St. Patrick’s Day SONIC Delivers Delightful Irish Cheer

For St. Patrick’s Day 2020, people will, of course, have to expect plenty of “Top o’ the mornin’ to ya” greetings from people who are out and about allowed out of self-quarantineOpens in a new tab. But one of those cheerful salutations is coming from an unexpected friend this year: Sonic the freakin’ HedgehogOpens in a new tab. In this new, official video, a very green Sonic wishes us all a Happy St. Paddy’s Day, and does so with a voice that may sound oddly familiar.

PolygonOpens in a new tab picked up on the Sonic St. Paddy’s Day video, which was posted to the official Sonic the Hedgehog YouTube channel with a description that reads, in part, “One year later, Irish the Hedgehog is real.” And if that sounds like there’s a story behind this version of Sonic, it’s because there is!

On St. Patrick’s Day in 2019, the official Sonic the Hedgehog twitter account posted a tweet featuring Jet the HawkOpens in a new tab—an anthropomorphic hawk and the leader of the current generation of Babylon Rogues in the Sonic the Hedgehog series—next to a pot of gold rings. In response to the tweet, Irish YouTube megastar, JacksepticeyeOpens in a new tab, asked “Can I voice Irish the Hedgehog?” And now, one year later, Jack’s dream has come true.

In the clip, we listen as Jacksetpiceye/Irish the Hedgehog wishes us a happy St. Paddy’s Day, and then talks about going to meet up with his friends “Tilly and Sonk” for some “good ol’ praties.” (Praties are potatoesOpens in a new tab, apparently.) Unfortunately, Irish the Hedgehog’s soliloquy quickly devolves into unintelligible Irish colloquialisms, which are translated with a few real worlds and a whole lot of question marks.

For those unfamiliar with Jacksepticeye, he’s a YouTuber/gamer in Ireland, who’s amassed 24 million subscribers on his channel, as well as 5.8 million followers on TwitterOpens in a new tab and 6.8 million on InstagramOpens in a new tab. Which means there’s hope for any one of us with millions upon millions of fans for one day voicing a random, one-off Sonic the Hedgehog character! Merry gold rings and rainbows to us all!

Jacksepticeye 

What do you think about Irish the Hedgehog? Are you psyched to hear Jacksepticeye voice a bespoke version of the iconic character, or do you literally have no idea who this person is? Let us know your thoughts in the top o’ the comments!

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