#werehog reference

The episode wasn't too bad, but it did feel too formulaic. The episode starts off with Knuckles declaring he found a new place to sleep at night. He built a hammock around a bush of unnamed berries. Sticks then brings up how a place like this is likely to attract the legendary creature "Muckfoot". Tails refers to Muckfoot as nonsense, and spends all night using his telescope to star gaze, but he comes across Muckfoot, and is suddenly convinced it's real. The episode did a bad job at trying to disguise Knuckles as Muckfoot, it was so obviously him, right from the start. It would have been funnier if they tried hiding it better, but it wasn't bad for say. There's a funny running gag, where Tails keeps thinking he's about to run into Muckfoot, but he keeps coming across Eggman dressed as a clown (spoofing off of the real life sightings of clowns walking through forests at night.) I laughed every time Eggman showed up, there was no explanation, he was just walking around dressed as a clown, making each encounter with Tails awkward. Tails finally gets a blurry shot of Muckfoot, and becomes famous. Tommy Thunder even proposes a reality show that fools people into thinking Tails is hunting Muckfoot (mocking those ridiculous and phony fake documentaries about hunting Big Foot.) During one of the episodes, Tails and Tommy found Muckfoot, and shot him with an electric arrow. The next morning, Sticks shares her disappointment with Tails for lying, exploiting, and selling out to this nonsense, and Tails feels conflicted between doing what's right, and from hurting the villager's feelings from thinking he's a hero. Knuckles comes up with a band aid over his chest, and Sticks and Tails start questioning if Knuckles is Muckfoot. They spy on him before he went to bed, and found out the berries he's been eating cause anyone who eats them to get drowsy. Knuckles ends up sleep walking, and ends up walking through a deep puddle of mud, and eventually walks through a clean body of water, cleaning the mud off of him, until he sleep walks his way back to his hammock.  Tails and Sticks are now convinced Knuckles was mistaken for Muckfoot, and Sticks encourages Tails to tell the truth the next day. Tails chickens out, and continues embracing Muckfoot's existence to the village, leaving Sticks disappointed. Meanwhile, T.W. Barker is catching onto the Muckfoot hype, and tells his circus bears that they need to catch Muckfoot, and use him as a world tour attraction for his own personal gain. Barker cages Knuckles while going through his muddy sleep walk routine, and ends up revealing Muckfoot to the villagers for a cost. Tails feels bad for letting this happen, and he rounds up Sonic, Amy, and Sticks to free Knuckles.  There was then a funny part where Sonic and pals cut off Barker from taking his tour on the road, and try telling Barker that what he has is not Muckfoot, it's Knuckles. Barker acknowledges he was able to tell it wasn't Muckfoot the whole time, but he's still willing to fool people into paying to see it. Barker then summons some of Eggman's minions, and Eggman shows up dressed as a clown, and declares he's joining the circus. Tails then says "So that's why you've been dressed as a clown". Eggman then responds by saying "What, no, that was a completely different thing!" I honestly laughed hard during that part, it was just too silly. Tails then notices that he still has some of the berries Knuckles ate, which caused him to start sleep walking, and he gives them to Sonic, and tells Sonic to feed them to Barker, his bears, and Eggman. Sonic forces the berries into their mouths, and causes them to fall asleep. They free Knuckles, and Tails regrettably announces to the Village that Knuckles was Muckfoot all along, and the crowd grows disappointed, and leaves. Tails feels sad, but his friends cheer him up, by revealing they're proud of him for telling the truth. Knuckles then says "Wait a minute? I was Muckfoot the whole time, but can turn back into regular Knuckles? I'm a Were-Echidna! (Sonic Unleashed reference) Then after the gang leaves, the real Muckfoot shows up, without them knowing.  And that was the episode. While it was a bit too predictable, it was still a fun and hilarious episode. Eggman's clown scenes were the highlights of this episode.