8.5
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Smiling Friends (2020)
Smiling Friends (2020)
Overview
Smiling Friends Inc. is a small company whose main purpose is to bring happiness and make people smile. The series follows the day-to-day lives and misadventures of its representatives, the lazy, cynical Charlie, and the cheerful, optimistic Pim, as they try to cheer up and comfort the troubled people who call their company's hotline. They receive seemingly simple requests but the jobs turn out to be more complicated than they seem, making it difficult to bring happiness to the world.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Trans: Neutral
Christianity: Negative
Viewer Rating
8.5
Overview
Smiling Friends Inc. is a small company whose main purpose is to bring happiness and make people smile. The series follows the day-to-day lives and misadventures of its representatives, the lazy, cynical Charlie, and the cheerful, optimistic Pim, as they try to cheer up and comfort the troubled people who call their company's hotline. They receive seemingly simple requests but the jobs turn out to be more complicated than they seem, making it difficult to bring happiness to the world.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
Smiling Friends primarily explores universal themes of human happiness, struggle, and the absurdity of existence through surreal comedy, without explicitly promoting or critiquing specific political ideologies.
The animated series features a diverse array of stylized and often non-human characters, but it does not explicitly recast traditional roles based on race or gender. Its narrative focuses on absurdist humor and does not engage in explicit critique or negative portrayal of traditional identities.
Secondary
The show features a character who undergoes a gender transition as a plot point. This is handled with the show's characteristic absurd and irreverent humor, treating it as another bizarre event in a chaotic world. The portrayal neither explicitly affirms nor denigrates trans identity, instead using it as a comedic element within a broader narrative of character reinvention.
The show frequently depicts figures and concepts associated with Christianity (e.g., God, heaven/hell) in a highly irreverent and satirical manner, often portraying them as incompetent, petty, or absurd. The humor consistently derives from undermining traditional reverence and presenting these elements as ridiculous or flawed, without offering any counterbalancing positive or nuanced perspective.
Smiling Friends is an adult animated comedy that does not feature identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The show's surreal and absurd humor focuses on general societal oddities rather than exploring specific identity-based narratives, resulting in no relevant LGBTQ+ portrayal to evaluate.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Smiling Friends is an original animated series, not an adaptation or reboot. All characters are new creations for the show and therefore do not have pre-established canonical genders from source material, previous installments, or real-world history that could be swapped.
Smiling Friends is an original animated series. All characters were created specifically for this show and do not have pre-established racial identities from prior source material, previous installments, or historical records. Therefore, no race swaps occurred.
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User Ratings
8.5
8.5
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