Line #146 Recap/SonicForHire


1	A recap page for each episode plus supplementary material of ''Sonic For Hire''. '''BEWARE OF UNMARKED SPOILERS'''
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6	[[folder:Season 1]]
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8	[[caption-width-right:350: “Sonic is washed up and out of work. He needs cash fast and will do anything to pay the rent. Hangouts, murder, jobs, third-parties—it doesn't matter. Is there anything Sonic won't ever do for a buck? Short answer: No.”]]
9	# [[Recap/SonicForHireS1E1PaperBoy Paper Boy]]: [[LoserProtagonist Sonic]] is short on his rent, so [[TheLancer Tails]] offers him a job at VideoGame/PaperBoy to help pay.
10	# [[Recap/SonicForHireS1E2PunchDrunk Punch Drunk]]: Sonic's new job is a fight against Mike Tyson in VideoGame/PunchOut. All goes well for Sonic as he manages to win until Tails reveals that he placed a bet against him.
11	# [[Recap/SonicForHireS1E3ToeJamAndEarl Toe Jam And Earl]]: Sonic gets the best job ever and finally becomes rich -- however it turns out that none of it was real and Sonic was simply suffering from drug-induced hallucinations.
12	# [[Recap/SonicForHireS1E4Robotnik Robotnik]]: [[EnemyMine Eggman]] hires Sonic to unclog his toilet. Things go FromBadToWorse when Eggman refuses to pay.
13	# [[Recap/SonicForHireS1E5StreetFighter Street Fighter]]: Sonic and Tails commentate a Franchise/StreetFighter match. Unfortunately, Eggman ruins things for them.
14	# [[Recap/SonicForHireS1E6EarthwormJim Earthworm Jim]]: Sonic has to babysit Earthworm Jim's suit and goldfish but Sonic's attention span compels him to steal.
15	# [[Recap/SonicForHireS1E7BurgerTime Burger Time]]: Sonic works at VideoGame/BurgerTime along with Knuckles. Eggman returns again but Sonic has [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty his revenge this time]].
16	# [[Recap/SonicForHireS1E8OregonTrail Oregon Trail]]: Sonic tries to help several pioneers cross VideoGame/TheOregonTrail but gets distracted.
17	# [[Recap/SonicForHireS1E9Metroid Metroid]]: Sonic becomes [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Mother Brain's]] escort for the weekend.
18	# [[Recap/SonicForHireS1E10Kirby Kirby]]: A seemingly easy job for Sonic turns sour when VideoGame/{{Kirby}} is actually a [[AxCrazy murderous psychopath]].
19	# [[Recap/SonicForHireS1E11Tetris Tetris]]: Sonic's [[VideoGame/{{Tetris}} job]] is interrupted by Eggman and Earthworm Jim, who to say the least, [[ChekhovsGun are not happy with Sonic]].
20	# [[Recap/SonicForHireS1E12GoldenAxe Golden Axe]]: Sonic is hired to help [[VideoGame/GoldenAxe Gilius Thunderhead]] battle some enemies. Things get awkward when Thunderhead wants Sonic to bang Flare while he masturbates.
21	# [[Recap/SonicForHireS1E13KidIcarus Kid Icarus]]: Sonic and the Eggplant Wizard troll [[VideoGame/KidIcarus Pit]], [[ForcedTransformation who has turned into an eggplant]]. Meanwhile, Tails is in a coma after he crashes the Tornado in a drunken mishap.
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24	[[folder:Season 2]]
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26	[[caption-width-right:350:Sonic is in debt with the mob boss, [[KnightOfCerebus Mario]].]]
27	# [[VideoGame/{{Excite}} ExciteBike]]: Sonic (after spending six months as an eggplant) gets a motorcycle job while Tails is bounded to a wheelchair after waking from his coma. The job ends in disaster as Sonic [[ButtMonkey breaks all of Tails' bones by accident]].
28	# VideoGame/DigDug: Sonic encounters Taizo Hori, who may or may not be a villainous murderer.
29	# VideoGame/PacMan: Still looking for random work (as Tails is still in the hospital and is as such, unable to hire him for any work) finds a job working for the [[FaceHeelTurn ghosts from Pac-Man]].
30	# VideoGame/{{Bomberman}}: Sonic takes Soniqua to one of his jobs, [[WouldHurtAChild in hopes of killing her]].
31	# Franchise/MortalKombat: Sonic must "entertain" Goro, who is actually a special-needs kid.
32	# [[HowWeGotHere Ice Hockey]]: Tails has to pay for Sonic's bail in prison after an ice hockey match takes a blood turn. However, they're now both in heavy debt for the mob boss, [[KnightOfCerebus Mario]].
33	# [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2 Toad]]: For his first assignment, Mario tasks Sonic to kill Toad.
34	# VideoGame/AngryBirds: Mario assigns Sonic to assassinate the [[{{Jerkass}} The Angry Birds]].
35	# VideoGame/DoubleDragon: Mario enlists Sonic to murder the brothers from [[BashBrothers Double Dragon]]. Sonic gets help from [[TheBusCameBack Eggman and Jim]] to fight them -- which immediately turns into a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown for the duo and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Sonic decides to ditch them]].
36	# VideoGame/{{Frogger}}: Mario's brother, Luigi, tags along with Sonic's next mission to kill the frog from Frogger. [[OhCrap Luigi is run over by a truck in the process]].
37	# VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry: Sonic and Tails performs a Film/WeekendAtBernies-esque with Luigi's corpse in order to hide the truth from Mario. When Mario finds out the truth, [[{{Cliffhanger}} Sonic pushes him off a cliff]].
38	# [[{{Revenge}} The Battle (Part 1)]]: Tails urges Sonic that they should go in hiding after attempting to kill Mario. Sonic refuses right when Mario bursts into his apartment along with several past enemies, all wanting to kill Sonic also.
39	# [[BigDamnHeroes The Battle (Part 2)]]: [[BigDamnHeroes Eggman, Jim, Kirby, Soniqua, Tails, and Thunderhead]] storm in the nick of time to help Sonic [[TitleDrop battle]] Mario's league of enemies. [[CharacterDeath Mario is finally killed]] and Sonic becomes the new mob boss.
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42	[[folder:Season 3]]
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44	[[caption-width-right:350:Sonic is the new mob boss in town. What can go wrong?]]
45	# VideoGame/{{Tapper}}: Now the new mob boss, Sonic and Tails try to strong arm the Tapper bartender for money.
46	# [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link]]: [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything Sonic and the gang clearly have no idea how to run a crime syndicate]], so they get help from [[CampGay Link]], who does nothing but tease Tails and gets the gang ''even further off the track''.
47	# [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Princess Peach]]: Sonic and Tails look for Princess Peach in hopes of knowing how to lead the mob. She doesn't, so the gang takes in a Mario-bootleg character, Princess Potato, as a guide.
48	# [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 Casino Zone (Part 1)]]: Princess Potato tells the gang that Mario had once planned to rob Casino Zone, so they plan a heist.
49	# [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Casino Zone (Part 2)]]: The heist ''literally goes in flames'' as Sonic is offered by the new boss of Casino Zone, Shredder, a job in the [[OnIce Sonic on Ice]] show.
50	# [[OnIce Casino Zone (Part 3)]]: Tails tries to gather everyone back to finally complete the heist.
51	# VideoGame/TecmoBowl: [[ContinuityNod After the disastrous heist]], Tails tries to treat the gang to a football game.
52	# [[Franchise/StarWars The War (Part 1)]]: Darth Vader's crime family wants to topple Sonic's organization.
53	# [[Series/FamilyFeud The War (Part 2)]]: The two crime family's compete in a game of Family Feud.
54	# Wrestling/{{Wrestlemania}}: Several of Sonic's past love interests come back to him. Sonic decides that ThereCanOnlyBeOne and pits them in a wrestling ring.
55	# VideoGame/DuckHunt: Sonic is stressed with his duties and plays a game of Duck Hunt to relax himself. Things go haywire when the Dog assaults him.
56	# VideoGame/{{Contra}}: Sonic is in the hospital after the Duck Hunt incident, so Tails takes over the business for now. He tasks [[ADayInTheLimelight Eggman and Jim]] to find the South American drug cartel. When the duo finds the cartel, [[BreakingTheFellowship they decide to stay there and party]].
57	# [[TheDogBitesBack It's On]]: Sonic and Tails fight over who gets to be the mob boss. Tails, in a fit of rage, explodes the whole building, leaving Sonic with no money. Back in his crummy apartment with no friends ([[BreakingTheFellowship as Tails is mysteriously gone and Eggman and Jim have decided to stay in South America]]), Sonic decides to get back to work.
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60	[[folder:Season 4]]
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62	[[caption-width-right:350:Sonic meets the new rich and famous [[ArcVillain Tails]].]]
63	# [[SequelEpisode Restart]]: Sonic claims to have turned a new leaf, so Knuckles decides to let him come back to Burger Time. Meanwhile, Tails has gotten super rich after his mobile game becomes a global hit, turning him into a [[TookALevelInJerkass major asshole]] and this season's ArcVillain.
64	# [[VideoGame/SpaceInvaders Ata]][[VideoGame/ETTheExtraTerrestrial ri]]: Sonic is running out of job opportunities and is left with only Atari games. [[{{Jerkass}} Tails ruins Sonic's job out of spite]] and the latter is thrown in jail, where [[TheBusCameBack Thunderhead happily greets him]].
65	# [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI Final Fantasy]]: Sonic and Thunderhead break out of prison, where they get stuck in the middle of a Final Fantasy fight.
66	# Franchise/{{Pokemon}}: [[TheLancer Thunderhead]] is now Sonic's new roommate and they decide to join an illegal fighting ring where they face off against Soniqua and the Duck Hunt Dog.
67	# [[ADayInTheLimelight Cash Explosion]]: [[ADayInTheLimelight A day-in-the-life of Tails]], whose {{Jerkass}} behavior has gotten ''worse''.
68	# VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}}: Sonic and Soniqua mess around with Maxwell's magic notebook.
69	# [[WebAnimation/MegaManDiesAtTheEnd Mega]] [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Man]]: In this awkward cross over with WebAnimation/MegaManDiesAtTheEnd, Sonic attempts to rob a gas station and encounters Mega Man.
70	# [[ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} The New]] VideoGame/{{Kirby}}: Kirby has become a big-time movie directer and wants Sonic to become a movie star.
71	# Franchise/MassEffect: During a television interview, Sonic tells the audience of his rise to stardom.
72	# [[EnemyMine Two Bad Characters]]: Sonic and Tails [[EnemyMime must work together]] to make a movie called "Two Bad Characters", [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall a movie that chronicles the entire series]]. Tails however, wants to play Sonic's role.
73	# [[VideoGame/{{Contra}} El Padrino]]: In order to film the movie, Sonic must find [[PutOnABus Eggman and Jim]], who are still partying in South America.
74	# [[HumiliationConga Movie Magic]]: The crew films the movie. [[TookALevelInJerkass Tails' behavior worsens as he makes Sonic the butt of many jokes and turns the whole movie into one massive ego trip]].
75	# [[BigDamnMovie The Red Carpet]]: The movie is about to premiere. Sonic attempts to get his {{Revenge}} on Tails by exploding the whole theater. In hopes of killing [[AssholeVictim Tails]], and all their friends. Sonic and Tails (to his anger) survive, but the explosion shoots them up into space [[{{Cliffhanger}} where a large light flashes at them]].
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78	[[folder:Season 5]]
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80	[[caption-width-right:350:Not even in space can Sonic and the gang ever win.]]
81	# VideoGame/StarFox: Sonic and [[EasilyForgiven Tails]] join the Star Fox crew when Fox and Falco are mysteriously missing, leaving only [[TheDitz Slippy]] and [[NoRespectGuy Peppy]]. Sonic is tasked to destroy Andross, but first makes sure [[LaserGuidedKarma Tails gets his just desserts]] after his irredeemible behavior last season.
82	# Film/{{Aliens}}: Sonic and Tails must exterminate an alien infection. Meanwhile, [[HumiliationConga Tails' luck gets worse]].
83	# VideoGame/{{Joust}}: Eggman and Jim finally rejoin Sonic's gang again.
84	# VideoGame/BlasterMaster: Eggman renovates Jason's vehicle, Sophia. Tails goes through a weird lion phase [[TheFriendNobodyLikes to the ire of everyone]].
85	# [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Mother Brain]]: General Pepper tasks Sonic and Tails to destroy Mother Brain. In the end, Mother Brain moves in with the gang to General Pepper's horror.
86	# VideoGame/{{Asteroids}}: Eggman and Jim attempt to destroy a cluster of asteroids.
87	# [[VideoGame/StarFox Destroy Venom]]: Sonic, along with pretty much everyone in the ship, must destroy a fighter fleet and establish democracy in Planet Venom.
88	# Franchise/{{Star Wars}}: Sonic and the gang arrive at Tatooine, where they meet [[StepfordSmiler Luke Skywalker]]. Meanwhile, Jim is starting to dehydrate due to the heat.
89	# VideoGame/RocketKnightAdventures: Sonic helps Sparkster the Opossum Knight, [[MindScrew but things starts getting weird]].
90	# VideoGame/StarCraft: The gang spends the day building space colonies. In the end, Sonic and the gang have fun at a zerg party while they purposefully leave [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Tails alone in the construction site]].
91	# [[VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog Shadow]]: Shadow visits Sonic and the gang while on the lam.
92	# [[VideoGame/StarFox Falco]]: Fox and Falco finally return to the Great Fox and are angered by Sonic and the gang's antics. Falco challenges Sonic to space race but the latter accidentally kills him.
93	# [[HomeByChristmas Space Chicken]]: Sonic and co. leave space to finally go back home.
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96	[[folder:Season 6]]
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98	[[caption-width-right:350:Wario er... Sonic and the gang's transformation due to their time travelling.]]
99	# VideoGame/ChronoTrigger: After their tenure in space, Sonic realizes that the only way to be come rich and famous again is by time travelling into the past and fixing all of his mistakes -- starting with his and Lucca's bastard children.
100	# [[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Sonic Knuckles]]: Time travelling into the nineties, Sonic makes sure that he changes his life for the better.
101	# VideoGame/StreetsOfRage: Sonic is now the wealthiest person in the planet thanks to time travel. Unfortunately, Tails has become a desperate homeless person. Sonic attempts to fix his life again only to find out that Eggman has stolen the time machine.
102	# [[FatIdiot Eggman]]: Eggman uses the time machine to become the ruler of the world, turning him into a [[LaserGuidedKarma fat immoble blob of a person]] in the process. Sonic wants to use the time machine to fix everything but VideoGame/CrashBandicoot has taken it.
103	# VideoGame/CrashBandicoot: Sonic attempts to find the time machine when Crash has hidden it for himself.
104	# [[VideoGame/GoldenAxe Thunderhead]]: Sonic manages to become rich again along with all of his friends. However in Sonic's absence, Thunderhead has stolen his identity. When everything is settled, [[BackFromTheDead Mario returns]], having come back to life thanks to Princess Potato traveling through time.
105	# Franchise/TheAvengers: Mario hires several assassins to kill Sonic.
106	# [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Return of the Plumber]]: [[TheBadGuyWins Mario finally kills Sonic]]. Which somehows creates world peace, Mario uses this opportunity to terorize the world. Meanwhile, [[MamaBear Soniqua senses Sonic's death]].
107	# [[MamaBear Soniqua Mad]]: Soniqua goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, looking to find Sonic's killer. Meanwhile, Tails, Eggman, and Jim, keep forgetting about saving Sonic.
108	# [[DeadlyPrank Flaming Bag of Poop]]: Mario has a hard time trying to kill Soniqua, Tails and the gang try to stop Mario's rampage.
109	# [[TemporalParadox Things Get Messy]]: The Gang travels through time to save Sonic from dying. They manage to revive Sonic, but their bodies change due to time paradoxes.
110	# [[ContinuityCavalcade This Can't Be Good]]: Sonic and the gang try to repair the space time continuum by reliving all of their adventures again.
111	# [[ResetButton Reset]]: The universe begins to destroy due to time travel. Sonic "fixes" this by resetting the universe, [[GainaxEnding turning existence into a white void and reducing everyone into single pixels]].
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116	[[caption-width-right:350:The Gang floating in total nothingness.]]
117	# [[{{Pixellation}} Rebuild]]: In the resetted universe, Sonic and co. attempt to rebuild everything.
118	# [[VideoGame/EarthwormJim Back]] [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1 To]] [[VideoGame/KidChameleon Work]]: With the universe rebuilt, Sonic and gang decide to go their seperate ways, but can they tolerate their boring lives again?
119	# [[{{Foreshadowing}} Elevator Action]]: The Gang tries to help Otto fight the businessmen. Near the end, [[{{Foreshadowing}} a pile of bricks glitch into existence]], causing Sonic to question what's happening to them.
120	# [[VideoGame/KungFuMaster Kung Fu]]: In order to find out more about the glitches, Sonic and Tails try to meditate in a dojo where they meet a newly reformed [[TheBusCameBack Kirby]].
121	# [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles TMNT]]: The Gang thinks that the TMNT may have answers about their glitches.
122	# WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph: Tails believes that Wreck It Ralph may lead them to the truth about their world. He tells that they need to meet the [[{{God}} Creator]]. When asking where he is, Ralph gives them a clue, stating: "''What was once dark and shifty/Wearing of golden flame/Is now worn yet shiny/And so fucking lame''".
123	# Franchise/{{Castlevania}}: Following the clue, the Gang heads to meet Dracula, who may know a thing or two about the supposed Creator.
124	# VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins: The Gang searches for Sir Arthur, who apparently holds the next clue on the Creator's whereabouts. However Arthur is too inebriated by [[TheBusCameBack Thunderhead]]'s asswine to tell.
125	# VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}: Realizing that they've been going nowhere and that the clues have been meaningless, the gang gets high with the Battletoads.
126	# [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast A Link to the Past]]: Sonic and the gang enlist the help of [[TheBusCameBack Link]] to find the Creator.
127	# VideoGame/GearsOfWar: With [[BreakingTheFellowship Eggman and Earthworm Jim leaving]], Sonic and Tails are now alone on the hunt for the Creator, with the next clue being in Gears of War.
128	# [[Creator/LowbrowStudios Lowbrow]]: [[BreakingTheFourthWall Sonic and Tails meet the creators of the show]] (but not ''The Creator'' they were looking for), where the debate on what would be a fitting sendoff to Soniqua and Mother Brain. The two creators give the final clue: "When at the title, the code is the key".
129	# [[{{God}} The Creator]]: In the original SeriesFinale, Sonic and Tails go through one last quest to finally find the Creator.
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132	[[folder:Season 8[=/=]"Hedgehog for Hire"]]
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134	[[caption-width-right:350:The aftermath of Sonic's godhood.]]
135	# VideoGame/SonicMania: Sonic has decided to leave Heaven and get back to work. He drags Tails with him and they don't waste any time screwing everything up.
136	# [[GoingHomeAgain We're Home]]: Now that Sonic Mania has been destroyed, Sonic and Tails come up with a new plan to make their own game.
137	# [[VideoGame/IceClimber Cold Blooded]]: Sonic and Tails head over to Ice Climber to find out about ice levels and they run into an old, annoying friend. Meanwhile, Eggman has an unexpected visitor.
138	# [[DaddysLittleVillain New Blood]]: Eggman has a daughter and she's here to kick ass. Is she going to be too much for Sonic to handle? Yeah, definitely.
139	# [[FaceHeelTurn It Begins]]: Eggman and Eggette are making their mark across the video game universe. Eggman also delivers a message that worries Sonic.
140	# [[PuttingTheBandBackTogether Back Together]]: Sonic and Tails are ready for a battle, but they need to call in the big guns. And by "big guns" I mean their idiot friends.
141	# [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Bad Idea]]: The battle has begun. Will Sonic be outmatched by a stronger, smarter, faster, better, cooler, meaner foe? Who knows?
142	# [[VillainousRescue The Comeback]]: As the fight rages on, Sonic has some new team members. But will that be enough to turn the tide? Why do I keep asking questions? Just watch the season finale!
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145	[[folder:Season 9]]
146	# [[VideoGame/MarioIsMissing Admissions Impossible]]: Tails receives a mysterious message from the future while Sonic tries to find Mario in order to convince and help him go to college.
147	# [[VideoGame/ABoyAndHisBlob Super College Bros]]: Sonic and the gang hit the road to Console University but get sidetracked by a certain boy and his blob.
148	# [[WackyFratboyHijinks From Here to Fraternity]]: Sonic and the gang get accustomed to their new college lives and attempt to get into a fraternity.
149	# [[ComicBook/XMen Sonic vs X-Men]]: Earthworm Jim starts a prank war, pitting their fraternity against the Xavier Institute.
150	# [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Love and Pokemon]]: Mario tries to push Sonic into winning championships for the school while Tails falls for the Pokémon trainer running the Nature Club.
151	# [[VideoGame/TrackAndField The Fast and the Furryous]]: Luigi takes over as boss from the deceased Mario and forces Sonic into actually winning championships, while Tails has an identity crisis and tries to invent an image for himself as a moody guitarist.
152	# Sonic and Fails: Sonic continues his quest win championships, Tails tries to find himself, Earthworm Jim and Knuckles enlist the help of Thunderhead to help them find out the women they ''possibly'' had sex with last night, while Eggman furthers his investigation on the murder of Mario.
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155	[[folder: Shorts and Other Videos]]
156	# Cooking with Eggman - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJzxRzi-dY0 Watch Here]]
157	# DrinkingGame - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmm4ERA4_yA Watch Here]]
158	# Dr. Thunderhead's Prescription Love Pad - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9G0_JPQloQ Watch Here]]
159	# Potato Talk - ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'' - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oie0aOBxyHQ Watch Here]]
160	# Link's Video Game Fashion Don't-sies [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo8YZSIGf68 Watch Here]]
161	# Behind the Scenes - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfVcFFJKyrI&feature=youtu.be Watch Here]]
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Context Recap / SonicForHire