A/N: Okay, so this is gonna be random. There are hundreds of little Sonic jokes I keep coming up with, and they never seem to fit into any longer stories. By now I've got so many spare jokes it's not even funny, so I figured I'd toss them all together here, like a hedgehog hodgepodge! Or a Sonic salad. :P

Disclaimer: I don't own Sonic and Co.!

It was a glorious early spring morning on Mobius. Tails had hauled the X-Tornado out of the workshop, and was busy giving it a full overhaul, top to bottom. Sonic was hanging around trying to help, and mostly getting in the way.

"Hey you guys!" called a voice suddenly. Sonic peered over the X-Tornado's wing to find Knuckles looking up at the plane.

"Hey Knucklehead! What's the story?"

"About that security system, Tails?" said Knuckles, with a disgruntled sigh. "It would sure be nice. The batgirl's been more persistent than usual, lately."

"Gosh, I'm sorry Knuckles." Tails appeared next to Sonic, rubbing his hands on a rag. "I can't come over right now, I'm in the middle of spring cleaning and tuning the X-Tornado. I promise I'll get to it as soon as I'm done here!"

Knuckles grunted in annoyance.

"Well look, if it'll speed you up, I can help out here. What do you want me to do?"

"Uh, thanks Knuckles, I'm fine," said Tails uneasily. "Why don't you . . . uh, why don't you ask Sonic if he needs any help?"

Knuckles shrugged and glanced at Sonic. Sonic nodded in reply and jumped down from the plane.

"Well, Tails does want to repaint this baby when it's done. I don't want to leave when he needs me"—from atop the X-Tornado, Tails rolled his eyes—"so do you think you could go buy the paint for us?"

"All right." Knuckles nodded. "What color?"

"Well, Tails wanted to give the Tornado a sportier look," said Sonic, swallowing a grin. "He's planning to paint it blue with red racing stripes. Could you get some blue-and-red striped paint?"

"Okay then," sighed Knuckles, turning to leave. "See you in a minute."

"Thanks, Knux!" called Sonic. He looked after Knuckles for a while, but the echidna didn't turn back. Sonic snickered and jumped back up on the Tornado, still chuckling.

"What's so funny?" asked Tails, looking up.

"Man, that Knucklehead is gullible," chortled Sonic. "I just sent him off to buy striped paint, and he fell for it! Boy, that's classic."

"Aw, Sonic," sighed Tails, putting down his wrench. "You shouldn't mess around with Knuckles like that. He can't help it if he's a little gullible."

"Then I can't help taking advantage of it!" retorted Sonic blithely. Tails sighed again.

"Oh, come on, Sonic. Knuckles may not be as gullible as you think."

"Seriously? When he falls for something like that? He didn't even figure it out after a few minutes like some people would!"

"Well, we'll see," shrugged Tails.

A few minutes later, Knuckles' shout came once more.

"Hey guys!"

Sonic peered over the edge of the X-Tornado again.

"Sorry, but they had two widths in those colors." Knuckles held up two paint cans. "I didn't know if you wanted the broad stripes or the narrow ones, so I got both."

Tails glanced at Sonic, who was blinking down at Knuckles in mute shock. The little fox chuckled and got back to work.