The Madness of Sonic for Hire

Hey, I'll take the L on what I said about season 4's ending. A lot of you have been responding to this video with the reasoning and I'll admit that bit went over my head. So yeah, season 4 is still my favorite season and I understand the ending now. I think I'll be making a video on season 9 once it's all released, and I'll correct the mistake there. Thank you to everyone who's been watching this video and leaving comments, I appreciate it!

Earthworm Jim is arguably the nicest character on the show, which is a huge departure from how he is in the actual series, he is a MANIAC in Earthworm Jim proper

Sonic’s plan in season 4 goes by the logic from Sonic 2. In Sonic 2, player 2 comes back whenever they die, while player 1 is still costed a life every time they die. In Sonic for Hire season 4, Sonic lets Tails be player 1 so when the theater blows up, he’d get Tails killed but not himself.

It was established that this series runs on Wreck-It Ralph logic. Any character who does in their game series respawns. Sparkster actually mentioned when Sonic shot him in the head.

about why sonic needed tails to get top billing for the movie is because it'll make tails player one. if you played sonic 2, tails is with you and he never dies, cuz he's player 2, but being player one, like sonic, or playing just as tails means you can die. they didn't explain that part that well, or at all.

Sonic for hire feels like an adult swim show.

I really love this series, it was a big part of my high school years, and really developed my sense of humor for crass, lowbrow humor like this. It sucks that the entire season videos don't have the little bloopers at the end of the individual episodes, but I've found the individual episodes archived, so they're not completely gone.

While the other commenters have noted the top billing of Tails might be a reference to Tails not being able to die as player 2, there’s one thing that I haven’t seen people talking about. The entire fire in the theater scene is a clear reference to Inglorious Basterds. The shot with Sonic appearing on the screen with fire behind him is the exact same from that film.

Feels like a Cybershell video, the way of talking, the clips, the memes. It's Perfect!

I found this only today and "good news": season 9 finally started, but Sonic, Tails, Jim and Eggman aren't in college yet

Going back to a decade being 8 to 9 years old watching this series on Machinima on an old Windows 7 computer not knowing anything about rent. Now 19 going 20 years old, yet this series lives in my head rent-free. Literally.

This was a really nice retrospective of the series, coming from someone who recently watched the whole saga so far. And finally learning about what was happening behind the scenes at the time was really interesting to see.

This series is strangely nostalgic for me. Like, I watched it when I was younger, but I never watched the full series until earlier this year. Glad to see someone make a really great video on this show

Amazing retrospective for one of my favorite series when i was preteen. Even mentioning the other small series like Megaman and Morty was unexpected and awesome. The side note with sonic having a “seizure” may actually be factually for people looking at the smaller details. In the previous episode, Thunderhead used his dragon spell twice in the final fantasy episode, and Sonic is shown having the same face when the dragon comes out, and then starts experiencing his “seizures”. It’s nice that the creators acknowledge a technical error or intended joke.

Fun Fact: In season 1 tails has tan arms most of the time.

Sonic for Hire season 5 was honestly my favorite season. It was just fun to see all of the main characters hang out and go on space missions together. General Pepper was also a super funny side character during the season. I rewatch the space season the most out of all the seasons in this show.

The gag at 20:30 is that tails in invincible in Sonic 2, so Sonic made him player 1. His plan makes no sense if they aren’t operating on game logic but does make sense if they do.

A bonus crime on roosterteeth when i was doing some research is that lowbrow wasnt even aware that all of the sonic for hire stuff on roosterteeth was privated when they were asked on twitter about the videos. But by now its all uploaded on their channel

I also loved this series growing up and was pleasantly surprised by how well it held up upon rewatch

The shadow design didn't bother me because he died a minute later