https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/smiling-friends-ending-season-3-adult-swim-1236673215/>BTFO’s Nu South Park>BTFO’s Nu Simpsons>BTFO’s Nu Family Goy>BTFO’s Reddit and Morty>Refuses to elaborate >Leaves after 3 seasonsHonestly kinda based
season 3 sucked and you know it
>quirk chungus but a rightwing YouTube guy
>>218228075nah it had enough moments to be good but it's definitely losing steam and they're smart for moving on now
>>218228075Season 3 sucked and they know it.
>>218228090>Implying slightly annoying quirk chungus girls aren’t the absolute bestFaggot
It was cancelled because Marc M. (who made raciss youtube animations) worked on it.
>>218228146Zac said they just don’t want to do it anymore. They have a couple more episodes they’re gonna release. Cancelled shows don’t get to release more episodes
>>218228062>Gay ass reddit show is endingWho cares
OCs killed the show.
>>218228075>>218228113this. we'd watch an episode and immediately forget it.we'd laugh about S1 and S2 episodes for days and still quote them.you could tell they ran out of ideas when they developed characters like Mr. Frog and Glep. That kills these types of shows and it's partially why Rick and Morty fell off.
>Jim Norton does a cameo>show is immediately cancelledmany such cases!
>>218228202YOLO also ended after 3 seasons. I don't think Michael Cusack wants to commit to a long ongoing series.
Why did Zach bend his knee
racist show
>got made fun of by The Simpsons>diesHail to the king.
>>218230039Moleman had some funny bits, but as a whole that episode was the best example of how out-of-steam they were becoming. It was way too meta and self-referential in a way Smiling Friends usually isn’t and every other show on tv is. >“Do some of your classic realistic dialogue” ugh. Once you’re referencing your own tropes, you’re running out of ideas. Not to mention the ending, you could see it coming a mile away. It’s just the same ending as the Shrimp episode, but that one does it way better
its over for hideous chudslop
>>218230169That was this show's Normal words moment
>>218228075The only really bad episodes were the first one and the moleman one.Boy did silly samuel and moleman suck hard. Good thing theyre pulling the plug actually
>>218230267Season 3 was a huge drop in quality
I just want to see more Roy Dismey
This show sucked lmao
>>218228062I watched Smiling Friends and Haha, You Clowns and was struck by the aesthetics. There’s this aggressively grotesque look to them (and to a lot of stuff that orbit the same online right-wing/chud audience) that feels intentional. Not just crude or low-budget, but actively hostile to the idea of beauty.Is it just contrarianism? Like, “the libs like pretty, polished animation, so we’ll make the ugliest thing possible”? Is it a reflexive rejection of sincerity and aesthetic pleasure because those things are associated with vulnerability? Or is it something deepe: an actual distrust or resentment of beauty itself?It also feels defensive. Like if everything is a joke and everything looks like garbage, then nothing can be criticized seriously. If you say “this looks awful,” the response is basically “that’s the point, idiot.”So yeah, genuine question:Do chuds actually hate beauty? Or do they just hate the idea that beauty might be meaningful, sincere, or shared? Is the ugliness a worldview leaking out through the character designs?
>>218228062>Show with an alt-right fanbas that made anti-trans and antisemitic dogwhistles gets cancelled right before Netflix takes over its parent company
>>218228062I thought they were doing 5 seasons though.They'd said so, iirc.
>>218230549I guess they changed their minds
>>218230039Gleb episode was pretty bad.The only thing I remember is the not-smurf training montage and the Malding Wizard.
>>218228075Better than 2 desu
>>218230097Did he announce Yolo is officially over? S3 was great
>>218228062I saw this coming smiling friends has too much effort put into it. Every episode features some completely different form of animation. They can just give it to someone else to write and animated while they just voice because that just wouldn't be smiling friends.
>>218230735It was fun while it lasted though. Two great seasons and one mid season is still better than 90% of the animated “comedies” that get shit out by corporate studios today
>>218230637Yea, he did confirm that season 3 is likely the end. Maybe he'll go back to it and a do a season 4 now that smiling friends is over, but I suspect he'll work on something new.
>>218230039>we'd laugh about S1 and S2 episodes for days and still quote them.
>>218230390>>218228090>>218230333reddit is raiding hard I see>anti-trans and antisemitic dogwhistlesyou're delusional, when is that supposed to have happened ?
>>218230333>Like, “the libs like pretty, polished animation, so we’ll make the ugliest thing possible”disingenuous fuck shill or bot?
>>218228075Season 3 was the strongest by far.
>>218230333I never thought the animation was uglyI never care about the animation quality if what I am watching is fun/good/interesting/etcHonestly I think you are overthinking a cartoon show
>>218228062Seen plenty of clips being posted with comments like “this is the funniest” but none of it was funny beyond a chuckle. All of the jokes seem to be small talk humor, which isn’t that bad, but if that’s all that it is then its not as great as ppl say
>>218230316Me2 anon :(I legit thought his clip was a trailer and was letdown when he didnt have an episode
>>218228062peaked HARD with season 1 and fell HARD with every episode after
>>218228062
They both had the same nightmare every single night for the last five years where dozens of skinny guys in Smiling Friends t shirts chant give us the sauce in McDonalds across the country. They decided to ensure it never comes true.
>>218230333Pretty people aren't funny.
Let's settle this:what is example of ZACH humor in the show? What is an example of MICHAEL humor?
>Zach and Michael sounding like they have a gun to their heads saying "i...it was our decision I swear!"lmao, we know you want to work in the industry again but the kikes don't respect you bending the kneethey're not letting you back, we all know that it was for other reasons (given the next season was literally in production), you might as well tell them how you feel and tell the truth
>>218228062hope they make something new
>>218228062Thanks for all the smiles, Smiling Friends.
>>218228075All the seasons have been great. I like their experimenting with mixed animation as the show went on. The random rotoscoping was hilarious.
>>218230333>>218233040
>>218234065Meds
>>218234396You like rotoscoping? Anon, bro. I knew I liked you dude. Come here. Bring it up man. Bring it in brother.
>>218233955>zachthe mob ripping apart the demon and eating him>michaelany interaction between pim and his family
>>218228075Season 2 was pretty shit as well
>>218234396The hard cut to the jacked smaloogles doing push ups was one of the funnier moments in the show for me.
>>218230333There are a lot of pleasing to the eye characters in Smiling Friends. The princess and the coffee shop girl are both really cute. The grotesques are generally meant to look that way. I agree with you when it comes to Haha though. It's pretty shit.
>>218228062I'm very surprised AS allowed them to walk away from the show given how big of a deal it has really just recently become.I would have liked a season or two more, but I respect them for just being done with it.We were already at the stage where the show was repeating concepts.And some of the comedy was dragging and becoming stilted. Mr. Boss was a bit overused and the red one being gay was never funny.But they had a good run.Most of these AS shows don't last that long anyway. Though the short season length has made Smiling Friends pretty short in particular.3 seasons is plenty for such an off kilter and weird show
>>218236213>I'm very surprised AS allowed them to walk away from the show given how big of a deal it has really just recently become.That's because this is a marketing psyop and exactly in line with Zach's brand of gaslighting humor. Season 4 is probably in production right now and is going to shadow drop out of nowhere later this year or early next year.
>>218236213>I'm very surprised AS allowed them to walk away from the show given how big of a deal it has really just recently become.It was probably commit to 4 more season or walk. It's pretty much how AS operates. As soon as Rick and Morty was a hit they locked it down to do at least 7 seasons. There's level of artistic freedom here by walking away.
>>218236413id imagine leadership in AS is probably changing around considering WB is being sold off
>does nothing>wins anyway
>>218230311I liked Silly Samuel. Moleman sucked though
>>218228090>psychic fucking pebbles>right wing 10/10 ragebait made me reply
>>218228062Season 1: PeakSeason 2: Funny but had a couple of stinkersSeason 3: Half Good, Half BadIt was not a show that lent itself to longevity. There was no real character development, a small cast of characters, a lot of repeatitive lolsorandum jokes over and over.Zach and Michael got away with one and had enough integrity not to fool their audience any longer.
internet people don't like moleman but he is such a spot on depiction of superfans
>>218236687zero cultural impact
>>218228075nah
Its because they called out the Jew.>>218230333Didn't read, they're both rip offs of Marc M cartoons to the point that Marc M ended up being a voice actor for Smiling Friends.
>>218237857>>218230311>>218228075Squim > MoleMan > Shmaloogles >> Mother Nature > Green Witch >>> Glep Ep > Mr. Frog's Dad >>>>> Silly Samuel
>>218238198Shmaloogles is the best episode of the season and it isn't even close. Squim is a shitty episode once you get over the animation gimmick
>>218238449That's not positive.>well done animation is a gimmickWhy do you even watch Smiling Friends then?
>>218230735Season 2 was partially outsourced to korea and season 3 the korean company worked full time on the show
>>218238198I didn't HATE the Silly Samuel episode but I was really disappointed that they squandered someone as funny as Conner O'Malley with it.
>>218230735>smiling friends has too much effort put into ityou say this like you deserve mediocrity
>>218233955Michael: the mad professor's brother, gwimbly, squim, pim's family. supposedly funny but just realistically insane and desperate people being pathetic. depressing humor and very ugly in a realistic way, very cringe Zack: entire schmoogles episode, mr boss's son, james, roy dimsey. random humor, realism in the face of the surreal, genius power moves over weak untalented Michael
>>218240005>entire schmoogles episodeThat Norwood bit with the wizard where he gleefully forces Pim to acknowledge his point about balding is great.
In the beginning>Don't understand why Allan is there or what his character is or anythingBy the end>Favorite character on the show is AllanHow did this happen? Probably by the time "Me was born this way" happened he had won me over
>>218238198i think shmaloogles was the best overall episode but the mr boss/allan plotlines in silly samuel and mother nature were the funniest in the season. The building inspection and the gay cabin stuff
>>218237857>>218238839Yeah, no. Silly samuel was ok actually. Wasted yes, but what really sunk that ep was the boss' plot. I just didnt care about the building there were no stakes but they didnt even do jack without it. Just some lazy gags and wave it away like nothing. I really dont care about the boss's anything. Especially when this last season tried to get serious with him and glep. Completely out of place and not even worth it. At least with mr frog they did something funny
>>218228062Cool, Ive literally never watched an episode. I’ve never heard the opening to it, don’t even know if it has one.
>>218240441this but the opposite, the silly samuel stuff felt like a rehash of the gwimbly episode, and it was a decent idea basically like a lolcow episode, but it wasn’t that funny. Yeah he is ridiculous and doesn’t understand why people laugh at him when he is just ridiculous. Where all the stuff with Mr Boss and Allan was funny, the old man was funny, who cares about the stakes in this stupid show?
>>218230039>you could tell they ran out of ideas when they developed characters like Mr. FrogIronically Mr. Frog started the entire series. He's the first thing Zach and Michael drew when brainstorming ideas for the show they were going to make. Apparently the Mr Frog Show got decently far in development before it became smiling friends.
Show was mid as fuck, but I don’t know why reddit wanks it off so much given the creators are chuds.
>>218240441>what really sunk that ep was the boss' plot.bait post. that was the only good part of the episode.
>>218230390>>218231630Zach's Jewish so we know they didn't get cancelled for antisemitic dog whistles
>>218238661Season 3 was produced in-house at the Adult Swim studio
>>218240631https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saerom_AnimationSaerom Animation worked on season two partially and season 3 fully, a korean animation studio
