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Will they been losing money since 2015 So yeah 😂
There is this (somewhat) new channel on KZhead called “Cikin Nuggit”, it has adorable animal characters, funny jokes, and wholesome moments, you have Chikin Nuggit, the dog, Cheezbourger, the cat, Iscream, the bunny (that is simultaneously a demon/biblically accurate angel), Fwench Fwy, the wish dragon, and Slushi, the arctic fox. I love this series and I recommend that you watch, and maybe, review it
@Quark ok but who asked?
Wtf is with all these bots?
How ironic, when Comedy Central just doesn't produce any content that's comedic anymore.
The irony is the comedy
The only thing that keeps it going is The Daily Show
Ooo burn
yeah yeah whatever you say sure uh huh
Old Comedy central used to be wild and have some great adult cartoons and shows new comedy central is terrbile they even had a cartoon that pushed it to where south park couldn't even match it
Fun fact!: The making of the entire season of Smiling Friends costed less than the making of an average Family Guy episode
Most criminal part is that it had way better animation and soul to it. Would love to know where all that Family Guy budget goes
@@kaleburns9347 Coke.
@@RandomHandleLol1738 probably
Do you think PsychicPebbles would stoop to compensating his peons? He is Tomar’s friend
@@kaleburns9347 The celebrity cameos
I'm sick of rich people making fun of rural areas. They've never lived there and it's honestly straight up classism
So fucking true.
Classism's bad.
And let's he real, these rich fools would straight up die without rural people. These rich idiots and their spoiled little brats seem to think that food is made at the supermarket or something. If they ever had to try and figure out feeding themselves off the land, they'd probably starve.
Real
I like several kinds of cheese, such as cheddar, Muenster, and Toscano
Comedy Central’s golden goose is obviously South Park and they’ll do anything to achieve the same thing as it. Fortunately for Trey and Matt, they’re actually good at writing
And they don't make the characters look like Bootleg bitmojis
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, ftfy
And that’s why they are worth a BILLION dollars…… a f*cking billion.
@@OtisCluck what does ftfy means
True. I just wish adult shows would stop being so political and unoriginal all the time
Let’s be honest, no show with characters that look like Bitmojis can possibly be any good
omg I can't unsee it 🤦
Glad someone else thinks they look like bitmojis
kzhead.info/sun/lstmZtCjf5mclH0/bejne.html Exactly yes
I'm glad I'm not the only one that saw it. Especially the Batman image, I swear I've used that one on Bitmoji
Bitmojis look better
at the very least, adult swim lets their creators be weird. shorts like opal are unlike anything i've seen and their shows have an identity. with comedy central, they're all pretty much the same show. i wouldn't be surprised if this lasted like 13 episodes at the most
Sorry for being off topic for your comment but this was the first comment I saw that wasn’t replied to by several bots Good take tho
kzhead.info/sun/lstmZtCjf5mclH0/bejne.html Exactly yes
Damn that's actually a really good takeaway.
YES!!! Speaking of, I’m so fucking pumped for Uzumaki. I’m actually gonna host a watch party for that shit. Edit: I recently watched the Junji Ito review by Hunter on papameat and I really think adult swim has artistic integrity. Cartoon Network is very similar. They’ve seen long term the benefits of having shows that last through the decades. That’s true art. It’s an investment that pays out in the end. Fuck, I still remember the oldies like Boondocks, Tim and Eric, Robot Chicken, and many many shows that have been on adult swim at one point or another, family guy, South Park, american dad, the works! There’s a lot of hit and misses, misses aplenty. But they aren’t insane like these other platforms, literally, they hit the same ball expecting a different outcome. At least Adult Swim has misses but they’re all DIFFERENT for the most part.
@@Dgero Spoken too soon
You neglected to mention "F is for Family". Probably one of the most underrated realistic adult animation TV shows in recent years.
Anyone that says otherwise is gonna be put through that fuckin' wall!!
See that show is actually brilliant but I never hear anything about it anymore after it’s first 2 seasons
@@preamstrikbiz0 That’s cos it told its story. It only went to 4 seasons and ended beautifully.
F is for family was great! It had characters who were dynamic, complex relationships, a serialized story, and it was actually fuckin funny!
i dont think any corporate "adult animated comedy" has gotten even close to the level of artistry, storytelling, and funny in something like Avatar: The Last Airbender
@olenyeva best show to air* There I fixed it
the movie
@@therealtony2009 what about it?
Smiling Friends Is one of the only cartoons that has actually made me laugh in a while. It's absolutely wonderful.
same here, smiling friends is a great show.
Does he still like sing 2 or was that a joke and he totally hates it with his heart ❤️
Because it has soul:)
I need to look into it 👀
One of the best shows in ages
My biggest issue with adult animation is too much of a focus on the "Adult" aspects. Alot of shows have sex, drugs, alcohol, and cursing but that's 90% of the substance. And though many adult shows are like that, animated ones feel like they get the worst of it do to animation being a great medium to make characters larger than life so bad characters and storys get elevated to a whole new level. Big adult shows like Smiling Friends, South Park, Simpsons, Family Guy (at least older seasons), King of the Hill, ect have adult content but they make sure it isn't what carries the show and has other features and qualities that make them feel very distinct from each other.
That's something I loved in KoTH as I got older: Subtetly. I think dark and edgy moments are much more impactful if there's a hint of subtlety. It feels a bit more real that way. I'm tired of adult animations having zero subtlety and using screaming, swearing, and crying as a punchline. It's, ironically, immature as fuck.
Agreed. And I get weird looks when I say family guy fell off a long time ago.
And don't forget to add Gore and laughing at the people who are agonizing Pain is part of that Comedy adult. Never understand why every Adult cartoon has to bring Gore to make it funny. It makes it disturbing.
Makes sense.
It kind of shows how far ahead WB/HBO+ is ahead of Paramount in adult animation is that they have shows like Close Enough, which is a wacky comedy show where the entire premise is dealing with adulthood being different than what people expected but doesn't lose its humor. And they're also the home of Tuca a Bertie, which revels in all the hedonism of it all but still has characters and heart.
When a youtuber has a better mic than an entire show you know it's bad
Iirc the show was produced while the pandemic was still a thing so maybe the voice actors where isolated in their homes and had to use phone mics
Colorado fun fact: "South Park" is just a colloquial name used by locals to describe a smallish valley region in the rockies. The official name of the main town up there is _Fairplay._ There's also a little, seemingly-unincorporated town somewhere in the mountains called Fairview. No idea if they're related, but considering the "animation" style...
When I tell people I’m majoring in animation, their first question is, “ Like, for kids?” And I say, “Not particularly.” And then they say, “Oh, so like, Family Guy?” I really wish people could expand their views of what animation can do. Hopefully we’ll see more well made projects that go towards changing that.
kzhead.info/sun/lstmZtCjf5mclH0/bejne.html Exactly yes )
These bots are really getting out of hand.
God that sounds like hell
@@PeterGriffin11 Seriously. The top 4-6 replies to the comments are all spam. And they all look the exact same. How is KZhead not able to detect this and ban all of these accounts?
@@cadekachelmeier7251 Hey, KZhead used all of their budget they normally allocate to spam detection towards removing the dislike counter. Give Susan and Co. a break! They can only help KZhead so much each year.
The problem with "adult animation" is that it's not meant for adults. It's animated and written for teenagers who want to feel older than they actually are.
Children* Teenagers are too busy arguing on the internet and playing video games to watch TV.
@@DonVigaDeFierro exactly I can't remember the last time I actually watched a TV show 😅 just video games arguments and KZhead videos
I actually used to watch shows like Family Guy as a little kid
Hope you grew out of your bad taste, then. FG can only be enjoyed by drooling toddlers, so it's not like you're special.
I really doubt that these teens would even watch these adult cartoons, let alone enjoy them.
How in the hell is an entire group of voice actors unaware of pop filters? My goddamn gaming headset came with a pop filter in the box.
This doesn’t look like a network show. It looks like a bunch of frat bros made a cartoon in Powtoon for their art appreciation class.
Fairview’s art style is so lifeless.
It’s like if a terrible South Park reboot traveled back in time and put itself on the air in our time.
It’s obviously trying to do South Park
The art style looks like it’s from a shitty third rate mobile game
it reminds me of the art style used in icivics games if they were turned into russian dolls
The only way i can describe the artstyle is Higglytown Heroes and Bitmoji having a love child
I can't believe the animator behind _"GET OUT OF MY CAR NOW"_ finally got the recognition he deserved for creating _Smiling Friends._
kzhead.info/sun/lstmZtCjf5mclH0/bejne.html Exactly yes )
O ya
same man who made the hit "hey stop disliking my video" and "ARROW TO THE KNEE" finally getting the fame and fortune that's been withheld from them for so long
Zach Hadel is an incredible person and the fact that he’s also working with another guy who I love Micheal Cusack (who made YOLO CRYSTAL FANTASY) for such an incredible show is nothing short of a dream
That video is gold. XD
The Fairview art style looks like an educational game I played in middle school to learn how the us government works
iCivics!
I find it silly how Nina Diaz stated that the shows in reference had "politics at the center of it all" as if it were a positive thing. I firmly believe that politics in a cartoon are automatically a con unless you can play off of it extraordinarily well like South Park did in its earlier seasons.
IMO politics is best handled the more abstracted it gets from the real world. There's a reason why the more political episodes of shows like Star Trek TOS or The Twilight Zone still hold up: when you abstract it away from Party X versus Party Y and get more into the philosophical meat of it all you touch on more universal truths and questions that people can actually talk about without going for each others' throats.
@@tjenadonn6158 agreed, the more metaphors used to convey the message the better. head on tackling politics very rarely works out, and obscuring it with different names and characters, and using the same conflict in a different backdrop tends to do much better.
honestly bluey has better animation and storyline than those cheap animated bitmojis💀💀💀
Bluey is such a good show, it blows this dumpster out of the water
I love bluey lol
@@chocomin5059 blue it out of the water*
Dude bluey is awesome.
Bluey is literally one of the best children’s show out there.
The saddest part of all of this: I’ll bet Fairview got 10 times the Budget that Smiling Friends did, yet it has NOTHING to offer! According to Zach Hadel, the co creator of Smiling Friends, the entire show had the budget of a single Family Guy episode! Yet the entire season was a joy to watch! It was funny, charming, had some actual hidden meaning, and it was more creative because of the budgetary limitations!
Wow, one episode!? That’s amazing! Do you know about how much that is?
@@jazz9260 2million USD? Could be AUD but I highly doubt it tho
To be fair most anime series cost 2 million - it’s safe to say tho that they spent wise and get great !
@@FijianSouljah1312 wait how is a single episode of family guy costing that much- I’m not really familiar with the struggle of animation so
@@accountlol7409 I wouldn't be surprised if a large portion of the family guy budget goes to pay the salaries of the voice actors.
Animation is Not a Joke, It's a Jolly Thing! Animation and Cartoons are for Everyone! Animation is a Medium, Not a Genre! Animation is for Kids AND Adults! We Have Adult Cartoons! Let Animation Reign Supreme and Let Everyone Respect and Support Animation!
- Falls in love with Smiling Friends - "I don't wanna play with you no more" - Dumps Rick & Morty in the Trash -
i find it ironic how a common gotcha against critiquing childrens cartoons is "its just for kids, why are you asking for so much, its not that deep" when the adult cartoons serve us literal dirt. i dont think its unrealistic to expect the bare minimum of respect for the audience, regardless of age.
I don't get why they say that. Kids deserve quality, well written shows and movies. If they keep watching cheap, mediocre content, then they will grow up thinking cartoons are just for kids. That is what happened with people that grew up in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
@Lila Meanwhile, "PJ Masks" has better plotlines than 90% of adult animation.
@Quark You have a pinterest pfp, nothing you say is valid
@Quark this bot just threatened to murder me….or at the very least said I should be murdered
What this industry and producers desperately need to understand is that animation literally does not solely exist for either children or mature audiences. Animation is a method of storytelling so why does the industry refuse to tell stories NOT explicitly for children or adults? And when it is for adults, why is it made absolutely necessary that the show is comedic in nature? I've seen more shows lately that don't adhere to these "rules" but the industry has had this problem for decades.
Smiling Friends made me feel like I was young again, staying up till late to sneak Adult Swim and being confused but entertained.
Those memories you had watching Sealab 2021 and being confused and entertained have come back like an old friend in a thong.
I never had to sneak watching Adult Swim, I’d just wake up in the middle of the night to the fever dream that was Aqua Teen Hunger Force. 😰 I was slightly traumatized by a lot of the stuff on AS but now love it dearly.
For me it was sneaking to watch robot chicken
For me, it was staying in a hotel room watching King of the Hill with my parents.
It’s made by OneyPlays, right? Screw him.
The style looks like educational games my social studies teacher made us play
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If this hasn’t been done already, i would love to see Saber’s opinion on F is for Family. I love the show because it’s a reflection of the creator’s own childhood in the 70’s, and calls out the culture from that time. At times it’s difficult for me to remember that it’s set in that time period because a lot of the issues are still prevalent today. The characters are engaging and very well written, and the ending of the series was beautifully done, so you can see each character’s actual growth. Sometimes i do think it relies a bit too much on shock factor, but they balance that out with a good story i actually wanted to learn about.
I agree! I loved F is for Family
kind of ironic how the whole "animation doesn't have to be good, it's for kids!" sentiment is when you realize lots of kids animation has WAY more effort and genuinely good stories/characters in comparison to adult animation.
Batman TAS and Avatar TLA come to mind right away.
Except stuff like Arcane alone blows the entirely of "kids shows" out of the water, in terms of being competent in how it handles it's maturity and complexity. Same with shows like Bojack and Primal
@@justinstewart9145 Oh, you mean adult animations that are actually written with maturity are more nuisanced and complex than kids shows, wow, it’s almost like that should be the norm rather than a surprise.
@@marakrofitcac3425 "It's almost like that should be the norm rather than s surprise". Adults shows like Smiling Friends, Tuca and Bertle, Arcane, Bojack, Primal, Castlevania the series, Inside Job, Invincivble, Centuar World, etc, exist. WOW; it's almost like people pay attention to the bad shows and then wonder why they can't find any good adult animation. Funny how that works.
@@justinstewart9145 Is Centaur World even an adult cartoon?
The Fairview art style feels like they wanted to make a show with a similar feeling to South Park but didn't understand why the South Park art style and animation was charming
kzhead.info/sun/lstmZtCjf5mclH0/bejne.html Exactly yes )
It actually kinda reminds me of a blown up version of Prison Architect or Rimworld, but again without understanding how to make such animation charming. Given the number of edgelords in both those games communities, it would not surprise me if the creators played one of them.
It reminds me of the sterilized, corporate avatar creation for social media, like the "Metaverse" avatars.
@Quark dammit... stop
@Quark I'm not even religious and yet I am offended by your blatant ignorance.
Fairview's Logo looks like a loading screen from a mobile tycoon game. You could show me it and I'd ask 'what's the game about' because it really does not look like a tv show
6:22 “I guess Nina here is the kind of person who thinks Panera Bread is fine dining” I love your wholesome burns, Mr. Spark
Shows like Smiling Friends prove that modern adult animation doesn't even need to be as emotionally complex as Bojack or have more mature subject matter like Invincible to be good. It just has to be visually appealing, and written competently. If you can nail those two things, you're pretty much halfway there. I mean, hell, the animation in Aqua Teen Hunger Force is admittedly.... hard to look at sometimes... but it remains one of my favorite AA shows because of the brilliant writing and acting. And even then, as ugly as it was, at least it had STYLE. I'm tired of these lazy networks and studios getting lazy and thinking "if we make the cartoon say 'fuck', we'll cum money". Though, Smiling Friends gives me hope that we'll see another rise of creator-driven shows with minimal network interference in the coming years.
I'd also add SuperJail! and Xavier Renegade Angel to your list of shows that show that adult animation doesn't have to be complex to be good. The former basically exists as an excuse to set up intricately choreographed sequences of cartoon violence that amount to Tom and Jerry meet the Grand Guignol, the latter is basically what would happen if an improv troupe comprised entirely of philosophy majors dropped acid and decided to make a movie in Second Life, but both are absolutely genius pieces of writing and animation. We could almost think of shows like Smiling Friends, SuperJail!, And XRA as smart comedy in disguise as dumb comedy made by smart people, with shows like Fairview, Santa Claus Inc, and Washingtonia being dumb comedy made by dumb people who think they're making smart comedy. There are few things more grating on this earth than an idiot who thinks they're a genius.
Isn't Aqua Teen's writing just basic outlines of what's going on in any given scene?
Archer started out as just a Spy Agency office comedy. Sounds about as derivative as you can get but the excellent voice cast and writing led to it being a critical and commercial success. The same can be said for why American Dad succeeded and The Cleveland Show failed.
@@Paratet 100% this. Family Guy, American Dad, and Cleveland Show all have the exact same animation style but the reason why American Dad still holds up to this day is because of the writing. It's a _genuinely_ funny show.
Online animation has proven you domt need a budget, polticial commentary, or deep emotional arcs to produce interesting adult animation
Fairview literally looks like a bunch of Mii characters gathered together to create a garbage 18+ experience
Yes
I was thinking Bitmojis
@@Squirr3lBoy300 Or Miis From Streetpass Mii Plaza.
That's what I was thinking.
@@Squirr3lBoy300 true
"Stephen Colbert, you're better than this!" No, he's not. He's a glorified delivery man, except instead of packages and goods, he delivers lines from the writers to his audience. He'll give you a box with an awkward wink and a smile, but don't mistake him for the actual person who made it. Also for the show's characters, it feels like they went, "What's something that'll make us feel relatable? All the young adults use Snapchat, correct? Bingo! We'll make them look like those cartoon images!" I'm so sick of NPCs being in control of creative processes.
Neoliberal talking points do not make you more adult. This is why *The Goode Family* only ran a year: most people like that are fucking toxic in real life and would be the types to subject Gay kids to eugenics and call that acceptance.
I think Stephen Colbert only got popular for being Phil Sebben from Harvey Birdman; a delivery machine of one liners.
In my opinion, Colbert is like if a librarian started doing stand up
@@SuperFitzieZX dont say that :( theres a old guy in my hometown that works as a librarian and does standup from time to time, and its genuinely very enjoyable
Colbert was fucking amazing in HB attorney at law. Hahaaaa!
I wouldn't describe master shake as "lovable" It's more that he's funny to watch
Carl is lovable. He got the wrong character.
I love whenever Saber gets heated over this bs, because he basically embodies our collective anger/hatred over this kind of bs. I'm SO GLAD that we're slowly getting more good/great adult animations, but man do I cringe at the release of the really bad ones.
@Quark i mean, unless if you're talking about it being an indoctrinated method to control people, then yes. i hope you weren't generalizing that all religion is bad though, but listen, this is all absolutely irrelevant.
@Quark mind explaining how religion has fucked up the world? Genuinely curious
@Quark Half of culture wouldn't exist without religion, lmfao. Get a life and let people believe what they want to believe.
@Quark k
I feel like adult animation has been like this since Family Guy, but we forget about the bad ones. However, I too forgot about the bad ones, except Slacker Cats
Never underestimate how dumb studio execs are, the animation makes chargeman Ken look like it was a labour of love, rather than a labour of how a psychotic 10 year old is allowed to get away with mass murder.
Dude, at least Chargeman Ken can be amusing with how utterly bat insane it is!
Also, I suspect most TV execs nowadays kind of keep up the mentality from the heyday of the Big Three pre-cable, with the idea that, "if we show it, we can convince people that's it's worth watching, no matter how much or little quality it has."
The animators who worked on Chargeman Ken have an excuse to make the show purposely bad so they can go on the vacation. Well, that's a shame. That show really deserve a reboot.
Bit of a stretch but yeah at least Chargeman Ken is enjoyably bad why it became such a meme in Japan
Chargeman Ken is the absolute pinnacle of animation as a medium and you can't change my mind.
You know a show wont be funny when it is described as having "politics at the center of it all." People watch animation to escape politics, I dont like be pandered to and I dont like when show constantly rag on me for what I do. Smiling Friends is a perfect example of how to do adult animation right as it steers clear of politics and actually focuses on being funny
@@centurychumRecently? Not really. We still have things like South Park and the like handling it well but shows like Fairview have proven that people can only take so much of 'political discussions' when EVERYONE is trying to make EVERYTHING into a political discussion to pretend they have something to say. The overuse and overcompensation of political commentary in animation or just in entertainment in general recently has shown me one thing; politics are an easy in. You can absolutely suck at various other means if storytelling but if you disguise that failure as 'political commentary', SOMEONE will eat that shit up regardless if at it's core it's actually entertaining. Take away the political stuff from Fairview and it has nothing because it is nothing. It doesn't have a fun or appealing art style, the production is awful, the general small town stories have been done before and better so yes.... enough with the god damn politics.
Animated shows like Fairview genuinely make me miss cartoons that were critically panned like 10 years ago. Like, I can look back on those and at least find SOMETHING nice to say about them, SOME little crumb of artistic merit to appreciate, but _this?_ It’s about as interesting/entertaining to watch as the buffer wheel on a video that won’t load. I almost want to binge Problem Solverz just to feel something again. (Excellent video as always btw, you broke everything down really well!)
I love how the success of Smiling Friends could be seen coming from miles away. Listening to Zach occasionally talk about animation in Oneyplays and SleepyCast, he really has an in-depth understanding of what makes a cartoon enjoyable and timeless. Not to mention his sense of humor is absurdly unique.
This right here. 150% this
What made Smiling Friends funnier to me is that me and some of my friends have that 'perfectly cut screams' or some alien noise humor.
Goddamn smormu always kills me It's random and stupid but it's done well Unlike "go take a poop on that guy"
Smiling Friends is pretty good. Not amazing
Smiling Friends is the Resident Evil 7 of adult animation. It's "fine".
One thing I do remember: Beef got himself vaccinated -- against his mother's wishes -- because his friend was immunocompromised. So Beef got vaccinated in order to reduce the risk of getting his friend sick, who it would be fatal for. I watched the episode once, myself. The only thing that really stuck out is how often the characters called themselves, or what they were doing, stupid. Not like in the typical way where someone calls another such after doing something dumb either. No, instead, they will openly call themselves stupid, or idiots, outright, before even doing anything.
They are supposed to be conservative stereotypes.
That’s not how self awareness works if that’s what they’re trying to achieve by doing that
Yup. They're definitely trying to make an obvious political message. Not even a devil's advocate, just outright calling people stupid for what they do. They're not even characters, just a fill in for what type of people they think are stupid.
Also that ain't how it works. Maybe they will become non contagious faster, but they will still get other people sick, an now they willn't know because *they have a bigger chance to be asymptomatic* . I hope that the writers are knowledgeable enough to realize that, and maybe the friend died from the disease or something.
And then Beef caught it anyway, started shedding (look it up), and killed his friend. *LAUGH TRACK*
The fact that the Viacom executive made sure to mention that "politics are at the center of it all" is very telling. I HATE shows that focus more on a political message than anything else. People are attracted to shows and movies that tell compelling stories and have characters with empathetic drives and character traits. Even every Southpark episode has a funny story, while having a few political jabs every now and then. Politics is just a hot button issue right now and they know it will get watches from people who agree with their views and are easily manipulated.
I wish 2d drawn by hand animation like treasure planet or spirit was still a go to thing. While it takes a lot longer you really see the differences when people put a lot of time and effort into something
I think what really ticks me off about the character designs is that they feel like NFTs. I don’t even think there are any Fairview NFTs, but the character designs feel like they were make with a cheap character creator, in fact they’re almost uncannily similar to the Snapchat avatars. Now that I think about it, IMO these people have accidentally created the current worst character designs in the history of animation. They have no silhouette, there’s no interesting use of color, there’s both no style and a stylistic clash at the same time, and there’s very little character to them at all. This is a prime example of why people who aren’t interested in animation shouldn’t be making cartoons, this looks and feels like a cheap live-action show except with none of the benefits of live-action and none of the benefits of animation, it’s a remarkably unremarkable abomination of entertainment.
When I first saw images from this show my first thought was "I could literally whip these characters up in five minutes in the Bitmoji app." For some context I'm clinically dysgraphic: I'm so bad at drawing that it actually counts as a disease. There's a reason why my main artistic medium as far as the visual arts go is photography. I SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO PERFECTLY REPLICATE THE LOOK OF A PROFESSIONALLY ANIMATED PRODUCTION BY A MAJOR STUDIO.
My first thought was Miis. Yet somehow, Miis still have more life in them and more personality to their animations than Fairview seems to.
@@sluttyMapleSyrup I’d argue even the infamous Xbox Avatars and the wildly unnecessary Sportsmates are slightly better character designs. At least their designs are consistent and have a smidgen of a style; it’s the bare minimum, but it’s still a millimeter away from the bottom of the barrel.
@@tjenadonn6158 is a major symptom of dysgraphia being unable to draw?? i thought it was just handwriting 😭
They are worse than The Problem Solverz. THE PROBLEM SOLVERZ!!!
Fairview is exactly the kind of show Zach Hadel (co-creator of Smiling Friends) was talking about on a podcast recently when he brought up how most adult animated shows don't really care about the 'animated' part of being an animated show and would rather just focus on being crass and tasteless. For me personally I took one look at Fairview and it is literally the most unappealing art style for a cartoon I've ever seen.
It's an unholy combination of archer and fucking Lego
@@isopropyltoxicity nah, at least the characters in Lego have legs. This is more like a fusion between Archer and Higglytown Heroes.
@@ahniandfriends123 No, there *were* legless Lego minifigs in the 70s (aka, “stage extras”)
No, Fairview is actually more funnier than Smiling friends
@@dominodude3749 no it dogshit show
“..Cuz young boys play video *gaaaaAAAAMMMESSS!* ” Absolutely sent me 😂
That stereotype is just so generic / typical for a show like Fairview 🤦♂️
The art style looks like they took that old character generator that people used for Facebook profiles in the 2010s but they were too lazy to animate legs so they removed them.
I’d argue the general lack of an accepted middle ground for animation in the US is part of the issue. It feels like a majority of general audiences view animation as purely G-rated, or essentially R-rated, and nothing else. This seems to push “adult animation” to really lean into extremes, but without the skill of execution to do it well.
All you gotta do to make jack r rated is change he robot oil and alien goo red and the true brutality of jack is insane. Which the final season did beautifully with his first human kill being hi-lighted by the vibrant red of the girls blood. No fountain of blood no guts just a smear of crimson and his honor as a human sinks further into oblivion. But this was only possible because a skilled creator cared and put in the effort which is like saying to win a foot race you need to run faster then the other guys. Easier said than done
@@abrahamnarvaez1730 what's Jack?
@@Connor_Montgomery Samurai Jack. While it started on Cartoon Network, the fifth season made years after the original show ended was on Adult Swim.
@@midnight3018 ohh, thanks for the explanation
Weirdly enough, it's Disney that seems to come closest to finding that middle ground. Stuff like Gravity Falls or Owl House aren't afraid to throw in mature or scary themes.
The artstyle looks like a mobile game. Not shitting on mobile game artwork, but it's quite easy to reproduce and consists of simplistic animation.
Don't compare this to mobile games, this "animation" is nowhere near as good as Angry Birds or Jetpack Joyride
Calling these animations like mobile game animations is an insult for mobile games. These adult animations seems worst than most mobile games
looks like grandma's facebook avatar.
*looks like a shitty mobile game, yea, I agree constant no-effort "games" with literally zero life purpose but to make people grind for days or force their money out to keep itself alive, talking here about mobile games you consistently see on crappy mobile ads while I agree that there are gems out there like king of thieves or jetpack joyride, there's a decent chunk of people in all industries just going "for all the gains with fewest effort put in", and it's pretty worrying to be honest that their "creations" are ever relevant out there
So, what you’re saying is that they look like they came straight out of Episode.
"Dude you cant get a job by only drawing faces, you need to practise the whole body at the very least!" "Fuck you dude, ill make a show. You just wait!"
This comment was probably funnier than the entire show
Once when I was 5 I had a Clifford movie DVD a commercials for some bubbly things came on, I always wanted to watch the movie when I was small , but I had no idea how phones work and I could never spell the name. Eventually I forgot those things even existed, but today Saber literally bought ba k all of my childhood memeories
Y'know it really pisses me off that "adult animation" in the west has been locked into this genre of crass idiocy. I just want to see some actual deep, mature storytelling...And yet ironically, the only place to find that outside anime is a handful of _children's shows_ like Avatar. I want to see an American show with a mature story that doesn't have to hold back with how harsh it can be, give me something like a Gundam-style story of war and politics, "adult" doesn't mean dick and fart jokes.
Bojack horseman.
Castlevania and Arcane are animation for adults.
@@dyvfsdgdrgkhgderx9282 Seconded on the Bojack love.
ironically, it’s kids shows that deal more with political corruption and war that adult shows do. One example I can name is steven universe.
Midnight Gospel
"Our characters will not have legs, and this is TOTALLY a stylistic choice. It has NOTHING to do with the fact that it will give us even less that we have to animate hahaha"
kzhead.info/sun/lstmZtCjf5mclH0/bejne.html u miss this ¤
Even weirder that the show takes place during the COVID pandemic, but nobody's wearing a mask. That would have been even easier to animate
@Quark ok but did i ask?
@Quark this is literally the only thing you've posted
@Quark peepeepoopoo haha
That synopsis: "We are very racist against even the idea of small towns. And will now spend a lot of time and money telling you just how bad 'those people' are."
‘SO PAINFUL THAT I HAD TO PAUSE THE SHOW JUST TO PROTECT THE REMAINING BRAINCELLS I HAD LEFT! Yes, all two of them.’ 🤣
I'm pretty positive that the only reason why the characters have no legs is cause it's easier to animate the characters moving up and down for "movenment" rather than having legs walk and run like regular people. It's a cost cutting strat only and it's another example of how this show was cheaply made.
VeggieTales used the same strategy, but 1. They were created when CGI was in its infancy and thus had very limited resources, 2. They were smart enough to justify it in-show through the premise, and 3. It holds up on its own in other areas.
@@LendriMujina thank god, imagine those veggies with feet? Cursed, I saw Cursed!
Even Hanna Barbera wouldnt animate this cheaply
It's still kinda jarring how they went for that "Facebook avatar" style, and literally gave up on the legs. Looks unnatural, even in-universe. I'm almost sure they wanted to make the animation look shitty and crude only because South Park does it, not because of budget reasons, because I bet a single episode of this garbage show probably has more budget than any amateur internet animation project of the last decade. Either way, I can appreciate superb animation tied to a bad story the same way I can appreciate a great story told with limited animation. This show has neither. It sucks at every possible aspect. Even the audio mixing sucks.
@@DonVigaDeFierro The Black Cauldron comes to mind. (I know that’s a movie but still)
At the very least, Primal showed that not every adult cartoon has to be a comedy.
With shows like Primal, Invincible, and Arcane, I'd be on board for more adult cartoons that aren't comedies. We've already got dozens upon dozens of those.
kzhead.info/sun/lstmZtCjf5mclH0/bejne.html Exactly yes
Harley Quinn is another example...well it is a comedy but it's also an action cartoon at the same time.
I know this isn’t a Cartoon but, Aggretsuko is another example of a good adult show that the first season was more comedy focused but as it went delved into interesting topics in season 2 and 3. While season 4 had some questionable decisions mostly revolving around the “boy blunder” Haida. The fleshing out of Ton was handled incredibly well (Fenneko).
@@michaelstrong5383 The Legend of Vox Machina also deserves a mention of amazing adult shows and a great of example of creator controlled shows
9:58 That is the primal roar of a man who has just. Had. Enough.
Tbf, who wants to hear another person talk about Biden’s “liberal leftist SJW propaganda” over and over again? It’s why I resort to video games and shut off anything that references real life politics…
I couldn’t agree more.
Overpoliticization, the bane of media, scourge of quality content, no matter whether its right or left, cons or lib, overpoliticization shall forever ravage the shows and media we consume.
14:25 I remember hearing that many anime voice actors were mailed individual recording setups complete with noise canceling foam pads to put in whatever small room they choose to record in. But I guess recording in a zoom call works too.
"Comedy" Central The "History" Channel The "Learning" Channel "Music" Television Fox "News"
"Arts & Entertainment" = A&E "Tru"TV
“Home and Garden” Network
'Headline News'.
"Fetch" tv
And in the early 2010’s: “Cartoon” Network
I'm glad you mentioned King of the Hill, because one of the best aspects of that show is how none of the characters, especially Hank, are right or wrong in every situation. They all learn from each other in their different moments. Unlike most shows, live-action or animated, there's not just one major "voice of reason" character.
Yeah, King of the Hill is just great, and one of the most real-feeling shows and cast of characters I've seen, despite them being animated
I thought KOTH was so so in my teenage years but now I'm in my 30s, I find it absolutely hilarious
I saw a post somewhere that “King of the hill is the closest thing we have to an American slice of life anime” and I love the show even more than before lol
@@leotheliongames That's why its pretty popular in Japan.
@@randeli7785 The Japanese honestly who aren't traditionally trapped are kind of envious of Americans. KOTH to them is basically the kind of life many want.
Aw but “Costal-Metro Liberal Elites Portray Small Town America As Irredeemably Vapid, Unreasonable Clowns” is my favorite genre.
@Saberspark is funnier than ComedyCentrall! 2:44 "It's like they wanted to design characters that looked like the'ye from Archer, but then they gave up" 😂😂😂😂😂😂 We're done! 😭😭😭😭
Watching Fairview is pretty much like having an executive from Comedy Central and an executive from Viacom take turn beating me in the head with pillowcases filled with doorknobs and old D-cell batteries.
This is the most accurate description i have seen so far, thank you for putting my agony into words
I appreciate your precise description
I might upgrade that to to a pillowcase filled with Car Batteries and Claw Hammer Heads but head trauma is head trauma.
@@ObsessiveSting yea but I imagine TV executives don't work out enough to lift and swing a bunch of car batteries.
@@shawn.the.alien423 Fair point... But they could probably hire someone strong enough!
Between this and Stephen Colbert suddenly making his own NFTs, I feel like every little ounce of respect I’ve developed for him over the years has gone down the drain in just one week
I knew his was a mo_ron the moment he blatantly antagonised Conan O'Brien for no obvious reason...
Dudes been a clown for almost two decades at this point
@@Edgaros When was this? What did he do?
People only liked Colbert when he had CC writers
He stopped being good the moment the Colbert Report ended
2:07 Where are their LEGS and FEET?! The animators forgot to draw them on the characters!
Merely looking at FairView makes me undescribably angry. Like, did they really think they'd get away with making something this terrible?
Invader Zim is a great example of what you can do with that concept, you have a town full of idiots with two people, Dib and, Gaz being the ones who are aware of whats happening. Dib is trying to stop the main antagonist Zim who isn't a antagonist really. this results on someone who is both smart and stupid and is great for the show to keep a conflict going. Gaz doesn't care much and is great to help with side episodes. Anyways its fairview but better and its a kids show.
TBF Zim also has a bunch of other things going for it from its high concept to its incredibly distinct visual style. What's the point of doing animation if you're just going to do Parks and Rec but Bitmoji?
I loved gaz's role when tak was introduced. They use gaz in genius ways
Zim is the protagonist. Dib is the antagonist. A protagonist doesn't necessarily mean "good guy", it just means the main character(s) and anyone who's on their side. An antagonist is just an opposer of the protagonist(s).
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@@Klabbity_Kloots both basically fill both roles depending on the episode
Comedy Central really did turn bootleg Bitmojis without hands or legs into a show ☠️💀
They look like goddamn streetpass Miis
I thought this was a Bitmoji show
@@yaboihuey5298 Haha the nostalgia
you didn't suffer from memory loss. Your brain couldn't handle how horrible it was so it made you forget about it
10:14 How dare you, how DARE you bless my eyes with Inside Job and then back to that poster. 😭😭 15:09 AHH YOU DID IT AGAIN STOPPPP 🥲
You know, I'd never thought about people thinking "animation" was a genre instead of a medium, but it also explains everyone who walks into a bookstore and says "it had a blue cover"...
Bro exactly man
Nah, more like a shelf category labeled "Books written in English".
**grabs paintbrush** **dips it in blue paint** **slathers a copy of **_Fifty Shades of Gray_**** "Here you go!"
@@oddcrafter1270 Now it's Fifty Shades of _Grey_ .
Part of the issue with so many of these failed adult cartoons is that a lot of them see the medium as a business venture instead of a creative expression. A lot of the creators and producers for these shows don’t really care about animation. They just see it as something that could make the network tons of money as long as they check the right boxes Creators like JG Quintel and Vivziepop actually had a passion for the art form, which is why their shows have become very successful and people see them as some of the best cartoonists of our time. Same thing with Seth MacFarlane. Regardless of how you feel about him, he put real passion into his craft and worked very hard to make his shows look great and funny. With so many of these shows, there’s clearly no hard work that was put into them. They think if they keep modeling themselves after Family Guy, they’re bound to score a hit, without really understanding what made Family Guy big to start with TLDR; If you want a successful adult cartoon, try to create one through the lens of an artist, not a business owner EDIT: Based on some of the replies, I’m gonna clarify myself I do think business is an important aspect to creating a successful show. Good funding and good marketing are what help make your entertainment a hit. I think what I was trying to get at with this comment is that you should put the artistic aspect first and the business aspect second
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@Quark p a i n
I'm Workin on my own.
@The Real Princess Daddy Blocking now.
@Pindé It hasnt even came out.
Adult swim has been and remains so the pinnacle of adult animation. Even basically saving cancelled fox shows from time to time leading to fox renewing and taking them back only to somehow fail again because nobody wants to watch the show in w/e bull time slot they stick it in.
Man, your background song had me thinking my phone was going off cause that's the exact track I use as a ringtone.
I feel like it’s the fact that the writers of South Park understand and have a certain amount of respect for small town America. They don’t see it as backwards and in need of drastic alteration culturally. A lot of these other shows come from people with biases against rural and small town America and that’s why (I think, personally) they’re not as funny. Because there’s hatred there. It’s about mocking instead of poking fun of, and I think there’s a difference
Exactly. Hollywood elites shitting on conservatives with no self-reflection whatsoever gets old fast.
This really strikes true for me honestly. It just feels disingenuous, like the majority of these big media company execs have never even set foot in any town like Fairview and they can't possibly imagine the people living there as people, more just like props in a rudimentary/backwards society they can make fun of. Yeah you can joke at people's expense, (as much as there is charming in a small town, there's just as much to hate) but it has to come with a certain amount of respect or understanding (like with the south park writers) otherwise it's just critical and unfunny because it's clear they're just relying on biases or stereotypes.
@@snakewithapen5489 all these shows are just strawman the series
@@americangirl6654 it got old when the people making those jokes became the establishment but never realized that
@@leviticusprime4904 precisely
Can’t believe Trevor Noah accidentally liking your tweet is funnier than all of Fairview
Well congratulations you’ve seemed to have been able to make a comment that’s funnier than both of those
laughed harder at this comment than the entire single episode of Fairview
I'm all for Beavis and Butt-Head returning, and I'm curious about the Daria spin-off. If I were Viacom I would look into possibly green lighting The Pataki's (The more mature Hey Arnold spin off sequel).
I love a lot of adult animated shows (South Park, Solar Opposites and Archer being my 3 favorite shows period)... then there’s utter garbage that makes the idea of adult cartoons look bad. I also wish America would realize that you can do stories with animation that aren’t for kids (there’s a lot of bad-ass horror anime, just saying!).
One of the things I love about animation is that it’s a medium to show stories in ways that live footage just can’t. You have the ability to stretch characters and settings and make them as outlandish as you like. You aren’t bound by what is or isn’t physically possible. So *why* would you animate ball people with arms? They’re so stiff and boring, and the writing doesn’t even make up for it. South Park has reasons behind its style, and the writing makes the art work despite it being simplistic. But making a show with essentially hopping egg people who have nothing of value to offer? Adult animation has had this issue for ages, but it’s so obvious with these legless bitmojis. It just raises the question of *why*? Throwing bland characters at a wall doesn’t keep an audience. You think they would learn by now that there is an audience for this, and they can’t be bought with cheaply made family guy clones.
To me. It pisses me off how much the Western Animation industry doesn't try to compete for quality animation. It sticks with this overly simplistic, gross, simple aesthic, while. It's Japanese contemporaries are starting to get more and more adult, hell more than half of anime is more mature that isn't just " HEY WE MADE A NSFW, 18+ ". These Western Animated shows play it too safe and copy eachother, meanwhile. Japan has Uzaki-Chan wants to hang out, Kill la kill ( the themes of it ), Ishuzoku Reviewers which is for an adult audiance that is genuinely funny with great writing and being a bit of a sitcom, Panty and Stocking ( a parody of western cartoon shows of the early 2000's ), and even earlier titles like Gundam and Macross Saga.... Western animation needs to stop hiring diversity hires, learn to make good comics to help fund their cartoons, and MAKE IT CREATOR OWNED. If copied the JP industry, but actually be pretty good or decent while Marvel shit and DC shit is tanking, it would make some money. Japan when not making purely NSFW, can make some amazing or interesting adult animation. Japan doesn't even opt for cheap simplistic designs on average. Hell there was that one adult show that was made by the same people who made Hello Kitty, made Aggretsuko. That show was pretty good. I hate how the West is so behind in embracing animation, without using it as a cheap CGI landscape or over-digitalized marvel character. It looks gross to me and kind of uncanny if you do artwork of any kind. Japan is willing to experiment, AMERICA ISN'T. Japan has been the best user of... 2D Animation, America is focused only on 3D due to recyclability, and over dependence on reboots or clones. Like how we got an American Dad and Family Guy, despite American dad was supposed to fill that void of Family Guy.
@@MaoRatto I LOVE Mobile suit Gundam. I just wish ZZ got a NA DVD release.
@@MaoRatto Theres cartoon saloon based in Ireland. They make fantastic 2D animation. Wolfwalkers I wanna see badly.
I agree. The best animation borders realism but stretches into absurdity. The same is true for live action I think, but it stays a little more grounded. That's why I enjoyed Community.
@@MaoRatto personally I still prefer western animation (European and american). I still find american to be more appealing and experimental in terms of artstyles since simplistic and detailed can appear in western shows in different cartoons. Think "Smiling Friends" vs. "She-ra: Princesses of power." Maybe even think of Hilda vs. Kipo. also the only thing stopping shows from being creator-driven are executives. I have heard this from multiple professional animators and character designers. They hire the right artists but they don't hire the right executives.
It’s crazy how Fairview is being marketed as a show that’s as good as South Park when it literally took everything that makes South Park good and did the opposite
I wonder if there’s gonna be a show viewed alongside South Park and Fairview, that’s the exact midpoint between the former’s greatness, and the latter’s sh*tiness.
It's nuts how Comedy Central airs it right behind South Park as if to say, "Yeah, we know, it sucks."
Insert joke about Matt and Trey needing back surgery from all the years of carrying the entire network here_________.
I think what the higher ups miss about south Park is how much work love and care go in to the show looking like a child made it which makes it's actual biting satire hit like a truck
One good show that’s surprisingly good on Comedy Central is Blark & Son. I know it doesn’t fall under the medium of animation, but puppetry as an alternate medium still appeals to me and the creator is remarkable with his craftsmanship and production level. The emotions that can be expressed by the puppets and story writing is impeccable. So is the voice-acting. Donald Faison from Scrubs is on. Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Son, Justin Roiland, and I believe the voice of the ghost from Mike Tyson’s Mysteries is the voice of the neighbor. Great show overall and each episode is about 12 minutes long.
Adult shows often tend to forget the fundamentals of writing. Consistency, character and plot. It's always naughty words, shock humor and "and then the opposite happens" comedy. When great adult comedies like Rick and Morty or South Park thrive under their episodic formula while keeping their plots and characters straight.
The Simpsons was great in its early years cause it could be raunchy and smart with its humor .
Fallout 3 vs New Vegas.
@@scottbruckner4653 More like Fallout 4 vs. New Vegas
I also liked Inside job by Netflix
Except Rick and Morty relies way too much on swear words and shock humour to the point where it feels more like it's for edgy teenagers rather than for grown adults
Honestly shows like Fairview reveal a LOT about what people like paramount execs think of its audience - that we're all just a bunch of stupid stoners that will laugh and clap our hands when we see some shitty characters curse and fart Considering the success of Family Guy and the Simpsons in 2022, they're not too far off.
And the fact that Paradise PD somehow got a second season despite being one of the worst things I've ever witnessed.
I'm so curious about the viewer demographic info for current Simpsons and Family Guy. I dipped out hard years ago.
@@LoveMyUnusual There is no current Family Guy, it ended after like 10 seasons of being absolute garbage. Not sure if the Simpsons is is still going.
@@Molotov_Milkshake Simpsons is on season 33 now i believe. They also did some shorts too, they were bad.
@@Molotov_Milkshake Family Guy is 100% still in production…
The models look like those bean toys you could buy back in the day, the weighted ones that would always stand back up. Except with more disturbing faces.
Big part of this series is the content i used to saw in youtube of just 5min lenght jojokes. Just so i could watch the comments of them of people who genuinely enjoyed it. I can spend moar in the comment section than seeing the actual "content"
I took a documentary film class once. One thing I remember the professor saying was that sound is far more important than people realize. Your video can be grainy or oddly lit, but that can be forgiven in some cases. But poor sound will completely destroy you film every time.
It's all about PRESENTATION! * Megamind music *
@Quark you watch Rick and morty, don't you?
There's a reason why one of David Lynch's longest standing professional relationships was with Alan Splett, the Oscar winning sound designer behind the auditory landscapes of Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Dune, and Blue Velvet along with Lynch's student film The Grandmother. Sound is the difference between the audience getting lost in your world and you losing the audience.
@Quark You seem positively euphoric.
@Quark Troll. Or you could actually be serious. I've dealt with antithiests who were enough off the deep end to approximate you.
Smiling friends an actual good adult cartoon we got for along time. The chaotic mixed media of animation is something you don't see on Adult cartoons that isn't a Family Guy or Rick and Morty clone.
They try not to be cynical like those shows. Too many adult animated shows just become cynical and Zach and Michael wanted to point the lens at that type of thing and satirize it. I
@@deviousj5868 Exactly.
The animation looks like one of those Facebook gaming app ads, you know the ones.
South Park is literally my favorite adult oriented show, ever. And the fact this shit is trying to emulate it insults me on a level I can't describe. Colorado's culture and south park are very important to me, because I live there, and Fair View makes me want to tear my hair out
I think the biggest shot to the foot in their formula is "politics at the centre of it all". South Park is not about politics. It's about all of society, the characters and their reaction to the world around them. Politics plays a notable role, but if politics was at the centre of South Park, then why would they not make the 21st-24th seasons all about Donald Trump? Also, geez - Stephen Colbert has definitely become his own worst enemy.
While you are mostly correct, seasons 20 and 24 were very politically-heavy seasons. Season 25 (barring the first episode) seemed like a nice return-to-form for South Park
@@KingAzxoll9 Yeah but it was more them laughing at the absurdity of politics as they usually do.
Naw its very much politics focused. South park has actively tuined the world with its shit libertarian takes.
@@raze_ Cope
@@raze_ lol
"And of course, with politics at the center of it all" Well thats it folks we now know exactly what we are getting. Politics are the center of our lives and poop jokes are the sophisticated ambassador.
I love how Smiling Friends was also a love letter to fans of Sleepy Cabin and Oneyplays ( A podcast and KZhead channel respectively that co-creator Zach Hadel and OCCASIONALLY Michael Cusack shows up on. Zach is a regular because he and Chris both met as animators on Newgrounds, just like Cory Spazkid, one of the people that worked on some of the art for Smiling Friends. Chris meanwhile did the outro and some of the artwork as well. ) If you're a fan of Zach, Oneyplays or Sleepy Cabin, you have so many references that'll make you grin ear to ear. Conversations you heard on those videos translated to actual skits on a cartoon AND THEY WORK SO WELL. Fan of Screw Attack's " Pregame Discharge? " - Well you'll be happy hearing Lyle's voice for multiple characters, as well as his iconic rat slamming hijinks. " Covid is a thing " - doesn't work. Smiling Friends was made on the budget of a single episode of Family Guy and most of that money was spent on the innovative use of so many styles of animation - and it helped that all the people working on it WANTED TO BE THERE. It was FUN. The writing was THEIR SENSES OF HUMOR. Smiling Friends doesn't even look shoddy. It has so many masterfully done animation styles all blended together. It's insane how well Zach, Michael, Chris, Lyle, Tomar and Cory did.
This premise would actually be really good if the writers were talented enough to make it funny. Lots of people have no idea how big city politics fuck with random small towns, there's a lot of good humour that would take the right people to find it
These are the people who were stroking their chins to "What's the Matter with Kansas?" fifteen years ago, and haven't evolved in their views since then, or lost their supercilious attitudes. Of course, these are the same people wondering why crime is so much worse and why their groceries cost twice as much, and haven't connected it to the way they vote.
That's basically Parks and Rec and Reno 911. They already made those shows like 10 years ago. They were great!
I hope that Invincible can open the door to more adult cartoons of different genres than just comedy.
kzhead.info/sun/lstmZtCjf5mclH0/bejne.html Exactly yes )
@@rudedolphin It’s just a spam comment I guess.
@Quark Okay, but I hope you know that nobody asked
@Quark You literally have an MBTI in your carrd, maybe look into that before you start talking about other people's made up nonsense
@Quark cool story bro
First time I watched the first episode of Smiling Friends. The animation felt like an average Adult Swim show, and same with the comedy. Then my friends told me to give it another watch, and I don't why but I fell in love with it!
I have a feeling that most of the smear campaign against Smiling Friends came from the creators of Fairview who were envious of the fact that 2 industry outsiders were able to come in, make a funny and successful cartoon, which cost the same amount as a single episode of Family Guy.