Smiling Friends - did u smile

[frozenrunner]

Watched all of this in two days. I really liked it. It's very "Adult Swim," but it's got an edge other AS shows don't. I am sure Reddit is assmad over the bit character with the lame "I'm With Her" t-shirt.

 

[Lagomorph Guy]

Dude as soon as Adult Swim greenlit this show I was looking forward to it. I immediately recognized the JERRY JACKSON voice on shrimp too. My favorite part was Satan being a vaping gamer, hands down. So many people in college are exactly like that and it's sad to see.

It's so strange to get excited for stuff and have it actually live up to it lately. Feelsgoodman. If this show ends up getting canned due to some gay dyed hair shit I will cry and shit my pants maybe.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

The show stands out for a couple of reasons:

1) In a world full of shows trying to have overarching stories to encourage binge watching, Smiling Friends opts for complete self contained individual stories.
2) In a world full of shows trying to morally grandstand, Smiling Friends opts to have simple and chaotic fun
3) In a world full of shows trying to go longer and longer, Smiling Friends episodes are roughly 10 minutes each

Those are all small things, but add up to helping the show to standout. I'm not saying everything else sucks for doing those things and SF is brilliant for doing the opposite, but it definitely achieve the selling point of offering something different and unique.

 

[starborn427614]

The show stands out for a couple of reasons:

1) In a world full of shows trying to have overarching stories to encourage binge watching, Smiling Friends opts for complete self contained individual stories.
2) In a world full of shows trying to morally grandstand, Smiling Friends opts to have simple and chaotic fun
3) In a world full of shows trying to go longer and longer, Smiling Friends episodes are roughly 10 minutes each

Those are all small things, but add up to helping the show to standout. I'm not saying everything else sucks for doing those things and SF is brilliant for doing the opposite, but it definitely achieve the selling point of offering something different and unique.

I agree with your first point, but Smiling Friends takes a pretty obvious moral stand about either end of the criticism spectrum being retarded. Charlie's cynicism and Pimm's optimism are both presented as toxic. Your third point is also a bit odd considering there's a lot of ten minute shows outside of, say, Disney Channel.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

I agree with your first point, but Smiling Friends takes a pretty obvious moral stand about either end of the criticism spectrum being retarded. Charlie's cynicism and Pimm's optimism are both presented as toxic. Your third point is also a bit odd considering there's a lot of ten minute shows outside of, say, Disney Channel.

When I said "morally grandstanding" I meant more the virtue signaling that everything does today, like "We have so and so black people and so and so women, yada yada yada" to try and score points. SF gives off the air of a show that is just having fun and being creative, which is surprisingly rare these days where it feels like most other media has to sell themselves by pretending to be virtuous.

As for the length, what other 10-11 minute shows are out there? I'm not being snarky, I legit don't know. Most everything I have watched in the last few years have been 45-hour long episodes.

 

[starborn427614]

When I said "morally grandstanding" I meant more the virtue signaling that everything does today, like "We have so and so black people and so and so women, yada yada yada" to try and score points. SF gives off the air of a show that is just having fun and being creative, which is surprisingly rare these days where it feels like most other media has to sell themselves by pretending to be virtuous.

As for the length, what other 10-11 minute shows are out there? I'm not being snarky, I legit don't know. Most everything I have watched in the last few years have been 45-hour long episodes.

Now that I think of it I may have been adding old CN shows to the amount without realizing, they're mainly the ones doing it these days. I can see why it'd be a benefit in Smiling Friends case, especially when recommending it to other people.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

the JERRY JACKSON voice on shrimp too

That's David Firth.

If you watch his stuff, it stands out.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

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[BrunoMattei]

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[Ethereal Eye]

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I love how she still has the giant angry red eyes
Perfect

 

[The Lawgiver]

Watched all of this in two days. I really liked it. It's very "Adult Swim," but it's got an edge other AS shows don't. I am sure Reddit is assmad over the bit character with the lame "I'm With Her" t-shirt.

There's wars in smormu video comment sections over the fucking thing where people are calling other people crazy for assuming it's a 2016 election reference completely ignoring how the shirt is a foreshadowing for the other joke where it shows the votes as slightly 50/50with the popular vote winning othe YES SMORMU and the electoral having the THE NO IREALLY REALLY DO NOT WANT SMORMU! win. It's fan fucking tastic.We've been in a timeloop for thelast 6 fucking years andmy life is in the shitter but people more successful than me are still frothing about the "alt right" in comments sections.

Charlie's cynicism and Pimm's optimism are both presented as toxic.

I dunno if we watched the same show or what but I didn't see either of them as"toxic" but just some funny coworkers who are also friends. Bothof them have their own cynical and optimistic moments and it's just a character dynamic thing to setup some funny happening.

1) In a world full of shows trying to have overarching stories to encourage binge watching, Smiling Friends opts for complete self contained individual stories

There's a few overarching background stories like the whole thing with charlie's grandma dying of a peanut pesticide poisoning incident that one was pretty important. If she wasn't dead from that he'd probably have taken like what 5 or 6 more minutes to find out where satan was?

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not greasy and dissheveled enough.

 

[starborn427614]

I dunno if we watched the same show or what but I didn't see either of them as"toxic" but just some funny coworkers who are also friends. Bothof them have their own cynical and optimistic moments and it's just a character dynamic thing to setup some funny happening.

It can still mean something even if it's for comedy purposes. That's basic satire right there.

 

[The Lawgiver]

It can still mean something even if it's for comedy purposes. That's basic satire right there.

I just don't see it as "toxic" being the intention.

Speaking of meanings though ever noticed the weirdly prevalent charlie brown references with the boss? I mean he's literally charlie brown in the halloween episode but there's more subtle ones like how him and the frowning friends literally start doing the charlie brown dance right before the renaissance men come to town.

 

[starborn427614]

I just don't see it as "toxic" being the intention.

That's fair, it still works on its own regardless of any navel gazing shit I like to partake in lol

Speaking of meanings though ever noticed the weirdly prevalent charlie brown references with the boss? I mean he's literally charlie brown in the halloween episode but there's more subtle ones like how him and the frowning friends literally start doing the charlie brown dance right before the renaissance men come to town.

Definitely intentional. He's like a nightmare version of the character.

 

[frozenrunner]

There's wars in smormu video comment sections over the fucking thing where people are calling other people crazy for assuming it's a 2016 election reference completely ignoring how the shirt is a foreshadowing for the other joke where it shows the votes as slightly 50/50with the popular vote winning othe YES SMORMU and the electoral having the THE NO IREALLY REALLY DO NOT WANT SMORMU! win. It's fan fucking tastic.We've been in a timeloop for thelast 6 fucking years andmy life is in the shitter but people more successful than me are still frothing about the "alt right" in comments sections.

Figures. I like comedy that's actually countercultural, and these days you can't be countercultural and be for neolibs or neocons. That's one of the (many) reasons I like Smiling Friends. A bunch of TDS-infested, broken-brained liberal faggots are hyperventilating because a show lightly pokes fun at their lameass sacred cow when everyone else in the country has had to put up with anti-Trump witnessing zealotry inserted into every entertainment product for the past 6 years. That's funny.

Another great moment was when the crowd brutally murdered the demon in the Halloween episode because they thought he was in blackface. Totes progressive!

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

I mean, if you really want to see for yourself how bad it is…

Looks like youtube commenters figured it out:

Its like the creators forgot why the original Harvey Birdman was so popular. Like I love Judy, she's hilarious and keeps her old humor, but the rest just don't feel solid, like they're trying to be down to earth in a follow up series to a show that was about going as over the type psychotic as possible. We enjoyed it because Harvey Birdman tried being the straight man while everyone else was being a douche and screwing him over, yet even then he still remained a suck up. Here, the fact Judy is the only good thing is not good, where those around her are all trying to play the straight person while she's the only chaotic entity.

I finally figured out why this show doesn't work compared to the original. The original took advantage of the fact that it was animated and added nonsensical jokes( for example having bumper cars inside the office) and references that you couldn't do in live action in almost every scene.The paving was always fast paced and the characters would do and say crazy shit. They could make a live action version of this show and literally nothing would have changed.

Yeah, that was I was thinking. This show has absolutely nothing that the original series has. No whacky humor, no clever writing, no fun shenanigans, no interesting character, nothing. What the hell just happened? If you going to make a spin-off, make it work by making it feel like the original series and if not, just make something else that is different. Cartoon spin-offs like Daria and The Casagrandes work like a charm unlike this show. All I'm saying is that Birdgirl didn't even tried to be like the original series and it failed hard. Screw this mediocre spin-off, watch Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, Final Space, Primal or Tuca & Bertie. Those shows are far more entertaining than this mediocre mess of a spin-off series. I give Birdgirl a 5.3/10 Also, I really like your videos. You're a really good YouTuber.

My personal favorite:

Quit trying to make this happen, let it die. Make smiling friends already

 

[Jack Awful]

Looks like youtube commenters figured it out:

Its like the creators forgot why the original Harvey Birdman was so popular. Like I love Judy, she's hilarious and keeps her old humor, but the rest just don't feel solid, like they're trying to be down to earth in a follow up series to a show that was about going as over the type psychotic as possible. We enjoyed it because Harvey Birdman tried being the straight man while everyone else was being a douche and screwing him over, yet even then he still remained a suck up. Here, the fact Judy is the only good thing is not good, where those around her are all trying to play the straight person while she's the only chaotic entity.

I finally figured out why this show doesn't work compared to the original. The original took advantage of the fact that it was animated and added nonsensical jokes( for example having bumper cars inside the office) and references that you couldn't do in live action in almost every scene.The paving was always fast paced and the characters would do and say crazy shit. They could make a live action version of this show and literally nothing would have changed.

Birdgirl misses the point of Birdman:

It's a show about in-costume superheroes that don't actually do any superheroing.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

Finally got around to watching this. I'm not quite as hyped about it as the rest of KF, but it was entertaining and worth a watch. I did rather like Charlie as the straight man of the show, a normal guy just trying to do his job in a completely insane world.

 

[Chilson]

Birdgirl misses the point of Birdman:

It's a show about in-costume superheroes that don't actually do any superheroing.

Nah, the real point is that its about in costume superheroes that are the true antithesis of superheroes, lawyers.

edit: Why the fuck doesn't this site have a Harvey Birdman attorney at law appreciation thread???

 

[frozenrunner]

Birdgirl misses the point of Birdman:

It's a show about in-costume superheroes that don't actually do any superheroing.

Also, it pokes fun at how unbelievably lame most of its forgotten Hanna Barbera characters are.