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>WAAAAH WE CAN'T HANDLE OUR SHOW BEING POPULAR WE HAVE TO CANCEL IT DESPITE A TWO SEASON RENEWAL
This isn't as based as people think it is
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>>153232141
>This isn't as based as people think it is
Correct. It's MORE based.
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as a transgender man this show being cancelled is like 9/11 for the trans community
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>>153232141
People are desperate to make the backtracking look cool because confronting the reality of canning a show that doesn't even have 30 episodes after being renewed for 20 more is too much for them.
It's honestly pathetic that they have to use massive hyperbole to justify this
>You want SF to last as long as Muh Simpsons
No, they just wanted the two seasons that were originally announced
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>>153232141
>Another tranny seething about Smiling friends for the 1047296396398390 time
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Why are you taking this so personally? The way people like you talk, you'd think Hadel slept with your girlfriend while shooting your dog during the announcement.
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>>153232181
It was literally the only cartoon of the past five years worth watching and now it's gone
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It's such a shame ATHF ended at Super Trivia
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>>153232241
If they felt they were done with the show and forced to make more seasons, they would've sucked ass and you would be saying "why didn't they just end it after season 3"?
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>>153232226
We have standards. We expect professionalism from the people who are getting paid to make the cartoons we watch, and when they do blatantly disrespectful shit like ending their cartoon because they're bored, it pisses us off. The fact there are people like you defending this behavior makes it worse, because it sets a precedent where showrunners can just blatantly insult their audience by being lazy and narcissistic and STILL make money from it. It's not hard to understand why we are so genuinely offended by Hadel essentially flipping us off when all we did was enjoy his show.
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>>153232141
They were already repeating jokes, the writing was on the wall
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>>153232290
Anon, just because you're an ass blasted queer who has taken this so personally because you can't find other things to watch dosen't mean it was handled unprofessionally.
You seriously need to get off your high horse, cause everytime I see posts like yours, all I hear is seething. Like I'm sorry you're a queer who can't find other things to watch and exspect this garbage industry to make something good, but you need to get over yourself, faggot.
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I can’t believe they were allowed to just flake out like that. Any other company would’ve forced them to finish the seasons regardless of how they felt.
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>>153232290
Seriously, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills with how many fans are just running with Zach's narrative instead of admitting this was a weird move. We all understood they didn't want Smiling Friends to last forever, but you can't just go and pretend "Season 3 felt like the right time to end things" when you publicly confirmed a 4th and 5th were on the way.

They lied to their audience AND they fucked over the many artists and production staff in possibly the worst climate for the job market, all because they feared their nonsensical surrealist comedy cartoon would "become slop." And to no surprise, Zach's fanboys ate up that shitty excuse like it's some admirable feat or something. THEY WOULD'VE PRAISED SEASON 4 EVEN IF IT WERE STRAIGHT DOGWATER
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>>153232141
>Season 9, baby!

>Only... an indefinite number more.
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>>153232141
Pim > Charlie
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>>153232257
I would have watching athf for another 30 years if they kept making it.
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>>153232830
at least they’re not on here defending themselves with those bullshit lines every day it’s just obsessed fans who don’t care
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>>153232176
>>153232830
at least they’re not on here defending themselves with those bullshit lines every day it’s just obsessed fans who only care about the stupid cartoon repeating what they were told
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>>153232830
>They lied to their audience
ZACH HADEL BETRAYED US!
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>>153232496
I just don't get it... they want to end the show? okay, but you already confirmed to make season 4 and 5, so just... make season 4 and 5 and end it there, you can even make the final season feel like an actual final season and the final episode a nice conclusion.
Now instead, ironically, have Alan's landlord promising he will return to torment him in the future... and that's the ending? what?
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>>153235074
there will be a smiling friend movie in 5 years, trust me, Zach is my second cousin
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>Suckers still falling for it.
See you in about a year and a half or so for the season 4 reveal
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>>153232257
Smiling Friends should have followed ATHF's example and drop the premise. ATHF dropped the detective angle early. Not that making clients smile was bad or anything, it just limited what could be done with the plot.
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No new Mega for Episodes 9 & 10?
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>>153232141
>WAAAAH WE CAN'T HANDLE OUR SHOW-
Projection since you seem to be the one WAAAAHing over the show being over. Funny how we went from a bunch of Smiling Friends haters complaining about shit like it supposedly being "neo-puritan" to now people hating on it for not making more episodes.
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>>153232290
>We expect professionalism from the people who are getting paid to make the cartoons we watch, and when they do blatantly disrespectful shit like ending their cartoon because they're bored, it pisses us off
As a general rule I think it's pretty lame to just quote somebody and then post a picture of a soijak next to the quote but fuck if I've ever seen a quote that deserves that treatment.
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My favorite episode was the one where they randomly screamed.
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>>153235145
It's not like the creators started off wanting to make ATHF about solving crimes, they just bullshitted that was what the show was about to appease execs:
>In early episodes, the trio was identified by Master Shake as the Aqua Teen Hunger Force, which solved crimes for money. After a few episodes, this premise and the characters' use of the name were dropped. The premise was a trick that had been added to appease Cartoon Network executives, who "didn't want to air a show about food just going around and doing random things".[9] In the show, Frylock says they stopped fighting crime because "that wasn't making us a whole lot of money".

In a similar fashion, Nick execs wanted SpongeBob to be more like a little kid going to school, despite Hillenburg's objections. Boating school was created as a compromise to that.

>>153235117
Zach and Cusack already said they're open to making more Smiling Friends stuff in the future. So there's definitely a chance they could come back to do some specials in the future. I mean everyone thought Moral Orel was dead and gone and we ended up getting that Beforel Orel special out of nowhere.
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>>153232141
>WAHHHHH WAHHHHHI NED TO CONSOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM I NEED TO CONSOOOOOOOOM OR ILL KILL MYSELF
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>>153232141
cancelling their show instead of having it ruined by korean animators is, in fact, based

not to wait 33 seconds for this to be posted
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>>153235272
Was this the next "Normal words, but a horse guy!"?
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ITT
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>>153232141
The only cope I can think of is that they were offered two more seasons but at a very reduced budget because of the merger or other corpo BS so Zach and Michael decided to walk.
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How was it? I didn't see it.
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They literally said from the beginning that if the fanbase got too annoying/tranny they would ‘take a sledgehammer to it’ dumb fucking nigger keep raging
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>>153235914
where and when
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>>153232241
>It was literally the only cartoon of the past five years worth watching and now it's gone
If the creators feel they have nowhere to go with their creation then they have no obligation to keep going. Passion is what made smiling friends good and when that well runs dry it just becomes another family guy or rick and morty.
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>>153232141
honestly the reasoning doesn't matter because they're still massive assholes for just canceling the show out of the blue before even telling the staff, some having moved across the country to work on the next seasons.
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>>153236001
yeah but they already promised 2 more

plus it really could have become the new simpsons
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>>153235074
>but you already confirmed to make season 4 and 5,
Adult Swim did. They didn't. It doesn't happen unless both parties agree to it.
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>>153232141
They probably just didn't feel like working on it anymore
I doubt they made that much money from it
they were only doing it because it was cool to have a show on a real network
but the novelty wore off so it just became work
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>>153235272
The Simpsons parody is so weird, it's unlike the tone of the actual show as if they never even watched it. I wonder if they watched this and thought the show was like it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnNjmqjrgCo
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>>153235321
They literally make fun of the premise in the very first episode.

>"Listen. Carl is determined to give us twenty dollars so I suggest we spend it on something before he asks for it back.... Lets buy candies."
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>>153236220
Yeah mte
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>>153232175
tits or GTFO
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>>153232141
wasn't this because of the paramount merger?
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>>153236751
Retard
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>>153236751
>Adult Swim did. They didn't. It doesn't happen unless both parties agree to it.
Zack and Cusack literally announced at a convention over the summer that not only did they get renewed for seasons 4 and 5, but that they were actively working on them at the time. So it comes across like they really were set on making 2 more seasons and then something happened to change their minds, like they got sudden writer's block and realized they don't have enough ideas to make 1 let alone 2 more seasons worth of content at the same quality they've been doing.

Or as some other anons have pointed out, maybe Paramount buying WB spooked them or something and they're waiting to see how things will go with that.
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>>153235567
Once you notice it you start seeing how much they overuse random screaming
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>>153236751
Are you retarded? Do you believe adult swim renewed the show behind their back without talking about it?
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>>153232141
Seasons 2 & 3 were already weaker than Season 1 and if it was only going to get worse then its better that ti died because it better to have nothing than shit.
Simple as
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>>153232141
Unironically bitchmade behaviour.
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Hasn’t zach complained a lot about people refusing to do their jobs? Seems a little hypocritical
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>>153232141
Retire before getting infected by the zombie Simpson´s curse is based af.
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>>153232830
You sound entitled
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>>153237944
Not the guy you’re replying to but you sound insecure
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They're YouTubers, they can do whatever they want. They did their thing and left. They made it. I'd leave too if it became boring.
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>I AM ENTITLED TO MORE EPISODES


No, you’re not.
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>>153237987
How so?
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>>153232496
They are 100% being put to work in a new show. AS wouldn't have let them quit Smiling Friends otherwise.
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Was the fandom really that bad?
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>>153232141
hey man that is right they are bad creator. last episode make fun india very bad man benchot mahadad
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>>153235074
>nice conclusion
Yeah why couldn't they give a nice conclusion to this surrealist random humor show with no plot? You people are retarded, just admit you got too invested on a silly cartoon for terminally online people to point and scream "I GET IT THEY'RE REFFERENCING CHRIS CHAN LOOOOOOL" at the TV. I like the show and I'm fine with it ending because it was a silly cartoon that served its purpose in 3 good seasons.
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>>153232141
I doubt anyone really wants less show except zach because he's lazy
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>>153239656
BUILT for Mr Boss
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>>153238241
contracts are contracts
we were entitled to 2 more seasons
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>>153232496
you cannot be forced like a slave to make 2 seasons of a cartoon lmao… it just means they can’t go make smiling friends seasons 4 & 5 for some other network
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>>153232141
They never said that.
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>>153239613
This show had a fandom?
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Is it really too hard to comprehend that they cancelled the show before it suffered the same fate as Family Guy, The Simpsons, and Rick and Morty?
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>>153243321
They announced seasons 4 and 5 beforehand
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>>153243321
The flaking isn’t the part that was surprising
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>>153240418
Did you really think it was a serious post and never humored the idea that it was maybe a simple joke image? Or that the creator has more power to pull the plug than we assume?

Maybe you should just learn to accept when things are over instead of getting this upset over something. Look we get it, we liked the show too, I'm sad it's over, but I'll take the show ending over [AS] slamming it into the ground and ruining it.
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>>153240418
Did you really think it was a serious post and never humored the idea that it was maybe a simple joke image? Or that the creator has more power to pull the plug than we assume?

Maybe you should just learn to accept when things are over instead of getting this upset over something. Look we get it, we liked the show too, I'm sad it's over, but I'll take the show ending over [AS] slamming it into the ground and ruining it.
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>>153243321
For normal people and well adjusted anons, no. For I guess superfans, or austitic contrarians, or just good ole fashioned trolls, no.
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>>153243321
This, looking at some of the shit out there going on forever/getting sequels/new seasons 10 fucking years after it ended Im absolutely fine with it having ended
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I mean I get it. Rick and Morty's drop in quality is pretty much directly correlated to how little Roiland was involved in the writer's room and by at least Season 4 he was pretty much just doing VA work between other projects. Zach and Michael probably ran out of ideas and didn't feel like it was worth continuing as a result. Would you really prefer Smiling Friends last forever and steadily get worse as the barrel's bottom gets scraped?
>"Hurr I just want the contractual obligation fulfilled"
Congrats, the final two seasons suck dick because they needed to rely on other writers due to being out of ideas and yet it still keeps enough traction that Adult Swim renews it again. But at least you got to see them meet their initial five season obligations.
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The way they did it was unprofessional, and it seems like they fucked over some of the staff in a notoriously difficult industry.

Idk about Cussack but Zach himself probably knows very well what a brokie life it is being in animation.

I think it'd make more sense to do another season with explicitly saying it's the last one to finish the show and to give the staff some work and a proper notice to start preparing for another job.

More attention on the final season of a popular show would help with that.

That's the thing about being in charge on a show running on a network. You're kinda also now responsible for feeding a lot of mouths. Comes with the territory. If you don't like it go publish independently online.
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>>153243321
also weren't people complaining here about some of the newer episodes being bad when it was airing
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I'm glad they ended it because it was already starting to wear thin.
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>>153243670
That's not Mike and Zach's fault, that's the fault of the system everyone has to play the unfair rules to to just survive and keep a job.
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So Zach is definitly the kind of guy who shows his friends gore videos
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>>153232175
It wasn't for you people.
It was made by people who laughed about jokes about you people.
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>>153243819
They’re responsible for their choices as managers and human beings
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>>153243670
They'll find another job. CN probably has them on another project already.
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>>153232141
Rick and Morty won.



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