The forty-seventh episode of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog.
After defeating Six-Gun Pete, Sonic is made into a sheriff of Tranquil Gulch and has to defend it from Dr. Robotnik.
This episode provides examples of:
- Bait-and-Switch: After Sonic traps Scratch and Grounder in jail, he sends Robotnik a message telling them to pay a bail of 10,000 Mobiums if he wants to see them again. Robotnik confronts Sonic, telling him to give him what he wants or he'll turn him into buzzard bait. Scratch and Grounder think Robotnik is referring to them, but Robotnik tells them that they can rot in jail for all he cares, as it's Tranquil Gulch he wants.
- Borrowed Catchphrase: When Robotnik waits impatiently for Sonic to duel him near the end of this episode, he says, "I'm waiting!", then says, "Now where have I heard that line before?"
- Bowdlerize: The Toon Disney broadcast of this episode cuts out a scene where Robotnik makes Scratch and Grounder shoot their heads off.
- The Cameo: The citizens of Tranquil Gulch include the Rabbit Gardener from "Lovesick Sonic", the Pig Lady from "High Stakes Sonic", and George the Stork and Tails' fake parents from "Tails' New Home".
- Chained to a Railway: After Scratch and Grounder break out of jail, they threaten to do this to Tails unless Sonic faces off against Robotnik in a gun duel.
- Cowboy Episode: Sonic becomes the sheriff of Tranquil Gulch and has to defend it from Robotnik's robots in this episode.
- Disney Villain Death: Scratch and Grounder trap Miss Possum in a stage coach that they send down a canyon. When Sonic comes to the rescue, they trap him as well, and escape with parachutes. Unfortunately, they accidentally left the parachutes in the stage coach, allowing them to plunge into the canyon below while Sonic and Miss Possum safely descend.
- Epic Fail: When training for a gun duel, Sonic and Tails find out that Sonic is a poor shot. How bad? He can't shoot the broadside of a barn when he's standing five feet to it.
- Expressive Mask: Scratch uses a mask in the shape of a mustached man with a moving mouth in order to deceive Ms. Possum.
- Five-Aces Cheater: Sonic plays a game of strip poker with Scratch and Grounder. His first winning hand is five aces, that all have his face on them to boot.
- Interspecies Romance: Sonic's Girl of the Week in this episode is Miss Possum.
- Losing Your Head: Happens to Six-Gun Pete after Sonic tricks him into shooting his head off.
- Literal-Minded: When Six-Gun Pete returns to Robotnik's fortress after losing his head, Robotnik tells him to draw. Pete shoots at him, and Robotnik tells him that he meant to draw with a pencil, not a gun.
- Never My Fault: After Scratch and Grounder lose their mechanical parts to Sonic in several rounds of strip Poker, Grounder blames Scratch for saying that they couldn't lose with their computer brains, even though it was Grounder who said those very words.
- Punny Name: Robotnik's robots are named Wired Earp, Batch Cassidy, Billy the Kit, Chassis James, and DOS Holiday.
- Reflecting Laser: When Robotnik challenges Sonic to a gun duel, he fires his Infrared Hedgehog-Homing Six-Gun Shooter at him. Sonic prepared for this, and reveals a mirror under his poncho, which the laser reflects off of and attacks Robotnik.
- Shout-Out:
- This episode's title is a reference to The Magnificent Seven.
- The coyote who sends Robotnik Sonic's message bears a striking resemblance to Wile E. Coyote.
- Sonic's trick of concealing a mirror beneath his poncho is a reference to the Clint Eastwood movie, A Fistful of Dollars, in which Eastwood's nameless protagonist hides a steel chest plate under his poncho to deflect bullets. Marty McFly also uses the same trick in Back to the Future Part III.
- At the end of this episode, a dog says, "Who was that fast hedgehog?", and Sonic says, "Hi-ho, Sonic, away!"
- Strip Poker: Parodied; Scratch and Grounder "strip" and lose their mechanical parts to Sonic in several rounds of strip poker.
