Funny / Knuckles

While one of Knuckles' themes from the games states "Unlike Sonic, I don't chuckle", it's more than likely this show will elicit more than a few chuckles from a viewer.

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Episode One: The Warrior

• Upon our re-introduction to Knuckles, Sonic takes the courtesy to give a quick recap of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for the audience about the echidna's story... albeit with a hint of bias:
  Sonic: He came to Earth in search of a magic emerald, and pick a fight with moi, (as footage of Sonic getting punched out of the house in the first fight plays) which went very badly for him, by the way... Hey, wait a minute! This is the wrong footage, why are we showing this?!
• At his training grounds in the woods, Knuckles sees a cloud of dust coming from the Wachowskis' house and thinks it's being under attack. He goes on the offense against the three men who are involved in it and subdues them one by one... except they are actually repairmen working on the house.
  • According to Sonic, that repair crew is the fourth that Knuckles mistook for attackers during that month. Which is the reason why the house damages that Sonic and Knuckles made during their fight in the previous movie haven't gotten fixed sooner.
    Tails: Do you think the house is ever gonna get fixed? The living room is getting pretty cold at night with that giant hole in the wall.
• After the repair crew leaves, Maddie finds a trail of tortilla chips that lead to Knuckles lying under a tree, guzzling several more from a Doritos bag that was taken from a lunchbox. Even more hilarious in that the Doritos are specifically Cool Ranch, the blue one.
  Knuckles: One day, I hope to visit this "cool ranch" of Doritos and bask in all of its splendor!
  • One may wonder where Knuckles got that lunchbox. It could be assumed that it originally belonged to one of the repairmen, having been claimed by Knuckles as part of his "victory".
• As Maddie tries to ask for some backup from Sonic and Tails on how to handle Knuckles, the Blue Blur says that the echidna is having a little bit of trouble understanding the planet like he did, which leads to this response:
  Maddie: When did you start getting so wise?
  Sonic: I read a ton of cereal boxes.
• Then we see Knuckles trying to teach Ozzy... on the roof.
  Knuckles: Concentrate, wolf. An attack can come from anywhere at any time, you must have steely focus.
  • Knuckles then repeatedly commands Ozzy to make his focus "steelier", while the dog just sits there staring at him.
  • Just Knuckles calling Ozzy a wolf, implying that he's never seen a dog before so he has to go with a very similar animal. Especially funny given that he's technically correct; domestic dogs are a subspecies of wolves.
  • Also, Knuckles is holding a hockey stick as if it was a staff.
• Earlier, Sonic said he'll talk to Knuckles when the time is right. Guess what he says after seeing Knuckles' attempt to train Ozzy:
  Sonic: You know what, I think now is a good time for that talk.
  Maddie: Yeah. I think so, too.
• During their pep-talk, Sonic says that now that they won, Robotnik is gone and there are no new battles to fight. Come to the fact that the third movie is coming up and Eggman is revealed to be alive...
• In the following morning, Knuckles is sitting on a makeshift throne at the dining room table, one that Maddie notes looks similar to the Iron Throne from Game of Thrones. He says he has the right to sit on it as "family champion", and they must challenge him to a ritual battle of trial by combat if they want to sit on it as well. Tails nervously chuckles and asks about the trial of combat, while Sonic gives off a skeptical look as if to say, "You're kidding, right?"
  • Also, Knuckles refers to Maddie as "Pretzel Woman" just as Sonic did in the first film.
• Immediately afterwards, Knuckles somehow turned the entire living room into a gladiator arena and has Ozzy face off against his "greatest enemy"... the mailman, much to Maddie's shock and disbelief.
  • Also, with Knuckles calling the mailman Ozzy's "greatest enemy", it might be implied that he might have witnessed the dog either chase or bark at the former. Or maybe he heard that the nemeses of dogs are mailmen, cats, and squirrels, but felt that the latter two were too weak for Ozzy.
  • Adding to the hilarity is that Ozzy's battle attire consists of a horned helmet which is obviously just a costume.
  • Sonic takes a moment to lightly touch the tip of a sharpened pole, accompanied by an Audible Sharpness.
  • As a result of all this, Maddie gives Knuckles the grounding method, only for Knuckles to say this:
    Knuckles: I have no idea what that means.
• Maddie putting on the sass as Knuckles starts to defy her punishing him. It takes Sonic's warning not to mess with Maddie when she's mad for the echidna to comply and take his grounding "with honor".
• As soon as Knuckles goes up to the attic as punishment, Maddie mutters that she is going to be late for work. Cue Tails bringing her the bad news that the echidna took parts of the car to make his throne.
  • And as if that wasn't enough, with her husband Tom out of town, Maddie has to call Wade in order to pick her up for work, only to receive a voice mail from him that he is attending the biggest tournament of his adult years.
• After Knuckles gets grounded by Maddie after the “gladiator fighting pit” incident, he is sent to the attic and does nothing but lie on the floor. Sonic checks on Knuckles while swinging on a tire swing.
  Sonic: Hey, Buddy! How’s it going?
  Knuckles: Leave me be, hedgehog. I took your advice and now I lay banished on the floor of shame, with nothing to do but to plot my revenge… against you.
• Shortly afterward, Sonic tries encouraging Knuckles to have fun while grounded in the attic.
  • Sonic shows Knuckles his comic book collection and then plays with his turntable, the lights bothering Knuckles’ eyes in a nod to Sonic Heroes when his character is left idle in Casino Park.
  • Sonic then shows Knuckles his Meta Quest 3 and straps it on his face.
    Sonic: Video games, they’ve come a long way since The '90s. (straps headset onto Knuckles)
    Knuckles: Ahh! Where have you sent me?
  • Sonic then gets out his phone and records himself doing a viral dance to a Vocaloid song in front of a confused Knuckles.
• The spirit of Chief Pachacamac making his grand appearance... sitting on Sonic's beanbag chair while reading a newspaper.
  Pachacamac: Are you kidding me? The Mets lost again?
  • Just the fact that Pachacamac, the leader of the echidnas, the one who Word of Saint Paul claimed was the one who shot down Longclaw, the inarguable Greater-Scope Villain of the original Sonic Adventure, is instead an Eccentric Mentor for Knuckles in his quest to rebuild the Echidna Tribe. And who is somehow adapting to the modern world better than Knuckles is, while as a ghost.
  • Knuckles initially mistakes him for an assassin and arms himself... with a rubber chicken.
  • Pachacamac attempts to give Knuckles a reunion hug... only to forget he's a ghost and falls through the attic floor. Despite this, he somehow crashes through several objects below. And he also disturbs Ozzy.
  • He then tells Knuckles that he must train Wade to become a warrior, while showing him an article on the newspaper about the man in question winning a hot pocket-eating contest.
  • Pachacamac's grand leave is sidetracked by him somehow unable to go through the ceiling window. After bumping into it repeatedly while muttering how being a ghost works, he eventually opens it and flies through it.
• At Wade's house, the man tries to make himself stronger by lifting weights. He gets himself pinned underneath the barbell on his first try. And that's when Knuckles shows up, effortlessly getting the barbell off of him with just one arm.
  • Wade asks Knuckles how he got in, and the echidna answers with a Badass Boast that a true warrior can conquer any barrier of a stronghold.
    Wade: You came in through the open window, huh?
    (Beat)
    Knuckles: Yes. Yes, I did.
  • As they're about to leave for their quest, Knuckles bends his weights and throws it onto the cop.
    Wade: (having fallen over) …Let's go get 'em.
  • During which, Wade asks if Knuckles is supposed to be grounded right now. Knuckles answers he can't be grounded for an echidna warrior has no home, to which Wade finds reasonable.
• While Wade is driving Knuckles to Reno, he tries to come up with an Affectionate Nickname for him:
  Wade: "Knucks." Can I call you "Knucks?"
  Knuckles: No.
  Wade: How about "Knucky?"
  Knuckles: No.
  Wade: "Knuckington Bear?"
  Knuckles: No.
  Wade: "Sir Knucks-A-Lot?"
  Knuckles: No.
  Wade: Knuck, knuck. (Beat) Knuck, knuck. You gotta say "Who's there?"
  Knuckles: Who's there?
  Wade: "Knuckolas Cage."
  Knuckles: Please stop.
  • Wade tries to get Knuckles into "Earth music". In this case, "Can You Kick It?" by A Tribe Called Quest. Too bad Knuckles ends up literally kicking the car's radio.
    Wade: Not a music guy. Noted.
  • And later on, Knuckles is seen guzzling a cluster of grapes in Wade’s car while Wade watches nonchalantly.
    Wade: Grapes was an interesting choice for someone who doesn’t use their individual fingers.
• When the duo arrive at the bowling alley, which Wade calls his "battleground":
  Knuckles: This is not a place of battle. It is a playground for adult idiots.
  • Knuckles commenting on the disco lights in the alley:
    Knuckles: Amazing. It glows with the power of a falling galacti-star.
    Wade: Actually, I think it's glowing with the power from the laundromat next door.
  • Following that, Wade teaches Knuckles about bowling... and Knuckles throws (not rolls, throws) the ball so hard it shatters the pins to dust. The fact that nobody in the background seems to have a reaction to this (or, for that matter, that there's a humanoid red echidna) makes it even funnier.
• During the fight at the bowling alley, Agent Mason comes up and tries a Call-Back to Knuckles' line from the second movie, which was "Do I look like I need your power?", only for Agent Willoughby to say that they DO need his power since it's the reason they're here. Mason actually hangs his head in annoyance, admitting he was trying to perform a Badass Boast to sound cool.
  • Never mind the fact that he's already using one of Knuckles' quills to power his suit.

Episode Two: Don't Ever Say I Wasn't There For You

• Wade's Imagine Spot of him saving Knuckles ends with him sharing a hug with the echidna. Back in reality, a cashier is weirded out by Wade hugging the items he has chosen.
  • Later, when Wade hugs Knuckles for real, the echidna stoically asks the man what he's doing.
• After having spent a good portion of the episode both fantasizing and preparing a crazy over the top plan to rescue Knuckles, Wade shows up at the Ice Cap with Agent Mason's gauntlets equipped. He then attempts to play a badass song on Spotify, only to be forced to use his nose to select one since he has the gauntlets on, and then makes his approach... only to accidentally set off the gauntlets, sending himself flying along with all his equipment (Fireworks, oil, a lighter, dental floss, and a pair of sunglasses), causing his plan to literally go up in flames as his items explode along with his car and blowing his attempt to sneak in, all before he even stepped towards the Ice Cap.
• Wade tries to hide from Mason by pretending to be a display at a hat stand. It seemingly works... until Mason takes a second glance and finds him out.
• Mason's fight with Wade is interrupted when his mom abruptly calls him, forcing him to take the call and act like everything's fine. He even pretends that Wade is a friend from work while having him in a chokehold and being about to kill him.
• Knuckles puts Wade on his back and jumps off a cliff, much to the latter's alarm. And surprise when they suddenly become airborne.
  Wade: Knuckles! You didn't tell me you could fly!
  Knuckles: No, I can glide. For very short distances.
  • And so, they drop down to the ground, with Knuckles making a graceful landing while Wade is sent flying into a dumpster.
• Knuckles initially refuses the hefty amounts of fast food Wade buys for them, saying he only eats grapes and Cool Ranch Doritos. In the next scene with him and Wade, we see that they both finished nearly everything.

Episode Three: The Shabbat Dinner

• Wade's sister insists on checking Knuckles for weapons with a metal detector... even though he has no clear way of hiding anything. She also gets way up between his legs, to his visible and audible discomfort.
• Wade's mother can't seem to say "Knuckles" without a lisp, so the conversation briefly gets derailed by everyone trying (and failing) to correct her pronunciation.
• Wade’s flashback to the disasters that were his childhood Shabbat dinners: multiple instances of being bullied by his sister, food catching on fire, and a live goat on the table, braying in his face for some reason.
• When asked if Knuckles is Jewish, Wade hurriedly replies that he is on his mother's side.
  Wade: I don't know why it's important that it's the mom's side, but just say that it is!

Episode Four: The Flames of Disaster

• At the very start of the episode, after a cheerful montage of Wade waking up and getting ready for the day, hilariously contrasted with the Whipple household being a wreck from the fight in the third episode, Wade says to himself that today is gonna be a beautiful day. This leads to Jack suddenly tying up his leg and dragging Wade through the road with his motorcycle while the poor deputy screams for Knuckles to help him, which Knuckles and his (Wade's) sister Wanda notice.
  Wade: KNUCKLES, HELP ME!
  Wanda: (casually) You gonna rescue him?
  Knuckles: No.
  Wanda: Yeah, I wouldn't either.
  Wade: (Being dragged past an elderly neighbor who can only watch in confusion) DO SOMETHING, MR. JORGENSON!
  Knuckles: In order to become a true warrior, he must learn to rescue himself. (drinks from a coffee pot)
  Wade: (As he's fully dragged out of Knuckles' and Wanda's view) AHHHHHHHH! KNUCKLES! KNUCKLES!!
  Knuckles: Wade is going to be just fine.
  Wade: NO I'M NOOOOOOOT!!! (Cut to a distant view of the town as triumphant music plays... As Wade's still screaming in fear)
  • Just the fact, that Wade somehow managed to hear what Knuckles said, despite the fact, that Knuckles did not raise his voice, and Wade could not hear him in any way, over the noises of motorcycle and his own screams.
  • Knuckles having learned about coffee and drinking a whole pot of it is pretty funny by itself. The taste doesn't even phase him.
  • Even better, Wade is still holding his coffee cup for most of the time he is dragged across the road until he shatters it while flailing around in fear.
• When Jack kidnaps Wade because of the bounty on his head, he admits to Wade that he's in dire financial straits because he lost most of it from a lawsuit he filed against "an unnamed rainforest-themed restaurant franchise", and thus really needs the money.
  Wade: I told you, the robotic birds in that restaurant make the same joke no matter who walks in.
  Jack: They were personal attacks!
  Wade: Okay! Whatever!
• Nearly the entirety of Wade's Vision Quest can count as this, as it's perhaps one of the most surreal and bizarre things to ever occur in Sonic media:
  • As one of the scenes from the trailer, Pachacamac is there as a bowling alley manager to help guide Wade, continuing his role as an Eccentric Mentor. But not before they do a Reactive Continuous Scream when Wade meets Pachacamac for the first time.
  • There's also the fact that in order to guide Wade, Pachacamac has him witness Knuckles' past... as a "low-budget rock opera" with Wade as Knuckles (as in a mascot costume equivalent of Knuckles) and Jack as Longclaw. They had enough money for Michael Bolton, at least.
  • Knuckles’s father is portrayed by Pistol Pete… except for his death scene, when he spontaneously becomes a muppet.
  • Wade jumps the gun at one point, assuming that his and Knuckles' power comes directly from their fists. He wakes up from the vision and immediately tries punching the electrified cage, shocking him back into near unconsciousness. Even the computerized voice repeatedly telling him not to touch the bars is clearly fed up with Wade at this point.
  • At one point while depicting the duel between Knuckles and the Fire Demon in his quest to find the Flames of Disaster, Knuckles gliding is depicted as Wade's wearing a black suit and a plushy of Knuckles in a gliding pose around his head.
  • Then there's the hilarious idea of a fiery demon (Who may or may not be the movie continuity's version of Iblis) claiming he'll go online to Facebook Marketplace after killing Knuckles, humorously setting up an In-Universe parallel to Wade's situation with Jack.

Episode Five: Reno, Baby

• When Wade mentions that Kevin James is performing at the casino, Knuckles pipes up with "the Mall Cop?". Knuckles is unfamiliar with many aspects of Earth's culture, yet he's a fan of Paul Blart: Mall Cop of all things. The mere implication is hilarious.
• Turns out that for the Tournament of Champions, there are two commentators for the event on ESPN 8: The Ocho. Evidently, Sonic and his friends exist in the same universe as DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story.

Episode Six: What Happens in Reno, Stays in Reno

• Knuckles giving Mason the Stop Hitting Yourself treatment.
• One of the commentators calls Reno Las Vegas for losers.
• After Wade gives a triumphant Rousing Speech before the tournament about The Power of Friendship and how Knuckles has helped him realize where his true strength lies, the commentators then note that it usually doesn't take this long for bowlers to actually start bowling and that it appears that Wade is monologuing, with one of them saying that it's highly unorthodox. It's then followed by this gem from Pete:
  Pete: Nice speech. But you left out one small detail. You're a loser, Wade.
• After the final battle, Pistol Pete attempts to steal the tournament trophy… and the commentators have to stop and look up if that’s against the rules.
• The episode ends on a freeze-frame Knuckles and Wade happily jumping into the air and giving each other a high five.
• If you think about it, Knuckles was still grounded when he and Wade left for their quest. Let's just say they're going to be in big trouble when they get back home in Green Hills...

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