Smiling Friends - did u smile

did u smile

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Codify said:
Yes but this is a discussion of Smiling Friends, take your grievances with Scavengers Reign maybe to the general western animation thread instead of here.
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People are also talking about rick and morty and other cartoons here. Turns to sometimes discussion of adult cartoons leads to discussion of other adult cartoons as points of comparison.

Evidenced by the fact that I'm responding TO someone talking about adult animation in general and its woes and how what they perceive as "good" adult animations that tend to fail due to lack of viewership.

Somehow this needs to be explained.

Twice.
 
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>Scavenger's Reign

Oh, I've never heard of it. Let's google image search that, and-
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Yeah, I'm not watching that. I don't think they could have made that look more low energy if they tried. That artstyle's just a step above flat art, like it'd fit better in one of those "Here's what to expect" pamphlets you get at the hospital than an entertainment properly.
 
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SteelPlatedHeart said:
This goes on any longer, it’s gonna get pulled into one of those “Mass Debaates” threads.
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Honestly I think people are overreacting. We're inbetween seasons so its not like there's a lot of discussion about smiling friends and it is a unique standout among "adult" cartoons that succeeds where many of them fail.

Like I said earlier people bring up rick and morty because its the most natural point of comparison when it comes successful mature animated shows, pointing out why X, Y or Z adult show failed isn't that far out of the realm of discussion ESPECIALLY when many people are heralding smiling friends as the next rick and morty esque "big thing".
 
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Oilspill Battery said:
Honestly I think people are overreacting. We're inbetween seasons so its not like there's a lot of discussion about smiling friends and it is a unique standout among "adult" cartoons that succeeds where many of them fail.

Like I said earlier people bring up rick and morty because its the most natural point of comparison when it comes successful mature animated shows, pointing out why X, Y or Z adult show failed isn't that far out of the realm of discussion ESPECIALLY when many people are heralding smiling friends as the next rick and morty esque "big thing".
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I don’t view Smiling Friends having the same success as Rick and Morty. Rick and Morty is very much in line with later family guy and early American Dad (when Seth MacFarlane was still angry about Bush). It’s insecure about being an animated comedy at it’s heart.

Smiling Friends is a true Adult Swim animated series. Part of the humor is the animation and how the creators use the limitation of the medium.
 
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HodgePodgeRogerDodger said:
I don’t view Smiling Friends having the same success as Rick and Morty. Rick and Morty is very much in line with later family guy and early American Dad (when Seth MacFarlane was still angry about Bush). It’s insecure about being an animated comedy at it’s heart.

Smiling Friends is a true Adult Swim animated series. Part of the humor is the animation and how the creators use the limitation of the medium.
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Early season family guy had similar energy to smiling friends, of irreverent looney tunes for adults. Family guy gets a lot of shit for season 48 or whatever, but if watch seasons 1-3 its incredibly similar in tone and attitude to smiling fiends.
 
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Oilspill Battery said:
Early season family guy had similar energy to smiling friends, of irreverent looney tunes for adults. Family guy gets a lot of shit for season 48 or whatever, but if watch seasons 1-3 its incredibly similar in tone and attitude to smiling fiends.
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Zach and Chris both very much like early Family Guy. They kinda liked the “Peter is a doofus and his stupidity gets the family involved in hijinks where the consequences are as bizarre or realistic” rather than Brian being a late 90’s liberal.

I think Michael is like 80% on the same wavelength as Zach. Neither guy are really LA people and it’s why the series is different than most other shows. Michael is a successful Aussie who grew up catering to an Internet audience and Zach is without needing explanation.
 
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Skelebro said:
With a life like that, trying to lord that building all on his own, it speaks volumes of how hard he worked throughout all of those inner struggles. Society had failed him, we need to take mental health seriously and learn to look for the signs before it's too late. There might be someone in your life who just wants to HANG out with you while playing their favorite game.
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I've been in Alan's shoes and his landlord's shoes. You want to hang with somebody, but they don't care enough to follow through. That had no right to be so relatable.
 
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Finally able to watch the first few episodes of Smiling Friends. This show is laugh-out-loud funny.

Episode 1:

That's the best part. Some guy lives in a wall; guy gets defensive when you call him out on it.

Episode 2: Mr. Frog has great social commentary on TV executives not understanding their audience. That lady narrator is my favorite bit.


Who IS that lady?

Episode 3: Who the hell is Smormu? That B plot with Pim dating had me lost.

Episode 4: The Halloween episode is the best one yet. All the jokes hit: Charlie not dressing for Halloween, Pim being a cowboy, some demon being mistaken for blackface only to have the partygoers just beat the loving shit out of him. :story:

"Look, I don't know what's going to be offensive in ten years."

 
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The Last Stand said:
Episode 3: Who the hell is Smormu? That B plot with Pim dating had me lost.
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Back in the early 2000's it was common to text a service who would sent a viral video/ringtone to your phone. Like Crazy Frog or shitty meme edits like SEXBox(get it? Like the gaming console!) Said service would then take 2 dollars from your phone credit, either every month, week or in some cases days.
They also had some stupid fucking ads. Check Gummy Bear for example.
 
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The Last Stand said:
She had an accent? I was mesmerized with how old she looked.
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Well, they indicate that she adopted an American accent for the job, but unless it's wrong her bio states that she was actually born in NYC in the '50s, was raised in Brooklyn and New Hampshire. She was Miss New Hampshire and a Miss America contestant. She only arrived in Australia in 1989 and, evidently, she speaks with an accent nowadays. So contrary to what they insinuate in the commentary it's not that she speaks with an Aussie accent normally and is putting on an American one for the job ala Margot Robbie, but rather that she natively speak with an American accent and is slipping into it again for the role.

They probably didn't know that. I wonder if she only puts the Aussie accent on to assimilate.
 
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The Last Stand said:
Episode 3: Who the hell is Smormu? That B plot with Pim dating had me lost.
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Rewatched it, the whole episode was about Shrimp getting back with his girlfriend. Pim went to 153, Shrimp's girlfriend was at 158. They SAID 153. The sign said 153. Am I missing something?
 
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