Smiling Friends - Frowning Friends Speech

[@AbandonedVoid]

The "I've seen worse stuff on the internet" is hilarious to me because it's what I always think in scenes like this

[@hilotakenaka]

"In the next episode of Smiling Friends, Pim and Charlie investigate a Uyghur detainment camp in northern China"

[@femmefuntime]

Yeah someone showed me that subreddit of dead and mutilated people and I’m like “welp I’m never gonna sleep right again”

[@amtra1778]

@@hilotakenaka -1000000 social credit, nothing happened to the Uyghurs. You will now be dealt with by Zhuan Xina and Dwayne the Wok Johnson.

[@TheAsylumCat]

@@femmefuntime every once in a while someone will post gifs of people blowing their heads off in discord

[@psilobom]

Zach said before that hes seen cartel execution videos and that he and Chris both watched "Funky Town"

[@peytonalexander5300]

I feel like Lyle’s Puerto Rican line was actually just recorded during a normal conversation with him and they just found a way to work it into the show.

[@DarkhalfBreed]

Isn't he Puerto Rican

[@Abdega]

@@DarkhalfBreed Yeah he has the KPR pass

[@TheWonderfulLadthony]

@@DarkhalfBreed and Lyle has gone on record saying he hates himself it's in character

[@schnoz2372]

@@Abdega lmao the kpr pass damn wow

[@Punisher2191]

Well, he IS the Latino Cream King. There can only be one.

[@JohnDoe-gh2dw]

Gotta love how accurate this is- EVERY wannabe self-proclaimed nihilist turns out like this.

[@steviegilliam5685]

Yeah, life is meaningless until your on your deathbed or someone you care about is

[@erigor11]

This is not nihilism at all.

[@steveluna1627]

@@erigor11 nah most nihilist don't have the balls to follow their philosophy till the end

[@erigor11]

@@steveluna1627 Which has nothing to do with what I said. How many "nihilists" deaths have you witnessed by the way?

[@ArthurSilva-ql4zd]

fr tho

[@umjammerlammy9993]

“You mean mainstream nihilism can’t be trusted?!” - Calvin & Hobbes

[@someeejit]

“Childhood is so disillusioning”

[@orangejoe2147]

Y’know, thinking about it more, calvin and Hobbes books actually have a pretty similar style of humour to zach and Chris

[@SomeGuyandanAmbulance]

@@orangejoe2147 You’re right! Calvin and Hobbes is basically a series of hypotheticals too

[@mrgrizzski]

@@SomeGuyandanAmbulance "Chris what would you do if you built a 3 headed snowman, and it came to life and started terrorizing the neighborhood."

[@TripleDeckerSupreme]

Rick and Morty fans after watching the Pickle Rick episode

[@francovizstudios]

The Bossman’s “HEY” while pointing the assault rifle at frowning Pim when he reaches the top fucking slays me everytime

[@isral8765]

Reminds me of Punisher lmao

[@zerodark3505]

Sounds like Jon Bernthal in the Punisher

[@quinnholloway5400]

It's scary how quickly the boss can go from being...well a good boss to his employees To rushing up to kill the owners of a competeing business that wants to make everyone sad and unhappy

[@TVkingOmega]

FINALLY! Somebody said it! I laugh my brains out every single time.

[@boneor...7022]

His name is Grim

[@Nano-hw6gn]

1:46 Lyles classic line

[@Fox-983]

Almost as classic as his one eye

[@rommlll]

known as The Style of Lyle

[@kveitearbi3668]

wasnt lyle mcdouchebag a puerto rican?

[@scarletcosmo]

@@kveitearbi3668 He used to be

[@Lvidtoboggan]

@@scarletcosmo now he's just brown

[@lennypensante5309]

Smiling Friends just roasted all these 15 years old Rick and Morty's fans in their nihilist phase

[@stanpines9011]

Goddamn, i didn't want to be reminded of that. I used to be an absolute nihilist shitstain when i was 15. Glad things changed in the 5 years after that.

[@ginogatash4030]

@@stanpines9011 I mean it's normal for teenagers to have this kind of phases, it's the 20/30 year olds who genuinely think like this that you should worry about.

[@stockimageguy8941]

What's wrong with nilihism?

[@ginogatash4030]

@@stockimageguy8941 not so much nihilism itself as much as the esthetic of what teens believe 2532388432 IQ nihilism looks like.

[@stockimageguy8941]

@@ginogatash4030 I agree with that statement. I don't understand people who think they're geniuses for getting nihilism because the concept itself is insanely simple. It's literally just "nothing has inherent meaning or value". That's it, but I wouldn't say it isn't true either.

[@GoldenDragon1777]

As an actual puertorrican, this got me very off guard jeez that was funny really out of context

[@Nando75549]

Same.

[@mrklockwork1]

Same

[@scootza1]

How did the show get you out of context? Are you a non-contextual puerto rican?

[@lazy1518]

Same here what the f u c k ?

[@wildercerrate7295]

I get the same feeling everytime Guatemala is name dropped in a comedy show

[@profanegunman7586]

1:32 This fucking character holy shit I love Zach

[@AxxLAfriku]

HELP!!! Everybody at my school cyberbullies me because they say me good good GOOD videos are extremely BAD!!! Please help me, dear peo

[@auxser]

@@AxxLAfriku no

[@echenexcetera5702]

Nah I preferred frowning Charlie saying “kinda cringe”

[@dragonmilkshake4135]

YOU'RE GETTING IN MY HEAD MAN!

[@TheRandomhobo123]

@@AxxLAfriku Kinda cringe

[@johnblunt6693]

The frowning friends being internet shit lords makes perfect sense

[@EdgieAlias]

"Kindaaa cringe..."

[@bizzaremonkey756]

shit lords? cmon man its not 2015 anymore get with the times

[@stevenblack362]

@@EdgieAlias YOU'RE CRINGE!!!

[@ImmaLittlePip]

I mean it is made by internet edgy Bois

[@admiralAlfonso9001]

@@bizzaremonkey756no

[@scrowfunk8109]

I love how the crowd is an amalgamation of Michael and Zack's character designs, and it's just completely taken in stride.

[@bunger8306]

Don’t forget oney’s fun random 3D blob creations here and there

[@christophercarrasco154]

Same thing about Hellbenders with Zack's and Chris's designs. Hopefully that becomes his thing. I feel like he's giving his co-creators a chance to show their wacky side.

[@chrisdaughen5257]

I think you can see a grown up Bowlbo

[@dnhydra777]

Everyone is either grotesquely detailed or a cartoonish scrimblo character

[@elfertrn]

@@bunger8306 i knew oney made the 3d models, he has such a unique style of 3d creatures, im so excited for bowlbo

[@guyofminimalimportance7]

The way Charlie just doesn't care about the war footage is such a great shut down of this kind of argument. Some people just don't let the existence of bad consume thier entire outlook on life.

[@Robb1977]

charlie is great for that reason, he's jaded but in a wholesome way. his world isn't shaken to the core when something bad happens, nor does he revel in the horror and put on a nihilistic mask to seem intelligent, he just sucks it up and keeps on going with his life.

[@SMA2343]

It’s funny to see Zach play the straight man

[@Elipson52008]

this isn't even that. for being the 'brutal cruelties of reality' that just was pretty tame. you see worse things on the internet , as charlie said.

[@guyofminimalimportance7]

@@Elipson52008 I think both things kind of go together. He's saying he's seen plenty of bad stuff; he already knows it happens. This kind of puts emphasis on how the allegedly crushing "horrors of reality" just aren't enough to make most people feel that way. It takes a personal weakness to decide that because bad things happen there is no good in the world.

[@bennyhana7277]

You’re probably reading into it a little too much.

[@jimbob3255]

This 2 minute clip had me dying. The fact that Adult Swim almost passed on this.

[@arseface2k934]

fr this is the best thing they've had in years

[@capitatecab6049]

@@arseface2k934 one of the best

[@donaldthump6461]

You don’t get it man. Mr Pickles is so funny after it gets 3 more seasons it will be funny bro

[@perkynaanaa6237]

@@donaldthump6461 im still bitter that they chose that mutt over hellbenders.

[@meurum2561]

I’m literally drooling from laughter, this insane.

[@mintchip6302]

Fun fact Lyle actually improvised his line here so that was straight from the heart

[@elbownio5820]

"I actually want to kill the Puerto Ricans" -Lyle Rath 2021

[@garybrown2039]

Dude come on.. We all know he was a lot more foul mouthed than what we saw here.

[@alanstringer.]

Tomar wrote his lines for this episode, or more accurately he had his Thai child slave labor force write them.

[@travisdickens4304]

Tomar had a thousand blind orphans on a thousand typewriters create his lines for him

[@tuscansun2320]

1:46 fun fact: this line wasn’t in the script and was just something Lyle said completely unprompted

[@grosezero8834]

Yeah its really weird he was actually supposed to be in the main cast but instead of reading his lines he just keeps saying that

[@tuscansun2320]

@@grosezero8834 i know right, i was one of the producers behind the scenes and all i could hear was Lyle talking about how he wants to kill puerto ricans and other minority groups, such a strange one eyed creature.

[@SlyHikari03]

That’s crazy

[@ntvm4749]

@@tuscansun2320 riiiiight, kinda cringe

[@pimenjoyer.221]

(real)

[@gulorful8488]

velma is so underrated. i think zach hadel should go to prison and egoraptor was right. pizza is awful.

[@SlyHikari03]

Same

[@Vick_or_somethin]

For real

[@lucabarredo2915]

I mean I really dont see it

[@Night5225]

And now this is where a conflict will be needlessly cultivated

[@gulorful8488]

@@lucabarredo2915 Smiling Friends is a show about a couple of workers whose job is to simply make people smile. The plot of this episode was about their rivals: a business who want to make people frown. Throughout the episode their ideals were shown to be more powerful until the very end where it was revealed that the people in charge were just sad and pathetic losers who just want to make people as miserable as they. Every adult animated sitcom nowadays has to be as cynical as possible not because it's innovative or thought provoking but because it's cool. Rick and Morty started it and lately that's all their humor has been coming down to (admittedly it has been getting better, but the damage was already done). People were lead to believe that cynicism=funny when in all actuality, it's just lazy (similar to how the FF keep saying you shouldn't better your life because it's easier). Smiling Friends however is the most optimistic show in years and its way better than 90% of most adult animated sitcoms nowadays.

[@Yipper64]

0:38 I feel like Pim represents innocence, and Charlie represents contentness, when you have both you can find happiness.

[@blackironwalterkus3851]

I thinks it’s more like pim is just a SpongeBob type character and Charlie is just a straight man

[@PinguinKeks]

what about alan gleb

[@Yipper64]

@@PinguinKeks Alan's voice is apparently an American sterotype so I think he somehow represents America, and Glep is just a cute boi so he represents cuteness. Idk we didnt get enough time with the two for me to really say.

[@marvelsandals4228]

@@Yipper64 Alan is a very detail oriented person, he wears a tie, he is often busy working on projects, cleaning things, checking the expiration dates of all the items in the fridge, etc. In episode 1 (where he gets his own B plot) his first line is "have you guys seen my piece of cheese?" & later he is counting the exact number of paper clips in a bowl, notices that ONE PAPER CLIP is missing & "interrogates" glep about it (who obviously doesn't care). Alan's just a hyper orderly, organized person, who wants everything to be just right, etc. Idk if that fits into your theory tho. I suppose, he finds a certain level of satisfaction in cleaning & organizing things, even if he often seems grumpy, that's just because he wants solve problems. I suppose this does have a role in "smiling" or happiness, whatever. Sometimes the pursuit of bringing order to your life is satisfying.

[@Yipper64]

@@marvelsandals4228 Oh yeah. When people are depressed their room is usually a mess, right? Alan being very orderly represents the opposite of that. In fact you can see that in the show as Satan has a messy room, which is a result of his depression which was why Hell was frozen.

[@slimebucket642]

The fear in Frowning Pim's voice when he's crying to The Boss not to kill him has me wheezing from laughing too hard. It sells the joke so damn well.

[@meurum2561]

Dude I was legit drooling because of it

[@LeetHaxxor]

His name is Grim.

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

@@LeetHaxxor *was

[@Titled]

@@imveryangryitsnotbutter Now It's Arrowed

[@QuantumPineapple]

I love the fact in this world there's no explanation for the cartoony characters to exist like in Rick and Morty. They are just there and can feel pain if you punch them in the chest.

[@yourehereforthatarentyou]

apparently according to zach, their race is called “critters”

[@actually-will1606]

Isn’t that great tho

[@danialshamshuddin]

It’s like in Muppets or Sesame Street where there are puppets that are basically humans but puppets.

[@Iloveyou-dz7mq]

Kinda like in squidbillies, all of the characters are bizarre af without any explanation on why they're bizarre af.

[@triplecrosscounter]

Or like in aqua teen where aliens, sentient food, and monsters of the night walk around in normal society.

[@chicharraun8525]

This show impressed more and more

[@dingdong896]

Agree

[@Fitzboy19]

I’m n-.... *impressed*

[@ultrairrelevantnobody1862]

The complete opposite of Santa Inc. Lol.

[@NoHateLikeChristianLove]

@@ultrairrelevantnobody1862 I honestly thought Santa Inc. was a show about an awful elf who was gonna learn not to be so awful after she saw that there’s more to a position then just the numbers. Or about a Santa whose ancestors awful dick not because he’s a “bad guy” but because he just doesn’t see what kind of person he’s become. But instead......

[@byHexted]

That part at 1:19 is the epitome of these type of people who say “nothing matters were all gonna die anyway I’d die right now” pissing their pants and begging to live the second they actually are faced with death

[@flightg97shadowgarth32]

"Relex, man. I was just gonna shoot you in the head and kill you."

[@JovanaSanchez000]

Gnarly was ready to face death, though.

[@mroscar7474]

Because a lot of people confuse wanting to live but not being able to with wanting to die. It’s pretty common.

[@PetitionManVEVO]

to be fair. the majority of people turn off their self preservation instincts with booze or narcotics.

[@sebastiandaoust7836]

@@mroscar7474what

[@BarrySmoother]

Mr Boss has to be my favourite character In this entire Show. He is straight up insane, creepy and gives off such an uncomfortable vibe as if he's about to murder you. But really he's just a nice guy that wants to make people smile.

[@Wingedmagician]

And kill the competition lmao

[@victoracosta4796]

@@Wingedmagician Ignoring that, he saw how pathetic the Grim was and calmed him down. And then for a few moments until they were killed, the Frowning Friends feel happiness that they didn't feel in possibly a long time.

[@Giovanni_intheflesh]

@@victoracosta4796 it looks like they were pretending to be happy so he wouldn’t kill them

[@benitoswagolini3410]

He gives off the vibe of that you don't know if he's going to give you a hug or stab you to death

[@babysealsareyummy]

This show is a masterpiece

[@AxxLAfriku]

My name: AxxL My job: Superstar I like: Handsome girls I have: 2 handsome girlfriends My dream: Have more subs than my 2 girlfriends Your name: bab

[@ASpaceQ1]

@@AxxLAfriku damn what happen to your girlfriend 3?

[@orangejoe2147]

@@ASpaceQ1 we don’t talk about girlfriend 3

[@rimfire8217]

It is

[@kuylarhudgins5802]

Mr boss is absolutely my favorite character. his urgency and determination to bring smiles is unrivaled .

[@kingtreedede7303]

I think he was more peeved off since he lost like 2B dollars or something

[@joshzuker8308]

@@kingtreedede7303 He was jealous he didn't come up with "Frowning Friends" first

[@clostridiumtetani9947]

@@kingtreedede7303 Profit motivation to do a good thing is still doing a good thing.

[@kingtreedede7303]

@@clostridiumtetani9947 didn’t say it wasn’t. I’m just saying he didn’t do it for the lulz

[@clostridiumtetani9947]

@@kingtreedede7303 If someone goes bankrupt if they don't make others lives better and gets rich if they do, I think thats a good thing

[@locochavo4560]

0:39 Charile is a mood

[@weegeeclaus695]

He is my favourite

[@locochavo4560]

@@weegeeclaus695 He's my favorite too

[@Tmaster-pb5nt]

He's my favorite as well

[@hamishwilson9787]

He's my favourite also

[@kaikysouza9861]

Yeah like, i didn't see but heard one video where a loose brick kills a man's wife in a car drive, you can really hear the pain even though i don't know what he said since it was in russian

[@pengo2418]

1:45 Lyle moment

[@Babunki2]

And a Lyle moment it was

[@armintor2826]

Oh was he voiced by Lyle?

[@engiethefriendlyengineer]

@@armintor2826 tomar and Lyle do voice cameos

[@SnipingIsAGoodJobMate]

Look Lyle it's you!

[@goodolnonamee]

Of course Lyle had his character be the only buff one lmao

[@frootsnacc6790]

Love how the Boss was so determined to just go John Wilkes Booth on Grim’s ass-

[@bergmik]

John Wicks Booth

[@avremirine8986]

His name is Grim.

[@frootsnacc6790]

@@avremirine8986 Thank you- I haven’t been able to see this episode yet and only saw this clip

[@Beefaroni_Bert]

@@frootsnacc6790 yeah their names are grim and gnarlie lmao

[@joelfett4739]

Thats just the pace id expect from you, boss.

[@charltinion5615]

I like that this show has a very balanced commentary on mental health and social anxiety. With Desmond, the message is that a lot of suicidal people don’t really get what they need, but are still pressured to be happy without addressing those issues. But here, it shows how someone else might handle it, by trying to take that depression out on the world and using it as an excuse to do shitty things. Having a show that can discuss nuanced topics like this, while also being really funny and having an overall positive message, is super refreshing.

[@KnoxEmDown]

Remember, Hell is real and Christianity was right all along!

[@gloriousblobber9647]

Charlie is a real G, even though he's a bit pissed off at times, he's really a normal person. Nihilism is fake af, Frowning Friends were nothing but lies that would probably get people tricked up in the real world.

[@alexogelatina]

Real shit

[@thegrapethief5514]

@@gloriousblobber9647 as someone who’s had to debate nihilists and the philosophy in general far too many times, I can confirm that nihilism is so unbelievably flawed and is really just embracing depression as a part of your life. 98% of nihilists got into it while they were depressed because it was easier to handle than trying to fix it. The other 2% are a mixture of extreme narcissists who can’t cope with the idea that anyone else has any meaning (thus they assign themselves arbitrary intelligence by choosing to believe in a “hard truth”) and people who just want to be edgy and contrarian to feel special. It’s a sham and don’t trust anyone who says it isn’t, they’re only trying to recruit you because misery loves company and they are reliant on some form of external validation. Don’t give them that and they’ll slowly wither away.

[@gloriousblobber9647]

@@thegrapethief5514 Depressed people need to know a form of self love and actually giving themselves proper motivation to progress. Too often I see it in modern society. Sometimes I wonder if it's their fault that there's so many of them.

[@excellentbees4408]

“Help, help! That rotten pink man is trying to bully a mentally-ill man like myself!” No one is talking about how perfect this line is.

[@-Teca-]

Rick and Morty: Wah wah wah be sad and depressed it doesnt even matter wah wah Smiling friend: Hey man just be happy :)

[@luis2008mercado]

I liked rick and morty and i find this show hilarious.

[@MiaaaaaChan]

That interpretation of R&M only works if you think Rick is right about everything. If you think the depressed alcoholic abuser is supposed to be entirely correct about his outlook on life and the universe.

[@spasebar]

@MiaaaaaChan That's only true for some episodes. there's also several episodes of the show deliberately framing Rick as right and anyone who challenges his nihilism as an hypocrite.

[@DangleBlampy]

I really like the boss character, his line at 1:28 is just very jarring and funny

[@queenofvermin]

He immediately loses the bloodshot and just tries to console the dude freaking out, which also kinda makes sense cause he literally runs a company about making people smile

[@rogerpuzzitiello5175]

0:11 I love that it sounds like the mob is gleefully cheering when being told why they should frown.

[@depressoespresso8116]

“I smile at gore, I know it’s weird” mfs when faced with any sort of conflict: 1:22

[@DakotaofRaptors]

Reminds me of that one Tiktoker filming a dying dad next to his daughter and crying when the internet called him out for it

[@SlyHikari03]

“I’ve seen worse on the internet” probably the most real thing in this show.

[@deltasquad8817]

1:21 When you find the camper that was kicking your ass the entire game

[@AntonyTheFidgetSpinnerMerchant]

When you finally find that mf sniping you in nuketown

[@misterjay4236]

This is one of those shows that make you go "What the hell" frequently. But in a good way, which is why I like it.

[@liamerolduffy7738]

It succeed where Rick and morty fails.

[@froddobaggins]

I read the "what the hell" in Zach's confused gamer voice

[@Soulraven2735]

@@froddobaggins "Erm, what the deuce?"

[@froddobaggins]

@@Soulraven2735 but seriously this game is a piece of shit

[@tiendang4440]

1:23 this scene kinda reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Jimbo was crying and Moe holding the knife down saying "I wasn't really gonna kill you, I was just gonna cut ya".

[@JackOfSomeTrades29]

Jimbo: [continues crying] Moe: ah, forget it. Love that scene 🤣

[@centipedetheking452]

Your gonna get that one person that agrees with the Puerto Rican part

[@gordogunso]

Voiced by a Puerto rican as well

[@funniman8332]

Yes, me

[@normalartist1646]

I was laughing until I realized I’m Puerto Rican 😳

[@D00dman]

I'm half Puerto Rican so I'm half dead

[@Pleasestoptalkingthanks]

Well fuck man, guess I gotta commit 50% suicide

[@annic5878]

That “OW!!” was so genuine lmao

[@themachoechidnaugandarandy7583]

I feel like the voice actor had someone nut punch him to give a genuine scream of pain

[@ScradeCottontail]

nah that's just Zach hes like that

[@butterypigeons1089]

Dude I fuckin love Charlie’s reactions,like his fuckin bloody screech at the end of the pilot,just the sudden chaos and expression of him when gets those reactions is Honeslty my favorite and has so much power

[@phabiorules]

Man, everyone here is completely ignoring the fact that the Renaissance men are coming to town.

[@Deep_phobias]

Who are the Renaissance men?

[@jazzysoggy12]

They’re just coming to town, there’s literally no other information!

[@Deep_phobias]

@@jazzysoggy12 ok. I just dont know what that is, or who they are.

[@jazzysoggy12]

@@Deep_phobias Dude I literally read the news article it says that the Renaissance men are coming to town, I don’t know anything else

[@chuckles5689]

@@jazzysoggy12 That's not Renaissance. They don't look like Renaissance men. That's like a completely different era.

[@mahpimbo9943]

Frowning Pims speech was literally my life philosophy until like 14 seconds ago…

[@sir_paniccakettv1263]

Damn what are you emo

[@suoerfucker2000]

Good thing you changed

[@-bismark]

except for the puertorrican part, right

[@goodolnonamee]

lmao what changed

[@elijahcriswell1658]

Nietze disproved Nihilism, I recommend checking out his readings if you think you “value nothing” or if you think “nothing matters”

[@maverickREAL]

Charlie just being totally unaffected is actually a great response to this mentality. "Yeah, so what, this happens all the time. It doesn't control me."

[@Timorio]

_"My_ life isn't currently in crisis, so who cares?!"

[@colerubin2200]

I love how genuinely positive this show is. Such a rare thing nowadays.

[@TigerTigerII]

Love how genuinely passionate Mr Boss is about making people smile lol

[@appalachianwarcriminal]

1:03 I like the detail on the trigger discipline.

[@rugalbernstein5913]

The amount of detail and effort going into literally everything about guns in this show is amazing tbh. They could've just drawn generic guns and had the characters do all sorts of nonsense with them, it's a cartoon after all, but the guns actually look discernible as real guns, and the trigger discipline like you said, but also he doesn't try and cock the gun to make the notorious CHK-CHK sound that most other media might. Love that attention to detail.

[@appalachianwarcriminal]

@@rugalbernstein5913 YEAH.

[@BloodInTheStrawberries]

I'm sorry I don't know much on this topic, but what does this technique accomplish in trigger discipline?/gen

[@BloodInTheStrawberries]

@@rugalbernstein5913 Yeah Zach set out to do one thing here, and he absolutely nailed it.

[@rugalbernstein5913]

@@BloodInTheStrawberries Trigger discipline is a teaching that every gun owner should follow to insure the safety of themselves and those around them. Basically, you have to treat the gun you're holding like it could kill whatever it's pointing at at any point in time because, well, it literally can. So to minimize accidents, you should never have your finger on the trigger until you're ready to actually fire the gun, and you should also never point the gun at anything you aren't intending to kill.

[@shadrakistann6833]

I like how at 0:56 they have the negative version of the “hang in there” cat poster. The background gags are so good 😂

[@luis2008mercado]

"Give up" -cat poster

[@Gaminginvrrr]

@@luis2008mercadotheir mascot should be lowtiergod

[@s-n-g-b1457]

This was the quickest rivalry to ever last

[@taquitotrash97]

1:45 Lyle’s line is extra funny when you realize he’s Puerto Rican

[@Tonba1]

This show is the antithesis of rick and morty and by god is it beautiful.

[@alfalldoot6715]

It destroyed Rick and Morty so hard Roiland had to take out his rage on his wife

[@shrimppimp4509]

I want to believe that Puerto Rican joke was a playful jab at chris raygun and tom sweeny, 2 people who are zach's friends and Puerto Ricans themselves

[@Alizudo]

The line was voiced by Lyle, a personal friend of Zach's who is also a Puerto Rican.

[@shrimppimp4509]

@@Alizudo ah that would also make sense too, I guess it's an inside joke for all of zach's puerto Rican friends who watch it, I cant wait to see the snark tank react to it.

[@Wanup_Vodka]

It was actually real hate propaganda that Tomar forced Zach to put in the show at gunpoint

[@jase276]

@@Alizudo Wait, that was Lyle? THE Lyle? Lyle McDouchebag? He's Puerto Rican?

[@Alizudo]

@@jase276 Yeh

[@sapphirewingthefurrycritic985]

Ok, the Puerto rican thing took me off guard.

[@tombkings6279]

Lmao yeah

[@SomeKindaSpy]

and the line by the character saying "I actually wanted to kill the peurto ricans" is said by a Puerto Rican actor lmao

[@natebox4550]

@@SomeKindaSpy yeah, Lyle.

[@crud420]

at least the character who says he was down is literally a bone headed individual

[@spaghettimon3851]

Lol Thankfully I'm Cuba! 🇨🇺

[@PokeDude011]

1:23 The ending of every Classic Mega Man game

[@ColdFuse96]

Fcking Dr. Wille 😂😂😂😂

[@45johngalt]

The way their boss barks "HEY!" is so great.

[@FlCl3000]

I can’t believe Zach would use his show to throw Lyle under the bus like that

[@SeanR794]

1:46 Lyle, no!

[@isaacthemonke233]

I just love the random 3D character in a sea of 2D characters He's out of place yet blends in pretty well

[@misterklonoa1602]

that’s 3D Squelton to you!

[@isaacthemonke233]

@@misterklonoa1602 I didn't know at the time until I watched the episode

[@WyattoonsComics]

0:57 I love the quick Die Hard reference with dragging the leg

[@whackycracker1987]

Wondered where that was from, witch movie specifically?

[@queenofvermin]

@@whackycracker1987 it was the first one, no?

[@WyattoonsComics]

@@whackycracker1987 Should be the first Die Hard movie I think

[@buttlord2223]

my dumbass thought it was some weird joke about diabetes

[@laylover7621]

Jesus, that's why? I was so confused as to why he just started limping for no reason lmao

[@Doogle946]

I haven't seen a piece of media describe how absurd nihilism is so eloquently since The Big Lebowski

[@ReticularTunic7]

*Grim:* Average Rick and Morty fan *Boss:* Average Postal Enjoyer

[@squarecranium4592]

Boss was the celestial gardener for a second there

[@9zxn]

"Thats not true!" "Help! Help! A rotten pink man is trying to bully a mentally ill man like myself, GUARDS SEIZE THEM" the amount of twitter vibes this produces is insane

[@ponikoTV]

it's funny since some Twitter users pretend to have mental illness and disorders to have fame and attention, I remember someone had "depression 😢💔" in their bio Another reason why twitter sucks

[@befuddlingvisage5427]

@Minwon Jang but we can all agree cancel culture is bad right?

[@eyitsaperson]

@@ponikoTV Hello reimu pfp

[@sarahzahira7432]

@@befuddlingvisage5427 indeed it is

[@jazzysoggy12]

@@befuddlingvisage5427 Actually cancel culture can sometimes be a good thing, but usually nit

[@Cnw8701]

This literally feels like an early South Park episode.

[@noahhaupt5343]

Rick and morty fans when their nihilistic beliefs are put to the test 1:17

[@MysticDiamonds5566]

Hehehe you mean this 1:22 ?

[@GU5I6]

Only 3 episodes out and this show is better than Rick and Morty

[@doughnutsandcoffee8622]

Fuck I hate rick and Morty

[@gojizard704]

@@doughnutsandcoffee8622 cynical as shit and everyines an asshole

[@QuantumPineapple]

Well this show is episodic and is proud of it. Rick and Morty has to make a meta joke every 3 seconds about whether the show is serialized or episodic and every fan feels their IQ is validated when this happens.

[@elguapo4268]

@@doughnutsandcoffee8622 Shows okay, it’s the fans that are cancer.

[@zombieranger3410]

When this scene popped up I immediately thought of two things: The News And Rick and Morty

[@skunkstriped]

The frowning friends are basically just redditors lol

[@Narokkurai]

What? The stereotype of redditors is that they're all "wholesome" and naive.

[@GigaChadh976]

@@Narokkuraii keep hearing different things about reddit from different people. Like how some say their a bunch of drooling crayon eating leftists, or ultra nazi conservatives

[@newvision4l314]

@@GigaChadh976the leftist are very few on there from what I’ve seen, it’s the people who aren’t who complain about them, making it seem like it’s more than they actually are. Frowning Friends are a closer representation of Redditors

[@calvinanderson4245]

​@@GigaChadh976It's all leftist soychuggers trying to out-cuck their fellow leftists. Don't try to understand it, you'll get an aneurysm.

[@calvinanderson4245]

​@@newvision4l314N

[@lukefromspanish4144]

Loved the Boss having a green goblin esq breakdown

[@johndavidtibbetts7320]

Just took the entire concept of nihilism out behind the shed with a shotgun holy fuck lmao

[@hoovers3770]

Yknow i find it really funny how grim pisses himself from being threatened to be shot by the boss even though he was nihilistic, and than the renasissance men just come and murder them anyways

[@Jombo1]

What a good friend Zach is, making Lyle say he wants to kill Puerto Ricans and making Tomar say Christianity is real.

[@thewarnerchannel7285]

I like how Charlie and Pim are good, so they have evil, Frowning friends as their opposites, but Alan and Gleb are neutral, so they are their own Frowning friends

[@cyberfire7191]

Zach's Hispanic accent gets me idk why I find it so funny

[@longjohn7992]

0:44 “My name is not important what is important is what I’m going to do”

[@calvinanderson4245]

I JUST FUZZY LOVE THIS WORLD

[@iancortescontreras6084]

​@@calvinanderson4245 and the human butterflies healing its carcass

[@justaguy8622]

1:23 nihilists when I put a gun to their head (they suddenly care now)

[@brichard2406]

0:33-0:44 has insane amounts meme potential.

[@AntonyTheFidgetSpinnerMerchant]

0:32-0:40 can somebody green screen this? This can work well on twitter and tik tok when people are being cringe af on those websites

[@Stareostar]

calling a guy who's crying because they have a rifle pointed at their head "kinda cringe" kills me

[@tabandoned3357]

The way that Grim's eyes starts looking like Pim's scribbly eyes when he reveals his true weak self and make him look more like Pim is just 👌

[@chaoticgoodcreations947]

1:18 There will never be another dicussion about nihilism on the internet without this being posted below it.

[@stockimageguy8941]

Unfortunately rather than engaging in a real discourse people are just gonna link this video all for the sake of getting a "gotcha" moment against supposed "nihilist". Unironically though, if people start doing exactly that I'm probably just going to laugh at them for using a short clip from a cartoon to define their entire worldview.

[@walterwhitecookingchannel8912]

@@stockimageguy8941 man you really like nihilism considering how much people you're tryna argue against huh

[@stockimageguy8941]

​@@walterwhitecookingchannel8912 Bababooey

[@ant2631]

@@stockimageguy8941 m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/gWjTeXuMesyDhc0

[@admiralAlfonso9001]

@@walterwhitecookingchannel8912you just got bababooey’d

[@TerminatorTheory]

*0:45** - **1:09** the creators really love Joker that they got the actual music artist from that movie to do this track :)*

[@josiahsmith7237]

Really how you know?

[@TerminatorTheory]

@@josiahsmith7237 *you kiss your dad in the mouth?*

[@Altraiid]

@@TerminatorTheory Really how you know?

[@TerminatorTheory]

**a green obese and miserable witch character appears screaming downward towards Charlie and Pim with her claws blabbering around**

[@HydraSpectre1138]

Warner Bros. owns both Joker and Smiling Friends. Adult Swim is WB.

[@TheIllusiveMan11]

Rick and Morty style 'nihilists' in a nutshell

[@jordanloux3883]

It has gotten to the point where the show is basically saying "RICK IS THE CAUSE OF ALL OF HIS OWN MISERY" with big flashing letters and the fans still can't get it through their heads...

[@TheIllusiveMan11]

@@jordanloux3883 Yeah like...he's not some cool pragmatic badass he's just a cruel asshole who just refuses to be happy to even try to be happy

[@Prototype9871]

0:22 *DONT GIVE HIM HIS JACKET DONT GIVE HIM JACKET*

[@fisherisawesome9547]

then doug walker would be there and shout “BUILD THAT WALL!!!”

[@NekkoBlue]

I can really tell they’re truly getting their job done when I’m grinning through their whole speech

[@fattlebieldproductions3198]

Cringy edgelord detected !

[@JoMcD21]

Now the world can witness the power of Zach and the boys. It brings a tear to my one eye..

[@nothingforyouhere418]

Wheres chris o neil

[@jase276]

@@nothingforyouhere418 They used some of his 3D animations

[@queencancerous5332]

Love how this was a huge middle finger to Rick and Morty

[@abysschef5078]

The boss dude is the scariest fucking character lmao

[@AntonyTheFidgetSpinnerMerchant]

He’s scary but with good intent

[@t3nngu]

I see this as a critique to Rick and Morty worst stuff. And I like it a lot actualy

[@benjamincarlini498]

If it's meant to be a critique of Rick and Morty then it's not an effective one because Rick and Morty isn't a nihilist show. It has a nihilist character (who's character arc throughout the series is a gradual path towards a less nihilistic attitude).

[@beanyboi2218]

0:40 every time my parents say a game is to violent for me:

[@JohnDavis-qy8yz]

it was really refreshing to see this sort of thing come from an abject villain, since so many shows would make this something the protagonist really believed to be edgy

[@mengyg]

Frowning pym is literally half of gen Z

[@nmhjjp]

Millenials*, i have seen a lot of gen z humor with lots of iterations of the n word i it.

[@Hola-tq4pg]

@@nmhjjp as a gen z myself i can confirm

[@atomnum9]

Man what's gen z got against the Puerto Ricans?

[@anhero2377]

@@Hola-tq4pg Wait, is gen z becoming racist? Interesting.

[@Hola-tq4pg]

@@atomnum9 not a generational thing but i'm from Colombia, the Puerto Ricans sold out to the yankees my man

[@margaretlavalle7721]

This is actually a huge problem in the world today. If only more real people could be more upfront about this issue

[@KrazeeKinks]

Andrew Tate fans: I can take down a robber Also Andrew Tate fans when they’re in a hostage situation: 1:22

[@nutboi6093]

The most biting and honest social commentary I’ve seen in years, we all know people like this and we’re all sick of them. They spread unpleasantness and apathy, romanticize mental illness to excuse their bullshit, and try to kill you if you so much as say you disagree on something. Thats why it’s so funny to read article saying that the show doesn’t has something to say and “thinks suicide is a joke.” It was absolutely predictable, and Hadel and Cusack must be laughing their asses off at having called it.

[@Intestine_Ballin-ism]

Take it to journos to have a message fly directly over their head

[@lucabarredo2915]

I mean jabs at nihilism and ethical egoism have always existed Thats kind of an overstatement

[@markhirsch6301]

@@lucabarredo2915 well seeing what other people have said, and my little experience of two episodes, I think it's more to do with recent cynicism heavy cartoons

[@ginogatash4030]

@@markhirsch6301 and the fact that most of the time the nihilism is only really a cool esthetic rather than an actual theme that gets explored in the stories.

[@JammyJam5588]

The show even points out that what these people say is usually not technically wrong. (With the helium thing they used to make 3d Whatshisface frown) But it is twisted and flawed nonetheless, but the former makes it difficult to deal with them still.

[@fractured6702]

Smiling friends has the best fandom, for now. At the moment it's people who are proud of Zach, people who are used to his style of comedy, and of course the lizard empire in its entirety.

[@tombkings6279]

1:07 damn dude what did i did to you

[@riglowkun]

Be Puerto Rican

[@beemaister4316]

can we all talk about how boss said 'HEY!' at 1:22

[@DJace3000]

I thought he just barked or somethin' xD

[@jojobizadTRASH]

The speech that saved the world

[@americawashington2700]

1:17 This felt like a direct swipe at Rick and Morty

[@tonoornottono]

i kinda like that Gnarly legitimately was a nihilist and thought it was cringe when Grim pissed himself.

[@user-momochi]

''right...kinda c r i n g e'''

[@realSirDextrose]

Online Nihilists have yet to recover from this episode. 😭

[@alverdeo965]

I still see people complain about it.

[@yaeelromanmortyman4230]

as a puertorican i can say that i did not see that coming but hey humor is humor

[@christophercarrasco154]

I just realized that when Mr. Boss said "Relax, I was just going to kill you..." he thought that Grim was going to be totally okay with it because of his whole philosophy lmao.