Mr. Boss

“
Now get out there and make someone smile.
”

—Mr. Boss, "Desmond's Big Day Out"

**Mr. Boss** (or just **The Boss**) is the head of Smiling Friends Inc. Within the show, he is a supporting character who typically informs his employees about their jobs and clients. He is voiced by Marc M.

## Appearance

### Body

Mr Boss appears as an elderly human man with a large head and thin body. He has thinning hair with a patch of dark grey hair on top of his head and white hair on the sides. In some up close shots he has a faded bruise on his forehead. In “Desmond's Big Day Out,” he is shown producing a breast from under his shirt, which he uses to feed his son; however, in “Frowning Friends” and “Charlie Dies and Doesn't Come Back,” he is seen shirtless without any visible breasts. Despite this, his son continues to be seen, bringing whether he truly has breasts or not into question. It is possible that he only has them sometimes, or has lost them since they were last seen.

### Clothing

He wears a navy blue suit, with a white shirt and yellow bow tie. When gaming, he dons a black and green headset.

## Personality

Mr. Boss is a highly eccentric yet very friendly individual. He is polite and casual around his employees, and he seems to genuinely trust and regard them as his friends. He is also very passionate and enthusiastic about running his business as he is always quick to respond to clients regardless of the occasion (though he sometimes plays video games in his office). Much like Charlie and Pim, he also has a knack for making people smile, and seems be even more skilled at it than his own employees when the situation demands it.

In contrast to his genuinely friendly and kind disposition, Mr. Boss tends to engage in very odd behavior and mannerisms, and is strongly implied to have some sort of mental illness. When speaking, he has a habit of switching to a deadpan yet menacing southern accent out of nowhere seemingly for the sake of making his coworkers mildly uncomfortable. In "Mr. Frog", he is seen walking around the halls while messily eating a plate of spaghetti, and in the "Shrimp's Odyssey" he casually mentions eating some of Alan's worms. In "A Silly Halloween Special", he is shown among the many party-goers who assault the forest demon for "wearing blackface", feasting on one of its severed arms before tossing it into an indoor bonfire made from its brutalized remains. While facing competition from the Frowning Friends, he was driven "bonkers with jealousy", and consulted imaginary versions of Warren Buffett, Mr. Peanut, and Ronald Reagan for business advice. When that failed, he was reluctantly convinced to kill his competitors by an evil split personality. Despite his evident insanity, he is also shown to have a strong enough moral center to overcome his urges, quickly snapping out of his homicidal rage when Grim starts crying for mercy.

## Background

Nothing is yet known about Mr. Boss's backstory.

## Relationships

### Charlie

Mr. Boss is Charlie's employer. They appear to be on fairly good terms, never being shown to quarrel. He even said a few words about him during Charlie’s funeral in Charlie Dies and Doesn't Come Back.

### Pim

Mr. Boss is Pim's employer. It's shown that Mr. Boss has a special level of trust for Pim, given the fact that he recruited him to pick up the firewood for the Halloween bonfire.

### Alan

Mr. Boss is Alan's employer. They appear to be on fairly good terms, given the fact that they've never been shown to bicker. Alan checks up on Mr. Boss of his own accord during his mental break in "Frowning Friends", implying he at least somewhat cares about him.

### Glep

Mr. Boss is Glep's employer. They appear to be on good terms, but this is hard to tell, given the fact that Glep speaks in his own language, never being shown to actually speak English until the end of "Charlie Dies and Doesn't Come Back ".

### Boss Baby

He has a decent father-son relationship with his infant son, and openly breastfeeds him in front of his employees.

## Behind the Scenes

### Appearances

* "Desmond's Big Day Out"
* "Mr. Frog"
* "Shrimp's Odyssey"
* "A Silly Halloween Special"
* "Who Violently Murdered Simon S. Salty?"
* "Frowning Friends"
* "Charlie Dies and Doesn't Come Back"
* "The Smiling Friends Go to Brazil!" (Phone Call)

## Quotes

"*Don't.* Go beyond the rickety bridge."

"*Now get out there and make someone smile.*"

"Hey Charlie, the owner of the famous Salty's restaurant was just brutally murdered, and I need you and Pim to figure out who did it, thank you byeee."

"***HEY.***"

"Relax, man. I was just gonna shoot you in the head and kill you."

"You should be happy your idea was so good that it drove me bonkers with jealousy!"

“Charlie, what does it mean, Charlie? You were my everything. World’s f\*cked up, man. Charlie, am I losing my goodman mind? If it’s gone, where will I find…it?”

## Trivia

* Though all of the other characters refer to him as "Mr. Boss", he is briefly referred to as "Mr. M." by imaginary Warren Buffet. It is possible that M. is the initial for his actual last name, with "Mr. Boss" simply being a nickname.
	+ It's possible that "Mr. M." could be a reference to the initials of Mr. Boss's voice actor, Marc M.
	+ It's also possible (by a giant leap of logic) that Mr. Boss' last name could be "Meep", as in Meep boulevard, MeepEats and the Meep foundation. It's unknown who or what "Meep" is, but it could be named after the enigmatically wealthy and philanthropic boss.
* In some up close shots, Mr. Boss has a faded bruise on his forehead.
	+ This bruise closely resembles the bruise of a baby character in the deleted 2017 psychicpebbles animation "grembloartshow.com" in which a humanoid resembling Mr. Boss breastfeeds his child in a very similar fashion to Mr. Boss during his first scene in "Desmond's Big Day Out".
	+ This seems to imply that Mr. Boss is the same baby from the animation. as well as being the origin of the breastfeeding concept.
	+ If Mr. Boss is the same baby from "grembloartshow.com". It could mean that he faced some sort of head trauma at a very young age, which could explain some of his unusual mannerisms and tendencies as an adult.
* According to Zach Hadel and Michael Cusack during the Smiling Friends SDCC 2022 Panel, Mr. Boss was based on John McAfee.

## References

1. ↑ Normal people eat spaghetti while sitting down.