This is not a bit. This is not a joke. Michael and I are here to announce that Smiling Friends will be ending after season 3 is done. And we know that’s super disappointing to hear. Well, I think people’s first question might be why? What’s the reason?

To be perfectly honest, after we finished season 3, Zach and I just both had the same feeling where we felt pretty burnt out after putting years and years into this, but also pretty accomplished. Like we just we just came to this feeling where we’re like, I think that could just be it after season 3.

I mean, even from the very very beginning of the show, we knew we knew we always said, "Oh man, how great would it be to like, you know, really try to make the show as good as it could be and really put 110% into it and then go out what feels like on top, what feels like leave them wanting more rather than people going, “Oh, that show is still on the air. Oh god.” It just feels like we were really after several years of really grinding on this show non-stop without any breaks 24/7. We got to a point where we just felt like that’s a good spot to end it.

But yeah, I mean, it’s very weird to do this, but this was our decision. And it wasn’t, you know, Adult Swim are very supportive. They, when we told them exactly this, they they said, you know, if you’re not feeling making a cartoon, we’re not going to stop you. Go have a break. Either come back or don’t. That’s the other thing. We could come back in the future and make more episodes if we if you want if we feel like it. And they’ve been super cool and said they would let us do that.

If we really feel inspired, if we really feel like we’ve got great ideas and we’re really we’re hungry to do it again, absolutely we’ll come back maybe for a special or some more episodes. But it’s got to be right and it’s got to be done right. And we have to we have to know that we’re going to make something that’s great for you guys that you guys can enjoy.

There’s a little bit of good news. I know that’s very disappointing. But there’s also going to be two extra episodes of Smiling Friends coming out that we’ve completed coming out on April 12th at 11:00 p.m. on Adult Swim. So, these are just two episodes we’re working on last year. And they’re not finales, but they’re part of season 3. So, these are two episodes. Season 3 has 10 episodes total, which is the eight you guys have already all seen, plus these two ones, which are little stragglers, little rogue planets out there, but uh they’re not thematically related. They’re not big finales. So, hopefully you enjoy two other little stragglers.