There has been a lot of confusion about this so I wanted to put together a sourced summary of what we know about the alleged 2 additional episodes of Smiling Friends season 3
- Season 4 and 5 were announced as having 10 episodes each before the release of season 3
- While [as] advertised season 3 as being only 8 episodes, Hans Van Harken, a writer for the series, said there would be 10 episodes and Lucas Harvey aka Gurchinvg, a character designer, said they worked on episodes 9 & 10
- The official Warner TV Germany site listed a 9th and 10th episodes with names before removing the final two:
- Episode 9: "Friend-Bot (Version 12589218731809213528796879521)" - "The Smiling Friends befriend a helpful robot. What happens next will shock you." [description translation from the Smiling Friends wiki)]
- Episode 10: "Charlie's Uncle Dies and Doesn't Come Back" - "Pim and Charlie meet Charlie's uncle, a real mysterious trickster. And then Allan completely loses it."
Back in season one, the 9th episode: "The Smiling Friends Go To Brazil" was not aired until August 6th 2022 which was months after the season one "finale" of episode 8: "Charlie Dies and Doesn't Come Back" on January 10th 2022.
It is most likely that these 2 additional episodes are being held for a later release in 2026 in a similar manner to 'Go To Brazil'
Ahhh, bummer. Ive been scraping the dirtiest part of the internet for the 9th episode. Dang it. I will not go down without a fight. But this is for now a lost cause... A big fan smiling friend from Norway here. Then i can just say happy holidays to you my smiling friends
Where did they say season 4 will have 10 episodes? I don't see anything about that on the twitter
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Streamio has 2 additional episodes listed
Yeah, ive seen them. But as u can see its no date or anything. Ive even had piratebay torrent showing up from time to time. Probably some shady stuff in those torrents
They'll be out when they're out
Get him outta here and dont give him his jacket back
And we like that
Great work ethiccccc…
Yeah, i dont like crunch. So if that is the thing let them work in their own tempo. Hate time crunch
I think we still need the Roy Dismey episode
I think that was just a YouTube short.
I was so bummed out when my friend pointed this out to me
They're most likely fake. A hoax. The staff is probably laughing at you, the fans for believing that.
genuinely upsetting that fans of this show’s humor can’t read the tone of this comment
I want you to know that at least one person realized what you were referencing (although it took me a second)
theres 2 more coming out?? awh hell yeah
Look I’m just telling you what I’m reading here man. That’s all I know. You know as much as I know, I’m just reading off this thing, it says that 2 more episodes are coming out like really soon. Like ASAP.
those episodes arent the only ones coming. the other one will be ME, when these episodes come out!
It's as inevitable as the coming of the Renaissance Men.
Pym is notified
Animation takes so so very long and if getting a couple bonus episodes eases the gap between seasons 3 and 4 I'm happy to wait.
Ssshhhhh (they are airing new years day unannounced)
and April Fools Day
The smiling friends go to Brazil part 2!
I think it's what you speculate, that these are two full length episodes to randomly air before season 4 comes out. To add to that, I think we'll see some more "Smiling Shorts" like the Roy Dismey bit that aren't connected to any episodes.
Release the
filesepisodes!When are they going to release the episodes?
It will be out when its out, it will be out when its out. Great work ethic
The great iron liz was there. Iron liz. It's okay.
Did you even read the post? Nobody knows.
Hehe not until after… oops 🤭
Did they ever promote the Glep Ep as a season finale?
For what it’s worth season 1 and 2 both ended with a Christmas special so it’s fair to assume season 3 did as well assuming the remaining episodes are going to be used to bridge the gap between seasons like the Brazil episode even tho it’s still a part of the season
If I had to guess they were probably originally expecting AS to order another 8 episode season (season 4) but we're a bit surprised when they ordered 2 more seasons at 10 episodes a pop. Since making 2 more episodes per season is a lot of extra work they decided probably in the latter half of season 3 production to include an extra 2 episodes (bringing the total to this season to 10) a few months after the final episode as a stop gap since season 4 might be a bit further away than a year away.
I'f that's the case, and knowing animation work schedules I wouldn't be surprised if it was, I'm totally fine and happy with that!
Damn, i really miss Charlie's uncle
Yeah he loves his cars! He loves his cars...
they took a break after episodw 3. if they took the break after episode 4 , I may have jhadd a case for episode 9 to release next week but alas,,,,,,
*summary
Damn, you got me
I just want to see roy dismey
ok yeah
wait a second… my, my wallet is gone
I pray we see him in a full episode one day
Gooblagoo ☹️
man i need the charlie's uncle episode
There is a very real chance that episode has absolutely nothing to do with Charlie’s uncle outside of like one line of dialogue at the beginning or end
I'm going to be so disappointed if episode 10 has anything at all to do with Charlie's uncle
Its probably going to be like, in the last 30 seconds of the episode charlie gets a call that his uncle is dead.
I don't know anything except this; fellow lost media enjoyers, stay locked and loaded. We're not letting this end up like Little Helpers
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how Smiling Friends fans feel right after getting an entire season of their show
Bro two episodes of hazbin hotel is an entire season of smiling friends.
Its because Smiling friends is so short for TV show standards
a whole hour and 20 minutes of content yippee
with episodes being short (at least compared to something like south park) i always feel unsatisfied and wanting more content but it’s probably just a me thing.
In a world where most of us (I’m assuming) grew up with shows that were either 2 unrelated episodes (like Spongebob) or one longer one (South Park, Simpsons, anime on Toonami) both in the same 30 minute time slot, I don’t think it’s just you.
For Smiling Friends to only put out one episode per week but it’s the length of a Spongebob episode, it feels like you’re only getting half of what you “should.”
i think the spongebob format would work really well for sf
I just finished my sopranos rewatch, while the new smiling friends episodes were coming out.
Eventually I realized an episode and a half of the sopranos, on average, is like the entire length of one smiling friends season.
We’re pretty far out from it now but any chance Adult Swim will air them as apart of their April Fools prank?
Given that both S1E1 and S2E1 first premiered on April Fools that's what I'm thinking, as unpredictable as AS April Fools gets
I THINK (so don’t quote me on this lol) Brazil was alluded by Zach to be the prank a few years ago but they missed their deadline. I wanna say this was the Pibby year but I’m not 100% sure
EDIT: for clarification, I think he tweeted that it was supposed to air over a “silly holiday” but after doing some digging I can’t find the tweet anymore lol
I like this theory a lot!
But I never presume to know what we will get for April Fools or let myself assume we are getting new episodes for the prank.
Relevant given the collective blue balls this community is currently experiencing…thanks !
I wonder why they are doing it like this. Maybe just a way to keep people interested while in between seasons.
Sometimes I get frustrated, but then I remember anything is better than title cards season 2 method.
Thanks