Fridge Logic for Smiling Friends.
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- In the show’s intro, the logo flashes different colors referencing each representing a different color for each Smiling Friend (for example: yellow for Charlie; red for Allan; etc.). But… there’s one color that seems out of place at first, that being a light blue… until you realize Smormu, was an official Smiling Friend for awhile!
- It was actually supposed to represent a scrapped blue janitor character from the pilot.
- Desmond finding the ant "kinda cool" is some subtle foreshadowing of his eventual career as a pest exterminator. Him finding the ant cool shows that he has an interest in creatures like ants, which live in colonies and are considered pests in the home. It shows that his eventual career was something he'd always had an enjoyment for deep down in his soul.
- Mr. Frog's career is jeopardized from the backlash of his attempt to eat a man, but is completely restored when he succeeds to do so on television? Are his fans a bunch of hypocrites? Probably, but not about this. They wanted to see the TMZ reporter get eaten; that's Mr. Frog's entire claim to fame. Everyone was upset that they watched seven minutes of struggle only for no payoff.
- Alternatively, people were terrified of him trying to eat the TMZ reporter because he wasn't actually doing the Mr. Frog act as part of the show, and the studio audience was just happy to see anyone get devoured after how boring the new version of the show turned out to be.
- There's even the possibility that the audience believes it was some sort of publicity stunt.
- When Mr. Frog eats Bug every time he does his show, Bug comes out unscathed. But when he eats a human, he either hurts or kills them. Why? Bug is smaller in size to a normal man. When Mr. Frog eats Rex, blood comes out as he's shoved into Frog's mouth; Mr. Frog is crushing him to death as he's eating him. Bug is much smaller and can come out quite easily.
- This is helped by the fact that the TMZ reporter that Mr Frog tries to eat survives: Mr Frog is shown struggling to swallow him, and probably spit him out when he realized he couldn't, or maybe didn't intend to kill him when he realized he was scaring people. When he later eats the executive, he does so quickly and with less remorse, which is why it happens so quickly.
- Pim yelling when Mr. Frog pulls his hair and his refusal to allow it in the first place make more sense when the next episode reveals that it's actually an exposed nerve ending. While hair getting pulled can be painful it shouldn't be enough to make Pim yell the way he did and would more likely just pluck the hair out. Now a nerve ending on the other hand would be excruciating to have pulled. Also counts as Fridge Horror.
- Technically, both Charlie and Pim were right about Shrimp. Charlie wanted Shrimp to get a new girlfriend while Pim wanted to believe that fate brought Shrimpina to him. Since Pim went to the wrong location, he wound up bringing Shrimp a new girlfriend. Fate gave Shrimp a new girlfriend.
- Why does Smormu win the Smiling Friend poll? Because it's weighted in his favor. Anyone who wants to vote for Smormu only has to text his name to the provided number; anyone against Smormu, on the other hand, needs to enter a long, specific phrase ("NO I REALLY REALLY REALLY DON'T WANT SMORMU") that not only makes the task feel like a chore, meaning that people who would otherwise vote might not find it worth the trouble, but it also makes it easier for someone to make a mistake. If a 'No' voter forgets to write the third "REALLY", or reflexively substitutes the word "want" for "like", then the algorithm tallying the votes is likely going to throw it out. Smormu winning is literally the result of voter suppression tactics deployed by the poll runners to make the result they want more likely.
- Similarly, Smormu being announced as the winner by means of the popular vote (as a result of the above measures taken to ensure he wins that) despite the poll having an "electoral college"? Also a means of guaranteeing Smormu wins the poll: the producers have two sets of voting data, and whichever one Smormu has a majority in is taken as the deciding factor. Smormu was always going to become the sixth main cast member, the poll was just to give the audience the illusion of control over the process. The game was rigged from the start.
- Why go to all this trouble and then just immediately kill Smormu off? Because they realized even with a rigged poll, he was still highly divisive. Despite making voting "No" as hard as possible, virtually half the participants still did. That's not even counting the people whose votes were discarded or didn't vote at all. They probably expected the poll to be a blowout victory, but when it was a close call they realized they couldn't keep up the charade and decided to quietly axe him.
- Despite the poll being rigged, the results were still neck and neck. Most people were willing to go through the extra effort to get him shut down; that's how hated he was in-universe. If voting "no" in a way that counted was any easier, then one can easily assume it would have been practically unanimous.
- When DJ Spit starts his Madness Mantra, he sounds like he's saying "Get out of me head!" He pronounces the word "my" normally only seconds before, so what gives? While it could just be Rule of Funny, DJ Spit speaks with a vaguely Spanish accent. Therefore, he isn't saying "Get out of me head!", but "Get out of mi head!" as "mi" is Spanish for "my."
- Technically speaking, the partygoers committed a hate-crime by attacking the forest demon because they were violently offended solely by his appearance.
- In the original The Lord of the Rings books, the term "queer" is used often. This might have something to do with Mip and Charlie's campfire scene.
- God saying that Charlie confronted his own demons by making the evil devil smile is obviously Played for Laughs. However, the line starts making actual sense once you take into account that depressed Satan was acting exactly like Charlie usually did prior to his trial. What he really needed to realize the errors of his behavior is to self-reflect.
- When we first meet the Frowning Friends, they do an obviously-fake, exaggerated Evil Laugh, which Charlie even lampshades by saying "that's not even a real laugh." Of course it isn't, because the Frowning Friends aren't capable of being happy or laughing for real because they're explicitly stated to be mentally ill.
- Salty died from a heart attack after eating one of his burgers. So I guess you could say that it WAS Grease that did it!
- The Salty episode has Pim and Charlie interviewing the various mascots. We don't see each of them for very long, but they all manage to make a strong impression in some way, exactly what mascots are designed to do.
- Why was Pim so happy when shooting his cap gun at the bottle even though he was missing? Was it blind optimism, or was it because he once again ignored Charlie’s request to get contacts and was assuming he was hitting it?
- Why did Pim bring a magnifying glass to the movies? Same reason - so he could see the movie better.
- Smormu's corpse has bruises all over his body. The only scene we see him, he's being an annoyance. It's likely that he was beaten to death, either by a mob, or an individual he annoyed with his little tune.
- Mr. Boss doing the dance from Peanuts at the end of "Frowning Friends" is a subtle Brick Joke. Earlier on, his hallucination of Mr. Peanut had told him that he needed to find a "peanut jig" of his own. He had also dressed up as Charlie Brown in "A Silly Halloween Special."
- After 3D Squelton said he wanted to end it all, Charlie and Pim immediately find something he likes and suggest he get a job centered around it, which is what worked for Desmond.
- South Park noted in one episode that even the most horrific topic becomes funny after 22.3 years. Charlie makes a hilariously dark joke about the Columbine High School massacre. The time difference between Columbine and the episode's air date is 22 years and 9 months - about 22.75 years.note
- When the Smiling Friends and the audience meet Shrimp, he's hunched over his keyboard playing a video game. There is actually a common expression for the type of terrible posture these activities cause...it's called shrimp sitting.
- Charlie tries to console Shrimp so the latter can get over Shrimpina by saying that there's plenty more fish in the sea. While this is a common phrase, considering how he knew from the start that Shrimpina is a shrimp, there's a good chance he meant this literally (for a broad sense of the word "fish", as shrimp are crustaceans).
- Satan ordering a burger and a drink from Salty's isn't just a neat little Call-Back. Salty didn't care that he indirectly killed 15 people in 4 months through his restaurant's horribly unhealthy food, and his half-hearted healthier menu ideas were only implemented to dodge legal threats and keep making a profit. He'd definitely get sent to Hell for that, and since there's no FDA in Hell, he could set up his restaurant again, with the deliciously junky menu back, and no mascots to plot his murder.
- Satan is nice to the delivery guy, since his job is already hellish enough.
- Although Grim's and Gnarly's dull color palettes might be chalked up to them being parodies of edgy Evil Counterparts to protagonists, the fact that Pim gains a somewhat similar appearance to Grim both when he's extremely depressed by the end of Desmond's Big Day Out and overwhelmed with anger and jealousy in Enchanted Forest might mean that mild changes in appearance according to how a critter (the species that Charlie, Pim, Grim, and Gnarly all belong to) feels is a universal trait shared by all members of their species. This is also supported by the fact that Grim also repeatedly changes to a more menacing version of his usual appearance where he gains bloodshot red eyes and red irises, as well as rotten and gnarly teeth, making him look like Pim did when he was jealous of Charlie in Enchanted Forest.
- Near the end of “Frowning Friends”, Mr. Boss goes nuts and tries to kill Grim, who freaks out and pisses himself after being faced with death; Mr. Boss then tries to calm him down, telling him that he was "only going to shoot [him] in the head and kill [him]." Due to the specific situation, it would make sense for Mr. Boss to say that. Just before, Grim did a whole speech convincing people to follow him and his brand of nihilism, with the final thing he said before getting interrupted being: "Nothing matters because we're all gonna die someday!" Mr. Boss probably heard this whole speech on his way up to Grim and was just trying to tell him that he was only going to kill him in a relatively painless way so he wouldn't panic.
- When Charlie is in Hell, he wades through a sea of angry red Bliblies, and gets tortured by a bunch of them (with Jeremy's assistance) later in the episode. All of the Bliblies are likely there because of Desmond's extermination business killing them en masse since episode 1. Given how awful they were in life, it's no wonder they went to hell in such large numbers.
- While previous characters who died during the series were shown or referenced in Hell (namely, the Bliblies and Simon S. Salty), there are two notable no-shows: Grim and Gnarly. They aren't in Hell at all, because they repented in their last moments.
- Why is Lt. Damien Xavier Cowap memorialized despite his dates saying that he'll be still alive for another three years from the episode's air date? Because that particular Couch Gag appears in an episode with a Framing Device set in the future, where Glep is elderly (and, it's implied, a former President).
- As pointed out on the main page under Artistic License – Chemistry, the helium thing in "Frowning Friends" is only half-true. However, taking a real life truth (helium reserves are running out and helium will become harder to obtain in the future) and exaggerating it to sound worse than it actually is (all of Earth's helium will be gone soon) completely fits Grim and Gnarly's nihilistic agenda. It's not an outright lie (as Grim pointed out, they only tell the truth, even when it hurts), but it is misleading and requires cherrypicking to leave important facts out. After all, they don't want to give 3D Squelton even the slightest shred of hope that he can succeed in his balloon-making dream.
- Much like how many studios end up screwing themselves over by getting too greedy and not properly playtesting games before releasing them, Gwimbly's former boss dies because he didn't bother properly testing Troglor's functions before trying to use him to defend himself.
- We'll probably never know exactly how the Smiling Friends charity works, but can people like James just walk in and do whatever they want? If James is the same guy who was getting the Gwimbly cameo at the beginning, then it was his birthday. Being sad on your birthday is a pretty legit reason to try and get help for the day.
- Allan kicking the receptionist unconscious seems pretty mean. Considering, however, the last time he encountered something small and unassuming (the Bliblies), it's reasonable why he'd react so violently.
- It's indicated that the Boss, while completely 'oogily-doo', is extremely competent when it comes to running Smiling Friends. This extends to the assigning of roles among its staff. The idealistic Pim and realistic Charlie perfectly complement each other; each would have been completely terrible at being a Smiling Friend without at least spending time around the other. And the office team, Glep and Allan, are less well-suited for 'away missions' - Glep because he's incomprehensible, and Allan because he's... well, Allan.
- Both Charlie and James are punished for their actions because they both broke the rules of the show in subtle ways:
- Charlie refuses to help Gwimbly because he didn't ask or want the help of the Smiling Friends, justifying his actions with the motto of the charity, which specifically says that the client must ask for help. This ignores the previous times where the Smiling Friends went to go help someone who didn't ask for help, such as Mr. Frog, whom Pim and Charlie went to personally in order to help him. On top of that, Charlie doesn't even go to do any work while at headquarters, instead preparing to watch something on a streaming service. Charlie didn't want to help Gwimbly out of laziness and so he was left to deal with James, who threw the plaque's motto in his face as an excuse to mistreat him.
- James seemingly gets away with acting like an insane brat, physically harming and threatening Charlie, and even gets to smile after killing Gwimbly's psychotic former boss. However, The Stinger reveals that he's still miserable and the berates himself for pushing away someone who could’ve helped him (Charlie). In a normal episode, the Smiling Friends meet up with their clients and discuss what's bothering them so that they can help them feel happy. James, however, barged into the headquarters, damaged the premises, and jerked Charlie around by making demands and then retracting them. James' actions also mirror the actions of the Devil from the last season, who avoided his problems by searching for fleeting dopamine rushes (ex: video games, junk food, and vaping), which in James' case was food and violence.
- Charlie not wanting to be seen as racist while wearing a Halloween costume makes a lot more sense after "The Enchanted Forest", which shows that the Smiling Friends universe is a Fantasy Kitchen Sink, meaning that a lot of common real-world halloween costumes would be considered racist In-Universe.
- Glep voting for Mr. Frog over Jimble when the former is an unapologetic psychopath seems out of left field... But remember that Pim and Charlie's job wasn't to help Jimble win; they're the Smiling Friends. Their job is to make people smile. Jimble never wanted to be President, so Glep looked at the big picture and voted for Mr. Frog on purpose so Jimble could retire. And he's clearly much happier, sitting on a beach and having a drink as he watches the sunset.
- There's actually a bit of foreshadowing that Mr. Blingo is an autocratic dictator. His country is called Blingostan. At face value it's just another silly name like Jimble or Squiggly Miggly. But it wouldn't be out of character for a dictator and warmonger to name a nation after themselves, similar to Volgograd formerly being named Stalingrad, or the numerous places named after Alexander the Great.
- The 3D printed shotgun that Squiggly Miggly allegedly used to commit suicide just sounds like a comically absurd detail at first, but it's actually very significant. Shotguns aren't as easy for forensics to analyze compared to most other firearms, and 3D printed guns are difficult to trace. Now consider the earthworms' conspiracy to interfere with the election, and it becomes completely obvious what actually happened.
- Glep getting Doxxed on National News isn't just a rule of funny, the Earthworms are just that pissed with him for giving Mr. Frog the win that they are ruining his life (or at least trying to) in the most petty way possible.
- It's painfully obvious to everyone else that Plilford's nose is paperclip-shaped, but that's because the audience—and Allan—can see it from a 3/4 view. From the corners of his eyes, his nose probably just looks like a long, thin line, if he can see it at all.
- Mr. Boss's gift to Allan being a figurine of himself might seem incredibly underwhelming after everything the latter went through, but keep in mind that neither of them knew what Mr. Landlord was orchestrating. Both of them thought it was just going to be Allan going to the store to buy some paper clips.
- Why was Mr. Boss the next target of Brittney's ploy? She's the Devil's daughter, the same Devil that Charlie pissed off by doing a poor job trying to make him smile (which led to him regaining it by torturing Charlie). He wants the Smiling Friends either because he loathes the fact Charlie escaped Hell or he hates the company because of Charlie's poor performance. Either way, it's likely Charlie's fault. However, now that Mr. Boss now owns 1/4 of Hell, and his daughter is now dead because of him, The Devil likely hates Charlie even more now.
- Charlie being mentioned to have a heart condition and pacemaker seems a bit random, but it makes sense considering he died once and got resurrected via being flung into his funeral and effectively mushed back together. Presumably that'll mess with your internals just a little bit.
- Ironically, the same episode implies it goes back further - it also showed him as being genuinely pissed off about people suddenly popping up and shouting in his face, to the point of punching people that don't take the hint. Now we know why he's so firm about the boundary.
- The episode "Brother's Egg" features a so-called documentary about two 3D-rendered fat guys fighting over a ham, and over the course of the episode they reconcile and hug it out. This is a reflection of what happens between the brothers in the main plot, Prof. Psychotic and Doug, as they too reconcile over their differences.
- If the Earth in Smiling Friends really is flat, how come when God sent Charlie back did it look spherical? Simple, we saw a top down view of it.
- Alternatively, the earlier episode turned out to be a story being told by Glep, and since he's unaware that the Earth is flat it would be appear round in his story.
- But Charlie himself seemed shocked by it, even though he allegedly saw it himself when God threw him.
- Another alternative: Earth is round, but Charlie and Pim are still under the effects of the drugs they used at the aliens' party, making them hallucinate it as flat. They may appear lucid, but who's to say how alien drugs would affect people?
- Alternatively, the earlier episode turned out to be a story being told by Glep, and since he's unaware that the Earth is flat it would be appear round in his story.
- "Brother's Egg" features a visual callback to the iconic scene from the first episode where Charlie takes Pim aside and suggests they give up on their client. This time, however, while he's still being realistic about the situation, he instead uses that same attitude to figure out what the real source of their client's unhappiness is and comes up with a plan. That's just what happens when you're a Smiling Friend.
- Rewatching "Desmond's Big Day Out", one can notice Charlie pushes away and then flinches at Allan's noms even though he's laughing, backing up the reveal in "The Magical Red Jewel" that the nom made him deeply uncomfortable.
- Allan had been crucified and stabbed by the bliblies not long before Desmond's commercial airs and he noms Charlie's nose. It's likely he did it and can't remember due to being on pain killers at the time.
- Oscar starts speaking English once Pim accidentally looks at him, despite having only spoken Spamish before. Following the reveal that he's Pim's Spamish pen pal, it makes sense that he'd have learned some English while talking to him for the same reason Pim was able to learn Spamish.
- This also explains how Mr. Boss was able to arrange the meeting with Oscar in the first place.
- The Fun Twins from Who Violently Murdered Simon S. Salty? are possibly Spamtopian immigrants, given their normal gibberish talk sounds similar to the synthetic gibberish Spamtopian citizens speak (that only Pim was able to understand). Their seemingly chaotic and meaningless story could have happened in Spamtopia, given the Deranged Animation in both. Mr. Jester also has a similar body build to the Fun Twins (albeit larger, rainbow colored, traded the Super Spit for Super-Strength and the ability to speak English), so they could even be related.
- And the Fun Twins probably spit at Pim because he looked them in the eye. The no eye contact rule didn't exist until Oscar became Spamtopia's ruler and thus Pim wouldn't have known about it.
- When Oscar is executing Spamtopians for breaking the "no eye contact rule", Mr. Boss pulls out two cyanide pills and offers one to Pim. Considering he now owns 1/4 of hell due to marrying Brittney, it's possible Mr. Boss knew he and Pim would go to hell and that they'd be able to leave without any problems.
- Why would The Boss need Pim to translate for him in Spamtopia even though everyone can seemingly speak English? It's easy, their language is translated for the viewer's convenience.
- It may seem weird that Oscar would carry out public executions himself where every single person in Spamtopia can see him and his eye in full view. Then you realize that he is wearing an executioner hood for the entire duration, which he most likely put on to conceal his eye from the crowd.
- While sledding down the hill, Pim and Rotten hit a bunch of rocks. Pim is terrified, but Rotten appears to be enjoying it. Why? Because he hasn't been introduced to the concept of death yet, and thus doesn't understand the danger.
- There's irony in Bill Nye singing a song about death being a natural part of life, only to die an extremely unnatural way.
- Rotten screaming when he witnesses Bill Nye's death is even more understandable when you consider that this was the first time he's seen someone die, and it was in a horrific accident.
- Mr. Frog seems scared when Charlie and Pim first show up at his house, only calming down when Charlie says they're the Smiling Friends. Later in the scene, Mr. Frog expresses sadness about how he'll lose his fancy house and belongings if he doesn't get his show back, meaning he was scared because he thought Charlie and Pim were repo men.
- The IGBG CEO is obsessed with nuggets and dipping them in sauces, while also praising needless DLC and expansions instead of good games. So his favorite food is something plain and easy to manufacture that he improves by putting on unnecessary things to slightly change the flavor.....
- The first season's Halloween special had everyone wearing a costume, except for Charlie who is worried about getting cancelled for how he dresses up. The second season's Halloween special had only Charlie wearing a costume this time (as a vampire hunter), as he went to kill the Boss's wife who's a demon.
- In Le Voyage Incroyable De Monsieur Grenouille, the Bug of Knowledge reveals he's been asking everyone he can about strange problems his computer is having, which he can't explain the cause of. In other words, his computer has a bug.
- The first and third episodes of Season Two perfectly complement each other. The first - the first to put any considerable focus on Allan since the pilot - makes him look like a complete and utter asshole. The third, however, shows exactly why he can easily seem like that - he has genuine trouble dealing with the people around him (to the point where he has been theorized to be autistic).
- Over the course of the series, Mr. Frog's Verbal Tic has been starting every sentence with "hello". When he fundamentally changes and becomes happy for the first time in Le Voyage Incroyable De Monsieur Grenouille, the last thing he says is "Goodbye."
- In Curse of the Green Halloween Witch, the gag of Pim being treated much worse than usual makes sense after the reveal that the episode was manufactured by the witch - all she knows about the group is that Pim tried to give her the change she wanted while the others immediately blew her off, making her see them all as assholes except for Pim.
- The only member that doesn't act rude to Pim in some way is Glep, who didn't say anything to the witch and only speaks gibberish anyway, meaning the witch didn't get a 'read' on his personality and left him a neutral party.
- When it’s revealed Allan and his spider counterpart are two separate people, it seems like Allan was let off the hook even though he was just as rude as everyone sans Pim. Allan’s curse was being impersonated, trapped who knows where, and having no one realize he went missing.
- Pyramid Head is seen as one of the monsters chasing after Pim. Pyramid Head usually symbolizes an individual’s guilt and a desire to be punished for it. The witch likely believed Pim would have felt crushing guilt for not helping her and preventing this whole nightmare from happening.
- The ending of Le Voyage Incroyable de Monsieur Grenouille has already been summed up: "I ate the bug. This is the end. I love you."
- Squim mentions he hasn't been called since he retired in 2001. Considering Squim's toxic positivity and Innocently Insensitive issues, there was a uh... certain event that happened that year that likely left a lot of people not in the mood to deal with Squim's antics.
- This might be why the main Smiling Friends team consists of a pair of an optimist like Pim, and a cynicist/realist like Charlie. The Boss likely felt that Pim's optimism was important but might risk a repeat of Squim's antics, and needed to have someone more tempered alongside him to prevent him from going off the rails.
- This might explain why The Boss was so livid about Charlie lying about being sick and shirking his reponsibilities. With him out of action, that means that the Smiling Friends team has two optimists and won't be properly balanced, risking an incident like the one that happened.
- Firing upon someone for doing the Squim Dance seems random... but if he did it in relation to the above event, it's quite possible the Squim Dance has connotations of being pro-terrorism or extremism. If someone runs into an active police situation and begins making what's seen as a pro-terrorism action, fearing that they're intervening to perform terrorist acts isn't unreasonable.
- This might be why the main Smiling Friends team consists of a pair of an optimist like Pim, and a cynicist/realist like Charlie. The Boss likely felt that Pim's optimism was important but might risk a repeat of Squim's antics, and needed to have someone more tempered alongside him to prevent him from going off the rails.
- DJ Spit gets impaled by a helicopter blade in Season 2, only to reappear in Season 3 no worse for wear aside from a chest scar. But then again, in the same episode he gets impaled, we also see Mr. Landlord impaling himself with a sword, only for for the Stinger to reveal that he's Not Quite Dead, so if we go by the series' logic, DJ Spit's recovery shouldn't really come as a surprise.
- King Shmaloogle randomly accusing Charlie of taking an upskirt of Princess Shmaloogle could've easily been him overreacting thanks to literally being in a roid rage at the time and not thinking straight.
- Considering Glep is both co-founder of the Smiling Friends and Secretly Wealthy, it's possible his actual job is helping funding the place. Which would certainly explain why everything went to shit so fast when he left.
- The medieval Englishmen accused Glep of witchcraft for the mundane act of making yoghurt. Yoghurt and other dairy products precedes recorded history (circa 5000 BC), but yoghurt would be an oddity for the English at the time, as it only was eaten in the eastern hemisphere throughout most of pre-industrial history. Yoghurt wouldn't find popularity west of eastern Europe — including the Anglosphere — until the 1900s.
Fridge Horror
- How exactly did Pim wind up with an exposed nerve ending sticking out of the top of his head?
- Mr. Frog pulled on Pim's one hair, making him scream bloody murder. The next episode revealed that said hair is actually a nerve ending. Mr. Frog basically aggravated a severe injury for his own amusement.
- This also explains why Pim refused to let him pull it—he knows how much it's going to hurt if it gets pulled. And Mr. Frog still went ahead and did it.
- When Mr. Frog impulsively slices off the old lady's hands with a check, even he seems horrified, and this is him off of his medication in the withdrawal phase. Which implies that his violent Ax-Crazy impulses are the equivalent of a schizophrenic with his medication encouraging him to do horrible, horrible things, and he can't stop himself from doing it while his show indulges that insanity. Throw on some hard drugs thanks to the celebrity life style and he's an unwitting psychopath that the world cheers on for his behavior so long as he eats something.
- Charlie's favorite restaurant is Salty's. A disturbing amount of people died from eating there in a short period of time, to the point where the FDA got involved, and Simon S. Salty himself died from eating one of his own burgers. Is Charlie's love of Salty's the reason for his heart condition, and would eating there have done him in eventually if it stayed open as it was?
- The way the Forest Demon died was disturbing enough, being pulled apart, set on fire, his head stomped in, and eaten while still raw. But it's the reason he was killed that can generate some paranoia. The party-goers mistook his natural wood-like skin for blackface. What if those same people met a black person from Africa (which often can have very dark skin almost the same tone as anyone else wearing blackface) or someone else with a similarly dark complexion? Would they be able to tell the difference or could they mistake another person's natural appearance for black face and also kill them in a similarly gruesome fashion?
- Charlie's mundane reaction to witnessing the partygoers violently kill the Forest Demon is also this, considering that Zoey, Pim, Allan, Glep, and Marge all realistically act in silent horror at this, yet Charlie casually treats it as if it's an everyday thing. Given that he's frightened by other scary things like the TV Alien bursting out of the screen and Mr. Frog's behaviour, plus that this is the reason he doesn't dress up for Halloween, it's possible that Charlie has witnessed people getting killed for accidentally coming across as a racist so many times that he's become desensitized to it completely.
- Charlie casually mentions that his grandmother passed away from eating a peanut, which is a tragic circumstance in and of itself, but seemingly mundane enough; either allergies or just choking on a nut is a reasonable way to go out. But then Mr. Boss's hallucination of Mr. Peanut remarks that he was caught filling his peanuts with toxic pesticides, which begs the question if that was the batch Charlie's grandma ate.
- The Frowning Friends wanting to kill all Puerto Ricans initially seems like it's just a setup for the joke about a character voiced by a Puerto Rican agreeing with them, but it puts their business in a whole different light: the Frowning Friends go around making everyone miserable and angry, then presumably once they're radicalized enough the Puerto Ricans would be made into their customers' scapegoat.
- The witch flees from Mip once he comes to her cave. Given the dark truth about who Mip is, was she really afraid of his crude crucifix? Or was she terrified by a deceptive shapeshifter and known stalker?
- While flirting with Charlie, Mip refers to himself in the first-person when he says "Well, maybe I like that", briefly letting his charming Third-Person Person façade drop.
- Also, in the same episode, when Mip is dying, he gives the gift to Pim, and tells him to take credit for it when he gives it to the Princess. Pim, being the Nice Guy that he is, doesn't do that and tells the Princess it's from Mip. If he had taken credit and the bomb had killed the Princess, Pim would be a suspect in the murder, if the explosion didn't kill him and Charlie as well. And there's no real reason Mip would do this, except that he just wants to mess up Pim's life, possibly as revenge for indirectly killing him.
- Mip appeared to be showing romantic attraction to Charlie as well. Would he have done something equally extreme to Charlie had Mip not been killed? The fact that the potion he gave Charlie made him extremely sick in The Stinger supports this. Could it have been some sort of love potion?
- Combining the witch and potion fridge horrors, notice how the potion made Charlie green and lumpy in appearance. Just like the witch. Was the witch poisoned by the same potion Mip used on Charlie?
- When the Bliblies start pouring out, they also pour out from the same hole Allan came in, where he met the Squatter. Hypocritical Jerkass he may be, there's a possibility that he was also attacked by them, and given that only Allan was brought outside the walls to be crucified, there's a chance that the Squatter didn’t make it.
- This appears to be confirmed when his corpse is found during the business inspection. 2 seasons later.
- Mr. Boss is clearly mentally unwell despite his relatively friendly (if strange) demeanor. One day of another company taking over his business is enough to have him talking to himself in a mirror and being radicalized enough to get a gun and try to assassinate the company's competition. What exactly happened to him in the past to cause such a violent and deranged side to develop?
- Even worse, Mr Boss seems quite reluctant to actually murder anyone at first, but another version of himself in the mirror begins berating him and insisting that he must do it, and both Mr Bosses are shaking their heads in stress. Is the violent side of Mr Boss some kind of split personality? Is it some kind of symbolic way of showing Mr Boss's attempt to rationalize his violent impulses? Or is it some kind of unchecked PTSD?
- In "Mr. Frog", look at the way Rex treats Glep. Whenever Glep steps out of line even slightly, Rex not only cruelly shouts at him, but at one point physically slaps Glep with a rolled-up piece of paper. Now, put yourself in Mr. Frog's shoes, and imagine being forced to do the exact same thing over and over, over the course of 47 seasons, and constantly having to face the same kind of verbal and physical abuse Glep went through. No wonder Mr. Frog developed so many drug and mental health problems.
- Plilford dying the same day that he started using his nose to repair electronics might imply that he was electrocuted.
- Or, given his reaction to Allan entering the shop, he could have been killed in an armed robbery. The question is, had Allan stuck around just a little longer, could he have helped the old man in either scenario?
- Or, his heart stopped after such revelation.
- After Mr. Landlord committed seppuku, Allan calmly leaves while stepping over him. While this doesn't seem like something worth mentioning, Allan stepped in his blood and left a footprint next to his body. This could result in police seeing the print, testing it, discovering that it's Allan's, and believing that Allan killed him and staged it to resemble a suicide. That said,
- Except Mr. Landlord is still alive and well to try and make Allen hang with him again, so that's not really gonna be an issue.
- Even so, he wakes up IN THE MORGUE, presumably when he's already been declared legally dead. There's still a chance that they think the Landlord got killed, and someone just stole or relocated the body, when they open the locker that his body used to be in.
- Except Mr. Landlord is still alive and well to try and make Allen hang with him again, so that's not really gonna be an issue.
- In "Brother's Egg" Allan claims there's a war going on. While it seems inexplicable, remember that Mr. Frog is the president now, so it's very likely he's been using is presidential power to wage wars against whoever he wants. Even if Mr. Frog was killed by The Boss, Jimble emboldened Mr. Blingo, a war criminal who immediately got back to wreaking havoc after the conference. Whether it be Mr. Frog or Blingo, a warmonger is in control of an entire country and will likely go after anybody, provoked or no.
- No one has mentioned Mr. Frog since "Mr. President" despite him supposedly being President-Elect... and the last thing we saw was Mr. Boss warning he would do something terrible if he won and running off with an assault rifle... (Then again, considering how Mr. Frog generally is, The Boss might be doing everyone a favor, morbid as it is).
- However, a Freeze-Frame Bonus in "Erm, the Boss Finds Love?" of the recommended YouTube videos on the sidebar shows a 58:52-long compilation titled "President Frog BEST MOMENTS II" was posted two months prior. This proves that Mr. Frog entered office, has been president for at least an hour, and very well could still be incumbent.
- Charlie reveals to everyone towards the end of "Erm, The Boss Finds Love?" that he has a heart condition that requires a pacemaker. Two episodes later in "Charlie, Pim, and Bill vs The Alien", we see him getting increasingly angry while calling out the alien Frat Bros for their cruel prank, daring them to hit him while yelling. If the Space Police hadn’t arrived, Charlie might have gotten worked up to the point his heart stopped.
- Near the end of "The Magical Red Jewel", Spamtopia starts to glitch out of existence. While Mr. Boss and Pim manage to escape, the Ominous Visual Glitch caused from the city's destruction is shown spreading across the desert. Given how rapid its spread is, it's only a matter of time before it reaches the Smiling Friends office.
- You know that purple dust Jason fills the room with at the end of "The Magical Red Jewel"? That's probably the same substance as what Mr. Frog was snorting! If you pay attention to Glep's reaction specifically, his pupils dilate and he slips into a catatonic state. The Smiling Friends aren't just suffocating - they're also overdosing on drugs! This also explains why Charlie and only Charlie is rendered blind by the dust: he's having an adverse reaction to it because drugs do different things to different people based on their body chemistry. Plus, if you think about it, it makes Mr. Boss's motivations for getting the jewel more clear: he wanted an endless source of "Purple Stuff" to sell on the black market.
- Did Rotten the Snowman simply become a single wave, or the entire ocean? Or even the entire planet?
- If the water got separated (ex: someone took a gallon of ocean water), would there be two Rottens?!
- In "Silly Samuel", the basement of the Smiling Friends building has a box labeled "Illegal Evil Crap". Exactly how illegal and how evil are we talking about?
- Assuming Mr. Frog's flashbacks are chronological, the shot of him hanging out with Jeffery Epstein must have occurred after the 2024 election. So in the world of Smiling Friends, not only is Jeffery Epstein likely still alive, he is also apparently still a free man.
- The Boss seemed noticeably way more harsh and angry at Charlie for skipping work, even though he had Squim to fill in for him. However, that just might be why Mr. Boss is so intense in the first place. Squim isn't just annoying, he's dangerous. Shortly before his police standoff, he pushes an old man in a wheelchair into traffic. It's also implied he was a danger to people's mental health post 9/11, which would explain why he was only brought back when most of the Smiling Friends were absent. Mr. Boss wasn't just angry at Charlie for lying and playing hooky, he was stressed out because thanks to Charlie, he had to call a dangerous lunatic back into duty.
- Charlie's phone background is a Mr. Frog parody of the photo of Donald Trump's 2024 assassination attempt. This means that someone tried to assassinate Mr. Frog, and we already know a likely culprit: Mr. Boss, who outright threatened to do so.
- In "Curse of The Green Halloween Witch", we see Mr Boss naked, with his eyes gouged and a knife next to him. Disturbing, yes, but when you think about it hard enough, it gets exponentially worse. Last time we see Mr Boss before this incident, her mother's ghost is berating him for leaving her to die. Now think with us: A character plucks his eyes immediatelly after talking with his mother. Does This Remind You Of Anything?explanation
- Glep's wife Marge Simpson is revealed to be some kind of eastern European foreigner in "The Glep Ep". At the end of the episode, a Jimmy Duarte like character narrates while the company party is going on and gets everyone's attention by making racist joke about a "certain" group of people. Go back a few seconds, you'll see that Marge is the only one who notices him before the comment is made. Whatever group he's talking about, and whatever group she falls in, chances are she may have some bad memories involving him...
- Charlie's uncle Bilbert stated he had been spitting on and punching Charlie for 30 years, implying he had been physically abusing Charlie since he was an infant.
Fridge Sadness
- Considering how Gwimbly didn't know that Mr. Millipede died from a fentanyl overdose until he found his grave, chances are nobody even bothered inviting him to Mr. Millipede's funeral.
- Considering how Glep is over 1000 years old and shows no sign of old age, chances are that he’ll outlive his wife Marge.
- How many romantic partners has Glep outlived??
- As contentious as Mr. Frog's father might be, imagining the show from his perspective is rather depressing. His son is a world-famous celebrity who not only never contacts his parents even for the death of his own mother, and spends most of his free time either committing deplorable atrocities or getting into countless controversies, including putting the country through a war. And not only does he have to witness these events on live television, everyone around him assumes he's proud of who his son has turned out to be, essentially making Frog Sr. the only person outside of the Smiling Friends whose somewhat internalized how terrible his son is. It makes his outburst seem like a bit more warranted.
Fridge Heartwarming
- Mr. Boss' epic quest to get the magical red jewel makes more sense when he uses it to resurrect his beloved son, Jason. Mr. Boss probably wanted to have it on standby just in case anything bad happened to the little fella.
- Mr. Frog transforming into a normal frog at the end of "Le Voyage Incroyable De Monsieur Grenouille" is really a win-win for everyone - Mr. Frog is now at peace and seems happy to live a simple life in the swamp, and the world at large no longer has to worry about Mr. Frog's indiscriminate violence and can recover from his global takeover.
- A minor case; it's implied that the part of "Curse of the Green Halloween Witch" before the witch is rejected is also part of her fake vision, as the Smiling Friends rudely ignore Pim's suggestion for pizza at the start and a few details are off the second time they're seen talking to the witch (Mr. Boss missing his bat, the rain not being present). With this in mind, the fact that pizza is brought to the gang at the end of the episode means it's likely that in reality, everyone agreed with Pim's suggestion and ordered it before the witch appeared.