Smiling Friends

Series Similar to Smiling Friends

If you enjoyed Smiling Friends, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Metalocalypse

   2006 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, hidden gem, also on Adult Swim.

   Metalocalypse is an eleven-minute flash animated comedy airing on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, created by Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha. The series follows the exploits of a fictitious half American/half Scandinavian death metal band known as Dethklok. The band and its members are huge the world over, but incredibly stupid - a death metal version of Spinal Tap. Watch as they leave a trail of destruction and mayhem in their wake with their ear-melting onslaught of metal!

2. Inside Job

   2021 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   In the Department of Homeland Conspiracy, every conspiracy theory is true -- and one woman struggles to keep it all under wraps. A workplace comedy.

3. Brickleberry

   2012 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, hidden gem.

   Brickleberry follows the hapless rangers at Brickleberry National Park as they do their worst to keep the park open. Having been through everything from "Steve's" invention of Squabbits to the birth of the anti-Christ, the rangers are back and ready for anything.

4. Final Space

   2018 · Comedy, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, also on Adult Swim.

   Final Space is a serialized intergalactic space saga about an astronaut named Gary and his adorable, planet-destroying friend, Mooncake. The series will follow their adventures as they embark on a quest to unlock the mystery of "Final Space", the place where the entire universe ends.

5. Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law

   2000 · Comedy, Science-Fiction, Legal · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, also on Adult Swim.

   Once a third-rate superhero, Harvey Birdman is now a third-rate lawyer trying like hell to get by in a fancy law firm. It's not clear whether Harvey actually went to law school, but he definitely knows the things to say to sound like a lawyer. And he has a suit now, that's for sure.

6. The Midnight Gospel

   2020 · Comedy, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   The Midnight Gospel centers on Clancy, a spacecaster with a malfunctioning multiverse simulator, who leaves the comfort of his home to interview beings living in dying worlds.

7. BoJack Horseman

   2014 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the '90s, 20 years later. He's a curmudgeon with a heart of... not quite gold... but something like gold. Copper?

8. Close Enough

   2020 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Close Enough is a hilarious look at the surreal life of a millennial family living with roommates.

9. Rick and Morty

   2013 · Comedy, Adventure, Science-Fiction · returning

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.7), also on Adult Swim.

   Rick is a mentally gifted, but sociopathic and alcoholic scientist and a grandfather to Morty; an awkward, impressionable, and somewhat spineless teenage boy. Rick moves into the family home of Morty, where he immediately becomes a bad influence.

10. Mike Judge's Beavis and Butt-Head

    2022 · Comedy · returning

    Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

    In this new iteration, Beavis and Butt-Head are entering a whole new Gen Z world. Comedy Central has ordered two seasons of the new series with meta-themes relatable to both new and old fans - Gen X parents and their Gen Z kids. Judge is set to write, produce and provide voice over for both iconic characters.