smiling friends

This weekend Adult Swim launches Smiling Friends, its latest animated original. The title of the show is also the name of a small organization devoted to bringing happiness to the world, and the series is centered on their two best employees: Pim, a perky pink little man with mismatched eyes and inextinguishable enthusiasm, and Charlie, a large yellow Picasso-faced person who is always skeptical of Pim’s plans. Other characters include Boss, the weird-looking wrinkly billionaire who funds the whole enterprise, and Glep, who Adult Swim will only say is “mysterious.” This weekend Smiling Friends will kick off with two debut episodes, the first of which is called “Mr. Frog”: After beloved frog celebrity Mr. Frog gets into hot frog water, Pim and Charlie are tasked with helping the frog get things back on frog track. Meanwhile, Glep has a crazy side adventure that has the critics going wild. This will be followed by a second episode, “Shrimp’s Odyssey”: When a truly pathetic shrimp calls the Smiling Friends hotline after being