Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-30176971-20170309213233/@comment-24658561-20170317183750

It's not that comedy doesn't work at all in Sonic, it's just that the two Sonic comedy shows, well, didn't really try to be Sonic shows. AoStH was trying to be like Looney Tunes which I can kind of excuse as it came out before there really was a canon in Sonic and the most common use for cartoon anthros was the kind of stuff Looney Tunes did, so while it's unoriginal and got its butt kicked by Animaniacs, it's at least understandable. Sonic Boom's detachment from anything Sonic however is unforgivable. They aren't trying to adapt Sonic, they're just using his name for some extra ratings and merch sales. You could literally replace every single Sonic character in this show with an original one and nobody would notice that this was supposed to be a Sonic show. The only thing that relates it to the actual Sonic are stupid references that aren't intended to go anywhere. The problem is poor writing, not Sonic in general.

If I were to make a comedy based Sonic show, I'd make it completely self aware, meaning that it would take place in an actual videogame world. There would be different worlds based on different Sonic games, however there is only one version of each character that can travel between the games he/she was in which would alter their appearance. So Shadow would be unable to enter the Classic World and if Sonic entered it, he would look like Classic Sonic, but stay the same character. Speaking of characters, they would all be able to appear since the universe doesn't have to follow the rules of one universe. There would be a central universe where all characters are able to meet up. They would have the most realistic portrayals of their personalities, however with a pinch of self awareness that they're programmed to act a certain way. So Knuckles would know that the Master Emerald is essentially worthless because it's only a game, but he would still have his serious guardian personality. Eggman wouldn't actually try to take over the world because it's not real, but he would try to kill Sonic in-game which causes Sonic to respawn again and again. There's a lot of potential for character-based comedy here. However, in order to not have it end up like Sonic Boom where there's no actual threat, there would be a villain who plans to take over all Sonic universes: An actual, literal glitch who tries to crash and corrupt the universes into his own twisted world where he is omnipotent and has his own dimension which he himself usually can't leave, the depths of the games where all the deleted content goes. In order to fight him, the game developers gave Sonic a power called the Patch which allows him to destroy and fix the glitches sent out by the sentient main villain glitch who would be somewhere along the lines of "Large Ham but still threatening". Maybe have him wreck the Sonic 06 World as a power demonstration or something. He would also be able to corrupt characters under certain circumstances, so having a messed up version of Chaos or glitchy Metal Sonic out for polygon blood wouldn't be too far off. His main goal would be to get to the center of the game(which would be located in the central universe) and glitch up the main processor which would allow him to enter all worlds and do as he pleases and Sonic and the others have to stop him which would be the main conflict of the show. But eh, I'm a dreamer, not a professional, so what do I know?