How do The Smiling Friends make their money?
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How do The Smiling Friends make their money?
How do The Smiling Friends make their money?
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I want the twist reveal/joke at the end to be the Smiling Friends being ex cons being forced to do community service. The show ends with a timer going off, and Charlie and Pim just celebrate that they're done serving out their sentences
Charlie? Maybe
Pim loves the job too much for that to be the case
Government grants and donation drives.
Eh, I dunno. The joke could land I guess but it'd feel kind of cheap regardless. It'd be a Tamzarian situation where people would feel cheated by a twist that exists within what is effectively a vacuum for the sake of a joke/episode. You're just creating a situation where you're telling the audience that what they watched was a waste of time, it's the reason dream endings tend to be as hated as they are.
Except it doesn't negate everything they did like dream sequences do, it just recontextualizes it.
It would be a good twist if there was something that foreshadowed it and made revisiting the series a wildly new experience, but I'm not confident that they've been setting up the framework for such a payoff.
In a really lazy way.
>Pim "loves" kids and was raised in a violent home where shootouts are common.
>Charlie's uncle has killed people, his grandma's explanation as to why she's in hell likely doesn't give the full context, and Charlie himself loved the scene in that movie where a woman gets beaten.
>Alan outright assaulted a woman working at Gwimbly's company.
>Glep has a fondness for engaging in police brutality.
There's some foreshadowing there if they really wanted to go for it but I would fricking hate it for destroying these characters. Wouldn't mind if it wasn't canon and just a shitpost though.
I thought Alan kicked the woman at the game company because she was similar to a blibli.
I'd like to make money by killing you, shroommeister
It's a charity, they make their money from donations.
When does the show establish Smiling Friends to be a charity?
charlie says it at one point, that's for certain
mr.boss is a billionaire so he's probably financing it all himself
only on the gwimbly episode
It's implied to be a charity but then you also have Mr. Boss discussing profits so I think the specifics are just being kept hazy intentionally so they don't end up writing themselves into a corner one way or the other. It just depends on the needs of the episode.
Charities have profits too
>Nonprofits are allowed to make a profit, but they must be funneled back into the organization's activities.
>It's implied to be a charity
They outright state it's a charity, you frickwit. This isn't a mystery.
In the Frowning Friends episode it said that their company made the Smiling Friends lose billions.
I guess we can guess that the Frowning Friends managed to convince several donators to stop giving money to their cause.
It made the boss lose billions, that doesn't necessarily mean Smiling Friends itself.
Season 2 episode 1. It also establishes a new rule that the Smiling Friends have to do whatever it takes until the client smiles, no exceptions. I guess the organization closed the part of their charter that had paperwork to sign if you weren't made to smile like Charlie took Desmond to fill out in the pilot.
>It's a really good episode and links to it aren't hard to come by
The last episode in Season 1.
Maybe Mr. Boss is running a money laundering operation.
He's running an illegal porn ring.
The guy in the wall's job is editing the vile footage
Charlie mentions it when questioned by James.
They don't, that's why the Frowning Friends are so dangerous
Same way any charity organization gets their money from donations and goberment.
They do. Otherwise their company wouldn't lose billions because of the frowning friends or whatever the other guys across the street were called.
That's where Glep comes from. He's the key to all of this.
Darth Glep when?
you're looking at him pal.
Remember the Salty episode where they're hired to solve the murder
Living in the Smiling Friends world seems like it would genuinely be hell.
Charities receive money and tax cuts, the Boss mentions it's close to or above 2 billion dollars in net revenue.
Sex trafficking.
I really like the running joke of the business not making any sense at all, but if I had to make up an explanation, there's an old Hanna-Barbera cartoon called Yogi's Gang where all of the world's evils are caused by villains in flying machines with names like "Dr. Bigot," "I. M. Sloppy," and "Smokestack Smog," and Yogi Bear and his friends have their own flying machine that they use to travel around the world and defeat these villains. Smiling Friends would fit perfectly in this universe, many characters even have names suggesting that they are powerful leaders in this universe (Mr. Boss, Simon S. Salty, the Renaissance Men, the Frowning Friends). Yogi also has various allies on the ground (Ranger Smith, the Sheik of Sharing, Mr. Cheerful), Mr. Boss is probably one of these allies since he is spreading happiness.
Something about James's character felt so specific, I feel like he was based on a real person
Like the kind of person who watches animal abuse videos and brags about feeling nothing, or destroys their own property in rage. Probably a specific type of autism
Just so you know, that was a power move.
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Eat shit and die, moron. Take your fricking meds
the season 2 trailer would be more fun if they didn't do the fricking "music stops for funny one-liner" bit 5 TIMES