Super Animal Royale Tonight

***Super Animal Royale Tonight*** (***SAR Tonight***) is a news program in the game's universe. Videos of *SAR Tonight* episodes are currently posted to the Pixile Studios Youtube channel, and were posted to the *Super Animal Royale* "Store page" on *Steam*. They are presented as five of the standard video trailers used to provide previews of games on *Steam*.

The format of the *SAR Tonight* program is that of a live sports news broadcast, such as the *ESPN* program *SportsCenter*. The two hosts sit at a newsdesk, with a video monitor on the wall behind them. The hosts are *Donk Patrick*, a  Super Donkey character, and *Howl Michaels*, a  Super Howler Monkey. These two animated characters share the same art style as Super Animals within the game.  Donk Patrick delivers the news dialog, and  Howl Michaels provides commentary. Patrick speaks English (interspersed with occasional natural donkey-calls; their occurrence seems to be an involuntary mannerism), while Michaels speaks in unintelligible monkey-like chatters, although Patrick understands him (and, if one listens closely, one can distinguish, in the monkey-chatter of Michaels, the corresponding English syllables of the words that Patrick interprets).

Most of the duration of an installment of *SAR Tonight* is used to replay a series of video clips of recent *SAR* matches. These matches feature members of the online-gaming public, and seem to have been recorded by them, themselves, and then submitted to Pixile. Several clips seem to feature segments of the gameplay of gamers who are live-streaming their gameplay, on a website such as *Twitch* or *YouTube*.

During their commentary, the hosts of *SAR Tonight* refer to the in-universe geography, culture, and history of the *SAR* game world. Patrick often mentions the island, where the game is set, and he describes the closing of one of its main attractions: the Super Animal World Safari Park. A common theme in the series is the ongoing rivalry between the Super Animal Super Resistance and the S.A.W. forces.

## Rewards

The following customizations are the rewards for participating and being chosen to be included in an episode of *SAR Tonight*. The winners may claim a maximum of one winner reward per episode. Players that appear in a featured clip of SART as a member of that person's team whose name appears in the submitted clip are also eligible to win a prize.

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SAR Tonight M16
*SAR Tonight reward*

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SAR Tonight Umbrella
SAR Tonight

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SAR Tonight Microphone
SAR Tonight

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SAR Tonight Cap
SAR Tonight

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Golden Video Jacket
SAR Tonight

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SAR Tonight Tee
SAR Tonight

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SAR Tonight Hoodie
SAR Tonight

### Legacy Items

The following rewards could be selected in the past but are no longer offered to participants.

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Donk Tee
SAR Tonight

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Howl Tee
SAR Tonight

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Tiger Silhouette Tee
SAR Tonight

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Fox Silhouette Tee
SAR Tonight

The following rewards were given for playing roles in certain episodes.

Epic
Rebellion Helmet
 Level 100
*or given to players who played a rebellion member in Season 1 Ep 3*

Legendary
SAW Security Uniform
 Level 200
*or given to players who helped film escape scene in Season 1 Ep 4*

Rare
SAW Helmet
 Level 50
*or given to players who helped film escape scene in Season 1 Ep 4*

## Trivia

* The names of the hosts,  Donk Patrick,  Howl Michaels and Joe Cluck are allusions to the prominent real-world sports journalists Dan Patrick, Al Michaels and Joe Buck, although the *SAR* characters do not impersonate their namesakes.
* The in-universe store Earporium sponsored episode 2 of **SAR Tonight**; the Earporium is a location that players will find in the S.A.W. Welcome Center.
* At least one broadcast of **SAR Tonight** was violently interrupted by animals who claimed to represent the Super Animal Super Resistance.
* The in-universe factory Super Milk Bar that sponsors episode 5 is located in the Super Animal Farm. This advertisement was used to announce new content (the  Super Cow and its breeds) from the next game update.
* In Season 2, Episode 3. Another Joe Cluck which is Super Black Chicken has been assigned to the beach while the original Joe Cluck notices it and feel in deep sadness wonder why they decided to use another one instead of himself.
	+ Later in Season 2, Episode 4.5, after 2 Joe Clucks were considered missing when try to reporting(need context to fix grammar) Pixile Port, Howl has forced Dogna to clone another Joe Cluck immediately resulting to a malfunctioned Joe known as Zombie Joe, triggering  The Bwoking Dead event.
* Pixile once again teased a Grenade Launcher weapon in Season 2 Episode 5 for the second time after the Steam's GOTY 2020 announcement. The players can see the gun when Thomas does the Elbow Drop to his Penguin Assistant.
	+ However, Grenade Launcher has been shown in a teaser image on January 14 for the Year of the Super Tiger, but it was changed afterwards to the  Big Clucking Gun.
* In Season 2 Episode 7, Joe Cluck finally escape from the island via Tourist Boat that appears once from Season 2 Episode 5. The fate of Joe Cluck is unknown, presumably living with humans outside the island.
* The revamped version of S.A.W. vs Rebellion in Version 1.4 was initially going to be released along with a new episode of SART where the S.A.S.R. and S.A.W.'s conflict would have escalated into a full-on war. However, due to the outbreak of war in Ukraine in real life, this episode was cancelled. Michael released a post explaining the cancellation of this SART episode.

## Gallery

* First artwork showing rewards for SAR Tonight participation