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For the record yes I am stealing gameman5804's (thoughts in a nutshell) idea, but what's he going to do, steal one of my ideas and make his own version?

Anyway, I've only seen a couple episodes of OK KO, mainly just random episodes that appear on tv and I have nothing better to do at the time, but from what I've seen it's a cute little show, if it came out during my younger years I probably would have loved the shit out of it. But then last month at SDCC they announced a crossover with good ol Sonic the Hedgehog, and I'm pretty sure nobody and I mean NOBODY saw coming, sure there were leaks before but did anyone actually believe them? Need less to say I was hyped despite not even seeing a whole lot of KO cause I have heard it's previous crossovers with stuff like Captain Planet and a bunch of different Cartoon Network shows were actually really good. So I was hoping it would be a massive love letter to my favorite game series, and for the most part it was.

Basically the plot revolves around some evil company in the show (I know it has a name but I'm too lazy to look up what it actually is) trying to capture Sonic, but they end up capturing KO's friends instead. So KO, Sonic, and Tails have to go and save the day. Now when I say this feels like modern Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, I mean it in both a figurative, and kinda literal way, as all of this feels like an episode that could have happened in AOSTH, with it's tone, villains, and sound effects. Heck they even do their own Sonic Sez segment at the very end.

Now let's talk about the fan service in this, cause holy shit there's a ton of them in it. I've already talked about the AOSTH stuff, but they even reference stuff like the comics, the Mario & Sonic olympic games, the ova, and a bunch of other stuff. Now I'm sure some cynical Sonic fans will try and turn all of this into a negative and claim that "Oh all these references are just a way to distract people from realizing this isn't serious like Sonic's supposed to be". However I don't think anyone can deny that the people behind this show truly do love the Sonic series, and want to show just how much in whatever way they can.

If I do have one major complaint with it, it's that the pacing is a bit too fast in the beginning. Like it starts off with KO meeting Sonic and Tails, and then 1 or 2 minutes later, they're off to save KO's friends without any real time to breathe. So I think the whole thing could have been a lot better if instead of being an 11 minute episode, it was a 22 minute special, with part A being about KO and Sonic just hanging out, and then part B could have been the rescue mission. I don't know if this is a common complaint with the other crossovers since I also heard they were only 11 minutes each, but for this one in particular, I think it could have really benefited from a longer run time.

Still overall I really enjoyed this episode, It probably won't convince me to go ahead and watch all the other OK KO episodes out there cause well I don't really watch a lot of tv in general, but I still had a fun time. I'd say go ahead and check it out if you can, unless of course you're one of those unfun grumpy chumps who hate anything relating to fun ... don't worry I'm only kidding ... unless ... am I doing that meme right?

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For the record yes I am stealing gameman5804's (thoughts in a nutshell) idea, but what's he going to do, steal one of my ideas and make his own version?

Anyway, I've only seen a couple episodes of OK KO, mainly just random episodes that appear on tv and I have nothing better to do at the time, but from what I've seen it's a cute little show, if it came out during my younger years I probably would have loved the shit out of it. But then last month at SDCC they announced a crossover with good ol Sonic the Hedgehog, and I'm pretty sure nobody and I mean NOBODY saw coming, sure there were leaks before but did anyone actually believe them? Need less to say I was hyped despite not even seeing a whole lot of KO cause I have heard it's previous crossovers with stuff like Captain Planet and a bunch of different Cartoon Network shows were actually really good. So I was hoping it would be a massive love letter to my favorite game series, and for the most part it was.

Basically the plot revolves around some evil company in the show (I know it has a name but I'm too lazy to look up what it actually is) trying to capture Sonic, but they end up capturing KO's friends instead. So KO, Sonic, and Tails have to go and save the day. Now when I say this feels like modern Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, I mean it in both a figurative, and kinda literal way, as all of this feels like an episode that could have happened in AOSTH, with it's tone, villains, and sound effects. Heck they even do their own Sonic Sez segment at the very end.

Now let's talk about the fan service in this, cause holy shit there's a ton of them in it. I've already talked about the AOSTH stuff, but they even reference stuff like the comics, the Mario & Sonic olympic games, the ova, and a bunch of other stuff. Now I'm sure some cynical Sonic fans will try and turn all of this into a negative and claim that "Oh all these references are just a way to distract people from realizing this isn't serious like Sonic's supposed to be". However I don't think anyone can deny that the people behind this show truly do love the Sonic series, and want to show just how much in whatever way they can.

If I do have one major complaint with it, it's that the pacing is a bit too fast in the beginning. Like it starts off with KO meeting Sonic and Tails, and then 1 or 2 minutes later, they're off to save KO's friends without any real time to breathe. So I think the whole thing could have been a lot better if instead of being an 11 minute episode, it was a 22 minute special, with part A being about KO and Sonic just hanging out, and then part B could have been the rescue mission. I don't know if this is a common complaint with the other crossovers since I also heard they were only 11 minutes each, but for this one in particular, I think it could have really benefited from a longer run time.

Still overall I really enjoyed this episode, It probably won't convince me to go ahead and watch all the other OK KO episodes out there cause well I don't really watch a lot of tv in general, but I still had a fun time. I'd say go ahead and check it out if you can, unless of course you're one of those unfun grumpy chumps who hate anything relating to fun ... don't worry I'm only kidding ... unless ... am I doing that meme right?