Sonic Boom
The Sonic Boom video games were pretty awful, but the animated series based on them has some of the best writing of anything the Sonic franchise has spawned . The 104-episode show is one of the wittiest portrayals of Sonic and his friends, to the point that it puts other Sonic media like the live-action movies to shame in terms of how much it respects its audience. Media that’s made “for kids” has a propensity to talk down to children as if they can only understand the lowest common denominator of humor. Sonic Boom, meanwhile, is full of so many funny gags that plenty of viewers probably miss because they assume it’s “just a kids show.” Eggman being a fourth-wall-breaking Shadow stan will never not be funny. Sonic giving you a soundbite to send to a bad roommate? A gift to humankind. Don’t get me started on the incredible, absurdist humor of Sonic Boom cutting to a real-life Sonic cosplayer as our hero contemplates planes of existence. It’s too good.
