Funny / Smiling Friends

They're guaranteed to make you smile!^note Unless, you know, they can't for some reason.

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General

• Any time a character starts suddenly screaming.
• The series-wide Running Gag of certain characters moving at extreme speeds, such as the little siblings of Pim, Jeremy and others.
• The sheer amount of hidden visual gags and background events is so staggering you’d wind up rewatching each episode possibly a dozen times before you spot them all.
• The mere fact that all the guns in the show have been consistently drawn in an accurate and realistic fashion is this, due to the sheer contrast with the cartoony & oddball character designs and the lovingly drawn guns that faithfully replicate whatever gun they're supposed to be down the very last detail.
• Multiple times throughout the series, there will be dialogue between the characters that, despite the outlandish situations depicted, are so grounded and relatable that it goes back to being comedic.
• Fans of OneyPlays may find much amusement in how Zach manages to incorporate many of his off-the-wall jokes and hypotheticals from the channel. For instance, the birthday party monkey^note The Forest Demon's death in A Silly Halloween Special, the annoying alien throwing its hands in your face^note Jeremy from Charlie Dies and Doesn't Come Back, or Zach following on his promise to put worms in a future episode^note Pim eating worms in Shrimp's Odyssey.
• For April Fools' Day in 2024, [adult swim] recreated 3 episode of the first season in puppets. This resulted in the interesting scenes in "Shrimp's Odyssey" where Pim looks ridiculously small compared to Shrimpina/Jennifer (who is played by an actual human actress) and some of the furniture. Also, due to not being able to get away with Cheated Angle Charlie's puppets all have two eyes on both sides of their head.

Season 1

Desmond's Big Day Out

• Pim shouting that he loves kids, with Charlie addressing that he probably shouldn't be saying that so loud. Made even funnier by the fact that a man can be seen watering his lawn in the background, and glances in Pim's direction as he starts yelling.
  • Shortly after, as Pim says "That's us, ma'am!" to Desmond's mother, his single hair briefly extends before returning to its normal size. Charlie seems to notice, but doesn't say anything about it.
• This exchange, when Pim convinces Desmond to give him a chance to help him find a reason to keep living, is this thanks to the sheer Mood Whiplash:
  Desmond: (in response to Pim's Rousing Speech) Okay, but if you can't help me, (extremely deep) I'm gonna fucking shoot myself and make you two watch.
  Pim: Okaynotsureaboutthat, but yay!
• The fact that Desmond goes through his entire time with Charlie and Pim without ever taking the gun from his head.
• Desmond at one point asks with complete sincerity during the dinner with Pim's family if it is supposed to make him not want to kill himself. He's not even snarking; he's honestly just confused how the chaos at Pim's family home could make anyone see the brighter side of life.
• While at a college(?) party to get Desmond to hang out with some people, Pim runs afoul of a man who is animated entirely in rotoscope. The ensuing interaction is pure gold.
  Rotoscope Guy: Dude, what the fuck!? Why are you fucking here man, you're so ooooold. Where's your wife? Go back to your family, dude.
• The entire concept of Daveland: an amusement park based around a guy named Dave. That's all.
• The guy in the wall Alan encounters, who has the nerve to preach about respecting privacy when he's squatting within the company's walls. The fact that it causes Alan to momentarily snap into an Only Sane Man characterization as even he is baffled by the absurdity of the situation only makes it even more hilarious.
• The pilot ends on the dancing TV alien breaching the screen to state "hello thank you for watching :-)"; all good to thank the viewers, but it quickly turns hilarious as Charlie and Alan start panicking, and arguing over who should grab it.
  Charlie: Alan... grab it. Grab it. Alan, grab it now, grab it—
  Alan: (interrupting Charlie) I'm not going to grab it, you grab it—
  Charlie: GET IT NOOOOOOOOW!!
• While Pim's Gross-Up Close-Up isn't exactly funny per se, fans of the series eventually discovered that the closeup included his penis slightly sticking out from his shorts in the uncropped version of the shot.
• Pim and Charlie enter the office, having failed making Desmond smile, only to find Alan crucified as he shouts "I just wanted my cheeeeeeeese!!!"

Mr. Frog

• The mere fact that Mr. Frog's show managed to become an insanely popular long-running television series with 47 seasons, a gigantic fanbase and enough money from movies and merchandising that Mr. Frog himself is able to live in a massive unimaginably luxurious estate that could house a small community of people is hilarious alone due to just how barebones the show actually is, given that the only difference between the episodes are the costumes that Mr. Frog wears.
  Mr. Frog: I'm Mr. Frog! This is my show! I eat the bug! [eats the bug] I ate the bug! This is the end! I love you!
  [roll credits]
• The credits to the Mr. Frog show are well worth freeze-framing. The cast list for some reason includes other characters besides Mr. Frog and the Bug even though they're the only two characters who are ever present (all of these other characters named pejorative things like "Dastard", "Crook" and "Rascal") and at the end there is a list of blatantly filthy Punny Names such as A. Nelprober, Ben Dover, Betty Phuckzer and Harry P. Ness.
• Rex tells Mr. Frog he's fired. Mr. Frog then promptly eats him whole.
• Mr. Frog's design alone is hilarious in how it is so simple, he looks nothing like a frog. Just a green body with a face in the middle of its chest.
• Glep managing to get hired as Mr. Frog's replacement because of him spitting, which everybody inexplicably finds hilarious to the point where they erupt in extremely violent laughter when he spits during a script reading.
  • What gets Glep hired? His raw, bad boy edge.
• In order to get Mr. Frog under control, Charlie drugs him with sleeping pills cause, "No one's ever done anything crazy on sleeping pills." Cue Mr. Frog uttering an unspecified racial slur on live television in the next scene. Even Charlie was in wide-eyed shock complete with rare non-beady eyes.

Shrimp's Odyssey

• Whenever Shrimp screams in pain.
• The "Number Fifteen" joke, especially since they actually got Chills to voice the character.
• Shrimp puts on a Badass Longcoat, and is subjected to a Gross-Up Close-Up.
  Shrimp: How do I look, Yellow Man?
  Charlie: Y-you look like you're about to tell your friend not to come to school tomorrow, man.
  • How does this get topped in the puppet version? The Gross-Up Close-Up has Shrimp actually be a shrimp.
• The exasperation in Charlie's voice after finding out that Pim mistook Jennifer for Shrimpina.
  Charlie: Pim, her name was "Shrimpina". She'd be a shrimp.
  Pim: Yeah, I did think that for a moment, I just thought it was like a quirky, like, "You didn't expect she was gonna be a human" thing.
  • The sheer depths of self-deception (and sheer bad luck) Pim accidentally reached managed to dumbfound Charlie
    Pim: What about that thing you said at the café, about, like moving on, or something?
    Jennifer: Yeah. My boyfriend Jason died in a motorcycle accident a few months ago.
    Charlie: Jesus Christ, man. Pim... Pim.... Uuuugh...
• In the puppet remake released on April Fool's Day, everyone is played by a sock puppet with the exception of Jennifer, who is played by a real actress. The episode ends with her making out with the Shrimp puppet as usual, which is arguably even funnier now due to how it just keeps going on and on in the background, with not even Smormu's appearance being able to distract from it. At one point you can see Jennifer give the Shrimp puppet a Frenchie.

A Silly Halloween Special

• When the boss is telling Pim where to get firewood:
  Boss: So, I usually just go in there and pick some crap off the floor and—
  Pim: Oh, okay.
  Boss: What?
  Pim: Oh, I was just saying "okay".
  Boss: Oh, yeah, it's all good, it's all good.
• Pim gets immersed in being a cowboy while collecting firewood, but when he tries to spit like an actual cowboy he just leaves a huge splash of saliva on his shirt.
• The episode mostly just has the one big Brick Joke, being a surprisingly intense horror special otherwise. But by the time the chase with the Forest Demon ends, you've probably forgotten all about how Charlie refuses to dress up for Halloween for fear of cancellation... and then get a front seat to the Demon getting horrifically mangled because everyone thought it was wearing Black Face.
  Charlie: (completely nonchalant) See that's exactly why I don't dress up for Halloween. Right there, that's the reason.
  • The Forest Demon's death deserves mention. Not only do the party-goers brutally beat him to death and rip his limbs off, but they inexplicably tear open his chest and start eating his guts before setting him on fire using the firewood Pim went to the trouble to collect.

Who Violently Murdered Simon S. Salty?

• There's something inherently amusing about the bizarrely ugly face Charlie makes as soon as he slams the restaurant door shut declaring no one is leaving until the murder is solved.
• While (trying to) interview the Fun Twins, whom apparently speak only in hyperactive squeals and babbling, the scene inexplicably cuts to a Deranged Animation of the Twins arriving to a planet and stabbing everyone in sight, with no apparent bearing on the plot. At first it seems like a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment, until Pim cuts in and says that while it's a nice story, it doesn't help the investigation. Charlie, meanwhile, is understandably baffled by the exchange.
  Charlie: Pim, how did you understand any of that?
  Pim: What?
• There is something juvenile-y funny about Crazy Cup saying the words "doodoo feces" in a completely deadpan baritone.
• When Ketchup stops crying instantly to look Pim dead in the eye and tell him "Thank you."
• After telling Charlie and Pim where to find the tape that has the answer to the crime, Century Egg passes on...then briefly wakes up to point Charlie in the right direction.
  Century Egg: Oh, no no no, not that one, no no no, other drawer, other drawer.
  Charlie: Oh, I'm sorry.
• The solution to the titular question? Nobody. The tape Century Egg gave to the boys keeps rewinding to show that everyone did something that could potentially kill Salty, but the truth is that he just died from a burger-induced heart attack.
  Charlie: (Incredulously) How many fucking people killed this guy!?
  

Enchanted Forest

• Charlie couldn't care less about sidequests, turning down several that have been offered by various fantasy races: a centaur, a goblin, an elf and an alien that speaks in dial-up. When Charlie calls out how out-of-genre the alien is, they get this aghast look on their face like they were put on the spot.
• Charlie's reaction to Pim's story about his nostalgic fondness for the titular enchanted forest.
  Charlie: You kiss your dad on the mouth?
  • You can even spot the scrawled goblin in the background turn to the event in shock.
  • You realize either Charlie somehow managed to view Pim's flashback along with Pim... or Pim had explicitly told him he kissed his dad on the mouth.
• The entire encounter with the forest Witch, particularly the part where the duo have to guess which hand has Charlie's hat.
  Witch: Which hand of the Witch hand will it be? AhHaHeeHooHooAhAhHah!
  Charlie: This is the most obnoxious thing I've ever experienced in my life.
  Pim: Uh, that one!
  Witch: (Quickly shuffles hands behind her back) WRONG! OohHooHooHuaHuaHuaaaaa
  Charlie: That cannot be allowed, that i- how is that fair?
  • Then the witch knocks them out and they wake up in her cauldron, waiting to be cooked. What's the part Charlie find the most upsetting? That they had almost arrived, as he can see when he glances out the cave, and now they'll have to walk all the way there again.
    Charlie: ...aw, we were RIGHT THERE, MAN!
  • Despite the fact that they're about to be cooked alive, Charlie and Pim get easily distracted by the witch's impressive onion-cutting.
  • Right afterwards is Mip's introduction as he scares the witch off, giving perfect juxtaposition between Mip's incredibly smooth animation and the witch's flying being a static image haphazardly dragged across the sky.

Frowning Friends

• DJ Spit's $piTz PaRadise. That is all.
• This part where Pim and Charlie meets DJ Spit.
  DJ Spit: Man, shut up, man! You're trying to trick me, man, quit smoking into my freaking head and shit, man!
  Charlie: Not at all, man.
  DJ Spit: MAN, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO THINK NO MORE, MAN! I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO THINK NO MORE, MAN! GET OUT OF ME HEAD!!! GET OUT OF ME HEAD, MAN!!!
  • Even funnier when Mr. Man's head shapeshifts into DJ Spit while yelling "GET OUT OF MY HEAD!"
  • Charlie trying to disarm DJ Spit both times by trying to get his hands on the gun, failing to wrest it away and then backing away in terror. The second time even has Charlie jump over a railing in his desperation to get away.
• When Alan and Glep turn out to have switched over to Frowning Friends over "a better 401(k)" and arrest Pim and Charlie over antagonizing Grim, Charlie tries to claim he personally didn't say anything, blaming Pim... Glep has none of it and just decks him right in the knee, with Charlie letting out a surprisingly visceral cry of pain.
  Charlie: By the way I just have to note that it was only Pim that yelled something, I didn't say anything- *POW* HAUGH!
• There's one moment where The Boss points the gun at Grim which causes him wet himself.
  The Boss: Relax, man. I was just going to shoot you in the head and kill you.
• "3D Squelton hates lies! Boo-hoo!"
• When the Frowning Friends show up to counter Pim and Charlie cheering up 3D Squelton, they descend via rope from a helicopter. When Grim and Gnarly leave again their entrance animation is simply reversed, leading to them sliding up the rope and the helicopter flying away backwards.
• "I actually wanted to kill the Puerto Ricans."

Charlie Dies and Doesn't Come Back

• Jeremy, a noodle-fingered demon who squeals incoherently while wiggling them in Charlie's face. Charlie threatens to punch him if he does that again, and later follows through. It's made all the more hilarious by how inexplicably detailed Jeremy's animation is as he collapses to the ground wheezing in pain.
  • Jeremy later gets his payback on Charlie whilst the latter is undergoing his torture by clocking him in the face.
• Charlie walking across a frozen lake with damned souls embedded in it that shout various threats at him, except for the very last one, who politely apologizes to him due to being unable to think of a threat to say to him, which Charlie is quick to assure him that there's nothing wrong with that.
  Damned Soul: I'm sorry, I couldn't think of anything to say.
  Charlie: Naw, there's no pressure man, it's all good. You didn't-You didn't have to say anything.
• Satan's interaction with the MeepEats delivery guy in its entirety. Particularly amusing is that the most emotion he shows in the entire conversation is correcting the delivery guy's "Happy Holidays" with a mildly annoyed "Merry Christmas."
  • Also, the video game Satan is playing? Rust, obviously. ^note A game noted for its highly emotionally toxic gameplay.
• God's Deus ex Machina (heh) near the end of the season finale — where He arrives to rescue Charlie from Hell — is heralded not by a majestic, booming voice like one would expect Him to sound like in pop culture, but by the infamous, shrieky voice of none other than Gilbert Gottfried of all people. The very idea is hilariously absurd to begin with, but it is made funnier by how God's voice clashes badly with the Ethereal Choir singing in the background and His portrayal as a gigantic, ridiculously buff dude in a toga. It has to be seen to be believed.
  YouTube commenter Isaiah Miranda: This is like the complete inverse of having Morgan Freeman voice God.
• After watching Charlie escape Hell, Satan rages in the most Saturday-Morning Cartoon way possible:
  Satan: Blast! Foiled again!
• Mr. Boss delivering Charlie's eulogy as slam poetry.
  Mr. Boss: Charlie, what does it mean? Charlie. You were my every-thing. World's fucked up, man. Char-lie. Am I am losing my goddamn mind? If it's gone, where will I find...it?
• "It's a Christmas miracle!"
• There's something inherently amusing in Charlie simply refusing to talk about his stint in Hell.
  Pim: Charlie! How is this possible!?
  Charlie: Look. I can barely explain the nutty adventure I just went on. So I'm not going to, I d— I don't wanna talk about it... I've seen the devil.

The Smiling Friends Go To Brazil

• All that really happens in the episode is just the gang entering the Brazil Airport, realizing they didn't actually book a hotel spot, ordering some fries, and then leaving on the nearest flight back home. That's it, that's the whole episode. All in the span of a few minutes. Hey, the title said they'd go to Brazil, not stay in Brazil.
• The random Brazilian who interrupts the guys' conversation in an unsuccessful attempt to scam them out of their cash.
• Glep helping himself to the bowl of french fries in the middle of the discussion at the cafe.
• Fittingly for the episode's downbeat, realistic tone, the only surreal gag is a Funny Background Event of a plane nose-diving towards a cliff just before the episode ends. While the inevitable crash isn't seen, the implied aftermath of a crash would trap the cast in the airport while the planes are grounded, unable to return home or acquire a hotel.

Season 2

Gwimbly: Definitive Remastered Enhanced Extended Edition DX 4K (Anniversary Director's Cut)

• Gwimbly makes a living taking Cameo requests. We see him do one, where the background suddenly goes from 2D-animated to 3D, and he becomes much more highly detailed.
  Gwimbly: And I'm seeing here I shou- I should also tell Tyler to go to hell? I don't know who Tyler is or what that means but uh...
  • There's an amusing detail in how his "Oooh-oooh-oooh!" is thrown in as an eye-rolling afterthought with zero enthusiasm - in contrast to the free ones he just did for Pim.
• The fact Smiling Friends HQ has a garden hose specifically for dirty brown water for whatever reason - and Alan goes straight for it as soon as he catches Gwimbly sleeping near the building.
• The B-plot sees Charlie being harassed by a client who keeps bullying and degrading him, all while refusing to smile.
  James: You have to do anything I want until I smile. [holds up the plaque ripped from the wall] Them's the rules, right?
  Charlie: God damn it.
  James: [gets close to Charlie] And guess what? It takes a lot to make me smile.
  [Charlie gulps]
  James: Huh?!
  Charlie: Oh, sorry, that was just a gulp.
  James: Oh, okay.
  Charlie: Yeah.
  • At one point, James rips off Charlie's nose, claiming that it was so big it kept distracting him. After a beat, Charlie starts screaming in pain before cutting to the next scene.
  • The 911 call he makes later keeps getting interrupted as James keeps mocking him and punching the air next to him. Charlie's still as calm as ever.
• Allan abruptly kicks the Insane Ground Breaking Games receptionist in the face for "startling" him.
• Gwimbly takes offense to the IGBG CEO's remarks, and yells so loudly that his voice compression peaks his audio.
  CEO: [in between dipping and eating chicken nuggets] Ah, Gwimbly! Nice to see you after all these years! I see your ''solo career" is going successfully, hm!
  Gwimbly: Oh I swear to God, if I had my Gwimbly GUN ON ME RIGHT NOW I'D- [runs forward to punch him, but gets held back by Pim]
• Troglor shoots the CEO's table during his demonstration, causing the CEO to quietly remind him he's not allowed to fire his weapon indoors, as the company shares space with other businesses. Immediately after this, the CEO gets a call from one of the other tenants, and he meekly apologizes.
• After Allan, Pim, and Gwimbly leave to start their own game, the CEO delivers a line not too far off from the reality of most media rights holders:
  CEO: Troglor, I can't allow them to make an independent Gwimbly game. It's my IP to sit on and do nothing with!
• When Alan tries to dump Gwimbly off at Count Groxia's house, Groxia's wife hysterically says Gwimbly makes her feel uncomfortable. When pressed further, she starts screaming for no reason.
• Gwimbly figures he'll try his old sidekick Mr. Millipede next. He and Pim quickly find out he died of a fentanyl overdose in 2021.
  Gwimbly: It's just wrong, man. Mr. Millipede was like a damn brother to me. And I'm gonna say what nobody else is willing to say, America has a fucking fentanyl crisis. [pours beer onto the grave, then sobs] Ooh-ooh-ooooohh...
  • Allan then asks if Gwimbly can just sleep in the graveyard.
• James ends up stabbing the CEO in the head. In his death spasms, he eats a chicken nugget dipped in his own blood. This is what finally gets James to smile and leave the building.
  Charlie: That man should not be allowed to walk the streets...
• Allan and Pim suddenly see Mr. Boss in Gwimbly's new game. Mr. Boss then appears in the doorway and explains that he was gone for a week so he could do motion capture for his character in the game... then he begins speaking nonsense and screaming, much like Pim described earlier. This causes everyone else in the break room to panic as Mr. Boss's screams get louder and more violent.
  • Take a close look at the TV screen in the corner when Mr. Boss starts going nuts. Even the game characters get scared and book it.
  • The way the Boss goes crazy has to be seen to be believed. The best way to describe it would be the Boss somehow repeatedly spamming an emote, as he does the same gesture and noises almost repeatedly. If that wasn't enough the noises he makes increase in both volume and speed to the point that they are even more unhinged.
    • Or he's as if he's a Tekken character who's constantly Korean backdashing and wavedashing.

Mr. President

• At the start of the episode, Charlie briefly talks about how he doesn't want to get involved in politics, cue The Boss saying this line:
  Mr. Boss: Hey boys, guess who just got a call to make the President smile?
  Charlie: AAARGH!
• President Jimble managing to send a nuclear missile just by pressing the napkin button.
• Mr. Frog's campaign ad had him go on a violent spree, first capsizing a car with a man inside, violently beating up a radio hostess during an interview, attempting to eat a baby (with the mother willingly giving it to him before quickly becoming horrified when he's not doing what's expected), breaking into shop windows while making off with merchandise, throwing a pumpkin bomb-esque munition at a bus stop, and finally dumping toxic waste into a spring of a wildlife preserve. And even through the violent display and Mr. Frog's disdain for voters, Charlie was sold on that even while trying to help President Jimble.
  Mr. Frog: (over a portait of him Flipping the Bird with the color scheme of Obama's well-known campaign portraits) Hello, I'm Mr. Frog, and I approve this message. No I don't, I hate you! Fuck you!
• Jimble decides to win over the public by giving everyone a billion dollars. When told that it would crash the economy, Jimble backtracks in an instant, saying that they all owe the government back. The results of that whiplash are predictable.
  I'm gonna be the money president!
  • After Jimble is done, Charlie immediately knows what's going to happen.
  Charlie: Dude, check the news. It doesn't matter which channel.
  [Pim turns on the television to see Times Square engulfed in flames and panic before the feed dies]
• Despite him saying he feels sick going into the meeting, President Jimble actually seems to nail a foreign policy meeting with Mr. Blingo, the Prime Minister of Blingostan. After calling him an honor among his people and an eternal ally to the United States, Jimble walks back to a horrified Pim and Charlie.
  Pim: Y-you were supposed to condemn him.
  President Jimble: ...What?
  Pim: You just emboldened a war criminal dictator.
  Charlie: Dude I don't know anything about politics and even I know he's bad.
• After an attempt to make Jimble take the debate seriously only manages to get Jimble to go off on a non-sequitur about debate being an Inherently Funny Word, Charlie just declares that he's done and leaves. Pim doesn't even try to stop him.
• Turns out there is actually a conspiracy that control the elections. They're a bunch of earthworms who initially were supporting Mr. Frog, only to change to supporting Jimble when Charlie makes them aware that frogs eat bugs and they subsequently panic when they realize that can include worms too.
  • The worms expel Charlie through a trapdoor because He Knows Too Much. Charlie emerges from a bush on the White House lawn covered in dirt and missing a shoe, with his arms wrapped around his body resembling a straightjacket. He screams 'WORMS RULE THE PLANET" at a nearby tourist woman, freaking her out.
• The election results hinge on one single vote to decide who wins between Jimble and Mr. Frog. Despite Charlie and Pim's efforts to help Jimble, the vote goes to Mr. Frog thanks to Glep of all people, much to the guys' dismay. When Pim asks why he would do it, Glep's gibberish response makes him, Charlie, and Alan agree that he's got a point.
  • In retaliation, the news proceeds to dox Glep by putting his personal information on screen for everyone to see.
  • While watching the election results, Mr. Boss says he bet $10,000 on Jimble winning, and threatening violence if he loses. When Glep's vote is revealed to have been for Mr. Frog, he cheerfully announces that whatever happens next is all Glep's fault, before stalking out of the break room with a sniper rifle.
• The debate itself is hilarious.
  • The worm newscasters serve as debate moderators and are hilariously biased in Jimble's favor. They refer to Jimble as "intelligent and beloved" while insulting Mr. Frog and giving him only one second to answer his question: "Why are you so evil?" (which, given that it's Mr. Frog, is a valid question).
  • Mr. Frog is actually happy to answer the question, but is utterly furious when he's cut off before he can give his explanation. He spends the rest of the debate shooting the newscasters a furious Death Glare.
  • Jimble meanwhile is asked "Why are you so amazing?" Jimble decides to be honest for his answer.
  Jimble: P-p-presidential... P-p-policy... I can't do this. A little... pink guy once told me I needed to find out what I'd be good at as president. I finally figured it out. I'm the president who shouldn't have been a president. I mean, let's face it, I'm a r[BLEEP]. You know, I used to want to win the election and have people like me, but I don't care about that anymore now. I just wanna be honest. And everyone that trolled me, and gave me nasty messages: Fuck you! [flips off the camera] Fuck off! Jag off! Thank you.
  • Despite admitting to be unqualified for the position, the speech somehow wins the crowd's support and the worms lead everyone in chanting his name.

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