Jim Carrey gave the Knuckles cast permission to make the funniest show possible

polygon.com:

Knuckles, Paramount Plus’ spinoff series of the Sonic the Hedgehog movies, could have been a shameless IP cash-in. And the premiere isn’t far off! Following the events of Sonic the Hedgehog 2, we find Sonic and Miles “Tails” Prower living an idyllic life in Montana, and helping their new red echidna friend get the hang of Earth life. Without the budget for a big action spectacle, it’s mostly a kid sitcom with the Sonic gang — until it very much is not. In the subsequent five episodes, Knuckles (voiced again by Idris Elba) pairs up with dimwitted Green Hills sheriff Wade Whipple (Adam Pally) on a road trip to Nevada, where they both hope to find meaning in the world. The result is basically Tommy Boy for Sega buffs. It’s bananas.

Knuckles veers from the Sonic movie blueprint through pure demographically transcendent hijinks that range from cartoon pratfalls to hallucinatory dream ballets set to Michael Bolton singles. There are Men in Black types hunting the echidna warrior for his superpowered quills, and a few by-the-books fights in showcasing Knuckles’ energy-charged moveset, but despite the title, Pally is the star of this show. As Wade quests to reconnect with his dad, “Pistol” Pete Whipple (Cary Elwes), at a major bowling tournament, he and his new sidekick navigate a rowdy Shabbat dinner, outrun a Tiger King-esque bounty hunter (played by The Mighty Boosh’s Julian Barratt), and hang out a bar in Reno talkin’ life. Pally is electrocuted, exploded, punched in the face, smashed into cage bars, and dragged across multiple highways.

The Tommy Boy invocation goes beyond the road-trip format; the Happy Endings and Mindy Project actor goes full Chris Farley in — of all things! — a television show based on the Sonic video games.

“That is such a high compliment,” Pally says when I embarrass him with this compliment on a recent call. “There’s not a Farley move I haven’t done to my family or a Mike Myers reference I haven’t made to my cousins, so I think knowing all