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The Smurfs
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On-screen title card.
Network NBC
Production company Hanna-Barbera
Original release September 12, 1981—December 2, 1989
Run time 22 minutes
Starring Don Messick
Lucille Bliss
June Foray
Danny Goldman
Frank Welker
William Callaway
Paul Winchell
Executive producer(s) Joseph Barbera
William Hanna
Producer(s) Gerard Baldwin
Music composed by Hoyt Curtin
Director(s) George Gordon
Bob Hathcock
Carl Urbano
Rudy Zamora
Second title card
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On-screen title card in syndication.
Third title card
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On-screen title card for international markets.

The Smurfs, also known as Smurfs, is an American-Belgian animated fantasy-comedy television series produced by Hanna-Barbera and SEPP International for NBC's Saturday morning children's programming. It ran from 1981 to 1989, airing 259 episodes that spanned nine seasons, and an additional seven specials within that time, making it Hanna-Barbera's longest consecutive running series, without any format changes (and succeeding The Flintstones, which ran from 1960 to 1966 in prime-time). It is based on the works of Belgian comics artist Peyo, first appearing in 1958.

The Smurfs centers on the many lives of its titular race; tiny, blue humanoids, wearing Phrygian caps, who live in a village of mushroom-shaped houses. Their names are based on adjectives that emphasize their personalities, such as "Jokey" Smurf, who pulls pranks. Their leader and mentor is the wizened Papa Smurf, who, unlike the others, dresses in red, instead of white. One of the main gimmicks of the show is that their kind is almost entirely made up of males, with Smurfette being the exception (although a couple of others were added towards the end of the series run). Their primary antagonist is the human, Gargamel, who knows of the Smurfs' hidden existence and wants to melt them into gold.

The narrator refers to the show as The Smurfs, while the card refers to it as just Smurfs; the international versions also referred to it as The Smurfs. When the show went into syndication in 1986, it was renamed Smurfs' Adventures.

Production

Development

Segments

Music

The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin until season nine, in which he was replaced by Tom Worrall for that season in particular. The musical cues and leitmotifs are noted to have been excerpted from various classical music compositions, which include some of the following:[1][2]

  • "Pictures At an Exhibition" by Mussorgsky
  • "The Nutcracker" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • "Symphony No. 8" (also known as "Unfinished Sumphony") by Franz Schumer
  • "Moonlight Sonata" (third movement) by Beethoven
  • "Morning Mood" and "In the Hall of the Mountain King" from Peer Gynt, by Edvard Grieg
  • Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 by Edward Elgar
  • The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas

Episodes

Title Original air date
1x01 September 12, 1981
1x02 September 12, 1981
1x03 September 19, 1981
1x04 September 19, 1981
1x05 September 26, 1981
1x06 September 26, 1981
1x07 October 3, 1981
1x08 October 3, 1981
1x09 October 10, 1981
1x10 October 10, 1981
1x11 October 17, 1981
1x12 October 17, 1981
1x13 October 24, 1981
1x14 October 24, 1981
1x15 October 31, 1981
1x16 October 31, 1981
1x17 November 7, 1981
1x18 November 7, 1981
1x19 November 14, 1981
1x20 November 14, 1981
1x21 November 21, 1981
1x22 November 21, 1981
1x23 November 28, 1981
1x24 December 28, 1981
1x25 December 5, 1981
1x26 December 5, 1981
2x01 September 18, 1982
2x02 September 18, 1982
2x03 September 18, 1982
2x04 September 25, 1982
2x05 September 25, 1982
2x06 September 25, 1982
2x07 October 2, 1982
2x08 October 2, 1982
2x09 October 2, 1982
2x10 October 9, 1982
2x11 October 9, 1982
2x12 October 9, 1982
2x13 October 16, 1982
2x14 October 16, 1982
2x15 October 16, 1982
2x16 October 23, 1982
2x17 October 23, 1982
2x18 October 23, 1982
2x19 October 30, 1982
2x20 October 30, 1982
2x21 October 30, 1982
2x22 November 6, 1982
2x23 November 6, 1982
2x24 November 6, 1982
2x25 November 13, 1982
2x26 November 13, 1982
2x27 November 13, 1982
2x28 November 20, 1982
2x29 November 20, 1982
2x30 November 20, 1982
2x31 November 27, 1982
2x32 November 27, 1982
2x33 November 27, 1982
2x34 December 4, 1982
2x35 December 4, 1982
2x36 December 4, 1982
3x01 September 17, 1983
3x02 September 17, 1983
3x03 September 17, 1983
3x04 September 24, 1983
3x05 September 24, 1983
3x06 September 24, 1983
3x07 October 1, 1983
3x08 October 1, 1983
3x09 October 1, 1983
3x10 October 8, 1983
3x11 October 8, 1983
3x12 October 8, 1983
3x13 October 15, 1983
3x14 October 15, 1983
3x15 October 15, 1983
3x16 October 22, 1983
3x17 October 22, 1983
3x18 October 29, 1983
3x19 October 29, 1983
3x20 October 29, 1983
3x21 November 5, 1983
3x22 November 5, 1983
3x23 November 5, 1983
3x24 November 12, 1983
3x25 November 12, 1983
3x26 November 12, 1983
3x27 November 19, 1983
3x28 November 19, 1983
3x29 November 19, 1983
3x30 November 26, 1983
3x31 November 26, 1983
3x32 November 26, 1983
4x01 September 15, 1984
4x02 September 15, 1984
4x03 September 15, 1984
4x04 September 22, 1984
4x05 September 22, 1984
4x06 September 22, 1984
4x07 September 29, 1984
4x08 September 29, 1984
4x09 September 29, 1984
4x10 October 6, 1984
4x11 October 6, 1984
4x12 October 6, 1984
4x13 October 13, 1984
4x14 October 13, 1984
4x15 October 13, 1984
4x16 October 20, 1984
4x17 October 20, 1984
4x18 October 20, 1984
4x19 October 27, 1984
4x20 October 27, 1984
4x21 October 27, 1984
4x22 November 10, 1984
4x23 November 10, 1984
4x24 November 10, 1984
4x25 November 17, 1984
4x26 November 17, 1984
5x01 September 21, 1985
5x02 September 21, 1985
5x03 September 21, 1984
5x04 September 28, 1985
5x05 September 28, 1985
5x06 September 28, 1985
5x07 October 5, 1985
5x08 October 5, 1985
5x09 October 5, 1985
5x10 October 12, 1985
5x11 October 12, 1985
5x12 October 12, 1985
5x13 October 19, 1985
5x14 October 19, 1985
5x15 October 19, 1985
5x16 October 26, 1985
5x17 October 26, 1985
5x18 October 26, 1985
5x19 November 2, 1985
5x20 November 2, 1985
5x21 November 2, 1985
5x22 November 9, 1985
5x23 November 9, 1985
5x24 November 9, 1985
6x01 September 13, 1986
6x02 September 13, 1986
6x03 September 13, 1986
6x04 September 20, 1986
6x05 September 20, 1986
6x06 September 20, 1986
6x07 September 27, 1986
6x08 September 27, 1986
6x09 September 27, 1986
6x10 October 4, 1986
6x11 October 4, 1986
6x12 October 4, 1986
6x13 October 11, 1986
6x14 October 11, 1986
6x15 October 11, 1986
6x16 October 18, 1986
6x17 October 18, 1986
6x18 October 18, 1986
6x19 October 25, 1986
6x20 October 25, 1986
6x21 October 25, 1986
6x22 November 1, 1986
6x23 November 1, 1986
6x24 November 1, 1986
6x25 November 8, 1986
6x26 November 8, 1986
6x27 November 8, 1986
6x28 November 15, 1986
6x29 November 15, 1986
6x30 November 15, 1986
6x31 November 22, 1986
6x32 November 22, 1986
6x33 November 22, 1986
6x34 November 29, 1986
6x35 November 29, 1986
6x36 November 29, 1986
7x01 September 19, 1987
7x02 September 19, 1987
7x03 September 19, 1987
7x04 September 26, 1987
7x05 September 26, 1987
7x06 September 26, 1987
7x07 October 3, 1987
7x08 October 3, 1987
7x09 October 3, 1987
7x10 October 10, 1987
7x11 October 10, 1987
7x12 October 10, 1987
7x13 October 17, 1987
7x14 October 17, 1987
7x15 October 17, 1987
7x16 October 24, 1987
7x17 October 24, 1987
7x18 October 24, 1987
7x19 October 31, 1987
7x20 October 31, 1987
7x21 October 31, 1987
7x22 November 7, 1987
7x23 November 7, 1987
7x24 November 7, 1987
7x25 November 14, 1987
7x26 November 14, 1987
7x27 November 14, 1987
7x28 November 21, 1987
7x29 November 21, 1987
7x30 November 21, 1987
7x31 November 28, 1987
7x32 November 28, 1987
7x33 November 28, 1987
7x34 December 5, 1987
7x35 December 5, 1987
7x36 December 5, 1987
8x01 September 10, 1988
8x02 September 10, 1988
8x03 September 17, 1988
8x04 September 17, 1988
8x05 September 24, 1988
8x06 September 24, 1988
8x07 October 1, 1988
8x08 October 1, 1988
8x09 October 8, 1988
8x10 October 8, 1988
8x11 October 15, 1988
8x12 October 15, 1988
8x13 October 22, 1988
8x14 October 22, 1988
8x15 October 29, 1988
8x16 October 29, 1988
9x01 September 9, 1989
9x02 September 9, 1989
9x03 September 16, 1989
9x04 September 16, 1989
9x05 September 23, 1989
9x06 September 23, 1989
9x07 September 30, 1989
9x08 September 30, 1989
9x09 October 7, 1989
9x10 October 7, 1989
9x11 October 14, 1989
9x12 October 14, 1989
9x13 October 21, 1989
9x14 October 21, 1989
9x15 October 28, 1989
9x16 October 28, 1989
9x17 November 4, 1989
9x18 November 4, 1989
9x19 November 11, 1989
9x20 November 11, 1989
9x21 November 18, 1989
9x22 November 18, 1989
9x23 December 2, 1989
9x24 December 2, 1989

Specials

Title Original air date
1 April 8, 1982
2 December 12, 1982
3 February 13, 1983
4 May 20, 1984
5 February 13, 1985
6 December 13, 1987

Cast

In popular culture

WARNING: The following section contains content that may be seen as mature or offensive to some readers. Reader discretion is advised.
  • In the Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures episode "Don't Touch That Dial," among all the Saturday morning show parodies, there is a Smurf-like character in red clothing like Papa, but looks like Popeye.
  • In the Adventures of Superman #441, Mr. Mxyzptlk brings to life a billboard advertising Saturday morning cartoons, including one for The Dorfs, with pastiches of Papa and Brainy, before a whole horde of Dorfs try to thank Superman to death, but Superman defeats them by trapping them all inside his cape.
  • In the film Johnny Be Good, Johnny called the crowd of girls dressed in blue Smurf patrol.
  • In the film Field of Dreams, Karin uses a Smurfs glass.
  • In the film UHF, George Newman has a Smurfs glass.
  • In the Saved By the Bell episode "Aloha Slater," Zach apologizes for having Screech crammed in Belding's file cabinet for so long, but he brushes it off and says, "Just paint me blue and call me a Smurf."
  • In the film Slacker, a slacker talks about how The Smurfs teaches children about colonization and how they can't do their own thing, with the Smurfs answering to Papa Smurf every time they try to be individuals and leave, while another slacker says his friend believes that kids are being taught to get used to blue people for when the Hindi deity Krishna comes.
  • In The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episode "Something for Nothing," Ashley mentions she has a Smurf bank.
  • In the Rugrats episode "Together at Last," Steve calls Larry a Smurf after he gets blue paint on him.
  • In the Moesha episode "My Mum's Not an Ottoman," Moesha finds an old Smurf doll.
  • In Chris Rice's song "Cartoons," Rice questions if the Smurfs (referred to as "those little blue guys") are religious and would say "Hah-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lay-loo-yah" in place of "Hallelujah."
  • In The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy episode "The Schlubs," there is a race of creatures known as the Schlubs living in the mushrooms in Billy's front yard. Grim wants to melt the 100 Schlubs into gold bars to revive My Troubled Pony, in reference to Gargamel wanting to melt the Smurfs into gold. There is also a single female Schlub like Smurfette, who is giant-sized and fiercely jealous of any competition. Mandy ended up melting all the Schlubs herself, except for the female Schlub.
  • In the Big Bang Theory, Howard and Bernadette paint themselves blue and wear Papa and Smurfette-like costumes for a party. Bernadette also uses "smurf" in place of a private area she will have to clean paint out of for weeks.
  • In The Thundermans episode "Blue Detective," a blue-skinned Max refers to himself as a Smurf.
  • In the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt episode "Kimmy Finds Her Mom!," Titus is excited to be in Titusville, telling a waitress that he would like to replace words with Titus in them like the Smurfs talk.
  • In the Uncle Grandpa episode "Cartoon Factory," Uncle Grandpa walks (or gets kicked) into the reception area of Cartoon Factory (a parody of Cartoon Network), where a poster of Chowder is on the wall, but Chowder's body is blue and his hat is white making him resemble a Smurf.
  • In the ThunderCats Roar episode "Schnorp," the interactive robot Snarf takes on a whole new personality when the ThunderKittens enter a video game cartridge into him, transforming him into an elder-like figure called Schnorp, although the ThunderKittens call him Papa Schnorp.
  • In the Saturday Night Live episode "John Mulaney/The Strokes," John Mulaney uses his opening monologue to compare how Governor Cuomo kept saying New York like he was a Smurf.
  • In the Cobra Kai episode "First Learn Stand," Johnny says the deck is as "Smooth as a Smurf's ass" after working on it.
  • In the Disney+ film Chip and Dale: Rescue Rangers, the bootleg facility has a Smurfs hat, and when Captain Putty is caught working with the bad guys, he calls himself a "greedy little Smurf."
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  • Smurfs glass in Field of Dreams.

  • Smurfs glass in UHF.

  • Smurf doll in Moesha.

  • Schlubs in Billy & Mandy.

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  • A Smurf hat waiting to be bootlegged.

American Dad!

Main article: American Dad!
  • "The Scarlett Getters:" Steve admits to Hayley that he accidentally wore her underwear which he discovered gave him good luck, but has now been stolen by his best friend and Hayley's unwanted admirer, Snot. Hayley tells Steve that it was never her underwear that gave him that good luck, it was him all along, comparing it to the time Papa Smurf pretended to give Weakling (who she calls Wimpy Smurf) a magic courage potion, but was really Smurfberry jam, which actually did happen in The Smurfs episode "A Little Smurf Confidence."
  • "Bahama Mama:" When Steve finds out he is going to become an uncle, he decides to give away all of his trademarked toys, including Smorfs.

Breaking Bad

  • "A No-Rough-Stuff-Type Deal:" Jesse uses the term "smurfs" for his drug buyers.
  • "Dead Freight:" Mike talks about putting to work a dozen skells "smurfing" out cold pills.

Comic Book Men

Main article: Comic Book Men
  • "Tough Sh*t:" They talk like the Smurfs, which includes bedroom talk, and mention Gargamel.
  • "Stash Wars:" They talk about living in the background of a cartoon, with Brian picking Smurfs, which would put Lazy Smurf out of a job (Gargamel is also mentioned).
  • "Holy Zap Copter:" Mike thought The Smurfs was the most outlandish cartoon.

The Cleveland Show

  • "Our Gang:" Cleveland calls Rallo Super Smurf because of the blue costume he's wearing.
  • "B.M.O.C.:" Federline addresses Cleveland as Papa Smurf because he was stupid enough to believe Cleveland when he told Federline that was his name. When Federline leaves, Cleveland wishes him a "Smurfy day."
  • "Escape from Goochland:" Cleveland disguises himself as Papa.
  • "The Hangover Part Tubbs:" Cleveland Jr. compares the size of the school speedo to Papa's hat.

Drawn Together

Main article: Drawn Together
  • "Hot Tub:" The housemates watch as two smurfs fight each other as knife-wielding pit fighters.
  • "Freaks & Geeks:" At the beginning of the episode, a smurf village is being decimated by Wooldoor's lawnmower.
  • The Draw Together Movie: The Movie!: While holding a funeral for Papa, Smurfette, Brainy, and Hefty, are all run over by a carriage.
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Family Guy

Main article: Family Guy
  • "Emission Impossible:" Stewie watches an episode of The Smurfs, where two Smurfs discuss one of them having sex with Smurfette, using the word "smurf" as a euphemism for sex.
  • "Halloween on Spooner Street:" A girl dresses up as Smurfette, attending the same party as Meg and her friends.
  • "Guy, Robot:" A drunken Peter claims that the mushrooms on his side of the bed are where the Smurfs live.
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Full House

  • "Beach Boy Bingo:" D.J. is getting ready for the Beach Boys concert, Danny, who is disappointed in not being taken as her plus one, mentions how he took her to see Smurfs on Ice.
  • "Mr. Egghead:" Danny jokes that it is psychologically proven that judges are more sympathetic to people wearing blue, which is why you never see a Smurf on death row.
  • "Sisters in Crime:" Jesse said he learnt about playing on the ice from taking the kids to see Smurfs on Ice.

Riverdale (2017)

  • "Chapter Thirty-Four: Judgment Night:" Penny calls Toni a Southside Smurfette.
  • "Chapter Fifty-Eight: In Memoriam:" Cheryl calls Jughead an "insufferable Smurf."

Robot Chicken

Main article: Robot Chicken
  • "Atta Toy:" In the sketch, "Murder In Smurf Town X," Papa tasks Brainy with investigating the deaths of several Smurfs, which he discovers was done by Jokey.
  • "Massage Chair:"
  • "Slaughterhouse on the Prairie:"
  • "Unionizing Our Labor:"
  • "Especially the Animal Keith Crofford:"
  • "Dear Consumer:" At Christmas, a father pulls a prank on his son when he opens up his gift, only to discover it explodes. This obliterates the son, which the father was not expecting, and says to his wife, "Oh, it was a lot funnier when Jokey Smurf did it, huh?"
  • "Saving Private Gigli:" Skeletor's accountant calls him "Smurfy."
  • "Terms of Endaredevil:"
  • "Punctured Jugular:"
  • "Butchered in Burbank:"
  • "Papercut to Aorta:"
  • "G.I. Jogurt:"
  • "Secret of the Booze:"
  • "Up, Up and Buffet:"
  • "Bitch Pudding Special:"
  • "Batman Forever 21:"
  • "Lots of Holidays (But Don't Worry Christmas is Still in There Too So Pull the Stick Out of Your Ass Fox News) Special:"
  • "Your Mouth Is Hanging Off Your Face:"
  • "May Cause Light Cannibalism:"

The Simpsons

Main article: The Simpsons
  • "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire:" Bart wants Homer to bet on the racehorse Whirlwind, which he thinks would be a Christmas miracle for the family, just TV taught him of the Christmas miracle in the special The Smurfs Christmas Special.
  • "Trilogy of Error:" During his drunken rambling, Homer mentions that The Blue Men Group are rip-offs of The Smurfs.

South Park

Main article: South Park
  • "Imaginationland, Episode III:" A Smurf takes the side of the good imaginary characters in the final battle against the bad imaginary characters.
  • "Dances with Smurfs:" In a cross between The Smurfs, and the movies Avatar and Dances with Wolves, Cartman integrates himself with the Smurfs in Smurfland to save them and the Smurfberries from Wendy, who fills in for Gargamel. He also tries to start a relationship with Smurfette, but has to prove himself to Papa. Clumsy warns Cartman that Wendy has found them, who gets her way by bulldozing the entire village and killing all the Smurfs in the process.
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Sugar and Toys

Main article: Sugar and Toys
  • "It's Hard to Raise Yourself These Days:" A bearded purple Papa-like Smurf (revealed in the third appearance to be called Purps) acts as the DJ in a rap showdown between other knock-off cartoon characters in a segment called "Cartoon Cypher."
  • "Burning Scouts:" The bearded Purp and a clean-shaven Purp disrobe to see each other naked in an aptly named segment called "Cartoon BFFs, See Each Other Naked for the First Time." The clean-shaven Smurf is surprised by the discolouration of the bearded Smurfs' penis.
  • "Superduper Kyle's Stay at Home Staycation:" Rachel Dolezal has gone from pretending to be a Black woman to pretending to be a purple Purp (who are supposed to be Black themselves) and trying to live among the other Purps, which is annoying the women Purps (including what is presumably Smurfette). "Dolezal Purp" gets interviewed on CNNN when the host asks if she is the daughter of Gargamel, unnamed, but his photo is put on screen.
  • "Rebooty Call:" Gargamel is in a therapy group for reforming villains. His pursuit in trying to eat them started because when the Smurfs came into the village, it raised the prices for food. Instead of calling them purple Purps, he calls them Smurfs and refers to them being blue.
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Tiny Toon Adventures

Main article: Tiny Toon Adventures
  • "Career Oppor-Toon-ities:" In the "Working Pig" segment, Porky gets a job at a toy store at Acme Mall and tries selling Elmyra "The Muffy Smuffs," little purple creatures who were pink pants and earmuffs.
  • "You Asked for It:" In the "Duck Out of Luck" segment, when the fighter jets target the King Kong-sized Plucky Duck, one jet shoots anything but actual missiles, such as a more human-looking Smurf in green.
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The Venture Bros.

Main article: The Venture Bros.
  • "Careers in Science:" Manstrong argues with Baldavitch that Brock has a Smurf living in his genitalia because it's as big as a mushroom.
  • "Are You There, God, It's Me, Dean:" Henchmen 24 debates with Henchman 21 whether or not Smurfette lays eggs, but Henchman 21 counters that they're mammals, as Papa Smurf has a beard.
  • "Past Tense:" One of the original Team Venture members mentions Smurfs.

Merchandise

Home media

Warner Home Video released the first season onto DVD into two volumes in 2008, with Volume One containing about ten episodes, and Volume Two containing the next sixteen; Warner Home Video printed the episode order differently as to how it aired on TV. After that, Warner Home Video their DVDs stuck with select season two episodes in 2009, 2011, and 2013.

References

  1. ^ "George Daugherty bugs out". Montreal Mirror (July 10, 1997). Archived from the original on January 23, 2003.
  2. ^ "Frequently Asked Questions!". Astro's Treasure Chest (January 20, 2003). Archived from original on November 15, 2012. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
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