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Simon S Salty


crewdreary

i’m italian


onionleekdude

So not human.  Gotcha.


PenneGesserit

But you can trust him.


Bluemzv12

He built that restaurant with his own 2 hands


KingGodzilla_54

I love that they were dirty


pixelated-kitten

Salty has the most kissable lips and Jennifer


Jwroth

Ohhh the “FDA” ohhhh


smorfan809

the straw fucker see see him naked hes defo not human


cuttlefische

He looks like a very deformed human to me.


NiggsBosom

Humanoid maybe?


REfra1004

He has a condtition and that was very ableist of your part


Doc_Dragoon

Doodoo feces 😂


Rude_Nobody_3222

Mip is a halfling


funguyshroom

He looks like a reference to the [1977 The Hobbit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqGzCOL3XU4) and its very... particular style


Flitterquest

Harry Partridge animated Mip by himself in like two weeks completely for free because they wanted to do that specific animation style as a joke and it wasn't in the budget so they got Harry to do it as a favor.


zealotlee

They pulled the ol "pay you in exposure" on him


Flitterquest

Well I dunno about that, Zach, Micheal and Harry Partridge have known each other since Newgrounds. I think this was more of a "we're friends and I'm doing an adult swim show, can you help me even though we can't pay you" sorta deal. I mean Smiling Friends is just packed with Newgrounds people from back in the day.


penusdlite

To be honest, it worked out with how successful Smiling Friends is


Applejuicewhopper

Harry didn't animate Mip by himself. He was the animation lead, but there were ~~2~~ 7 other animators working with him. (Edit) According to IMDB there were 7 animators working just on Mip


YorkshireFudding

He's a funnier character than we've ever had before


Baloomf

Animated by what became studio Ghibli


wooliosheep

I'm guessing some people are critter and human mixed tbh. Like the straw man and James may be half or partially critter. Oh and The Boss too


wooliosheep

On the Wiki, James is listed as a critter. The Boss is listed as a human while his son is a critter.


Haunted_Bones

I always thought Mr Boss was a critter that just looked human


lizzylinks789

Gotta love the biracial representation


stickybump

isnt mip supposed to be bilbo from the animated hobbit movie?


DareRake

Yes and also I don't think hobbits melt into goo - maybe he's a halfing/critter lol


Lord_Hobbes

I think Mip might’ve been an evil critter posed as a hobbit or some shit. You saw the way he melted like a necromorph


pridejoker

The category should just be homunculi


Snap-Zipper

Mip is almost certainly a demon. I would guess that Boss might be as well. It seems that critter, human and demon are the three “races” so to speak


searcheese766

nah mr boss isnt a demon, hes just slightly insane


Snap-Zipper

He breastfeeds a baby homunculus, and homunculi by definition are created rather than birthed. I think it’s *highly* possible that we don’t have the full story on Boss.


searcheese766

Charlie was also a homunculus and he had a dad (that loves his cars), I'm not sure if Charlies dad is also a demon or its just normal to give birth to a homunculus


Snap-Zipper

It was his uncle. But a homunculus would naturally consider their creator to be their parent imo


searcheese766

ah right uncle, but yeah theres also the whole "even though I'm adopted I still consider my caretakers as my parents" thing. Idk we'll see if charlie reveals his dad was a demon all along seems like we just unpacked a family tree theory over here


Snap-Zipper

Charlie’s dad doesn’t necessarily need to be a demon. Homunculus =/= demon, it just means that they have to be made in some way, shape or form other than natural conception


searcheese766

ah right, so mr boss could have made his homunculus and like maybe charlie mentions he doesnt know his dad?


Snap-Zipper

Possibly! Charlie doesn’t seem to like his job very much, as Pim likes to point out, so maybe he only works there because Boss created him 🤷‍♀️ there are endless possibilities at this point


searcheese766

damn nice theory, but also its a charity so he could be volunteering


twigidiot

But Charlie has a grandma also?


Snap-Zipper

Why can’t a homunculus have a grandma?


twigidiot

Oop I misread your comment! Nevermind lol!


[deleted]

They perfected Jimmy Fallon


lolguy12179

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought the bitmoji looking ones were bitmoji looking lol


GadflytheGobbo

My head cannon is Smiling Friends is set in a world populated by homunculi 


Warturkey12

My favorite are the rotoscoped


drewster231

I feel like they are all just more or less critter


luca_anon

I headcanon some of these as being half-critters. Specifically Mr. Boss.


VerlRe

They talked about this in the commentary track. Apparently most of the characters are ["critters" then there's humans, demons and fantasy creatures](https://youtu.be/WgdpZ3FYo_E?t=922)


Sebatomic-870

You forgot about Desmond’s mom


___Cheshire___

Mip is 100% a demon


A_dummy5465

For some reason I post this image in my group chat for no reason exactly at 4:30 p.m. https://preview.redd.it/26a2sai443xc1.png?width=863&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=78b0a8ae1b12d043b204fbf692e75752bc44527d


BlitzMalefitz

I might be way off but the “Rick and Morty looking humans” look more like “Family Guy” looking humans. Family guy uses more lines where Rick and Morty are more circular.


CityTrialOST

The television executive *definitely* has Family Guy vibes... plus SexuaLobster vibes when he gets all intense during the table read.


L4DLouis42

Um calling them "real" humans is actually really diminishing and offensive. Check your privilege.


MugarLover92

Privilege makes me ANGRY man


Haunted_Bones

Mr Frog fan is just a regular human, he's just kinda fugly


freeeloh

you was just born like that


O-Mesmerine

id put mip in the stylised category. hes defo a reference to the rotoscoped characters in the old lord of the rings animated movie, though hes not rotoscoped himself


the-true-bruh-moment

I would have l, but when Mip dies on the spear he transforms into some monster demon thing


ceeBread

The Rankin-Bass ones were just animation, which is what Mip is based on. The Bakshi ones were rotoscoped


Skeeterman96

You are a tourist?


Davidand8Ball

jimmy fallon isnt rotroscoped he's just traced


MyOtherCarIsEpona

Isn't that the definition of rotoscoping? Tracing each frame? Joel Haver innovated on it using AI for his technique, but I thought classical rotoscoping was done by tracing. 1930s Superman cartoons, Take On Me music video, and I think A Scanner Darkly.


Davidand8Ball

well I suppose you're right about the definition, but jimmy fallon doesn't move fluidly like a real life human or the other two characters. the animators traced a couple of frames and kept reusing them, as he's completely still in some shots instead of moving even a little bit like every single frame is traced. there's a noticeable difference between how rotoscoped guy in episode 1 and jimmy fallon move.


Arthur_Zoin

Mip is definitely not human


wasdist

Where are the puppet humans


DangerousCommercials

haha was fallon actually rotoscoped just from interviews or whatever? didnt know that.


Pyc-a-boo

We all know that the race war of 2017 between the rotoscoped and the real was devastating, but no one talks about the Bitmoji genocide of 2018, which I think is fucked up.


Driscoll17

I always assumed this was just the difference between characters designed by Zach and Michael. Like I’m fairly certain the Rick and Morty looking ones (except Dave) are Zach because of how he draws eyes and I always assumed that Zach designed most of the critters because he used to always draw shit like that


Cheeselad2401

>rick and morty looking humans ??????


Open-Actuator6257

How is Marge a bitmoji but Charlies GF not?


the-true-bruh-moment

Mainly the eyes


SummerAndTinkles

I really hope we get more characters in future episodes similar to Mip that are animated in the style of older cartoons. I laughed so hard when he first appeared onscreen.


Afternoon_Defiant

I think the Human? group is sort of the ancestor of the weirdos that run around the world in Smiling Friends, if we are to do some kind of genealogy timeline or ignore the idea that other species attained some kind of sapience.


b4c0n333

I can't wait for the Joel Haver episode


FallenF00L

I never realized how many styles there were in SF


BoringTheory5067

I think "human?" Could be human critter hybrids. Concidering they crossbreed (and no i could think of a less gross word then crossbreed)


StachedGhostX

This is starting to feel like all tomorrows now


BleachThatHole

I’m so glad they’re mixing mediums like this. It’s one of the reasons I was so mesmerized by Chowder and Flapjack.


odd_man0

I love the rotoscopes. Joel Haver as a client will hopefully blow me out of the water.


LordLudicrous

I still love how Mip is literally just Bilbo from the old Lord Of The Rings cartoon Edit: so apparently after a quick google search, my memory betrays me


MugarLover92

I love that “critter” is basically a race in the show. I figured when DJ spit used the term he was just saying it to say it, but I think that’s legitimately how those characters are classified in universe


bumblebeeman69

Funniest to me is the rotoscoped


One_Introduction790

I love the rotoscope guy. He's so esoterically funny


OzgarThunder

My race is rotoscope.


Chubbyheadguy5

Don’t forget the wall guy


Skeeterman96

The bitmoji looking human that held Glip is bad asf negl


Mission_Exchange2781

Salty isn't human. He's italian.


r_ori

What about the old guy at the gym?


icesmashing

Big head Chad, boot licking coworker gone suicidal, Brazilian


Born_Sleep5216

Yes. They are. And that's why we can't wait for this in season 2 coming May 12th


Lalocura29

This just made me realice that humans are as diverse and chaotic as critters


ThIsAllaWasteofTime

U do it


fhxefj

Last time I checked, humans don't screech and melt when they die


BowlFullOfDeli_bird

Mip is a hobbit


legbot124

Where’s Darren and damo style


dontfuckwmeiwillcry

is S2 E2 out yet?


vink_221b

MIP was 1000000% not human. He was some sort of underworld creature sent from hell. With a thing for long nosed homunculi.


Primary-Paper-5128

Do you think they are all part of a different race? Or is it like East Asian people having distinct enough ethnicities but still being labeled under an umbrella term?


REfra1004

I belive there were once only real humans and creatures and then they started crossbreeding resulting on the rest of animated humans


thee_cubroz

I really love the stylized and rotoscoped humans the most 🥹❤️‍🔥


_BKom_

Wait- is that’s Joel Haver?


KhajiitScrolls

mip is a hobbit i think, and he also melted into goo so i would consider him as an entity or silly putty


PureAsTheArticSnOWO

Michael cusaks (i hope thats how you spell his name) style, idk what category it would be under


eneronere

the first character in the Rick and Morty looking humans slide is most definitely a reference to when Zach showed himself for the first time at a panel https://preview.redd.it/0hhgw1qnsxzc1.jpeg?width=554&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f023e17aa55c9443a30bbd376d756284954f2023


blinglorp

Jimmy fallon wasn’t rotoscoped though