Pim Pimling

### Quote

"This is gonna be great, Charlie! I love helping kids. I love kids, Charlie. I LOVE KIDS!!!"

“
Let's go out there and make people SMILE!
”

—Pim, "Frowning Friends"

**Pim Pimling** is one of the two protagonists of *Smiling Friends*. He is a kind Critter that is all in for making people develop happiness, as that is his job at Smiling Friends Inc.

## Appearance

### Body

Pim is a short Critter with a pink skin color. His eyes are asymmetrical in size, with the eye closest to the viewer always being smaller, he also inhabits huge scribbled circular pupils, and an exposed nerve ending which appears as one singular hair.

### Clothing

Pim wears a white buttoned shirt, indigo shorts held up with a black and yellow belt, and black shoes

## Personality

Pim is a happy-go-lucky person who has a passion for cheering people up from their sadness. He is a bundle of joy and always loves to help friends, family and even strangers alike. Pim also likes to show gratitude by kissing people. Despite his good nature and being the moral compass of Charlie, his best friend, he’s shown to be naive.

This is displayed in many moments, one of the most memorable being when he was on a mission to make a suicidal person smile and he yelled “I LOVE KIDSS!!” in public. Charlie noticed this and told him it wasn’t a good idea to yell that in the suburbs.

## Background

As seen in the episode "Desmond's Big Day Out", Pim comes from a very dysfunctional environment, having a particularly tense relationship with his sister. It's been shown in that episode that Pim's father typically has yelling arguments with Pim's mother.

He would later get a job at Smiling Friends Inc. and develop a friendship with his fellow employees.

## Relationships

### Charlie Dompler

Charlie is Pim's best friend and workmate at Smiling Friends Inc. Though they bear vastly different personalities and sometimes clash with their personal methods of making their clients smile, the two get along fairly well outside of work. Pim, an optimist, will on a rare occasion express his annoyance with Charlie's cynical and unmotivated attitude, as seen in "Charlie Dies and Doesn't Come Back", and is capable of carrying a heated debate with him. Despite that, Pim values his friendship with Charlie to the point where he became increasingly jealous of Mip's influence on him in Enchanted Forest, even turning into a wrathful Gollum-like creature. When Charlie was killed by a falling tree, Pim was horrified and devastated by the loss of his closest friend but was ecstatic when God resurrected him.

### The Boss

The Boss is Pim's superior at Smiling Friends Inc. Pim looks up to the Boss very much and goes out of his way to satisfy his needs, even if it means going into a spooky forest to collect firewood. Pim expressed concerned for the Boss's mental state when the Frowning Friends Inc. were established across the street and was horrified upon seeing his superior savagely feast on the dead Forest Demon's arm on Halloween.

### Alan

Alan is Pim's workmate at Smiling Friends Inc. The two haven't had much interaction aside from Pim mistakenly eating some of Alan's compost worms and accidentally shooting Alan in the eye with his pellet gun on Halloween.

### Desmond

Desmond is one of Pim's clients. Pim was surprised by the state of Desmond preparing to shoot himself over his family leaving him and tried desperately to prove to him that life is worth. Despite a dinner with his dysfunctional family, attending a house party and having fun at Daveland, Desmond wasn't convinced and went on a depressing nihilist monologue about how eventually the world will be destroyed and that living life was for nothing. This put Pim in a catatonic state of shock and depression that lasted for several days.

### Grim and Gnarly

Grim and Gnarly were Pim and Charlie's rivals who worked at the short-lived company Frowning Friends Inc. Pim objected the duo's negative influence on people and attempted to reverse it. Despite that, Pim was surprised when Grim and Gnarly were pelted to death by arrows fired The Renaissance Men.

### Shrimp

Shrimp is one of Pim's clients. Pim went out to find his ex-girlfriend Shrimpina to help Shrimp reconnect with her but mistook Shrimpina for a human cafe worker named Jennifer. Pim fell in love with her and decided to lie to Shrimp about not finding Shrimpina in order to date her himself. He met Jennifer at a club but saw Shrimp crying over his failed relationship at the bar. Pim had a change of heart and introduced Jennifer to Shrimp. He was surprised to learn that she wasn't Shrimpina the whole time.

### Mip

Pim was very distrustful toward Mip and became envious of his budding friendship with Charlie. Pim also believed that Mip was robbing him of completing his first Enchanted Forest quest, which he dreamed of as a child. Charlie and Pim's fight over Mip's package to the Princess led to Mip getting fatally impaled on a spear. Upon Mip's death, Pim was instantly regretful of his actions and his suspicious demeanor toward the Dwarf and vowed to complete the quest for him. However, his opinion of Mip was immediately shattered upon learning that he was the Princess's stalker and that the package they gave her was a makeshift bomb.

### Jennifer

Jennifer is an employee of a cafe whom Pim was briefly infatuated by, mistaking her for Shrimp's ex-girlfriend Shrimpina, whom he was tasked to find and help Shrimp reconnect with. Pim imagined a life with Jennifer in which they married, had children, watched their children get married and have children of their own before dying together from old age. This was never to be, though, as Jennifer went on to date Shrimp.

### Forest Demon

Pim encountered the Forest Demon while he was collecting fire wood for his company's Halloween party. Pim was terrified of the creature and made a great effort to escape its pursuit. However when the partygoers beat it to death and ripped him to pieces, Pim looked on in shock and disbelief.

### Steven Pimling

“
You kiss your dad on the mouth?
”

—Charlie, "Enchanted Forest"

Steven is Pim's father. Though nothing is known about their current relationship, Pim appeared to have a loving bond with him as a child. Though Steven claimed Pim wasn't ready to go into the Enchanted Forest, he said he might be someday, which boosted Pim's confidence and prompted him to kiss his father on the mouth.

### Amy Pimling

Amy is Pim's sister. Though Pim claims they have a good relationship, Amy openly contests this by claiming she genuinely hates Pim and has no love for him in any shape or form. However, this may have been done to impress her boyfriend, Alpha.

### Glep

Glep is Pim's workmate at Smiling Friends Inc. though the two have had little to no interaction.

## Trivia

* A running gag in the show is that Pim will randomly give anyone and anything a kiss, such as Desmond and a bird.
* "Shrimp's Odyssey" reveals his eyesight is somewhat poor, as he mistook a bowl of worms for a bowl of peanuts, and he read the address for Shrimpina's job wrong. He did wear glasses as a child as shown in "Enchanted Forest".
* Pim's theme song is "Pim's Tune"
* In “Shrimp’s Odyssey” it’s revealed that the ‘little hair’ on the top of his head is actually an exposed nerve ending.