"Great job on doin' that stuff. Now get ready to do more stuff."
Sunky's Schoolhouse is a fangame themed around Sunky.MPEG, developed by Bimbus Bobus, who had also been working on a more complete game for Sunky.
The main plot revolves around Robotnik searching for the Chaos Emeralds (or "Emerdoods", as some characters refer to them as), finding them somewhere inside a schoolhouse run by Sunky. He manages to sneak in, but needs to overcome some minigames to get those emeralds.
The game can be played or downloaded here
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As a side-note, since most of the names for these characters aren't known proper, fan-made interpretations of the Adaptational Name Change for the characters are here instead.
This game contains the following tropes:
- Adapted Out: Silly is nowhere to be seen in this game.
- Affectionate Parody: Sunky's Schoolhouse is one to the likes of Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning, even having some posters around based on the game. This being Sunky, it's generally considered Lighter and Softer in general, with only a couple of slightly creepy moments in places.
- Boss Battle:
- At the end of Mitee's VR minigame, a face appears as a boss which you need to keep clicking on to get rid of. It doesn't put up much of a challenge other than moving around a lot.
- One seems to be set up with Tlels once he finds out that Robotnik is trying to take the Emeralds away, which is quickly subverted by the doctor kicking him back down the hallway.
- The Cameo: Since there's a lot, therefore being too many to mention on this page, some notable examples can be brought up.
- In Tlels's disco class, amongst those dancing, Xenophanes, Soul Tails and Soul Knuckles can be spotted amongst the crowd.
- Ren & Stimpy can also be found in a room in the hallway leading up to the finale.
- One of the posters is just a picture of Dave and Bambi. Also doubles as a Mythology Gag.
- Cloud Cuckoolander: Hotep, due to his memetic status, is seen in this game doing a goofy dance and enacting his iconic song. Somehow, not even a building blowing up stops him from doing as such.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Each part of the schoolhouse has key colors distinguishing its part in the game.
- Blue and white make up the ground floor where Sunky resides.
- The accent colors of Tlel's dance class are yellow and orange.
- Shades of red, alongside green lines, make up the walls and ceiling of Knickknacks' hammer minigame floor.
- Lighter shades of red are used for Mitee's office and the areas surrounding it.
- The rooms Robotnik goes to to grab purple donuts are fairly mixed in their colors.
- The Fun/Gun Club is mostly pink with streaks of black, accenting the shared space between Eemie and Shedoe.
- The parkour gauntlet leading to the endgame (and by extension, Vecto's baseball court) have colors matching up to each member of the Chaotix. Chimy's room is gleaming in yellow with green grass, Erspo's running course is adorned with purple and green (with a red path), and Vecto's spring course and baseball field are green and yellow.
- The Emerald Generator room is Deliberately Monochrome to depict the finality of the situation.
- Death Is a Slap on the Wrist: If you fail to escape the schoolhouse within the time limit, you get a Game Over screen, but you're not penalised anything other than restarting from the beginning of the emerald theft sequence.
- Demoted to Extra: Cwem is only seen in one room during gameplay, sitting cheerfully in a room that suddenly goes dark as Robotnik enters it. Leaving after finding all the purple donuts in there will show she disappeared. She does come back at the end of the game, though.
- Easter Egg: Going out of bounds on the first floor with Debug Mode leads to a secret room with Rai curled up on a couch and reading a book, alongside a cutout of Bendy, with a sign saying "Wandering is STUPID".
- Likewise, several funny images can be seen by going out of bounds with Debug Mode and looking at the outside walls.
- After busting into Mitee's office, hitting him enough with the hammer will have him turn purple (which lasts until the end of the Fetch Quest mentioned below), and he'll proclaim "It is I, Joseph!", with his desk being decorated as such.
- Fetch Quest:
- After beating his minigame, Mitee has Robotnik run around his floor to gather several purple donuts for his jelly jar. Amusingly, he changes his mind after Robotnik has gone through that effort, now wanting pink donuts before he hands over the key to bypass the laser gate. Robotnik simply kicks him out the window before taking five donuts and the key.
- An easier one is presented on the sixth floor, with Chimy wanting Robotnik to grab a lemon in the room before he can continue (which itself is a Call-Back to Sunky the Fangame depicting him with a lemonade stand). This simply needs some parkour to reach, which is exercised further in the following rooms.
- Gameplay Grading: Tlels's dance minigame and Eemie and Shedoe's duo-task minigame have this each, with an F ("Fun", "French-fry" and "Firearm") being the most top-tier you can get. This doesn't affect gameplay other than the number of donuts you receive from the latter two after their minigame is over.
- Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Considering Sunky remains Lighter and Softer all around, the most characters usually say are family-friendly versions of swears like "heck" and "dang". Shedoe is the only one to ignore this, only getting as far as saying "damn" in a few of his sentences.Shedoe: Get outta my sight, you damn lunatic!
- Larynx Dissonance: A lot of the kid/female characters don't exactly sound as such. For instance, Tlels and Chimy sound a little bit older, while Bliz and Julia don't even try to sound feminine in the ending.
- Leitmotif: "Watch Out for my Body Rolls" is heard a lot in the music for each of the main six floors.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: On the sixth floor, when entering Vecto's baseball court, Robotnik refuses to play and attempts to take his leave. However, Vecto forces him to participate anyway, so Robotnik plays along... only to knock him out with his bat while he's explaining the rules, allowing him to bolt it out of there to the Emerald Generator.
- Silent Protagonist: Sunky, while being the poster boy of the game despite not being playable, doesn't say a single word in his appearances.
- Timed Mission: There are two of these Robotnik must tackle during his run through the schoolhouse. These don't have to be beaten to advance, but can earn you some donuts/rings if beaten well enough.
- The minigame Knickknacks presents is to smash all the dummies around his floor within a time limit.
- In the Fun/Gun Club, Eemie and Shedoe's minigame is to do cooking AND target practice at the same time (because, in Eemie's words, they couldn't "do the decide").
- While not a minigame, once Robotnik's snatched the emeralds, he has around two minutes to run back through the entire schoolhouse and escape before it self-destructs.
- To Be Continued: The ending depicts Tlels rallying up his friends after the schoolhouse is destroyed, wanting to give Robotnik a taste of his own medicine by tampering with HIS property. Such a screen (punctuated with question/exclamation marks) is even seen before the end credits.
- Trademark Favorite Food:
- Mitee's favorite food is jelly, which he has dedicated times to eat. He demonstrates this by eating a whole jar of it off-screen while Robotnik simply glares at him. He even ate out of ALL the other jars by the time Robotnik returns with the purple donuts.
- The duckling seen running around in one room is particularly fond of grapes, circling a batch of them in his room. An Easter Egg near the end of the game also alludes to this.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Downplayed in that Knickknacks only gave Robotnik a hammer as part of his minigame (which is used afterwards to break into Mitee's office), but because he forgot to take it back before the doctor used the elevator, Robotnik was able to use it to break the generator's class and steal the Chaos Emeralds.
