Shout Out / Xonic S

"Dude, I’m on fire tonight! I hope this gets into Sonic Adventure 3."

Episode 1 - "Fuzz Fight!! Sonic 3 & No One" (clickbait title "Sonic Commits a Moving Violation")

• The episode title itself is a parody of Japanese Sonic X episode title "Fierce Fight! Sonic Baseball Team" with the double exclamation points of other titles like "Clash!! Sonic vs Knuckles", and of course Sonic 3 & Knuckles.
• Big dies from his fishing meter going into the red, as in Sonic Adventure.
• Tails loudly announces that he is the Sky Patrol.
• Sonic makes the lightspeed dash noises from Adventure when he goes into pinball mode.
• Sonic takes a shot at Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball.
• Knuckles makes the same vocalizations when punching the rock as he does in Sonic Heroes
• Eggman's base lock-down is accompanied by the announcer from Sonic Adventure 2's level Iron Gate.
• Simply holding a chaos emerald in view of the camera makes it emit the chaos emerald acquisition jingle from Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
• Sonic quotes Sonic Adventure's famous "Hey, look. A giant talking egg!", though Eggman shoots back with "Hey, look. A coked-up speed demon!"
• Decoe and Bocoe have become Jessie and James from Pokémon, and do a parody of the Team Rocket Motto.
• Knuckles is giving elocution lessons to Marine of Sonic Rush, for her over-the-top Australian accent.
• Chaos Control and the empty void Sonic finds himself afterward in are accompanied by music from the infamous Mind Screw ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
• Sonic quotes Adventure again with "Hey hey hey!" and "See ya later, Tails", literally using the original audio clips of voice actor Ryan Drummond. Sonic later emits a Drummond "Woah!", too.
• The Police Chief announces over the radio that Sonic is "runnin' down the part of Speed Highway that cars can actually drive on!" Speedy Highway is a stage from Adventure featuring ridiculous roads even going into loop-de-loops.
• Sonic sings Radar Love. Poorly.
• "Hey, checkered grass!" Sonic notices, remembering Green Hill Zone.
• After meeting Sonic Chris references Sonic X, a show that cannot logically exist in this universe.
• Over the credits, Sonic watches an infamously awful-looking Pakistani commercial for a Sonic Heroes Happy Meal.
• The fake Episode 2 title "It's a Dead Dead Dead Dead Cosmo" is a reference to the film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

Episode 2 - "Find the Lost Cream" (clickbait title "SONIC THE WAR CRIMINAL")

• The title is a reference to the "Find the Lost Chao" missions from Sonic Adventure 2.
• Sonic can't believe Chris just spent forty-five minutes telling the suicide hotline about his Super Mario Maker levels.
• Picking up and eating a piece of catfood causes Sonic to emit the sounds of a chao from Sonic Adventure 2 grabbing and preparing to eat a fruit.
• An interviewed man mistakes Sonic for the Blue Man Group.
• As Sonic goes off to save Cream, he announces "I'm REAAADYYYYY!" and runs off going "I'm ready! I'm ready! I'm ready! I'm ready! I'm ready! I'm ready! I'm ready!" a la SpongeBob SquarePants.
• As Sonic dodges cameras, we get music and the trademark Split Screen visuals of 24.
• Ken Penders is a scientist at the base, and when the retinal scanner says "Welcome, Dr. Penders" he accuses it of trying to steal his name. See Genius Bonus on the main page.
• Upon hearing Sonic and Fraiche after Cream is broken out, the scientists all turn around and, mouths all open, emit the scream from Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978).
• Chris asks Sonic "Do you remember the Shuffle? Big scramble on the board! Better than UNO!"
• Cream asks "Uh, Sonic? Which button boosts?" is a reference to the Modern Sonic gameplay. Sonic responds "Oh, no, you're not bastardizing yourself too!"
• Tails refers to Sonic as a "16-bitch pinball" with "bastard processing", a reference to the "Blast Processing" Sega Genesis adverts.

Episode 3 - "Occupy Branson" (clickbait title "TAILS DOESN'T SAVE AMERICA")

• The title itself is a reference to the various Occupy movements of the past few years, though Robotnik is a literal occupying force.
• Robotnik's slot machine features the BAR graphic from Casino Night Zone of Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
• Both scenes of Amy and Knuckles in the sewer feature sewer-related music, with Dilapidated Way from Sonic Adventure and Toxic Caves from Sonic Spinball.
• The infamous Burn-Bot routine from the pilot episode of Sonic Boom is referenced and then quickly subverted. Word of God is that this was a Take That! at the routine's excessive length with no real punchline.
• Cream quite fittingly calls Tails "Biggles". One for the UK fans.
• A police officer requests Eggman's autograph because he "practically made Sonic in Sydney", an obscure Australian Sonic musical. It has to be heard to be believed.
• Tails yells "SKAH PATROL!" as he dive-bombs Eggman. Given Sky Patrol is one of his only two solo games, we can probably expect him to keep bringing it up.
• Tails refers to the Tornado 2's transformed mode as "No Landing Gear Mode", in reference to the famous scene from Sonic Adventure.
• "It's my turn now!" announces Amy, just as she does when you select her in Sonic Adventure 2.
• "Amy SMASH!"
• Sonic sings some David Bowie for us as he saves the day.
• Eggman insists that Sonic is "worse than people who say 'LEGOs'!"
• Sonic was immune to missiles because he popped an invincibility monitor. Why was there no visual indication of this? Because he ate the stars, which he then belches up.
• In another game mechanic joke, Knuckles had a bubble shield before the episode started but it got popped by a sewer crocodile. Thus, he's way more afraid of bullets now.

Episode 4 - "Grand Theft OH NO"

• The title itself is a pun on Grand Theft Auto.
• Chris' room is filled with old video game consoles, including multiple Atari Jaguars. Scotty refers to them as "garbage."
• Chris wants to eat at "Diary Queen."
• Knuckles (actually Tails) refers to the Ozark Shindig Festival.
• Sonic spots an Applebee's from atop a tall tree, and goes off on a tangent about how they used to be called Apple Beatrice's.
• Sonic mimics the opening notes of the Japanese Sonic X theme, Sonic Drive.
• Eggman tells his robot to "invert controls! Backdoor code: The Beast!" in a reference to Evangelion 2.22: You Can (Not) Advance.
• The original scoring in the last few minutes of the episode includes melody from "Believe in Myself" (Sonic Adventure), Windy Valley (Adventure again), and the ending theme of Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
• Tails gets quickstep bonuses during his fight against the robot, a feature of the Boost-era games.
• As he's defeated, Eggman yells his AoStH catchphrase "I hate that hedgehooooooooog!" before quickly adding: "And that fox in the echidna's body!"
• Tails tries to impress the others by bragging that he once donated to PBS, but he can't prove it because he threw away the tote bag.

Episode 5 - "Way Past School" (clickbait title "SONIC'S EVIL TEACHER")

• We have an actual Cutaway Gag to Neon Genesis Evangelion, where Rei has been horribly injured by Tails pushing her down the stairs.
• Sonic social media coordinator Aaron Webber is Chris' dad.
• Big the Cat, having died in Episode 1, returns as some sort of godlike being made more powerful by each mention of his name.
• Chris' mom is Violet Johansson, Scarlet's mediocre sister known mainly for doing a line of Dramamine commercials featuring lyrics from Tommy Roe's "I'm So Dizzy."
• Eggman's trading cards are from the Sonic X Trading Card game.
• The Robo Teacher himself is an impression of David Hyde-Pierce, Niles Crane of Frasier fame.
• The cop has a Dave's Double with extra cheese, having clearly gone to Wendy's.
• Bokkun suggests using the Ludivico technique to indoctrinate the students.
• Danny is apparently a member of The Jackson Five, only contributing further to the ambiguity of when the series takes place.
• Chris decides to become an objectivist after reading Ayn Rand's tome Atlas Shrugged. Eggman considers this to have "broken his brain."
• Another fast food reference, where Sonic complains about having been banned from Denny's for selling his own knock-off Denny's meals outside the restaurant. Boy, Xonic really loves its fast food jokes.
• Eggman offers Sonic a sticker featuring a bikini-clad Robotnik from AoStH.
• Sonic refers to Station Square, implying it is a part of Branson.
• Aaron Webber announces "And now the stars of 4Kids TV will sing the national anthem," referencing an infamous promo aired on the Fox Box many years ago. A moment later he speaks of Team Sonic Racing, although he misidentifies it as Sonic Team Racing. Whether or not this was deliberate is open for debate.

Episode 6 - "Strato Wars: The Rise of Sky Patrol" (clickbait title "SONIC THE BAD FATHER")

• The title itself is a reference to Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, which was soon to be released at the time of the episode.

• The episode opens with the gang watching an Oxyclean infomercial presented by Billy Mays. In live action.

• Chris saying he's a "technical whizzzzzzzz" is a self-reference to Tails making a similar claim in the second episode.

• Not the first Red Dwarf reference comes when Sonic enters and quotes Holly with "What's going down in Groove Town?"

• Chris says "The Fox was seen on TV!" in reference to the As Seen on TV chain of stores, in a hopelessly obtuse attempt to explain Tails was thrown into the television.

• The central conceit of the episode revolves around Sonic being desperate to catch the COPS marathon on Spike TV after Eggman blocks all television signals in Branson.

• In the flashback, Sonic is at KFC while Tails attempts to chopshop the Tornado.

• While working on the plane, Tails sings September by Earth, Wind & Fire, the first of a few attempts to contribute to the ambiguity of when this flashback is meant to take place.

• In an attempt to be relevant Sonic quotes the famous 1980s "Where's the beef?" Arby's advert, which he says is "probably relevant in whatever the hell year this is."

• Sonic complains about Ross Dress for Less denying his coupon. He plans to either leave the island or steal all their hangers.

• Sonic continues his Arby's streak by saying they need to hurry to get to Christmas island before it closes. He's not missing those curly fries again.

• Eggman says to "Lend me your ears and listen to me very carefully," a direct quote of his from Sonic Adventure 2.

• Eggman has renamed Branson to Scrap Branson Zone, a play on Scrap Brain Zone from Sonic 1.

• Sonic apparently speaks fluent Wingdings.

• Another SA2 quote from Eggman with "Playtime is oveerrr! Disappear!", something said by Shadow when using Chaos Spear in the two-player races.

• Sonic yells that Tails dies all the time, a reference to any Sonic game where he follows Sonic in one player mode and comes back any time he dies.

• Tails apparently went to a Sonic 2 special stage to get the chaos emerald. "Like I even remember half the shit I do. Something something stupid half-pipe, solve for X."

• Sonic's Tamagotchi is dead. Because of course it is.

• Tails complains that he needs to get "some less traumatizing memories" after flashing back to being shot down in Wing Fortress Zone in Sonic 2.

• In yet another SA2 reference, Chris complains that the new Tornado can't be Tornado III because "THE CYCLONE WALKER IS ALREADY TORNADO III! YOU CAN’T HAVE TWO!"

• Responding to this, Sonic references Sonic Generations by claiming he went to school with another kid called Sonic, who he refers to as a "mute prick."

• The Nor'Easter produces the same famous engine roar as Starbug from Red Dwarf.

• Sonic sings his own version of "I'm a grand old flag" while dangling from the Sucktanic.

• Eggman ditches his collection of '60s Doctor Who master copies to reduce the weight of the Sucktanic. "I'm sure someone will find them," he says, in reference to the large number of famously lost episodes of the series from that era.

• When Sonic freezes in space, he says "Get me, I’m Sonic ‘06!" in reference to the game's infamously unbearable loading times.

• Moments later, when Sonic is completely frozen he has misaligned green gumball eyes in reference to the famous Sonic popsicle stocked by ice cream trucks across America.

• "Warm him with a power ring! Like on the Sat-Ay-Em!"

• In the final scene, Sonic is watching an episode of COPS.