Smiling Friends Season 3 Episode 3: Release date news, time, streaming details and more

Smiling Friends Season 3 Episode 3: Release date (Image Via Adult Swim)
Smiling Friends Season 3 Episode 3: Release date (Image Via YouTube/Adult Swim)

Season 3 of Smiling Friends, the animated comedy series is premiered on October 5, 2025, and episode 3 is dropping on 19 October 2025, on Adult Swim at 11:30 p.m. Eastern Time. Smiling Friends comes with some absurd humour and dark comedy, along with surreal storytelling. As the title suggests, it features a small company with the motive of making people smile or feel happy. The employees are the primary characters, including Pim, Charlie, and others who travel and help their clients who are sad and depressed, solving their strange problems.

The comedy is created with absurd and exaggerated problems of their clients, while also giving it a more meaningful layer every time they solve them and make their clients happy. If you are someone who would be interested in such a breezy show, read on for the full streaming schedule.


Smiling Friends Season 3 Episode 3: Release date and streaming schedule explored

Smiling Friends Season 3 Episode 3: Release date (Image Via YouTube/Adult Swim)
Smiling Friends Season 3 Episode 3: Release date (Image Via YouTube/Adult Swim)

As mentioned, Smiling Friends season 3 episode 3 is premiering on 19 October 2025 at 11:30 p.m. ET on Adult Swim. The episode will be available to stream the next day on HBO Max. The show focuses on Pim and Charlie, along with the other employees in the company who assumed the responsibility of this noble work. The client often comes with bizarre problems, which make the show hilarious and fuse absurdity with often dark and funny scenarios.

Episode 3 is titled 'Mole Man,' and the synopsis on IMDb reads:

"So apparently there's a character called "Mole Man" or something like that in this episode? Okaayyy then. Allan and Glep team up for a quest that will blow your socks off."

All the episodes follow a weekly release schedule, airing every Sunday on Adult Swim and dropping on HBO Max the following day. Here is the list of the drop time of the rest of the episodes, with the season finale:

  • Episode 4: Curse of the Green Halloween Witch - October 26, 2025
  • Episode 5: Pim and Charlie Save Mother Nature - November 2, 2025
  • Episode 6: Squim Returns - November 9, 2025
  • Episode 7: Shmaloogles - November 16, 2025
  • Episode 8: The Glep Ep (Season Finale) - November 23, 2025

Who are the voices behind the animated characters in Smiling Friends?

Smiling Friends Season 3 Episode 3: Release date (Image Via YouTube/Adult Swim)
Smiling Friends Season 3 Episode 3: Release date (Image Via YouTube/Adult Swim)

The main voice cast behind the fun Adult Swim drama are Michael Cusack, David Firth, Lyle Rath, Zach Hadel, Marc M., along with other additional guest voices.

Siming Friends turns meta in season 3 episode 3, as Pim and Charlie are captured by a creature named Mole Man, making them re-enact their daily lives. This poses a commentary on the show itself, exploring themes of identity and nature.

The episode is highly praised for the introspective approach, breaking the monotony of introducing an external case every time, and the characters solving the same. This take indeed offers a deeper insight to the viewers into he show and its characters.

The trailer suggests the snappy and absurd, and surreal storytelling of the show. Even the animation is unconventional and stylized, mixing it with some experimental techniques.


The show has been renewed for 5 seasons, and episode 4 is scheduled to arrive on October 26, 2025.

Edited by Amey Mirashi