Remember when Smiling Friends was airing, people said it was a hit because audiences were tired of nihilistic and meanspirited humor of shows like Rick & Morty and wanted something wholesome chungus like Smiling Friends, when Smiling Friends is way more meanspirited and cynical than Rick & Morty and similar shows?
>>156261981It's funny, you pussy
>>156261981Will you faggots ever outgrow the influence of Mr. Enter? Or Schaffirillas?
How is this show still mindbreaking trannies?
>>156261981Smiling Friends is less "gen x" than Rick and Morty. Much of r&m's writing comes from older millennials and Gen Xers whose cynicism is half-hearted. It's the Office Space and The Matrix level of critique of society. Smiling Friends' cynicism on the other hand is genuine. Its hatred is genuine. I guess that's the real difference.
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>>156262019never since the president episode is still the most hated one because it's "le gross"point out something is mean spirited is not Mr Enter per se if you're not condemning the show for it though
>>156261981What is nihilistic about smiling friends OP?
>>156261981People who have 'discourse' like this about cartoons are generally stupid as fuck, OP, so this should surprise nobody.
>>156261981Yea, youtube essay fatigue hadnt fully sunk in yet so people would get all worked up over this manufactured discourse about media
>>156261981I like that Skydance owns both Rock's Modern Life and its spiritual sequel.
>>156261981Pim is cute! CUTE!
>>156261986>>156262122You don't understand, Rick and Morty is Gen-X Cynicism which hates doing stuff. Counterculture had become mainstream by the 80s. The proliferation of the jock/artist (actually false) dichotomy was at its peak. There was nothing cool about photography, computers, woodworking, hiking, board games, bowling, playing tennis, or any other number of things that most young adults today would think are cool hobbies. So everybody just sort of watched TV and movies and they used to go to a mall or a diner to do nothing in particular.
>>156261981>Rick & MortyThe point of the show is that Rick was wrong
>>156263822Rick has meme depression. He’s like the writers, he drinks and does drugs but justifies it because of his tragic past. Now, the message isn’t actually about self-improvement, because the show still clearly loves drinking and drugs, just in slight moderation, which is clearly what the writers believe about themselves
>>156261986It's rude to call people names. Pim wouldn't go for that, no siree!
>>156262019Clearly you won't since you feel the need to make unrelated threads about them.
>>156263822The point of Rick and Morty is "you should keep watching us so we can run for as long as The Simpsons" and whether or not Rick is portrayed as right at any given time depends on whatever the ambitionless writers find easiest to write for any given scenerio.
>>156262134People who hate on Mr. President need to watch it a second time because it's honestly one of the funniest episodes in the show + the strongest Mr. Frog episode, hot take. The live action performer's greasy fat slobbering presence only filters plebs from enjoying otherwise solid ep with good bit of evergreen political satire
>>156266280>the strongest Mr. Frog episode, hot take I'm glad you're aware that's a hot take. Smiling Friends had all its best ideas in S1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0KeZfxXO_s Mr President just feels more meandering by comparison
>>156261981there is very little good to say about the current state of the world.every alarm bell possible on the future going straight down the toilets going completely haywire and most allowed causes on dealing with this are fake "green energy" is an actual environmentalists nightmare.ricks an idiots idea of what people smart enough to even begin comprehending how fucked society actually is looks like. and he exists mostly to soothe these entitled morons anxiety's.which mostly means soothing the morons fears over their status signals(sucking up to tyrants and participation in these fake causes) being rejected by people who lost trust in the system, are checked out entirely of even thinking there could be issues, or are actively rejecting the tyrants and their goons.smiling friends writers actually are at least a bit smart enough to know things are bad enough most optimists are some kind of toxic positivity, I got mine moron insulted by the very idea their neighbors place burning down could possibly turn into their problem, completely fucking insane and pyramid scheme conmen who would slit the throat of a poor bastard dubious of whatever shit they sling at the drop of a hat.people like pym are VERY rarely good people and people like their audience who just want to hear pleasant lies as the world burns down are fairly shitty people in general too and the writers are aware enough of that to let it leak into their writing.stuff like this tends to seep into writing in a number of ways
>>156261981>they are mean to him every episode At the very least, Zach & Michael do want us to feel SORRY for Pim. I'd hate it if he were the series buttmonkey and if his troubles were done exclusively for comedic purposes.
>>156267066Who's an Apple user and who's an Android user?
GAH! FUCK THIS EPISODE!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4ay8mZ7ywE
>>156261981>when Smiling Friends is way more meanspirited and cynical than Rick & Morty and similar shows?it's both cynical and optimistic, but it's not mean spirited at all??? did you even watch the show?
>>156261981Pim is so polite the way he's sipping from his lil cup <3
