of episode circulated on Website/YouTube for a couple of years before the uncut episode was finally given a proper release on DVD, thanks to Creator/ShoutFactory. It also survives on Creator/{{Peacock}} and Creator/ParamountPlus.
7	** "Magnificent Sonic" was banned by Toon Disney for a short while after the Columbine shooting due to all the guns featured in the episode. Like the previous episode, it's on Peacock and Paramount+.
8	** "Robo-Ninjas" is said to have been banned by Toon Disney as well, presumably due to its use of Asian stereotypes.
9	* BeamMeUpScotty:
10	** [[https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/16410-pingas This isn't Robotnik's facial expression]] when he says [[MemeticMutation you know what]].
11	** The slower version of "Hall of the Mountain King", most famous instance being when Sonic gives his PSA on sexual harassment, that appears as incidental music was never intended to be Scratch and Grounder's theme. They share a leitmotif with Robotnik, but in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaaRF7ze08Q slower dopier arrangement]], most notably when he says [[MemeticMutation you know what]].
12	* TheCastShowoff: Creator/JaleelWhite sang in Sonic's voice in episode 37 (48th if going by production order) "Black-Bot the Pirate", in which he sings a parody of the nursery rhyme and lullaby "Rock-a-bye Baby". In ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'', he sang two songs in episode 12, "Crankin' Super Sonic" and "Way Past Cool".
13	* ChildrenVoicingChildren: Tails was voiced by then-ten-year-old Christopher Stephen Welch.
14	* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer:
15	** The "Robotnik Family Values" DVD gets the name of Momma Robotnik's incarceration wrong twice. First calling it the Home for Mothers of Villains and the Mobius Home for Really Bizarre People when it’s actually the Mobius Home for Really Bizarre Mothers. Additionally, the back of the box uses screenshots from ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'' rather than ''[=AoStH=]''.
16	** The "Sonic Who?" DVD and most digital retailers describe "Musta Been a Beautiful Baby" as Robotnik having invented a Brain Evolution Achievement Negatizer (or B.E.A.N.) to make everyone on Mobius stupid. In actuality, he invents the De-Cripitizer to turn Sonic into an old man. This error seems to take from "Attack on the Pinball Fortress" where Robotnik makes a stupidity ray. Additionally, it also states Robotnik attempts to reverse the ray to make himself smarter but becomes a baby by mistake. In actuality, Robotnik is turned into a baby by Scratch and Grounder. This also seems to be taking from "Grounder the Genius" where he attempts to become smarter via a microchip, not a ray gun.
17	** The "Robotnik Strikes Back" DVD and digital retailers refer to the blob monster Tails adopts in "So Long Sucker" as Walter when in the episode proper he's called Goopster. Among other errors it also describes Goopster as a fuzzy living black hole that sucks Sonic and Tails into another dimension, which never happens.
18	** The "Robots Attack!" DVD has a couple descriptions for its episodes:
19	*** "Full Tilt Tails" is almost entirely inaccurate. It states "Robotnik invents an electron altering generator, which makes Scratch and Grounder twice as fast as Sonic." He actually invents Speedemint Gum and only Grounder becomes fast, not Scratch. "When they lose it and Tails picks it up, Tails speeds through Mobius countryside leaving disasters and accidents in his wake." The gum sticks to Tails' shoe, he doesn't pick it up. And his "disaster" and the aforementioned "accidents" are caused by naïveté, not because of his speed. Finally "Seeing this, Robotnik convinces the villagers that the little fox belongs in jail, and Tails is forced to flee." This is from the episode "Too Tall Tails", not this episode.
20	*** "Coachnik" states that the titular robot puts a bomb in Grounder's head, when it's actually Robotnik who does this.
21	** The "Tall Tails" DVD seems to combine the plot of "Tails in Charge" with "Babysitter Jitters" stating "Sonic leaves Tails in charge of protecting a squirrel village food supply when he zips off to stop a dam from breaking. Robotnik sends Scratch and Grounder after Tails, who defends himself the best he can with wacky booby traps for Scratch and Grounder. When Tails is finally caught, Sonic speeds back to save him." the actual episode is about Tails protecting Sonic from Robotnik after he has been turned to stone.
22	* CrossDressingVoices:
23	** In one of the European Portuguese dubs, Sonic is voiced by a female, Susana Menezes.
24	** In the French dub, Tails is voiced by Françoise Blanchard.
25	* CrossRegionalVoiceActing: While Jaleel White recorded his lines in Los Angeles, everyone else recorded theirs in Vancouver.
26	* DirectedByCastMember: The French dub was directed by Françoise Blanchard, who also voiced Tails.
27	* DuelingDubs: There are two Brazilian Portuguese dubs -- one produced by VTI, and another made in 2021 by All Dubbing Group. The second one [[GagDub become infamous for its excessive usage of 2020s Internet humor]], [[TotallyRadical forced usage of Gen Z slang]] as well as mentions of nowadays products such as [[AnachronismStew the TikTok website]].
28	* EarlyDraftTieIn: According to the book ''Console Wars'', originally Tails met Sonic when he was four. This was changed in development and by ''Adventures'' it's shown that Tails was older than four when he met Sonic. In this cartoon, Sonic met Tails when he was a baby. This is likely an erroneous detail caused from mixed information.
29	* EditedForSyndication:
30	** In the U.S., the Sonic Says segments were cut from the USA Network run and local Los Angeles station KTLA's short-lived 1997-1998 run, but were restored when Toon Disney picked the series up.
31	** The Channel 4 run in the UK removed all of the Sonic Says segments from the episodes, and weren't restored there until Pop picked up the series.
32	* ExecutiveMeddling:
33	** Robotnik was originally conceived as television's sexiest fat man. The animators weren't up to the challenge, but it didn't stop them from slipping in a lot of {{Shirtless Scene}}s and scenes that draw too much attention on Robotnik's rear end. This also includes the [[FanDisservice bikini pic]] from "Hero of the Year".
34	** ''WesternAnimation/SonicChristmasBlast'' was originally intended to be titled ''An X-Tremely Sonic Christmas'' as a tie-in with the game ''Sonic X-treme'', but the game's cancellation forced it to be titled for ''Sonic 3D Blast'' instead.
35	* FakeAmerican: Everyone in the main cast besides Creator/JaleelWhite was based in Vancouver. This was especially obvious concerning Robotnik, since Creator/LongJohnBaldry made [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent absolutely zero attempts to mask his native British accent]].
36	* FollowTheLeader:
37	** The abstract, Jackson Pollock-esque backgrounds? The thin, nonsensical plots? The loose, OffModel animation? Yeah, a lot of this show was, shall we say, ''inspired'' by ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'', since a number of ex-''Ren & Stimpy'' crew members actually ''worked'' on the show.
38	** [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes The classic animated shorts from Warner Bros.]] were also likely an inspiration. Compared to the games, this show portrays Sonic and Robotnik's rivalry more along the lines of WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner. It even features similar gags. Furthermore, Sonic very commonly utilizes disguises to fool his enemies, much akin to WesternAnimation/BugsBunny. Tails even sometimes gets in on it.
39	** Cartoons made by Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer, especially [[UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra Pre-Code]] WesternAnimation/BettyBoop cartoons, were also a large inspiration on the animators. Some episodes will straight up reuse gags wholesale from Fleischer cartoons.
40	** ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' may have had some influence on this show, considering that Creator/TMSEntertainment actually did work on all of those shows as well as ''Sonic''.
41	* FountainOfExpies: [[BumblingHenchmenDuo Scratch and Grounder]] have had several over the course of the ''Sonic'' series, despite mostly being contained to this show (and the [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics comics]]), generally filling the role of a BumblingHenchmenDuo that work for Robotnik/Eggman and fail just about every time. In order of appearance, there's [[WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground Sleet and Dingo]], [[Anime/SonicX Decoe and Bocoe]], and [[VideoGame/SonicColors Orbot and Cubot]]. Suffice it to say, the duo left a bigger impact on the franchise than anticipated.
42	* HeyItsThatSound:
43	** Nearly every sound effect in every episode derives from those used in Creator/HannaBarbera cartoons. Seriously, just try to find a sound effect in the series that ''isn't'' in a Hanna-Barbera cartoon. Although this show didn't abuse the HB library as much as other [=DiC=] cartoons like ''WesternAnimation/HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats''.
44	** The episode "Grounder the Genius" features two of the actual sound effects from the ''Sonic'' games[[note]] [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1 The]] [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 first]] [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD three]][[/note]] in one part of one scene; specifically, the "jump" and "ring" sound effects.
45	** One episode has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrCJN_JI3oE Mario sound effects when Robotnik pushes a few buttons]]. This could be due to the fact that [[Creator/DiCEntertainment DiC]] also made the ''Mario'' cartoons, so they certainly had the sound effects on-hand already.
46	** One of the "running" sound effects (used in numerous other cartoons, primarily Creator/HannaBarbera) would later be used as one of the sound effects when landing on a spring in modern ''Sonic'' games.
47	** The Mario sound effects later appear in "Attack of the Pinball Fortress".[[note]] the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogSpinball'' episode.[[/note]]
48	** The "derez" sound effect from ''Film/{{Tron}}'' can be heard in "Robotnik's Rival.”
49	** The "spider" sound effect from ''VideoGame/{{Centipede}}'' can be heard in "Coachnik.”
50	* IronyAsSheIsCast: Robotnik sings much worse than his voice actor, Long John Baldry.
51	* MissingEpisode: The Toon Disney run skipped "Robo-Ninjas". The cause for this is unknown, though it's possible the stereotypical accent and mannerisms of Kwai Chang Crane may have caught Toon Disney off-guard.
52	* TheOtherDarrin: In the unaired pilot, Robotnik and one of the [=SSSSS=] Squad (commonly believed to be Scratch) were voiced by Creator/{{Jim Cummings\|1952}}, while Tails was voiced by Russi Taylor. In the series proper, Robotnik was voiced by Long John Baldry, Scratch by Phil Hayes, and Tails by Christopher Stephen Welch.
53	* OutOfOrder: The last episode to be numbered on Website/{{Wikipedia}} is "Sonically Ever After", while the last episode aired, and placed in the production code, is "Hero of the Year".
54	* PlayingAgainstType:
55	** [[{{Badbutt}} Sonic]] was voiced by none other than Jaleel White, who was also known for playing [[StereotypicalNerd Steve Urkel]] in ''Series/FamilyMatters''.
56	** Ian James Corlett tends to voice good guys. In this series, he's the voice of Coconuts.
57	* PopCultureUrbanLegends: There is allegedly a Japanese dub of this series, along with ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'' and ''WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground''. However, the Japanese dubs of all three series are so rare that it's debatable whether they actually exist or not. There aren't even any clips on [=YouTube=] or any other video streaming site of the dubbed versions. Furthermore, all three series are not available on DVD in Japan, making the existence of their alleged Japanese dubs all the more ambiguous.
58	* RecycledScript:
59	** "Sonic is Running" borrows a similar premise to the ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'' episode, "Princess Toadstool For President (both Creator/DiCEntertainment cartoons produced around the same time). Both episodes involve one of the main characters running for president against the BigBad of the series. In the end, the hero wins in a landslide victory, and it's revealed that the villainous character received only one vote (his own) because even his two flunkies voted against him.
60	** Another example of an episode from this series with a similar plot to a Mario cartoon episode is "Tails in Charge" to the ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' episode, "Quest For Pizza". Both episodes center around the secondary protagonist (Tails, Luigi), as the main protagonist is knocked out or becomes unresponsive because of the villains' weapons (Sonic gets turned to stone by Robotnik's Super Supreme Stopper Zapper, Mario gets bitten by a poisonous snake). The objective of both episodes is for the secondary protagonist to keep their friend safe until they can cure them, and both episodes involve the antagonist setting up traps to capture the secondary protagonist, only for them to backfire on them completely.
61	** "Over the Hill Hero" has a very similar plot to the ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'' episode "Superhero for a Day". Both feature a former Golden Age superhero (Captain Rescue and Gadget Man) coming out of retirement to try and help out the main characters (Sonic, The Turtles) against the main villain (Robotnik and Shredder), but end up only makings things worse for the heroes leading to the main characters getting captured and leading to the Golden Age heroes feeling guilt ridden as a result and watching old tapes of their glory days and then redeeming themselves by rescuing the main characters and helping them defeat the bad guys. Both episodes also have the same writer (Francis Moss).
62	* RereleasedForFree: The entire series can be watched for free on Creator/WildBrain's Website/YouTube channel. It can also be watched for free on Creator/{{Tubi}}.
63	* UnspecifiedRoleCredit: Aside from Creator/JaleelWhite as Sonic, the ending credits lists the voice actors and not which characters they voiced.
64	* VindicatedByCable: The show found greater popularity when it began airing on Creator/ToonDisney in September 1998, joining a selection of other DIC-produced programming on the channel, due to Disney's then-ownership in [=DiC=]. The network's run was [[AdoredByTheNetwork so popular]] that the channel aired the series for four years, ''every single day''. This allowed people who were interested in the ''Sonic'' franchise to record almost every single episode for a new generation.
65	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
66	** At one point Sega was in talks with Creator/SabanEntertainment to create the show. If they went with the deal instead of Creator/DiCEntertainment, This show would have been different or not happened at all.
67	** An early model sheet shows Sonic might have had a more [[https://web.archive.org/web/20170321151841/https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/shrinknp_800_800/AAEAAQAAAAAAAAi6AAAAJDJlNjM5NjgxLWIzYWYtNGY1NS05Nzg3LTdhNzhiOWYzZDg0ZA.jpg Disneyesque design.]]
68	** The cartoon was going to last longer, but it played the SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon trope straight.
69	** There was a workprint of a pilot episode that was screened when the cartoon was being pitched to ABC. The network rejected it and instead preferred [=DiC's=] [[WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM second idea]] of a ''Sonic''-themed television series, ultimately leading to the pilot being scrapped. The workprint itself can be seen on [=YouTube=]. The work print also has some noticeable differences from the final product: Robotnik and all the Badniks are voiced by Jim Cummings (as aforementioned in TheOtherDarrin), a narrator (voiced by Creator/GaryOwens) speaks throughout the action and there is slightly more authenticity to the games themselves with zones and badniks seen in far more recognizable form.
70	** The series' [[http://ledastudios.rubberslug.com/gallery/master_query.asp?SeriesID=33783 writers' bible]], in an attempt to establish a connection with the [[WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM successful Saturday morning cartoon series]] airing at the time, claims that this series is a {{Prequel}} to ''[=SatAM=]'' that takes place before Robotnik conquered Robotropolis and sent Sonic into hiding in Knothole,[[note]]See "Page 6 - Sonic, part 4".[[/note]] insinuating that this is the same Sonic, Tails and Robotnik inhabiting the same world rather than [[AlternateContinuity Alternate Continuities]]. It's uncertain if this detail was ever actually intended to be explored in the plot of ''[=AoStH=]'', or if it was merely included as a direction so that writers would acknowledge that the two shows have different settings and not confuse them. Nevertheless, ''[=AoStH=]'' and ''[=SatAM=]'' are [[DenserAndWackier very]] [[DarkerAndEdgier different]] in tone and [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain very]] different in their characterization of Robotnik, to the extent that the average viewer watching the final products wouldn't dream of assuming that they take place in the same AlternateTimeline. Scratch was also meant to have an egg-bomb turret, solidifying that he is the show's version of the Cluck enemy from ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2''.
71	** In the storyboards for "Zoobotnik", there was an X-ray shot of Katella's chest showing her heart encased in ice before thawing, growing and morphing her whole body into a heart shape. Director Kent Butterworth objected to putting focus on Katella's chest and in the final episode, she just morphs into a heart shape instantaneously.
72	** According to Milton Knight's commentary on "Tails New Home" via the Creator/DiscotekMedia Blu-ray set, originally Grounder was to respond to "Lulu's" letter by saying, "go play in traffic". This was changed to have him say the classic line "why don’t you take a long walk off a short pier" as the original line was said to promote dangerous activity.
73	** According to one of the early character bibles, ''Adventures'' originally planned to introduce a new main character called Merlina — no relation to the Merlina that later appeared in ''VideoGame/SonicAndTheBlackKnight''. Merlina was described as a clumsy and not very skilled witch who has the body of a young Elvira but with the spunky attitude of Roseanne, and who who hates to be rushed. She and Sonic of course would have butted heads, and Tails would have to act as the peacemaker between the two of them.
74	** A concept from an early series bible would have centered around Sonic and Tails teleporting across planets via "Dimensional Door Rings", each of which was conquered or targeted by Dr. Robotnik. One variation of this pitch appears to be episodic, featuring Sonic, Tails and the aforementioned Merlina traveling to various different planets. Another take was more story heavy, scaling the amount of planets down to 5 with each getting a 13-episode StoryArc along with an overall MythArc of Sonic and Tails searching for the six Chaos Emeralds and encountering a freedom fighting group on each planet. Interestingly, one of the proposed planets would have been ''Earth'', conquered by Robotnik.
75	* WorkingTitle: According to character sheets, ''Adventures'' was originally called ''Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog 2'', in the same vein as ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3''.
76	* YouLookFamiliar: Some of the background badniks' designs were reused in different episodes tweaked or recolored. DOS Holiday from "Magnificent Sonic" uses the same design as Humpty from the pilot and "Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine" for example, while Davy Sprocket from the same appearances reappears as a giant badnik in "The Last Resort".

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