So /misc/ which hotel are we staying at? is it super close by or is it a taxi drive away?
Smiling Friends go to Brazil!
This phonograph "reads" a rock’s rough surface and transforms it into beautiful ambient music pic.twitter.com/PYDzYsWWf8
— Surreal Videos (@SurrealVideos) March 3, 2023
that shit made me very anxious
It's just a little too realistic. I remember one time going on a roadtrip with my dad and grandma and dad's car radiator overheated so we ended up stuck in some tiny town for the night and then went back home in the morning. Or another time when me and a friend took 2 hours picking up another friend from a busy airport because we were in a new city.
Funny but also depressing.
I remember when I was really young like 8 we went on a trip to Florida and when we were going back home our car broke down in the middle of nowhere in Louisiana at night. I Was scared shitless at the time.
>Florida
I live here and I’ve only been to Key West like once or twice in my life. Kne time I tried with my cousins but the traffic on the only road that leads there was going 2mph and was so backed up. We got some key lime pie on the side of the road and turned around. I hate key lime pie.
Same, especially the phone call with the Boss.
*character screams*
*makes a face*
*internet reference*
haha so funni
Okay gay.
every time they reference something i know i deepens my parasocial relationship with them!
>parasocial
There goes that Buzzword again.
Calm down Richard.
how’s gigamaidens going?
Finish your game
you first, josh
>Are you a tourist?
>Are you reddit tourist?
>I saw you from across this board, are you reddit tourist?
Except you can't give a single example of any of that in this episode.
Literally nothing remotely like that happened in this episode.
This felt like a Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode.
>Smiling Friends
moron
Link
this reminded me of a shitty trip I just went on
Anyone got a link for stinkin' euros?
It's called HBO max you retarded poor person.
HBO Max? That's not a real thing surely?
seething garden gnome
antisemitic
720p torrent is widely available
https://mega.nz/file/1yoWRA5S#euE-iK2S2IOdl_q2BH7qtedoZc9BGJvXGQ4CgGV-IqQ
Thank you Chad
Wow that really was an episode where nothing happened.
The only thing I liked about this were the bits with the realistic arguing where they are constantly interrupting each other or talking over one another. So many movies or shows with arguments in them would have them take turns lecturing each other with no interruptions it's too unnatural.
Seriously was a phoned in episode
Mr Boss literally phoned in
Has anyone uploaded that clip to YouTube? Mr. Boss being normal was fucking funny to me.
It was supposed to air on April Fools Day. The network should’ve kept it for next year.
Thanks Anon
Was the Smiling Friends going to a foreign country and doing nothing but sitting around in a restaurant eating food a reference to Spongebob In Tehran
oh, great. More shilling of this garbage
>Shill Shill Shill
Maybe because season 2 came out thats why there's discussion you fucking nonce
sure. Totally organic stuff
Worst episode of any show I've watched this year. Literally fucking zero jokes
>Literally fucking zero jokes
if you get it then why are you complaining about a lack of jokes?
Because the joke being the lack of jokes is not funny.
This is not a new idea either, it has been done more successfully by Seinfeld since the actors had actual chemistry.
Anyone have a link?
scroll up dumdum
I ended up just skipping around the episode after the first 90 seconds and they actually didn't make a real episode. Wow, epic. Great joke guys. And these are like the number 1 zoomer friends podcast or something?
>calling other people zoomers
>can't watch 90 seconds of a show without needing to skip ahead
The stranger things cast love oney so yes, it is for zoomers.
>getting filtered by the chinese restaurant episode of seinfeld
/misc/ got filtered
It was exactly what I expected
>the random local asking for money from tourists
Those people are the worst. Took a trip to New Orleans last year and the place is swarming with them.
>you chose the worst time to go
The Smiling Friends Go To Brazil!
>The "Smiling Friends" finally get to relax in a beautiful Brazilian beach town; Pim works on his novel; Charlie binges a load of torrent shows on his portable hard drive; Allan and Glep enjoy some long-awaited chill out time at the beach.
Lel, is that the actual episode description?
OMG ITS ONEY. ONEY FROM ONEYPLAYS. ONEYPLAYS WHERE I WATCH ZACH. HOLY SHIT. HAVE YOU SEEN ONEYPLAYS? HAVE YOU SEEN ZACH ON ONEYPLAYS? HE HAS A SHOW NOW. ITS BASICALLY ONEYPLAYS THE SHOW. HAVE YOU SEEN THE LINKARA IMPRESSION ON ONEYPLAYS. LMAO
>STOP ENJOYING THINGS NOOOOOOOO I HAVE TO SEETHE AT A .0003 SECOND JOKE IN THE CREDITS!!!!
Whole script hit painfully close to home
>script
felt almost entirely ad libbed
Realistic arguments are insanely difficult to improv. This episode and Uncut Gems are good examples of using overlapping dialogue, shouting down, etc to make a good “argument” scene which helps the anxious tone they’re going for. Its not just monologuing/lecturing like in Family Guy
Why wouldnt you just wing it?
Thats 100% what i would do. They were only going for a few days. Just roam the streets and explore in the day and stick to the safer areas at night and try to find a room. Fuck cancelling a holiday just because you dont have a hotel booked. Thats part of the fun of travelling.
Roaming around in Rio is a terrible idea.
only in the day in the tourist areas. By nightime you would 100% have found a hotel/room and if not its mardi gras. It being mardi gras means there are also more police around patrolling so it'd be safer.
>Rio during Carnival is actually REALLY safe guize!
>I know it because I saw that one animated bird movie!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/02/14/world/americas/brazil-rio-de-janeiro-carnival-violence.amp.html
Elloell please go live on the streets of Rio with your luggage for a few days and let us know how it goes
whatever cowards. Guess you'd rather get the fucking plane back. You sound like you wouldnt even leave the hotel regardless lol as you're so scared of being murdered for walking outside the airport in rio. Nobody is denying that brazil is dangerous but if you're walking around the non-slum areas in daytime and not provoking anyone you're most likey going to be fine for 2-3 days.
You are like a koala, no sense of self preservation and probably retarded
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7975319/amp/Tourist-murdered-wife-raped-rented-beach-house-near-Rio-Janeiro.html
>attack took place in remote Praia do Sono
>look guys one tourist was murdered so therefore you'll die too!
bro there are tourists murdered in london. Does it mean im going to be too scared to walk outside there? Get a grip, jesus. Brazil is a shithole. We get it. But you people are scared of your own shadow. There are dozens of vlogging channels where hapless american tourists walk around brazil and even more dangerous countries and are fine.
I’m white. I’d fit in better in London and it would be harder to mark me as a tourist.
>I’m white. I’d fit in better in London
Guess which country in the entire world has the most gun related shootings per year?
Answer: It's Brazil, and America is a far distant second.
>has the most gun related shootings per year
Crossbow massacres happen in Britain from time to time
>gun related shooting
As opposed to knife related shootings, retard?
as opposed to water gun or slingshot shootings
>what are crossbows
But in all seriousness the poster probably meant to say gun related deaths, not shootings.
I don't think you understand that there are people that make a living from stealing from tourists. Don't you remember how many people got mugged when they had the Olympics there?
He's a Brazilian trying to trick Anons into going to Brazil so he can rob them.
Almost nobody got mugged during the Olympics because the entire country's military police was dispatched to the Rio Olympics zone and touristy areas to make sure the country isn't embarrassed by athletes or tourists falling victim to violent crimes.
>There was like no crime because police were everywhere!
>There was crime because it was planned beforehand and the police couldnt stop it!
This is your brain after living in South America too long. Post hand with timestamp so I can have a laugh, Paco
>instantly thinks every replier is the same person
peak schizo
>Live in Brazilian shanty town
>Neighbor screaming about Futbol again, can smell the liquor through my sheetmetal wall
>Fucking 97 degrees in my house again
>Turn on my 2005 Dell laptop, takes 15 minutes to connect to shit wifi
>Log onto Cinemaphile and see anons making fun of my beautiful country
>This cannot stand
>Vehemently defend my country to random internet strangers, knowing they don’t actually care
>Get shot through my window, because Brazil
>sheet metal wall
In brazil even poorfags have brick walls, retarded american
So everything anon wrote, aside from the sheetmetal walls, is correct? If so, Brazil sounds like a real shithole kek
Brazil is a very large country and the standard of living is all over the place. If you live in a Sao Paulo Favela or a Rio Favela what that anon wrote is not that far off, but even in those favelas (the worst possible place to live in Brazil) the walls are made of solid brick and not paper like in the US
>Does Brazil really?
Yeah, its really bad in poor areas. But their walls are brick, my point was: even the poorer of fags dont have fucking metal sheet walls, that anon was thinking of Africa or some shit
yes i understand that there are professional criminals in brazil and all brazilians are sub 90 iq.
But you also have to remember that the olympic robbings were pre-planned as criminals knew there would be a huge influx of tourists, which is not the same as going to rio normally. It was more pickpockets than robbers actually.
And secondly, if you're not an absolute idiot walking around the favelas with your fanny pack out and american flag tee shirt on walking up to gangs of moron men asking them "parle english?" then you have a much lower chance of being robbed, raped or mamed.
>Don't you remember how many people got mugged when they had the Olympics there?
You tell me. That infamous mugging video you are obviously talking about was recorded years before the olympics and someone reuploaded it to fool impressionable idiots like you.
retard
Brazil has about the same tourists murdered per capita than Finland.
It's not Mexico which is 19x more dangerous for tourists.
That's okay, I'll still pass.
more people go to Mexico than Brazil
>booming tourism industry
keep telling yourself that, no Americans or Euros think about Brazil
>south america is defined by the 3 largest countries in Latin America
is that not a reasonable thing to say Pedro?
Mutts Law
>more people go to Mexico than Brazil
Is the data percentage based or just raw numbers?
raw numbers but more Im certain more idiots from my country are going to Cancun alone than Rio and top 3 cities behind it
Im from Philly
Isn't weird saying that nobody thinks about a country where you live but you yourself are talking about it, in a thread about an episode about going to said country?
Zach probably chose Brazil because he likes watching “Off Duty Brazilian Cop” vids on bestgore. And to be fair, theres a LOT of those videos
I think he said in a con that he wanted to go there himself
yeah because I watched a Brazil episode of a popular television series shit-for-brains, come tomorrow I wont even pay half a thought to Rio
>come tomorrow I wont even pay half a thought to Rio
Unless there's a new thread tomorrow
From all of this Brazilian seethe, you can guarantee theres going to be another thread tomorrow
Well people are seething at the episode itself too
welp maybe, you better send Mr. Hadel some cocoa beans and guavas for doing your people their best advertisement in 20 years
Ok, I'll make sure of that
>keep telling yourself that, no Americans or Euros think about Brazil
So you're an asian or fellow latino american then?
>more people go to Mexico than Brazil
I said per capita. In other words, proportionally by amount of tourists that visit a country you are 19 times more likely to die in Mexico than Brazil and about the same as in Finland.
Also, tourist death rates are always smaller than national averages in any country so this has always been a pointless worry, the vast majority of homicide victims in "dangerous" countries are directly related to crime themselves, with a few exceptions like Mexico where kidnapping tourists is a business in itself.
>How to Get Murdered Abroad: Brazil Edition
>roaming around in Brazil
Thailand is safer to roam around.
>t. Brazilian Citizen
They didnt do it because the joke is that they go back home, but the logical thing to do is to sit there and book a hotel. You're bound to find a couple rooms, even during Carnaval the hotels arent 100% booked. It would take a while, but you could find one. They didnt even try, but then again, it was for the joke.
The issue wasn’t availability, it was the price
You would be more likely be able to find a room in a not so expensive hotel that its in a kinda bad location (as in, far away from the stuff you wanna see) than in a luxurious hotel. And again, they didnt even try, they just assumed every mid hotel would be booked. Im not complaining btw, it makes sense for the episode, but in real life you can just sit there and find one.
Bolsonaro literally got us closer to venezuela than any other president. Fucking retarded shill that fell for the Bolsotard propaganda
They don’t make a lot of money, I guess. They probably could literally only afford a hotel if it was booked months in advance. I’m assuming this was a budget trip.
Reminds me of visiting the Philippines with a bunch of friends. We flew out to an island without booking a hotel hoping to wing it on 2 seperate occasions. I don't actually know why we didn't book ahead. Both times there was about 6-8 of us
>First time we were asking around till late when one local said "oh you are Australia? There is an Australian hotel up on the hill. Surly he will help you".
>We walk all the way up this hill and find it.
>"Austrian Hotel".
>close enough.
>We go in the front gate and it's the most surreal architecture.
>We find some old Austrian dude in a garage working on his super bike collection.
>A few of us were into bikes so strike up a conversation.
>He eventually agrees to let us stay for free cause he admits he doesn't need the money from the business.
>He rings a fucking handbell at midnight and a bunch of Phillipino house keepers come running to take us to our room.
>We end up being put in what I can only describe as a wizard tower up the back of the hotel.
>It's about 6 single rooms but vertically stacked on each other.
>In the morning in the breakfast hall the Austrian old guy is their with a couple of other fat old Austrians having breakfast and blasting Andre Rieu on the big screen.
That old guy was living the dream. There was also a cat zoo at the hotel.
Why didn't they at least check the prices of other hotels?
Like I said, Home Movies did it better
Pim's last name is Pimling.
They didn't pay for the fries.
yeah this bothered me as well. I thought they were going to do a bit where the waitress coaxed them back before they left and they had to awkwardly split the bill or get someone to cover the fries while rushing for the plane but they didnt.
Maybe I'm thinking to much into it but maybe it's implying that they are all forgetful when it comes to then paying for things and it could have actually been someone elses job to book the room like pim said
>You actually have to have a very high IQ to understand Smiling Friends
>not putting all your points in charisma so you can hang around in pvp areas
Pussies, all of you
not sure why they didn't even try to book a different hotel. also what a nothing burger retarded episode.
i mean it's not like they're gonna cut your head off for no reason. aslong as he's buying them drinks they'll be friendly with him
>i mean it's not like they're gonna cut your head off for no reason
morons do exactly this because theyre naturally sadistic
wow, an Uber drove him to Rio De Janeiro from Perth in 2 hours? Pretty cool
Reddit Friends.
God I hate this e-celeb tripe.
Custom built for perma-online autists.
I agree. This episode fucking sucked, and the Oneyplays cult will just eat it up anyway because it has their favorite internet "friends".
Hello, reddit.
Never heard of this show, but I'm brazilian and got curious, so I've just watched it.
What the fuck is this? What's the appeal? Nothing is funny.
The appeal is irony
So it's some hipster zoomer shit?
I'd rather watch some actual funny shows.
>ESL thirdie doesn't understand dry humor
makes sense
It’s literally the worst episode in the series, but it’s part of the joke, and it was meant to air as a “fuck you” during April Fools.
That being said, I enjoyed it. I didn’t expect some grandiose Simpsons adventure through a foreign country. The show hasn’t jumped that shark yet.
If they don't filter Zach's stupid ideas and let this kind of family guy garbage pass again then I'm dropping the series.
Did I ask?
Holy shit that was terrible even for bottle episode standards, they are clearly incapable of improv and working with little.
>it was bad on purpose
>that's hilarious that's the joke
This concept for an episode non-plot has been around for a long time and there are ways to pull it off so it's still worth watching. This was objectively terrible on that metric.
>calling 'Carnaval', 'Mardi Gras'
Do americans really?
Yes. We are kinda the only people who matter so it doesn't matter what we do.
Okay. American white guy, here.
Why the FUCK would anyone want to vacation in Brazil, or anywhere in Latin & South America? Do you WANT to be kidnapped by MS-13 or a local militia, to be held for ransom & brutally murdered whether or not they get the money? Why would I pay to get my kidneys stolen or be the star of a dark web snuff video?
None of that happens retard, there’s a booming tourism industry for a reason. They want your money, no organized crime will fuck with you unless you start it. Petty crime is another story.
>south america =/= mexico/brasil/venezuela
lole
The same reason white European women go on vacation to Muslim countries
I don't know much about brazil, but I do know police helicopters get shot down by flak guns and anti-material rifles there.
>why
brazilian shemales with HUGE cocks
You get to live like a king since the brazils coin in worth shit thanks to its actually retarded president (not even memeing, hes an actual retard). Its not that dangerous, keep to the touristic and whealthy areas (cause again, in dollars everything will be cheap) and you will be fine.
>i'm not being ruled by a WEF Klaus Schwab acolyte REEEEEEEEEE I want to be like Paraguay and Venezuela REEEEEEEE
I’m white too. I would hate it because I don’t want to spend my free time any closer to the equator than I have to. I’ve spent my whole life in Florida and even that’s fucking miserable. Give me some Nordic fun tbh.
>Why the FUCK would anyone want to vacation in Brazil, or anywhere in Latin & South America? Do you WANT to be kidnapped by MS-13 or a local militia, to be held for ransom & brutally murdered whether or not they get the money? Why would I pay to get my kidneys stolen or be the star of a dark web snuff video?
mexico and central america =/= south america
learn the difference
>I watch Fox News all day and live in constant fear
You’re so right, Mr. Anti-racist. Prove those Chuds wrong and wander the Detroit ghettos for a week. The hospitable folks there will be sure to help you out on your travels.
>Do you WANT to be kidnapped by MS-13 or a local militia
This is a CIA myth. Brazil has one of the lowest crimerates in the world and the CIA spreads fake news only because Brazil is socialist.
I liked the episode but it seemed a little too on the nose and became predictable halfway through. I like smiling friends because it's a mix of bizarre humor and deadpan which is usually able to subvert my expectations a lot of the time. Relying on deadpan the full way through is just kinda boring I guess.
I somewhat agree, but to get to the point where even the boss was normal and deadpan and just a phone cameo got a laugh out of me.
That part seemed like the most realistic. Even though the boss character is one of the wackiest in the show, all of his responses were spot on. I definitely chuckled there too.
i love Brazilian culture (even the scumbag aspects of it lol) so I was excited to see this one and all the scenery and jokes but ok yeah the idea was kind of funny I guess, the execution could have been better
Rick & Morty was ahead of the curve and made a fake bottle episode that evolved into a real episode and ended by making fun of lazy bottle episodes.
Imagine being dabbed on by R&M lol.
rick and monty is gay shit for gay retards
yet it's still better than reddit friends. why does that make you seethe?
Reddit is just short for gay retards.
Random namecalling doesn't change the fact that reddit & meme really did run circles around reddit friends with the vat of acid episode that tricked you into thinking it was going to be a bottle episode, there's no way to cope around this.
reddit
Yet it ran circles around Reddit Friends by actually subverting expectations and turning a shit premise into a real episode.
The creators clearly want SF to be "respected" but this kind of garbage really killed my goodwill.
I forgot what happened in that rest of that episode.
Also, who cares? Smiling Friends absolutely shit all over Rick and Morty with Frowning Friends.
>Smiling Friends absolutely shit all over Rick and Morty with Frowning Friends.
Why do I keep seeing this Reddit Friends cope?
It's pretty sad.
That name is not going to stick, no matter how much you samefag.
>That name is not going to stick, no matter how much you samefag.
You’re trying too hard dude
posted from my iPozz device owwie zowwie i hope this dirty needle isn't the one that has the aids virus on it
>YOU POST FROM YOUR PHONE WHILE ON THE SHITTER AND THIS MEANS I WON SOMEHOW
Anyone who says “owwie zowwie” is a gay who has lost the argument. I don’t care how many layers of irony they have trying to disguise that.
try me
Imagine hating a show so much that you have to samefag a name that won’t stick. You’re just mad that we called your ebin science show Reddit and Memey
Imagine thinking any of this is good.
Imagine hating it so much that you’re still replying.
Kek, you’re probably right. Did they really expect some 11-minute Adult Swim show they’ve never seen to bring glory to their country?
Is airing on adult swim a sign of success?
It's a lot funnier when you realize these are all Brazilmonkeys mad that they got trolled
I don't care about your gay gay show just crawl back to your subreddit already
why bring up rick and morty anyway it's shit but at least it had one good season
I brought it up because someone else brought it up in this thread and tried to compare the 2. Smiling Friends got a good season as well, and it will only have more as times go on.
If you don’t care, stop replying to a thread about it.
The closes they got was the guy asking for money, and Pim saying “bad stuff happens in Brazil.” The show might be a victim of the times for that, but I would have liked more Brazil jokes too.
>if you don't care stop replying
nah I think I'll call you out for the shameless shilling anytime I can
>I’ll keep bumping the thread of a show that I claim you’re shilling for and that I hate.
Lol
Lmaoing at the delusion coming from Reddit Friends fans.
Go tell your discord chud friends how you owned people on Cinemaphile so hard for daring to dislike your streamer bffs.
Trying too hard.
Yes? If you’re an animator, probably.
That wasn’t my point. I’m just wondering why the Brazilians thought that some Adult Swim show was going to give their country some kind of sincere love letter or something.
I imagined working for Disney is a sign of success for western animation.
I’m not sure what the pay rates are. Zach’s humor probably wouldn’t work well with Disney but he’d probably take the money if he felt he could make something good. I know he did some storyboard stuff for SpongeBob too.
How ironic.
I see they're going the Rick and Morty route by having shit "little too close to home" rather than making some jokes!
Next episode why don't we have Pip almost get molested on a toilet and have /misc/ freak out about it?
Anyone notice that youtube videos with smiling friends clips get botted? Random channels with less than 1k subs are getting over 100k views on new smiling friends clips. It's not that popular
>Everything I dislike is bots.
That ending with the plane was the biggest “fuck you” and I love it more the more that I think about it.
yes daddy uwu uuoooh my neg hole is twitching just one more pozz!!!1
Go take your gayry somewhere else.
mfw this episode
Bart kisses Milhouse
kys shill
mr boss on the phone made me laugh
the rest of the episode was oddly nostalgic but also extremely uncomfortable
how pathetic are you fags really?
>omg.. muh feels from my best friend ;-;
The episode reminds him about interactions he’s had. He’s not saying that Zach Hadel is his best friend you megaretard
what a great comedy series! truly the R&M of parasocial cartoons
Parasocial means you’d feel some connection to Zach. Relatable scenarios does not make your enjoyment of the episode inherently parasocial. Learn what words mean, you ESL redditor. You gays started using that word when Bo Burnham did, so I don’t see how you’re any better than the people you dump on for enjoying things.
“Member berries” is criticism for remembering an era or old piece of media and finding it better, because it’s racist or some shit, if you “member” the South Park episode it came from. It’s when the show went from tired and old to full zombie tier, worse than the Simpsons.
South park is gay, why would anyone watch that?
The episode relies on member berries?
Why is no one talking about the after credits scene? That shit made me laugh hard as fuck.
What was the after credits scene? Are you baiting?
You didn't see the bit where Alan realized he had ordered the tickets?
Now I’m gonna rewatch baka.
Even if that’s fake, it’s a good joke.
would've been kino if it actually happened
Only good part of the episode was the guy voiced by Marc M
What's the appeal of these letsplayers?
I don’t usually watch them but the oneyplays stuff feels different. Maybe it’s the esoteric stuff they bring up, something about their dynamic, I don’t know.
It's less of a gaming channel and more of a podcast.
Ah, so like game grumps?
Game Grumps is essentially a pozzed, watered-down, objectively less funny version of Oneyplays
What's the difference? It's all children's entertainment
>Sees an apple and an orange
>WHAT THE FUCK IS THE DIFFERENCE gay THEY'RE BOTH FRUIT??!
Letsplayers all tell the same jokes, what makes smiling friends any different?
Smiling Friends is a TV show.
Oneyplays is different and they don’t just “tell all the same jokes” as something like SuperMega and LameGrumps
They will tell the same jokes if they don't veto Zach's retardations as was the case with this episode. It's clear he wants to turn this into an extension of his random podcast rambles rather than an actual show.
It was a one off episode intended to air on April Fools. I think you’re getting hung up on this because you got all hyped that this show was coming back, or you’re mad that they went to your country to do the funny airport joke instead of lecturing us on the beauty of the local favelas and their epic Latino culture.
Would have been funny if someone got run over by a car.
They did have the plane crash in the end.
Good thing this was a one off, and not part of the season. You’ll get your zany adventures, don’t worry.
There you go using that word again. This episode was enjoyable if you’ve seen the other episodes, it’s toned down for a reason, and people don’t have “Zach Hadel” in their minds when thinking about what they enjoyed about the episode.
You tell me. You brought up the member berries, and misused the phrase too.
I'm sure a lot of enjoyment comes from having watched the letsplay videos.
Maybe for like one joke in the Halloween episode where they’re eating the forrest demon. I guess it’s a soft reference to the family ripping apart and eating a monkey for dinner.
>There you go using that word again
First time I used it. It encapsulates perfectly what the problem is with this kind of show where viewers think there's some kind of two-way communication going on. Rick & Morty suffered greatly from this overt self-awareness, they reigned it back in after S3 but the damage was already done, with the "honest" zany adventures also being self-aware and done as a meta response to the negative reception of S3.
I foresee the exact same kind of garbage happening with SF, this kind of meta episode never ever bodes well.
It’s not a “meta” episode. They don’t break the fourth wall, and everything is spent on the plot. Yes, the joke is that they stay at the airport and go home, but it has nothing to do with “guise, Zach is telling us a message!!”
You don’t have to like the episode, but you seem to hate it moreso because it was made by a couple ecelebs, which is retarded.
>They don’t break the fourth wall
Except the usually zany boss has a deadpan bit and the joke is that it's deadpan and out of character.
I'd say only Pim was in character, everyone was extremely passive since the actors had no idea where to take the idea next.
>you hate it because
I hate it because it's a bad episode and it turned into a discussion about the creators because it's obvious what the motivation is. I've seen anons saying they liked it because everyone was nice and controlled towards Pim and that shows they are great friends except Charlie and Pim were already established as disagreeable characters that have different ideas because that's how you move a fucking plot forward.
They are making the episode an extension of the creators' personalities rather than thinking about it for what it is.
The joke that he’s deadpan and out of character is not what breaking the fourth wall is. You need to learn what that phrase means, and what parasocial means. That’s the homework I’m assigning you, have it on my desk by tomorrow.
Again, people are going to talk about the creators no matter what the episode is. That doesn’t mean it’s their only reason for liking an episode.
Meta is not about breaking the fourth wall, it's about self-reference.
This episode is meta because it relies on the self-reference that it's a cartoon episode and tries to break your expectation of that including the advertising surrounding the episode. Stop trying to steer the discussion into some pointless semantical argument to try to "win" it.
They dial it back constantly to keep it in that line where they are just stuck in the airport, except they don't do a good job moving the concept forward and constantly refer to the initial struggle of not having the hotel.
It's not bad because it's a bottle episode, it's bad because it's bad at being a bottle episode, they didn't do a good job exploiting and expanding the small concept.
So you’re saying that it sucks because someone might watch this as the first episode and not understand who the boss is?
Yeah nah, that’s dumb. So what if a bunch of Brazilians get tricked because they think this is gonna be some epic 11 minute adventure through their country? Not every episode has to re-establish who their characters are in case you haven’t watched the others. If this is the first episode you’ve seen, and because of that, you don’t understand the Mr. Boss character, then that’s your fault. Furthermore, it’s a small part of the episode.
It sucks because it's a special snowflake show that doesn't achieve anything because it has no expectations besides praise.
Why are you using boommer buzzwords from 2015 incorrectly, to describe something you don’t understand?
Does the show want to be understood or remain hip and cool with its irony?
No, I'm saying it's a bad episode because it's intentionally being a bad episode and it thinks the humor comes from that except it's not funny and it's not executed well, the characters being out of character is part of the bad execution.
There are plenty of funny and enjoyable bits in the episode. It doesn’t have to follow the premise from the beginning all the way through for it to be that way. If you’re genuinely mad that they didn’t go to Brazil then you might be stupid. The characters designs and conversations all had their moments. You don’t have to like it but I think you’re genuinely mad that this show isn’t The Simpsons.
Once again, you contrarian moron, people do like podcasts, otherwise Rogab wouldn’t be so rich.
You’re arguing on /misc/, so you have no room to talk. Must be enough “depressed losers” that made Rogan and others so rich.
Is the show contrarian itself?
No
I already knew it was going to be a fakeout bottle episode, I'm mad because the concept of being stuck in an airport was not executed well at all.
I liked the bit with the guy asking for money, yet grasping at a few moments does not make the episode good.
>You don’t have to like it but I think you’re genuinely mad that this show isn’t The Simpsons.
I'm mad that the show is trying to be a terrible episode of Family Guy. Nothing about this episode was new or interesting.
>Where are they supposed to go with that concept?
Start off by actually taking the personalities into account.
Alan is an OCD control freak so he's immediately takes control of the situation but fails at it and annoys the others.
Pim is sensitive and desperate for approval so he tries to make the gang enjoy the moment but he goes overboard and gets overly excited over staying in an ATM line, to try to make the others smile he buys worthless trinkets but he spends more on them than the expensive hotel would cost.
Charlie leaves the group early and wanders off to the bathroom where he has more funny interactions with weird locals while being paranoid.
Episode ends with Pim "saving" Charlie from some weirdo in the bathroom and that makes up for his mistake.
You don't have to try at all to come up with a better plot since this was as dry as it gets.
That takes their personalities more into account, yes, but that makes them staying at the airport a little pointless. Might as well let them actually go into Brazil at that point.
>This episode is meta because it relies on the self-reference that it's a cartoon episode and tries to break your expectation of that
Subverting expectations isn't meta. Is the very act of writing a story in such a way to elicit reactions from the audience meta?
>except they don't do a good job moving the concept forward
Where are they supposed to go with that concept? They exhaust all their options just by being on their phones, which is what anyone with a smartphone would do in that situation. The only thing they really could have done is have extra shit around the airport which would have deviated from the initial premise.
>it's bad because it's bad at being a bottle episode, they didn't do a good job exploiting and expanding the small concept.
But that's not what a bottle episode is, it's an episode that just puts all the characters in a 'bottle' and lets their personalities carry the show. The concept is just there to have all the characters bounce off one another. You don't explore the ramifications of whatever is keeping them in the bottle any more than you need to start and resolve the story, because that's not the focus. The focus is how the characters react to being in the bottle.
The whole episode is them shitting on Pim, though. They don't come off as friends, they come off as coworkers who don't particularly like each other but who are trying to cooperate to salvage a shitty situation. Even Pim continually tries to shirk responsibility.
I'm getting hung up on this because it was a bad episode yet parasocials felt the need to defend it because they personally like the creators.
Foster's Home did the same bit already and no it wasn't good either, the difference is that there weren't fangirls defending it.
>mug parasocial
cope gay. The episode was fine
You're the one coping though? You should meet people irl
Im brazilian and I was hoping for some racist/xenophobic jokes. I liked the le nothing happens gag tho
He asked what's the appeal. That sounds even less appealing.
/misc/ once again proves how contrarian they are
People like podcasts. Again, you don’t, and that’s fine. Shit doesn’t have to pander to you. There’s a reason, though, that Joe Rogan is rich beyond his wildest dreams. I’m not even saying his podcast is good now, but people do like that stuff.
I've never met a "person" that I would actually qualify as a "person" that listened to podcasts.
Normal well adjusted humans don't listen to podcasts, only depressed losers that don't have real friends do, sorry.
I'm glad I'm physically incapable of making sense of chatter unless I'm 100% paying attention which means podcasts and talk shows are impenetrable to me and I don't waste time with them. Sucks that they are trying to bring this kind of format to actual cartoons though.
Zack will never be your friend
No shit, morongay.
You will never have friends.
It wanted to make an April Fools episode and it got aired at the wrong time. The episode was still funny though and it’s not part of season 2, just a runoff. Not my fault you’re genuinely too retarded to get the joke.
Not my fault the show delayed it's airing, when is uzumaki coming out? Delayed again?
Again, while I would have enjoyed it slightly more if it came out on April 1st, the episode still stands on its own merits. As a matter of fact, if it did come out on April 1st, the fans would be more guilty of that “friend simulator” shit because they’d be laughing about how epic the “fuck you” aspect was and they would focus SPECIFICALLY on Adult Swim pulling a fast one on us.
That’s a factor here, but it’s not why people love it. It’s a fun twist, and does not rely on meta, and it has interactions that were entertaining.
So just as pathetic as Game Grumps?
Does anyone else think it sounded like Zach recorded for Charlie in a closet, and that Alan sounded more Australian than normal?
Is Smiling Friends a comfort show?
It's a show that makes you confront the darkness of real life, with a few jokes! Great time. Watched it 10 times already and pre-ordered the pins!
I loled out loud when nothing funny happend holy hecking epic tbfh
Only funny part was the "are you a tourist? Are you a tourist?" guy. Disappointing episode
Serious question.
You can see from the background of the restaurant that the sky is getting more orange, to show that the sun is setting and time is passing.
Toward the end of the conversation, though, someone asks for the time and someone else says that it’s three o clock.
How can this be so, if the sun is setting and time is definitley passing?
/misc/ never fails to be contrarian as usual
The Smiling Friends subreddit is awaiting your upvotes and observations good sir!
This episode was so hecking funny I fell asleep! so comfy kino amirite oneysisters?!
You sound like a happy and well adjusted human being
based comfy kino (unfunny boring garbage) enjoyer!
Rent free
Smiling Fags can't hang with the bants
Definitely more than you lol
I want an edit of Charlie going “AW WE WERE RIGHT THERE MAN!” but instead of the castle, it’s the Brazil background from the restaurant.
STOP BEING CONTRARIANS HAVING NO JOKES OR ANYTHING FUNNY HAPPEN IN YOUR COMEDY SHOW IS THE PEAK OF HUMOR YOU FRICKING CHUDCELS!
ALSO DO NOT INSULT MY FRIEND SIMULATORS!
you don't need jokes when your show is just a hangout simulator.
This episode made me feel awkward...
but the anime pussy tho!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>DUDE FOREIGN COUNTRIES ARE SO VIOLENT
This show is SO getting cancelled. Brazilians won't stand for people calling their country dangerous.
>the joke is that the reatarded gay fan base will blindly defend an absolute shit episode with zero humor
ok now I get it lmao
>The joke is that /misc/ will seethe and bump the thread of a show they claim to hate.
Alright, maybe it is meta after all.
>seething friends
LMAO COPE
Okay, that one was more original than Reddit Friends.
Thanks for the bump.
>still coping
jesus christ man you have to let it go at some point
>still bumping
C’mon man, we’re almost to the limit! I need my fat Adult Swim check
>NOOOOOOOOOO YOU CANT WATCH LE HECKIN POPULAR SHOW THERE ARE REDDITORS THAT LIKE IT!!!!
>Smiling Friends
>popular
maybe on reddit
You are the joke
shill thread btw
Weren't they suppose to have Chris Chan this episode but they re wrote him out?
He was going to be the puddle of grease in Salty’s, but Adult Swim didn’t want another cameo.
Smiling Friends feels like a show the creators got stuck on and have no real intent on expanding upon the premise. Alan is the most obvious example, he's the guy that keeps the office in check and working properly by being an annoying control freak, since he's the home guy he can be expanded to the intel guy during Charlie's and Pim's ground operations but he literally has no role at all past the pilot since they never actually do their job of making others smile. It's all very random and meandering with Charlie and Pim being avatars for the creators which leaves little room for characters with more limited roles.
>they never actually do their job of making others smile.
Most of those are forced as fuck and only the shrimp actually follows the format of them being hired to make him smile.
The whole premise is forced. The closest thing to a smiling company is a therapist or I guess some escapist entertainment stuff.
I don’t mind that the cartoon premise has a cartoon resolution.
I like the concept of this episode much more than the actual episode. Maybe it just hit too close to home, I've been on some shitty trips like this. Hopefully the rest of the season is better.
It’s not part of the season, though it might be billed that way on HBO or something
This episode made uncomfortable in a weird way
https://youtu.be/QT13kk8HDDo
Why the fuck do you retarded contrarian gays lack the ability to understand that this was supposed to be a stupid april fools episode. No shit there are going to be dumb as fuck redditors who don't understand that either and defend it because they are... well redditors.
Anyone who thinks this is anything other than some stupid post season thing and takes it this seriously needs to neck themselves.
>april fools episode
in august?
I think it was late or something.
They did mention Mardi Gras in the episode too, so you could tell that this aired out of season.
>YOU DONT UNDERSTAND IT WAS SHIT ON PURPOSE BUT I SWEAR IT WOULD BE FUNNY ON ONE SPECIFIC DAY OF THE YEAR I SWEAR
now this is comedy
The /toon/ thread was basically
>oh it really is what we expected
>out of season april fool's joke lol
>wow this was boring, bye
>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOW DARE YOU NOT UNDERSTAND TEH ABSOLUTE BRILLIANCE OF THIS U MAD? LOL U MAD U GOT TROLLED SO HARD THIS WAS GENIUS
And that seems to be the hill the fanboys will die on.
It’s not brilliant, but the people who hate on the episode were absolutely “got” by it. Even if it didn’t air on the day, it’s clear that this off-season episode, that’s not part of season 1 or 2, was meant to be some dumb, fun, low-budget filler. Sorry it’s not your ebin Bojack Horseman.
It being ironic and trying to make the audience the joke doesn't automatically make it good especially since it wasn't executed well and has no merit in itself. Irony is cancer.
Also off-season episodes are often better so that's no excuse either.
They don’t have to be better. You don’t have to like it but you look like a retard who got got if you’re seething about it.
It was mid, but post your epic taste for animated shows.
I don't watch cartoons
Yet you post on /misc/ threads about them
what's your point
You have no room to talk.
your thread belongs to /toon/ in the first place newfriend
>twitter lingo
Oops, you got your moron ass caught!
That’s TikTok lingo you geriatric gay
>animating shit on purpose so you can dab on the poor souls who happened to watch your garbage because "they just don't get it"
4D chess
>dilute your show with intentionally bad garbage that makes fun of you for wasting your time with it
>lol you just didn't get it
Quite sobering especially since the show has an anti-nihilistic subtext. I don't think people defending this episode are the ones that got it at all.
>anti-nihilistic subtext
holy buzzwords
The joke isn’t on the audience, it’s on the characters for being bickering retards who can’t plan and enjoy their time on vacation.
It’s funny on april 1st is kinda funny if you think about though right smiling sisters? ha ha…
fuck neckbeards
Imagine getting filtered by this but not realizing that all of Smiling Friends is mid-tier shlock
>...LE EBIN SMILING FRIENDS BUT ONLY X HAPPENS FOR 8 MINUTES STRAIGHT XD
every time I see this I want to kill myself
Samefag
>When a 10 minute joke episode of a cartoon makes junglemonkeys spend hours seething on an imageboard
>entire character's bio is summarized as "idk lol"
>didn't even act like you'd expect him to in this rare episode where he actually interacts with others
This entire show is wasted potential.
Is that some official website? Looks like some fan-made one by the gayy pink font.
Anyone notice they didn't pay for the fries?