Smiling Friends creators pull the plug on show, say Season 3 is the last season

[Jman]

 

Somewhere Adult Swim executives are panicking.

[Jman]

 

[Toonamiguy321]

Big respect to them for doing this. It takes a lot to do self reflection and see your show has run its course. Even moreso when dropping it means giving up an established, paying contract. 
 

They are choosing when the show ends rather than getting cancelled after AS beats it to death. 
 

I agree though about AS, this may not have been their biggest show, but it was becoming one of their cornerstones, and the creators just peaced out after agreeing to at least two more seasons. That’s gonna leave a schedule hole down the road. 

[viperxmns]

Feel bad for everyone else who worked on the show that now need new jobs but I can understand they dont wanna burn out

[Blatch]

From what I understand, Season 3 was a decent step down from the first two (even putting aside That One Joke), so I can totally understand this decision.

[[classic swim]]

“Noop, too late, already homeless.” - Some animator in Burbank, probably 

[[classic swim]]

Anyway good April Fools plot planning.

[Toonamiguy321]

4 hours ago, [classic swim] said:

Anyway good April Fools plot planning.

I was just thinking the same thing. It’s a little earlier than we usually expect, but this feels like it could be the framework of an elaborate prank. The punchline is Smiling Friends is cancelled, but a new show that’s exactly the same with a different title is taking its place, as we saw with Aqua Teen. 
 

Or maybe I’m just coping because I want ONE year where the prank isn’t some half baked Rick and Morty thing.

[Doom Metal Alchemist]

25 minutes ago, Toonamiguy321 said:

I was just thinking the same thing. It’s a little earlier than we usually expect, but this feels like it could be the framework of an elaborate prank. The punchline is Smiling Friends is cancelled, but a new show that’s exactly the same with a different title is taking its place, as we saw with Aqua Teen. 
 

Or maybe I’m just coping because I want ONE year where the prank isn’t some half baked Rick and Morty thing.

The "prank" could be the premier of the two unreleased episodes they alluded to.

[PokeNirvash]

Shame, but at least the creators came out and announced it first-thing themselves. I'm still salty that I first learned Venture Bros. got canned not from an official statement, but from Ken Plume responding to a X-Twitter thread asking for "favorite canceled shows". At the time, I thought he was just making a crack at the show taking long hiatuses so often it might as well be canceled for those not in the loop. Even now, I really wish that were the case.

But hey, at least we got a finale movie out of it.

[Toonamiguy321]

2 hours ago, Doom Metal Alchemist said:

The "prank" could be the premier of the two unreleased episodes they alluded to.

That obviously would be part of it, but that alone isn’t really a prank unless the joke is baked into one of the episodes. They premiered the season in the fall, no good reason to hold two episodes nearly 6 months after the fact. 
 

Remember, the Brazil episode was supposed to be an April Fools joke but they missed the window for it. So we already know Smiling Friends pranks are on the table. 

[MasqueradeOverture]

I would like to think there's a Paramount conspiracy theory here.

Probable not the case. Good copium though!

[Jman]

1 hour ago, MasqueradeOverture said:

I would like to think there's a Paramount conspiracy theory here.

Probable not the case. Good copium though!

Regardless of who ended up buying Warner, the lockdown and uncertainty might have contributed to their burnout.