Funny / Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)

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"I'm wet, I'm cold, there's a FISH ON MY HEAD!"

Given the blue blur and his franchise's tendency to make you laugh out loud, don't be surprised that his first theatrical release will also be fast enough to make you burst out in laughter with it's quick thrills!

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• This little tidbit in the middle of Sonic's monologue describing his home island is pretty amusing.
  Sonic: This is the island where I'm from! It had everything! Sandy beaches, cascading waterfalls, public access to loop-de-loops... I never had to catch a school bus because I could run across the entire island in less than two seconds. Also, there was no school. I know! Pretty sweet island, right?
• In the middle of his monologue, present-day Sonic describes his former caretaker, Longclaw, as basically like Obi-Wan Kenobi... if Obi-Wan Kenobi had a beak and ate mice.
• Tom's introduction has him sitting in his cop car by the road, wait for speeding drivers. And he's bored. He then starts playing with his radar speed gun and pretending that cars are speeding past — and accidentally hits himself in the face with it.
  • He locks it onto a "passing" turtle, clocking in at a whopping 1 mile per hour.
    Tom: Hey, buddy, where's the fire?! There's kids living around here!
  • The line that follows this assumes that line was ad-libbed by James Marsden.
    Tom: (looks directly at the camera) Thought it was kinda funny. Sorry.
• Then Wade calls asking where he is, and Tom replies "No, Wade, I'm actually on a yacht in Barbados with Rihanna.". Wade, of course, takes him totally seriously and asks him to send pics. When Tom clarifies that he's actually on duty:
  Wade: Already? How did you get back so fast? Barbados is in the ocean!
  • This gets even funnier when you realize that Tom later meets someone who reasonably could run to Barbados and back.
  • After finding one of Sonic's quills, we get a little taste of what Tom's average duties are.
    Wade: Tom, we need you down on Main Street. There's been a violent gang shoot-out... (chuckles) Just kidding, a duck stole a bagel. But they do need it back.
• Sonic takes said turtle with him as he runs so it can experience the joys of speed. Just as Sonic praises the turtle for "doing amazing" during this run, his grip slips and the turtle is sent flying backwards, prompting Sonic to immediately go back to save it. When they finally come to a stop for good:
  Sonic: Let's keep this our little secret, okay? You never saw me. [whispering] I was never here. [zooms off]
  [The turtle is SHAKING in its shell. It finally collapses once he leaves the scene.]
• Tom stopping street traffic for a family of ducks and addressing three of them as "Donald", "Daisy", and "Daffy".
• Crazy Carl is the only Green Hills resident who has seen "the Blue Devil", and has made it his personal mission to find him and prove to the rest of the town that he exists. One night, he lays out several traps in the woods — and after a quick cat-and-mouse scenario with an unseen Sonic, ends up strung up by his foot, upside down, in his own trap.
  Crazy Carl: I KNOW YOU'RE OUT THERE, AND I KNOW YOU'RE REAL!!!
  Sonic: (in the distance) NOOOOO I'M NOOOOOT!
  • And Crazy Carl shows Tom a crudely drawn sketch of Sonic in a futile attempt to convince him (and a few others) that "the Blue Devil" is real. What is said drawing? SANIC.
  • Crazy Carl shows up to help in the final battle against Robotnik... with a chainsaw. Officer Wade has to nudge his arm down because of how close he's holding it to him, and then after the battle's over, asks for Carl's chainsaw to confiscate.
  • There's a nice bit of Black Comedy in the fact that when the camera pans to a motionless Sonic during his Disney Death, you can still hear the chainsaw in the background.
  • Even funnier is that when he appears, Crazy Carl takes a moment to rub it in everyone’s face that the Blue Devil exists and that he wasn’t crazy.
    Wade: (To Robotnik) That's our sheriff you're messing with!
    Carl: And our Blue Devil! Which as everyone can see is a very real creature, and not at all invented by me!
  • When Tom first meets Sonic, he's stunned that Crazy Carl was telling the truth. Sonic suggests changing his nickname to "Super-Observant Carl."
• Sonic nicknaming Maddie "Pretzel Lady" as she is always doing yoga and he thinks she was born without bones. Even better when he's attempting to copy her and can't quite get the yoga pose down.
• Tom giving a goodbye speech should he accept his new job placement in San Francisco only for the person he's talking to... turns out to be a well-decorated donut wearing sunglasses and with wire arms and legs. Named "Sergeant Sprinkles".
  Tom: Now all I gotta do is... tell everyone who isn't a donut.
• Sonic likes to peep in on Tom and Maddie's movie nights from the living room window, his favorite film being, appropriately enough, Speed; Sonic even imitates Dennis Hopper's famous "Pop quiz, hotshot" and notes that Keanu Reeves is a national treasure.
  • This became far more amusing when it was announced that said national treasure would have a role in Sonic 3... as Shadow the Hedgehog. One can only imagine how Sonic will react when he hears the voice of his favorite actor coming out of his number one rival.
• Sonic pretending to be his own psychiatrist (complete with terrible German accent). This one turns quite sad though, as what Psychiatrist!Sonic is talking about is Sonic's ongoing fear that he will be alone forever.
• Before learning the results of Tom's job application to San Francisco, Maddie has already prepared two cakes for the occasion; one to celebrate, and one that says "Forget those morons, San Francisco SUCKS!" (complete with an icing depiction of the Golden Gate Bridge on fire) if he didn't get the job, and accidentally brings out the negative one first. For bonus points, the celebration cake includes the phrase "I never had any doubts!"
  • Later, Maddie is looking up rentals on Zillow and finds a nice one in San Francisco for a bargain price of 4300 dollars a month. For context, the average rent for an apartment like the one she's looking at would start around 6000 dollars in modern-day San Fran.
  • Also, the apartment's previous tenant is one Amy Rose.
• Immediately after Sonic shorts out everything within an 800-mile radius, this happens:
  Sonic: I'm sure nobody noticed that giant blue explosion... right? (zips off... cue immediate Smash Cut to Wade staring at the office phone, which is ringing off the hook on every line, with an expression that screams "I'm really in over my head here")
• When the government officials at the Pentagon are discussing what to do about the blackout Sonic caused, Vice Chairman Walters suggests sending in "a lab rat with teeth", and there's a collective feeling of "Oh, no..." from everyone else in the room.
  Air Force Chief of Staff: You're not suggesting who I think you're suggesting...
  Vice Chairman Walters: I know, he's a little weird.
  Air Force Chief of Staff: "Weird"?! He's a psychological tire fire!
• Robotnik's past successes are stopping a coup in Pakistan (which none of the military higher-ups knew about, though it's implied the ignorance is intentional) and an uprising in Azerbaijanistan (which isn't even a real country, something apparently due to Robotnik's actions there).
• Robotnik wastes no time tearing down Major Bennington upon arrival.
  Major Bennington: (pissed) Listen, pal, I don't know if you realize who—
  Robotnik: I'm sorry, Major, what was your name?
  Major Bennington: Benningt—
  Robotnik: NOBODY CARES! Nobody cares. Listen, Major Nobody Cares. You know why nobody cares who you are? Because nobody cares about your feeble accomplishments. And nobody cares that your MOMMY is proud you can read at a 3rd grade level. Have you read Charlotte's Web, yet? Spoiler alert: she dies in the end. But she leaves a big creepy egg sac. (After summoning drones) Ah! MY BAAAAAAABIEEEES. (turns back to Bennington smugly) Look what came out of my egg sac.
  • Then when Robotnik interrupts Bennington over and over to tell him the major is not in charge, the bad doc puts it bluntly:
    Robotnik: In a sequentially ranked hierarchy based on level of critical importance, the disparity between us is too vast to quantify! Agent Stone?
    Agent Stone: The doctor thinks you're basic.
  • To add to this, Robotnik is staring off into nothing as he says the above line; all the while, Bennington follows his gaze with an expression of sheer confusion as his eyes dart around, no doubt questioning in his head just what on Earth the doctor is looking at.
  • And THEN:
    Robotnik: Is he still looking at me funny?
    Stone: Yes he is.
    Robotnik: Tell him to stop or I'll pull up his search history.
    Stone: If you don't stop looking at the doctor, he'll take a closer look at your—
    Bennington: I'm not deaf.
    Robotnik: And tell 'im his men report to me now, blah blah blah... (starts childishly blabbering while flailing his arms around)
• The fact that Sonic really seems to hate mushrooms. Lingering issues with a certain plumber, perhaps?
• After Tom knocks out Sonic with the tranq gun, we see that he's put Sonic inside a dog cage, while poking at him with a spatula. When he turns his back, we see Sonic wake up, and simply push the cage door open to escape, as Tom apparently forgot to lock it.
  • Their first conversation has some real gems.
    Sonic: [groggy] Donut Lord...?
    Tom: You can talk? You're not— you're not here to abduct me, are you?
    Sonic: You abducted me!
    Tom: OK, that's a fair point. What are you? Why were you hiding out in my garage?
    Sonic: I needed somewhere safe and you're the only person I could think of, Donut Lord...
    Tom: Why do you keep calling me Donut Lord?
    Sonic: 'Cause you talk to donuts. And then eat them if they get out of line.
    Tom: Again, fair.
  • When Tom and Sonic hear Robotnik's truck outside:
    Tom: Is that your Mothership? I'm not in the mood to get probed!
    Sonic: You think you're worried? I'm not even wearing pants!
  • Then when Tom tells Sonic, who is still recovering from being tranqed, to follow him to the attic to hide him from Robotnik, Sonic steps off the table.... and immediately falls flat on his face, adding yet another Running Gag of the blue blur faceplanting the ground.
  • After the infamous first trailer with the uncanny-looking initial design for Sonic and especially the scene where he tries to pass himself off as a cat when he meets Tom face-to-face for the first time, the joke actually lands in the final version and is legitimately funny. Plus the delivery of the line in the film itself makes it much more convincing that this is the only excuse that a panicked Sonic could have come up with on the spot. All together now: "Uhhh... meow?"
  • And before this, Tom bursts into the garage yelling: "SFPD!... pending background check."
• Tom and Robotnik bantering during their first encounter:
  Tom: I'm sure what you're here for is very serious, but it's got nothing to do with me. You can ask anyone in town, everyone knows me.
  Robotnik: I bet they do. I'm sure you're HELLA popular with the Jebs and Merles and Billy Bobs in this glorified gas station rest stop. Betcha go way back to the days of tipping cows and PLAYIN' IN A JUG BAND! [mimes blowing on a bottle and slapping his knee] And maybe someday, you'll achieve your goal of getting a Costco card or adopting a Labradoodle. But the reality is: I surpassed everything you are ever going to do ... before I was a toddler. I was spitting out formulas while you were spitting up formula.
  Tom: I was breastfed, actually.
  Robotnik: Nice. Rub that in my orphan face.
  • Also:
    Robotnik: Mr...?
    Tom: Wachowski. But everyone calls me Tom. Except for my dentist, he calls me "Tim". But it's gone on for so long now that it'd be weird if I corrected him.
    Robotnik: Well, Tom-who's-dentist-calls-him-Tim...
    [...]
    Tom: Listen, Mr—
    Robotnik: Doctor. Doctor Robotnik. But my dentist calls me "Rob".
  • Tom then COMPLETELY fails at pronouncing his name and calls him "Robot ... Skis?"
  • While Robotnik mimes playing a jug, Tom looks on even more confused than Bennington.
• Sonic curled up pretending to be a ball in the attic when hiding from Robotnik's drones is both hilarious and adorable. When he rolls down the stairs seconds before he's detected:
  Sonic: [bouncing down the wooden stairs] WHY DON'T YOU HAVE YOUR STAIRCASE CARPETED?
• "Look at that — I was right. Note the lack of surprise."
• Tom's scream when he first saw Sonic? Pales in comparison to Robotnik.
  Sonic: Wait! Don't hurt him!
  (Robotnik Screams Like a Little Girl, followed by Tom punching him out)
• While Sonic is wrestling the Badnik Drone Dr. Robotnik threatened Tom with.
  Sonic: Can you believe Amazon is gonna deliver packages with these things?!
  • Then, a couple seconds later...
    Sonic: THIS WAS A HORRIBLE PLAN! WHAT WAS I THINKING?!
• After Tom and Sonic escape, Robotnik monologues to Agent Stone about his desire to catch and dissect Sonic for his power, and goes to put on his glasses as a capper... only they're broken and askew.
  Robotnik: Stone?
  Stone: Doctor?
  Robotnik: Call Optical Illusions; tell 'em I need new frames. [chucks his broken shades onto Tom's floor] They know which ones I like.
• Tom tries to ditch Sonic by pulling to the side of the road and telling him that all he needs to do to get to San Francisco is "Go west" from where they are. Sonic obliges and zips off... then immediately returns wet, unamused and covered in seaweed and fish. As it turns out, traveling directly west from Montana just sends you into the Pacific ocean.^note California is SOUTH west from Montana, not just "west," meaning Sonic went directly over California and instead went through Idaho and either Washington or Oregon before plummeting off the side of the continent altogether.
  Sonic: So. As I crashed into the cold, dark water of the Pacific — I realized a few things. A, I have no idea where I'm going. B, salt water stings. [getting angry] C, I shouldn't even be ON this planet right now, but I AM. Why? Because you shot me!
  Tom: I know...
  Sonic: YOU SHOT ME!
  Tom: [guiltily] Alright, I heard you the first time. You don't have to pile it on, good grief...
  Sonic: I'm wet, I'm cold, there's a FISH ON MY HEAD, and clearly I'm not going to be able to do this on my own!
  [Tom stares at Sonic — who gives him a pouty face as the fish slides off his head and plops onto the ground]
  • This scene also contains an intentional Actor Allusion to Jim Carrey by Ben Schwartz — his delivery of "I'm wet, I'm cold, there's a fish on my head!" being inspired by Jim's delivery of: "We got no food! We got no jobs! Our pets' HEADS ARE FALLING OFF!!"
  • Right before this, there's Tom's reaction to Sonic telling him about his situation... and it gets a little too weird for him.
    [Tom pulls over] Okay, pal, out you go.
    Sonic: I'm sorry, what?
    Tom: Look, this is the WORST possible time for me to get myself into trouble, okay?! You asked me to save your life, I saved your life. Now please, go find your rings and your Mushroom Land, hopefully I'm gonna wake up in a hospital bed and the doctor will tell me that my colonoscopy was a big success, okay, so goodbye.
  • When Tom finally agrees to help him, Sonic shakes the water off of his fur and turns into a Fluffy Dry Hedgehog.
• This exchange alone after both Sonic & Tom introduce themselves to each other.
  Tom: So you've been spying on us all for years?
  Sonic: I mean I wouldn't call it spying. We're all just hanging out, only I wasn't invited and no one knew I was there.
• At the start of Tom and Sonic's road trip, Sonic gets distracted by an ad for the world's largest rubber band ball like an excited little kid.
  Sonic: OH MY GOD, STOP THE CAR RIGHT NOW.
  Tom: What, wha-?!
  Sonic: "The world's largest rubber band ball"?! We gotta see it!
  Tom: No, no. No, this is not some fun family road trip, okay? They want to DISSECT you, and arrest me! This is serious!
  (Sonic stares at him for a second, then runs off. He reappears almost immediately, wearing a monogrammed baseball cap and with an armful of small rubberband balls, a mousepad with "I ❤ RUBBER BANDS" on, and a paddle ball)
  Sonic: Eh, you're right. It was lame. Gift shop was cool, though! I got you a mousepad. When are we gonna get there?
  (starts rapidly bouncing the paddle ball)
  Tom: We get there when we get there!
  (Tom looks at Sonic — who is still bouncing the paddle ball with the same grin on his face. Tom looks away with an expression that plainly reads as: "what have I gotten myself into?")
• Tom calls Wade, asking him not to tell any crazy government group about him. Wade, after ranting how Robotnik's group are like the Men in Black but meaner (and not as charming as Will Smith), also awkwardly admits that they already know he's calling.
  • Sonic is perplexed by the sight of a pay phone, so Tom explains.
    Tom: It's a pay phone. It's mostly for drug dealers and fugitives of the law. Which is us.
  • Then when Robotnik and co. leaves the police station:
    Wade: No-one's going to... erase my memory here? I WILL TELL PEOPLE ABOUT THIS.
  • There's also this great line from Robotnik as they leave:
    Robotnik: You just sit there and be you! (as he leaves) ... seless.
• Sonic's Paper-Thin Disguise in the Piston Pit, consisting of a cowboy hat, shirt, and mimicking a southern accent.
  Sonic: [after Tom finds him] HOWDY, PARTNER!
  • Then waitress sees Sonic and tells Tom that no children are allowed in the bar, and asks if he's "wearing a mask". Tom claims Sonic is a 43-year-old man with a skin condition and a birth defect that makes him short.
• The ENTIRETY of the montage of Sonic and Tom checking off things on Sonic's bucket list in the bar before he leaves Earth.
  • Sonic riding a mechanical bull for the first time — which crosses off "tame a wild animal" on his list — prompting his question:
    Sonic: Wait a second, is this thing missing a head or does it have two butts?
  • Sonic starts throwing a coffee can full of darts at rapid speed — only for it to turn out that he missed every single one. The camera then pans to the walls and the poor waitress, hat and beer cans riddled with darts (beer spraying everywhere), and staring at him in silent, wide-eyed horror.
  • Tom and Sonic try line-dancing. Sonic even starts doing the "Gangnam Style" dancemove, yells "YIPPEE KI YAY!", and then bumps into a much taller woman — who turns round, doesn't see Sonic, and assumes that Tom slapped her on the ass. He gets a drink in his face.
    Sonic: [laughing] Nice work, Romeo!
    • One of the items on Sonic's bucket list is "Embarrass Tom publicly". It's highly possible the little hedgehog bumped into that woman on purpose, knowing Tom would get blamed.
• Tom and Sonic draw the ire of a burly biker who says he doesn't like their kind: "Hipsters". Sonic takes offense and tries to trigger a Bar Brawl with Grievous Bottley Harm, but the bottle simply bonks off the biker's head. Even when Sonic tries to speedbag him with the bottle, it stays intact much to his dismay.
  Sonic: Am I crazy? These are supposed to break, right?
  • Right before this, he once again quotes Dennis Hopper in Speed:
    Sonic: Pop quiz, hotshot! You've just picked a fight with a poorly disguised hedgehog who's seen WAY too many action movies. What do you do? What do you do?
• Sonic stopping a fight in Bullet Time, using a long string of bunting to stop and trip all the people, wrapping up two thugs head to toe in toilet paper, squirting ketchup and mustard on two peoples' heads and drawing on another's face, eating an entire basket of chili dogs, stopping to take a selfie using one thug's phone, giving one of the three bikers a wedgie and placing a bear head on the main biker's head; before tricking the thug into running through a window whilst taking the time to strike a toreador pose with a nearby red checked napkin.
  • Despite being in Bullet Time while stopping said fight, Sonic does take one hit when he accidentally runs face-first into a boot that was already thrown into the air.
  • After Sonic ends the fight, there's a stunned silence over the bar ... except for the muffled, terrified yelling of one of the thugs Sonic wrapped in toilet paper as he attempts to shuffle towards Tom, before falling to the floor with a shriek.
• While Tom and Sonic stay in a motel, Sonic uses his Super-Speed for various antics, include toilet papering the room, rapidfire channel surfing, and having a pillow fight with himself, before settling down with towels around his head and chest, implying he also found time to take a shower in the midst of his fun.
  Sonic: Good times!
  • In the same scene, the afterimage of Sonic on top of the wall-mounted lamp reveals him teetering on the edge of it in the same manner as the sprite animation of the same action from the original console games.
  • Just the fact that Tom tells him that if there's anything he wants to do to pass the time in this motel room, he can knock himself out. And boy, DOES HE. The look on Sonic's face before he starts zooming around just sells it: he looks like a child in a candy store.
  • In said scene, Sonic and Tom are discussing the former having to go to the Mushroom Planet. Tom's take on it?
    Tom: At least you won't be the only fun guy.^note Fungi
    Sonic: NO. Don't EVER do that again.
• This exchange between Agent Stone and Dr. Robotnik, after throwing the uncooperative biker through the bar window.
  Robotnik: Now that's what I call good cop, bad cop.
  [Robotnik raises his hand for a high-five. Agent Stone goes to reciprocate... only for Robotnik to deliberately move his hand away and hit Agent Stone in the throat]
  Robotnik: Left yourself open.
  • What's even funnier about that uncooperative biker getting thrown through the window by Robotnik? That same biker was the one who'd previously been sent through that same window by Sonic over the course of the bar fight (and while wearing a taxidermied bear head no less)...and the people cleaning up had just replaced it mere minutes before Robotnik threw him through said replacement!
• This exchange between Tom and Sonic as their trip continues:
  Sonic: Your best friend is a magnet for danger.
  Tom: Anointing yourself as the bestie?
  Sonic: Mmm-hmm!
  Tom: Little presumptuous. What, no — I mean — I like you, of course, but we're not best friends!
  Sonic: You tucked me in last night. Fine, fine, fine. Best animal friend?
  Tom: That would be my dog, Ozzy.
  Sonic: Okay, let's drop this increasingly humiliating topic of conversation.
• Dr. Robotnik's machines are in hot pursuit of Tom and Sonic, who disables it with a well-timed, albeit accidental, spin-dash. Tom looks for Sonic in the aftermath, who pops out OK — and then flosses.
  Sonic: Oh yeah, baby! Sonic - 1, Big tank - 0! I'm sorry, did we get that on camera?
  Tom: How are you not dead?!
  Sonic: I HAVE NO IDEA! Do you see me dancing?!
  Tom: Yeah, I saw you dance.
  • Which is then followed up by:
    Sonic: (to Eggman) Is that all you got?
    Robotnik: No, but thank you for asking. (releases another drone from inside the tank)
  • And Sonic's reaction to the tank regenerating into a smaller robot:
    Sonic: I think that tank just had a baby!
  • Just afterwards, the tank fires homing mines at Tom, who swerves to avoid them. One of the homing mines heads towards a minivan ahead of him, where a boy and girl are fighting over a tablet.
    Boy: It's my turn!
    Girl: You just had one, it's mine!
    Father: Hey, stop fighting or I'm taking that thing away!
    Girl: Yeah, right, Dad.
    (The homing mine attaches itself underneath the minivan and unleashes an electromagnetic pulse, causing the mini-van to swerve to a halt, with the family screaming as it swerves. The boy then hands the father the tablet.)
• During the fight with Dr. Robotnik's truck, Robotnik releases a drone to fight Sonic and Tom, which gets destroyed... and releases a smaller drone from inside of it. This keeps happening, repeatedly, with each drone ejecting an even smaller one to keep up the fight.
  • When Sonic gets behind the wheel of Tom's car while Tom fights off the smaller robot, he says he feels like Vin Diesel:
    Sonic: It's all about family, Tom!
  • As Sonic can't keep the car stable even on Cruise Mode, Tom asks him where he learned to drive. He's currently looking at the user manual.
    Sonic: Here! In this truck. It's happening as we speak.
  • After Tom destroys the bot that chases them on one wheel, it cuts to Robotnik, just Jim Carrey-ing it up:
    Robotnik: OUUUGH! GIVE ME A BIG! FAT! BREAK!
  • Finally, an outrageously tiny helicopter from the even smaller drone shows up:
    Sonic: Aw, this one is cute! Let's keep 'im!
    (the robot starts lasering apart the car until the roof flies off)
    Sonic: (suddenly horrified) WHOA!
    Tom: Oh, COME ON!
    Sonic: How could something so adorable be so terrible?! ...you've got car insurance, right?
  • Robotnik himself lampshades how absurd it is that he was even paid to build these machines.
    Robotnik: Ever wonder where your tax dollars are going?
  • The tiny drone then that came out of THAT bot leaves one last even tinier present for them: a sticky bomb. When Sonic tries to get it off of his hand, Tom begins telling Sonic to throw it out the window, before realizing there's no longer a window period.
    Tom: Just throw it out the wind— throw it anywhere!
  • As Tom takes the egg-bomb off of Sonic's head and chucks it into the woods.
    Sonic: It's going, it's going...!
    (The egg-bomb shows up still on Tom's hand)
    Sonic: ... it's still here.
  • There's also the idea that Sonic never seems to think to simply take his glove off to throw it and the bomb away. Though that's most likely because his original design didn't have gloves.
    • Although when Tom tries to use a handkerchief like that advice seems to assume that a removed glove would work, the bomb still sticks to Tom's hand, which suggests that Sonic removing his glove might have not fared any better than Tom's use of that handkerchief, either.
  • For the fans, there's possibly a meta example; after the bomb goes off, knocking Sonic unconscious, Tom is desperately trying to wake him. Diehard Sonic fans are possibly thinking; "Please don't do CPR on him, we still haven't recovered from the 2006 incident."
• Robotnik finds one of Sonic's quills and decides to taste it; naturally, it gives him a nasty shock and an excuse for Jim Carrey to do his rubber-faced specialty. He then holds it out to Stone as though he'll want to try it too.
  • Not a few seconds prior, Robotnik's frustration results in Stone pinning himself to the lab wall on the doctor's request.
  • After finding the glowing quill in Stone's jacket pocket:
    Robotnik: Omoshiroi.^note Interesting.
• A Freeze-Frame Bonus before Robotnik’s dancing scene, one of his playlists is titled “Dinner for One”. Also in the scene is a playlist titled Crush 40.
• Robotnik attaches a pair of jumper cables to Sonic's quill, hooking it up to his lab's power supply... and instantly overloading it, forcing Robotnik to search for the fuse box with a lighter. The labels inside the fusebox: "Badniks", "Evil Lab" and "Self-Destruct".
  • The fact that Robotnik has the most advanced technology in the world... yet when his lab shorts out, he relies on a zippo lighter for light.
• While analyzing and harnessing Sonic's quill, Robotnik dances to some music, with one dance move looking strikingly similar to a fairly popular Sonic meme on YouTube. He also turns on a rear projection screen and dances to the appropriate image; at one point, he's "chased" by a T. rex, and when it goes for a "chomp", Robotnik ducks his head into his jacket to make it look like his head is gone.
  • Followed up by Agent Stone suddenly showing up with lattes, while also bopping along to the song that Robotnik is dancing to, spooking the loving tar out of him.
    Agent Stone: I just thought you might like a latte with steamed Austrian goat milk?
    Robotnik: ... what do I look like, an imbecile? Of course I want a latte. I LOVE THE WAY YOU MAKE THEM!
• Robotnik being shocked by a Sonic hair which jerks his head in multiple directions.
• Tom takes Sonic to his sister-in-law's house, who is a little more than overwhelmed when she sees Sonic:
  Rachel: Oh, catch me Jojo— (thud)
  • And also, there's Tom's reaction to Rachel fainting:
    Tom: Oh, thank God!
  • Right before this, this is her reaction to Tom's (who is a felon at this point) entrance to her house:
    Rachel: I am calling the police, no, I am calling the CIA, I am calling the FBI — I am calling someone! I'm calling your MOTHER.
  • Then she notices the blanket, covering an unconscious Sonic, that Tom's holding:
    Rachel: Ohhhh, good old Lord Baby Jesus. WHAT is that, Tom?! Is it plutonium? Is it emails?
    Tom: Yes, it's plutonium.
  • Rachel's reaction to Tom and Maddie taking her car and leaving her tied up... while she's four feet away:
    Tom: You think your sister would mind if we borrowed her car?
    Rachel: You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!
    Maddie: She'll be fine.
    Tom: Yeah, let's do that.
    (Tom and Maddie race out)
    Rachel: THIS IS MY HOUSE!!!
• Maddie uses smelling salts on Sonic, who jolts awake immediately:
  Sonic: GOTTAGOFAST! (starts dashing around the room)
  • Then he asks this:
    Sonic: Where am I?! What year is it?! Is The Rock president?!
  • Right before this, Tom asks Maddie if she has "vet smelling salts" to revive a still unconscious Sonic:
    Tom: For cats, or...parakeets or something?
    Maddie: They don't make "cat smelling salts".
    Tom: They should.
• After Sonic wakes up, Maddie takes Tom aside for a little talk:
  Maddie: First of all, can we take a moment to acknowledge how under control I've been?
  Tom: A-amazing.
  Maddie: Didn't freak out.
  Tom: No.
  Maddie: Totally calm.
  [the two do a fist-bump-explosion]
  Tom: Thank you.
  Maddie: Second of all... (whisper-shouting) What the heck is going on, is that thing an alien?!
• Sonic finally meets Tom's dog, Ozzy.
  Sonic: So. You're supposed to be Tom's best friend that he won't shut up about? Well, I don't see the appeal.
  (Ozzy begins to lick Sonic)
  Sonic: (laughing) Stop! That is very gross!
• Tom and Maddie let Sonic drive the car through the streets of San Francisco. They immediately regret it.
  Tom: Is there anything you didn't hit?!
  Maddie: Why did we let the alien drive?
  Sonic: Hey, I got us here. And please, five stars.
• Tom and Maddie sneaking Sonic, in a duffel bag, into the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco. Black Comedy ensues while they're waiting for the elevator:
  Sonic: How much longer? I can't breathe in here! ...Hellooooo? Anybody there?
  Bystander: Do you have your child in that bag?
  Tom: No. I mean, yes, it's a child, but it's not mine.
  Bystander 2: [disturbed] That's not your child?
  Tom: Relax, I'm a cop, okay? Plus he likes it in there, don't cha, buddy?
  Sonic: Why would I like it in here? This is worse than the dog cage you had me in earlier!
  [The bystanders stare at the bag in horror]
  Tom: He's such a kidder.
  [Maddie hastily closes the zip]
  Sonic: [muffled] No no no, I'm scared of the dark! Is anybody there?!
  [The bystanders start nervously edging away as Sonic is saying this]
  • This line from Tom before they go into the building (where he lies to the receptionist that there is someone about to jump and that since he's a cop, he needs to save them):
    Tom: Time for me to abuse the power entrusted to me.
  • And then the receptionist's bewildered reaction to the State that is on Tom's badge:
    Receptionist: You came all the way from Montana.
    Tom: ...Yep. That's how serious it is.
    • What sells it is her attitude of “I am not paid enough to deal with this” before handing over the roof key.
• Sonic, Maddie and Tom have made it to San Francisco, Sonic has gotten his rings back and is about to head to the Mushroom planet. After an emotional goodbye, Robotnik and his bots show up and corner them. Now, Sonic knows that Tom and Maddie can't get away from Robotnik's egg robots, so what does he do? Push them off the edge of the very tall building they're standing on.
  Tom: Uhh... Sonic? I know you've got the super-speed, and everything, but Maddie and I?
  Sonic: Totally defenseless? Probably gonna get blown up?
  Maddie: Pretty much, yeah.
  Sonic: Don't worry. I know exactly what to do.
  • Even Robotnik is shocked when he does it... well, sort of. ^note Bonus points for Robotnik above demonstrating further how he continues to be the pettiest man alive.
    Robotnik: (breathless with surprise) I was not expecting that... (quickly forces a nonchalant composure) But I was expecting not to expect something, so it doesn't count.
  • In the following sequence, as Sonic goes into hyperspeed slow-motion to render the drones' assault invalid, Robotnik's face as his finger slooowly crawls towards the button. The sheer glee of the shit-eating grin on display is meme-worthy in and of itself.
  • All while the very peaceful "Catch Me I'm Falling" by Kelly Finnigan is playing.
  • And when Robotnik presses the button on his ship to move at Sonic's speed, he shoots a laser that blow up part of the building Sonic was running on. When Sonic falls to the ground, all of his rings fall too. Indeed, they referenced how Sonic loses his rings upon taking a hit in the original games.
  • Later on after Sonic defeats Robotnik:
    Tom: No more pushing people off of buildings.
    Sonic: You know I can't promise that.
• In Paris, France, a mime is entertaining a child and draws the circle of the Warp Ring forming behind him coincidentally. Cue Sonic and Robotnik crashing into the scene, and the mime narrowly missing getting run over by Robotnik's prototype.
  Sonic: Coming through!
  Mime: Sacré bleu!
  Robotnik: Excusez-moi, monsieur!
  • Then Robotnik follows Sonic into China, and then Egypt, and when he sees Sonic running up the Great Pyramid of Giza, he yells that he's not allowed up there since it is "one of the seven wonders!" ... even though he JUST blew up the Sphinx.
• A Crosses the Line Twice example: when Robotnik seemingly lands a fatal hit on Sonic, he nonchalantly makes it so this would be the last thing the hedgehog hears before death and dissection:
  Robotnik: (chipperly) I don't have to tell you how many scientific breakthroughs have been made possible by animal testing! You're being very selfish.
  • And on that note, we've also got this line as Tom and Maddie mourn Sonic's apparent death:
    Robotnik: I don't mean to be indelicate here, but... someone should get some ice... keep the body fresh...?
• After Rachel passed out seeing Sonic for the first time, she is next seen tied up to a chair (presumably to keep her from making a mess of things). After being blasted all the way back to Green Hills, Maddie has a huge Oh, Crap! moment when she realizes they left her sister still tied up back at her house, and promptly decides they can't go back to San Francisco again.
  Maddie: Oh my God, my sister.
  • Cut to Rachel's house:
    Jojo: (running around the house) Gotta go fast,gotta go fast, gotta go fast-
    Rachel: (resigned to the situation) Jojo, put on my Fitbit. Then I can at least get some steps.
  • Quite a hilarious bit of Fridge Logic here: Ozzy was still in Rachel's house at this point. They would have HAD to have gone back to get him at some point, especially since he's back in Green Hills by the time Sonic gets taken in by the Wachowskis. This would have been a VERY awkward encounter, at best.
    • Though it's also worth noting that they wouldn't have an easy way to go back to San Francisco— Tom's pickup truck was heavily damaged by the encounter with Robotnik's drone, and both it and Rachel's borrowed car were left behind when Sonic used a ring to throw them back to Green Hills. Assuming they didn't just book another flight like Maddie did at the start of the film (or, say, used Sonic's rings to quickly get in and out), it must've taken quite a while to get back to Ozzy, potentially multiplying the awkwardness factor. On the bright side, Sonic may have gotten another road trip out of it.
• After Sonic defeats Robotnik and banishes him to the Mushroom planet, we get this great line from Wade when he's clearing the crowd of onlookers:
  Wade: Nothin' to see here! Disperse! Just another day in Green Hills! You act like you've never seen a fight between an intergalactic space rodent and a robot with a doctorate!
• Once Robotnik has been defeated and banished, Vice Chairman Walters arrives at Tom's house to give him a bribe to keep quiet about the whole incident. Tom and Maddie are expecting a big paycheck, but instead get a $50 Olive Garden gift card.
  Tom: Yeah, heh. The way you said "You'll see," made me think it was something better than the things we said.
  Vice Chairman Walters: Have you tried their never-ending pasta bowl? It never ends.
  • After the Vice Chairman leaves, Tom and Maddie reveal that they're actually excited about getting the pasta bowl. Props to everyone involved for doing a straight Product Placement gag that's actually funny instead of just forced and awkward.
• The first Stinger, where we see Robotnik's whereabouts on the Mushroom Planet. Now sporting a shaved head and a huge mustache like in the games, the doctor has completely gone off the deep end, yelling at mushrooms and talking to the new "Agent Stone", a literal stone. All this combined with Jim Carrey doing a near-pitch perfect impression of Mike Pollock by the end of the scene.
  Robotnik: My grasp on sanity remains... absolute. Isn't that right, Agent Stone? (facing toward "Agent Stone" and proceeds to pick it up) Why don't you get a head start... (tosses the stone away) Do some rock-connaissance! Hahahahaha!! Rock-connaissance! C'mon, that's hilarious! (whacks a nearby mushroom) What's the matter with you?!
• When Sonic and Tom escape from Robotnik in Tom's truck, Stone's first instinct isn't to chase them, but to go check on his boss, and the thanks he gets for this is Robotnik shoving his entire hand into his mouth to pull him closer by the jaw. For bonus points, like the majority of their scenes, this was ad-libbed by Jim Carrey and Lee Majdoub, who (according to Majdoub) felt the scene was missing something in prior takes, and had a conversation that basically amounted to-
  Carrey: Hey, can I shove my fingers in your mouth in this next take?
  Majdoub: Yeah, sure, why not?