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Yep, at a minimum it seems like the only legit way to see the show right now is a 40 dollar monthly minimum cable subscription. Hulu only has like 12 of Adult Swim's bigger shows. The closest streaming release is February and it seems only on HBO max. This massive separation of media in the internet age is bonkers.
According to an earlier trailer’s description, the show was supposed to air weekly with episodes going up next day on HBO Max. Going off of a tweet by Adult Swim, “media lawyers” prevented this, and current speculation is that the agreement they made somewhere was that it can only legally go on Max at least 30 days after the full season airs, which would be Feb 9th, already the confirmed HBO Max date.
 
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Eh, I really didn't find the show all that good honestly. For me it had way more misses than hits, frankly, it felt like early 2000 Newgrounds/Internet humor that these guys never grew out of.
 
Eh, I really didn't find the show all that good honestly. For me it had way more misses than hits, frankly, it felt like early 2000 Newgrounds/Internet humor that these guys never grew out of.
I can't pretend there isn't a small part of me that wonders if I only like Smiling Friends on principle because I've watched like 8000 hours of Oney Plays.
 
I can't pretend there isn't a small part of me that wonders if I only like Smiling Friends on principle because I've watched like 8000 hours of Oney Plays.
I mean, its a huge possibilty. It does feel like something their fans would get more than say some regular viewer of adult swim would.
 
I mean, its a huge possibilty. It does feel like something their fans would get more than say some regular viewer of adult swim would.
I don't know about that. It's pretty on par with some of the more bizarre shows (Aqua teen hunger force, Squidbillies, etc.) on Adult Swim. The only thing that fans of Oneyplays get out of this compared to the average viewer is knowing the mind behind the jokes.
 
Smiling Friends made some faggot from /co/ mad.
Seeing just how many responded to that one particular post is hilarious to me.

Something that’s really appealing to me in this show is the characters just having mundane normal conversations in the midst of all the craziness that goes on in the world. Charlie talking about having a headache because of construction outside his house right before the Quest happens, him and Pim talking about a movie they saw before going to Salty’s, the argument right before getting the Christmas tree…it helps sell that all the craziness is just normal life for them.
 
I mean, if the YIIK crew got an actual game designer to rework their systems and hired on an actual editor for the verbal drool that is the lead writer's issue of ruining interesting moments because he thinks he somehow has to add more detail to them - there's enough there to broach it into 'good enough.' Oh, well, if they got a programmer that understands how to use and free memory to avoid the obnoxious load times, that'd be good too.
I hope they add a "skip useless drool" button at some point and while Alex YIIIIIK is monologuing we just pan outside his monologuing and see him drooling like a retard while we get actual dialogue, most of it his party members making fun of him being stupid.
 
Seeing just how many responded to that one particular post is hilarious to me.

Something that’s really appealing to me in this show is the characters just having mundane normal conversations in the midst of all the craziness that goes on in the world. Charlie talking about having a headache because of construction outside his house right before the Quest happens, him and Pim talking about a movie they saw before going to Salty’s, the argument right before getting the Christmas tree…it helps sell that all the craziness is just normal life for them.
I think Zach talked about this on a podcast where he mentioned that part of the comedy is that these cartoon characters have like real world attributes like they have health problems and if they get hit with hammers their heads explode. It works really well alot of the time for Smiling Friends. the Jeremy bit in the Hell episode where he gets punched in the stomach will never fail to kill me because the way he reacts is so visceral and real.
 
The ever elusive entertaining tiktok:


I wouldn't mind seeing a super mega one that's more accurate to them today ie. their political bs
 
This is kind of a follow-up to something I posted earlier, but Tomar now has his own horror fiction podcast, which features stories about different weird creatures each week.


The audio is a little over-edited in parts, but I like creepypasta so I'm not complaining.

Edit: Having fully listened to it, I'd describe it as SCP meets Supernatural. It's honestly not amazing but hey it got Tomar.
 
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I think Zach talked about this on a podcast where he mentioned that part of the comedy is that these cartoon characters have like real world attributes like they have health problems and if they get hit with hammers their heads explode. It works really well alot of the time for Smiling Friends. the Jeremy bit in the Hell episode where he gets punched in the stomach will never fail to kill me because the way he reacts is so visceral and real.
That was one of my favorite jokes in the whole episode, it sends me every time. The two best aspects of the shows comedy imo are the more visceral/realistic reactions characters have, and how good the show is at obfuscating some of the more predictable outcomes. I think the best example of this is how at the beginning of the shrimp episode they mention Pim's impaired vision, and I went "okay so how's that going to play into the episode?" and almost immediately forgot about that because of how all the info with shrimp was presented, so the normally predictable "Pim went to the wrong store" joke caught me by surprise at the end of the episode
 
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