The Bizarre Appeal of Smiling Friends, Max’s Most Popular New Show

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Adult Swim’s Smiling Friends nails the weirdness of Australia.

, the cult-favorite Adult Swim cartoon, opens with the lovably optimistic purple little fellow Pim learning that he’s been eating a bowl of earthworms—not peanuts, as he had believed—for breakfast. We getfan, remarks upon a different aspect of the scene: “No … it’s almost 7 a.m. They come to work too early!” she says, her gentle voice a contrast against a show that is otherwise frenetic, feral, and fantastical.

The result was a cavalcade of media that often looked and felt like a David Lynch movie shot on video tape, where every man looked like—Prime Minister John Howard, who served from 1996 to 2007, was essentially our Reagan if Reagan looked like a melting Hobbit—and Cusack’s work is replete with the truly weird texture of Australian culture from in and around that time.

 

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