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Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (or AoStH for short), an American animated television series that was first broadcasted in September 1993, has been running in cartoon syndication ever since. It follows the escapades of world-known video game hero, Sonic, a speedy blue hedgehog and his best bud, Tails, a flying fox with two tails, as they stop the evil Dr. Ivo Robotnik and his array of vicious robots from taking over the planet Mobius.

Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog is a fast-paced cartoon with a lot of slapstick humor, akin to such shows as Ren and Stimpy or Tiny Toons. The show features very few recurring characters, usually just Sonic, Tails, Robotnik and his two hench-bots Scratch and Grounder - however, there's a sizeable amount of other characters and robots to make up for it. The other robots are in order of Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine called Arms, Frankly, Humpty, Coconuts(who is a main character), Davy Sprocket, Skweel, Dynamight, Spike, Sir Ffuzzy Logik, and Dragon Breath. The plots often loosely followed the storyline of the video games series, although at the time the Sonic games were still quite new, and lacking much plot or character development, which was in turn filled in by the show's writers.

Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog was created by DiC Entertainment, which produced a total of 65 episodes for its first season, and was syndicated by Bohbot Entertainment, now BKN International (in the original run, every episode began and ended with the "Bohbot Entertainment Presents" logo). The first episode was "Best Hedgehog" (actually episode 13 in production order, shown Sept 6) and the last was "Hero of the Year" (episode 63 in production order, shown Dec 3). DiC ceased production on this comical interpretation to spend more time on its darker interpretation, dubbed just Sonic the Hedgehog
(commonly known as SatAM by fans), a series launched on ABC's Saturday morning line-up.

This wasn't the end of AoStH, however, for DiC created one more episode in the winter of 1996, "Sonic Christmas Blast", which ended up being a strange mix of AoStH and SatAM, as it features Princess Sally in a non-speaking cameo, and has Sonic and Tails visiting Robotropolis, which has a human population and a name pronounced with two "T"s (interestingly, the letters page of issue #41 of the Sonic the Hedgehog
comic book promotes the special as "An X-Tremely Sonic Christmas", suggesting that it was originally intended to promote Sonic X-treme
, which wasn't released in time and was eventually cancelled; the special's name was changed to match the game that did come out, Sonic 3D Blast).

Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog was most recently shown weekdays at 8:00am Central Time on Toon Disney. Robotnik was also the featured villain occasionally on the "Chillin' with the Villains" marathon block. He was even in their commercial for it. In the UK, AoStH can be seen on the satellite channel POP, however it is not currently being shown on American television.

Trivia

Of the three American Sonic cartoons (the other two are "SatAM", and Sonic Underground
), AoStH has the most references to the games.

AoStH characters are seen in the 16-bit (for Sega Genesis and Sega Mega Drive) and 8-bit (for Sega Game Gear
and Sega Master System
) versions of Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine.

More recently, a "Sonic Sez" segment about sexual harassment became widely parodied on YTMND.

Episode list

(episodes are posted in their original production order)

# The Super Special Sonic Search and Smash Squad # Subterranian Sonic # Lovesick Sonic # Sloooowww Going... # High Stakes Sonic # Sonic Breakout # Trail of the Missing Tails # Close Encounters of the Sonic Kind # Mama Robotnik's Birthday # Big Daddy # Sonic's Song (a.k.a. Sing it Again, Sonic!) # Birth of a Salesman! # The Best Hedgehog # The Robotnik Express # Too Tall Tails # Tails' New Home # Over the Hill Hero # Blank Headed Eagle # Mystery of the Missing Hi-Tops # So Long Sucker !!! # Sonic Gets Trashed (a.k.a. Scrap Valley) # Psuedo-Sonic # Grounder the Genius # Tails in Charge # Sno Problem # Submerged Sonic # Boogey Mania # Musta Been a Beautiful Baby! # Robotnik Junior # Full-Tilt Tails # Mac-Hopper # Momma Robotnik Returns! # Space Sonic (a.k.a. Spaceman Sonic) # Mad Mike Da Bear Warrior # The Last Resort # Robotnik's Rival # The Magic Hassle # Sonic the Matchmaker # Tails Prevails! # Zoobotnik # Attack on the Pinball Fortress # Mass Transit Trouble # The Coachnik # Untouchable Sonic # Super Robotnik # Robolympics # The Magnificent Sonic # Quest for the Chaos Emeralds (1) - Blackbot the Pirate # Quest for the Chaos Emeralds (2) - Hedgehog of the Hound Table # Quest for the Chaos Emeralds (3) - Robotnik's Pyramid Scheme # Quest for the Chaos Emeralds (4) - Prehistoric Sonic # Baby Sitter Jitters # Honey, I Shrunk the Hedgehog # Robotnik Land # The Mobius 5000 # The Little Merhog # Road Hog # The Robot's Robot # Tails' Tale # Hero of the Year # Fast and Easy # Lifestyles of the Sick and Twisted # Sonic is Running # Robo Ninjas # Sonically Ever After # Sonic's Christmas Blast

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