Smiling Friends: Difference between revisions

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The series follows the misadventures and shenanigans of Charlie and Pim, two employees of the Smiling Friends, a small [[Charitable organization|charitable company]] dedicated to bringing joy and happiness to its users. They are sometimes assisted by their coworkers, Allan and Glep, and their supervisor Mr. Boss. Misadventure ensues, as the eccentric people they are tasked with helping prove challenging and thrust them into bizarre situations.

* [[Chris O'Neill (YouTuber)|Chris O'Neill]] as Smormu James Carter / Mr. Frog Auditionee / Yeti

* Monica Franco as Zoey / Waitress / Wendy Worm

* [[Joel Haver]] as Doug

* [[Microsoft text-to-speech voices|TruVoice Peter Adult Male #1]] as Oscar Jester

| episodes2 = 8

|ShortSummary= A preview asks the audience to vote on whether a new character, "Smormu," should be added to the show. Pim and Charlie are called to help [[Shrimp]], a reclusive and awkward [[gamer]] who was recently left by his girlfriend, Shrimpina. Charlie believes Shrimp should move on, while Pim aims to reunite the two and seeks her out to set her up on a blind date with Shrimp. Pim ends up developing feelings for Shrimpina instead and tries to steal the date, but changes his mind once he sees Charlie with a miserable Shrimp at the agreed upon meeting spot and reluctantly reintroduces the two. As it turns out, the woman Pim located was not Shrimpina at all, but a stranger named Jennifer. However, Jennifer finds herself attracted to Shrimp anyways, leaving a heartbroken Pim with Smormu - who had been voted in by the audience - attempting to cheer him up. The "[[In memoriam segment|In Loving Memory]]" [[running gag]] of the series' credits shows that "Smormu [[James Carter]]" was later beaten to death.

|ShortSummary= Before the episode, a [[Robert Stack]]-like host walking in an alleyway comments on the horrors of the unknown. Pim is tasked with retrieving firewood for the company's [[Halloween]] party, but gets lost and is attacked by a demonic forest creature. It chases him back to the office, where the partygoers mistake its skin tone for [[blackface]], burn it to death, and eat its remains, while Mr. Boss thanks Pim for "saving" Halloween. The live-action host concludes that the greatest horrors come from the mind, when a cop suddenly arrives telling him to stop [[loitering]] and the host leaves the alley, revealing that he is not wearing pants.

|ShortSummary= While getting dinner at the popular fast food restaurant Salty's, Pim and Charlie find founder Simon S. Salty dead in a back room. They call the police, who explain that the murder investigation division was moved to a separate company due to budget cuts; Mr. Boss then calls and informs them that the Smiling Friends are in fact the police's new division. They interrogate Salty's team of living mascots, all of whom display alarmingly unhinged behavior. They eventually recover security footage from the discontinued "[[century egg]]" mascot that reveals that Salty had ultimately died of a [[Myocardial infarction|heart attack]] from his own unhealthy diet (ironically, after eating what he swore would be his last burger before changing his lifelong eating habits), but that all of his mascots later separately attempted to kill him for their own reasons, unaware that they were attacking a corpse. The mascots leave the restaurant and immediately begin to wreak havoc in public. In a post-credits scene, the Friends bury the century egg in [[China]] at his request, only for Charlie to dig him back up when Pim wonders what he tasted like.

|ShortSummary= While on a mission to help the princess of the nearby [[Enchanted Forest]] smile for a portrait, Pim and Charlie get sidetracked by a [[hobbit]]-like forest dweller named Mip. Charlie undertakes several quests despite his earlier apathy towards doing so, causing Pim, who wanted to do the quests beforehand, to accidentally kill Mip in a jealous [[Gollum]]-esque struggle. Remorseful, he and Charlie give the princess the gift Mip had intended for her, but she reveals that Mip was her stalker; inside the box is a bomb, which she frantically discards in a panic before finally smiling upon learning of his demise, much to the duo’s confusion. In a post-credits scene, back at the office, Charlie has an allergic reaction to a "potion" Mip had urged him to drink on a quest, claiming it was a cure for headaches.

|ShortSummary= While fetching a [[Christmas tree]] for the office on [[Christmas Eve]], Pim and Charlie argue about the latter's pessimistic attitude until a tree falls on Charlie and gruesomely kills him. He awakens in [[Hell]], which has [[When hell freezes over|frozen]] over as [[Satan]] is suffering from a bout of depression. Charlie travels to Satan's castle and offers to make him smile, on the condition that Satan must send him back to Earth if he succeeds. Satan finally smiles after harming Charlie and realizes that torturing people gives him pleasure, and tries to back out of their deal, only for [[God]] ([[Gilbert Gottfried]]) to reveal the whole thing was a test, and send Charlie back to Earth during his funeral. An elderly Glep, who has been narrating the episode the entire time, informs his grandson that the story is true and that Christian Hell is real before wishing the audience a Merry Christmas.

|ShortSummary= The Smiling Friends arrive in [[Brazil]], only to discover that Pim forgot to book the hotel as he assumed Allan was responsible for doing so. They try to book another hotel nearby, but learn everything is fully booked as [[Mardi Gras]] is currently occurring. The crew get seated at an airport restaurant and call Mr. Boss for advice, but he offers nothing. Ultimately, the gang accepts that their best option is to catch the next flight back home, unaware of a plane that's about to crash into a mountain in the background. This entire sequence of events is presented as a single shot.

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|ShortSummary=Pim and Allan try to help washed-up video game mascot Gwimbly after he ends up on the company's doorstep by getting his parent company to make him a new game. When the CEO refuses, they decide to [[Crowdfunding in video games|crowdfund]] the game themselves, leaving him enraged that they are using his intellectual property without permission. As he hunts them with the company's new mascot, Troglor, the trio discover that Gwimbly's ex-nemesis is busy with his family life and his sidekick has died of a [[fentanyl]] overdose. Meanwhile, a violent, burly man named James breaks into the Smiling Friends office and forces Charlie to do increasingly degrading things to (unsuccessfully) make him smile, culminating in him tearing Charlie's nose off. The CEO chases Pim, Allan and Gwimbly into the office, where James stabs the CEO to death; satisfied by this, he finally smiles and leaves. Gwimbly and Troglor later join a ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]''-esque crossover fighting game, with Mr. Boss also joining as a playable character. In a post-credits scene, James drunkenly expresses remorse for how he treated Charlie, believing Charlie to have been the only person who cared about him.

|ShortSummary= Pim and Charlie get a call from the concurrently running and very unpopular [[President of the United States]], the unhygienic and unintelligent Jimble ([[Mike Bocchetti]]), requesting help in winning the upcoming election. He is struggling to run against Mr. Frog, who is launching a [[smear campaign]] against him. Their attempts at earning him a higher approval rating fail as Jimble soils himself during a speech, inadvertently crashes the economy trying to make everyone rich, and establishes a [[foreign policy]] with an infamous [[dictator]] that has committed [[genocide]] against an [[Ethnic cleansing|entire race]] of people. While walking out in frustration, Charlie accidentally discovers a secret society of worms in the [[White House]] basement that are trying to sabotage the vote in favor of Mr. Frog, but accidentally persuades them into supporting Jimble instead upon revealing that frogs eat worms. A saddened Jimble admits his shortcomings at the [[United States presidential debates|Presidential Debate]], swinging public favor in his direction. However, a single vote submitted by Glep in [[Pennsylvania]] causes Mr. Frog to win the election anyway via the [[United States Electoral College|electoral vote]]. In a post-credits scene, Jimble relaxes at a beach, taking advice Charlie had given him earlier in the episode.

|ShortSummary= Mr. Boss tasks Allan with buying more [[paperclips]] for the office. Allan obtains them from an electronics store, but is faced with various obstacles and misadventures before he can make it back to the office - namely a thief, a [[helicopter]] chase with the [[U.S. Air Force]], a [[Sasquatch]], a crew of [[undead]] pirates, and finally a massive [[leviathan]] that swallows Allan and ejects him from its [[Blowhole (anatomy)|blowhole]]. He washes ashore with the box of paperclips, but opens it to find it empty aside from a [[ransom note]] telling him to retrieve the paperclips from his own apartment complex. There, he meets his landlord, who reveals he orchestrated the entire escapade to get Allan to spend time with him, threatening to detonate a bomb that will ravage the entire city if he refuses. Allan reluctantly complies before using a paperclip to defuse the bomb. Ashamed, the landlord commits [[seppuku]]. Allan returns to the office with the paperclips and is rewarded with a miniature figurine of Mr. Boss. Uninterested in keeping it, he gives it to Charlie instead. In a post-credits scene, the landlord resurrects in a [[morgue]], swearing that Allan will hang out with him again.

|ShortSummary= Pim and Charlie are called to help aspiring [[mad scientist]] Daniel "Professor Psychotic" create life. As Daniel is explaining his plan, his older brother Doug ([[Joel Haver]]) enters to complain about his lack of volume control and inability to find a proper job, ultimately evicting him. Pim and Charlie mediate an intervention between the brothers, during which a physical altercation breaks out after Daniel accuses Doug of being addicted to [[painkillers]] and not being present for their mother leading up to her death. One of Daniel's eggs then hatches and implores the brothers to stop fighting. They resolve to set aside their differences and raise the [[homunculus]] together before sharing a tearful embrace. In a post-credits scene, Glep, Allan, and Mr. Boss cry whilst watching a sad movie about two obese brothers that fought over a shank of [[ham]], though Mr. Boss explains that he is not crying because of the movie, but rather because he is unable to restore his face to normal after having transformed it into that of a [[dog]] during a gag earlier in the episode.

|ShortSummary= Pim takes Charlie to his [[UFO]] sighting group - Bill, Duncan, and Fillmore ([[David Firth (animator)|David Firth]]). The meeting proves uneventful until a UFO arrives and [[Alien abduction|abducts]] Pim, Charlie, and Bill (who is subsequently dissected and eaten). The [[grey alien|alien]]s that abducted the trio are then abducted by a different alien race, who are hosting a party that Pim and Charlie unwillingly participate in. The hosts ([[Red Letter Media|Mike Stoklasa and Rich Evans]]) implore Pim and Charlie to vaporize a populated planet as a "prank", promising to take them home if they do and threatening to place them in an eternal torture chamber if they refuse. They reluctantly comply, only for the aliens to reveal that the planet was devoid of life, the torture device was fake, and the ship can't fly backwards, rendering them unable to return home. During the ensuing argument between Charlie and the aliens, police arrive to arrest them for [[Property damage|destroying public property]] and [[disturbing the peace]]. As the partygoers flee, Pim and Charlie manage to hijack a [[flying saucer]] and fly back to Earth, which they discover is [[Modern flat Earth beliefs|flat]] and encased in a glass dome. A post-credits scene shows that Duncan and Fillmore have been falsely imprisoned for the trio's murders.

'''Note:''' The synopsis for the episode on [[Max (streaming service)|Max]] and [[Adult Swim]]'s website is intentionally false, describing Pim in the plot of ''[[Mars Needs Moms]]'' (2011).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Charlie, Pim, and Bill vs the Alien - S2 EP6 - Smiling Friends |url=https://www.adultswim.com/videos/smiling-friends/charlie-pim-and-bill-vs-the-alien |website=Adult Swim}}</ref>

|ShortSummary= After firing an employee named Tyler, Mr. Boss informs the Friends that he must journey to the foreign country Spamtopia to purchase a magical red jewel. Pim accompanies him, as he speaks the local language, Spamish, having learned from his childhood [[pen pal]] Oscar. While obtaining the jewel from the elusive "Mr. Jester", Pim disobeys Spamtopia’s sole law by making eye contact with Mr. Jester, who, revealing himself to be the ruler of Spamtopia, sentences the two to death. However, he turns out to be Oscar and spares them after remembering Pim, ultimately eschewing the law entirely; Spamtopia thus descends into [[anarchy]]. Meanwhile, Mr. Boss has tasked Allan, Glep, and Charlie with babysitting his son Jason, but Jason inexplicably dies shortly after Mr. Boss and Pim leave. Mr. Boss is initially horrified, but uses the jewel to resurrect Jason, who sprouts [[butterfly]] wings. Charlie attempts to inquire about a [[manifesto]] he found hidden in Mr. Boss’ desk, but the glittery dust spread by Jason deafens and blinds everyone whilst triggering the building's alarms and sprinklers. In a post-credits scene, Tyler, while at a bar with Charlie, resolves to focus on a music career instead of returning to Smiling Friends.

|DirectedBy=Paul Georghiou

|Aux2=Paul Georghiou & Michael Cusack

|ShortSummary= Charlie, Glep, and Allan build a [[snowman]] out of garbage, naming it Rotten ([[Dana Snyder]]). Rotten comes to life after Pim attaches a radioactive daffodil to its head, and Pim decides to teach him about the pleasures of life. Pim denies Rotten's request to visit the beach, claiming the sun will kill him; horrified at the concept of death, Rotten suffers an [[existential crisis]] and starts screaming non-stop. Charlie gets [[Bill Nye]] to teach Rotten that death is natural and not something to fear, but Nye dies when his [[hot air balloon]] flies into power lines. Pim and Charlie leave Rotten on a snowy mountain so he can live forever, but he is returned to the office by a frustrated [[yeti]]. As the Friends leave for a trip to the beach, Pim realizes he can take Rotten by putting him inside a cooler, but he melts when another beachgoer accidentally knocks over the cooler. As they mourn him, Rotten reappears as an ocean wave, along with the ghost of Bill Nye. In a post-credits scene, the Friends question the logistics of Rotten's new state of being. Rotten consumes a boat and sends a [[tsunami]] towards the shoreline as horrified beachgoers evacuate.

'''Note:''' The synopsis and title for the episode on [[Max (streaming service)|Max]] and [[Adult Swim]]'s website are intentionally false, instead stating that in this episode, Pim turns bright green after eating a mysterious ancient artifact, to the initial shock and horror of his friends, who eventually learn to accept his new skin color by the end of the episode.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pim Finally Turns Green - S2 EP8 - Smiling Friends |url=https://www.adultswim.com/videos/smiling-friends/pim-finally-turns-green |website=Adult Swim}}</ref>