I feel like this show was appealing to the genuine fans of Sonic. That's why the fanfiction part was so genius.

Amy: says something fake woke
Alicia: calls her out
Knuckles: calls her out but better
Alicia: surprised pikachu

12:45 i like how her reaction was almost exactly like how team sonic reacted

“Just because I’m a meathead doesn’t mean I’m not a feminist” -knuckles 20something

The "putting a little red bow on the pre-existing design" thing was referencing Ms. Pac-Man, for those of you who don't know.

"No way this is a penis joke."
There are only two kinds of jokes you can make with a bald egg-shaped man peeking out of the shower, and a penis joke is one of them.

Funnily enough, by showing this kind of humour early on to children, they will not understand most of it but will subconsciously develop it later in life as they grow.

"would kids even get that joke" by my own experience no kids won't, rather it's most likely for the parent stuck watching with their kid, the kid will most likely be like us gen z and melenials looking back to "the good old shows from our childhood" and she all the adult humour in the show. And knowing kids they wouldn't even notice the jokes, and would instead be "hey blue gotta go fast guy is talking let's laugh"

A lot of kids shows have more adult/double meaning jokes for the parents, older siblings, legal guardian or whoever responsible who got stuck watching over the kid

3:40 the kids would probably understand the punchline is because he's the tallest character in the show so it's ok

Knuckles’ “Beat-up-the-biggest-one” and the feminist clip, I’ve seen them over 100 times, and I never get sick of it.
Also, Boom Knuckles, the stereotypical big-tough-stupid-one of this series, understands the concept of feminism better than modern Disney does. Think about that.

Alicia realizing sonic is maxed out on sass at all time is hilarious every time I watch it.

The real over simplified short version is that Sonic Boom TRIED to be an action show for like one episode, realized they had no animation budget and basically became Sienfeld for kids (in that all the characters where really bitchy and sarcastic and made odd/funny observations instead of fighting)

The funny thing is, compared to most family shows, both old and new, this is still pretty tame.  Seriously, kids shows have been making jokes like this for years.  How are people still surprised by this?

I watched this as a kid and the jokes completely went over my head, so I got my enjoyment from the action. Then I found it again recently and realised that this was one the good ones😂

10:59 Completely Maidenless.

I was waiting the whole reaction for 12:02 …and it was even better than I could possibly have hoped.

You paused at the BEST moment and unknowingly set up that Knuckles rebuttal to Amy to just blow your mind even more. Even with the little hint of woke Knuckles earlier from 2:32, the shock that spreads across your face to that final moment is utterly priceless.

Honestly, Knuckles' moments alone are worth watching for. He's the best. Absolutely iconic.

It was a show advertised to kids but it is really for people who played sonic games, games in general and most of all people who HATED the fact that the game of the same name was ABSOLUTELY ASS.

You'd enjoy it.

Side note: Best one out of these is the slight jab at nintendo with Sonic wanting to go tap Princess Peach, but the funniest one is Amy not being able to express herself one. Not only because it shows Sassy Sonic but long time Sonic fans all know Amy has a teetering bridge between Cute and awkward forwardness to Sonic to borderline psychotic.

From what I've heard, this was "supposed" to be an awful tie-in with the abysmal sonic boom video game, but they were given a terrible timeslot that no kid would be up to watch the show at and they just went "f*** it" and made this masterpiece of comedy and old-school references with fandom in-jokes galore.

To answer your question, yes kids understood what a lot of these jokes meant. I understood a lot when I was young, now the newer generations know wayyyy too much