Couldn't get have ended it on a high note in season 12 or something

>>152670318
smiling friends would just turn into family guy by then

>>152670252
It's only been five years right?
End it year six or seven.
I will agree 9 and 10 is a bit long.

>>152670252
I still can't tell if this is even legit.
Like the whole tone of the announcement made it easy to think this could be a big goof.

>>152670402
Nah he said it was for real and werent joking, he is not one to pull jokes like that

>>152670402
zach is serious

>>152670330
The most popular animated show in the world?

If you watch seasons two and three, you realize that the writers' room is struggling to come up with interesting ideas. Personally, I see SF as a great factory of different drawing styles and animation techniques. From drawing to puppetry, this allows the series to be a great funnel for creators with all kinds of styles.

>what, you mean you don't want to drag a cartoon on for 20 seasons and watch it become a hollow shell of its former self? SHOCKING! SHOCKING!
I can hear the hand-rubbing.

>>152670330
>smiling friends would just turn into family guy by then
Why would they allow that to happen? This is the most retarded shit people keep repeating. As if people like Zach would just randomly decide to go along with something bad.

>>152671038
What is it you're so afraid of happening to Smiling Friends? How could it possibly become zombie Simpsons or Family Guy when it's just a show about funny creatures doing funny things?

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>>152671078
It's cope. They're upset about the show ending and trying to rationalize that it would have gone to shit after a whopping 28 episodes so it's actually good that it ended so early

Why is everyone pretending the common discussion in threads wasn't that it felt like the show was spinning its wheels already? Suddenly the creators think so too and want to just stop and it becomes this stupid shit for eternity. Shut the fuck up you retards.

>>152671038
It just seems odd they'd run out of steam this early on. Jerry Seinfeld ran his sitcom on for seven years before deciding to kill it for the same reason.

Season 3 already felt like they were getting low on material so I guess this was the right time. I think there was definitely more potential for this premise but if their heart's not in it then they're not going to see it.

>>152671316
An ideal response would be to stop spinning wheels and figure out how to rejuvenate the show's energy, not full on cancelling it. Cancelling is better than half-heartedly continuing but I guess people thought Zach and Michael had more in them than this.

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>>152671038
Always the same argument.

>>152671078
You think only family sitcoms are subject to seasonal rot? Running out of ideas is a problem any show writer faces eventually

>>152671715
They have to come up with 10 minutes of material and they can't even do that lmao.

>>152670252
they didnt properly utilize Connor O'malley's chaos energy so in a way this is deserved

>>152670252
Could have ended it on a high note before announcing two more seasons, though. If before or during airing S3 they said "yeah this is the last season, we don't think we could make more seasons and not get stale", way fewer people would be angry.

>>152671865
This, it kind of seems like a rugpull when you have already stated two more seasons are coming

>>152670364
That would require them to start making fun of conservatives at some point, which would require dropping the mask of being apolitical

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>>152672080
>dropping the mask
Good grief you guys are such fags

>>152672636
Politics make you a fag. Just the way it is.

Stopping when you are at your peak is bullshit.
You stop *just* as you're coming down from peaking.
It's gotten just a tad crappier, not enough to ruin the overall legacy of the show.
That way you still get a handful of good new episodes out of a couple seasons.

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>>152671960
They way they abruptly cut Smiling Friends short is not at ALL comparable to something like Big Picture Show. I'm seeing way too many Zach dickriders insinuating this when it's just plain wrong.

>>152671715
Running out of ideas 4 hours in is a lack of commitment, not ability

>>152671038
Nigger, if the coat of paint is already fading two seasons in, that’s called “shoddy craftsmanship”.

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This was in the original thread and I've never seen it posted once since.

>>152674265
I knew this shit was fake the second I saw Arin's name. He has no ground to talk about Zach being "problematic"

>>152671038
If this show had an actual season length, it wouldn't be a problem. 8 episodes at 10 mins a piece is not a lot. Honestly, a quarter hour show should at least have 20 episodes a season

>Faggots are literally complaining the show is not gonna run into the ground
You know, I can't help but feel peopl wanted this to go to shit just to complain about something for the 1000000 time.

>>152670252
>high note
>season 3 was mostly lackluster
How grim

>>152674265
>15 years ago and four score, Zach called someone a nigger a single time

Not even close to the current problems their group actually has

>>152674265
posts like these always remind me that this board is filled with gigantic faggots

>>152674934
worrying about seasonal rot 28 episodes in is fucking retarded, you arent going to convince anyone otherwise

>show I hate is cancelled
IT WAS CANCELLED BECAUSE IT WAS SHIT WE WON
>show I like is cancelled
How brave of them to end it on a high note!

>>152672080
If they didn't need to do that in the episode with the morbidly obese, pants-shitting, genocidal dictator-approving president who's a complete retard, why would they have to start now?

>>152670252
Huge blackpill that normies consider this shocking

>>152671066
>As if people like Zach would just randomly decide to go along with something bad.
No one sets out to make a Family Guy.
But when you got bills to pay and mouths to feed and start doing the mental calculus about it, you'll stick to making that Family Guy for a decade or however long you can stretch it, if you don't quit early.

>>152671038
You'd have a point if the hourly total of this show wasn't shorter than some OneyPlays series that Zach was a part of.
It isn't like Smiling Friends was all killer no filler, or that he really pared down every good joke possible for that ~4 hours of runtime. If the challenge was purely to keep making funny funny hahas, then he obviously had way more shit to pull in.

>>152676487
There's a difference between a show getting canceled by the suits and a show ending because the creator wanted to end it.

>>152677004
It's a huge blackpill that anyone's making a big deal about this, whether casual or longtime animation fan.

>>152670252
When I look at long-running shows like Rick and Morty and see episodes and characters like "Mr. Nimbus", I fully understand why they'd end it while it was still good.

>>152674546
He doesn't but he would anyway because he's got a cult of followers that are convinced he can do no wrong

>>152677051
>But when you got bills to pay and mouths to feed
When you don’t and never have, like in this case, the only thing that matters is ego

>>152671038
Some cartoons ran for more seasons and were still great. Even The Simpsons, the show used for the "zombie" argument, sitll held up until season 9-10.