Review: Smiling Friends “Mole Man”

Overview

So apparently there’s a character called mole man or something like that, and Allan and Glep team up to go on their own quest.

Our Take

Hans Moleman is a sweet old man that has been nothing but cute during his entire run on The Simpsons. Not to be confused with this miserable old man named Mole Man who lives underneath Smiling Friends HQ and has watched from afar the wacky adventures of Pim and Charlie.

This of course is your classic stalker premise but done by Zach Hadel and Michael Cusack with an absolutely horrifying caricature that is the Mole Man who spends the entire episode covering his naughty parts as a result of his self-consciousness. The result is a laugh-out-loud quarter-hour stuffed to the gills with frenetic pacing, shock scares, and Glep and Allan the “new Smiling Friends”.

This week’s episode of Smiling Friends is instantly a top 5 episode for me, all-time. It is actually shocking just how much you get out of this show each and every week and the fact that Zach and Mike have mastered the quarter-hour just as much as they used to master the five-minutes shorts. Smiling Friends is fighting South Park this season which really isn’t fair, but the fight is Vader vs Luke at this point.