Smiling Friends - did u smile

[Absurdist Laughter]

I love Smiling Friends because it is apolitical. Zach Hadel has said that Mr. Frogs bleep joke is like a blotter test and what people apply to the speculation of what Mr. Frog is saying reveals a lot about the person. It's an Absurd show that focuses on Optimism rather than nihilism. Applying real life logic or reasoning is like me going to city council dressed in a paper cylinder, paper cone hat, shouting "Raghan bophet flibbidy dibbidy doo! Shahkah, ravaldy." while expecting to be taken seriously.

The fact some people genuinely believed it really shows the state of A&N, someone should tell them they hit the pentagon.

Are we seriously categorizing groups of people who are frequent posters to a subset of a forum who some of them have financially assisted the forum, supported the forum during the DDOS brigade and contributed to the litigation funds. Point being, you're in the same mud pile as the rest of us. The moment you elevate one side of culture, any culture, as a "more elite" than another aspect of the same culture is how we get the UK. It is how we have Trannies firebombing, Trannies slaughtering ICE agents, and how the Left has become so bold and brazen. It's how we have faculty forcing little girls to undress in front of them as well as boys. Elitism, which the Smiling Friends creators seem to lack in mindset; they instead funnel that energy into creation, something I wish more folks would do.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Are we seriously categorizing groups of people who are frequent posters to a subset of a forum who some of them have financially assisted the forum, supported the forum during the DDOS brigade and contributed to the litigation funds. Point being, you're in the same mud pile as the rest of us. The moment you elevate one side of culture, any culture, as a "more elite" than another aspect of the same culture is how we get the UK. It is how we have Trannies firebombing, Trannies slaughtering ICE agents, and how the Left has become so bold and brazen. It's how we have faculty forcing little girls to undress in front of them as well as boys. Elitism, which the Smiling Friends creators seem to lack in mindset; they instead funnel that energy into creation, something I wish more folks would do.

dude, they listen to fucking mirrornoir

 

[The Last Stand]

Smiling Friends is one of few adult animation shows I know that doesn't rely on swearing or freak out humor to be funny. I think Bob's Burgers, Family Guy (the first couple seasons) and Futurama being one of them.

I love Smiling Friends because it is apolitical. Zach Hadel has said that Mr. Frogs bleep joke is like a blotter test and what people apply to the speculation of what Mr. Frog is saying reveals a lot about the person. It's an Absurd show that focuses on Optimism rather than nihilism.

Even that "change the channel, doesn't matter which one" scene? I think there IS politics involved, but as a gag instead of the focus.

 

[Man In A Dress]

Smiling Friends is one of few adult animation shows I know that doesn't rely on swearing or freak out humor to be funny.

I dunno man. Have you seen the boss lately? He hasn't been himself.

 

[The Last Stand]

I dunno man. Have you seen the boss lately? He hasn't been himself.

Reminds me of Pops from Regular Show.



Is there another season for Smiling Friends soon?

 

[UnKillFill]

It is amazing how some of the Smiling Friends episodes just aged extremely well, of course mainly thinking about Frowning Friends and Mr. Frog from Season 1, and then Gwimbly and Mr. President from Season 2

To be fair, I don't think most of those episodes "aged well," so much as that they were just correct takes that were rightly on the nose from the beginning and just stayed there as the world got even crazier.

 

[Terror Sandwich]

Thank you to whoever initially posted the reviews from this channel, I can't stop watching them.

She had a woman moment and deleted all her videos. Hopefully someone has downloaded them cause they were great.

https://x.com/bbbnonnon/status/1911928711303365015

For context, this is a Japanese woman with very poor engrish, that did some cute reviews on Adult Swim shows, including most of the Smiling Friends episodes.
She was even acknowledged by Zach.

 

[Starman John]

She had a woman moment and deleted all her videos. Hopefully someone has downloaded them cause they were great.

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https://x.com/bbbnonnon/status/1911928711303365015

For context, this is a Japanese woman with very poor engrish, that did some cute reviews on Adult Swim shows, including most of the Smiling Friends episodes.
She was even acknowledged by Zach.

Oof. Her videos were comfy. I remember she even animated a short homage to George Lowe.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

she even animated a short homage to George Lowe.

oh no, it's suddenly raining on the MARTA again...

 

[UnKillFill]

I'm guessing too many dudes got thirsty and made it weird for her. Many such cases.

 

[Absolute-Despair]

She had a woman moment and deleted all her videos. Hopefully someone has downloaded them cause they were great.

View attachment 7220059

https://x.com/bbbnonnon/status/1911928711303365015

For context, this is a Japanese woman with very poor engrish, that did some cute reviews on Adult Swim shows, including most of the Smiling Friends episodes.
She was even acknowledged by Zach.

 

[Gregis]

She had a woman moment

AKA thirsty moidal freaks chased her off the internet

Edit: I just looked through her twitter, she makes a lot of really cool animations! I'd seen some of those smiling friends reactions, and they're fun but not really anything that special, but I had no idea she was making stuff like full on aqua teen animations. Really sucks she deleted the channel.

 

[Sekhmet]

It sucks, but this is awfully common in the Japanese woman fan space. Unfortunately she wasn't one I was archiving, but I've started archiving my favorite Japanese fan artists as they frequently do this. It's especially bad when they blow up in the west as the fan cultures are wildly different and incredibly draining to them. I hope she keeps creating and isn't scared off for long.

 

[LongDayAgain]

What is it about Smiling Friends in your opinion that makes it better than other adult shows? I can't quite put my finger on it but it's a lot funnier and more memorable than, say, Rick and Morty.

 

[Bionicle Enthusiast]

What is it about Smiling Friends in your opinion that makes it better than other adult shows? I can't quite put my finger on it but it's a lot funnier and more memorable than, say, Rick and Morty.

It's actually funny. It's about silly critters and their day to day lives in an absurd reality, yet grounded in some sort of realism. Probably the realistic conversations the characters have in absurd and whacky scenarios. It's not woke, it's not anti-woke either. There is no gay narrative being pushed.

 

[Chin of Campbell]

What is it about Smiling Friends in your opinion that makes it better than other adult shows? I can't quite put my finger on it but it's a lot funnier and more memorable than, say, Rick and Morty.

Positivity. It's not a shoe-gayzing borderline-propaganda piece about depression or mental illness or being a fucked up broken person. It's a cartoon for adults with the spirit of a cartoon for kids, based around the premise of making people happy (usually). The main characters in Smiling Friends are people that you'd want to be friends with in real life if you could, and that goes a long way to separate it from most adult television these days.

 

[Bionicle Enthusiast]

Positivity. It's not a shoe-gayzing borderline-propaganda piece about depression or mental illness or being a fucked up broken person. It's a cartoon for adults with the spirit of a cartoon for kids, based around the premise of making people happy (usually). The main characters in Smiling Friends are people that you'd want to be friends with in real life if you could, and that goes a long way to separate it from most adult television these days.

Yeah, it's not nihilistic like Rick & Morty. Nor is it edgy tryhard like Family Guy or painfully unfunny relying on popculture like modern Simpsons.

 

[LongDayAgain]

Positivity. It's not a shoe-gayzing borderline-propaganda piece about depression or mental illness or being a fucked up broken person. It's a cartoon for adults with the spirit of a cartoon for kids, based around the premise of making people happy (usually). The main characters in Smiling Friends are people that you'd want to be friends with in real life if you could, and that goes a long way to separate it from most adult television these days.

Yeah I think I agree, it's definitely less "fuck the world and fuck life" than R&M or Hazbin. Pretty sure it makes fun of nihilism in the Frowning Friends episode.

Just to add to this, I think Zach Hadel's weird nasally voice helps make the jokes funnier too, like the fake knife for $600 joke wouldn't be as funny without his voice that sounds like he has a permanent head cold.

 

[Nick Obre]

All of that but more to the point: they have good jokes.

They're well set up, and they pay off well.

A lot of them are already workshopped from old bits they did in their Newgrounds works, Sleepycabin, or OneyPlays.

And the variety of animation styles and talent makes it feel fresh, while the participation of/references to Internet people and things is done in such a way that the jokes work perfectly well if you don't know them, but are funnier if you do. It's not just fucking R&M going "Look it's Elon Tusk" and it's just Musk with tusks.

And AAALL of these things are things Zach and company had discussed at length in podcasts and videos and other things before, regarding what they'd do if they wanted to make a good show. So they did.

 

[The Last Stand]

It's actually funny. It's about silly critters and their day to day lives in an absurd reality, yet grounded in some sort of realism. Probably the realistic conversations the characters have in absurd and whacky scenarios. It's not woke, it's not anti-woke either. There is no gay narrative being pushed.

With that, its show title, Smiling Friends, makes sense in a meta context as well. Their job is to make you smile. I always have a grin at least when I watch Smiling Friends. I never know what to expect without it being too obvious. It's a downright funny, relatable show with its well delivered jokes and multi dimensional protagonists.