Line #62 WebAnimation/ChristmasWithSonic


1	''Christmas with Sonic'' is a series of annual shorts done by ''Creator/BalenaProductions on Website/YouTube.
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3	The series consists of 15 to 20 minute animatic shorts featuring Sonic and the gang around Christmas time. All Sonic wants is to spend Christmas at home by himself, but each year he's forced to spend Christmas with his family and by extension his friends. All the while, Eggman just wants to be a part of the festivities.
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5	There's also a sub-plot throughout each episode about Rouge's courtship of Sorass, the extremely buff and dimwitted Echidna from the channel's previous video ''WebAnimation/TheOMGMostOriginalFanficIdeaEver''. Sonia, Manic, and Aleena have also been imported from ''WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground'', reimagined as a modern day family as opposed to royalty.
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7	The series is complete with eight episodes released:
8	** [[https://youtu.be/Zl4DBiAOKkI Christmas With Sonic]] (2011): Sonic is roped into a Christmas Party at his mom's house on Tails' behalf, only to get snowed in during a blizzard.
9	** [[https://youtu.be/mkWjun6IKRw Another Christmas With Sonic]] (2012): Sonic and friends decide to tell Christmas stories this year, with their own spin on things.
10	** [[https://youtu.be/iD8_Pw3SSGw Yet Another Christmas With Sonic]] (2013): With Tails leaving for the holidays, Sonic decides to feign sickness to get out of the annual Christmas party. [[GoneHorriblyRight Unfortunately, he gets more than he bargains for]].
11	** [[https://youtu.be/5n8qcbq1tqA Christmas With Eggman]] (2014): Seeking revenge for getting kicked out last year, Eggman traps Sonic and Co. in his lair to force them to spend Christmas with the Robotnik family.
12	** [[https://youtu.be/jE2q11dbFvc Christmas With Sonic in Paradise]] (2015): Sonic and the gang are trapped on a deserted island following a plane accident.
13	** [[https://youtu.be/DtEN7unygPk Christmas With Silver]] (2016): Aleena decides to let Silver host this year's Christmas party... to less than favorable results.
14	** [[https://youtu.be/usTI2bcJ6ZA Christmas With Sonic Reunion]] (2018): Sonic prepares for another Christmas Party with the family... only for an uninvited guest to come in and ruin the fun.
15	** [[https://youtu.be/l9nyEh4w36I A Very Merry Christmas With Sonic]] (2020): The GrandFinale. Sonic and Eggman accidentally injure Santa during one of their fights, and must deliver all of the Christmas presents in his stead.
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18	!!''Christmas with Sonic'' provides examples of:
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20	* AbhorrentAdmirer: Amy, in Sonic's eyes. Tails also has a fangirl to deal with, according to Sonic in the first episode. [[spoiler:Said fangirl finally makes a physical appearance in the series finale]].
21	* AbusiveParent: Episode 3 reveals that Sonic's father [[spoiler:Stan]] was shown to be an emotionally abusive father to his children, particularly around Christmas. Him walking out on Sonic's family left emotional scars on Sonic, which explains why he was initially bitter about the Christmas season. [[spoiler: Stan makes his physical debut in the penultimate episode, ''Reunion'', and he's still at it. He claims to have come back to be part of the family again, but he was really trying to mooch off of Sonic's fame by making merchandise out of him.]]
22	* ArchnemesisDad: Sonic understandably hates his father for his abusive and greedy behavior, and especially for abandoning the family on Christmas. [[spoiler:When Stan comes back in ''Reunion'', claiming to want to rekindle his bonds with his family, Sonic is rightfully suspicious of him, given that he tried to mooch of his fame near the end.]] Knuckles puts it best in when discussing the issue with Tails.
23	--> '''Knuckles:''' Don't mind him. Sonic has more cause than most to be upset with [[spoiler:his father]].
24	--> '''Tails:''' What do you mean?
25	--> '''Knuckles:''' He spends most of his time defending the good in this world. [[spoiler:His father]], in his eyes, represents the bad in this world.
26	* BatmanColdOpen: Episode 7 starts with Sonic and Eggman duking it out as usual... only for the clock to chime Christmas Eve, signaling their truce for the season.
27	* BerserkButton: Don't mention Sonic's father around Aleena.
28	* BigEater: Vector, which Aleena at one point uses to motivate him to help out in Christmas In Paradise.
29	* BrickJoke:
30	** In ''Yet Another Christmas with Sonic'', Manic has trouble remembering Silver's name and calls him Stan for the entire series. [[spoiler: Reunion reveals Sonic's father is in fact named Stan. When Manic first sees him, he declares "It's Silver-!"]].
31	** In ''Christmas with Sonic in Paradise'', Manic remarks that he [[DoesNotLikeSpam doesn't like fish]] to Aleena. When he reunites with the group, he digs into what Shadow prepared, only for the meal to include fish.
32	* ButtMonkey: Eggman in the first episode, as his attempts to steal everyone's presents left him out hungry and in the cold while watching Sonic & friends eating Christmas dinner from the window.
33	** Amy in the first episode, as well. Sonic ended up chucking her out the window after she crawled into bed with him.
34	** [[IronButtMonkey Silver across the entire SERIES]]. All throughout the series he's the butt of the most painful jokes, and usually the cause of what ever disaster falls upon the gang on Christmas.
35	* TheCameo: Cream shows up once in Sonic's rendition of 'The Eggman Who Stole Christmas'. [[spoiler: She [[BackForTheFinale appears again in]] [[GrandFinale A Very Merry Christmas With Sonic]].]]
36	** {{VideoGame/Conker\|sBadFurDay}}, {{VideoGame/Ristar}}, and VideoGame/ToejamAndEarl show up in the Island of Forgotten Game Characters during Manic's telling of Rudolph.
37	* CountingToThree: Aleena pulls this on Sonic after he tries to leave in the first episode.
38	-->'''Aleena:''' "One..."\
39	'''Sonic:''' "Mom... don't you think I'm a little old for that?"\
40	'''Aleena:''' "TWO..."\
41	'''Sonic:''' "ALRIGHT ALRIGHT! (as he's walking back) ...how does that work??"
42	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Silver's psychic powers finally come into play in "Christmas with Silver" where he uses it to fling the bear that usually mauls him away, and later using it to stop his trailer from falling off a cliff with Eggman's mother inside. [[YankTheDogsChain Granted, both attempts ended up backfiring]], [[RuleOfCool but he at least looked cool doing it]].
43	* ADayInTheLimelight: In "Christmas with Silver", Silver finally gets his chance to shine when he hosts the annual Christmas party. It goes about as well as you would expect: it falls woefully short of everyone's expectations (he lives in a cramped, messy trailer; his ingredients are so bad, not even [[SupremeChef Shadow]] can salvage it, etc.), and [[KickTheDog they make no secret of their disdain for Silver within earshot]]. However, Sonic and the gang [[PetTheDog quickly cheer him up]], saying that for all his bumbling, it at least made them all closer together.
44	* DisappearedDad: [[spoiler: It turns out the reason Sonic is such a grump on Christmas is because of bad memories of his father, who walked out on them one Christmas and never came back.]]
45	* DudeNotFunny: Sonic's reaction to Eggman smashing open Aleena's house in Episode 2:
46	--> '''Sonic:''' "DUDE....This is my MOM'S house!!"
47	* DownerEnding: According to Silver, anyway. Episode 2 ended abruptly after Alenna states Silver wasn't invited because they simply don't like him. Silver then repeatedly pops up in the credits whining about the ending until a bear mauls him offscreen.
48	* EatTheEvidence: After narrowly avoiding Amy, Sonic grabs and swallows the mistletoe he was under, only to retch after he does so.
49	-->'''Tails:''' "You DO know that was plastic right?"\
50	'''Sonic:''' "And later when we're at home... YOU'LL KNOW WHERE I'LL BE!!"
51	* EvilCannotComprehendGood: [[spoiler:Sonic's father, Stan,]] is rather shocked to know that Sonic [[HeroismWontPayTheBills doesn't make money from his heroism]] and merely sees making life better for others as the reward.
52	* ExploitingTheFourthWall: In ''Christmas With Sonic in Paradise'' Sonic dupes Silver into attempting to dive down to the sunken plane by gesturing to the viewer and pointing out how much they LOVE him given [[TakeThatCritics all of the comments on previous episodes complaining about how Silver kept getting abused]]. Silver sheepishly waves to the audience before agreeing to it.
53	* TheFaceless: Eggman’s father in episode 4 is only shown from the chest down. Same with [[spoiler: Sonic’s father in episode 7.]]
54	* GoKartingWithBowser: Eggman and Sonic are for the most part willing to put everything aside to get together for Christmas.. When circumstances don't turn them on each other that is.
55	* GoneHorriblyRight: In ''Yet Another Christmas with Sonic'', Sonic fakes being sick to get away from the Christmas celebration that year. It ends up being too convincing and everyone winds up at his house to celebrate Christmas.
56	* HateSink: [[spoiler: Stan, Sonic's father. He walked out on his family one Christmas without giving them a second thought, never reached out to them in all that time spent apart, and then come a Christmas when he ''does'' show up, he acts like he's trying to change only to eventually show that he still doesn't actually care for his kids or his wife and was only planning to make potential profit off of Sonic's heroism, and if that wasn't enough he acts like ''they'' abandoned ''him''. Needless to say, no one's feeling bad for him when Aleena's had enough of his crap and punches him so hard he gets sent flying out of the house.]]
57	* HaveAGayOldTime: Invoked in Episode 2:
58	-->'''Narrator:''' "Everyone all Festive and Gay"\
59	'''Manic:''' "Heh.."
60	* HeroicBSOD: Shadow finally loses his perfect streak of excellent Christmas dinners when confronted with Silver's kitchen, and proceeds to curl up in a fetal position for the rest of the episode.
61	* HeroismWontPayTheBills: Sonic reveals to [[spoiler: Stan]] that he doesn't get paid to save the world from Eggman, much to his bewilderment. Sonic doesn't mind it though, believing that keeping everyone safe is reward enough.
62	* InvisibleParents: Tails talks about his parents fairly often, though for the first half of the series we never see them. All we knew was that they went to Hawaii, [[spoiler:until ''Christmas with Sonic in Paradise'' where they end up stranded on the same island the group is on and they reunite with Tails, with his father Ted making recurring appearances from then on]].
63	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Sonic goes to great lengths to get out of the annual Christmas meetup and just wants to be left alone, but it turns out the reason he doesn't just outright say he wants out is because [[spoiler: Sonic's father was a bastard who walked out on them on Christmas, and he doesn't want to end up like him and upset his mother]] though as of Episode 4 and 5 he's gotten past this and has warmed up to it.
64	--> '''Tails:''' "Aw, you DO have a heart!"\
65	'''Sonic:''' "Yeah, well now I'm choking on it..."
66	* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: [[spoiler: Sonic's father Stan is a greedy, deadbeat prick who only ever shows interests in his family's endeavors as long as he can profit off of them. His attempts to make amends serve as the basis for ''Christmas with Sonic Reuinion'', but he ultimately shows that he hasn't changed one bit.]]
67	* LargeHam: Vector might as well be a pig instead of a crocodile.
68	* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Justin Beaver and Grills the Bear.
69	* NonStandardCharacterDesign: While everyone is portrayed in their modern incarnation, including updated designs for the characters from ''Sonic Underground'', Eggman is drawn in his Genesis-era look while keeping his Modern voice.
70	* NoFourthWall: The characters (usually Sonic) regularly address the audience on multiple occasions. An example would be Sonic calling out the writers to addressing the viewer about Silver's abuse.
71	* OddCouple: Rouge and Sorass, a buff purple echidna that [[TheAhnold speaks like Arnold]].
72	* PetTheDog: As of "Christmas With Silver" the cast are more openly friendly and accepting towards Silver, he's even developed a friendship with Mama Robotnik [[BadlyBatteredBabysitter and looks after Baby Bub]]
73	* PlayingSick: Sonic attempts this in episode 3 to stay home and watch a racing show instead of visiting his family. As expected, it backfires.
74	* PunchClockVillain: Reunion opens with Sonic and Eggman battling in Ice Cap Zone. Eggman is seconds away from crushing Sonic with one of his machines until his watch beeps and signals the start of Christmas Eve, which means the annual truce is in affect and he let's Sonic go on the spot, [[VitriolicBestBuds with the two parting ways happily talking about the party coming up.]]
75	* RealMenCook: Shadow of all people turns out to be a master chef, and after helping Aleena in the first episode, his Christmas dinners are highly anticipated by the rest of the crew each year.
76	-->'''Shadow:''' "DON'T TOUCH THAT CINNAMON!!"\
77	'''Aleena:''' "Excuse me?"\
78	'''Shadow:''' "The cinnamon...it....overwhelms the delicate taste of the sweet potatoes. Here, add a pinch of salt. That will bring out the sweetness."\
79	'''Aleena:''' Why, I didn't think you were one to cook.\
80	'''Shadow:''' Me... cook? It's what I live for!
81	* RunningGag: No matter what, Silver always gets mauled by a bear in every episode. [[spoiler:Strangely, there's no bear to be seen mauling Silver in episode 7. It almost happened in the final episode, only for somebody to get mauled instead.]]
82	** Silver getting smashed by the door every time Mama Robotnik is wheeled in.
83	* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Silver, especially when he's mauled by a random bear.
84	* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: In Episode 5, the crew comes across a wrecked boat populated by a pair of castaways who tell them to go away. Tails realizes that the castaways are [[spoiler: his parents]] when he hears [[spoiler: his father]] call Sonic a "sausage", which is apparently an insult he's fond of using.
85	* ShoutOut: In-universe example; While watching a racing show on TV, one of the racers boasts that the cars are so fast 'they'd make Sonic the Hedgehog turn his head'. [[BreakingTheFourthWall Sonic then turns to the viewer and asks if he can sue for that.]]
86	* SpoofAesop: In Episode 2, Sonic tells a fairly faithful rendition of the story of The Grinch with Eggman taking the role, up until the very end where Sonic suddenly appears as the hero and defeats him.
87	-->'''Sonia:''' "Wasn't there a moral about the true meaning of christmas? The Eggman seeing the err of his ways?\
88	'''Sonic:''' "The moral is...don't steal my stuff."
89	* TakeThat: The plush Stan shows to Sonic in ''Reunion'' when trying to sell merchandise says [[WebAnimation/SonicZombie "Hooba dooba"!]] as a catchphrase. The episode came out after Sonic Zombie ended, which the creator of the series [[OldShame doesn't have the best opinions on]].
90	* TagalongKid: Manic is the most childlike of the group, as he still watches cartoons and is usually the first one to break down when things go awry.
91	* TeamPet: Silver. They even keep him in a cage and put him in the baggage compartment when flying to Hawaii.
92	* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Aleena says point blank that no one likes Silver, much to his dismay. [[spoiler:In ''Christmas with Silver'', the gang do show that they care about him to some degree after they regret [[KickTheDog complaining about how badly]] he screwed up his Christmas party.]]
93	* ThrowTheDogABone: Silver finally gets some sympathy after the gang accidentally insults him when he hosts the Christmas party, and while bemoaning his previous screw-ups, they tell him that all of them for better or worse led to good things in the end.
94	* UnderTheMistletoe: Sonic finds himself under the mistletoe in the first episode... right when Amy arrives. He manages to dodge her, though, and then he eats said mistletoe.
95	* VocalDissonance: Charmy sings the last line of the crew’s version of ''The Twelve Days of Christmas'' in an unexpectedly deep voice.
96	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In-universe example. Manic's retelling of Rudolph in ''Another Christmas with Sonic'' involves him meeting characters at the Island of Forgotten Video Game characters. They're quickly forgotten about and Sonia asks him where they went.

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