The Plug Talk on Instagram: "“The Hidden Genius Behind Smiling Friends” When Adult Swim dropped Smiling Friends out of nowhere on April 1, 2020, nobody expected it to explode the way it did. The creators, Zach Hadel and Michael Cusack, had no Hollywood machine behind them — just years of raw animation skills from YouTube and a shared vision to make something truly weird, funny, and real. They pitched it as a small company whose job is to make people smile, but behind the cartoon chaos is sharp w