32 years since Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog cartoon premiered.

Holammer

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AoStH started September 6'th 1993 and ran for one season with 65 episodes. It had no real impact Sonic lore wise, but characters and designs from the show found their way into Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine. Much later in the Archie Comics run they dug up Breezie, a one-off character from the show and Robotnik's three goons to fill the vaccum left after Ken Pender's lawsuit.



Two weeks later on September 18'th another Sonic cartoon started, just called Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic SatAM) which ran for 26 episodes. It had a darker tone and it became the basis for the Sonic Archie Comics with 290 issues + specials.

Even if you haven't seen a second of the AoStH show, you've probably seen the "That's no good" meme. Which originates from an anti-molestation 'Sonic Sez' PSA.

 
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Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog was made for syndication. I believe that in order to quality for Syndication a TV show had to have a minimum requirement of 64 or 65 episodes... So Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog was produced on a much smaller budget per episode, has worse animation and nonsensical stories overall.

The separate Sonic the Hedgehog SatAM series was produced by ABC for their Saturday morning cartoon block. It did make it to two seasons. I don;t know what the reason was for ABC cancelling the show after two seasons? But this show had bigger budgets per individual episode and yeah, they were going for story arcs and a much more cohesive story overall.

Also, don;t forget about DiC's third entry into the Urkle-Sonic universe, and I think it was meant to be a borderline continuation of Sonic SatAM, even though Sonic has a Sister and a Brother (all voice by Jaleel White) and they are all in a rock band, and looking for their long lost mother, or some shit. I really don;t know, I tried giving Sonic Underground a chance. But I could never make it past the first few episodes.



I think because there was 40 episodes, it was meant to be bundled with SatAM for a 65 episode package. The cartoon was released around the launch of the Dreamcast and Sonic Adventure.

I remember watching SatAM when it originally aired on ABC. I kinda liked it for its day. The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog was too ADD for me. Bu the time Sonic Underground came out I was 18, and 18 year old me was like 'nope'.

I am still surprised that DiC managed to get three series (and one VHS movie) out of Sonic the Hedgehog.
 
MrCunningham said:
Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog was made for syndication. I believe that in order to quality for Syndication a TV show had to have a minimum requirement of 64 or 65 episodes... So Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog was produced on a much smaller budget per episode, has worse animation and nonsensical stories overall.

The separate Sonic the Hedgehog SatAM series was produced by ABC for their Saturday morning cartoon block. It did make it to two seasons. I don;t know what the reason was for ABC cancelling the show after two seasons? But this show had bigger budgets per individual episode and yeah, they were going for story arcs and a much more cohesive story overall.

Also, don;t forget about DiC's third entry into the Urkle-Sonic universe, and I think it was meant to be a borderline continuation of Sonic SatAM, even though Sonic has a Sister and a Brother (all voice by Jaleel White) and they are all in a rock band, and looking for their long lost mother, or some shit. I really don;t know, I tried giving Sonic Underground a chance. But I could never make it past the first few episodes.



I think because there was 40 episodes, it was meant to be bundled with SatAM for a 65 episode package. The cartoon was released around the launch of the Dreamcast and Sonic Adventure.

I remember watching SatAM when it originally aired on ABC. I kinda liked it for its day. The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog was too ADD for me. Bu the time Sonic Underground came out I was 18, and 18 year old me was like 'nope'.

I am still surprised that DiC managed to get three series (and one VHS movie) out of Sonic the Hedgehog.
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I find it hard to watch any of the animated Sonic cartoons, US & Sonic X. None aged gracefully.
Sonic Boom however goes down smoothly and Sticks is my spirit animal.

They bungled the music hard, it's well made but there's zero use of leitmotif in the show.
 
As far as the classics go Sonic SatAM was my preferred choice follow by Sonic Underground with the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog being last.

I will say that in retrospect it was a weird choice to have Jaleel White (Steve Urkel from Family Matters) voice the main Hedgehogs of all 3 shows including Sonia from Sonic Underground.
 
Holammer said:
I find it hard to watch any of the animated Sonic cartoons, US & Sonic X. None aged gracefully.
Sonic Boom however goes down smoothly and Sticks is my spirit animal.

They bungled the music hard, it's well made but there's zero use of leitmotif in the show.
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I can't say that I was ever into Sonic X, for that matter I have never really seen much of Sonic Boom either.

I always thought the OVA was pretty neat though. It was released in English as Sonic: The Hedgehog: The movie in 1999 by ADV films. But in Japan, these was originally released in 1996 as two separate OVA VHS releases that were rentals only.

This was apparently some attempt to test the waters for an Anime series that never got picked up. But it was localized and released around the launch of the US Dreamcast (9/9/99) and Sonic Adventure. It came out the same year as Sonic Underground.

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DAHGAMING said:


My favourite episode was this one. Dr Robotnik is trying to rizz up Lucinda and is a non stop pest "marry me or els", amazing stuff.
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Robotnik is very different from the sinister character in Satam, voiced by Jim Cummings, the official voice actor for Winnie the Pooh.



Best Robotnik IMO, or Dr Eggman is from Sonic Boom where they dialed him down and made him the unfriendly neighborhood villain instead. Because they're likely taking a page from the Archie comics (which was still ongoing), half the critters are villains too.

 
Pop (FTA kids channel in the UK) used to air both around 2005, I always preferred the darker tone of the SatAM version, now even PlutoTV has a dedicated channel for Sonic.
 
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