Shorts Review: Sonic For Hire – Season 6, Episode 12

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I don’t know why, but for some reason I could have sworn that the description for Sonic For Hire Season 6, Episode 12 originally said it was the season finale. It doesn’t now, and the episode definitely wasn’t structured as a finale, so maybe it’s just all in my head. Maybe this show is all in my head too. If that is the case, then I clearly don’t have a very active imagination, because this week’s installment of Sonic was only a measly two minutes long. Even my attention span is longer than two minutes. Despite the short run time, and the fact that Mario is long gone, the episode still produced a few hearty laughs. The guys: tall Tails, Wario the Hedgehog, Baby Eggman, and Yoshi Jim decide to attempt to reverse all the damage they caused by traveling back in time and retracing all their footsteps via a montage backed by “You’re the Best.”

Somewhere, Ralph Macchio just got aroused.

When Knuckles decides to come along for the ride, everything is altered even further. Although the characters appear like their normal selves again, there is suddenly also a set of eerie clones that mirror the gang. In the short amount of time allotted to this installment, there were only a couple laugh opportunities, but overall it was a success. The best joke? Yoshi eating Eggman and – in Yoshi fashion – laying an egg with the man inside. “Fucked. Up,” Eggman lamented. I feel the same way, dude. (It’s fucked up to get laid in an egg, that is. Not that I feel fucked up. Well, maybe I do, but that’s immaterial.)

It looks like this season is gearing up to wind down, so let’s just hope it can do it in a hilarious and satisfying way.

6.5 out of 10