History AudioPlay / SonicAndTailsR

While an unofficial fan project, it is notable for having several official voice actors (both current and former) involved with it, most notably the return of Ryan Drummond as Sonic, [[RoleReprise reprising his role as the main character for the first time in over 15 years]]. It's also laden with ContinuityPorn, with numerous {{Call Back}}s to the games (mostly the ones Drummond voiced in).

-->'''Eggman''': I lost and you won. I can admit defeat when I'm beaten. Oh, I almost forgot. [[{{Bookends}} Looks like we know the answer to our little emerald experiment, Sonic. Your willpower is stronger than my genius]].

--->'''Sonic''': Hey, Eggman! What do you get when you cross a hedgehog with seven Emeralds?
--->'''Eggman''': '''''[[BatmanGambit Phase Three!]]'''''
--->'''Sonic''': Phase Three?!
--->[''cue tractor beam'']

--->'''Super Sonic''': Hey, Eggman! Where's the weak spot on this thing?
--->'''Eggman''': ''Down this barrel!''
--->[''cue WaveMotionGun'']
--->'''Super Sonic''': Whoa! [''narrowly dodges''] ...thanks for the tip! [''dodges a few more blasts''] ...two seconds to recharge. [''waits for it to fire again, then flies in before it can recharge'']
--->'''Eggman''': ARGH! Curse you, Sonic!

** The premise of the radio show is about Eggman shattering the Chaos Emeralds, and the heroes react as if this was a shocking turn of events that never happened before. Except that, in the main series, this already happened: In ''Videogame/SonicBattle'', Eggman shattered the Chaos Emeralds to power his E-121 Phi line of robots, and during that story Emerl and friends destroy those robots, gather the pieces, and use them to power up Emerl. Dr. Eggman shattering a Chaos Emerald was also the plot of ''VideoGame/SonicBlast''.

** In Episode 7, the Egg Carrier 3's security system refers to Sonic as "Hedgehog Priority 1", a nod to ''WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM'' and ''WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground'', where [=SWATbots=] consistently refer to him as "Priority 1: Hedgehog".

Following the conclusion, it's set to get a sequel in [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/sonic-and-tails-r-plus-/list?title_no=692174&page=1 comic form]] in ''Sonic and Tails R Plus''.

* BatmanGambit: The series starts with Eggman attacking Tails, but his goal isn't to kill the fox. It's not even to kill Sonic when he inevitably shows up to help (though he makes it clear he'd very much love to do so). His goal is to [[MacGuffinDeliveryService steal the Chaos Emeralds]] that he knows Sonic will have brought with him when he shows up. The first chapter of ''Plus'' reveals he even sent an E100-series robot after Sonic, knowing it would tip Sonic off about the ambush. It ''nearly'' goes off without a hitch.

--->'''Sonic''': Hey, Eggman! What do you get when you cross a hedgehog with seven emeralds?

--->'''Sonic''': Phase Three?

* ShoutOut: The three-headed, dragon-like HumongousMecha with which Eggman attacks the heroes in Episode 9 is named "[[Characters/GodzillaTheGhidorahs Egg Ghidorah]]".

* VillainBall: In Episode 9, Sonic asks where the Egg Ghidorah's weak spot is, ''and Eggman tells him''. Granted, said weak spot happens to be the barrel of a WaveMotionGun, but still not a smart move.

** In Episode 9, Tails reacts to [[spoiler:entering his SuperMode]] as if he's never done it before, even though he can do it in ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles''. Even if one ignores that game's transformation as [[ShrugOfGod a what-if]] as Creator/TakashiIizuka [[WordOfGod has said]], Tails [[spoiler: obtained a SuperMode form in ''Videogame/SonicHeroes'' and helped Sonic stop Metal Sonic]].

* BatmanGambit: The series starts with Eggman attacking Tails, but his goal isn't to kill the fox. It's not even to kill Sonic when he inevitably shows up to help (though he makes it clear he'd very much love to do so). His goal is to [[MacGuffinDeliveryService steal the Chaos Emeralds]] that he knows Sonic will have brought with him when he shows up. It ''nearly'' goes off without a hitch.

''Sonic and Tails R'' is a fan-made audio play created by [=EmuEmi=], based off of the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' franchise.

* BigBad: Eggman, naturally.
* CallBack: Several per episode.

Following the conclusion, it's set to get a sequel in comic form in ''Sonic and Tails R Plus''.

* TheCameo: Aaron Webber, the man previously responsible for Sonic's meme-tastic social media presence, voices one of the police officers in Episode 3.
* ChekhovsBoomerang: During the climactic battle in Episode 9, Eggman employs the same tractor beam he used in Episode 1 to shatter the Emeralds.
* ChekhovsGunman: Having run into Big aboard the Egg Carrier 3 in Episode 7, Sonic and Tails later meet him again after its destruction, and it turns out he escaped in the Tornado 2.
* TheChessmaster: Eggman is once again depicted as this, as his plan involves Sonic and Tails collecting all 7 Chaos Emeralds [[MacGuffinDeliveryService for him to swipe via tractor beam]]. When this backfires, and the Emeralds get shattered into pieces, Eggman adjusts his plans and instead finds a way to re-assemble the Emeralds in a way that make them even ''more'' powerful than before, and then steals them from Sonic and Tails ''for a second time''.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: Episode 7 ends with [[spoiler:Eggman in possession of all seven Chaos Emeralds, all of which are now corrupted, and in the process of blasting Sonic and Tails to smithereens with a laser powered by them.]]

** The premise of the radio show is about Eggman shattering the Chaos Emeralds, and the heroes react as if this was a shocking turn of events that never happened before. Except that, in the main series, this already happened: In ''Videogame/SonicBattle'', Eggman shattered the Chaos Emeralds to power his E-121 Phi line of robots, and during that story Emerl and friends destroy those robots, gather the pieces, and use them to power up Emerl; Dr. Eggman shattering a Chaos Emerald was also the plot of the Game Gear version of Sonic Blast.

* ChekhovsGun: During the climactic battle in Episode 9, Eggman employs the same tractor beam he used in Episode 1 to shatter the Emeralds.

** In Episode 6, Shadow's identity as a high-ranking G.U.N. official - something established during ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' - is an important plot point.
** In Episode 7, as Sonic and Tails prepare to land on the Egg Carrier 3, Tails notes that unlike in ''Adventure'', he remembered to install the landing gear this time. Later on, Eggman repeats several of his lines from earlier games, including his threat to Classic Sonic in ''Generations'' ("Take a good look! It'll be the last thing you ever see!"), and his notorious "No way, I can't ''believe'' this!" and "Get a load of THIS!" lines from ''Adventure''.

** During Sonic and Shadow's fight with the Jumping Fox G.U.N. mech, the music playing during the fight is "Boss: G.U.N. Mobile" much like the fights with the Bigfoot, Hot-Shot, and Flying Dog mechs in Sonic Adventure 2.

* ContinuityNod: Several per episode.

** Episode 4 cranks it up to outright ContinuityCavalcade levels. To wit: Silver repeats his [[MemeticMutation memetic]] "IT'S NO USE!" line (with the same voice actor, no less!), a group of Eggman robots show up in the [[VideoGame/SonicHeroes Egg Hawk]] to attack the heroes, Tails comforts a Chao using his petting dialogue from ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' ("Everything will be okay!"), and later, he recalls how he [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure single-handedly saved Station Square from a missile attack]].

* SeriesContinuityError: In Episode 9, Tails reacts to [[spoiler:entering his SuperMode]] as if he's never done it before, even though he can do it in ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles''.

* SeriesContinuityError:
** The premise of the radio show is about Eggman shattering the Chaos Emeralds, and the heroes react as if this was a shocking turn of events. Except that, in the main series, this already happened: In ''Videogame/SonicBattle'', Eggman shattered the Chaos Emeralds to power his E-121 Phi line of robots, and during that story Emerl and friends destroy those robots, gather the pieces, and use them to power up Emerl; Dr. Eggman shattering a Chaos Emerald was also the plot of the Game Gear version of Sonic Blast.
** In Episode 9, Tails reacts to [[spoiler:entering his SuperMode]] as if he's never done it before, even though he can do it in ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles''. Even if one ignores that game's transformation as [[ShrugOfGod a what-if]] as Creator/TakashiIizuka [[WordOfGod has said]], Tails [[spoiler: obtained a SuperMode form in ''Videogame/SonicHeroes'' and helped Sonic stop Metal Sonic]].

** The premise of the radio show is about Eggman shattering the Chaos Emeralds, and the heroes react as if this was a shocking turn of events. Except that, in the main series, this already happened: In ''Videogame/SonicBattle'', Eggman shattered the Chaos Emeralds to power his E-121 Phi line of robots, and during that story Emerl and friends destroy those robots, gather the pieces, and use them to power up Emerl and DR. Eggman shattering a Chaos Emerald was the plot of the Game Gear version of Sonic Blast.
** In Episode 9, Tails reacts to [[spoiler:entering his SuperMode]] as if he's never done it before, even though he can do it in ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles''. Even if one ignores that game as a what-if, Tails [[spoiler: obtained a SuperMode form in ''Videogame/SonicHeroes'']].

** In Episode 9, Tails reacts to [[spoiler:entering his SuperMode]] as if he's never done it before, even though he can do it in ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles''.

** The premise of the radio show is about Eggman shattering the Chaos Emeralds, and the heroes react as if this was a shocking turn of events. Except that, in the main series, this already happened: In ''Videogame/SonicBattle'', Eggman shattered the Chaos Emeralds to power his E-121 Phi line of robots, and during that story Emerl and friends destroy those robots, gather the pieces, and use them to power up Emerl.

* AttackItsWeakSpot: A justified example in Episode 9. Super Sonic and [[spoiler:Super Tails]] need to find a way to get inside the Egg Ghidorah so they can retrieve the Chaos Emeralds and power it down. This means finding a weak spot in its armour, which eventually turns out to be the barrel of its WaveMotionGun.

** In episode 6, the G.U.N. officers voice relief that their general isn't around, which means they have no rules or protocols keeping them from using excessive force against Sonic. Shadow's remark, and that he's a member of G.U.N., indicates that their superior isn't as far away as they thought.
** In an early episode, Tails manages to repair one of the shattered Chaos Emeralds without really understanding how he did it. It turns out that [[spoiler:the Chaos Emeralds bend to the wills of those with strong hearts, and that includes Tails, so he fixed it by simply willing it to be fixed.]]

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Sonic's first line - and, by proxy, Ryan Drummond's first line as Sonic in 16 years - is "Did you miss me?"

* NeverSayDie: Eggman usually replaces the word “kill” with other words or expressions. Howewer in Episode 8 whe Tails asks Tikal if he and Sonic are dead or alive he finally says “ dead” straightly though he was affraid of it.

* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: In Episode 1, as Sonic prepares to activate his SuperMode:
-->'''Sonic''': Hey, Eggman! What do you get when you cross a hedgehog with seven emeralds?
-->'''Eggman''': '''''[[BatmanGambit Phase Three!]]'''''
-->'''Sonic''': Phase Three?
-->[''cue tractor beam'']
* SeriesContinuityError: The premise of the radio show is about Eggman shattering the Chaos Emeralds, and the heroes react as if this was a shocking turn of events. Except that, in the main series, this already happened: In ''Videogame/SonicBattle'', Eggman shattered the Chaos Emeralds to power his E-121 Phi line of robots, and during that story Emerl and friends destroy those robots, gather the pieces, and use them to power up Emerl.
* SpoilerCover: A minor example: the artwork for Episode 3 depicts a handcuffed Sonic using a helicopter blade as a skateboard, spoiling a huge chunk of the episode's plot.

* Don’tSayDeath:Eggman usually replaces the word “kill” with other words or expressions. Howewer in Episode 8 whe Tails asks Tikai if he and Sonic are dead or alive he finally says “ dead” straightly though he was affraid of it.

* BigBad: Eggman, naturally.

* DownerEnding: Episode 5 ends with Eggman ambushing Sonic, knocking him out, and stealing the fifth Chaos Emerald.
* EveryoneHasStandards: In Episode 6, Shadow stays behind when Sonic spots the Egg Carrier in order to reprimand the G.U.N. agents who used an unauthorized mech to attack them, which endangered several people. For as aloof as he can be, endangering civilians is not something he will abide by.

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: In Episode 8, [[spoiler:Tikal explains that only those with strong, kind hearts, like Sonic and Tails, are able to harness Chaos energy to its fullest extent]]. This translates into them being able to [[spoiler:absorb the energy from Eggman's Chaos Emerald-powered WaveMotionGun and use it to activate their SuperMode]].

* OurHeroIsDead: [[spoiler:Episode 7 ends with Sonic and Tails being blasted by an energy weapon powered by the seven corrupted Chaos Emeralds. Episode 8 establishes that they not only survived, but actually ''absorbed the beam's energy''.]]

* TheChessmaster: Eggman is once again depicted as this, as his plan involves Sonic and Tails collecting all 7 Chaos Emeralds [[MacGuffinDeliveryService for him to swipe via tractor beam]]. When this backfires, and the Emeralds get shattered into pieces, Eggman adjusts his plans and instead finds a way to re-assemble the Emeralds in a way that make them even ''more'' powerful than before.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In episode 6, the G.U.N. officers voice relief that their general isn't around, which means they have no rules or protocols keeping them from using excessive force against Sonic. Shadow's remark, and that he's a member of G.U.N., indicates that their superior isn't as far away as they thought.

** Eggman ''attempts'' this at the start of the series, seemingly planning for Sonic and Tails to collect all the Chaos Emeralds before he attempts to steal them. Unfortunately, the ensuing tug of war ends up shattering them instead.

* SeriesContinuityError: The premise of the radio show is about Eggman shattering the Chaos Emeralds, and the heroes react as if this was a shocking turn of events. Except that, in the main series, this already happened: In ''Videogame/SonicBattle'', Eggman shattered the Chaos Emeralds to power his E-121 Phi line of robots, and during that story Emerl and friends destroy those robots gather the pieces and power up Emerl with the Chaos Emeralds.