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Well, his first mistake is not being a fan of the superior baseball team from California: the San Francisco Giants*

But seriously, he couldn't think of a better name? The writing on the badge/shield makes me think Klingon, vaguely, but I highly doubt he's going to actually create a consistent alphabet like Futurama's "Alienese", let alone an actual language.

* Well, like other sports, I usually pick multiple teams based on divisions past and present. In Major League Baseball, I picked the Giants, Texas Rangers, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Cubs (the loveable losers), Washington Nationals, and Toronto Blue Jays in their respective divisions.

I don't even know where that came from, since I don't have a mentality of "stop disliking what I like" with any of the other series I watch. I suppose it started out as a defense of the episode and ended up as something worse. Hindsight being 20/20, I should have deleted the opening and rephrased a few parts.

Oh well. Unlike last week's episode, Hedgehog Day had the problem of its ending not feeling like an ending, or at least it was too abrupt of one.

At any rate, here's a slightly updated list of episodes in their intended order:

1. The Sidekick
2. Can an Evil Genius Crash on Your Couch for a Few Weeks?
3. My Fair Sticksy
4. Circus of Plunders (T.W. Barker's first, and so far, most prominent appearance)
5. ?
6. Unlucky Knuckles
7. ?
8. ?
9. Translate This
10. Buster
11. Eggheads
12. Guilt Tripping
13. ?
14. Double Doomsday (first appearance of Dave the Intern)
15. Fortress of Squalitude
16. ?
17. ?
18. Aim Low (first appearance of Tim Robbins Soar the Eagle)
19. Sole Power
20. Cow Bot (Dave the Intern mentioned in a conversation)
21. The Meteor
22. Dude, Where's My Eggman? (T.W. Barker swindled the Eggmobile away from Cubot and Orbot)
23. How to Succeed in Evil Without Really Trying
24. Don't Judge Me
25. Hedgehog Day
26. Dr. Eggman's Tomato Sauce

What. The. Hell.

I actually liked this week's episode. It had better animation, in my opinion, than a number of the other episodes, though it still has the problem with silence where it could use some music. I thought the ending, whilst not the best, was good enough for the plot. I mean, yes, it is repetitive as far as Eggman's betrayal goes, but it's not every episode; it's just a bit par for the course given the cast and premise. You usually have to either enlarge the cast, even if they're one-shot characters, have a large cast of characters to draw from, general worldbuilding or lore-deepening to add variety, orr, hell, exploring different angles of a trope about the genre or characters.

There is no lore to draw from and no world to widen since we've pretty much seen all that they've apparently planned to use for the series. The cast is pretty much set in stone at the moment, so they have to focus on interactions between the characters they have.

Oh, and I thought the fight scenesin the previous episode as well as this one were some of the better ones in the series. I also see they tried to fix the whole problem of illustrating Sonic's speed: if you can't make him look fast enough, slow everything else down.

So, it essentially boiled down to Mega Man's "Electric Nightmare" more than Maximum Overdrive, based on Stephen King's Trucks short story.

So, a somewhat competent plot by Dr. Eggman at last. Well, outside of the second episode. My biggest gripe would be that they all seemed to be eating tomato paste/sauce by itself. Far be it from me, a guy who drinks pickle juice, to say what is right and wrong in the culinary world, but it just irked me.

Time to update the episode list, in production order:

1. The Sidekick
2. Can an Evil Genius Crash on Your Couch for a Few Weeks?
3. My Fair Sticksy
4. Circus of Plunders (first appearance of T.W. Barker)
5. ?
6. Unlucky Knuckles
7. ?
8. ?
9. Translate This
10. Buster
11. Eggheads
12. Guilt Tripping
13. ?
14. Double Doomsday (first appearance of Dave the Intern)
15. Fortress of Squalitude
16. ?
17. ?
18. Aim Low (first appearance of Soar the Eagle, or whatever his name was, as far as we know currently)
19. ?
20. Cow Bot (Dave the Intern mentioned in passing)
21. The Meteor
22. Dude, Where's My Eggman? (N****** done stole my bike! Wolf stole my Eggmobile!)
23. How to Succeed in Evil Without Really Trying
24. Don't Judge Me

JaxTH, on 14 March 2015 - 06:11 AM, said:

Yeah, this pretty much sums up this week's episode. SpongeBob SquarePants did a much better job in parodying/referencing, presumably U.S., court battles with season four's "Krabs vs. Plankton" in 2005. Then again, the same could be said for The Simpsons, Family Guy, and Futurama, but I thought I'd keep TV-14 series out of this.

To our French-speaking members, has there been anything in the series we might have missed in terms of wordplay, or is it just as good/lame as the English version? I ask because we've been getting, albeit sans spoken words, French series like Oggy and the Cockroaches.