First of all, thank you for keeping it classy, Karen. I feel that you're not alone in being indifferent to pokemon on this podcast. outside of the recent lindemann excursion and James' childhood minglings with his sister, there just isn't a lot of excitement around pokemon between the various hosts and guest hosts RFN has had over the years. I feel you guys should ask Donald or Alex Culafi to guest star for a proper Pokemon Sun/Moon blowout on episode 501 if you want to have a discussion that would pander to the sensibilities of the section of the RFN fanbase that are truly mired in the Pokemon Minutia.
As for the cartoon thing, Sonic boom is actually hilarious. Sonic is portrayed as this sort of bored sociopath, Tails is strangely the straight-man, Knuckles is treated as a full on special needs case, Amy Rose is an empowered female character that still manages to be a little overly girly at times for no other reason than to play up her girl power, and Sticks the Badger is Alex Jones' fursona. That's actually one of the few things that may glisten every now and then when you shine a flash light on the septic tank that is Rise of Lyric... but eve if you try to salvage that out from the muck, attached to it you'll find "RINGS! BOUNCE PAD! IT'S LIKE THESE ROADS WERE BUILT FOR ME! LOVE ME SOME RINGS! GOTTA GET THEM RINGS! WHOO, BOUNCE PAD!"
I would actually love a Street Fighter cartoon provided that Capcom does NOT Hand it off to Man of Action, but instead enlists Udon comics, who will work VERY closely with DHX Media to make what is in essence a last Airbender style North Americanime that is primarily based around Gouken teaching Ryu and Ken ansatsuken... which I suppose someone made a fan movie about that, but I had to work Ryu in somehow, and that's the only part of his backstory that's interesting at all. I'd rather get a Killer Bee and the Bison dolls show, but unfortunately, Cammy wasn't in Super Smash Bros, now was she?