Alan Denton
@AlanTheWriter
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Story Editor for Sonic Boom; Co-head Writer for Sunny Day; Also writer for Transformers: BotBots, Unikitty, Sammy & Raj, Lego Monkie Kid, etc.
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Still keeps me up at night
Sonic Boom writer Alan Denton was not aware of this recurring trend in Sonic cartoons, putting him in a depressive state that he has likely still not recovered from.
To quote Eggman in the final episode of Sonic Boom:
"Well, there's always next season."
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My wife asked me to help decorate the cookies for her sister's baby shower, and then just as quickly asked me to please stop helping.
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At last! Modern technology has finally given us what we've all been dreaming of: A Lion King where they're just regular animals who walk around like normal.
Side-by-side of the famous clip of Simba growing up in the 2019 'The Lion King' vs. the original 1994 movie.
#TheLionKing
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The worst part about writing for kids is that my friends rarely see my work. The best part is we get to do stuff like this.
#SonicBoom
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For my birthday this year, my wife asked what kind of cake she should make... and I told her that, honestly, I've always wanted to try Peach's thank-you cake from the end of Super Mario 64.
And so, it was done.
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Yeah but where was this panther back in 2017 when we really needed the viewers?
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Yuuuup. I definitely had to pirate multiple shows I've worked on just to get access to an archive copy for my records.
...The majority of them, in fact.
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Well... You did it, you beautiful Internet bastards. You complained so loudly that you saved the Sonic movie.
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As much as I love the references and Sonic community meta-humor, sometimes it's our subtle jokes that I'm most proud of.
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Slowly coming to terms with the realization that the last movie I'll ever see in theaters was Sonic the Hedgehog.
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Friendly reminder that the people who complained about the Sonic movie design had all better buy tickets or else no studio's ever going to do something like this again.
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Spoiler alert: By hiring talented people and then letting them do their thing. It's weird how many companies don't get this.
Here's How Those Extremely Good Animated SONIC THE HEDGEHOG Shorts Happened
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This is our fault for allowing an industry to refer to our collective creative output over the last decade as "content"
Warner Bros Discovery is removing ‘CLOSE ENOUGH’ and ‘INFINITY TRAIN’ from HBO Max this week.
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I cannot stress enough how much this was not the reason we titled our show.
A Sonic Boom is when Sonic reaches the speed of sound and his ass cheeks clap together
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Why is this headline talking about a rebrand when the real story is clearly that Mark Zuckerberg has somehow acquired all of the Chaos Emeralds?
Exclusive: Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name
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I got a Sonic Boom fan script emailed to me from a 10-year-old. I gotta say, I love his chaotic energy. It's actually legit really funny? I now firmly believe that every writers room should a 10-year-old on staff.
(And yes, I got his mother's permission before sharing this)
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2016: "Wow what a weird year. At least 2017 couldn't possibly be crazier."
2017:
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Wow. Terrible news.
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I just found a thread of a dozen or so of these Knuckles "meme approval" videos and I don't know what reality is anymore.
To everyone who worked on Sonic Boom, this may be our legacy.
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Man, you guys have no idea how much trouble I got in joking about the jump glitch when this clip first aired...
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In the alternate timeline, we all would've sat in plush seats and stared at this guy for nearly two consecutive hours today.
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I don't know what you're talking about. We're clearly making fun of modern Tomatopotamus games.
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Just think... if they never changed that original terrible design or hired Tyson Hesse, the first movie probably would've flopped. But instead, there's a sequel coming out, another one in development, and now a Knuckles TV series with Idris Elba. We're truly in the best timeline.
@Nickelodeon
#SonicMovie3
is officially in development from
@ParamountPics
and
@SEGA
! Plus, next year a new original
#Knuckles
series with
@IdrisElba
is coming to
#ParamountPlus
.
#SonicMovie2
hits theaters April 8!
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You know the funny thing? He actually delivered this line exactly as written.
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I still brag about this joke to anyone who will listen.
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No, it would be set in 1976, because that's the entire premise of the show.
That 70’s Show debuted in 1998, and was set in 1976.
If a show came out today in 2019 with the same premise, it would be set in 1997.
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For my birthday this year, I told my wife all I wanted was that the cake no longer be a lie.
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There's a moment in a season 5 episode of The Simpsons where Homer starts picking letters off Maggie's birthday cake until Marge shoo's him away, saying, "I made a special cake for you to ruin. It's over there!"
For my birthday this year, my wife made me that cake.
I love it.
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Shocking twist in the Knuckles meme-approval storyline.
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With this Sonic sequel coming out next week, can we take a moment to appreciate how Colleen O'Shaughnessey is the second lead voice actor, between Ben Schwartz and Idris Elba? And how stuff like this almost NEVER happens in studio movies?
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Ehhhh agree to disagree.
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Man soon wondered if 3d printing technology had gone too far…for on this day man didn't create life; he created God.
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Maybe the one joke from the series that I'm most proud of.
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For any folks who still haven't seen Sonic Boom, let me give you an idea of what the show was like with this clip. It's the first joke from the season 1 episode "Counter Productive." This is how the episode STARTED.
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Literally shaking right now. They stole our idea of standing near boxes!
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I'll never forget how, for our season finale episode, all the heroes on our action cartoon spent the entire episode attempting to assemble an IKEA bookshelf. Man, the stuff we got away with...
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SIMPSONS SHORTS CAN APPARENTLY NOW PLAY IN FRONT OF PIXAR MOVIES. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
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At Sonic Boom, we succeed because we speak the language of kids today, & don't at all feel like we're just some guys guessing as we go along
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I remember pitching the line in the room: "That's why, on the first day, you gotta beat up the biggest 5-year-old in the yard!"
...Followed immediately by, "What?! Don't actually type that in the script!"
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(ahem)
Blue. Arms.
Breaking: A
#SonicMovie
standee featuring a newly redesigned Sonic was spotted at a undetermined location. This story is developing.
#SonicNews
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I still lay awake at night thinking about this.
I'm so sad we won't get a Sonic Boom episode called "The Last Resort"
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Oh sweet the shirt I'll one day wear to my daughter's wedding just arrived.
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I'm still so flummoxed by the news that Discovery is cutting down on all animation to focus on unscripted. Like, even from a purely corporate profit standpoint... You guys don't think you can make money with Bugs Bunny? Or Scooby Doo? Or Batman???
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Whoa guys the Ready Player One trailer looks siiiiiiick!
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Oh wow and Knuckles is designed a little taller / broader than Sonic? How interesting. To emphasize his strength and brute force? You don't say.
THIS IS ACTUALLY FROM THE SONIC MOVIE 2 SET LMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOO (PLACEHOLDER PROPS)
THATS FKN GREAT
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My nephew w/ Sonic toys:
Him: (Re: Sonic) "Good guy"
Me: Yep
Him: (Eggman) "Bad!"
Me: Yes
Him: (Shadow) "Bad?"
Me: ::Starts 40min lecture::
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Now you know what Knuckles was doing while skipping leg day:
He was out getting woke.
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What's the opposite of a cursed image?
These are commission screenshots that I made for my friend😀 As for me, the BOOM!characters look good in Sonic X style
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You know, it's times like these that I regret never writing a burn ward location into Sonic Boom.
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I love it when reboots ask me, "Hey, remember that thing you love from your childhood? Well what if they were older and joyless??"
A live-action ‘POWERPUFFS GIRLS’ series is in the works at The CW.
The series will follow them as young adults who resent having lost their childhood to crime fighting.
(Source: )
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For my birthday this year, my wife asked me what kind of cake I'd like. And I said that the monster cake from Breath of the Wild always looked pretty good to me...
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I remember that day. We had written issues 12 & 13.
They cancelled the series at number 11.
Greg Hahn, writer for the Sonic Boom comic and television series, only finds out that it’s cancelled because of Archie’s Twitter account (2015)
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Roger, you were an amazing Sonic. But more important, you're a generous talent and a good friend. I do not envy the next voice actor who has to fill these cargo shorts-- err, shoes.
Welp, 10 years was an amazing run.
Onward to new zones!
Much love to the fans who've been so kind.💙
It's been an honor.
🦔
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The wedding episode of the Simpsons that took place fifteen years in the future is now ten years in the past.
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That leaked Powerpuff Girls script had better not be real. I swear...
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It's been two years now and the Sonic the Hedgehog movie is still the last film I've seen in a theater
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You know, I think enough time has passed that I can now admit that my wife in fact decorated the blue cookie, too.
My wife asked me to help decorate the cookies for her sister's baby shower, and then just as quickly asked me to please stop helping.
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One of my low-key favorite Sonic Boom jokes that we did.
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Wait...
I think that the PS5 is really similar to the Eggman's lair in Sonic Boom o.oU
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Terrible news everyone. It looks like there's another Denton in this world.
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"Hello, Amazon police? Yes I'd like to report a crime..."
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oops
SEGA on Sonic – Sonic Boom TV series seems to be over, focusing on “high quality content”, more
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Though people have extrapolated all sorts of lore from them, there's honestly no story in the early games. You just run to the right.
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This week on
#SonicBoom
, the gang discussed their favorite video game character, "Tomatopotamus."
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Every animator throughout history: "(Sigh) I *wish* these were photorealistic animals who stood around and did nothing, but alas..."
TODAY THAT CHANGES!!
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I swear I've thought about this Good Place joke at least once every day since it aired in January.
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A positive IGN write-up?! We did it, guys. We finally did it.
Sonic Boom: The Complete Series Blu-ray and Steelbook is on sale right now. The collection includes both Season 1 and 2 of the fan-favorite animated series.
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In writing this script, we felt it important to finally acknowledge how the system is stacked against the expeditious.
#SonicBoom
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What if we just bootlegged season 3 with MS Paint and iPhones?
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I remember this one. We were in the writers room, and a character in the script asked Sonic if he was capable. I said, with no real direction, "Capable is my middle name!"
Then, like an old vaudeville act,
@ItsGregHahn
swooped in with the punchline.
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That makes sense. Batman, after all, is a historically niche property with limited profit potential. Just good business brain smartness at work here.
‘BATMAN: CAPED CRUSADER’ is no longer moving forward at HBO Max.
The series will be shopped to other networks/streaming services.
(Source: )
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This Facebook ad is reason enough to drag Mark Zuckerberg back in front of Congress.
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Yes we all predicted this
2020 will be the first year in a decade a movie in the
#MCU
won't finish as the highest-grossing superhero flick of the year. Instead, the title is set to go
#SonicTheHedgehog
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To any people who may be going through a rough patch in life right now, we at Sonic Boom wanted to make sure we got this important message out there.
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People often ask if the images I post from
#SonicBoom
are real. I assure you, they are. With that said, here's a scene of Sonic babysitting.
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I have no recollection of what's actually happening here, but I promise in context it makes sense.
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These Sonic Colors clips give me uncomfortable flashbacks to when Rise of Lyric first came out & I tweeted a joke about the Knuckles jump glitch, only to then see an article titled "New Sonic Game So Bad Even Show's Writers Making Fun of It," and, my friends, I nearly died inside
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To all the Sonic fans out there, here's conclusive proof that we hear your concerns and are always happy to snark about it.
#SonicBoom
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Okay gang the dream may not be dead yet. New plan. All I need are these costumes, a Handycam, and 52 eleven-minute scripts.
These Sonic Boom costumes actually still get used! Sonic and Amy showed up at different kids' events at outdoor parks and malls this year.
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Colleen O'Shaughnessey
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I'm growing more and more convinced that Sony just ripped off the design from Dr. Eggman's lair, and then scaled UP the dimensions somehow.
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Okay fine, I volunteer to write the inevitable TV spinoff for this guy.
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Silly question but do you think Sonic is so excited for the World's Largest Rubber Band Ball in the trailer because he remembers how much fun he had at the World's Largest Ball of Twine?
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So apparently today is the 5 year anniversary of the premiere of Sonic Boom. Hoo boy I was not prepared to be reminded of how old I am this morning.
Today is the only day you can retweet this.
(Happy Birthday Sonic Boom!)
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You know, probably what I love most about cartoons is how they allow us to escape the realities of everyday life...
#SonicBoom
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