Zach Hadel and Michael Cusack, the co-creators of Smiling Friends, don’t really watch many cartoons these days. It’s something they’ve shared before in interviews, and something they reiterate on a ...

Smiling Friends Season 3 is highly anticipated by fans of the absurdist animated comedy. The Adult Swim series, created by Michael Cusack and Zach Hadel, has gained a cult following for its offbeat ...

A large, multi-lab replication study has found no evidence to validate one of psychology’s textbook findings: the idea that people find cartoons funnier if they are surreptitiously induced to smile.

Smiling Friends co-creators Zach Hadel and Michael Cusack spoke with PEOPLE about the show's third season, the lore behind a few fan-favorite characters and their hopes for an eventual film The Adult ...