I genuinely think that the idea of stopping now so they don’t “become the next simpsons” is pretty bullshit.Smiling Friends lasted 27 episodes that were 11 minutes each, or 297 minutes total.The simpsons golden age is at least 150 episodes that were 22 minutes each. Or 3300 minutes total. That’s the minimum accepted golden age, some people believe it’s more than that.I do believe that actually following through on the announced seasons would have been a good compromise, but only being able to produce less than 10% of the golden age of the show you have been mocking for going on too long is crazy. Especially after promising 2 more seasons.And Smiling Friends isn’t even Golden Age Simpsons quality wise. So they couldn’t come close in quality or quantity, and then insisted quality over quantity is their reasoning.It won’t stop fans from running with it but it’s still a poor excuse.
They probably started writing another episode about a retired character voiced by Zach and then gave up
>>152690143They couldn’t figure out where to put the rotoscopes that last two seconds.
>>152690381Cope.
>>152690100It's definitely a weak excuse. I acknowledge that Zach & Michael were writing each episode themselves, but Smiling Friends never seemed like a very demanding series to write for. For a duo that can riff and improvise jokes and scenarios on the fly, I don't see how they couldn't have simply let their directors carry more weight to try and remedy that burnout. It is what it is, but that "don't want to become a zombie cartoon" excuse is pure bull for anyone who's not a Zach Hadel dickrider.
>>152690411With what?
>>152690455With the shoe.
I would like to see them do an anthology show next. Something where every episode is a different story or setting. I guess I just love stuff like Bushworld Adventures because it's so out of the blue.
>>152690100Does it really matter why they stopped makjing the cartoon? Maybe just let it stop being made. Maybe go watch something else
>>152690530>pokemon anime reaction image
maybe it wasn't funny and didn't pull in the ratings
>>152690430>but Smiling Friends never seemed like a very demanding series to write forWriting cohesive comedic narratives for dozens of episodes is very different than just riffing off bullshit. There's only so many ideas people can have with any given scenario, and Smiling Friends as a concept was never very interesting to begin with.
>>152690542
>>152690100It does sound B.S. but it's fascinating how much this concept offends American sensibilities.
>>152690100>Smiling Friends lasted 27 episodesYou are all so confident one of those episodes isn't the April Fools joke this year and won't be like watching Alan manage cables for a few minutes.It's gonna be 26 in the end.
I just think it's weird because the show never actually felt like it ever reached its peak. A lot of solid episodes with some stand-out episodes, but nothing on par with the best of old ATHF or Sealab 2021. Pulling the plug before it can actually reach those highs feels like a mistake.
>>152690573Do you at least get the irony?
>>152690589Yeah the hell episode is the only one I feel like you could put in the same realm as classic [as].
>>152690592He posted the heroine from the most hated series so I doubt it.
>>152690568>and Smiling Friends as a concept was never very interesting to begin with.Nope
>>152690589Maybe Michael and Zach just aren’t capable of reaching the same heights? The seasons felt like they leaned more and more on referential humor in the last two seasons.
>>152690100they just burned outs3 rehashed mr.frog and was already breaking away from the initial concept.s4+5 would have been zombie seasons no doubt
>>152690553This. That's why AS went ahead and greenlit two more seasons, because it didn't pull in ratings.
>>152690624>Maybe Michael and Zach just aren’t capable of reaching the same heights?The fact that Zach had to re-hash all his bits from a decade of podcasts kinda proves he just doesn't have that much material to work with. Writing good comedy is really difficult, that's not a slight against him, having 3 good seasons is way more than most people achieve.
>>152690100>I genuinely think that the idea of stopping now so they don’t “become the next simpsons” is pretty bullshit.Where the fuck did this come from., OP?They literally, simply said that they got burned because>after several years of really really grinding on this show non-stop>without any breaks 24/7.>we got to a point where we just felt like that's a good spot to end it.As if that's not a good enough reason
>>152690678Season 1 was pretty novel. But 2 and 3 felt increasingly formulaic even in the “random” humor. There were just so many specific recurring types of jokes that it was hard not to notice.
>>152690693>grinding non stopStill time for oneyplays though.
>>152690553Nope>>152690672Wrong, faggot
>>152690100I think all shows need to be forced to end at a max of 7 seasons for the same reason. No more 20+ year old shit series that linger on with most everyone asking who the hell is watching this.
>>152690724Again, god forbids them taking a break
>>152690100I get the impression they really don't like the way the tv world works and don't want to do that any more.
>>152690736Stfu
>>152690736You said they grinded non stop with no breaks, I pointed out otherwise and now you’re goalpost moving.
>>152690100Why are fags in this thread just making up fake quotes now?>To be perfectly honest, after we finished Season 3, Zach and I just both had the same feeling where we felt pretty burnt out after putting years and years into this, but also pretty accomplished>We just came to this feeling where we were like, ‘I think that could just be it,’ after Season 3>We wouldn’t want to be doing more seasons half-hearted or burnt out or not feeling it. That’s not fair to us, and it’s not fair to the audience to give you guys fucking slop. That sucks.
>>152690736Actually yesLazy zoomer cartoonists lacking the old gen's labor ethics
>>152690100>that were 11 minutes eachWhy has this become so fucking common in western productions?
>>152690736Thank you for agreeing with me
>>152690100>the idea of stopping now so they don’t “become the next simpsons” is pretty bullshit.if they are forcing themselves to come up with plot lines for episodes then its justified to stop themselves from becoming zombie simposns, regardless of how many seasons.
Are people surprised newgrounds animators can’t actually do anything beyond a three minute video that’s a reference to a meme?
>>152690709>There were just so many specific recurring types of jokes that it was hard not to notice.Zach's jokes are just like that, it's variations of the same thing. They work on podcasts because of the context, but in a show they get kinda old pretty quickly. Not to mention he's terminally online and has the same pool of terminally online references to pull from for his humor as all the other terminally online web animators do.
>>152690745I think it's funny that you think they're not allowd to take ANY break at all
>this threadHoly self-entitled bitches Batman!
>>152690746>e-celebs can only manage having a real job for 3 years before burning outShocking.
>>152690803I'm not entitled to anything, just like this show isn't entitled to a long legacy with how little content it has to be remembered for.
>>152690100People on the internet who have never made anything in their life calling people who made an actual TV show lazy for not making enough of the TV show
>>152690738>>152690808Six of one, half-dozen of the other
>>152690100>I genuinely think that the idea of stopping now so they don’t “become the next simpsons” is pretty bullshit.You are correct. They stopped because Paramount is taking over and whatever deal they had with Adult Swim would have changed for the worse if they stayed.
>>152690100it took only 1 miniscule seasons worth of 11 minute episodes for them to begin repeating the exact same gags and gimmicks over and over again. only troglodytes who treat things like oneyplays as gospel aren't realising this show actually sucked all along
>>152690795>fan of Eceleb has zero reading comprehension Zach will teach you to read one of these days.
>>152691033Cope
>>152690808>not being an internet and being forced to have a job for more than 3 yearsKwab
>>152690100>i, the jobless mongoloid with no prospects in my life, who has never attempted to head any kind of creative venture, have an opinion about these two men who have headed a creative endeavor successfully for over five years.nobody cares about what you think
I hope Zach gets coal for his birthday...
>>152691678You made a lot of assumptions based on the fact I criticized the actions of your edaddy>>152691700Damn he’s that pale?
https://x.com/OOCCouchGags/status/2028881653490127202For anyone saying the Simpsons won, you are admitting that the main character being a canon cuck fetishist is the good path for a show.
>>152690580it seems like it's the same types over and over
>>152691700Cope>>152691773Keep seething, tranny
>>152690100I blame the WB buyout.
>>152690100Imagine being any of the creators that got rejected by AS in favor of Smiling Friends only of them to quit after a couple of years. That guy that was making Pibby is probably pissed about it.
>>152692132That dude is already suicidal simply because pibby didn’t get picked up
>>152690100>golden age simpsons golden age simpsons golden age simpsonsanon stop. the overwhelming majority of my favorite shows all only have 1 to 3 seasons to their name, most shows get cancelled or start suffering from some sort of production issues eventually. the Simpons is a decades old triple-A juggernaut, Smiling Friends is more akin to something like Ballmastrz 9009, it's apples and oranges.
>>152690100he just want to go back to streaming, bro
>>152690100Brutally mogged by Venture Bros
>>152690589Schmoogles felt like a trademark AS episode
They wish they were as popular as the Simpsons. That excuse is a weird cop out, even more so with season 4 and 5 being revealed as a thing before they decided to shut it down
They pretty much gave up after only doing like one actual season of animation.
>>152692628Nope
>>152690568The main concept was pretty much 100% solved and covered in the pilot, it’s why that episode is one of the shows best.
>>152690693that is, indeed, not a good enough reason
>>152690100I fucking hate how people always pull the Simpsons argument whenever I complain about a show ending too soon. Just because I wanted more than 27 episodes doesn't mean I want it to go on forever, you fucking morons.
>>152692628.65 seasons
>>152692822>27 episodes13.5
>>152692992Round it up to 14 since we got those bonus shorts
>>152693180breast reduction metaphor
>>152691033I literally said this in the middle of season 2 airing
>>152690411Are you still throwing this tantrum?
>>152690100Glad this ugly show is being put down. Yelling =\= comedy
You guys do know, you could try making a show and pitching it? If the majority of the opinions here are this was the wrong decision, prove the SF creators wrong.Hell, you don’t even have to pitch anymore, just make a YouTube channel and post episodes there.
>>152690100>I genuinely think that the idea of stopping now so they don’t “become the next simpsons” is pretty bullshit.it likely is, they probably just got canceled.
They jsut wanna be creative outside this
>>152690100>it’s still a poor excuse.It's not; the fact that they could only handle making such short episodes should tell you they lack the talent to sustain it.
I just think that they shouldn’t have waited until after announcing they’ve been renewed for 2 more seasons to pull the plug. It’s pretty unprofessional.
>>152694018sure thing bro just loan me a couple hundred thousands
>>152691700>he's turning 33 this week>he ended Smiling Friends last week at season 3Lmao
They're not gonna get a show again. Next time they try to pitch a show the producers will go>Aren't you the guys who ran out of ideas after 27 10minute episodes?
>>152690530wow i wonder what this anon watch
>>152694183Nah, man. You got to Dd all that work yourself. They only way I’ll willingly put money towards a project is if the premise is interesting and the team is reliable with good output.
>>152693828It's adventuretranny. He can't downvote here so he throws temper trantrums instead.
>>152694018>>152694625>Yet you participate in society. Curious!
>>152690530they said season 4 and 5 were coming and hired a bunch of people for it is the thing
>>152690100It’s over, find something else to consume.
>>152690693>and then the next day their company was sold off to two people they absolutely despiseThat’s the answer. The job was hard enough as is with the way they were working. Doing all of that, having your budget cut, and having the Ellisons breathing down your neck to make sure you don’t do anything “problematic” in your show is what made them throw in the towel and quit
>>152690530I agree. But this is 4chan where super autstiic and actual crazy people hang out, and they will find reasons to piss and moan about everything and anything.
>>152690100I'm mainly just curious what it's going to be like with Zach's first recording session on OneyPlays after this. It'll probably be awhile since they do backlogs but they'll probably bring it up at some point. Hard to say if it'd turn an episode into an extended talk about it or if Oney would just tease him like Cleveland coming back to Family Guy.
>>152695307he will probably give the guys a list of things they can and cant say
They stop because they don't know how to animate in anything other than the now discontinued Adobe animating thing.If they moved to a different animation platform then they wouldn't be able to animate the show exactly the same and people would complain that it looks weird.
>>152695660Adobe postponed that awhile back right after they announced it and they easily could've gotten Seasons 4-5 done before the deadline. People just can't stop making up random ass reasons about this.
>>152690430In all fairness, it's entirely right for them to be worried about becoming a zombie cartoon, because it was, but less because there were 500 episodes and more that they just weren't competent enough to keep it going. S2 and S3 especially had a lot more misses in jokes and weak episodes where it was clear they weren't really able to keep the humor goin, and were already cannibalizing themselves creatively; there's a distinct sense of them looking back on what they thought people liked about S1 instead of actually just properly riffing creatively on what'd be funny going forward.Like the fact that ATHF got 11 really good seasons, a great movie, and the Side Donks while every piece of media was being written by the same two guys (please ignore that Plantasm and S12 were trash), while honestly having a LOT of the same humor but just immensely less animation, speaks a lot to Zach and Cusack just not being a very good duo.
Ive never watched an episode of SF and i know nothing about the creators but I use to work in the industry. If you have the skills to make a show you probably have the skills to do many other things. Sometimes your interests change and the novelty is gone. The dream isnt to make a show, its to do what you want to do until you want to do something else.
>>152692021jesus christ my mind barely parses this as real. this fucking sucks holy shit
>>152690100While I still am genuinely curious as to what the true reasons were for going back on not making two more seasons, if they really feel like Smiling Friends has run out of steam and they want to move on, then fair.I suspect it was either it becoming "too big" in fandom culture, they genuinely had no ideas for good episode hooks, or because of the recent Warner buyout.They kept pushing that they refused to let it overstay its welcome, or didn't want to do it out of obligation, but it still baffles me as to how seemingly early they stopped. Then again, the show is six years old now and trended every premiere.
>>152690872can't win with this lot
>>152696372I doubt anyone would speculate why if it didn’t seem to affect other people and sacrifice the industry career by going back on the two seasons. Burnout makes more sense than any other motivation in that light. Ultimately it’s weird timing and another canceled cartoon but not a big deal for anyone outside the show
>>152696486What does this have to do with anything?
>any "realistic dialogue" exchange the show hadPeople glazing the Brazil episode made me know it was gonna be the end. Though while I respect them wanting to end it before it crashed in burned, I'd argue it never really left the airstrip.
>>152690530>does anything really matter?>think about it....great contribution
>>152690100Let's be honest the creators refused to sell their soul and got canned because of it
>>152690586I predicted this as soon as I heard the announcement too, that they were gonna just do an unfunny creative april fools joke. The last decent Adult Swim april fools was 2020.
>>152695899Plantasm and s12 being trash tells me we have enough Aqua Teen desu. I'm content with all of the stuff those guys have given us
>>152692021lesbian cuckolding is hot tho
>>152697348If I have a cope, then it's the fact that Plantasm and S12 were shit while the Side Donks were still absolutely funny and in spirit with the show, so while they still have writing credit, I can't help but speculate that maybe they were pressured a bit more by higher ups to write certain ways, because Plantasm and S12 definitely had advertising and production value (especially in the animation, which ironically made it more unappealing), whereas Side Donks were just released unceremoniously and still animated like they were paid $2.68 between themBut then again it's not like it matters. Since we got 11.5 seasons and a movie, it's definitely ran a full course.
>>152697059What soul?
>>152690100Memes are memes they're not black, white, hispanic, asian, male, female, non-binary, or LGBTQIA. They are for everyone to use regardless or who you are or what you identify as. Assigning identifiers to images is just another way to divide this already fractured world.
>>152694849This is absolutely the answer if anything is.
It just wasn’t that good
>>152692822Sex with Julie
niggas really askin how they could already be burned out when theyre already reusing one-off gag characters not even 3 seasons indid we really need 3 mr frog episodes? did we really need to see the 'get out of my head' guy show up again? they were clearly struggling in season 3 with how many jokes got reused
There's two reasons they wont say because it'll be considered burning bridges>1. The Fanbase was getting dangerously close to cringe Rick and Morty Status. The cosplay debate and the Simpsons debacle really cemented this and these guys are terminally online. They do not want to foster these type of people but they also don't want to tell them to fock off>2. The incoming merger brings alongside it a ton of bullshit they don't want to deal with
>>152699213based Vivzie
>>152695899>In all fairness, it's entirely right for them to be worried about becoming a zombie cartoonEspecially if they were already feeling burnt out 3 seasons in and the alternative is Adult Swim bringing in several of their other hollywood faggot writers to do merc work for the show, and run the risk of doing a fucking Pickle Rick episode where the new writer's self insert soapboxes and lectures to the main characters.
...or it's just an april fools joke.
>NOOOOOOOOOO A SHOW CANT JUST GO ON AND ON, NOW ITS SLOP AND THEYRE JUST WHORING OUT THE BLOATED CORPSE OF IT>NOOOOOOOO A SHOW CANT JUST END AFTER A FEW YEARS, YOU HAVE TO SHART OUT 150 EPISODES BECAUSE ANOTHER SHOW FROM 50 YEARS AGO WHEN THE INDUSTRY WAS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THAN TODAY ON EVERY LEVEL DID IT ONCE AND IT WORKEDFuck all of you retarded outrage-obsessed fags. None of you deserve the first 2 seasond of Rick & Morty, and none of you deserve Smiling Friends.
>>152699857>parasocial Smiling Fandom>It’s not over!! Ruin it like the Simpsons!Lmao cope
>>152690100I was hoping they'd shoot for the Aqua Teen Hunger Force route, where it stays good for many seasons even if later the schedule of releasing episodes became sporadic. Like them just shooting out new ones whenever they felt the urge.
>>152699231>cancelling a show over a cringe fandomyeah many showrunners do that
>>152699853Smiling Friends isn't that kind of show. There's no Dan Harmon equivalent around to get the show feeling pretentious. It's more like if two Justin Roilands banded together to make a silly comedy cartoon and nothing more.
>>152699987And what if the two Roilands were burned out and agreed to let in some cunt freelance writer?
>>152699945Fandom fags always greatly overestimate their influence
>complain when a show keeps going on forever and ever>complain when a show ends because the creators want to end it on their termsWhat do you fuckers want?
>>152690430>I don't see how they couldn't have simply let their directors carry more weight to try and remedy that burnoutThis is precisely the train of thought that killed Rick and Morty.
>>152690100Idc that much, after having so many shows I can only like some of, it’s nice to have something I can like all of.
>>152690100Half of Smiling Friends was just a showcase for guest animators to do their thing. President Jimble was at the beginning of Season 2 and was just some guy showcasing his character and Zach using up his political jokes from OneyPlays. The show never had much gas in its tank.
So they literally just quit? I thought they were cancelled behind the scenes.
>>152690411feel sorry about mr millipede
>>152700876they were, wait a couple of months to find out what actually happened lol
>>152700914Their buddy Hans was defending them to randos on Twitter by saying that they just never started production in the last 8 months, that the announcement from AS wasnt true lol
>>152700410It's less "ending it on their terms" and more "abruptly shutting the whole thing down because they're paranoid about having peaked too soon." I honestly wouldn't have even minded if they revealed they put together one final bonus conclusive finale to officially close the book. This whole "we *could* come back and make more episodes later down the line" thing pisses me off. Now Smiling Friends is in this awkward limbo state.
>>152700562DIRECTORS, not writers. Everyone agrees Smiling Friends could only be possible with Zach & Michael writing, but they don't NEED to make so many contributions to the storyboarding/animation. Matt Stone & Trey Parker haven't animated anything on South Park in God knows how long. I doubt the Smiling Friends creators would be very burned out had they limited their involvement past the script phase to simply doodling rough concepts here and there and letting their directors handle the rest. They should know better than to do the actual storyboarding themselves for such a gag-heavy cartoon after the pilot.
>>152701112>Matt Stone & Trey Parker haven't animated anything on South Park in God knows how long.South Park is also a terrible show who should've died decades ago.
>>152701731Debatable. Only this latest season/s was lame because they fell back into the same trappings of Season 20.
>>152699987>It's more like if two Justin Roilands banded together to make a silly comedy cartoon and nothing moreSo it's fucking trashBecause Rick and Morty was shit for the start and only subhuman retards who think "haha seed in poopoo chute funni" and "haha blood and death" think RLM is funnyAlso two JR would be four times the child diddling
>>152700562If you can’t design a project that you trust your team to carry out in the event you get hit by a bus, it doesn’t need to be a TV show
how to animate like smiling friends:get your elbow rubbing friend group to do stylistically incoherent CG models, green screen in cheap actors for hire, use video effects instead of actually drawing something, outsource to other studios when you can't hack it, and despite all that still burn out after 3 seasons of kid's show length episodes.
>>152701731You're missing the point. The SP creators have managed to keep making their hit cartoon for 30 years because they leave the animation work to their animation team, they try not to overthink things when writing, and they take breaks. That last one shouldn't be an issue since NO ONE expects an Adult Swim series to deliver new episodes at a consistent pace. Rick and Morty only manages because of that overconfident 70-episode order from years back as well as the production becoming bigger and bigger with each passing season. Present-day Rick and Morty isn't too different from how Simpsons and Family Guy operate, but Smiling Friends was still made like any regular Adult Swim series: on a shoestring budget, one season at a time. Zach & Michael could've simply taken a break if they needed to, but going back on their promised 4th and 5th seasons and calling it quits is just a slap in the face to any fan. Or at least any fan not falling for their "zombie cartoon" bullshit excuse.
>>152690618Uh, yeah?
>>152702428It has to do with the Paramount/WB buyout, read between the lines.
The burn out comes from working for a corporation. Their website implies that they want to go full indie. >It’s not just nostalgia… Animation really was better back in the day. It wouldn’t cost a dime more to make today’s cartoons feel less stiff and sterile – but current animation productions are so decentralized and bureaucratized that, creatively, they lack vision. Founded by Zach Hadel, Michael Cusack, & Aron Fromm – ZAM has one clear mission: to fix that. In an industry overrun with waste, bloat & derivative work, we strive to bring back what matters – bold, high-quality animation made by people who actually understand the process. ZAM is lean, independent, and obsessed with craft. We have a knack for producing animation that recaptures the magic of years past.
>>152702789>gets replaced by AI immediately
>>152699153>not even 3 seasons in did we really need 3 mr frog episodesyes, absolutely
>>152703483Y'know it's kinda perfect that they were able to give Mr Frog a proper send-off before ending the show
I didn't realize how many trannies were seething about this show holy kek, eternally assblasted their favorite cartoons got mogged by youtubers
>>152690430>Smiling Friends never seemed like a very demanding series to write for.Write 5 episodes.
I hope this means Zach will come back to oneyplays and do a full Sonic 06 LP with Chris and Cory.
Dolly won
>>152705467>Cory having an autistic melt down over something stupid and meaningless>HEY CORY SONIC HERE>HEY CORY KNUCKLES HERE>HEY CORY BARACK OBAMA HERE>three episodes of that and then they abandon it before the first bossWhat a weird thing to hope for
Who was in the wrong here?
>>152705227>tranniesRent fucking free.
>>152702789>Animation really was better back in the day. It wouldn’t cost a dime more to make today’s cartoons feel less stiff and sterileThis comes off like it was written by a YouTube cartoon reviewer who has no concept of how a studio makes its money. Also, I was never really impressed by the animation on Smiling Friends. They just add a lot of mixed media.>In an industry overrun with waste, bloat & derivative work, we strive to bring back what matters – bold, high-quality animation made by people who actually understand the process.Who writes this posts it on their company website? They describe themselves as the last and only hope for the entire animation industry. It's a delusional ego coming from 2 guys who got burnt out after making less than 30 episodes of an 11-minute cartoon over the course of 6 years. All of cusack's cartoons look like they were made for the internet with a low budget, what are they talking about?
>>152691033i felt this in the last season a little bit
>>152690100Nope. It was based to go out on top. So what if they had one good season left before it went to shit, leave them wanting more and itll go down in history as a great show with no bad episodes. Besides that airport one.
>>152701112The cringiest part is Zach and Michael comparing their short lived 11-minute show to long running, mainstream hit series like South Park, The Simpsons, and Family Guy. Their show never made it to the mainstream and it didn't survive long enough to become anything more than a meme. That's like a college football star comparing himself to Peyton Manning and saying "yeah, I know when to quit."They should get shit on more for this. Not just for abruptly quitting out of insecurity.
>>152706328Zach has always been an insecure egomaniac. Even during the sleepycast days he was fine mercilessly mocking everything and everyone, but if someone even mentioned something he didn’t want to talk about he’d just shut down completely and refuse to even speak. A lot of times people wouldn’t even insult him and he’d get pissed if his voice was even mentioned.Dude just puts together 5 minute meme animations and his fans treat him as if he’s a god.
>>152706370I genuinely think they’d melt down if people actually criticized them en masse. They wouldn’t be able to handle it.
rick and morty had no shot of recovering after the mcdonalds collab when the copypasta and this vid came outhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GC5rAX0xHgunironically it was only a matter of time before something on that level would create a perfect storm to completely destroy the perception of oneyplays and the show
>>152705981Oneyplays really has had like four new jokes since ding dong and Julian left.
>>152690763You won the internet argument!>anon: zero achievements
>>152706372He also gets bitter when someone (usually Corey) acts weirder than him
>>152694325Eh, Michael Cusack is actually a prolific creator and already made three seasons of YOLO, he'll be fineIt's obvious Zach is the one who couldn't hack it, he probably wouldn't even try to pitch another show
>>152705238OkEpisode 1 – “The Birthday Clown”A depressed clown calls the Smiling Friends because nobody laughs at his birthday gigs anymore. Pim insists on helping him rediscover “true joy,” while Charlie realizes the clown’s jokes are just horrifying. After a disastrous birthday party involving screaming kids and balloon animals that look like eldritch monsters, the clown becomes happy when everyone laughs at how terrible he is.---### Episode 2 – “The Internet Goblin”A lonely guy claims a goblin lives in his computer ruining his life. Pim believes him completely and tries to negotiate with it. Charlie discovers the “goblin” is actually the guy’s own social media addiction. But when Pim opens the computer, a real goblin crawls out and starts live-streaming chaos.---### Episode 3 – “Mr. Boss Gets Famous”Mr. Boss accidentally becomes a viral motivational speaker after a clip of him screaming nonsense goes online. Pim wants to turn it into a positivity tour, but Charlie sees the fame turning Mr. Boss into an egomaniac. The episode ends with Mr. Boss happily losing fame after insulting a stadium full of fans.---### Episode 4 – “The Theme Park Job”The Smiling Friends try cheering up a theme park mascot who hates wearing his costume. Charlie wears it for five minutes and experiences existential dread. Pim loves it so much he refuses to take the suit off and slowly becomes the park’s new mascot permanently.---### Episode 5 – “Alan’s Day Off”Alan (Smiling Friends) takes a relaxing day off, but everything keeps requiring his extremely specific skills—fixing machines, solving puzzles, and stopping a bank robbery. By the end, he returns to work exhausted while everyone else had an easy day.
>>152706743Being able to take what you dish out is so rare nowadays. The last person I’ve seen be able to do that is Filthy Frank.
>>152707260You missed one em dash
>>152705981>OneyGays
>>152705981How can you even be lazy as a lets player? Your “job” is to sit in front of a mic for like 5 hours a week to play video games.
I'm starting to buy into the bailing before getting bought up by Paramount and being forced to do like ten seasons of more Korean animated slop conspiracy.
>>152707451It's the most rational theoryThe about page on their studio sells the idea the most. I see them going indie (again). Cusack has already been posting on YouTube again with a bunch of episodes of his original shows. Zach has been voicing in multiple indie toons.
>>152707260coming up with an episode summary isn't the same as writing an episode
>>152690100I actually appreciate they're doing this in a era zombies franchises, there're too many thing that refuse to die and I don't refer just to the Simpsons or FG, I also refer to shows from 15 years ago like Regular Show and Adventure Time
So apparently that change on the ZAM website that removed the SF characters actually happened back in December https://melis-hellis.tumblr.com/post/802334918619332608/something-strange-i-just-found-out-all-the
>>152705898anon her final act was running off into the background crying
>>152707896And what happened a month after? Smiling Friends is over. Karma.
>>152707941she probably killed herself
>>152707716I'm starting to think the real reason for the abrupt cancellation was Zach and Michael wanting more input and control and as not budging. There's a YouTube video that pointed out that they started handing episodes off to korea in s3.
Can I ask how Oney and co. even know Nostalgia Critic and why they make skits together? I hadn't checked on old let's play channels in a several years and suddenly he's there
>Zach Hadel after making 4 and a half hours of content in 6 years
>>152707716Interesting. That suggests they knew they were planning to end the series for at least a month or two prior, which makes the random announcement in the middle of night on a weekday more confusing.
>>152708482Yeah, Zach mentioned that after season 3 finished production, they pretty much decided to end the show.
