Smiling Friends Season 3 release schedule: When do new episodes of the animated series drop on Adult Swim?

Consisting of eight episodes, Smiling Friends Season 3 streamed its first one on Sunday, October 5, 2025. The season 3 premiere saw the small charity help out Silly Samuel, a ridiculous-looking monster. The popular adult animated show is set to tickle the funny bones of fans who love the series for its humor and varying animation styles.

As the third season of Smiling Friends finally premiered, the release schedule for this episode is yet unclear. But, for now, we know the release dates for the first three episodes of Smiling Friends Season 3. But we may learn the Smiling Friends Season 3 release schedule soon, as the third episode airs on Sunday, October 19, 2025.

"Season Three of “SMILING FRIENDS” finds Pim, Charlie, Flint and the whole gang going absolutely bonkers once again, diving headfirst into their ultimate quest to spread joy upon the land. We’ll see a bunch of unexpected stuff here such as Mr. Frog running full speed at the camera, the team finally collecting all the spirit gems they need, and a totally epic showdown spectacle with an Ancient Witch of some sort. AHHHHH!!!!"

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Smiling Friends Season 3 release schedule:

As mentioned earlier, we don't have a full schedule for this season, and thus, it looks like we have to wait for a while until the full schedule for the series is revealed. The Smiling Friends Season 3 release schedule, for now, looks like this:

1. Silly Samuel: October 5, 2025
2. Le Voyage Incroyable de Monsieur Grenouille: October 12, 2025
3. Mole Man: October 19, 2025
4. Curse of the Green Halloween Witch: Unknown
5. Pim and Charlie Save Mother Nature: Unknown
6. Squim Returns: Unknown
7. Shmaloogles: Unknown
8. The Glep Ep: Unknown

But as soon as Smiling Friends Season 3 concludes its eight-episode run, fans can look forward to the next season, as the animated series was officially renewed for not only the fourth but also a fifth season in June 2025.

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Zach Hadel and Michael Cusack talk about the show's renewal for fourth and fifth seasons:

One of the highlights of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival this June was a preview of the third season. Simultaneously, the series was officially renewed for two more seasons. Creators Michael Cusack and Zach Hadel addressed this renewal in an October 5, 2025, interview with ComicBook.com's Nick Valdez. Hadel was the first to address the show's renewal:

"Feels like we’re a rat trapped in a maze. Looking for a piece of cheese we’ll never find."

Michael Cusack echoed his Smiling Friends Season 3 co-creator's sentiment, saying:

"Yeah, on a hamster wheel. No, it’s good. We’re so happy to be working on this show. It’s good because we’ve got this document of, about a trillion episodes on there, so we can go for a while, but, we wouldn’t want to go too long. Having it locked in for 4 and 5 for now is very satisfying, but who knows, you know? I don’t know if we want to say…we’ll see how we feel at the end of that, if we want to continue."

Hearing Michael Cusack's reaction to the renewal, Valdez asked the creators how long they expected to work on Smiling Friends. Expressing a hope to end the series on a high note, Cusack was the first one to talk:

"It’s funny, because when you’re young, and you’ve got p**s and vinegar in you, you’re like, “I’m gonna make a show, and we’re gonna do two seasons, like Fawlty Towers, and opt down, “F**k everyone else that goes along.” You got that mentality. But then, it’s very hard to get a TV show up, too. It’s extremely hard. So, once you get it up, you’re very lucky. So, there’s also the feeling of, “Alright, now that we’ve got this, let’s not take this for granted, and really try to do what we want.” But I do feel like there is a point where shows kind of outstay their welcome, and obviously, the creators will know that often last, and the audience will know that before them. So we try to be self-aware."

Cusack then further continued:

"We want to end on a high. We want to end where we’re not making episodes that are disappointing people…we feel like we’ve outstayed our welcome. And when it comes to other shows, or like when a show has gone on too long, it’s hard to say, because there’s no real exact number, it’s more of a feeling, but it’s when universally, everyone’s like, “Alright.” It’s hard because time just itself can be that, you know? Even if the creators love the show still, and they’re really invested, anything can just go on a little bit too long. So we try not to do that. We just want to do a complete package with our show."

Then, Smiling Friends Season 3 co-creator Zach Hadel said this:

"We always talk about the box set. When you’re 80 years old, and it’s like, “Oh, that was cool. We made that when we were in our 20s and 30s.” We always try not to get in the mindset of giving a solid…we’ll go on this many seasons, because I honestly think we don’t know. We talk about it, and we both go back and forth all the time. Like, since the pilot, we’ve had the conversation of, “If we got a blank check to do as many as we wanted, how many would we do? Would we do five, eight, ten, three? It really is a vibe. Also, if we get to the point where we feel like…”Man, we’re running out of ideas,” or “Oh, we already did that.” I think that’ll be the time."

He continued:

"Also, I personally am a fan of stuff that’s very decade-based. Like, I think it is cool that The Simpsons is the 90s, and Michael, you’ve said before, The Beatles is the 60s. I certainly would not ever say that there will never be Smiling Friends after this decade, but there’s something cool, roughly, about everything being, “Oh, the 20s, that was when Smiling Friends came out."

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The first episode of Smiling Friends Season 3, "Silly Samuel", is currently available on Adult Swim. Watch it at your convenience.

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