Smiling Friends - did u smile

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did u smile

  • yes

    Votes: 1,793 93.3%

  • no

    Votes: 218 11.3%
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Crypt Kicker said:
I can't seem to find it but there was a pretty funny edit of Grim from the episode wearing Ricks spikey hair as he cries and pisses himself at gunpoint by Mr. Boss.
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I have to admit I've really come to like Smiling Friends.
It's basically as if what I grew up watching on Adult Swim in my childhood (ATHF, Space Ghost, Perfect Hair Forever, etc...), and 2006-2015 Internet humor, were mixed together and chemically purified into an easy to smoke freebase form. GG guys from Oney Plays.
 
Vinluv Handesbukia said:
Zach "failed" to make Hellbenders but succeeded with Smiling Friends after maturing and honing his craft. I imagine If 2014 Zach and Chris got their wish they would be worse off now,like Stamper but with enough money to fund the hedonistic misery. Like if MDE WP wasn't nuked by Hackdecker, Sam Nick and Charls would've been neutrered and lobotomized to oblivion and made even more insufferable.
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Heads up for the Moai heads cuz I'm gonna politisperg but from a non partisan perspective Zach and Chris failing to pitch hellbenders with Micheal and Zach instead producing Smiling Friends reminds me of Trump and Pence losing in 2020 and JD and Trump winning in 2024. Despite the creepy super-Nonce connections looming over them and an even more fervent sect of alogs they're at their cultural peak with their full power on display whereas if their previous attempts were to be successful we would be looking at a far more mediocre,sad,and otherwise deflated experience that would've killed their careers not with controversy, but dissapointment, because ironically the first lost helped stoked the flames of their cult of personality and kept them running strong. You should've just greenlight Hellbenders if you wanted Zach out of the Limelight bruh....
 
I got Alex Jones vibes from the last scene with Silly Sam and the lines "If he was right about that then...was he right about everything else he was saying? That means everything he's ever said or will say is true!" But maybe I'm looking into it too much, or it was referencing silly-esque influencers generically.

Total Norman Death said:
I am waiting for the Rickandmortyification to happen, though I hope it won't
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The biggest problem with Rick and Morty early was they could never really decide what they wantes to be. Did they want to be super nihilistic or did they want nihilism to be Rick's coping mechanism for being shit and have character growth? They wanted to have their cake and eat it too, and the show became bipolar and disjointed. Will it be episodic or overarching? Do both, but keep complaining about the overarching plot points. Then the creators just kind of simultaneously gave up and got high off their own farts.

I think Smiling Friends has a lot more staying power. It knows what it wants to be and does it well. But like all comedy shows, it will either get cancelled while it's still good, or will slowly decline like Simpsons or South Park. I think it's got a few more seasons, though, before the entropy starts setting in.
 
Sneedmason said:
It's Adult Swim, it's borderline reddit already. If you share the same network as Rick and Morty, it's reddit by default.
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No one cares about Rick and Morty these days aside from the handful of diehards who still watch it (so, its basically like The Simpsons). The 2017 high IQ copy pasta and that Asian guy chimping out in McDonalds basically killed off the entire mainstream appeal of that show.
 
Caligura said:
No one cares about Rick and Morty these days aside from the handful of diehards who still watch it (so, its basically like The Simpsons). The 2017 high IQ copy pasta and that Asian guy chimping out in McDonalds basically killed off the entire mainstream appeal of that show.
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Rick and Morty has always been terrible. It's cultural influence is outsized compared to those who religiously watch the show. All these kids have Rick and Morty vapes, Rick for Palestine shirts, all kinds of dumb bootleg merch.

They even did a PSA because Dan Harmon hates vaping apparently, and is aware of all the bootleg merch.
I think whatever idea the average 15 year old Mexican kid in Arizona hitting a Rick and Morty dab pen has of what the show is, is better than what it actually is. Its a shame their main voice actor turned out to be Ted Bundy, and the co-creator made "comedy" videos where he simulated rape on a baby doll. Even if these people killed themselves today, they'd just get replaced by another batch of vain retards who can't think of original ideas and resort to doing cynical half hearted parodies of movies.
 
The new episode is really good, I had really mixed feelings on season 2 other than a few episodes that I really felt they knocked out of the ball park. I was really worried that season 3 was going to be more of season 2's "oh man guys uh there's a thing happening, uh, like it's just kinda like- like why is this happening?"
Season 1 had a lot of dynamism in its thrown together nature, and I felt like season 2 was almost a statement on the formula they had established with season 1. I was really worried it was going to take the Rick and Morty route and end up self-referencing into oblivion. This new episode makes me feel very hopeful, can't wait to see what they've got in store here.
 
The Projects said:
bro it's almost word for word. they basically just did madlibs with that quote.
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No quote is "do you realize... Do you realize something? Let me tell you... If..."
And the SF line is "Do you realize something... Do you realize something? If..."

So maybe they're trying to not be on the nose? I'm leaning towards funny coincidence...
 
Caligura said:
No one cares about Rick and Morty these days aside from the handful of diehards who still watch it (so, its basically like The Simpsons).
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I keep up with the show out of a kind of fascination with it.
Despite the naysayers, I think it has been a reliably funny/interesting show over the years, and the first 2 seasons were actually very solid. The problem is that the show just can't seem to get out of its own way. There are three major things people watch Rick and Morty for, lorefagging (I'm a sucker for this myself), dysfunctional family stories, and high concept sci-fi stories with crass humor.

The problem is that every. single. fucking. episode. just devolves into a shitfest of callbacks, fourth wall breaks, self-referential jokes, and gross out humor to a point where it stops being funny and I just don't wanna watch this, like the incest baby, the episode where the hiveminds are puking into each other's mouths, etc.
The other major problem is that when they do focus on lore or interpersonal relations, it's so very often the least interesting stories to tell. Probably the most interesting three have been Rick's relationships with Beth, Morty, and Jerry (in that order), but when they're doing these stupid one-offs about Rick fighting with Obama for the 10th time throughout the series, I find it fucking annoying. They can pull it off at times, but more often than not I just DO NOT GIVE A FUCK about watching some weird fan-fic about Ice-T being Superman!

The writers have this obsession with commentating on the structure of the show, this can sometimes actually be really creative, I think the first story train episode was really funny if you understand all the writing tropes they're making fun of, but I think the stupid off-hand comments about "returning to Rick and Morty's classic loose, non-canonical stories" to be so very grating.
This all sucks because occasionally they pop out some gems of episodes, even now! And even when they do make slop, sometimes the set-up or background of the story can be really interesting, but then they just shit all over it by throwing in a bunch of stupid stuff.

obligatory "you have to have a pretty high IQ to understand Rick and Morty" joke, since I know someone's going to respond to me with it. The truth is, you have to have a pretty high IQ to understand all the writing mistakes they made while making this fucking show.
 
Mystery Spy said:
This might be controversial to say, but I don’t think it would’ve been that bad to have Chris making a voice cameo. Even now it wouldn’t be so bad.

This is Adult Swim not Cartoon Network. This show isn’t for kids. The usuals suspects would have cried about it on twitter, but it’s just more publicity for the shiw. Chris ain’t a saint but it wouldn’t be the first time a voice actor surrounded with controversy does a voice role.

I get the point of not rewarding Chris. But Smiling friends as a show for adults would be fine.
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Chris voiced the yeti in the last episode of season 2 and he helped composed the music.
You silly billy you.
 
Can of Bread said:
I got Alex Jones vibes from the last scene with Silly Sam and the lines "If he was right about that then...was he right about everything else he was saying? That means everything he's ever said or will say is true!" But maybe I'm looking into it too much, or it was referencing silly-esque influencers generically.
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A silly guy named Sam suddenly being propped up as a soothsayer...where have I seen that before?
 
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