Episode
Sonic Underground: Bartleby the Prisoner
Overview
Robotnik's new weapon, Art, is the enforcer of Robotropolis new eradication policy. Art's objective is to destroy everything in sight, including Sonic, Manic and Sonia. The giant mechanical beast is seemingly unstoppable until he overhears the musical melodies of the Underground band.
Details
- Series
- Sonic Underground
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 37
- Air date
- 1999-10-19
Episode context
Bartleby the Prisoner is Episode 37 in Season 1 of Sonic Underground. It aired on 1999-10-19.
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Episode 36: Sleepers
On a mission in a distant sector of Robotropolis, the Hedgehogs are informed that freedom fighters have disappeared and are going to be roboticized. Sonic races to save his friends, but he is too late. The group of freedom fighters have been robotisized, including Cyrus' father.
Episode 38: The Art of Destruction
Robotnik's new weapon, Art, is the enforcer of Robotropolis new eradication policy. Art's objective is to destroy everything in sight, including Sonic, Manic and Sonia. The giant mechanical beast is seemingly unstoppable until he overhears the musical melodies of the Underground band.
More episodes from this season
Episode 35: The Big Melt
The Hedgehogs vacation is interrupted by the news of Robotnik's latest weapon. They are shocked as the submarine melts the icy landscape from under their feet. The Hedgehogs then scurry to locate the lethal submarine before the entire planet is completely submerged underwater.
Episode 39: The Pendant
The newly discovered Emerald Peninsula is a perfect place for Robotnik to add slaves to his empire. Sonic, Sonia and Manic are alerted of Robotnik's plan to transplant the peninsula's inhabitants and turn to a fortune teller for help. The mystic advises Sonia of a pendant that could reveal the answer to stopping Robotnik.
Episode 34: Sonia's Choice
Robotnik has arranged a museum exhibit of the Royal family goblets. Knowing that Sonic, Sonia and Manic will want to reclaim their family's treasures, Robotnik expects the heirlooms will serve as perfect bait to finally capture the Hedgehogs. Sonic and his siblings are aware that this is most likely a trap and devise a counter plan of their own to avoid getting caught.
Episode 40: Virtual Danger
Sonic and Manic play a game of virtual reality to enhance their pilot skills. When the two brothers decide to put their practice to use, they fly in a successful mission that intercepts a supply ship from Robotnik. To put the Hedgehogs game to an end, Robotnik decides to invade the simulated world and provoke a less successful outcome for Sonic and Manic.
Episode 33: Healer
A self proclaimed scientist has come to Robotropolis with a device that will reverse the effects of Robotnik's roboticizer. Sonia, Manic and Sonia attend a demonstration of this new technology where Sonia decides she can use it to help her rescue a friend. Sonic, on the other hand, is skeptical that this machine is the real thing and decides to investigate.
Episode 32: Haircraft in Space
Robotnik is using the local hairdresser, Doo-bot, to get information on the citizens that are against him. Sonia becomes a victim of the Doo-bots trance during a shampoo and while under the spell, divulges important information that could lead Robotnik to a secret base. The Hedgehogs learn that the Doo-bot is equipped with a recording device and dash to retrieve the tape from the Doo-bot before the secret location is disclosed.
Episode 31: Country Crisis
Queen Aleena advises the Hedgehogs to travel to a valley of Mobius so that they can bring about peace between two contingents of the resistance that have split. In the meantime, Robotnik is able to build a dam that is dangerous to the peoples land because of the lack of a cohesive effort to end the construction.
Episode 30: Harmony or Something (Origins, Part 3)
Manic, Sonic, Sonia must end their training early when Robotnik threatens the Oracle and takes a member of the resistance hostage. During the rescue mission, the Hedgehogs fall into trouble and begin to place blame upon each other for everything that has gone awry. Queen Aleena then intervenes with an important message for her children that they must learn to work together and derive strength from their willingness to help others.
Episode 29: New Echidna in Town (Chaos Emerald Crisis, Part 3)
Knuckles reluctantly makes a deal with Robotnik to turn over Sonic and his family in exchange for finding the Chaos Emerald that will save Mobius. Knuckles soon regrets that he ever trusted the evil dictator after Robotnik begins to follow through on his plans to roboticize the Hedgehogs.
Episode 28: Getting to Know You (Origins, Part 2)
The Hedgehogs begin to learn the important lessons of what it takes to be a freedom fighter. The Oracle provides teachers to guide Sonic, Manic and Sonia to develop the necessary skills to recognize the power that comes from within. The Hedgehogs also discover the hidden magical force of the power medallions as they grow to understand that teamwork will serve them best in averting the dangers that await them.