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I, Typoh. Discuss the making of the Adult Swim animated show Smiling Friends as well as it's production and journey from Zach Hadels Newgrounds animations and old show Hellbenders with OneyNG, to its current state on Adult Swim. I'm a big Sleepycast and OneyPlays and it's really cool to see Zach receive his own Adult Swim animated show
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no.. i don't think i will
Don't also forget that one other show that oneyng made that actually almost got picked up by HBO for there adult cartoon lineup at the time called Leo and satan, but to sum it all up the reason it hasn't from the stuff and old interviews I've seen from Zach that apparently they wanted full control of the show and wanted to cut Zach and his friend out of the picture, but of course he declined and took the show back from HBO
So technically smiling friends is there third try at this and was a successful one
You just started making videos!?
"I'm a big Sleepycast and OneyPlays and it's really cool to see Zach receive his own Adult Swim animated show"
wow intentional typos are so triggering c:
It is so weird that the show is clearly based in the US, yet characters of the show speak English with uncanny Australian accent thanks to Cusack.
its great
Along with the mixed media it gives it a strong sense of variety
@@ClassicBentobox mixed media makes smiling friends so unique
lol i didnt know that, but i love it
Jesus Christ loves you all
have a great day
You heavily underestimate how influential Michael Cusack is to Australians. Even boomers can quote Damo & Darren
true, i never grew up with michael or watched him until recently really, I defo feel bad for kinda brushing hm to the side low-key
@@Typoh_YT You did at least mention it in the video, though
Yeah, honestly he's the reason I like Smiling Friends. The other dude is okay, but not as funny.
@@kevinbissinger "The other dude" is Zach Hadel just so you know for future reference.
@@kevinbissinger zach is super funny, hes on oneyplays. Id say they are equally funny
the formula to making an amazing show:
1. get a dude who can voice DJ Spit
get out of me head man
get outta me head
I DUNNO WHAT TO THINK NO MO', MAN
uhh
fun fact is the creator himself
Can we take a moment to appreciate how Chris and Zach worked together on a stressful pilot project that went nowhere and yet are still friends with great chemistry and love for each other? An experience like that can easily kill a friendship and it's kind of wholesome that they're still collaborating after all these years.
I'm glad they're still friends (Any episode of OneyPlays with Zach on it is an instant watch), but I think the reason Zach was so successful on this project is because he wasn't directly partnered with him. Chris seems like someone you have to appease and will get in shitty moods that can easily kill a project, whereas it seems Zach and Michael seem to be friends *and* work well together. But that's just me talking out of my asshole, it's not like I know any of these people in real life.
@@Hexen_Wulf seems to me like the problem was the exact opposite. They both did whatever the hell they felt like, and it was all fun and games until they needed to actually get serious with the pilot and they just weren't cut out for that yet. They needed to mature creatively.
@@Hexen_Wulf I get that same vibe from Chris, much as I like him and his humor.
@@jeanocasio5432 Imagine the OG Game Grumps idea with Oney and Arin/Ego
I doubt it would've lasted as long as the Jontron era even
Danny is just so chill/wholesome....I think all the weed killed the part of the brain that gets upset emotionally
and this is there 2nd or 3rd attempt at a show with adult swim, very proud of these fine men getting to the big screens
I think one of the reasons why Smiling Friends is so popular outside of people who know about Zach is because it takes a different stance on adult humor; Positivity.
Rather than just having characters that are negative constantly, you have characters that go around and make negative people happy.
It’s different from everything else in the adult animation scene.
what zach said about a lot of adult animation being condescending was so true
It's also actually funny instead of being shocking or raunchy just because
that's true a lot of the humor and popularity is based the similar archetype of most times being all around terrible person to be around; think duckman, dan vs, bojack, gary & mike, bender, peter griffon, rick, everyone from supermansion, and most of big mouth. personally see smiling friends refreshing.
current adult animation is seeping with cynicism.
this show came off as more optimistic and uplifting than any comparable content i’ve watched, and that’s saying a lot considering a guy’s holding a gun to his head the entire first episode lmao
@@Draverd they should hire you, get that 💰
I like how this show isnt so raunchy like these other adult animated shows man
It seems today that all you see is violence in movies and sex on TV
seriously. it’s much more tame than the mainstream adult swim shows and i like it
Zach Hadel is going to go down in history with Groening, Hillenburg, and Fleischer
Man i hope so
Fuck Michael I guess...
@@pengo2418 He's good, but Zach will go down on herstory
@@pengo2418 agreed, Fuck Michael
There'd be no Smiling Friends without Cusack 😳☝️
The fact he was boarded on SpongeBob makes sense to why there are so many scenes that looked like something I would see on oneyng
The best thing is that this show is so out there and original. After Rick and Morty and let's be honest, the Simpsons, set a trend, alot of adult animation really tried to copy those formulas. Smiling Friends has that feeling of old experimental adult animation, while still bringing fresh new concepts to the table. If it does get greenlit for another season or two, at that point it's definitely gonna be a game changer in media.
It reminds me of Home Movies and other stuff that Brendan Small did, and even really early Aqua Teen Hunger Force episodes. It's got the 'this is how people actually speak to each other' dialogue from Home Movies, and the surreal twist on everyday life that ATHF has.
Hellbenders wasn't marketable, even if they could have pitched it right. It's fun, it's hilarious if you like Oney and Zach's stuff but a normal audience would probably not enjoy it.
Like an animation of a monkey being ripped apart and eaten by children
@@MrTomosa I mean, yeah a monkey, but if you change it to a demon of the forest and turn those kids into adults you should be shipshape.
Just a few lil adjustments
@@MrTomosa Just a little tweek to get a little twink.
It also didn't seem to leave much room for character development or much of a plot. Hellbenders' frantic, rapid-fire humor was funny for a few minutes but would probably become tiresome over the course of a show.
Smiling Friends is literally my new obsession. I didn't even know who these guys were even though I have seen a few of their animations on TH-cam. They're gonna be mega stars in a few years, I'm calling it. This reminds me of the birth of South Park.
If you like Zach's sense of humor there are literally days worth of compilations of his cameos on oneyplays channel
I remember when they talked about Hellbenders on SleepyCast and being sad about Hellbenders being canned. I'm really glad that they kept pushing and finally got there
I actually didn’t know that Zach worked on SpongeBob lmao
the best thing you can even hear a glimpse of his iconic scream
As someone who didn't have any background knowledge of Zach or Chris, it's so crazy to see that a show one of my friends told me to watch was created by the people who made fever dream animations from my childhood. I remember showing my sister a hellbender's Christmas, and yesterday I showed her the trailer for smiling friends without even knowing the relation. Nice to know that their humor grew with my own :-)
I feel like the Mr Frog episode is an allegory for companies not letting their creators be creative.
I’m pretty sure it’s just making fun of cancel culture and how major corporations will remove anything that may be deemed even slightly offensive to save their own ass.
Example: cod remove the 👌 emote because 4chan said it meant white power and people believed it.
@@ayyyo2363 ur both right
@@ayyyo2363
That's not why...the reason why is bc that hand gesture actually started getting used unironically in a racist context.
Context matters.
@GP
Try it and find out.
Hello.
Hell benders was a product of it's time
8:03 I had never seen zach before! He looks better than I expected. I usually just thought of him as a weird gross homunculi.
That's just his human suit. He definitely is a big nosed goblin in real life.
I don’t want Smiling Friends become another Rick and Morty
definitely won't, they've gone on record saying that if it stagnates then they'll pull the plug
They already made Bushland Adventures.
14:11
small correction but as far as i know only the pilot was animated by studio yotta
the rest of the show was animated by a company called "princess bento" in melbourne, a merge between princess pictures and bento box
I noticed the Utopia soundtrack
I'm so happy that show finally got the spotlight it really deserved.
And I'm super excited about smiling friends, I've only been able to draw fanart of the show since I first saw it
yeah
Obviously I already knew Zack and his previous works when going into this show. And I was so happy for him when he got his show approved. And I got exactly what i expected. It was fantastic.
I didn’t know zach was a storyboard artist for a spongebob episode
"Natural absurdism" is the best way to describe this show, and Zach and Michael's humor for that matter. I'm gonna try to remember that when I can't think of something normal to do
Michael Cusack and Jarrad Wright are the best animators in Australian History. They do very different stuff but still are very grounded in Australian culture.
Whaddayatalkinabyt?
@@rallokkcaz yeah na yeah na
What about Felix Colgrave? I ask sincerely, i’m not an aussie (:
There gonna call him no bag boy
Another animator who seems to be part of the animation team or the design team of the show at the very least, is Maik Hempel, of whom I came across when watching the australian animated shorts Rashman & Rashpocket and Mollusks. Really great stuff
Doubt you’ll see this, but this is the most competent review of this show I’ve seen, fantastic take
Fantastic video dude. I also see this show as the "good ending" for all the fuckery TH-cam animators went through and to some extent still go through.
Finally a legit good smiling friends video essay. A+
I'm glad you watched OneyPlays. That's where you truly see those men at work with all their creative juices flowing at full throttle.
"But more specifically Zach..."
Oh... I only knew Cusack and I ain't even Aussie. I've seen a lot of his stuff. Bushworld, Damo & Darren, Koala Man... Australian Anime is my favorite. Big Lez is great.
Weird, I knew all of this already. Also Chris didn't do the satan. Also one prominant reason Hellbenders wasn't picked up was that during the pitch Chris and Zach were too inflexible with certain aspects: namely, the name of the show. Adult Swim didn't want too shows with Hell themed names to be airing around the same time.
Whoa! I didn’t know Zach storyboarded an episode of spongebob 😂😂😂
What a fantastic piece. I really enjoyed that you discussed something new about the show that people really need to understand. Resilience is the key to success, and welcome back👌
for someone who's writing a series pilot, this was useful to me. my series is tricky to explain, the best way i can put is "lost in space with high schoolers"
it's come from my desire to create something that can be a classic, in the same vein of robinson crusoe. it's also not intented to be funny at all (i don't have comic sensibilities)
but it is animated and i hope the underlying existential horror of it can make it stand out a bit,
so thanks for sharing
This was really well done! 👏 Excellent analysis, great editing, very enjoyable to watch. Keep it up :)
The best quality about SF is just that: quality. I went in not really knowing who Psychicpebbles was or anything, I just saw the pilot a while back and thought this show deserved a chance. Watching the full first season tells me that this show is a quality show. The humor is original and timing-wise is excellent; few if any jokes go on longer than they should. Punchlines are creative and sometimes unforeseen, which is great. Even when the humor just makes me think "funny" and not actually laugh, the animation raises the show to a new level.
When I found out Tom Fulp, creator of newgrounds, had a little part on smiling friends. Made me think back to 10-15 years ago, being on internet and seeing all kinds of cool shit. To see parts of my childhood still be relevant and on TV, makes me happy.
Who would've thought ZACH HADEL would voice act and storyboard an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants
Great work - enjoyable to watch even from someone who knows nothing about the topic!
Luther
Thanks!
I don’t see why hellbenders couldn’t have worked. XRA did, and it’s a cult classic
Adult Swim already had a satanic gross out show in Mister Pickles. I think Hellbenders came across as “been there, done that” to the network while Smiling Friends had a unique style & humor.
In what reality can you compare Vernon Chatman to Hellbenders? I love Zach and Chris but let's not reach lol
How does XRA relate to Hellbenders? It's like the opposite side of the planet named Humor/Humour
I love both XRA and Smiling Friends but yeah Hellbenders was def an idea that was too insular and undercooked by creators that were too young to really make it shine....if you like your shit to be good, Paradise PD just half-asses its way into shit and wins so fuck this
great video, loved this show. I think Zach and Michael work really well together as voices, characters and animators
loved zach and chris since 2012 and its awesome to finally see these amazing creators get there big break
calling it now, season 3 will have a "pickle rick" like episode that blows this show into the stratosphere
it's pretty awesome seeing this after seeing Adult Swim deciding to renew Smiling Friends for a season 3
I have to say, this show you guys made is one of the few things that has given me joy in life. Keep on going guys, we love it.
This video wasn't made by Zach and Mike, it's a fan video.
I wished the Aussies could see it. Especially since it's regarded as an American Australian show
We be boot legging don't you worry but it's kinda gay that we can't just normally access adult swim
You can buy the shows episodes on the iTunes app not the apple store the iTunes Store in the us it might be in the Australian iTunes Store as well
It’s on HBO max now
that ending was so cute it made me spontaneously subscribe :)
also i cant get enough of smiling friends i think its been about 5 days since i watched the show and im still clicking on every video that shows up in my reccomended. SF is fucking amazing.
I like how all of the sudden this show getting such amount of appreciation and its definitely deserves it!
Good video bro. I need to watch the show when it finally comes on HBO Max
Its all available if you look for it
@@briggy4359 yeah, I know, but I’ll just wait a little, it’s coming out like next Friday.
Man it’s a great feeling to see all of these NG creators I grew up with be featured in such a great show
Now I hope Bowlbo gets just as much respect
here's hoping, havent heard anything about it for a while now
it won't
Game looked like nothing much even from the initial trailer
This is not at all what I was expecting from a video on this show. Really great job.
Can’t believe it’s already been two years since smiling friends dropped
Thank you for making this video describing the background and buildup into this! :)
This is by a landslide the best analysis of Zach as an animator I've come across. Agree on pretty much every observation you make.
This video was more about talking about the background of the people who made the show and barely about how they actually made it
I remember watching a lot of oneyNG back when i was in elementary school. Its so inspiring seeing these small time guys work their way up to the top. Zach deserves it, hes wicked talented and his style of humour is refreshing in a world of negative jokes where someone is always left feeling bad. Im also so into the use of multiple different forms of animation and styles. Im really looking forward to where micheal and zach take this funny little show.
"We gotta sell these apples to the black market. Been a fan for a long time. Happy to see Zach at least got a show with helps from his friends.
what i find so strange and amazing is that anything Zach does is funny from what i personally get exposed too. he is just so good at delivery
The fact this show was made by a TH-camr (same guy who made the Get Out Of My Car Now animation) is surprising to me
I really hope both Micheal and Zach keep at it. They both did awesome with season 1.
Have you watched the season 2 premiere?
This came up right after the smiling friends season 2 trailer dropped
I like how you really prefaced your Hellbenders hot take despite you being 100% correct. I think what makes it less of a hot take is that, sure, by itself Hellbenders is fine, but when put next to Smiling Friends, it's clear why one flopped and one is a success.
So happy for them. Hope this changes their lives in a really meaningful way.
Zach is the reason why I've been waiting to show. I've been watching oneyplays for about 2 or 3 years and remember them first talking about it
I think what's interesting is that even if you spot some of the influences (from South Park to It's Always Sunny to Aqua Teen), it never feels like a derivative piece. It's always distinctly Zach and Cusack's brain child, which is great.
I love that theres jokes in smiling friends that were like, prototyped somewhere else, like you can hear Zach tell some versions of them on oneyplays.
That being said i hope he brings back the "fathers jewel" bit.
I mean, a huge part of this is that Hell Benders just doesn't have that unique identity in it's art style that Smiling Friends has.
Dude such a good video. Keep this shit up! I bet this took probably a while to set up and make but was definitely well made!
It's crazy how different Hellbenders and Smiling Friends are. Zach's humor has changed so much from his earlier cartoons and jontron episodes. I can't really put my finger on how, but it feels like a proper progression. You can also see a lot of Norm Macdonald kind of influence in his newer stuff (as he's talked about)
It got renewed for season 2 🥳🥳🥳
I liked your points, Smiling Friends FEELS like a TV Show, Hellbenders just reeks of Newgrounds
I was never into animation on TH-cam or Let's Plays so the guys behind Smiling Friends were almost completely off my radar, the show blew me away and now I have so much of their old content to go back through, overjoyed. Good video, learned a lot.
great video :D loved your takes, i continuously watched oneyplays which zach is consistently a part of and you can really some of his mannerisms and forms of humor that came off in a very artistic way in the show.
thanks a lot!
So much content of Smileing Friend's has been leeked in the Sleepycast podcast over the past few years and i love it. Amazing work Zach.
i love this show so much man
Your comparison to Jonathan Larson and Zach Hadel is goddamn superb and I didn't even see it coming. This is one of the best video essay's I've seen in a long time. Keep it up man. #MakeSmilingFriendsSeason2
10:13 It didn't go towards nothing, I'm fairly sure that some of that content was deep fried into my subconscious so that whenever I hear "looks pretty good" I will consistently think "you look pretty good ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)" in the exact tone of voice Zach used when reading the line and I will never escape this no matter how hard I try. I mean that's gotta be worth like... _something._ $3.00?
Smiling friends should totally get another season, and then get picked up for 500 episodes
they should also switch up the artistly too, maybe something with large heads and small bodies so the motion tweened emotions read easily for the dumb viewer.
Why does this have 6k views but only 500 likes? This is absurd. It's an awesome video, loved every minute!
Thanks
Smiling Friends feels like the adult version of The Amazing World of Gumball, to me.
I just love how it has so many modern day jokes and jabs like at gamers, chads, and things like fortnite. It's so refreshing seeing everyday widely known internet memes incorporated seemlessly all the while adding absurdity and relatability to keep the show entertaining!!
I really hope meat canyon gets to make a character on the smiling friends. He'd be perfect for it
Well written and really puts this show’s launch into perspective. Great job with this video!
Anytime. I see the rotoscoping in smiling friends, I immediately know it's Marc from Sick Animation.
I love how everyone in this show is drawn like a weird ass muppet/sesame street character
Most adult swim shows DO NOT cost 10k per minute of animation lol. That's for shows like Avatar: The Last Airbender. Not hellbenders. Not smiling friends. Not many Adult Swim shows at all except for Rick & Morty late seasons and Venture Bros mid to late seasons..
This was my source, Zach states that a minutes worth of animation was 10K per minute, although he was refering to at the time studio standards as well as the rates of Yotta, so I could be proven wrong given more research
th-cam.com/video/_FlnJGO5IVk/w-d-xo.html
@@Typoh_YT yeah zach is just dead wrong, sorry to say. And this video is a completely off the cuff, podcast streaming kinda thing so I don't really get mad over him exaggerating or just straight up not knowing and throwing a random "seemingly reasonable" number out there. Again, he'd be right if he was talking about actual high budget animations... not 75% of adult swim shows.
@@Typoh_YT side note: their discussion on cowmen and birdmen and robots and all that was SUPERB. Listened to this whole dang video lmao.
everything is connected for me right now
literally watched the spongebob episode you showed in the video today then basically right after went and tried to show my boyfriend smiling friends. sadly he didn't like it but i still think it's wild i watched a spongebob episode just to jump to an entirely different show and still wound up watching the same artist lmao
I watch OneyPlays and Zach is the life of whatever episode he's on. Everyone on that channel is awesome in their own right. Rather that be from Animation, voice acting, or both. Gotta love those guys
this video was already a fascinating dive into how the industry works both for internet animation and for tv, and then that mr frog bit at the end was a pleasant surprise! love this video!!
I really like this video, you articulate really nicely the subtle differences in internet and industry animation that I hadn’t really noticed before. I’ve always wanted to pursue both and I think Zach’s work and projects up until this point paint a picture to learn from for animators in similar positions today
I can't believe The World's End was mentioned in a Smiling Friends video
i feel like this vid should've been called "why hellbenders failed" or something. im a fan of both HB and Smiling Friends but i thought this was gonna be some behind the scenes stuff or something, not the history of hellbenders/zachs other work, which i already knew about. the title is a bit confusing. still an interesting watch tho
i liked the inclusion of utopia's music too, mans got good taste👍🏻
Having watched the pilot years ago when it was first made and having followed the progress of the show from the beginning and all the people behind it, I knew it was about to be a true hit when my dad randomly mentioned it to me as a "new show coming out that looks really funny." Decided to go over there and watch a few episodes with him when it first came out and we ended up binging the whole series in one go.
This video needs to be viewed by people who are now fans of smiling friends and support zach and that other Australian guy
you have to go through a lot of iterations, each iteration having had more toil done to it than the next one and in between you just gasp for air. much respect to everybody!
I got this in my recommended on my home page, you are starting to get some visibility; keep this high quality going and you will gain a LOT more subscribers
Wow this was a really well put together video that I learned a lot more about Zach's history than I thought I knew. Here's to hoping for a season 2
I hope this show blows up. Not because of obvious reason (its fucking great) but because of the resourcefulness of the creators
The editing in this video is sublime. I love how you lip-sync yourself with random characters.
Utopia background music. PEAK
Thank you, that was very interesting. When I first watched Smiling Friends I immediately recognised the art style from the "get out of my car" video, even though it had been years since I'd watched it. But I didn't know the guys behind Smiling Friends already had such a rich past in terms of (more or less) professional video production.
Also the video itself was well done! I thought this was made by some bigger youtuber, then I looked up your uploads and it was your first video (on this channel, who knows what else you have created in the past). Awesome show, great job!
I think the amount of these types of videos coming out suggests we'll get more if that's what Zach and Mike wanna do and I hope they do, still dying to watch the first season but hoping so hard they get more