Web Video / Jehtt

Jehtt is an Internet content creator known for comedically dubbing over scenes from existing media, most notably (but not exclusively) the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Their channel can be found here.

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Jehtt's works contain examples of:

• Acronyms Are Easy as Aybeecee: Discussed in "It's Pronounced GIF". Sonic and Shadow get into an argument over the pronunciation of the acronym of "GIF" (Sonic pronounces it like the word "gift", Shadow pronounces it like "jif") before starting to mangle other acronyms. After saying a few, Sonic stops him when he's surprised to learn that "laser" is an acronym.
• Adaptational Modesty: Discussed in ""The Truth about Rouge", where Shadow claims to be responsible for Rouge's redesign in Sonic Prime:
  Shadow: I made them draw Rouge with fewer sexual features so that you wouldn't be horny! Reducing your blood flow to make you a millisecond slower. Slow enough for me to steal the Chaos Emerald.
  (Shadow teleports away)
  Police: Police! You're going to horny jail! Prepare to be bonked!
  Sonic: Wait, the point is I'm not horny.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: "I heard you like bad boys."
  Amy: Yeah, why?
  Sonic: Not to brag, but I'm literally bad at everything.
  Amy: Meet me at eight.
• Anti-Humor: "What is Ligma" starts at this: as Omega doesn't understand the infamous "Ligma" joke, Shadow has to explain it, and the conversation takes an unexpected turn... before Omega does something else with the joke.
  Shadow: Ligma isn't a thing. So naturally, you ask "What is ligma?" and I say "ligma balls" which sounds like "lick my balls"; which is funny because you wouldn't do that. Probably.
  Omega: I lack organs for licking.
  Shadow: No, not you wouldn't because you can't. You wouldn't because... it's gay? I think? Am I being homophobic?
• Art Shift: During "Team Chaotix Becomes Youtubers" there's a brief moment where the video goes from Sonic X footage to screenshots with text on them and to plush dolls when Vector discusses meme formats.
  (the video switches to screenshots)
  Vector: What if we went a bit more low budget?
  Espio: No, we're not funny to get away with that.
  (the video switches to plush dolls)
  Vector: Well, how about a homemade look?
  Espio: That would definitely get marked as "Made for Kids."
  (the video switches back to the Sonic X footage)
  Vector: (through gritted teeth) invokedAnd the cartoon footage won't?
• Battle Rapping: "Maria Robotnik vs Gun. Epic Rap Battles Of History". Just guess what immediately happens.
• Beat Them at Their Own Game: In "What is Ligma", Shadow tries and fails to use a "Ligma" joke on Omega, who doesn't understand it and demands Shadow explain the joke. He still doesn't understand it after that, and gives an instruction to Shadow which leads to that moment:
  Omega: Comprehension error. To install humor driver, insert the correct CDs.
  Shadow: What CDs—
  Omega: SEE DEEZ NUUUUTS!
  Shadow: Oh my God…
  Omega: LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!
  Shadow: I should have stayed dead.
• Black Comedy: Their videos are chock full of them. Examples include Maria being shot dead during a rap battle and Slippy being (literally) roasted on Solar.
  • There is also this unique way of describing Shadow the Hedgehog's morality mechanic. On the Hero path, Shadow and Sonic race for a Chaos Emerald. On the Dark path, Black Doom orders Shadow to hit the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
• Bond One-Liner: Falco in "Star Fox goes to the sun and dies" has this to say to Fox after he gets burned alive:
  Falco: Serves you right, HOT HEAD!
• Brains and Brawn: A verbal example. Sonic challenges Tails and Knuckles to make a sentence without using any words containing the letter A: while the fox boy shows his extended vocabulary, the echidna has a more... direct approach.
  Tails: You thought you just did something there, didn't you? Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but numerous sentences could be constructed without employing the first letter of the English lexicon.
  Knuckles: Fuck you.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: When the Chaotix find themselves strapped for cash, Charmy suggests that they become YouTubers by showing Vector and Espio the "It's pronounced GIF" video.
  Espio: So they just… dub over the cutscenes?
  Charmy: Yeah, but they call it a meme for some reason.
  Vector: I don't know, Charmy. After the whole "computer room" thing, I don't really wanna do memes.
  Charmy: This has eight million views!
  Vector: I've always wanted to do memes! We could do this easily!
• Brick Joke: In "Sonic Evades his Taxes", Sonic says he never thought about who leaves behind all the gold rings he collects, and theorizes that it might be Eggman. The video ends with Eggman revealing that the IRS arrested him for not giving 1099 forms to whoever picks up the rings. Sonic then declares "You die tonight."
• Celibate Hero: Jet in "I haven't lost my virginity" has this to say to Sonic:
  Sonic: You may touch the finish line, but you've never touched a woman!
  Jet: You're right, I haven't lost my virginity.
  Sonic: Huh?
  Jet: Because I never lose! See you later, sex-haver! Ha ha ha ha ha!
  Sonic: Well, if I can't take his trophy, then I'll have to take his virginity!
  Jet: (in the distance) WHAT THE FUCK?!
• Deconstructive Parody: "His jaw broke" shows that the big Mouth Flaps of Sonic Adventure characters are dangerous for their jaws, especially when Deranged Animation is at play.
  Eggman: Only fools talk with their mouths. That's why Chaos is the perfect ally — he doesn't have one!
• Dumbass Has a Point: When Vector tells Charmy in "They Are Not Like Us" that frogs don't talk since they're animals, Charmy retorts that they (the Chaotix) are also animals, something Espio notes is not wrong, though Vector insists that there is a difference between anthropomorphic and non-anthropomorphic animals.
• Earth Drift: Inverted. Real-life countries are typically used in the videos in place of their counterparts (i.e. the United States instead of the United Federation).
• Easy Impersonation: In "Hey guys, I found Sonic", Knuckles delivers a guy he hired to impersonate Sonic for the the Resistance. Silver orders the Sonic actor to leave, only for a guy playing Shadow to appear declaring "I must avenge Mario!"
  Charmy: Is this the guy from the movie?
  Knuckles: No, he's the real thing. Tell 'em, Sonic!
  "Sonic": Yeah, gotta eat chili dogs! (turns to Knuckles, sotto voce) Did I say that right?
  Espio: Sonic hasn't sounded like that since the 90s!
  Amy: Seems legit to me.
  Vector: Where did you even find this guy?
  Knuckles: Craigslist… Zone?
• Embarrassing Nickname: Pigma Dengar gets one in "My name is Pigma".
  Wolf: Can't let you do that, Star Fox!
  Pigma: Long time no see!
  Falco: Who's the swine?
  Pigma: How dare you! I am Pigma Dengar, and I—
  Falco: invoked PIGMA BALLS! Hahahaha!
  Fox and Slippy: OHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
  Pigma: God dammit, this happens every time!
• Entendre Failure: In "Babe, I'm wet", Sonic takes Amy saying she's wet too literally.
  Sonic: You want a paper towel?
  Amy: No, I want more than that.
  Sonic: You want two paper towels?
  Amy: No, I want something big and round!
  Sonic: Damn, bitch, you want the whole roll?! (Amy starts chasing Sonic with her hammer)
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Silver happens to be so gullible that Mephiles is actually taken aback by it.
  • When Eggman takes over the United States' healthcare system, Shadow keeps informing him that the US has him beaten to the punch on what he plans to do to said system. He expresses revulsion and disbelief throughout, and downright cuts Shadow off when he starts to tell him about the racism in the system.
    Eggman: I'm not sure if I should be proud of my country or disgusted by it.
    Shadow: Maybe both.
  • Played for Laughs in "That's naughty, Sonic", where Eggman uses a machine on Sonic to reveal the latter's fetishes; when Sonic turns into his werehog form as a result, Eggman is not particularly pleased.
    Eggman: No! You're... A furry?!
    Sonic: Wasn't it obvious?
    Eggman: Why would it...? Actually, in hindsight, yes.
• Everyone Has Standards: Shadow may be proud of being inflammatory on Twitter, but he has some limits. For example, in "What is Ligma", he worries his joke may actually be homophobic.
• Fix Fic: Played for Laughs with "How Sonic X Should Have Ended":
  Chris: Sonic! Don't leave, you're my Only Friend. My classmates bully me because they think I'm a furry, and my parents only let me eat rocks! You're the only good thing I have left! Please!
  Sonic: Chris. (lets go of Chris's hand before giving him a thumbs up) Cope!
• Fun with Subtitles: In "You changed the subtitles?!", Shadow uses a Chaos Emerald to change what the subtitles say Sonic is saying, much to the latter's annoyance.
  Sonic's dialogue according to the subtitles: You're totally radical. "Radical" is the best way to describe Shadow and is not at all outdated slang.
  Sonic's actual dialogue: Really, dude? "Radical"? What year is it?
• Furry Confusion: "They Are Not Like Us" has Team Chaotix argue about the differences between anthropomorphic animals like themselves, and regular animals like the frogs of the jungle they're in. It is capped off by the appearance of a non-sapient crocodile that sends Vector straight into a Heroic BSoD.
• Gratuitous Japanese: Shadow recites The Bible in Japanese in "Will you date me?" on top of not breathing to refuse Sonic's request to go out with him.
  Sonic: I would have preferred you beat me up and called me "gay"!
• Gratuitous Spanish: Shadow bids Sonic goodbye with "Adios, amigo" in "I can't believe he said this" after stealing the latter's passport in order to go to Mexico.
• Heroic BSoD:
  • "No, you're cringe" begins with Black Doom sending Shadow into one by calling him "cringe"; Professor Gerald's pre-recorded message snaps Shadow out of it by showing him a meme with Black Doom as the Soyjak and him as the Chad.
  • Vector gets into one at the end of "They Are Not Like Us" after seeing a non-anthropomorphic crocodile.
    Vector: Maybe God has forsaken us...
• Horrible Judge of Character: When Mephiles tells Silver that he must kill Sonic.
  Mephiles: Now I know it may be difficult to believe with such little evidence, but if you'll allow me to explain why...
  Silver: You're right, I have to kill him!
  Mephiles: Wait, what?
  Silver: Just tell me what to do!
  Mephiles: That's all it took? A Photoshop of Sonic on fire?
  Silver: What's Photoshop?
  Mephiles: Anyways, so… you trust me?
  Silver: With my life.
  Mephiles: Even though I'm acting, like, super evil.
  Silver: Well, you did have really convincing evidence.
  Mephiles: And if I say something is a good idea, no matter how ridiculous it seems…
  Silver: Then it's a good idea! I am 100% on board with whatever you say!
  Mephiles: I see. (laughs) Well, in that case… (presses a button, causing the computer to start displaying Bored Apes) Have you ever heard of NFTs?
• Informed Species: In "The Wild Hedgehog", the documentary narrator points out that not only does Sonic not even look remotely like a hedgehog, but he doesn't look like any existing animal. When he hears that Sonic can talk, he sounds outright horrified.
• Innocently Insensitive: In "You're kind of a jerk, Sonic", Tom tells Sonic that he has a bad habit of doing this, and he brings up Shadow, Merlina, and Shahra as examples.
  Tom: Actually, it's kind of weird that most of these are with human women.
  Sonic: Whoa, hey, you do not want to bring up my relationship with human women, okay? Now that's insensitive!
  Tom: I can't wait to see how you bully Sage when you get to the Starfall Islands.
  Sonic: Hey, come on, she's a child. I wouldn't do that to her. Unless she was being a dick.
• Insistent Terminology: In "I thought you were pro-choice", Shadow didn't kill that GUN agent; he performed a 97th trimester abortion.
  Sonic: …That just sounds like murder.
• Instantly Proven Wrong: While arguing over the pronunciation of the word ".gif" in "It's pronounced GIF", Sonic demands that Shadow name one word that starts with the letter "G" that sounds like the letter "J". Shadow immediately answers with "gentrification".
  Sonic: Shoot! Shoulda thought of that! I was just in San Francisco!
• Interactive Narrator: Sonic notices the documentary narrator talking about him in "The Wild Hedgehog". When the narrator switches to talking about echidnas, Knuckles attacks him.
  Knuckles: YOU BETTER NOT TELL THEM ABOUT invokedMY PENIS!
• Intimidating Revenue Service: "Sonic Evades his Taxes" has Sonic begging Tails for help doing his taxes, or else the IRS will come for him. He finally decides to not pay his taxes and to run from the IRS… who manage to catch him and throw him in jail!
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: "Team Rocket's Podcast Gets Cancelled" has Meowth going from thinking that Maxie was right about Hoenn having too much water to saying that all the water in Hoenn should be gone; knowing that and not caring if everyone will die, in about one minute.
• "Just Joking" Justification: "Eggman's AI Generated Daughter" has Eggman wanting Sage to tell him how to destroy the world. But, since Sage uses ChatGPT, she won't answer. So, Eggman wants Sage to tell him how to destroy the world… as a joke. Sage says that the fastest way to destruction is nuclear warfare. She then gives Eggman the United States's nuclear launch codes. The codes didn't work, as Sage had simply told a joke.
• Lame Pun Reaction: Falco begins to realize that Fox forced them onto the sun for puns after the first one. The rest of the crew get annoyed by the puns except for Slippy who is still focused on crying about dying.
  Peppy: Why did we even come here?
  Fox: Because we're STAR Fox!
  Falco: Are you fucking kidding me?
  Fox: Get it? Cause we're on a star?
  Peppy: Yeah, Fox… We got it.
• List of Transgressions: After Sonic's escape from the city, "I did a little trolling" has him in jail, being charged with a lot of crimes: Destruction of property, vandalism, disorderly conduct, extreme negligence, reckless evading, indecent exposure, assault, third-degree manslaughter, parking illegally, second-degree manslaughter, and violating noise ordinances. He only denies parking illegally.
• Magic Countdown: Averted in "Sonic X but the editors remember how time works". A bomb is set to go off in ten seconds, but Shadow and Rouge waste time talking when they should be escaping. After ten seconds pass, the island explodes with Chris, Shadow, and Rouge on it.
• Medium Blending: Sonic vents his anxieties about Sonic Frontiers to Knuckles.
  Sonic: Look, can I be real with you for a sec?
  Knuckles: Sure.
  Sonic: (turns into a realistic hedgehog) Thanks.
• Momma's Boy: Before Shadow's advice in "That's a hot take", one of the three people who liked the tweets of Chaotix was Espio's mom, who he claims to be "a very supportive lady". Vector has to oblige, as their audience is too small to take risks or let Charmy Bee post memes.
• Mood Whiplash: From "Incorrect Sonic Quotes."
  Sonic: I'm tired, Tails. This life I've built for myself, it's all so tiresome. I made so many choices when I was young and foolish. I wish I could go back and do it all again. (cut to a wall-eyed Sonic staring at the camera) SONCIC!
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: Knuckles catches Sonic flirting with his sister (represented by Tikal) in the aptly-titled "Bro, are you flirting with my sister?"
  Knuckles: Bro, are you flirting with my sister?
  Sonic: Yes, I am!
  Knuckles: Do you wanna die?
  Sonic: Yes, I do!
  Knuckles: Wait, what?
  Sonic: See ya! (jumps off a cliff)
  Knuckles: Oh my god, Sonic!
  Sonic: TAKE ME, SWEET DEATH! (falls into the water below, cut to a horrified Knuckles as sad music plays)
  • Later recreated using scenes from the trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022). Only this time, Knuckles is the one to take out Sonic himself.
    Knuckles: Uh, okay. If that's what you want!
  • Then it was deconstructed in "Bro, you flirted with my sister", Knuckles feels guilty for getting unreasonably angry at Sonic and driving him to suicide. After Knuckles apologizes and allows Sonic to be together with Tikal, however...
    Knuckles: And hey, if you got something on your mind you're struggling with, talk to me man.
    Sonic: Actually, there is one thing.
    Knuckles: Yeah?
    Sonic: I kind of trapped you in Cyberspace.
    Knuckles: What?
    Sonic: Yeah, I wasn't exactly sure how this conversation was going to go, so I wanted a backup plan in case you weren't cool with me flirting with your sister.
    Knuckles: Are you serious?!
    Sonic: Yes, I am!
    Knuckles: Do you wanna die?!
    Sonic: Yes, I do!
    Knuckles: Gah! You have to find a more healthy way to deal with that!
• Negative Continuity: There expectedly isn't any continuity between most skits, despite the occasional Call-Back here and there.
• "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: "Actual Twitter thread between Sonic and KFC":
  Colonel Sanders: (represented by Eggman with a different color scheme and a Southern accent) Mercy, I know it's wrong. But every time I see that juicy fat bird from Twitter, my mouth starts a-watering, and my hanks start a-hankering!
  Sonic: Stop!
  Colonel Sanders: From a distance, you look like that Twitter bird. Why don't you come over and let me get a closer look?
  Sonic: Keep your Kentucky fried fetish away from me!
• Not That Kind of Doctor: Eggman reveals in "Eggman takes over the United States' healthcare system" that, contrary to what most people would guess, his doctorate is in Women's Studies. Hey, just because he aspires to be a tyrannical dictator doesn't mean that he can't be a feminist.
• Oblivious to Love: Any time Amy tries to flirt with Sonic, Sonic will completely miss her very obvious intentions, usually running into an Entendre Failure and Amy smacking him with her hammer in return. Subverted in "I heard you like bad boys", where it's Sonic who flirts with Amy.
• Overly Pre-Prepared Gag: Fox takes Team Star Fox to the sun for the sake of various puns.
• Outlaw Couple: From Amy's point of view, anyway. After admitting to Amy that he committed most of the crimes he was accused of in "I did a little trolling", she asks Sonic why she should break him out of jail. Sonic points out that Amy had broken into a federal prison, making her a criminal as well. Amy, saying that Sonic has a point, breaks him out.
  Amy: So, does this make us partners in crime?
  Sonic: Don't push it.
  Amy: Oh my gosh. We can be like Harley Quinn and the Joker!
  Sonic: If you don't stop talking, they're adding murder to the charges.
• Parental Sexuality Squick: Bowser Jr. learns why Bowser keeps sending him out to antagonize Mario while he stays with Peach:
  Bowser Jr.: Why did we even kidnap her, then?
  Bowser: Junior, I just, wanted you to have a mother figure in your life.
  Bowser Jr.: I did too, Dad! Why do you think I went along with your lie? But I didn't even get to spend any time with her! You kept sending me out to do stuff, like "Son, go steal Mario's jetpack!", "Go stand around with a Yoshi egg for an hour!", "Go bury someone in a puddle of shit!"
  Bowser: Well, I—
  Bowser Jr.: All while you and Peach stayed in the hot tub. Alone. All day. Wait, this isn't, like, a sex thing, is it?
  (Bowser pauses in shock)
  Bowser Jr.: Oh my god.
  Bowser: If you didn't want to know, you shouldn't have asked!
  Bowser Jr.: I will never recover from this.
  Bowser: Your dad needs love too, Junior!
• Politically Correct Villain: Dr. Eggman says in "Eggman takes over the United States' healthcare system" that he has a Ph.D. in Women’s Studies.
  Dr. Eggman: Being an evil dictator doesn’t exclude me from being a feminist, Shadow!
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Played for Laughs with how Nazo mocks Sonic and Shadow's fusion Shadic in "Mine is Bigger".
  Nazo: Your final form is… homosexuality?
  Shadic: What? No, it's a fusion. You know, like Dragon Ball.
  Nazo: You even talk in unison. Did you practice that on your last date?
  Shadic: We're not dating.
  Nazo: I dunno. Seems pretty gay to me.
  Knuckles: He's homophobic!
• Power Makeover: Parodied in "My eyes are blue now", when Sage's calculations determine that Super Sonic gaining blue eyes would thus make him strong enough to defeat THE END… only for Super Sonic to slam into it with no effect.
  Eggman: What the hell, Sage!?
  Sage: My calculations were wrong. Even with blue eyes, he still failed!
  Eggman: What made you think a minor palette swap would let him defeat God?
  Sage: It worked in Dragon Ball Z.
  Eggman: Goddammit, I never should've given you the Crunchyroll password.
• Pronoun Trouble: A few Shadow-related videos deal with this trope as he tends to be a parody of far-right conservatives:
  • In "I don't have pronouns", Shadow claims he has no pronouns and demands to be called by his name. When Sonic uses "he", he gets the Pronoun Police on him.
  • In "What are you pronouns?", Shadow demands to know Omega's pronouns, only to give his computer specs. When Shadow and Rouge learn he has a stronger processor, Shadow demands his specs, only for Omega to claim he's they/them.
    Shadow: I think he's broken.
    Rouge: You mean they're broken?
    Shadow: If you're trying to use Omega's correct pronouns, you should say, "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Intel Core i5-10400F CPU sixteen gigabytes RAM's broken."
• Rejected Apology: Shadow rejects Silver's apology in "Never apologize" because he sees apologies as a sign of weakness; a signal to your enemy that you are unwilling to stand up for yourself or what you believe in.
• Related in the Adaptation: Tikal, who has no known relationship to Knuckles in canon, is his sister. For one meme, at least.
• Satellite Character: Tikal in "Bro, are you flirting with my sister?", as despite being the catalyst of the skit, she has no lines and only seems to be around to give Knuckles a reason to be mad at Sonic.
• Shoddy Knockoff Product: In "Your Jordans are fake", Sage has a bit to say about Knuckles's shoes.
  Sage: Your Jordans are fake.
  (invokedVine boom, Knuckles is stunned)
  Sage: Fake as hell.
  (Vine boom, Knuckles is stunned)
  Sage: Dollar Store-ass shoes.
  (Quadruple Vine boom, Knuckles is stunned, camera zooms in)
  Knuckles: You laugh now, but I just saved up for a pair of Yeezys!
  Sage: Yeezys are cancelled.
  (Plethora of Vine booms)
• Shout-Out:
  • "Oh, you're approaching me?" is an almost exact recreation of a similar scene from Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Stardust Crusaders with Sonic as Jotaro Kujo and Shadow as DIO.
    Sonic: invokedHoly shit, is this a Jojo's reference?
  • Sonic notices a vent while flying with Tails and Knuckles.
    Sonic: Hey guys, check out that vent! Have you ever heard of Among Us? If we vent, we can get to where we're going right away. But be careful, it'll make us pretty sus!
    (beat)
    Knuckles: Sonic, what the fuck are you talking about— (video ends)
  • The Among Us references continue in "Does this remind you of something?", much to Eggman's anger.
    Sonic: Okay, look. So you think my Emerald is fake.
    Eggman: I know it is!
    Sonic: You're "suspicious" that this Emerald is... an imposter.
    Eggman: What?
    Sonic: And because you think I'm "sus", you're gonna eject me from the spaceship.
    Eggman: Stop, stop, we're not doing this!
    Sonic: Doesn't it remind you just a little of a certain video game?
    Eggman: No, we left that behind in 2020!
    Sonic: I don't think we did, Eggman! I think the memes are still...
    Eggman: No!
    Sonic: "Among U-" (Sonic is launched into space before he can finish, with an onscreen message reading "Sonic was ejected")
  • "The Truth Behind Rouge" is a nearly word-for-word recreation of KaiserNeko's "The Truth About Lola" video (based on this tweet and voiced by ViewtifulVal), and in general the "Zoomposting" invokedMemetic Mutation starring the Reverse-Flash.
  • This YouTube short takes a cover from the Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW) comics parodying the "Pepe Silvia" scene from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and goes even further with it, complete with Yello's "Oh Yeah" as the background music.
    Silver: Can we talk about the mail? Please, Sonic? I've been dying to talk about the mail with you all day, OK? "Ivo Robotnik." His name keeps coming up over and over and over again, every day Ivo's mail's gettin' sent back to me! Ivo Robotnik, Ivo Robotnik, I look in the mail, this whole BOX is Ivo Robotnik! So I say to myself, "I gotta find this guy! I gotta go up to his office and gotta put his mail in the guy's goddamn hands, otherwise, he's never gonna get it, it's gonna keep comin' back down here!" So I go up to Ivo's office and what do I find out, Sonic? What do I find out? There is no Ivo Robotnik, the man does not exist, okay? So I decide, "Aw shit, buddy, I gotta dig a little deeper. There's no Ivo Robotnik? You gotta be kidding me, I got BOXES full'a Ivo!" All right, so I start marchin' my way down to Miles in HR and I knock on his door and I say, "Miles! MILES! I gotta talk to you about Ivo!" And when I open the door, what do I find? There's not a single goddamn desk in that office! There is… no… Miles in HR! Sonic, half the employees in this building are made up! This office is a goddamn ghost town!
• Sick Episode: Sonic is sick as hell with the Coronavirus when he's recruited by Shahra to save the Arabian Nights. He then infects Erazor Djinn with COVID after defeating him.
  Erazor: (while coughing loudly) I can't believe you came here knowing you had COVID! You got me so sick! How could you do this to me?! WHHHHHY?!
  Sonic: This is your fault for not getting vaccinated. (seals Erazor Djinn in the lamp) And now you're stuck in quarantine. (blows out the flame while coughing)
• Take That!: Done rather frequently:
  • Shadow is sometimes portrayed as a parody of far-right conservatives, particularly those who have fits over pronouns and who claim to be superior to other people:
    • "You're a beta male, Sonic" has Shadow claim that, through Insane Troll Logic, Sonic is a "beta male" because he has super speed. ^note All of Shadow's dialogue in this video was lifted from a widely mocked Twitter thread attempting to link speedrunning to radical leftism.
    • "Never apologize" has Shadow refute Silver's apology by going on a rant about how "apologies are a sign of weakness" before going off to harass someone for having pronouns in their bio. Naturally, Silver's response is, "I fucking hate the Internet."
    • "What are your pronouns" has Omega give his computer specs when asked for his pronouns. When Shadow and Rouge learn his processor is stronger than he said and demands his specs, Omega tells him "they/them". Shadow then goes on to claim his specs ARE his pronouns.
    • "I don't have pronouns" has Shadow declaring he has no pronouns (despite Sonic pointing out everyone does, a constant tired rebuttal to these complaints) and when Sonic uses "he", the Pronoun Police show up.
  • Jehtt has a very low opinion on NFTs, and the videos where they take potshots at them often feature a gullible or otherwise stupid character falling for them — the joke being that they're just that obvious a scam:
    • In "This is Eggman's crypto mine" Tails introduced said mine as being able to provide energy to all of Station Square… or to mint a single NFT per day. And when Knuckles admits that he bought a NFT of the Master Emerald (from a guy called "eggtherium.eth", no less), both Sonic and Tails call him out for falling for such an obvious scam.
    • In "You must kill Sonic", after Mephiles the Dark finds out how Super Gullible Silver is, he attempts to have him invest in NFTs. The same video also mocks the plot point from Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) where Silver takes Mephiles' words at face value despite him being Obviously Evil and only using the bare minimum of evidence (which even Mephiles himself is in disbelief about in this video), with the NFT joke at the end just being used to cap off how much of an utter sap Silver has to be.
  • This video has its dialogue for Shadow be taken from some real-life tweets expressing a Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids! message, typos included:
    Shadow: Heroes, optimism, brightness, positivity, trust-morality, friendship, bonds… are concepts I absolutely hate. I prefer more mature concepts like… anti-heroes, protagonists who are also antagonists, genocide, depression, sadness, lose, betrayal, PTSD, moral relativism, and grayness. That's proba-by why I also like seinen more than shonen, T-B-H.
    Black Doom: It's just a demographic, doesn't make a difference.
    Shadow: Yeah, no, a story being intended for kids or for adults invokedwill obviously make a difference in literally every aspect. Crying emoji.
  • "Kill 'em all" is an overt middle finger to the infamous Fetch Quest-based nature of Shadow the Hedgehog, with it showing Shadow (and by extension, the player) being displeased towards the idea of having to scour an entire level back-and-forth to kill every last GUN soldier or Black Arms monster. This is just regarding the first level of the game, if we need remind you.
    Shadow: This game is going to be very tedious, isn't it?
    Sonic: (cheerfully) Just wait 'til you get to invokedLost Impact!
  • "That's a hot take" mocks invokedTwitter / X for being a place that thrives on stoking people's negative emotions, with "being as inflammatory as possible" being the path to gaining attention rather than any genuine qualities. When Vector suggests that they follow Shadow's example and continue to troll people for attention, Espio remarks that he would rather get evicted.
  • "How Sonic X Should Have Ended" takes a potshot at Chris Thorndyke and his relationship with Sonic — unlike the original anime, it portrays Chris' grief towards Sonic returning to his home world as full-on invokedWangst, and Sonic's response is to bluntly tell Chris to get over it and continue walking away. Roll credits.
  • Overwatch 2 towards the current state of Overwatch and its Rewards Pass system.
    Winston: We need backup!
    Reinhardt: There is no backup!
    Winston: Where is the rest of Overwatch?
    Reinhardt: They are not unlocked! You did not buy the Battle Pass!
    Winston: Oh shit! (Winston gets shot down while ELIMINATED: BLIZZARD'S REPUTATION appears)
  • Eggman takes over the United States's healthcare system with the intent of worsening it to spread suffering. Or at least he tries to, as Shadow points out things about the system that are already worse than what Eggman intended to implement (such as how residency programs and thus the number of doctors available are limited by Congress's budget, or the massive price for insulin), leaving the good doctor with a mix of horror and bewilderment.
    Eggman: They've already done every evil thing! Next thing you're going to tell me is that the hospitals are just straight-up racist!
    Shadow: Funny you should say that. According to recent research—
    Eggman: Stop, I don't wanna know! All this information is going to make me feel like I'm going to have a heart attack.
    Shadow: Should I call an ambulance?
    Eggman: No, it'll cost too much! (realization hits) Screw this! I can't be more cartoonishly evil than the United States's healthcare system! And I am LITERALLY a cartoon villain!
    Shadow: So what will you do?
    Eggman: I'm just going to take over something pure and free of corruption! Like, uh, the U.S. educational system!
    Shadow: Oh boy.
  • "Eggman's AI Generated Daughter" briefly takes a shot at AI-generated art — which many view as a scam like the above-mentioned NFTs — by having Eggman remark that Sage's hands are correct.^note For the uninitiated, a common identifier of AI art is that hands are almost always rendered with obvious anatomical errors. Many a human artist will admit that drawing hands is a difficult task with very few quick and easy solutions, so many find it ludicrous to claim that a computer program trained to replicate human-made art could do any better. Arguably, the video in general could be viewed as a potshot towards those who treat ChatGPT as an intelligent, widely-applicable program rather than just an AI language model to toy around with — considering how, following its implementation into some search engines or online programs, there have been numerous real-world reports of the program giving out incomplete or outright false information to its users.
    Eggman: Finally. My AI-generated daughter is complete! She's perfect! Even the hands are correct!
    Sage: I have a normal amount of fingers in the correct place.
    Eggman: It only took thirty-seven tries to get that part right!
  • "I'm Sonic, I hate cops" is a little over a minute's worth of Sonic rattling off the numerous ways police in the United States can commit horrible acts and get away with them:
    Sonic: They tore up the whole city trying to keep up with me. I'd sure be mad if I lived here! Not like it matters. Cops aren't legally obligated to protect citizens.
  • "They needed more time to cook" has Sonic point out the invokedreuse of old assets, distracting pop-in, and numerous bugs and glitches in Sonic Frontiers. Sage doesn't want to hear it.
  • "Let's see if my Tweet is popping off" mocks how Twitter / X has become increasingly plagued by spammer bots (represented through Shadow Androids in the video, followed by what at first looks like Sonic himself), with Shadow outright saying "Damn you, Musk," at the end of the video.
• The Tape Knew You Would Say That: In "No, you're cringe", Gerald's pre-recorded message is able to predict nearly everything Black Doom says:
  Gerald: Shadow! If you're hearing this pre-recorded message, that means that the worst has happened! Black Doom has returned, and he called you "cringe".
  Black Doom: How did you prepare for this specific possibility?
  Gerald: He may be wondering how I prepared for this specific possibility, but I can't answer questions because this is a pre-recorded message.
  (later)
  Black Doom: My powers allow me to detect all cringe.
  Gerald: He may be saying that his powers allow him to detect all cringe—
  Black Doom: Stop doing that!
• Tempting Fate:
  • Sonic does so in "Sonic Evades his Taxes", after deciding not to pay his taxes:
    Tails: If you don't pay your taxes, the IRS will come after you!
    Sonic: Yeah, and I'm the fastest thing alive. What are they gonna do? Catch me?
    [Smash Cut to Sonic in jail]
    Sonic: Damn, they caught me.
  • In "They Are Not Like Us", tired of the argument of why frogs can't talk on the basis that they aren't sapient (and Charmy constantly calling him racist), Vector shuts the discussion down "until they see a non-sapient crocodile". Guess what happens not even two seconds after he said that.
• Too Dumb to Live: Fox takes the team to the sun just so he can make puns. Not only does this result in Slippy's death, but he dies too.
  Falco: Nice going, Fox. Slippy's dead. How do you feel?
  Fox: Honestly, I'm feeling kinda burned ou-
  [Fox's ship crashes into magma and explodes]
  Falco: Serves you right, HOT HEAD!
• Tough Act to Follow: Invoked in "Can I be real with you?" Sonic is worried that due to the success of Sonic Frontiers, he feels like he has expectations to live up to, especially since it was the first time in a while that most people liked a new game.
• Troll: Shadow in "That's a hot take" posts a tweet about how Sonic Adventure 2 wasn't that good of a game on the Chaotix's Twitter account to give them more exposure. Even if it's not exactly positive exposure, Shadow claims that they'll get attention from "weirdos who will worship [them] for being a contrarian".
  Shadow: Being popular on Twitter isn't about charm or wit. It's about being as inflammatory as possible.
• Villain Has a Point: In "No, you're cringe", after Gerald's prerecorded message says that the only part of Shadow that's cringe is the blood of Black Doom that runs through him, the alien has this to say:
  Black Doom: That's preposterous! Cringe is determined by your behavior, not by your blood. Even if I were cringe, my DNA would have no effect on Shadow being so.
  Gerald: He may be making a valid argument about the nature of genetics…
• Villainous Breakdown: In "No, you're cringe", Black Doom has one of this just from Shadow calling him cringe.
• What Are You in For?: Sonic asks this to another prisoner of the IRS.
  Eggman: I placed a bunch of gold rings on the ground and didn't send the proper 1099 tax forms to people who picked them up.
  Sonic: (now somehow behind Eggman) You die tonight.
• What's a Henway?: Shadow loves to tell the "Ligma" joke: "It's so sad that Steve Jobs died of Ligma" shows that he will say the line at any cost.
• Who's on First?: When Mewtwo introduces himself to Ash and friends, things get confusing really quick.
  Mewtwo: I am Mewtwo.
  Ash: You're Mew too, huh? Well, we're not going to let you get away with this, Mew!
  Mewtwo: Do not insult me with that name, child. I am Mewtwo.
  Ash: Yeah, I heard you. You're Mew too.
• Wicked Cultured: Shadow often has an antagonistic role in the videos, and is also pretty knowledgeable about human customs, Internet culture, and other things like quoting the Bible in Japanese without taking a breath.
• "Yes"/"No" Answer Interpretation: Silver asks Sonic "What year is this?" when he travelled to the past. Sonic answers that it's 2022.
  Silver: Ah, 2022. The third year of quarantine.
  Sonic: Yeah, and the last, right?
  Silver: …
  Sonic: And the last, right?
  Silver: I should go.

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