Every Smiling Friends Episode Ranked 

Artwork in the credits is by @plasticrarity on Twitter btw!

I love the joke that Gwimbly’s cameo was so much higher quality, because he switched to his cut scene model

How can you think the Boss is the least funny member of the main cast? God he‘s funny! The Boss is like, the funniest guy that I know, I think I can say that now! I think he should do stand-up!

The musical cue when a client smiles is what ties the entire thing together. It's an unabashedly warm, happy jingle.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1985">33:05</a> The renaissance men bit gets even better when you know that it was added in last minute because the writers had no idea how to end the episode.

“Pim Turns Green” is a reference to how Pim was supposed to be green when the show was in production, and the joke is that the title is completely unrelated to the episode.

How is the earth being flat not a standout moment for the alien episode😭

I love how adult swim marketed the Brazil episode as like a special event and hyping us all up only for it to be the whole episode in the airport lmfao 🤣🤣

not liking mr boss is your first mistake

A fun fact about the Brazil episode is that it’s all made in one shot. Nothing is cut to another shot.

A funny thing with the Spanish gag, in the Spanish(spain) dub instead of speaking another language they still speak IN SPANISH but from latin America and the scientist says "i can still understand you you only changed accent"

YOU VOTED AND HE LISTENED, this cannot be undone

Schaffrillas delaying that inevitable Megamind Rules 2 video is going to be the funniest gag on this channel

The way Charlie screamed "OH MY GOD THAT A BOMB THE WHOLE TIME" has to be one of the best line reads I have ever heard in anything

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1057">17:37</a> The best part about this is that apparently, when they recorded the Boss's lines, they genuinely just called the voice actor. No warning. Just started talking in character voices, and his reply was improvised on the spot with only the information they gave him.

"It's not the sort of thing a showrunner with a healthy, functioning brain would ever come up with." I feel like that describes the entire show lmao

My favorite aspect of Smiling Friends is how none of the fires/explosions are animated. They're all just green screened in lol.

pim speaking spamish is also connected with the fact that pim could understand the eyeball twins in the murder mystery episode. pim follows their explanation quite well while charlie is just completely lost

The episode called pin turns green is actually a really obscure reference to the season 1 dvd commentary, where Zach hazel says that originally pin was going to be green, but they thought it would give the main cast too gross of a colour palette.

Me and my coworkers always quote the “I’m spraying him with dirty hose water” gag all the time with each other. I don’t know, between the delivery and specificity of it is so funny

"Pim finally turns green" is an entirely behind the scenes joke, cause Pim's original design had green skin, instead of pink

So many jokes in this show are elevated by knowing the voice actors like how grandpa gleps voice actor is Jewish and he says “hell is real, and Christianity was right all along”

I love that they used the latin american voices of Pim and Charlie for their secret conversation in Brother Egg, it had to be super cool for the dub actors too

LET HIM COOK Edit : Did bro really just called Mr Boss his least favorite smiling friends??? Who let him cook…💀

That ‘rotoscope guy’ in the homunculus episode is Joel Haver, the pioneer of using rotoscoping of live action guys to make videos. His content is always top quality and really funny

I like how Pim and Charlie never actually solve problems with their clients themself. They usually fail. It always comes to some weird coincidence or another random character to end the job. 1. They fail to make Desmond smile. It just turns out he loves to hurt little purple guys, P&C didn't even know their office is infested with them. 2. All their attempts to help Mr Frog return his show failed. His apology wouldn't necessarily work. He just murders a guy and that's what pleases his fans. P&C were shocked. 3. Pim made a mistake with Shrimpina, and Charlie failed to make Shrimp grow confidence. Lucky Shrimp, the girl turns out to be a fan of Mouse Quest. 4. P&C just get handed the solution of Saulty's murder case by Century Egg. 5. They kill Mip by accident. Moreover, they deliver the bomb to Princess, who luckily has good reaction. 6. It's Mr Boss who deals with Frowning Friends, and Renaissance dudes "finish the job". 7. Both Pim and Charlie failed to help their respective clients in Gwimbly episode. It just happens for two psychos to run into each other, which resulted in two game mascots come up with Smash bros type game. 8. Jimbles smiles because he realises himself that he is a moron, which is reflected in a successful speech. He still loses. 9. P&C fail to make brothers reunite. It's sudden successful homunculus who stops their conflict. Moral of the story? It all comes down to luck when you are two fairly normal dudes in a wacky f'ed up world trying to make people smile.

"Tomar what would you do if the animated crab from Moana ranked every episode of wacky cartoon you were a voice actor in?"

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1590">26:30</a> I feel like Alan isn't actually a smiling friend like Pim and Charlie and is just the company's inventory stock manager given how obsessed he is with things like the amount of paper clips in the office.

My favorite detail about the Brazil episode is the plane’s impending crash on the mountain, implying that the airport is about to lock down and the Smiling Friends will be stranded.

Something I noticed in the Mip episode, is that when Mip is accidentally killed by Pim, Mip tells Pim to deliver the gift, without Charlie. I think this is Mip’s way of getting back at Pim, knowing he would either take the blame, or die in the blast. Mip also wouldn’t want Charlie to go, because he fell in love with him.

when he said that mr boss was his least favourite of the main cast, it seriously pissed. me. off. it’s simply a sacrilegious, idiotic statement to proclaim after all the silliness and gags that mr boss has gracefully given us. you, shafrilla sir will *NEVER* BE FORGIVEN FOR YOUR IMPOTENT BEHAVIOIR

Schaffrillas, do you want to hang out with me and smoke weed and fill our bellies with diet soda and play Burnout Revenge for the PS2?

Honestly refreshing that an adult animated series that more about bringing smile to people rather than tearing each other apart.

The inside joke of the "weird shaped head" guy wanting to kill all the Puerto Ricans is that he's voiced by Lyle Rath, who is Puerto Rican

someone once mentioned that the reason mr. frog got cancelled wasnt because he tried to eat someone, but that people hated him for not eating him because its his bit, so when he eats the producer at the end people love him because he finally saw it through.

the pim turns green episode was absolutely hilarious to me, i read the episode description before i saw it and kept waiting for him to turn green and it just didn't happen. i love this show.

Schaffrillas reviewing Smiling Friends just made my day

The president episode's quality really depends on how funny you find this version of the president. I thought he was hilarious, so it's actually one of my favorites.

The real intro was the smiling friends we made along the way

Fun fact: The reason Mr Boss sounds so flat in the Brazil special, is because they literally called his voice actor without telling him beforehand, that ENTIRE phone call was improve at its finest

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="918">15:18</a> The Spamtopia episode is also one of my faves because it pays off a seemingly disconnected plot thread from S1 (the Simon S. Salty episode). During the fun twins interview, Charlie doesn't understand what they're saying but Pim does because he can speak Spamish. The twins also acid spit on him seemingly randomly until you realize they did it because Pim made direct eye contact with them which is a sign of disrespect and the only rule in Spamtopia that's punishable by death

"well, friends, we've done it." "gotta say, I can't stop smiling." "say that again."

You’ve neglected to mention the hilarious descriptions for the episodes on HBOmax, particularly in season 2. The alien episode’s being a carbon copy of Mars Needs Moms’s Wikipedia summary, just replacing the boy with Pim, made me laugh out loud for minutes straight.

I still can't believe the boss would even dare to think about firing tyler. It pisses me off, man

The plane going down at the end of the Brazil episode implies that they are not going to make the flight from Terminal 2 since the airport would probably shut down in light of the crash. So they're REALLY screwed.

the boss breast feeding gave us " HEY! NO BITING no biting... you know why I had to punish you?" "y-yeh.."

Fun fact: the Brazil episode’s phone call to The Boss was completely improvised. Zach and Michael called Marc in-character and Marc just played along with them. Zach said Marc was really on the phone pacing around in his living room! (Source: Smiling Friends 2024 WonderCon Panel Q&A)

I like when you mention the innocent clients like princess and Desmond don't suffer It really does make me realize if they were Family Guy characters, they would not only suffer, they would die horribly or involve rape cause apparently that's so funny to the writers

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1108">18:28</a> the title is a reference to the fact that Michael Cusack had been saying that he wanted Pim to be the color green, but Zach Hadel vetoed it because the it would make the pair vomit color. Its another case of the title and description being completely unrelated to the episode

The Mr. Boss breastfeeding scene in the pilot is legit the first thing that comes to mind when someone mentions Smiling Friends. If my brain organized media like a streaming service, that would be the show's thumbnail. I wouldn't classify it as the funniest bit, but I would unironically call the most iconic moment of the show up to this point. To me, that was where I knew the show was going to be something special.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1215">20:15</a> Just love the background joke that's in a couple of episodes that Glep has a smoking hot blonde girlfriend

My favorite detail in the enchanted forest episode is after being pushed onto the spike Mip says Pim should tell the princess that the gift is from him. The first time you watch the episode you assume that this is Mip forgiving Pim and making amends, but on rewatch it’s clear that he wants Pim to be the one to take the blame when the bomb goes off

About the helium bit It was 100% true when the episode aired, but recently another source was found, so when the episode aired you did actually go "Holy shit thats actually true"

Schaffrillas should really get a Peanut Jig of his own. Yes, a peanut jig of his own.

I never disagreed with a ranking more, really shows how subjective humor and smiling friends is

"This is the most obnoxious thing I've ever experienced in my life." "We were RIGHT THERE, man!" Both fantastic quotes are from the same episode, I was expecting them to feature. Oh well.

The "Pin finally turns green" title is because Pim was originally supposed to be Green, but they scrapped the idea when it didn't mesh well on screen. So they had him wear a Green shirt, hence he "turned Green"

Funny thing about the Doug Walker cameo, I was at a con when it happened, and the cosplay i planned for the next day was a nostalgia critic one, so his appearance definitely made it more topical for me.

“I love Schafrillas ranking videos, Charlie! I love Schafrillas ranking videoooooos!”

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1115">18:35</a> the episode name is a reference to the fact that Pim's early designs had his skin color green instead of pink

Alan is actually the accountant which is why he doesn't really show any interest in making people smile, that's just not his job. It also explains why Pim and Charlie wear clothes but Alan and Glep are naked most of the time, critters like them prefer not to wear clothes, but Pim and Charlie have to meet a lot of other species so they wear clothes to make them more comfortable, but since Alan and Glep works in the office, they don't have to do that.

Mr Boss is my most consistently funny character. I think this is a testament to the differing types of comedy they are able to cram into a cohesive unit.

one joke i really liked from the lowest ranking episode is the money president joke where the president gave everybody an equal amount of dollars, which destroyed the economy. his delivery is what makes it for me

Fun fact: Pim knowing Spamish is a callback to Charlie asking Pim how he understood the fun twins in the Salty episode

Joel Haver is fucking hilarious and I’m glad he got a chance to shine in the show.

The debate section of the president episode is one of my favourites. Specifically because of the way the voice actor for the worm says "Times up, plus you're wrong." Sends me every time.

The joke about Mr. Man’s (The tooth guy) Puerto Ricans comment in the Frowning Friends episode is that his voice actor, Lyle Rath, is actually of Puerto Rican heritage, so there’s actually more thought put into it than just being an edgy out of pocket joke

You can tell Schaff never tiped his toes into the freakshow part of the internet because he didn't get the president joke at all. And honestly I'm glad he never did.

The best part about smiling friends was that they were able to work with the famed celebrity Rich Evans and get him to voice a wacky alien they conceived

the most replayed part of the video is the end of the sponsorship LOL

I love how when Schaffrilas tries to imitate Pim and his Australian accent, he instead does this completely wrong, received pronunciation British accent, it's hysterical.

Worth mentioning the Spanish bit in the egg episode is made by the actual actors of the Latin Spanish dub.

You cant avoid the dehidration gun forever...

It's so funny hearing someone who seemingly doesn't know about Zach Hadel's humor outside of the series because a lot of things that schaffrillas didn't get or found funny are hilarious to people who knows his insane obsession with weird concepts like worms, extremely specific but nonsensical titles, weird fake games like mouse quest, an extreme obsession with anti-jokes that are only funny because of the way it's delivered and bizarre references to his old work like the boss breastfeeding his adult son and him getting a magical red jewel.

Hear me out here, watching a show over and over again until the chemicals in your brain run dry is not a good way to enjoy media.

I never disagree with these lists, but this was tough to get on board with

"Pim Turns Green" is a reference to the fact that Pim was originally green in the show development but was changed to purple cuz they got the note that with Charlie being yellow, that they gave a "snot and vomit" vibe

I missed my Dr Monster’s appointment with Dr Monster to watch this Worth it

Calling an entire live action twilight zone parody that frames an episode "unfunny filler" was a wild take what the hell

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="762">12:42</a> the fact that it's Salad Fingers' voice actor as well is hilarious

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1972">32:52</a> The tooth head guy voice actor is puerto rican, which is why it is sort of ironic and very funny for him to say he wanted to kill all puerto ricans.

Jimble might’ve been my favorite client from season 2, I thought he had tons of charm, I love how he delivers his lines. The way he says “I did it! I didn’t get sick from the soured lamb!” slays me every time

Being an Oneyplays fan really gives you a whole other layer of understanding to many of the jokes and one liners, a lot of them are call backs to events and play through episodes from like a decade ago. It’s cool to see perspectives and opinions from people likely not familiar with oneyplays or Zach as a deeper person and his comedic personality.

There's this one interview with Zach Hadel where he says how the show is not trying to do anthing. Except for the what the name of the show is. It's a show that wants to make you smile and nothing else and if it does that what else does it really need in an episode. If you smile, then the episode has fulfilled it's purpose

Smiling Friends is peak adult swim content, love the irreverent humor and the imaginative art styles. I was laughing forever at that Jared Fogle gag

am I the only one annoyed that the Salty episode didn't conclude with them deciding grease was the murderer since he died of a heart attack? felt like they were building up to that with the whole "I didn't do it but I could have bit" and it would be really funny because that was the only character who didn't actively try to

YAY SMILING FRIENDS VIDEO! So glad to see this.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1823">30:23</a> Ok can we just talk about how good Schaff’s impression of Allan is?

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1595">26:35</a> - Alan is normally working in the office or getting supplies, so my guess is that his official job is office manager and support staff for Pim and Charlie. Sort of the "mission control" guy. Helping people directly isn't his job, but he sometimes fills in to his chagrin.

Honestly, I think for now there are no bad episodes of Smiling Friends. Even the "worst" ones are still enjoyable

Not peak fiction until they make an episode finally catching that goblin on tape

Really?! Mr president is fucking funny as hell. Thr part where he becomes the "money president" got me laughing for ages.

the “pim finally turns green” episode title comes from the season 1 commentary when michael and zach talk about how the original character design for pim was green and how it was changed to pink late into the show’s development. they joked that pim would actually turn green in the last episode of season 2.

Y'know, after much thinking, I've come to the conclusion that this video is pretty OOOGLIGOOO *seizure noises*

Ive gotta confess that i kinda like the boss breastfeeding joke... I think its mainly Jason's reaction when the boss asks if he wants him to bite him. The weak "yeah" is so funny to me. The thing about this show is even the weakest episodes have great bits. I laughed my ass off when Pim was imaging his kids in that scary house. In the president episode where he uses the emergency broadcast system to announce thay hes gonna be the money president and then immediately ruins the economy is hysterical. Allen is by far the best character, his line delivery is hysterical and so memorable. I hope the next season will give us more of him, the paper clip episode has got to be my favorite one.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2072">34:32</a> I think it was more of a case of Pim being upset his childhood dream of going on an epic quest was never realized due to Charlie hogging all the glory (especially when Charlie had earlier said he had no interest in going on any whimsical adventures), which made Pim's jealousy turn to resentment and rage.

Schafrillas not knowing Joel Haver is shocking Edit: I stand corrected

it really does show how much the rankings vary when your least favorite three are like my favorite three

The happy holidays joke for Satan might be one of my favourites. Because of course he would be the one angry at that since he knows Jesus is real

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1940">32:20</a> this is the third time someone has gotten this wrong, the balloon helium isn't good enough for medical use