Smiling Friends is Painfully Funny

[@brendongulousthewise5040]

One thing that's really funny about Jeremy is that when he's annoying Charlie, he's animated without in-betweens, but the moment he gets punched, his animation becomes really smooth all of a sudden.

[@KorporalNoobs]

No wonder. Mister Frog is a star for a reason. Moving with as little frames as possible needs, training, focus and dedication, not a gut punch.

[@Drekromancer]

@@KorporalNoobs *spits*

[@KorporalNoobs]

@@Drekromancer *licks it up while keeping intense eye contact* Edit: sry wrong chat

[@bionicdegu4.01]

And the change from "lelelelele" to that groan after being hit in the gut is so funny to me. Just shows how fucking hard Charlie hit him

[@Neo2266.]

He goes from 2 FPS to 24

[@MartinHindenes]

Mr. Frog might be the scariest character I've seen in a show. He's just so unpredictable and violent, and he acts so quickly with less animation keyframes than anyone else so you don't even have time to react before he's done something horrible.

[@Am_Qtip]

I legit thought I was the only one that thought this

[@benitoswagolini3410]

Yeah I would never want to go within a ten kilometre radius of mister frog.

[@puppysect]

Mr. Frog did nothing wrong.

[@MartinHindenes]

@@puppysect I mean he inflicted pain on several characters and he ate his former boss. But other than that, he's a pretty chill frog.

[@kamatariedgar3603]

@@MartinHindenes i mean, he said @#$-& @$$&_$4& @#$& on national TV...

[@nateds7326]

This show taught me the importance of line delivery. The line "ah we were RIGHT THERE MAN" isn't even that funny on paper but Zach Hadel's delivery made me laugh my ass off, and I bet everyone who saw this show read that in his voice.

[@lukewuzhere1000]

I think it's because you can feel and relate to his frustration, like it makes sense. Ever been close to a goal only to get set even further back than where you started? Shit, I don't think you'd even have to have that happen to you to understand it.

[@th3d3wd3r]

Zachs delivery on anything is fucking hilarious tbh. Two moments from oneyplays is when he gets jump scared in a game and responds "You cheap MOTHERFUCKER", kills me every time. That and his nonchalant "Jimmy Carter just killed himself"

[@asteroidrules]

Another great bit about the Smormu gag is how it immediately flips again. The announcer says "this cannot be undone" implying that Smormu is a permanent addition, but then immediately after the credits we see a splash screen that says "in memory of Smormu" with a picture of their corpse, and then Smormu is never seen nor heard from again.

[@Etlsouperstar]

And additionally to that joke, they didn't use a regular photo or an endearing image of him, but his lifeless corpse. THAT'S comedy XD

[@JoshuaAndres]

RIP Smormu

[@mattiascrowe2549]

it's a great cutaway from the non-gag that is pim needing to get his eyes checked, I think a lot of people waiting for a big cathartic ending/freakout by pim got a lovely smormu dance

[@JPCrimson720]

Additionally the Smormu gag works because he is wearing a Hilary Clinton shirt and the electoral map shows he was voted in by republican red states, subtly hilarious

[@Prophint]

Smormu is on Charlie's cup in the Salty's episode, he might appear in other Easter eggs too lol

[@choryllis6646]

One thing that I really loved about the Smormu joke is that, if you wait till the end of the credits, they show him in a casket saying he's dead. So there's an in-show explanation as to why he was voted in but never appeared more than once.

[@Ett.Gammalt.Bergtroll]

No doubt inspired by the Poochie bit in The Simpsons, lol.

[@tekaname4188]

And even better is the fact they don't use a frame from the scenes he's already been in as a picture, but a hyper detailed drawing of his corpse, eyes sunken and glossed over, color of his skin muted slightly, in an open mouth gasp, probably in the middle of rigor mortis.

[@BigAJ50000]

@@tekaname4188 he has a 2 inch layer of milk over his eyes

[@papaswench8161]

WHAT SMORMU DIES???

[@jffry890]

I keep hearing this but HBO Max's format actively works against the end credit jokes so I've never seen them.

[@JustSilverCh]

The groan Jeremy makes when he's punched kills me every time I hear it. Something about the goofy high energy character making the exact sound I would make when abruptly punched in the gut is just too funny to me

[@aruce9]

He also punched more frames into him

[@DrCruel]

I had no problem with this. Jeremy was warned.

[@rayquaza000]

@@DrCruel Jeremy fucked around and found out

[@tozarkt9805]

I love the way that Zach Hadel described it (paraphrasing): "something I like in cartoons is when they're like, these goofy cartoonish characters that have flesh and blood. Like, if you hit them on the head with a hammer, instead of bouncing off they're gonna have a seizure."

[@Lilliathi]

@@tozarkt9805 Yeah, most of his stuff plays with the contrast between cartoony and realistic. Probably inspired by things like Ren & Stimpy.

[@gorbla1231]

Fun fact about the Renaissance men joke: They were actually struggling to find a way to end that episode, and after several days and a lack of sleep, they just happened to have a similar conversation in real life and decided "lets just use that"

[@JammyJam5588]

Yeah it was originally gonna be a conversation about a Satellite falling too. Which honestly good thing they changed cause that woulda likely been way less funny. You expect that a Satellite is gonna crash down and cause damage/death since it WAS mentioned, but you have no clue these Renaissance men are gonna show up and just MURDER SOMEONE then fuck off

[@JNSStudios2]

This makes me wonder what the purpose of the Renaissance Men discussion at the beginning of the episode was for if it wasn’t originally for the ending joke setup. Was it just supposed to be a random conversation?

[@gorbla1231]

@@JNSStudios2 it was for the ending setup. They originally had another random conversation at the beginning, but since they couldn't come up with an ending to tie in with it, they decided on the Renaissance men joke at the last minute.

[@cornchaptermasterofcarmine5902]

@@gorbla1231 if I remember correctly it was something about a satellite. Which would have at the end dropped on the frowning friends

[@myfatassdick]

For people who don’t know this was mentioned by Zach and Michael on the Create unknown podcast It’s pretty cool to watch the episodes with Zach and see the progression of smiling friends

[@poorlydrawnwizard]

Smiling Friends feels more like a KZbin Shitpost than an actual show and it’s amazing

[@jhonhenry9056]

It was Made by og KZbin shitposters

[@TheJebusCheese]

nah

[@SpagettiSpeltWrong]

It feels like if everyone on Smosh was on methamphetamine

[@guldmattbb473]

Something I think is nice about Charlie as a character is that his realistic and down to earth personality actually does help with his job. They could’ve easily made him just cynical and not care at all, but they actually show he does have his own method at helping cheer people up. Pim is more about optimism and positive affirmations with his style, whereas Charlie usually tries to more focus on fixing an area of the person’s life. While Pim tries to help Shrimp get Shrimpina back, for example, Charlie tries to help him improve his appeal by taking him to the gym or helping him pick out new clothes. Or you see him try to explain to Satan that vaping and eating fast food all the time is hurting his happiness since he’s becoming so reliant on quick dopamine fixes, whereas I’m sure Pim would’ve instead tried to help him remember what makes him happy and why he loves doing his job if he was the one in that situation. It’s kinda cool seeing how their approaches to making people smile differ based on their personalities, but both have genuinely good methods in doing so that match well with what we know about them

[@gargles5270]

i love this analysis 💖

[@D0NU75]

Yeah basically a good foil can go a long way. Most good villains and heroes have this relationship as well, they both have a goal but completely different methods that more often than not clash; Reed Richards wants world peace, Dr Doom wants world order. Superman wants to empower people to make a better world, Lex Luthor uses his power over people to construct the better world he wants. Or the most classic example everyone knows, Batman and Joker playing around each other to prove a point; that people is defined by hardship. Sadly nowadays these challenging interactions get lost in political correctness because "writers" often like to bias their characters so much that we are told who are the bad ones and who are the good ones but we are never **shown** why.

[@WobblesandBean]

Pim is the guy at the office who loves his job WAY too much. Charlie is the guy who just shows up to get a paycheck.

[@anthonybonetti9979]

I like how Pim has the biggest eyes in the show because he’s a wide eyed optimist. The designs are great

[@ShadeStormXD]

and when he is utterly defeated and pushed in pessimism they shrivel up like raisins

[@keltzar1]

Meanwhile Charlie has the tiniest beady eyes.

[@NickJamNG]

might not be entirely intentional, but from a front-on view he looks the most like the smiling friends logo, but colors wise charlie is closer.

[@ExpandDong420]

@@NickJamNG and that's why they're partners

[@LeatherNinja]

And how Charlie has beady soulless eyes because he's a rust player

[@humansadness3749]

my favorite moment in this show is when grim says “eradicate the puerto ricans!” to a cheering crowd and the entire crowd completely stops like ‘huh?’ and ONE guy says ‘what did he say?’ as clear as ever it had me crying

[@robokid20001]

That one guy was voiced by Nial who is actually Puerto Rican too lol.

[@Hevymin]

@@robokid20001 You mean Lyle.

[@3kojimbles895]

@@robokid20001 and the Christianity was right all along joke, zach made tomar say. the famous Jewish one man genocide

[@robokid20001]

@@Hevymin Yeah, I'm just a dunce

[@trianglemoebius]

How dare you not mention that one guy that was not just totally on board with killing the Puerto Ricans, but turned out to only have stayed at the rally BECAUSE they promised that.

[@purpseatpeeps8641]

I like how they only vaguely reference the fact that there are real-ish people alongside these weird freaks with a throw-away line Charlie says in the Salty’s episode: “Oh you’ve never been? Man I’ve been eating at this place since I was a homunculus.” And it’s just never referenced again.

[@jenny_therobot]

pim also says the same thing at some point, he's like "since I was a tadpole" like ok are you a frog then 😭

[@prettygirlbrainrot]

​@@jenny_therobot idk I've heard people say that in life, just meaning baby.

[@bellamydanforth4900]

It’s just something Zach likes to say lol

[@auraguard0212]

Wait, Charlie is the same species as that thing the Boss was breastfeeding?!

[@skypuppeteer]

@@auraguard0212 ...is this a joke, or have you not heard of homunculuses (homunculi?) before?

[@spoobini]

Unreal to say that one of the last roles Gilbert Gottfried ever played, was God on smiling friends.

[@Drekromancer]

Don't worry. I'm sure he's laughing his ass off in Heaven over this. 🙂

[@professionalballsinspector2006]

So basically he was portraying himself

[@spiralgodking9877]

@@professionalballsinspector2006 Yes, he was.

[@Sm0k3turt]

Rest in piece my dude. He’s god now

[@jaqiqi33]

I'd like to think that he finished the voice acting and after seeing it on TV he was just like "Y'know what would be really fucking funny?"

[@mad_limes]

i saw someone say that it’s very clear that smiling friends was written by adults and not 14yo boys in a locker room and that perfectly describes why i like this show so much

[@pepesilvia429]

bro thats the top comment on this video

[@theleviathan3902]

The shit 14 year old boys come up with is way funnier than paradise PD

[@fawnieee]

​​@@theleviathan3902 as someone who grew up with 14yr old boys and was in a friendgroup with mostly buys. No. Not even remotely.

[@huntehrerrhr6581]

​@@fawnieeehave you seen paradise pd?

[@Doomantor521]

@@huntehrerrhr6581 yk you can edit your comment and not need a new one to correct yourself

[@liammaddox6833]

One moment that made me laugh the most was Charlie and Pim being genuinely impressed by the witch's onion cutting skills whilst they were being cooked

[@Rise65487]

Probably because that reaction was extremely relatable, I literally had the same reaction hen I saw her do it It's all about expectations, You know they're probably not in any danger, and they thought the same So since you don't have any expectations for what is about to happen, you immediately react to the first thing that deserve a reaction, So once she start cutting theses onions, the only thing you can really think of is how good she is at it Which is also why both Pim and Charlie had the same reaction

[@doublebassman123]

The Renaissance Men is fucking genius.

[@ziwuri]

@@Rise65487 No, I think it's funny because they don't know they have plot armor so they're probably thinking they're actually gonna get eaten. But they still take a moment to admire the witch's cooking skills.

[@justaguyonyoutube4592]

@@Rise65487 Hey, it’s you lmao

[@merucrypoison296]

Controversial unpopular option: hellbenders is a million times better than smiling friends I’m sorry

[@GlaZim]

I love how Jeremy has 3 frames of getting hit animation and the rest are 200 frames of pure and detailed agony.

[@Plaguedocwhoneedsabreak]

Timestamp?

[@connorissexy4209]

ngl it definitely brings to mind the family guy bit where Peter does that after hitting his knee or something. of course smiling friends dunks on family guy but i can see the inspiration there

[@erikm8373]

The Renaissance Men gag is good, but my favorite natural conversation style joke in the series is Alan following the mouse that took his precious piece of cheese into the walls of the office, where there's just some guy on his computer, insistent that Alan is being weird about the situation and it was rude to come in without knocking.

[@colorblockpoprocks6973]

isn't that Gumball Watterson?

[@exetone]

​@@colorblockpoprocks6973no it's nick wolfhard

[@creatorofanimation]

​@@exetoneIt's actually Finn Wolfhard, I think Nick does the voices of some of the blibblies

[@hotbgirl]

Favorite Joke hands down and it was voiced by Finn Wolfhard

[@WobblesandBean]

Yeah, that guy was being legit sus though. What was he hiding?

[@war2theren227]

The Brazil episode is one of the most realistic things I've seen in a cartoon. It really does feel like people just having a conversation.

[@loveydoveywomanH20]

Especially the way they pause the conflict for the waitress

[@iamchico]

Dude where can I watch the Brazil episode? I’ve literally searched far and wide.

[@helendamnation2611]

@@iamchico hbo max

[@antisocialnoel]

The way Mr. Boss spoke to them over the phone really felt like a real phone call you would have in this situation

[@war2theren227]

@@antisocialnoel It genuinely does, I wouldn't be surprised if they just called the VA and it was all improv'd

[@demonman905]

"And Smormu." Glad Jay remembered Smormu. After all, it cannot be undone!

[@theburningphoenix]

Yeah but Smormu died and didn't come back.

[@ScringleScrobble]

@@theburningphoenix they said that about Charlie but look what happened!

[@TimoIvvie]

Smormu went to heaven though, he died peacefully by dancing himself until he had a heart attack and died

[@cringepolice5658]

@@TimoIvvie no he did not. His body is beaten and bruised.

[@jhawkshaw]

R.I.P Smormu. Always in our hearts 💕😢 🙏

[@DAMIENDMILLS]

The best part of the Smormu joke is that you get a great pay off by staying til the end of the credits to see an in memorium for Smormu who apparently died right after the end of the episode. So Smormu WAS about to be a permanent character, but we never know when someone is about to die. Plus it looks like Smormu died horrifically.

[@askewman37]

One of my favorite jokes in this show is in the pilot during the scene with Pim’s family. It’s going horribly for a number of reasons and his sister’s boyfriend is just sitting there not saying or doing anything, which is funny on its own. Then out of nowhere, he pukes on the table. Not enough to make it a gross out gag, just to be something unexpected. But the best part is he hangs his head down in shame and says “Sorry. Sorry, I ruined it.” Something about him thinking that he somehow ruined this awful family dinner is just hilarious to me.

[@foxxxxx]

Hes also voiced by the creator of newgrounds which makes it funnier

[@samwallaceart288]

Yeah it's like Chad was actually nervous about meeting Amy's family

[@foxxxxx]

@@thebasedgodmax1163 ratio

[@theindie-vidual2188]

@@thebasedgodmax1163 Family guy would also linger on the joke and have him puke 4 times in a row interrupting characters whenever they try to call attention to it or try to steer away from it.

[@askewman37]

@@thebasedgodmax1163 The thing is though, it would be, because the Family Guy version of that joke would just have the vomiting go on for a full minute

[@B1gSc4ry]

My favorite scene is when Glep is sleeping on the bean bag. He looks so relaxed and makes me feel relaxed lmao

[@WonderlustThing]

Glep, the Shrimp, Mr. Frog, Alan and Jeremy are my favorite lol

[@I_am_a_cat_]

Anything with Glep is the best

[@gormpus]

He's such a cutey pie in that scene

[@pootypootytangtang4k]

i love glep

[@joederp5940]

I love how Charlie's personality can be summed up as "A rust player".

[@dragonsember]

It's all the introduction he needs

[@HazielBlack]

@@dragonsember pretty much!

[@jonathankent1517]

@Hooty HOOT HOOT A "GamerTM".

[@Myrdin90]

That was a funny surprise

[@imakitty1547]

“ you’re really one of those rust players aren’t you “

[@osheroth]

24:05, somehow for me it was even funnier how Charlie was legitimately so pissed off that he didn't respond how you would expect from other media like "damnit Jeremy! I told you that I would punch you if you did that again!", he was so genuinely annoyed that the replied with "I said I was gonna *do* that if you *did* that again", it felt raw, almost unscripted, a situation in which you really wouldn't give a shit about sounding redundant with the did and do This sounds so dumb but it genuinely makes me laugh how real they managed to make that scene feel

[@Jm-ki4su]

the best part about Smiling Friends is the unending wave of enthusiasm it has, never settling on pessimistic, nihilistic crap. desmond's glow up is still a dopamine shot for me.

[@braedzero8127]

Straight up my favorite part of the show, and it's such a breath of fresh air compared to other animated adult comedies in the past 10 years

[@ywoisug8845]

​@@Darth_Bateman pym lmao

[@deuce5546]

Rick and Morty but actually good

[@miserirken]

@@deuce5546 R&M fails at presenting nihilism and pessimism, yet rarely gave the audience any alternative to that. Yes, R&M has sometimes deconstructed nihilism, but then what? It gives you nothing to contrast. Just by existing by each other's side, Charlie and Pim both make a better job at presenting different views at different conflicts. And even the show itself goes further on this presenting Frowning Friends too.

[@James2005.]

Bro I ain’t even kidding Desmond’s big day out pry did more for me than a silent voice. Of course a silent voice is better because, I mean, just watch it. But it wasn’t quite like watching smiling friends and actually smiling afterwards.

[@slanderman92]

Smiling Friends reminds me of The Amazing World of Gumball. Its the only other show i’ve seen that uses completely different styles and animation methods to portray it’s supporting cast. And both shows do it to great affect

[@adelina-805]

fucking love both of these shows

[@Josh0639]

courage the cowardly dog did it too and chowder i think

[@AbstraktNG]

When I watched smiling friends I thought “this is gumball but for adults”. They both are so random and have unique and funny jokes

[@BincentFifth]

It's like taking all the good parts of Gumball, Regular Show, and something like Uncle Grandpa and mashing it together and sending it through adult swim.

[@Catnado_22]

The amazing world of gumball but for adults. Adult swim is apart of Cartoon Network too.

[@michaelhegwood9977]

The fact that no one in the main cast can't be described as "cynical dick" or "exists to be dumped on" just elevates the show in so many different aspects.

[@DmitriDmitri]

No later-season Ricks and no Megs

[@karlazeen]

Whats the deal with these "finally its here" comments?

[@SorowFame]

@@karlazeen I think they’re bots, I’m not sure what the link is but probably don’t click it

[@DmitriDmitri]

@@karlazeen I think it's just a form of obnoxious guerilla marketing

[@DoctorCyan]

I love happiness!!!!!!

[@GenericProtagonist7]

The best part of the Jeremy gag is that he's a reference to a hypothetical that Zach posed to Chris and Tomar on Oneyplays during their playthrough of "Witch Hunt", where Zach asked the others how they would respond to an alien coming up to them and going "DUH, DUH DUH, DUH" while throwing his hands into your face, Zach and Chris both agreed simply that "I would punch him". I noticed it immediately because the alien hypothetical was one of ky favorite moments from Oneyplays at the time so i found it absolutely hysterical

[@skypuppeteer]

This is how I feel about the forest demon being ripped to shreds; I remember Zach talking about animating a clip where there's this big family sitting at a table, ready for dinner but no food there, until one of the parents arrives home, throws a monkey on the table, and the children start literally ripping it to shreds and eating it violently. And paraphrasing what Zach had said "it would only be 30 seconds long" I both wanted it to be real and not wanted it to be real, but you can so clearly imagine the frantic chaos of that kind of scene in your head, and I did--and still find--the concept of it really fucking funny. I hope Zach does go and animate one day, but I'm happy that a version of it even showed up as a gag in the show anyways lol

[@satormus8263]

@@skypuppeteer and them playing the Worms game is why there are worms in the shrimp episode

[@sn000by]

Hello! I had the pleasure of working on smiling friends as an animator, I actually animated Jeremy getting punched!! It was (clearly) my favourite shot on the show, and I put my whole back into it, so I'm super proud and glad people love it so much!!

[@apeescapefan]

thank you for making that scene all the more better

[@GrumpyTy34er]

Okay, but Smormu lost the Electoral vote. Why is he there

[@sn000by]

@@GrumpyTy34er gerrymandering

[@gettlo5]

Fucking awesome man. We appreciate you.

[@sn000by]

@@gettlo5 Thank you!! 🥰

[@UzUMaK1-Lee]

That one clip of hoops being paused and the word "cock" slowly moving up onto the screen as rock music played is funnier than the entirety of hoops combined

[@Ett.Gammalt.Bergtroll]

Only time I bust out laughing at anything Hoops-related.

[@namemcnamerton4249]

The vice grip garage music makes it.

[@thesuccessmindset8608]

This literally had me dying 😂😂😂

[@botondhetyey159]

It's like how that Duke Nukem meme was soulless and unfunny, but the absurdist meme reneissance around it is amazing.

[@vlassispolitis-a]

There's nothing to combine

[@divfede]

"And Alan just wants his fucking cheese." Don't know why but I just laughed so much

[@standardhuman8675]

he just wanted his cHEEESEEE

[@bloodood406]

“I just wanted my _CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESE.”_

[@Dog.This_Identifier_Is_Shit.]

Ah yes, Alan our beloved

[@Ahhh_01]

Why would you laugh? What's soooo funni about Alan wanting his FUCKING cheese back!?

[@Nobody-qk4xu]

You're laughing, Alan wants his fucking cheese and you're laughing

[@TheNextshadow]

Glad to see someone FINALLY acknowledge smormu. Just because he gets little screentime people tend to completely forget his arc and the integral part he plays in the plot.

[@swiftersunite]

That fact that Jeremy holds a grudge gives him more depth than most characters in Big Mouth

[@ChrisRC2008]

All*

[@RaynmanPlays]

My younger sister watches that show. When I was staying with her, I saw glimpses of it. I seriously wonder WTF is wrong with her that she would watch it. It is _so much worse_ than the jokes led me to believe it is.

[@Piper-yd5vr]

​@@RaynmanPlaysKids around ages 12 and below watch anything, man. It's unbelievable, but that's how god awful kid's youtube channels make millions of dollars. Loud/edgy = funny to most kids. My evidence to back this up is myself btw, I was one of those kids. Not proud of it

[@RaynmanPlays]

@@Piper-yd5vr She was 32 when I was staying with her. And it 100% is _not_ a kids' show. Big Mouth is about middle schoolers being horny and having sex with each other.

[@skullingtonturtle8080]

@@RaynmanPlaysglad there’s more people like me out there with that opinion on Big Mouth. But I’m also on a fringe with how much I hate ‘I Think You Should Leave’, ‘Robot Chicken’ or The Eric Andre Show. It’s all so tryhard, so exaggerated, so derivative of actual funny shows.

[@Unotuchable]

One thing I really like with Charlie is that he still does his job while being a realist, it's just that his preference for making someone smile is fixing the underlying things instead of a big grand gesture like Pim. His way of making Shrimp smile is working on his self image and getting him into the gym , he tells Satan that Satan is just focusing on dopamine hits instead of things that will make him happy. He's a bit of a grump but he's got a fair bit of emotional intelligence.

[@LetusGamer]

Yes, in other words, he's not an asshole either. He's a nice contrast to Pim.

[@wingusbingos3073]

"On the other hand we have Charlie. A RUST player" kills me every time

[@Zodishya]

its fucking got me, i can see it too

[@josephrobinson6171]

I can see why he’s not so optimistic as Charlie lol

[@ieatcrackers7351]

same

[@LukSter18998]

@@josephrobinson6171 pim

[@thrillcollectors]

I love the detail of the little sound queue that happens whenever they get someone to smile. It kinda makes it seem magical

[@MJSHappy]

My favorite part of the Smormu joke is that in the "In Memorium" part they have at the end of every episode's credits, it shows Smormu, dead on a fucking coroner's table.

[@SethAbercromby]

I also love how it's clearly telegraphed when Charlie gets up and leaves and you're already poised for the punchline of him beating the shit out of him with a baseball bat, just by the knowledge that it's Charlie and he has no patience for that bullshit.

[@justafox5356]

R.I.P. in peace Smormu James Carter. Much like the vote, his death could not be undone.

[@b3dubbs72]

Dead smormu is also a background character in the mob in frowning friends

[@gregvs.theworld451]

@@b3dubbs72 No fucking way. Which episode? (actually, given it's Smiling Friends, that's very believable, but also funny as hell and I want to see it for myself.)

[@b3dubbs72]

@@gregvs.theworld451 it’s in the frowning friends episode. He’s in the mob at the end of the episode

[@ImNotInterested83]

My favorite part about the Jeremy running joke is that the second time Jeremy does the thing, Charlie ofc gets startled, but pauses for a second before punching him. Almost like he’s remembering that he warned him to not do that again.

[@keythekidd]

Exactly. You can see him get startled, get angry, remember that he warned him and then make the decision to act on his warning. You can almost see the gears turning in Charlie’s head and it’s magnificent. A total juxtaposition to when he’s just there with minimal facial animations.

[@TravTravRA]

"Smiling Friends doesn't even look the same as itself, that doesn't even make sense--" Don't worry, the 4 Gumball fans here understood perfectly.

[@starkillersneed]

I like to think of Smiling Friends as Gumball or Regular Show if they weren't limited by being in a kids' network.

[@crestofhonor2349]

I know chowder had quite a few stop motion segments

[@promienodrzutowysamuel790]

Heeey I found one!

[@12DAMDO]

Smiling Friends is what happens when your pitch gets rejected from Trip Tank and instead of crying about it you're like "okay fine, i'll just do it myself then"

[@mangaprofilepicture5820]

@@crestofhonor2349 this, chowder, regular show, and gumball are the four horsemen of absurd animation

[@roxygaming5968]

What's funny about the Mr. Frog journalist thing is a KZbin comment I read about it a bit ago. "The way the crowd reacts to Mr. Frog eating the executive signifies that they weren't mad that Mr. Frog ate a journalist. They were mad that Mr. Frog ate a journalist and DIDN'T KILL HIM."

[@GM_SANTIAGO]

There are so many shows where the comedy is just the show screaming "SEX!!!! THE JOKE IS SEX!!!! LAUGH!!!" at you Smiling friends is just a bunch of guys coming up with meme material and saying "fuck it, put that in the script"

[@wojak-sensei6424]

My personal description of the show is that it has the improv and absurdist comedy of classic Rick and Morty, the character dynamics and writing of SpongeBob, and the creative visuals of an OG Newgrounds production. Not a bad set of traits, if you ask me.

[@guycalledcookie]

actually i think a show actually saying that would be funnier than just being that

[@GM_SANTIAGO]

@@guycalledcookie honestly, I kinda agree. A parody show like that might be kinda funny.

[@voiceunderthecovers]

ugh.. meme material? That's how we're describing it?

[@GM_SANTIAGO]

@@voiceunderthecovers who's "we"?

[@ImNotKaleb]

Including Smormu as one of the main 5 smiling friends is fucking hilarious

[@JayExci]

thank you, not kaleb

[@garibaldibritann1240]

"Don't worry, Pim! I can show this to cheer you up" (starts dancing while singing Arabian Rift)

[@blevinprawnshakes]

Lada dee da doo lada dee da lee da doo

[@optillian4182]

@@garibaldibritann1240 "It's Smormu! You voted and we listened! This cannot be undone! Smormu is here to stay!"

[@mercury2157]

@@optillian4182 In Loving Memory Smormu James Carter

[@frescopino7866]

One thing you didn't mention, and the reason why Jeremy is my favorite joke in the series, is how Charlie's punch seems to... Change Jeremy. He goes from doing an annoying high pitched sound to a distressingly real groan of pain, and the way he's animated as he folds in half almost makes him look like a 3d model of himself.

[@RyoIsamuGaming]

Not to mention it's not JUST that he's animated that way, its that he realistically reacts to how you would if you got the wind knocked out of you. You don't comically fall over - you would clutch, heave and just fold over. That's what makes the scene EVEN funnier.

[@expendableindigo9639]

It wasn’t a 3d model he’s just suddenly animated with more than 2 frames, which is indeed hilarious.

[@turtleofpride4572]

The sound always kills me.

[@Soapia99th]

For me it’s the fact he was originally only two frames, but after getting punched we see the most fluid, smoothest animation ever

[@turtleofpride4572]

@@Soapia99th the crumpling over was so realistic and visceral. Like you could feel Jeremy's pain.

[@Apowo16]

One of my favorite underappreciated parts of the Jeremy bit is that before he does his thing, Charlie looks genuinely worried for a moment and flinches when he starts waving his hands at him before realizing that's all he does

[@sovviedan6791]

20:12 This show's idea of a great running gag is literally so boring and unfunny that the magenta word cock slowly appearing to a sick guitar riff is significantly funnier

[@Crosroad]

To be fair that’s a high bar to clear, “magenta word cock slowly appearing to guitar riff” is a pretty good one

[@wendigoe]

still not funny tho but you are right

[@NamePending878]

@@wendigoe it's not supposed to be

[@cashbanooka5642]

I'd be laughing my ass off at a cock with guitar solo just because my humor is more broken than Cyberpunk 2077 at launch

[@Sydney_Belladonna]

To be fair, you're watching a video that is explaining the joke to you. Number 1 rule of comedy is that if you have to explain a joke it's no longer funny. Just go watch the show.

[@ryukrocks8843]

Not gonna lie, the scenes of them just sitting in the break room and talking like normal people are some of the funniest to me, it just feels so real. Like something you would just hear in an everyday situation but It just throws me.

[@raddaradda3996]

Then you'd love the podcast the creator/voice of Charlie was on. SleepyCabin

[@robertlee2092]

I don’t know why but one of my favourite line deliveries in the show is the very normal looking woman saying “My name is Jennifer!” after Pim asks her if her name is Shrimpina.

[@dickenba11s]

the way she looses her accent IMMEDIATELY always gets me its so perfect

[@kyon813]

"I Have Never Met This Woman. Where Is Shrimpina?" "I dunno, man, I dunn--at home, maybe?"

[@kreatona4219]

My favorite delivery is "Her name is shrimpina... she'd be a shrimp"

[@MattHaleUK]

I'm so glad you featured Jeremy. Funniest delivery of a violent gag ever.

[@ThatOneGuy8305]

You actually missed a layer on the Smormu joke. Smormu actually LOST the electoral college but won the popular vote. They subverted the trope of "electoral college undermines the popular vote" by having the popular vote lead to an outcome the viewer finds annoying and implying that the electoral college would have prevented the annoying outcome.

[@SuperLlama42]

Also, it's revealed at the very end of the credits that Smormu died, with a weirdly creepy image of a dead Smormu, so the whole thing didn't even matter. Which is ALSO part of a running gag in the credits where they have "In Loving Memory" bits for made up people with weirdly photoshopped images.

[@gregvs.theworld451]

@@SuperLlama42 Kind of a morbid thought here, but I've wondered a few times what would happen to that gag if an important member of the Smiling Friends production actually does die for real.

[@williord3050]

@@gregvs.theworld451 I wouldn’t say they’d axe the gag altogether, but you can bet they would never present an actual deceased member as part of the gag, that’s way too insensitive

[@ijustlikebees]

@@gregvs.theworld451 lets hope that never happens

[@PMARC14]

@@williord3050 you would say that, but depending on who died they may out of respect for the kind of minds that make this show, take the gag to the extreme for them as a final goodbye

[@BaronSterling]

I think a funny subtlety of the Jeremy joke is that, this one time Smiling Friends _does_ actually pull a "haha the opposite of what he said would happen happened," the character responsible for it is explicitly introduced as Hellishly bad entertainment. It's almost a meta joke about that style of joke being awful in itself.

[@alexjones4679]

Fun fact by the way, most of the lines in the conversations between Pim and Charlie were improvised by the creators of the show, and they would often just talk over the material they had come up with for the episode, creating conversations as they went. To them a lot of the comedy came from the fact that these guys aren't normal cartoon characters; that they breathe, if you got them with a hammer they get seriously injured, and that these weird absurdist jelly bean things are just talking like normal dudes.

[@GameyRaccoon]

I watch the create unknown too

[@LactaytheCow]

Smiling Friends is like if The Regular Show and Gumball had a child that loved adult humor

[@yurtthesilentgod1225]

Thank goodness this show was made. Frog man moving around always killed me.

[@hectorbarrera8046]

And that lady in the end.

[@kyon813]

Hello, heh heh...

[@mercury2157]

@@hectorbarrera8046 and the producer

[@James-od3hg]

Probably my favourite joke in the entire series is when Alan says that the Frowning Friends "have a better 401k". The nihilist company in this show, who constantly insist nothing matters and that everyone is going to die, provide a competitive retirement plan.

[@Mr_Original]

Now that's ironic.

[@BronzeAgePepper]

Well a lot of people endure jobs they don't like at corporations that dangle a retirement plan in front of them for decades like a carrot on a stick. In fact that sounds exactly like what Grim and Gnarly would say to convince their employees to enroll. "You're wasting your life, and all the pension money in the world won't buy you all those pointless years back, but you can at least do it for a company that's upfront about it."

[@pingucrimson750]

Just had a heart attack when I saw the “painfully” and “smiling friends”. Very glad you enjoyed it!

[@zach_is_wach]

Was about to be like, YOUVE CROSSED A LINE!

[@JacobMcBaggins]

Ahh, so you were given a basic, known premise to start with that soon ended with an absurd comedic twist. Sounds like Smiling Friends

[@theirishpotato6588]

Same. Painfully funny is a rare word combo.

[@vincentgiovanni3300]

Broooo sameeee

[@kazzajaxon7566]

Why would you care? Jay has had bad takes before, if she didn't like a show that you did would it really matter all that much?

[@Daryom]

I love this show man, you didn't mentioned it but the voice acting its also so on point, there are tons of funny quotes that by themselves arent that funny, but how they deliver them its just hilarious, like that part where Pim tells a story with his dad and Charlie ends the joke with a deadass "Wait, you kiss your dad on the mouth?" It just shows how important are the little details, you don't need to make a super clever joke with a great punchline that makes you roll on the ground of laughter. One of my favorite scenes on the show is when they met Desmond for the first time, while Pim is talking there is an "animation error" on the lenght of his head nerve, which is actually noticed by Charlie, who quickly turns to see Pim but when he already has full focus on him, the error is gone, which leads to a few seconds of Charlie being visually confused, looking out for whatever he saw and then just giving up on that. As you mentioned, it's just so funny seing how they react so realistic to certain things when their whole environment its absurd.

[@gargles5270]

my favorite part of the smormu joke is “this cannot be undone!”. the delivery is perfect, his stupid “dada dee dada doo”, this show is just a fucking work of art

[@kyon813]

How Charlie _immediately_ gets sick of it and just dips while Shrimp and not!Shrimpina are still making out

[@SevenThirteen]

Not to mention at the end credits the "in loving memory" bit IS smormu who apparently died of asphyxiation

[@ChatterboxFM]

What I love most about this series is how genuine Pim, Charlie, Alan, and Glep feel. I know it sounds fucking weird, especially from an incredibly creative (and funny) shit-post of a show, but they all seem to enjoy each other’s company. Like nothing feels mean-spirited in their daily interactions with each other.

[@daboshi]

Don’t forget about Smormu

[@ChatterboxFM]

@@daboshi THIS CANNOT BE UNDONE

[@chickennuggetpaw]

I know right! They found the right balance where the characters are able to rag on each other a little without it coming off like they hate each other. They interact like real minimum wage employees would.

[@sulsulii810]

I just finished the series and this is definitely best exemplified in the Brazil episode. Like, you can tell Alan and Charlie are upset Pim didn’t book the hotel, but you also believe them when they say they’re not mad at him. They can see their friend apologetic and distressed about something he genuinely didn’t understand, and they can’t be upset at him because of that.

[@themiraculous0447]

I love that they animated the alien on the TV spinning, even tho you can barely see it in the corner.

[@realkingtoast]

11:46 This is undoubtedly my favorite aspect of the show, and to that extension episode 9, season 1 is my favorite episode. The idea of a beach episode just for Pim to screw it up and then have the characters go through by far the most REALISTIC depiction of a failed vacation for the entire duration without a SINGLE joke or bit is absolute comedy gold to me.

[@merleawe_]

I think the way to describe Smiling Friends, is that its a show based in internet humor. This show really embraces the random absurdist nature of internet humor down to cursed images and stylistic differences. For instance, a lot of the stuff thats fast with no inbetweens, and the sudden screaming and cursed drawings is something youtuber Sr Pelo is pretty famous for. And they hired a youtuber to do the hobbit parody character. So they are definitely aware of youtube animation culture, and I think this show really pays a lot of homage to the types of absurdist animations you see around the youtube animation community. But it isn't soley that either. There is definitely a lot of originality and stylization they put into the show themselves.

[@tentinquarantino876]

And not just that, there were many cameos too. I bursted with laughter when I heard "Number 15... Can I get a... Number 15...?".

[@emmafountain2059]

The showrunners Zach Hadel and Michael Cusack both started doing animation on Newgrounds and youtube forever ago. Not only are they familiar with internet humor they were both pioneers of the format. Zach’s channel/username is psychicpebbles and Michaels is just Michael Cusack. If you like their stuff theres a bunch of it out there

[@leroyalty1]

@@tentinquarantino876 that joke will always get a laugh out of me and it's hilarious they got it in the show

[@lightbulbholder4508]

I honestly won’t be surprised if they actually hired Sr Pelo

[@pillblenderyaoi]

@@tentinquarantino876 burger king foot lettuce

[@distilledwill]

The Jeremy joke in the first scene doesn't stop when Charlie tells him to stop - the joke is that he's in hell, but all he has to do is tell the guy to stop and he will, and then so in effect the joke continues for the rest of the scene (and in fact for the entire time that Charlie is in hell, fairly easily avoiding any danger) as Jeremy stands awkwardly in the background.

[@sockmon1]

Terry pratchett has a similar parody of hell, all the traditional torture has been replaced with mustard yellow office cubicles and endless progress reports. The occupants of hell often reminiscing about the good ol' days when a man could just have his spleen removed for eternity, like an honourable defiler of the gods should.

[@esobelisk3110]

@@sockmon1 which book is this from?

[@sockmon1]

@@esobelisk3110 I think it's called 'Eric', it's a about rincewind being mistakenly summoned by a teenage demonology geek called Eric and they go on a silly adventure through the bowels of hell and the multiverse.

[@esobelisk3110]

@@sockmon1 thanks! sounds like a fun premise :)

[@mad_the_monk]

Such a good show - so glad Zach Hadel and Michael Cusack made such a masterpiece - they deserve all the success they have!

[@Ctrewix]

smiling friends is just as bad as paradise pd how do people like it

[@chasesallegory738]

@@Ctrewix Actually baiting

[@miserirken]

@@Ctrewix maidenless behaviour.

[@Alltheprayers]

@@Ctrewix _🤡_

[@Ctrewix]

@@chasesallegory738 no im not the show sucks

[@shiraso7706]

it's like the whole thing was animated by the guy who made "GET OUT OF MY CAR NOW"

[@UwULilyKitsune]

it was (well not entirely alone but hes the guy)

[@shiraso7706]

OMG seriously?? thx for the info :D@@UwULilyKitsune

[@UwULilyKitsune]

@@shiraso7706 im pleasantly surprised this wasnt a woosh thing, but yeah, psychicpebbles is one of the creators of the show and voice actor of charlie, he also used to be on oney plays, funny guy

[@shiraso7706]

loll nah i was being serious i really didn't know but i love this animation so much i couldn't help but notice how similar it was to his style! thanks for letting me know, i love this show even more now!@@UwULilyKitsune

[@Wailerman]

​@@UwULilyKitsuneI thought he still appears sometimes, but I really don't know, since I don't watch Oney

[@who_be_dis8356]

The artstyle choices kinda remind me of Amazing World of Gumball, in that the artstyle varies based on the charecters portrayed.

[@TheFuzzyOcelot]

the "funny little alien reacts to violence in a completely realistic way" jokes always make me laugh very aggressively

[@inactivecosoekvjsz]

Smiling friends seems like a pure outlet for Zachs maniacal and mundane humor. The amount of realistic arguments or conversations in this show that i could genuinely see happening irl is insane

[@benitoswagolini3410]

Some moments just feel like an oneyplays segment.

[@mrrobs673]

15:45 every turn Glep does on the cube, doesn’t change anything, that also made the scene funny for me

[@Electricdynamite]

"The five smiling friends Pim, Charlie, Glep, Alan and Smormu." he gets it.

[@benitoswagolini3410]

Smormu! You voted and we listened!

[@LoganWH8]

R.I.P. Smormu, gone but not forgotten.

[@nickthomas7983]

This killed me

[@ayakkoblake2887]

@@benitoswagolini3410 This cannot be undone

[@benitoswagolini3410]

@@ayakkoblake2887 smormu is here to stay!

[@axson8]

The fact that the Jeremy Joke exists because Zach wanted to see a 2007 grainy video of Jimmy neutrons dad being punched by a ex-marine to the point of him snoring is big comedy.

[@th3d3wd3r]

Plus the obnoxious alien shouting "duh duh duh" while flailing his hands in your face. Really what this story shows is how much of a fucking monster Tomar is.

[@chucky_music]

Evidence pls

[@pissfrog]

@@chucky_music you’re asking someone to sift through hours of let’s play content to find you a clip

[@chucky_music]

@@pissfrog yes

[@amneenja5720]

​@@pissfrog did you find it

[@MrPoopenFarten]

Zach mentioned in a podcast that one of the original ideas for Smiling Friends was that it would be weird and wacky characters just doing regular stuff. The idea that these cartoon characters could get hurt or get annoyed was a key aspect they wanted in the show. Also personally I just love the background jokes. Stuff like how Charlie kept trying to wrestle the gun in Frowning Friends, the guy just curb stomping a dude's head and it just gets more mushed each time it shows it, or the craziness in Pim's house.

[@NesstheEchidna]

When I rewatched the Shrimp episode I noticed that rotoscoped guy was just randomnly in Pim's house and the girl's house while all their kids are running around and it just made me lose my shit

[@CDR_Droid]

I hate how I noticed that the Rubik's cube at 15:24 is unsolvable.

[@Bleacherzzz]

He's working on it chill out bro

[@dingdawng]

How is it unsolvable?

[@junietwoknees]

@@dingdawng two white center tiles, there is only one center tile of each color and they cant move.

[@dingdawng]

@@junietwoknees Ah ok, thank ya.

[@michaelhegwood9977]

"I've seen way worse stuff on the internet" is something that needs to be in every obnoxious full of itself piece of art

[@yaogwai]

The funniest part to me is just how uncanny and in turn funny flat colored, strangely proportioned characters that just act like real breathing….things, is They breath, they sneeze, they get sick, they have interests, they get shit in their eyes, they trip, they get confused, they ask questions, their voices change to fit the situation, it’s like if you took a regular human, stripped its skin off and crammed it into the body of a 9 year olds imaginary friend

[@merwan1018]

Stripping the skin is a bit too much

[@technodoge]

@@merwan1018not really, considering that’s something that could happen in the smiling friends world.

[@navyntune8158]

​@@merwan1018we're talking about a Zach Hadel work here. Nothing is off limits.

[@sukunasgaylover]

By far my favorite joke in Smiling Friends is Wall Guy. It resembles that formula you talked about about how there are realistic conversations in the middle of this extremely bizarre world. The fact that he is never mentioned or seen before or after makes it even funnier imo.

[@mitchpitch]

"You should really knock or let yourself be known before you enter someone's place"

[@benitoswagolini3410]

I think he might have been killed by the blimlys.

[@th3d3wd3r]

Mad that he's voiced by Finn Wolfhard too hahaa

[@redkingrauri3769]

On the subject of the character animation and designs, I adore what they did for Mip in the Enchanted Forest. Not only is he animated by Harry Partridge and given design and movement to emulate the Rankin Bass Hobbit movie, but Mip is the only character with a drop shadow as if he's made with physical animation cels. There's even a part where Mip is blurry where everybody else isn't because it's as if he never got a cel for that shot so they had to superimpose it with a faraway camera shot. That same episode has a witch who when flying away has her entire flight animation just be a tween follow a shaky path. And it's hilarious. I love Smiling Friends especially when the animation itself is the joke.

[@christopherauzenne5023]

26:00 another thing that adds to the smormu joke, the announcer says the change cannot be undone but after the end credits we see a "in memory of" for smormu meaning he died somewhere between the end credits which are less then 30 seconds and the image they picked of him is his not freshly dead corps from the morgue showing as little respect for him

[@BigMikeMcBastard]

RIP in Peace Smormu fly fly

[@lavender_XP]

smormu james carter, more than a friend he was family to me fly high smormu, fly high

[@AnalyticalScribe]

The little enhancement to the Jeremy joke is the fact that we just got a montage of Charlie going through multiple hazards in Hell, inferring Jeremy was trailing him the entire time just to jump him unexpectedly.

[@Mythonaut]

The whole idea of the relatable being married with the bizarre is exemplified in something that Zach said about the character designs, paraphrasing: “they’re like weird colorful critters but you also see their chests rise and fall when they breathe”

[@owling]

This may be the first occasion where explaining the joke makes it even funnier

[@spenceduggs]

Genuinely my favorite "adult animation" show from the past decade. Nothing else works like Smiling Friends does.

[@vapid6311]

well, arguably monster lab does, but they both came out of the same great fertilizer, so it's expected they might be a touch better than the crops grown in the desolate badlands of family guy cutaway jokes.

[@josiahtheawkward6008]

A couple notes 17:00 I love how that wasn’t a one-off disagreement the two characters had, because in the season finale, they start bickering again and it felt natural because in the previous episodes it shows while the two care about each other, they have disagreements and they can annoy each other, like the “you missed the best part” scene in episode 1, the fact that Pim brought back the wrong girl in episode 3 and Evil Pim in episode 6. They slowly showed that the characters have complicated feelings for one another in a nice way and it didn’t feel forced when they argued in the finale. 26:00 what makes it even funnier is that in the credits of each episode, they do a fake memoriam for a fictional character, and you’ll never guess who died at the end of this episode :) that’s such a funny way to explain why Smormu doesn’t appear in any more episodes, when he could’ve just disappeared and no one would’ve batted an eye because many shows always have a one-off character that just poofs with no explanation. Everything that happens in this show is either completely fucking random or has a purpose and sometimes these mix into each other.

[@sinitheexcellent3654]

The Smormu death card at the end is funnier because for the rest of them, the photos they show of the deceased are regular photos showing them alive and happy. Smormu's picture looks like his corpse after dying from a crack overdose

[@ender691]

@@Flightcontrol96 new creepy pasta?

[@comicconcarne]

A Checkov's gun without any functionality is classed on TVTropes as a "brick joke". You throw the brick in one scene, it lands in another. One of personal favorites is Sandy Cheeks saying "I don't know why, but I think I'll kick Spongebob's butt tomorrow," and then ending the episode kicking him out of a stadium shouting "that's for yesterday Spongebob!" The best Doctor Who manage to turn some callbacks into decade-long brick jokes.

[@LucasDeziderio]

Wait, what are some of the Doctor Who decade-long jokes? I need to know now!

[@fletcher1710]

@@LucasDeziderio "Are you my mummy?" "Would you please pay attention?"

[@The_Blue_Otaku]

@@fletcher1710 "Always take a banana to a party Rose banana's are good"

[@Speed-TV]

I thought gumball was the only possible combination of a multi-media comedy show, but I stand corrected

[@joebert_]

the fact the entire season was made with the budget of one family guy episode is absurd, im extremely excited for more content

[@Greywander87]

Minimalism is a lost art. Too many big companies feel like they can create quality just by pouring enough money into something. Limitation is a great source of creativity, as you're forced to find novel solutions in order to achieve your goals within those limits.

[@Jumbo58067]

It's got a advantage because the main artists have both been grinding out this shit for decades, i can't speak too well for Michael cause I've never followed his stuff but I've been following zach's content for the better part of a couple decades and he's outright said several times that making a show was his big end goal. Smiling friends isnt just being pushed by a budget and people who want to get paid, its people who have been leading up to this for their entire artistic career, it has passion Plus they are both really fucking funny in a unique way

[@Greywander87]

@@Jumbo58067 Yup, this is the same way that indie dev studios can consistently put out highly successful games on the fraction of the budget of a AAA game, and while the AAA game might technically make more money, the proportions between profit and budget are much smaller, to the point that some games can make more money _and_ still fail to make money due to bringing in less than what it cost to make. I feel like movies are in a similar position, though you don't really have "indie movie studios", so the closest thing would probably be KZbinrs. It's all about people who are passionate about what they do _and_ have the skill to back it up. People like that are hard to find, and when a big company _does_ manage to hire someone like that, it seems like they invariably screw it up by being too controlling (i.e. executive meddling).

[@LastSliceOfPie77]

Satan is actually CGI but made to look like very convincing stop motion. Guessing it's the same for forest demon. Love the amazing world of gumball approach they take. Just cram every animation style together, anything goes. Makes suspension of disbelief easy when everything is surreal.

[@fritzophrenia3146]

I remember listening to that create unknown episode with Zach on it, I might be making this up, but didn't he say the forest demon was the real deal?

[@moviemaximum8600]

No, the Forest Demon was Stop Motion animated.

[@creed8712]

That’s a style I’m glad is being used now cause it means an animation studio could make a “stop motion film” without needing the larger budget for it. Baby Yoda is also an example of using cgi to make something look “fake” to make it look real if that makes sense

[@user-lr8ow2jg4e]

@@creed8712 nothing beats the real deal.

[@creed8712]

@@user-lr8ow2jg4e you say that until you see how much money it costs

[@2fortsmostwanted]

My favorite thing about this show's humor is the writers' unpredictable decisions about what reality the main characters will/will not accept. Like how Charlie is so bothered by the fact that Pim doesn't realize Shrimpina would obviously be a shrimp, and at the same time they're in a restaurant called Spaghetti Disco where you can get a glass of wet spaghetti to drink and no one questions it.

[@navyntune8158]

You forgot to mention that Smormu immediately fucking dies offscreen after he's introduced

[@sgoodso1]

The funniest part of the smormu joke is that it WASN'T decided by electoral votes, there was slightly more no in electoral which just makes it all that bit funnier

[@XPGram]

I thought it was really funny when I thought it was the other way around, that they had asked the audience to vote him in but then didn't listen to them. But it seems like they did, actually, so... ? I'm not getting it.

[@saint2600]

@@gregoryford2532 No. more of a dunk on the voting system in general

[@blarg2429]

@@saint2600 Smormu wears a shirt with Clinton's campaign slogan on it though.

[@OmegaShadeslayer]

@@saint2600 Less of a dunk, as long as you understand how it works.

[@squish5299]

I'm glad someone else noticed this!! It's for sure a dunk on voting, but I feel it's also a commentary on how producers of shows (namely, adult animated comedies) can simply do whatever they want, and viewers will sit there and take it. It reminds me a lot of that one KZbinr (cannot remember their name right now to save my life) who pulled the joke of "Haha I changed my appearance, just kidding, I know how disappointed my friends would be if I changed my appearance, just kidding you're not my friends you're a bunch of strangers and I don't care about what you think." It has that same sense of "wouldn't it be so funny if your input actually mattered, you know for a fact we don't care about you" and I think it's riffing on larger studios in that sense.

[@maijapoppanen218]

The "Yeh" of the baby that the boss is breastfeeding is hilarious. I also love all Jeremy-moments

[@joshaboi7467]

One of my favorite gags is Smormu's horrifically dead face centered in a "In loving memory" slide at the end of the episode, like they got the picture from the morgue after he suffered some incredibly traumatic death, it's absurd in so many ways

[@spongekitkat0422]

The fact that the different art styles are from the creators that I watched during their og youtube cartoon days, is absolutely amazing. 10 yrs ago, like I'd never imagined that a random youtube animator would get a show on adultswim. The more I watch this show, the more I recognize another youtuber animator I'm a huge fan of

[@ellagage1256]

I love the scene where Pim's hair strand grows for literally no reason for like half a second, and Charlie notices it but isn't really sure if it happened or not. All the humour is in the way it's animated

[@RealCrisFormage]

Where???

[@ellagage1256]

@@RealCrisFormage Same scene being shown in the thumbnail kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHOtqoGLlL6fprs happens around 0:15

[@RealCrisFormage]

@@ellagage1256 ty

[@bfgfanatic1747]

It's actually an exposed nerve ending.

[@Whightknight16]

That isn't hair it's just an exposed nerve ending

[@zepperman2679]

I'm saddened you didn't touch upon the Century Egg joke where Charlie sounds like he's crossing his fingers when he promises to bury the Egg in China, but then at the end of the episode, he actually does it.

[@standardhuman8675]

and then digs him back up so pin can eat him

[@anib8863]

@@standardhuman8675 "Ok, you have to try it at least once."

[@Dhips.]

It's a good reversal on Charlie too. He seems like he might be someone to lie like that, but in reality he keeps his word.

[@giorgiokowsar4803]

I really enjoyed the fact that they managed to implement jokes from Oneyplay keeping them funny in the context of the episode and giving a treat to old fans of Chris and Zach.

[@Megaflare47]

Examples like Zach always being animated as the guy with the big nose, the devil saying "exactly what I wanted actually"

[@ibendover4817]

Fun fact... smiling friends was partially funded by taxfunds in victoria, Australia as part of one of their film programs, but was geoblocked from being streamed in Australia which is kinda funny. We had to use a vpn to watch it.

[@Dezaldude987]

I love how the smormu joke doesnt end there. He actually shows up in the end card obituary which explains why he never shows up again

[@SaintMaxxi]

F for Smormu. I voted for him I think

[@SpiralSine6]

I hope they find the man who took Smormu from us, gone too soon F for the Smore-Man

[@kuzakabob746]

zach is just a good ass writer, “comedian”, and artist, he understands true comedy so ofc this would be amazing

[@benitoswagolini3410]

Why'd you put comedian in quotations?

[@kuzakabob746]

@@benitoswagolini3410 bc in a sense he isnt a comedian more of just a funny ass guy

[@FragmentedR_YT]

@@kuzakabob746 I think that makes him a comedian though, I can see why you’d be hesitant to use that since comedian is a term associated with professionalism and therefore potential neutering and cliches to their comedy, whereas Zach comes across as naturally funny, but that just makes him a really damn good comedian, in my opinion one of the absolute best period.

[@merucrypoison296]

Controversial unpopular option: hellbenders is a million times better than smiling friends I’m sorry

[@kuzakabob746]

@@merucrypoison296 Helluva Boss PFP detected: Opinion Doesn’t Matter and has nothing to do with my message

[@draggyboi2681]

I also like that in the episode with Mr. Frog, the reason he got into all that trouble to begin with WASN'T that he TRIED to eat that TMZ reporter But that he FAILED to eat the TMZ reporter Which I find infinitely funnier

[@TippedScale]

Imagine if he actually ate him, and people just go ‘Oh.’

[@LordVader1094]

@@TippedScale I mean it's a TMZ reporter, it's entirely justified.

[@TippedScale]

@@LordVader1094 true.

[@chriswestergaard4506]

REMEMBER: The audience cheered when Mr Frog ate the TV producer

[@gargles5270]

the shock blanket on the tmz reporter was a beautiful touch

[@grezledragon]

stumbled across this like a week ago and just want to say the gag of jeremy caught me so well that i now use him as a thought-stopper. it's very hard to stay focused on my depression spiral with the noise of BLELHELHELHEEH interrupting as abruptly as he does in the show

[@stephanniemorin]

Thats...actually pretty effective