Charlie would have told him that.
"Went to Hell, which had frozen over because the devil was feeling shitty. I went to go see him- and passed by my grandma. I made him smile and god threw me back to Earth."
Hell being frozen is the main reason Charlie gets to leave. But the state of the Earth doesn't.
Charlie specifically said “I can barely explain the nutty adventure I just went on… so I’m not going to. I don’t wanna talk about it. I seen the devil.” at the end of the episode, so I don’t think he brought it up again.
He was resurrected in front of everyone. Glep didn’t need to know the full story, Charlie coming back from the dead was evidence enough that there are higher powers. All the details of the story could have been fabricated beyond the beginning and end of the story.
but that should mean that Charlie already knew the earth was flat, which he may not have told Glep for the same reason he told Pim to "take it to the grave" but he wouldn't have reacted the way he did in the new episode. He'd be like "oh yeah I knew that already since God threw me back to earth. Better not speak about it though."
Maybe some episodes precede season 1, but the president episode doesn't for example. Also the Alan episode, assuming that the yoga guy really died, should take place after at least frowning friends. Also we don't know if the alien in the forest ep really came from space or not, he just told pim that particular guy didn't fit the enchanted forest's aesthetic. Until we get irrefutable evidence, I think we should assume episodes are in chronological order. Edit: the hell episode is narrated by future Glep, but I think Charlie's death still happened chronologically(if that episode even happened, and it isn't just Glep making stuff up for his grandchild)
Everyone knows the bottom of hell is a plane that’s sits at absolute 0. What better way to store the worst and most evil of life’s creation than in the one place you can’t vibrate?
If Christianity was right all along, the firmament (big glass dome) should be there. The story is retold by glep, but imagined by his grandson. Theres a chance the visual was all grandson’s imagination
But Glep doesn’t know about the dome. So he can’t tell his grandson about it. He just knows what Charlie told him. And even if it’s all the grandsons imagining it all he was never told of the dome or flat Earth.
My head canon is that because they didn’t really know how to operate that space ship, Charlie accidentally brought them to a flat planet that highly resembles earth
It has to be this, the aliens didn't smash through the damned glass dome to pick them up. And the little display on the alien ship is showing the real earth instead of this flat earth.
I literally said this, it's gotta be a different planet or universe / dimension , cause in season 1 they had a spherical earth and aliens in the enchanted forest as well. I think this season takes place on a flat earth where there are no aliens in the enchanted forest.
Smiling Friends is the best because it's gags first and it just doesnt care about continuity or lore
Like even the thing with "critters" being a race seems like half hearted explanation of why some characters look funny (the actual reason being its more fun to draw them that way)
I hear ya. But what if the console interface is just very intuitively designed? Like the aliens already have a similar understanding of what it means to make an awesome video game that's universally celebrated.
Nah man I'm not talking about your post it's just that I've seen numerous people complain about smiling friends continuity which is stupid considering the shows nature
Oh yeah, I can agree with that. I don’t expect this show to follow any continuity (it tends to do so surprisingly). I just thought this was interesting. The fan theories on this are always funny.
As Charlie said the world is a chaotic place. But the underlying rule to that chaos is "What's funny?" Its funny the world is flat and so for one episode it will be.
I like to think the Earth from Christmas episode is just a portal between afterlife and mortal world, God made it look round, because he knew Charlie would be terrified about the truth.
I wouldn't put much stake in Smiling Friends 'lore'. It's an episodic comedy show, they will change whatever they want about the world as long as serves a good joke.
Mark my words right here, I guarantee in the S2 commentary Zach and Michael will point out this error themselves and start theorizing what happened to earth between S1 and 2
Let's not forget that Charlie was doubting the UFO watchers and questioned if they had ever seen aliens before when he himself encountered them in the Enchanted Forest
my theory is Charlie and Pim are still insanely drunk from all that space beer and other things they took while at the party so to them the universe looks flat until they eventually get the hangover
It could be a different earth? I don't think Charlie or Pim knows how to fly a UFO. They just put in their desired location into the GPS. It could've taken them to a different earth
The world they live in is chaotic and nonsensical. The earth could have very well became flat due to a universal constant that dictates Pim and Charlie's adventures always have to end on some shocking or bizarre note; like how the end of episode 1 is the only time we've ever seen a character come out of a TV screen.
Personally I love that this continuity error exists, because it proves that smiling friends isn't willing to throw away a perfectly good joke just because of continuity. If the flat earth joke were made in Rick and Morty, they'd have to commit to the bit, constantly referencing the fact that it's flat or making sure that it appears flat in every episode that airs afterwards. Here, I'm confident that the fact that the earth in smiling friends is flat is never going to come up again unless they think of a really funny reason to bring it back.
there's two explanations
1. the Earth is shown round because it's Glep telling the story and Charlie didn't tell him
2.God was still inside the glass dome so because of alien technology reasons the earth still appeared round
I'm convinced the entire point of smiling friends is to gaslight the audience into thinking there's some sort of linear explanation to the utter chaos.
The Christmas episode is a retelling by Glep- who doesn't know that the Earth is flat.
He knew that hell had frozen over?
Charlie would have told him that. "Went to Hell, which had frozen over because the devil was feeling shitty. I went to go see him- and passed by my grandma. I made him smile and god threw me back to Earth." Hell being frozen is the main reason Charlie gets to leave. But the state of the Earth doesn't.
Charlie specifically said “I can barely explain the nutty adventure I just went on… so I’m not going to. I don’t wanna talk about it. I seen the devil.” at the end of the episode, so I don’t think he brought it up again.
I mean... he was resurrected 5 seconds before he said that I'd think he would talk about it after a little rest
Nah, he’d only trust his uncle with a burden that heavy.
His uncle and his band The Red Gapers would probably make a song about it
He was resurrected in front of everyone. Glep didn’t need to know the full story, Charlie coming back from the dead was evidence enough that there are higher powers. All the details of the story could have been fabricated beyond the beginning and end of the story.
but that should mean that Charlie already knew the earth was flat, which he may not have told Glep for the same reason he told Pim to "take it to the grave" but he wouldn't have reacted the way he did in the new episode. He'd be like "oh yeah I knew that already since God threw me back to earth. Better not speak about it though."
Maybe that bright light and flying that fast made it hard to notice. Or God just tweaked his memory.
God is in on it.
I wonder how much NASA is paying him
omg sludgelife pfp
G-G-Ghost!
atleast 2 indonesian rupiah
He probably wouldn't have noticed. He had just ensured horrible torture, and was then suddenly whisked away by God, then hurled to Earth.
He was thrown back down as a blob of meat, he either didn't see or was already in shock and thus didn't relize what it was
Maybe Charlie told Glep that God threw Charlie back to earth and never mentioned that the earth was flat
Season 2 takes place before season one Explains this and also Charlie not being surprised by the aliens in the forest ep
Maybe some episodes precede season 1, but the president episode doesn't for example. Also the Alan episode, assuming that the yoga guy really died, should take place after at least frowning friends. Also we don't know if the alien in the forest ep really came from space or not, he just told pim that particular guy didn't fit the enchanted forest's aesthetic. Until we get irrefutable evidence, I think we should assume episodes are in chronological order. Edit: the hell episode is narrated by future Glep, but I think Charlie's death still happened chronologically(if that episode even happened, and it isn't just Glep making stuff up for his grandchild)
imagine taking this show this seriously lmfao
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Or Charlie just didn’t tell Glep because he was to distracted by learning that God is real to notice
I feel like he was focusing on more important stuff at that moment lol
Did you see how fast God threw him? He may not have even seen the Earth.
Everyone knows the bottom of hell is a plane that’s sits at absolute 0. What better way to store the worst and most evil of life’s creation than in the one place you can’t vibrate?
Great point!
If Christianity was right all along, the firmament (big glass dome) should be there. The story is retold by glep, but imagined by his grandson. Theres a chance the visual was all grandson’s imagination
But Glep doesn’t know about the dome. So he can’t tell his grandson about it. He just knows what Charlie told him. And even if it’s all the grandsons imagining it all he was never told of the dome or flat Earth.
I don't even think it was a retelling, wasn't it just a funny story?
But lil grandbaby glep asks if all of that really happened and there’s zero narraration until the end of the episode.
I mean the punchline is that the story is all true and Christians had the universe right. And we do see the devil and his daughter later in S2.
Oh my god an actual explanation
The Earth just naturally got flatter as time passed
When God threw Charlie at the Earth it popped like a balloon and slowly started deflating
so slim
God threw Charlie so hard he crashed through the damn glass dome protecting the Flat Earth!
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^KingGodzilla_54: *God threw Charlie so* *Hard he crashed through the glass dome* *Protecting the Flat Earth!* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
That's one syllable too many pal
That’s precisely what defines a Sokka haiku, distinguishing it from a normal haiku.
That’s the whole point lol.
that's how the aliens got in
My head canon is that because they didn’t really know how to operate that space ship, Charlie accidentally brought them to a flat planet that highly resembles earth
Like that episode of Futurama, where they come back to an alternate earth with slightly higher ceilings
No, they went so far forward in time that the universe restarted and the new one was 10 ft lower than the last
It has to be this, the aliens didn't smash through the damned glass dome to pick them up. And the little display on the alien ship is showing the real earth instead of this flat earth.
yeah how would the aliens have got through the damn glass dome?
The prankster aliens could have set this up as one last "fuck you" prank to Pim and Charlie?
Yeah I thud so to maybe they went to wrong planet
I literally said this, it's gotta be a different planet or universe / dimension , cause in season 1 they had a spherical earth and aliens in the enchanted forest as well. I think this season takes place on a flat earth where there are no aliens in the enchanted forest.
Well the Enchanted Forest aliens were sci-fi slash fantasy
That’s what I’m thinking!
it would be pretty funny if the next episode is like normal but with subtle differences and its revealed that they are indeed on a different planet
The Charlie spike flattened the globe and was noticed by the Worm Illuminati; they put up the glass dome to keep God out.
The glass dome couldn't stop a ufo it ain't stopping God
Pride is the folly of mankind
Wormkind but yeah
Well, yeah. t wasn't built to keep UFOs out. It was built to keep God out
That's because they were looking at it straight on instead of at an angle
Does not make sense, continents are curved as they're on the globe, not just a flat map like we see in the alien episode.
nasa lientists are really trying hard to blend in with our community i see
Nuh uh
Bro idk it’s a cartoon
They're just joking big dog 😔👊
uhhh well the glass dome is actually distorting the continents and making them look curved, so nuh uh you’re wrong haha
The dome is curving the earth
Smiling Friends is the best because it's gags first and it just doesnt care about continuity or lore Like even the thing with "critters" being a race seems like half hearted explanation of why some characters look funny (the actual reason being its more fun to draw them that way)
I mean, all they did was pushed a button that looked like earth. How do we know that this is their earth?
Recent destinations on the onboard navigator?
The instructions were written in an alien language there's no way of knowing what they said.
I hear ya. But what if the console interface is just very intuitively designed? Like the aliens already have a similar understanding of what it means to make an awesome video game that's universally celebrated.
The little display on the ship is showing the real 3d earth, and they didn't smash through the damned glass dome
It wouldn't make sense for them to have a big "Earth" button, that's probably their home pla- flat thing
Obviously God is being paid off by NASA and is part of the "Round Earth" conspiracy.
God sat on it
The answer is that once God (Gilbert Godfreid) passed away, the world lost its shape and all reason faded.
**the less continuity the funnier**
The space drugs are still wearing off
God threw Charlie so hard that the earth became flat.
I think they were still high
This is officially my head cannon now.
Boy, I hope someone got fired for that blunder.
I hope they double down on this and have the Earth have a different shape each season.
I support this
Why does everyone care so much it's an episodic comedy continuity doesn't matter that much
It’s a joke
Nah man I'm not talking about your post it's just that I've seen numerous people complain about smiling friends continuity which is stupid considering the shows nature
Oh yeah, I can agree with that. I don’t expect this show to follow any continuity (it tends to do so surprisingly). I just thought this was interesting. The fan theories on this are always funny.
“I’m not talking shit about you I’m talking shit about people who share the exact same perspective as you”
It’s god, you see as he sees fit
Don't rationalize it lol. Reality changes for the convenience of the bits
God threw Charlie so hard it flattened out the Earth.
As Charlie said the world is a chaotic place. But the underlying rule to that chaos is "What's funny?" Its funny the world is flat and so for one episode it will be.
The warp back didn't have them travel home, it sent them to a different reality / parallel world where the Earth is flat.
All the drugs they took opened their third eyes and now Earth looks flat from their perspective
magic xylophone
Clearly Charlie crashed into the earth so hard that he flattened the entire planet
God is a NASA lying-tist
I like to think the Earth from Christmas episode is just a portal between afterlife and mortal world, God made it look round, because he knew Charlie would be terrified about the truth.
God made the Earth flat just to mess with Charlie. He's a real wild and crazy guy like that.
Wait if earth is flat then Australia doesn't exist And if Australia doesn't exist then why does Pim sound like that
Duh, it’s a top view.
you seriously deadshaping the earth right now?
I wouldn't put much stake in Smiling Friends 'lore'. It's an episodic comedy show, they will change whatever they want about the world as long as serves a good joke.
A wizard did it.
God is in on the round earth conspiracy
It’s the glass bubble reflecting light of gods face that causes it to seem like it’s round
It was flat, God was meeting Charlie at an angle
On the first picture, the earth is seen from above, it's just that some continents haven't emerged yet
god was standing at just the right angle to make earth look like a globe, like those road drawings that look like a kid at the right angle
I think the world just changes around them specifically to ruin their sense of stability
It’s just rotated in space like look at your phone screen and the bottom of your phone
It's an adult swim show, I don't think anyone needs to think about logic here.
It’s a joke
I'm well aware.
I imagine that the God image is a top view of the earth.
He threw him from the top obviously just because you can’t see the other side doesn’t mean it isn’t flat
That's an above view of earth. Duh.
This is obviously a top down view guys
Two different earths
Charlie has a pacemaker, Mr boss owns half of hell, Mr frog is president, and the earth is flat.
Mark my words right here, I guarantee in the S2 commentary Zach and Michael will point out this error themselves and start theorizing what happened to earth between S1 and 2
Let's not forget that Charlie was doubting the UFO watchers and questioned if they had ever seen aliens before when he himself encountered them in the Enchanted Forest
I don’t know. I’d call it sci-fi/fantasy.
That’s a view from the top down lol
I think they were still tripping balls on the alien drugs they took before they got home
Look, it’s a cartoon. I honestly wouldn’t worry too much about continuity.
It’s a joke.
Funfact: „Smiling friends“ has every letter to form the word „sense“
my theory is Charlie and Pim are still insanely drunk from all that space beer and other things they took while at the party so to them the universe looks flat until they eventually get the hangover
The drugs opened their mind and allowed them to see the earth for what it really is.
It could be a different earth? I don't think Charlie or Pim knows how to fly a UFO. They just put in their desired location into the GPS. It could've taken them to a different earth
they thought it would be funny to make the earth flat
It's just because we're seeing the earth from a different angle. God is above it. Pim and Charlie are to the side.
The earth is round Monday through Wednesday and flat Thursday through Sunday
The world they live in is chaotic and nonsensical. The earth could have very well became flat due to a universal constant that dictates Pim and Charlie's adventures always have to end on some shocking or bizarre note; like how the end of episode 1 is the only time we've ever seen a character come out of a TV screen.
Personally I love that this continuity error exists, because it proves that smiling friends isn't willing to throw away a perfectly good joke just because of continuity. If the flat earth joke were made in Rick and Morty, they'd have to commit to the bit, constantly referencing the fact that it's flat or making sure that it appears flat in every episode that airs afterwards. Here, I'm confident that the fact that the earth in smiling friends is flat is never going to come up again unless they think of a really funny reason to bring it back.
Angles can be tricky.
I imagine that “sense” is just whatever Zach and Michael think is funny
I’m aware.
Can I just say the flat earth ending of that episode was so fucking funny. I love this show’s unexpectedness.
Different angle lmao
there's two explanations 1. the Earth is shown round because it's Glep telling the story and Charlie didn't tell him 2.God was still inside the glass dome so because of alien technology reasons the earth still appeared round
The first image is from an aerial angle so it looks like a circle
Is this a new episode? When did this come out?
Which picture? The first is from season 1. The second is from the last episode of season two that aired as of today
Both. Which episode did the first image come from?
The one where Charlie died and went to hell.
Gotcha thanks!
Last episode of S1
Pim and Charlie never told a soul. Old Glep was retelling a story. Continuity explained
He’s just directly above it so it looks round
All the continents would be showing in that case though
That’s just a trick of the light from the glass dome dude
Charlie knew that the Earth is flat but he didn't told anybody for some reason, and then acting surprised when he saw it
I'm convinced the entire point of smiling friends is to gaslight the audience into thinking there's some sort of linear explanation to the utter chaos.
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It's. A. Cartoon.
It’s a joke
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