This was literally the only part of the episode that was remotely funny. I didn't laugh but I breathed a little harder out of my nose when he held out his hand asking if they had money. Otherwise I agree with the OP, even as someone who thoroughly enjoyed Smiling Friends first season I felt like this was just way too much try-hard anti-comedy. Ended up being nothing but a boring waste of time which is disappointing because I thought there were some solid laughs and well done absurd premises in the rest of the show.
yeah, I feel like if the idea of the episode had been talked about in a podcast post-season 2 it would have amused me more than them actually making it
I agree, it feels like something that's funny to riff about with your friends for a few minutes and conceptualize but if that's literally the only thing that happens it just sort of falls apart. I'm not saying there had to be a more grandiose plot but for fricks sake at least write some jokes or something. The episode while funny in premise was a huge drag.
The punchline was "Imagine if we made an episode where the smiling friends go to Brazil, but instead of what people would be expecting, they forget to book a hotel, never leave the airport, and go home after 10 minutes" it's the intensional anti-climax of the episodes concept which is the joke.
Everyone knows that, it was simply not executed well.
Also family guy does this kind of "anti-climax turned into normal relatable argument" gag CONSTANTLY, the godfather one being the most obvious example.
It would have been fine if released as-intended, an unannounced April Fool's Day special. Hyping it up as a summer special between seasons was way too much.
It's so weird seeing Zach Hadel talk in person after so many audio-only interviews. All I've ever seen is the picture of him dressed as Trump.
He's lankier than I expected too.
Turn peter yellow and make the other guy a stumpy pink scrimblo and zoomers will lose their minds over this scene. It's actually impressive how well it would fit and how interchangeable the shows are becoming.
>seething >critiquing a show for a sharp drop in quality
Learn the difference, it'll save you from looking like an idiot in the future. Don't let /misc/ melt your brain, tourist.
>brainlets >it's all so tiresome.
People like you encourage people like him. Maybe if you wrote normally instead of in cliches to fit in, this site wouldn't seem so moronic. You all just beat shit into the ground.
if it was a business trip it would've been fine to ask the boss for money and it makes no sense why they would be worried about it
if it was a pleasure trip they should have known they'd have to pay for the hotel at some point so the idea that they didn't budget money for that makes no sense too
You didn't pay attention, moron. They budgeted for a hotel, but Pim forgot to book it, and they couldn't just get another one because it was Mardi Gras and they were all booked to capacity.
The whole "ask the boss for money" thing was a hail mary based on the gamble of "maybe there's a high-end hotel that isn't booked to capacity because it's so expensive."
2 years ago
Anonymous
Well it's a stretch that none of them had like a laptop or anything and just checked all other hotels online. And a high end Brazil hotel is gonna be cheaper than an american hotel in general
2 years ago
Anonymous
They did check. The four are constantly looking at their phones throughout the episode.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Charlie doesn't because his is nearly dead, Pim doesn't because he's talking to his friends - Only used his phone when he was calling the hotel, Allan uses it to call the boss, Glep uses it a bit but doesn't confirm or deny the existence of an available hotel room
Yeah. My boss loaned me $300 just last month because I was going on vacation with my girlfriend and he wanted to make sure we had a good time and ate good on our trip.
if it was a business trip it would've been fine to ask the boss for money and it makes no sense why they would be worried about it
if it was a pleasure trip they should have known they'd have to pay for the hotel at some point so the idea that they didn't budget money for that makes no sense too
screenwriters and artists are often out of touch with real world jobs and money problems and it constantly shows
The concept of making fun of when shows have special travel episodes and then in this episode don't even get out of the airport is funny, but that joke wears off quick. There needs to be actually funny jokes within that premise. The only part that really was even comedic was the Brazilian dude.
In the chinese restaurant episode of Seinfeld they actually have make conversation about different things and try to be comedic. This wasn't attempting to be entertaining at all. It was just them talking over each other and bickering about the same things over and over for almost the entire time. The episode doesn't need to be funny, but it does need to be entertaining or interesting, which it is neither. It's not like this is an innovative, new idea to do an intentionally unfunny episode. That idea's been done before many times.
I was under the assumption the "smiling friends go to brazil" was a joke from the podcast/panel and they rushed to make the episode. If this was a planned summer episode then I can appreciate the disappointment, but I saw it as "thanks for helping us get popular here's a bonus episode we threw together"
I fricking hate this episode because I've been in the exact same situation as Pim where I just fully don't remember my friend telling me to book the hotel, so we just had to go place to place looking for one
The solution was the same too where we went to a really expensive one and I just paid the difference because I fricked up, but the shame I feel haunts me every day
Yeah. My boss loaned me $300 just last month because I was going on vacation with my girlfriend and he wanted to make sure we had a good time and ate good on our trip.
>Cinemaphile posters so desperate to defend this episode that they'll make up stories about having friends, girlfriends, and jobs
incredible
I'm the guy whose boss loaned him money and what the frick are you talking about I am in no way defending the episode. It fricking sucked, I'm right here with you on that you homosexual. Being unfunny and low effort for the sake of irony is absolutely moronic and a waste of time
This. I watched a movie last night where this kids parents died in a horrific accident and I found hilarious because my parents happened to have died in a fiery car crash when I was young. What, you don't think it's funny? It's probably because you can't relate. It's funny because I am able to relate unlike you morons.
This. I watched a movie last night where this kids parents died in a horrific accident and I found hilarious because my parents happened to have died in a fiery car crash when I was young. What, you don't think it's funny? It's probably because you can't relate. It's funny because I am able to relate unlike you morons.
I did actually relate to it and found the concept funny for about a minute or so. Then they stretched out the joke for 10 more minutes without adding anything else to it.
Would have been funnier if they animated a few wild scenes just for the commercials. That's the setup, the episode's the payoff.
I know what they were going for and if you are rolling on the floor laughing at the episode all the power to you. But it's just "meh" to me. Even Venture Brothers broke up meandering conversations with wordplay or intriguing flashbacks.
I understood the joke about 3 or 4 minutes into the episode and it was funny but then it just became boring and unoriginal.
2 years ago
Anonymous
You understood the joke, yet you’re continuing to drag out the punchline by complaining about it.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>the punchline is your dissatisfaction with the low quality of the episode
Do you realize how stupid you sound?
2 years ago
Anonymous
This has been done before in better, more interesting ways. This was just a bad attempt at doing something.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>it was bad on purpose therefore it's immune to criticism
Irony is cancer and will always be. It wasn't even good ironically either, it doesn't loop back or anything.
Yeah, that's been done before. That's why it wasn't funny because this type of intentional anti-humor isn't new and I got what the joke was a few minutes into the episode. It wasn't funny enough or interesting enough to warrant its length.
It was funny. Sorry you didn't get your beach trip OVA.
>wearing havaianas with socks on
wow he's literally me
>I didn't like it, therefore no one liked it
Do you think the boss would have given them the money if they had asked?
Probably, he seems like a pretty chill guy.
If they did actually make it a business trip and make someone smile sure but that would defeat the purpose of the trip
it was okay
i sat through the entire episode with picrel face. what the frick was that
Punchline was worth it
help me see it. the only funny joke was the google docs one
This was literally the only part of the episode that was remotely funny. I didn't laugh but I breathed a little harder out of my nose when he held out his hand asking if they had money. Otherwise I agree with the OP, even as someone who thoroughly enjoyed Smiling Friends first season I felt like this was just way too much try-hard anti-comedy. Ended up being nothing but a boring waste of time which is disappointing because I thought there were some solid laughs and well done absurd premises in the rest of the show.
yeah, I feel like if the idea of the episode had been talked about in a podcast post-season 2 it would have amused me more than them actually making it
I agree, it feels like something that's funny to riff about with your friends for a few minutes and conceptualize but if that's literally the only thing that happens it just sort of falls apart. I'm not saying there had to be a more grandiose plot but for fricks sake at least write some jokes or something. The episode while funny in premise was a huge drag.
he flinched
I liked the episode but I didn't really get what the punchline was. The plane?
The punchline was "Imagine if we made an episode where the smiling friends go to Brazil, but instead of what people would be expecting, they forget to book a hotel, never leave the airport, and go home after 10 minutes" it's the intensional anti-climax of the episodes concept which is the joke.
Everyone knows that, it was simply not executed well.
Also family guy does this kind of "anti-climax turned into normal relatable argument" gag CONSTANTLY, the godfather one being the most obvious example.
I think the problem was that it was just too long. If the episode was like half the time it would’ve worked better
It would have been fine if released as-intended, an unannounced April Fool's Day special. Hyping it up as a summer special between seasons was way too much.
It's so weird seeing Zach Hadel talk in person after so many audio-only interviews. All I've ever seen is the picture of him dressed as Trump.
He's lankier than I expected too.
He's been on the cocaine diet.
His voice is so cartoony its hard to imagine him as a real person at all
Zach is trying too hard to look like Norm
Are you an election tourist? Are you an election tourist? I saw you from across the thread, are you guys tourists?
Do you guys have any (You)s?
Modern Family Guy tier
>dude talking over people with annoying voices lmao
it was mediocre, just like most of the show. I hope it gets better with later seasons
Where can I watch this episode? Can't find it anywhere
This whole episode felt like this gag
At least family guy keeps it under two minutes
Turn peter yellow and make the other guy a stumpy pink scrimblo and zoomers will lose their minds over this scene. It's actually impressive how well it would fit and how interchangeable the shows are becoming.
It's 12mins long and I shut it off half way.
>silly cartoons makes tv seethe
lol
no one is seething, it just wasnt funny
>no one is seething
this is the guarantee someone is seething
>seething
>critiquing a show for a sharp drop in quality
Learn the difference, it'll save you from looking like an idiot in the future. Don't let /misc/ melt your brain, tourist.
>/misc/
return to reddit ma'am
Frig off, election tourist
>silly
Where
the mega64 unboxing ring ruined a generation of comedians
Good episode. It used situational humor instead of lol so randumb jokes. Seethies gon seethe.
>situational humor
oh like a sitcom? like shit that normies watch?
The humor to me came from how realistic the conversation sounded, unlike how sitcoms are
>Seethies gon seethe
I swear you brainlets who use this phrase don't even know what the word means anymore, it's all so tiresome.
>brainlets
>it's all so tiresome.
People like you encourage people like him. Maybe if you wrote normally instead of in cliches to fit in, this site wouldn't seem so moronic. You all just beat shit into the ground.
didn't it bug anybody else that the money aspect made no sense?
>didn't it bug anybody else that the money aspect made no sense?
The only part that didnt make sense is why not just borrow money from the boss.
anon would you ask YOUR boss to loan you money?
No but they are friends with their boss
Plus they bring up asking him for money but not a loan
if it was a business trip it would've been fine to ask the boss for money and it makes no sense why they would be worried about it
if it was a pleasure trip they should have known they'd have to pay for the hotel at some point so the idea that they didn't budget money for that makes no sense too
You didn't pay attention, moron. They budgeted for a hotel, but Pim forgot to book it, and they couldn't just get another one because it was Mardi Gras and they were all booked to capacity.
The whole "ask the boss for money" thing was a hail mary based on the gamble of "maybe there's a high-end hotel that isn't booked to capacity because it's so expensive."
Well it's a stretch that none of them had like a laptop or anything and just checked all other hotels online. And a high end Brazil hotel is gonna be cheaper than an american hotel in general
They did check. The four are constantly looking at their phones throughout the episode.
Charlie doesn't because his is nearly dead, Pim doesn't because he's talking to his friends - Only used his phone when he was calling the hotel, Allan uses it to call the boss, Glep uses it a bit but doesn't confirm or deny the existence of an available hotel room
>speedwatchers cant focus for 10 minutes
Yeah. My boss loaned me $300 just last month because I was going on vacation with my girlfriend and he wanted to make sure we had a good time and ate good on our trip.
okay sex-haver
screenwriters and artists are often out of touch with real world jobs and money problems and it constantly shows
Peak Dunning-Kruger in action right here.
Where can you watch this?
At my house, bring snacks.
The concept of making fun of when shows have special travel episodes and then in this episode don't even get out of the airport is funny, but that joke wears off quick. There needs to be actually funny jokes within that premise. The only part that really was even comedic was the Brazilian dude.
This.
>can't find it anywhere
A megalink, anything?
I found it by searching mega in the archive
>another Rick and Morty fan dislikes Smiling Friends
Smiling Friends is groundbreaking in that it proves that you can just do Seinfeld again and zoomers will lose their fricking minds.
In the chinese restaurant episode of Seinfeld they actually have make conversation about different things and try to be comedic. This wasn't attempting to be entertaining at all. It was just them talking over each other and bickering about the same things over and over for almost the entire time. The episode doesn't need to be funny, but it does need to be entertaining or interesting, which it is neither. It's not like this is an innovative, new idea to do an intentionally unfunny episode. That idea's been done before many times.
I was under the assumption the "smiling friends go to brazil" was a joke from the podcast/panel and they rushed to make the episode. If this was a planned summer episode then I can appreciate the disappointment, but I saw it as "thanks for helping us get popular here's a bonus episode we threw together"
Sneed
I fricking hate this episode because I've been in the exact same situation as Pim where I just fully don't remember my friend telling me to book the hotel, so we just had to go place to place looking for one
The solution was the same too where we went to a really expensive one and I just paid the difference because I fricked up, but the shame I feel haunts me every day
>Cinemaphile posters so desperate to defend this episode that they'll make up stories about having friends, girlfriends, and jobs
incredible
I'm the guy whose boss loaned him money and what the frick are you talking about I am in no way defending the episode. It fricking sucked, I'm right here with you on that you homosexual. Being unfunny and low effort for the sake of irony is absolutely moronic and a waste of time
Reminder that Zach is a huge family guy fan and if they really didn't reign him in for S2 then expect 2 more hours of this kind of humor.
The new episode was such a waste of time.
It’s a 13 minute long shitpost
shitposts are supposed to be funny. if they aren't it's just a shit post.
>shitposts are supposed to be funny
Maybe. I agree it wasn’t all that funny or worth it.
>shitposts are supposed to be funny
If that's the case, this site has never had 1.
Yeah, and that isn't a positive.
>filtered
It was funny because it was relatable
If you ever went on a trip with friends you would understand
This. I watched a movie last night where this kids parents died in a horrific accident and I found hilarious because my parents happened to have died in a fiery car crash when I was young. What, you don't think it's funny? It's probably because you can't relate. It's funny because I am able to relate unlike you morons.
I did actually relate to it and found the concept funny for about a minute or so. Then they stretched out the joke for 10 more minutes without adding anything else to it.
The problem is that they fricking sucked at improv and couldn't move the prompt forward, instead always looping back to the beginning.
They didn’t pay for the fries and I thought that was a bit messed up.
Glad I wasn't the only one who noticed.
Would have been funnier if they animated a few wild scenes just for the commercials. That's the setup, the episode's the payoff.
I know what they were going for and if you are rolling on the floor laughing at the episode all the power to you. But it's just "meh" to me. Even Venture Brothers broke up meandering conversations with wordplay or intriguing flashbacks.
But it's not shit
Can't say why though, huh?
>Anon doesn’t realize that his overreaction to a cartoon IS the punchline
>we made something bad for the sole purpose to disappoint people and isn't it so funny that people are disappointed
How abysmal
Every seethe post you make only further accomplishes their goal, aspie
>I have completely defended myself from any criticism because I made it bad on purpose and the joke is you criticize it, therefore it is genius
Yes anon, you now understand the joke
I understood the joke about 3 or 4 minutes into the episode and it was funny but then it just became boring and unoriginal.
You understood the joke, yet you’re continuing to drag out the punchline by complaining about it.
>the punchline is your dissatisfaction with the low quality of the episode
Do you realize how stupid you sound?
This has been done before in better, more interesting ways. This was just a bad attempt at doing something.
>it was bad on purpose therefore it's immune to criticism
Irony is cancer and will always be. It wasn't even good ironically either, it doesn't loop back or anything.
God I fricking hate zoomers
Yeah, that's been done before. That's why it wasn't funny because this type of intentional anti-humor isn't new and I got what the joke was a few minutes into the episode. It wasn't funny enough or interesting enough to warrant its length.
They even stole Family Guy's keyart. It's kinda impressive how this just became the zoomer version of family guy.