Smiling Friends

***Smiling Friends*** is an American-Australian animated television series, created by and starring internet personalities Zach Hadel and Michael Cusack. The pilot episode "Desmond's Big Day Out" aired on Adult Swim on April 1, 2020, and the rest of the first season premiered on January 9, 2022.

## Premise

*Smiling Friends* follows Smiling Friends Inc. employees Charlie, Pim, Alan ,Glep, as well as their boss, Mr. Boss, as they face misadventures while trying to make people smile, or otherwise bring happiness to their clients.

## Production information

On April 1, 2020, a pilot named "Desmond's Big Day Out" premiered as a part of Adult Swim's annual April Fools Day event alongside another work of Cusack's, *YOLO: Crystal Fantasy*.

On May 19, 2021, Adult Swim and the show's creators announced that the series had been greenlit along with *Royal Crackers* and that it was set to premiere later in 2021.

On July 22, 2021, co-creator Zach Hadel announced that season one would contain eight episodes, including the pilot, "Desmond's Big Day Out", which would end up being considered the first episode of Season 1.

On November 12, 2021, during the Adult Swim Festival panel featuring *Smiling Friends*, co-creator Zach Hadel mentioned the show would premiere "within a few months", pushing the release schedule to 2022.

After overwhelmingly positive reception from viewers, on February 9, 2022, Adult Swim renewed the series for a second season along with *Birdgirl*. and it is set to premiere in 2024.

On February 2024, Adult Swim renewed the series for a third season ahead of the season 2 premiere.

## Cast

### Main

* Zach Hadel as Charlie, Glep, Boss Baby, Desmond's Mom, Bliblies, Screaming Bird, Meep Society Lady, Mr. Frog Fanboy, Salt, Century Egg, Mip, Gnarly, DJ Spit, Mr. Peanut, Ronald Reagan, Satan, Charlie's Grandma, Glep's Grandson, Duncan
* Michael Cusack as Pim, Alan, Amy, Pim's Mom, Steven, Bliblies, Lucas the Magnificent, Mr. Frog, Rex, Ketchup, Pepper, The Witch, Fairies, Grim, Warren Buffett, Demon, Jeremy, MeepEats Deliveryman
* Marc M. as The Boss

### Recurring/Guest-Starring

* Mike Stoklasa as Desmond, himself
* Finn Wolfhard as Man Living in Wall, Bliblies
* Nick Wolfhard as Graham Nelly, Bliblies
* David Dore as Party Bro, Forest Demon, Alien
* Tom Fulp as Alpha
* Perry Caravello as Simon S. Salty
* Chris O'Neill as Auditioning Father, Smormu
* Erica Lindbeck as Assistant, Mustard, The Princess
* Hans van Harken as Jimmy Fallon, Priest, Hell Faces, Frozen Head, Bill
* Jane Badler as Celebrity Show Host
* Mick Lauer as Bug, Guy in Gym, Crazy Cup, Elf
* Rodrigo Huerta as Jacob, Guy in Line
* Chills as Patron
* David Firth as Shrimp, Fillmore
* Harry Partridge as Smormu Announcer, Grease, 3D Squelton
* Clyde Boraine as Policeman
* Jim Knobeloch as Mystery Show Host
* Monica Franco as Charlie's Girlfriend
* Joshua Tomar as Cop, Centaur, Narrator, Elderly Glep
* Lyle Rath as Mr. Man, Warren Buffett
* Gilbert Gottfried as God

James Rolfe as himself

## Episodes

*Main article: List of Smiling Friends episodes*
 2 | 17
 3 | TBA

## International release

**United Kingdom:** The show aired weekly from 20th January 2022 to 10th February 2022 on the British TV channel E4. The first season is currently available to stream for those in the UK and Ireland on the free video on demand service All 4.

**Canada:** The show aired weekly from 9th January 2022 to 30th January 2022 on the 24-hour canadian version of [adult swim].

**Germany:** The show aired weekly from 22nd March 2022 to 10th May 2022 on the german subscription-based channel "WarnerTV Comedy" which airs numerous sitcoms including *2 Broke Girls*, *The Prince of Bel-Air* or *King of Queens* and an Adult-Swim-programming-block. Pim is voiced by the german voice actor of Kyle Broflovski, "Jan Makino"

**France:** The series premieres in France in 2022.

**Australia:** The show was added to Amazon Prime Video streaming service in Australia in 2023.

**Latin America:** The series debuts on Adult Swim in 2023, the same day it was launched.

**Brazil:** The series debuts on Adult Swim in 2023.

## Videos

SMILING FRIENDS - Coming 2021 - adult swimSmiling Friends - OFFICIAL TRAILER - adult swimSMILING FRIENDS - Now on HBO Max - adult swimABCs of SMILING FRIENDS - SMILING FRIENDS - adult swimWe're the SMILING FRIENDS - Panel Highlights - Adult Swim Festival 2022
## Trivia

* The Comic Sans font was intended to be used for the credits, but they were unable to acquire the rights to use it.
* The show's logo is comprised of various colors, each color seemingly represents one of the Smiling Friends
	+ Yellow represents Charlie
	+ Pink represents Pim
	+ Red represents Alan
	+ Green represents Glep
	+ Blue represents Smormu
* Zach Hadel, the series' co-creator, is better known online as psychicpebbles.
	+ He and Chris O'Neill (OneyNG; series' composer for additional music) collaborate together frequently on YouTube channel OneyPlays.

## References

1. ↑ PsychicPebbles on Making Smiling Friends, by The Create Unknown
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/OneyNG/status/1502935351475642368
3. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12074628/trivia/?ref\_=tt\_trv\_trv