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. Star Trek: Lower Decks

   2020 · Comedy, Science-Fiction · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Star Trek: Lower Decks focuses on the support crew serving on one of Starfleet's least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos, in 2380. Ensigns Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford and Tendi have to keep up with their duties and their social lives, often while the ship is being rocked by a multitude of sci-fi anomalies.

2. Inside Job

   2021 · Comedy · ended99% match

   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. Mr. Birchum

   2024 · Comedy · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   From the mind of Adam Carolla, Mr. Birchum is a no-nonsense, junior high woodshop teacher who is attempting to navigate a world he doesn't understand or approve of. He's befuddled by his gaming streamer son, Eddie, annoyed at his selfie-taking, snowflake students and is constantly at war with the school district's appointed "J.E.D.I." (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion officer) Mr. Karponzi.

4. Solar Opposites

   2020 · Comedy, Science-Fiction · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Solar Opposites centers around a team of four aliens escape their exploding home world only to crash land into a move-in ready home in suburban America. They are evenly split on whether Earth is awful or awesome. Korvo and Yumyulack only see the pollution, crass consumerism, and human frailty while Terry and Jesse love humans and all their TV, junk food and fun stuff. Their mission: protect the Pupa, a living super computer that will one day evolve into its true form, consume them and terraform the Earth.

5. Frisky Dingo

   2006 · Comedy, Science-Fiction · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, also on Adult Swim.

   Frisky Dingo is an eleven minute animated series airing on Adult Swim by Matt Thompson and Adam Reed, co-creators of the cult hit, Sealab 2021. Supervillain Killface is finding that, in theory, destroying the world seems like a lot of fun, but in actual practice, it is a very dull and complicated process. There are many boring details to work out such as media buys, budgets and marketing. Every great villain needs a nemesis. Enter billionaire playboy Xander Crews. As the superhero Awesome X, Xander seems to be doing everything he can to stop Killface, but actually he just wants to make it look that way so his action figure line stays in business.

6. The PJs

   1999 · Comedy · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Follow the adventures of Thurgood Stubbs (Eddie Murphy) and the other tenants of the Hilton Jacobs housing project as they find themselves in and out of trouble.

7. Black Dynamite

   2012 · Comedy, Action · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on Adult Swim.

   Dynamite is a 1970s renaissance man with a kung-fu grip. A lover and a fighter who is not afraid to leap before he looks. His sidekick extraordinaire is Bullhorn, the brains and cunning that complements Black Dynamite's hard-hittin', bone-crushin' style. Providing comic relief on the mean streets is Cream Corn and classing up the place is the gorgeous Honey Bee.

8. Birdgirl

   2021 · Comedy · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, also on Adult Swim.

   After being named CEO of the world's largest and most non-sensical corporation, Sebben & Sebben, Judy Ken Sebben (aka Birdgirl) has to find a way to maintain her work/superhero life balance. Through the halls of the company headquarters she assembles her Birdteam! By day, they try to drag the company into this century. By... mid-afternoon, they usually end up having to break a lot of things to stop something bad that one of them may have helped cause. It's the sort of superhero team we get at this moment.

9. Lazor Wulf

   2019 · Comedy · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, also on Adult Swim.

   Lazor Wulf is a quarter-hour animated series that follows a wolf who carries a laser on his back and believes that love has no limit, that wearing do-rags gives you power and that Gawd is a lie.

10. Doodlebugs

    2017 · Comedy · ended99% match

    Recommended for similar Comedy profile, hidden gem.

    Doodlebugs is a series in which clip show meets sketch show and draws a funny face on it.Doodlebugs gives a voice to all that stuff in the world that doesn't have a voice - because it can't actually talk. Washing machines, wheelie bins, mobility scooters and suitcases at long last get a chance to air their views and opinions through voices from the comedy world.