Hey, guys. Today we’re going to be reviewing a Tails-based episode of season 2: Multi-Tails. The plot of the episode is that Tails multiplies himself to form a group of geniuses after something goes horribly wrong, but it backfires immediately. Kind of like that Lilo and Stitch episode, except that Stitch’s strength is shared with each clone that emerges from his body. Let’s see if we can get through this Sonic Boom episode without being disturbed. Yes, I found this episode disturbing. And, yes. This review contains spoilers, so please watch the episode before reading what I am about to say. Anyway, let’s get started.
The episode starts with Tails showing his friends his latest and greatest invention which, to Team Sonic’s disappointment, does not turn out to be an ice-cream maker. Maybe Tails doesn’t have the time to make an ice-cream maker, it would be easier to just buy one to make ice-cream with. Back to the episode, Eggman suddenly shows up and Tails activates the gadget, causing it to shoot a laser into the sky, creating an electromagnetic force-field. It seems to work as the robots fail miserably to attack any civilians by hand or weapon.
This just raised a question: why didn’t the electromagnetic shield pull the robots in and shock them until they shut down or explode? All it did was repel their attacks. Tails gives his force-field a long name – which wasn’t really necessary – and then he changes it to ‘Dome-pocalypse’. Yeah, Dome-pocalypse. Definitely a name that will be remembered for generations to come. With the robots and Eggman dealt with, the villagers congratulate Tails for his success and rewards him with a youth basketball trophy. Yeah, just roll with it.
The victory lasts – for 5 seconds – until Eggman comes up from underground and orders his robots to attack. The robots shoot the force-field, but it deflects their attacks, destroying the village while the villagers run in fear and panic. Tails is shocked and upset that his fool-proof plan didn’t live up to his expectations. Eventually, with the help of Team Sonic, Tails manages to deactivate the force-field.
Then we cut to the villagers jeering at Tails for his failure to protect the village as his trophy gets taken away. Sonic steps in to stop them, but Tails decides to take the responsibility for what happened, so Tails gets the trophy back, as ‘the Trophy of Shame’. Maybe it would have been better if Tails gave the trophy back, blaming himself for what happened, while everyone tries to calm him down and convince him that one person cannot do everything.
At Tails’ workshop, he comes up with the bright idea make replicas of himself to form a group of scientists. Call me crazy, but why couldn’t Tails just pluck some hair strands from his tails to put into a machine to create clones of himself? After he does this, the four Tails clones follow him outside the machine. But the clones are… how you’d say, stupid. Then they all end up doing… things. The kind of things that Boom Knuckles (with even less intelligence) would do. I really don’t know how to put this into words.
Sonic and friends decide to put Tails and the four clones into the machine to make him one person, but instead, they end multiplying them, making Tails and the replicas even dumber than usual. This is the part when things get really disturbing for me, which is why I found this episode disturbing. The Tails clones are causing mayhem all over the village: running around on rooftops, chasing Amy with an airplane, eating soup with a fork and hurting themselves while trying to fly. Grooooaaaannn.
We then cut to Eggman’s lair, where Eggman scolds a Tails clone for peeking on him while taking a shower. Upon seeing how stupid he is, Eggman decides to take this to his advantage. He orders the clone to get him a towel and clone returns with nothing the first time, pudding the second time and a wash rag the third time. Eggman complains about a wash rag not covering him up. Well, at least he would have had something to cover his PINGAS with. I am so sorry. Eggman uses a shower curtain to cover himself with and walks out the bathroom, only to find more Tails copies making a mess in his chambers, with pudding and crayon drawings. Grooooaaaannn.
Meanwhile, at Tails’ workshop, Sonic counts the ten Tails copies and declares that the team have to find five more copies. Eggman shows up and tells them that the remaining five are messing around in his lair. They take copies back to Tails’ workshop and Eggman states that Sonic should have switched the controls to reverse. But the blue hedgehog refuses to do that because he is not a tech whiz.
Really, Sonic? REALLY? You should have figured that out by yourself. Aren’t you supposed to be a quick thinker? You could have just checked the machine, or at least be embarrassed when Eggman pointed the reverse controls out. This episode just had to dumb down the heroes, to make the villain look smart, didn’t it? With that out of the way, Tails is back to normal and thanks his friends, instead of Eggman, for fixing the problem he made and they all live happily after. The end.
I have to say something. I know that Tails is 8 and some people consider this to be an adorable episode, but this – for me – was just painful to watch. I think I would have preferred it if either Tails’ intelligence was split into subjects (Maths, English, Science, History and Information Technology) or Tails was so depressed that he sits there and mopes about how great things were ‘back in the day’. Then the episode would either have Tails and his clones (from the first idea) come up with a plan to make Tails himself again or have a member of Team Sonic (from the second idea) see the reverse controls and use the machine to make Tails himself again.
Well, folks. That’s it for my Multi-Tails review. If you like this episode, that's fine. And I would understand if you don't. I only have one more Sonic Boom review to do. That’s right, ONE. Which I’ll get to next time.
Until then, thanks for reading and take care.
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