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The Smurfs<ref>And, no, the plural of smurf is not "smurves". Although maybe it should be.</ref> (originally ''Les Schtroumpfs'' in French) are originally an extremely popular (and still ongoing) [[Belgian Comics|Belgian comic book series]] by cartoonist Pierre Culliford (aka ''Peyo'') that started in the [[The Sixties|1960s]]. It is more universally known for the long-running [[Saturday Morning Cartoon]] series that [[Hanna-Barbera]] created for [[NBC]] in the 1980s
The Smurfs were born in another comic, ''[[Johan and Peewit]]'', where they made their first appearances in October, 1958. [[Breakout Character|They became so popular]] they got their own [[Spin-Off]] books. Starting with short comics in 1959, receiving their first album in 1963. These stories [[More Popular Spinoff|eventually overshadowed the comics that created them]].
The Smurfs
The Smurfs tended to be named according to their personality or occupation. They were all male until Gargamel created a female Smurf with black hair. After she entered the Smurfs' mushroom village, however, Papa Smurf transformed "Smurfette" into a blonde, with an appropriate change in personality. In later seasons, the Smurfs made human friends such as Johan and Peewit, and three Smurfs were irrevocably [[Fountain of Youth|rascalized]], and later created ''another'' female smurf called Sassette. (More information [http://www.smurf.com here].) They also have two wikis dedicated to them: [http://smurfs.wikia.com/wiki/Smurfs_Wiki Smurf wiki] and then there is [https://web.archive.org/web/20131031081610/http://wiki.bluebuddies.com/Main_Page another smurf wiki].
Although not strictly [[Merchandise-Driven]], the Smurfs were featured in just about every category of products intended for children: dolls, toys, clothing, comic books and even a breakfast cereal. Besides their Saturday morning series, the Smurfs appeared in a [[Christmas Special]] and other seasonal programs in prime time.
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* [[Stuff Blowing Up|Explosions]] in Papa Smurf's workshop.
* Gargamel trying to enter the Smurfs' village but usually ending up back at his own house because only a smurf (or people the smurfs trust) can find the village. Some plots have him overcome this.
* International Adaptation: the original name is "Schtroumpf", a word without any meaning which was randomly made up by Peyo<ref>Actually, the name was chosen to mock the german word for Stockings, ''Strümpfe''</ref>. In any language, the translation is a similar and evocating meaningless sound, except for the Italian word 'puffi', which is a word meaning 'debts' in Genoan Dialect, the Turkish word 'Şirin', which means 'cute', the hebrew word "dardas" which is made up from the words for thistle and gnome, the Spanish name "pitufo" which derives from "patufet" a character of catalan folklore, the Catalan name "barrufets" that means "imp" or "fey" and some few others like "hupikék törpikék" in hungarian and "pottokiak" in euskera.
* Overuse of the word ''[[
* Jokey Smurf's exploding "surprise packages".
* Brainy Smurf moralizing and subsequently being hit with a wooden mallet (thrown out of the village in the animated version).
* Papa Smurf leading the other Smurfs on a long journey.
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* [[If It Tastes Bad, It Must Be Good for You]]▼
▲* [[If It Tastes Bad, It Must Be Good for You]]
▲* [[The Smurfette Principle]]
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* [[Accidental Art]]: In an one-page story, Painter Smurf's canvas is taken away by the wind and it hits the ground several times, getting all kind of stains. Papa Smurf arrives and thinks his painting is brilliant, asking him how he did it. Painter Smurf replies it was "a little inspiration, a lot of perspiration".
* [[An Aesop]]
* [[Affirmative Action Girl]]: Sassette.
* [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot]]: In the album ''You Don't Smurf Progress!'', the Smurfs create robots that do their chores, but [[Turned Against Their Masters|these eventually rebel.]]
▲* [[An Aesop]]
** May be a subversion: the only sentient robot was the garbage-eating one (because [[A Wizard Did It|he ate some of Papa Smurf's magic potions]]) who then reprogrammed every other one to obey him.
* [[And I'm the Queen of Sheba|And I`m The Queen Of Sheba]]: In ''Smurf Versus Smurf'', when Papa Smurf has switched bodies with Gargamel (long story), and the smurfs have caught not-Gargamel, he reveals that he's really Papa Smurf. Cue one smurf: "Yes, and I'm the Smurfette."
** This also appears in the cartoon version of "Romeo And Smurfette", which lifts that scene particularly from that story.
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Later: "Is it much farther, Papa Smurf?"
"Yes, '''IT IS'''!". }}
* [[Art Evolution]]: The Smurfs, in their very first appearance in ''Johann and Peewit'', had very pointy hats that only drooped a little at the end.
* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Papa Smurf. He often saved the day and would often volunteer for dangerous physical tasks.
* [[Bankruptcy Barrel]]: Brainy Smurf in ''The Gambler Smurfs''.
* [[Battle-Interrupting Shout]]: In the comic book story and cartoon episode of "King Smurf," all that is needed to stop the Smurf civil war is for Papa Smurf to return and roar, "Stop!"
* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: Actually more of an inversion, but Smurfette originally looked like a male smurf with a bad black wig and a dress. The cartoon features her makeover as seemingly coming with her [[Heel Face Turn]], which adds a slight layer of [[Unfortunate Implications]] (the comics had Papa Smurf give her some ''[[Magic Plastic Surgery|Plastic Smurfery]]", so it wasn't an entirely automatic transformation.)
* [[Bedmate Reveal]]: In a one-page comic gag, a Smurf takes a walk outside when he can't get any sleep, only for the clouds to obscure the light of the moon so that he couldn't see his way, so he ended up going back to what he thinks is his own house and goes to sleep. In the morning, he wakes up and finds out {{spoiler|he is sleeping in Papa Smurf's bed}}.
* [[Big Dam Plot]]: The Smurfs have a dam protecting their village from flooding. Many stories have the dam breaking or treathening to break, like in the Smurfette's initial appearance, where she makes Poet Smurf open the dam out of curiosity.
* [[Big Eater]]: Greedy Smurf and Bigmouth.
* [[Big Friendly Dog]]: Puppy, who is relatively bigger than the Smurfs, becomes Baby Smurf's pet.
* [[Big "Never!"]]: In the comic book story "You Don't Smurf Progress", the waste disposal robot, who became the tyrant of the Smurf Village, shouts this when he tries to escape from the front door of his castle, but finds himself surrounded by the Smurfs that were once his captives, demanding for his surrender. He tries to use a secret escape hatch, only to be turned into furniture when Handy cuts off his escape with his furniture-making machine.
* [[Black and White Morality]]: Smurfs = GOOD. Gargamel = Evil.
** Though Gargamel become more of a minor character as the series went on. The most important problems come generally from the Smurfs themselves, especially when [[Mentor Occupational Hazard|Papa Smurf is away]].
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* [[Born as an Adult]]: Smurfette.
* [[Broken Aesop]]: The Smurfs, who generally do not use money in their society since they emphasize friendships and family more than personal possessions, pay the player of the Facebook game ''The Smurfs & Co.'' with coins which can be used to purchase more Smurf houses and structures to populate their village with.
* [[Brown Bag Mask]]: Vanity Smurf uses a shopping bag mask in "The Smurfs and The Book That Tells Everything".
* [[Brown Note]]: The turlusiphon (shazalla-kazoo in the cartoon show), a magic trumpet that caused anyone who heard its song to fall into a permanent magical sleep.
* [[Butt Biter]]: The Bzz Fly from the comic book story "The Black Smurfs", who turns Smurfs black by biting them in the tail. Also the purple fly in the [[Animated Adaptation]] counterpart "The Purple Smurfs", and the Japanese slumber bug in "Papa's Big Snooze".
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* [[Creator Backlash]]: Peyo was quite sorry that the Smurfs became so popular he couldn't concentrate as much on his other series.
* [[David Versus Goliath]]: Usually played straight in that the Smurfs always win against Gargamel. Subverted at one point when a single Smurf tried to take down Azrael with a sling, but his tiny pebble harmlessly bounced off the cat's forehead. ("I always knew this whole David versus Goliath story was just make-believe!")
* [[Deal with the Devil]]: Quite literally in Gargamel's case in the story "Sagratamabarb", where the evil wizard makes a deal with Beelzebub that if he helps to get rid of Gargamel's cousin, then he would belong to him forever. It didn't turn out well for Gargamel.
* [[Delivery Stork]]: Smurfs have a symbiotic relationship with storks, and their reproductive process actually involves baby delivery by stork.
* [[Did Not Get the Girl]]: For all the troubles Weakling Smurf went through in the story "The Olympic Smurfs", he winds up not getting Smurfette (or at least, not getting a kiss from Smurfette) by the story's end.
* [[Disguised in Drag]]: Hefty Smurf had to disguise himself as Smurfette to protect her from the unwanted affections of a troll king.
** Gargamel disguised himself as a female fairy in "Smurphony in 'C'" in order to trick Harmony into taking a magical musical instrument that would put the Smurfs into a [[Big Sleep|death sleep]] when he plays it.
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* [[Dreadful Musician]]: Harmony Smurf.
* [[Dressing as the Enemy]] / [[The Mole]]: Gargamel and Hogatha posed as actual Smurfs at one time or another, with Hogatha (Gargamel in the original comic books) being the first but lacking a tail which made her a dead giveaway near the end of the story.
* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]]: the originally female Azrael canonically became a tom when the animated series began.
* [[Dumb Is Good]]: The other Smurfs disliked Brainy's [[Insufferable Genius|bossy know-it-all]] behavior, despite the times he actually has a point.
* [[Enfant Terrible]]: The so-non-aptly-named Jeantil (which sounds like "gentil", meaning "considerate").
* [[Ephebophile]]: Papa Smurf's one-time attraction to Smurfette, which also overlaps with [[Pervert Dad]].
{{quote|"You could be Mama Smurfette!"<ref>Smurfette, ironically, is appointed as Mama Smurfette in the comics in a recent album, but because Papa Smurf wanted the Smurfs to learn to respect her despite her gender.</ref>}}
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* [[Everything Is an Instrument]]: The Smurflings upstaged Brainy's orchestral performance in one story (and the animated episode adapted from it) with music from instruments made of junk.
* [[Evil Sorcerer]]: Gargamel.
* [[Evil Twin]]: The Smurfs deal with evil duplicates of themselves in ''The Smurf Threat'' that were created by Papa Smurf to get the Smurfs to stop fighting with each other.
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: the Smurfs' names.
* [[Face Palm]]: Papa Smurf does this a few times in "Bathing Smurfs".
* [[Faceless Masses]]: All identical Smurfs in white clothing. It works for the creators of both the comic books and the cartoon show so they can bring in a character that becomes prominent for a while and then easily write him out.
{{quote|'''Smurfs:''' ''Now do you think we're the same? This very claim, we're not the same...''}}
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* [[Four-Fingered Hands]]: The Smurfs have four-fingered hands and four-toed feet, while the humans they encounter have five-fingered hands. In their first comic book appearance, though, they did have five fingers.
* [[Freaky Friday Flip]]
* [[Frothy Mugs of Water]]: Averted. Gargamel and Azrael were bottle partners, and the Smurfs themselves were fond of drinking alcohol- at the point that Papa Smurf had to invent a wacky story of an evil genie trapped inside a bottle to prevent the Smurfs from opening it and drinking the special liquor he had on it.
* [[Furry Female Mane]]: Although not a furry, Smurfette embodies the spirit of this trope: Males of a species are apparently bald but females must have plenty of head hair.
** The Smurfs are rarely seen without their hat, Papa Smurf being an exception while in the first album.
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* [[Heel Face Turn]]: The Smurfette. Note she was never evil in a [[The Vamp]] or [[The Baroness]] way, more a case of [[The Scrappy]]: She got on everyone's nerves, [[Stop Helping Me!|offered her help despite not being useful]], and expected that [[Attention Whore|everyone paid attention to her]] and fulfill all of her wishes, no matter how outrageous. Also note the list of "ingredients" when Gargamel creates her, which includes [[Envy]] and vanity. Strangely, her most negative deed (she actually tried to have the entire village ''flooded'') [[Fridge Logic|happened after said smurfical surgery]]. Yet, when she reveals that Gargamel created her, she is put on a trial. Which is heavily biased, but in her favor: everyone testified for her because she was pretty! In later stories, she ''is'' good, but no real explanation is given.
** In the cartoon show, Smurfette was changed into a real Smurf through the use of magic, and this following her attempt to flood the village and she confesses she was doing it on Gargamel's orders. With that her change of heart is genuine and she quickly proves it to everyone.
** In the cartoon, Smurfette followed Gargamel's orders out of fear because he created her and could un-create her as well. In the comic, Smurfette was just left to be found by trhe Smurfs and her mere presence should have cause them to fight for her <ref>which failed because the Smurfs didn't find her attractive, and even despised her annoying attitude</ref>, so she was never following any orders and just knew Gargamel as the guy who created her, [[You Didn't Ask|something she didn't find important to tell and ended coming in casual conversation]]. On both cases, she ended up ditching Gargamel by her own will.
* [[Hello, Nurse!]]: Smurfette, after her makeover, elicits this response in her fellow Smurfs. She actually became a nurse several times in the comics, such as in ''Doctor Smurf''.
* [[Hidden Elf Village]]: in the original books and the first few seasons of the cartoon.
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* [[Hollywood Tone Deaf]]: Peewit and the Smurfette (even Harmony Smurf notices how bad she sings).
** Harmony Smurf himself is a very bad singer, as noted in both the comics and the cartoon show.
* [[Homage]]: ''Doctor Smurf'' is largely inspired by Jules Romains' well-known and beloved play ''Dr. Knock''. It [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] the play with a comical footnote and a retake in [[smurfing]] of the play's most popular lines.
* [[The Hyena]]: Jokey Smurf generally finds everything funny.
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Jokey's presents are a physical example of this. No one ever sees it coming.
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* [[The Klutz]]: Clumsy Smurf.
* [[Know-Nothing Know-It-All]]: Brainy.
* [[Lady in Red]]: Smurfette wore a red dress in the comic book story "The Great Smurfette", though it was more the feminine version of Papa Smurf's outfit, and it was mostly to show that she was in charge of the Smurf Village.
* [[Lilliputians]]
* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: [[Walking Shirtless Scene|Just a hat and pants for the male Smurfs]]. Papa Smurf wore red pants and Grandpa Smurf yellow; other Smurfs wore white.
** Nat Smurfling wear a brown hillbilly hat and [[Does Not Like Shoes|footless pants]] with a suspender, Wild wore a leaf-woven hat and a [[Loin Cloth|loincloth]], and Sweepy wore a black suit due to his being a chimney sweep.
** Smurfette is shown to have multiple copies of the same dress she wears.
* [[Literal Ass-Kicking]]: In a comic book story where Handy Smurf creates problems with a new handheld power driller by drilling through everything he can get his hands on, the Smurfs retaliate by turning his power drill into an ass-kicking machine.
* [[Loin Cloth]]: Tailor Smurf made one to Wild Smurf to wear. Before that, Wild Smurf was covered with leaves.
* [[Loves Me Not]]: Deconstructed. One smurf was doing the routine, and ends up with "Loves Me Not". Another smurf asks him about his luck and he replies, gesturing to the now barren flower field that "Yeah, I can't find one that has an odd number of petals!"
** And there's other time that, as a joke, two Smurfs take petals from the flowers to ensure the one doing the routine always gets "Loves Me not".
* [[Ludd Was Right]]: Whenever a Smurf decides to bring a new technology or system that is meant to make their lives easier, it will always be dropped by the end.
* [[Mad Libs Catchphrase]]:
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* [[The Makeover]]: Papa Smurf gives one to Smurfette.
* [[Mass "Oh Crap"|Mass Oh Smurf!]]: Happens when a crowd of Smurfs instantly find themselves confronting Gargamel or some danger bigger than themselves.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Every Smurf character seems to have one, which is coupled with [[
* [[Merchandise-Driven]]: Smurfs tend to be created more for collectible plastic figures than for stories.
** Not to mention that much of the latest comic book stories are [[Cliché Storm|cliché storms]] that do little to add depth to the universe.
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* [[No Export for You]]: Most of Infogrames' Smurf-related videogames during the 8-bit and 16-bit system generations never saw an American release, with only a few exceptions.
** Thankfully [[Averted]] with the books; arguably the best thing about the movie coming out is that nearly all of Peyo's albums are being translated, most of them for the very first time.
* [[No Eye in Magic]]: In the comic book story ''Smurf vs. Smurf'', Papa Smurf uses an eye contact magic spell on Gargamel the wizard so that the two of them would switch appearances and that Papa Smurf would be able to stop the Smurfs from fighting over [[
* [[Non-Fatal Explosions]]: Jokey's explosive presents never do any harm except just splatter black soot on people.
* [[Off-Model]]: Comic example. In the original editions, there are several coloring errors, such as Papa Smurf's pants turning white in a panel, a Smurf's pants turning blue in another one...
* [[Older Than They Look]]: The young adult male Smurfs are really about 100 years old (150 in the cartoon show), while Papa Smurf is 542. Grandpa Smurf was mentioned as being [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|twice Papa Smurf's age]].
* [[Once in a Blue Moon]]: The stork brings new baby Smurfs when the moon is blue.
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* [[Our Ogres Are Hungrier]]: Bigmouth, from the comic book story "Smurf Soup" and its [[Animated Adaptation]], although in the original story he was technically a giant.
* [[Papa Wolf]]: Don't threathen the Smurfs if you don't want to be on the receiving end of one of Papa Smurf's potions.
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: This was subverted when Gargamel once put on a rabbit suit — with his face still visible — and the Smurfs had a lot of trouble to keep themselves from laughing (even Azrael laughed) as they decided to pretend his disguise fooled them, until they trapped him with a paralyzing potion.
* [[Perma-Stubble]]: The Swoofs (magically-disguised Smurfs in the album "The Astrosmurf") have what appears to be a ring of Fred Flintstone stubble around their mouths, though it could also simply be tribal face paint. In the animated adaptation of the story, there's a Swoofette, who is Smurfette in disguise, and even she has it!
* [[Pervert Dad]]: Papa Smurf's one-time attraction to Smurfette in "Romeo And Smurfette".
* [[Pet the Dog]]: In the album where Baby Smurf is introduced, when Grumpy Smurf learns that the stork is coming back to take away Baby Smurf, he decides to take him away in the woods because he doesn't want him to leave. When he eventually returns, he cries and shows more emotion that he has ever done in the series.
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* [[Planet of Steves]]: All verbs and nouns are replaced with "Smurf".
** Actually this trope is played straighter in the books: Smurfs who don't have a specific hobby/job are named just "Smurf". "I picked Smurf's bottle smurfer/smurf screwer" "Poor Smurf !" "Vote for Smurf"...
* [[Product Placement]]: A 15-page spinoff story arc was an advertisement for the Benco breakfast chocolate powder brand.
* [[Purely Aesthetic Era]]: Averted with most of the world who keep their [[Middle
* [[Raised by Wolves|Raised By Squirrels]]: Wild Smurf.
* [[La Résistance]]: The opponents to King Smurf's tyranny.
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* [[Running Gag]]: Several of them, most notably Jokey Smurf's exploding gift boxes.
* [[Save the Villain]]: The Smurfs end up doing this to Gargamel at various occasions, one reluctantly being when Gargamel accidentally [[Taken for Granite|turned himself into a statue]] while [[And There Was Much Rejoicing|the Smurfs rejoice afterward]], Papa Smurf being the exception.
* [[Screw the Money, I Have Rules]]: Papa Smurf in ''The Finance Smurf'' refuses to go along with the title character's suggestion of charging his little Smurfs for his services, even as impoverished as he is when he has to pay off his little Smurfs for their services during the time he was sick when the Smurf Village monetary system was in place. Eventually every Smurf decides to go Screw The Money to Finance Smurf when they realize that the old ways of cooperation and sharing were better.
* [[Series Continuity Error]]: the story ''The Finance Smurf'' introduces the money system and the Smurfs are revealed as not knowing what money is at all. This contradicts earlier stories, such as ''The Egg and the Smurfs'' where a Smurf makes a wish to become "rich" - and ends with jewels and money as a result - and in ''Smurf Stories'' where Handy Smurf creates a machine that can turn hazelnuts into gold coins and Handy Smurf tells Papa Smurf he'll use the coins to buy more hazelnuts.
** During the Smurflings origin story, three Smurfs are sent to Father Time's home to get a new sand clock for Papa Smurf. The place is full with all kinds of clocks, and there's a lot of coins scattered in the floor, because "Time is money". The Smurfs recognize them as money and even can tell their worth.
* [[She's a Man In Japan]]: Azrael was female in the original ''Spirou'' stories and made male in the Hanna-Barbera cartoon. In what has to be a first for this trope, the gender switch was made canon!
* [[Silly Reason for War]]: In ''Smurf Versus Smurf'', a civil war erupts in the Smurf village over whether the word "smurf" should be used as an adjective (south end) or a verb (north end). This gets funnier in languages that allow for many composite words (e.g. Dutch and German) because now the war is about whether the proper term is "corksmurf" or "smurfscrew".
** As a whole, this was parodying the language divide issues in Belgium.
* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: The [[Trope Namer]]. so many smurfs, yet only two of them are female.
** Three, if you count Nanny.
* [[
** There was often [[Lampshade Hanging]], such as in a ''Johan & Peewit'' album where Peewit attempts to explain the Smurf language to other humans, but things get extremely confusing:.
{{quote|'''Peewit:''' If I say "I smurf the smurf", it means...
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'''Smurf:''' No, no! "I go to the woods" is "I smurf the smurf"! As for "I smurf the smurf", it means "I warble at aurora" ! }}
* [[Status Quo Is God|Status Quo Is Almost God]]: Save for some new characters (the Smurfette, the Smurflings...), the village always come back to its previous state at the end of the story.
* [[Stealth Pun]]: The waste disposal robot in the comic book story "You Don't Smurf Progress" would eat garbage and turn them into bricks that he would expel from his rear hatch. In essence, he was {{spoiler|shitting bricks}}.
* [[Stern Chase]]
* [[Sticky Situation]]: Gargamel creates a treat that ends up trapping a Smurf that touches it, but as Gargamel runs over to where he has set the trap, he also gets stuck in the trap, and so do birds, a cow, and several other things on his way home. Papa Smurf makes a potion that frees everything that got stuck in the trap -- everything, that is, except for Gargamel, whom Papa Smurf has no more potion for, but he does leave a recipe for the formula for Gargamel to make up.
* [[Stroke the Beard]]: Papa Smurf can be found doing this.
* [[Suddenly Sexuality]]: The Smurfs are supposed to be an [[One-Gender Race]] or genderless. Yet, right after Smurfette's transformation (plastic surgery or magical transformation into being a real Smurf,
* [[Sugar Apocalypse]]: The rather infamous Unicef ad campaign that bombs the Smurf Village.
** Also see [[Zombie Apocalypse]] below, they almost faced extinction that time.
* [[Sugar Bowl]]: [[Medieval Stasis]] never looked so good. Also Gargamel creating a Female Smurf being the only change he ever successfully made to their village.
* [[Symbol Swearing]]: You might be surprised but it happened all the time in the original comics by Peyo. Yep, the comic overall was much less childlike than its [[Animated Adaptation]].
** Snappy Smurf cursed all the time.
** It was even played with in one one-page gag story, where a random Smurf hits his foot with a hammer and begins [[Symbol Swearing]] up a storm until Papa Smurf tells him to wash his mouth out with soap. In the last panel, when the Smurf speaks again, his word balloon is completely clean, but now soap bubbles containing swear symbols are floating all around him.
* [[Take That]]: Peyo got the inspiration for Brainy Smurf through one of his childhood friends, who liked to show off and to play the wise guy.
* [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics]]: Smurfette gets changed into a 'proper Smurf' by Papa Smurf because the other Smurfs don't approve of her.
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* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Sassette and Smurfette.
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Sarsaparilla leaves, in the original comics. In real life, sarsaparilla is poisonous and Peyo intentionally drew them different so that child readers would not attempt eating them if they found it. In the series it's Smurfberries.
* [[Turned Against Their Masters]]: The robot servants in ''You Don't Smurf Progress''.
* [[TV Genius]]: Brainy Smurf.
* [[Tyrant Takes the Helm]]: King Smurf's arc. Also "The Finance Smurf".
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* [[Vague Age]]: Granted, The Smurfs are defined as 100 years old (150 in the cartoon show), but what makes them an example of the trope is the fact that it's unclear which human age equals that; most of them have specific jobs inside the village, yet they frequently play ball and act immature. Maybe one thing or the other may be the consequence of living in a small village led by their father (Papa Smurf is no mere name - he raised the 98 Smurfs). They were more clearly defined as adults when three of them were age-reversed to Smurflings, which made the adult Smurfs behave somewhat more mature and proved that [[Tropes Are Not Bad|we were better with the vague age]].
** The vagueness is amped up with the live-action movie character Gutsy Smurf, who sports [[Hotblooded Sideburns|really long sideburns]] while most of his fellow Smurfs are barefaced.
* [[Vapor Wear]]: Mostly with the male Smurfs, as they are shown to not have any underwear when putting on or taking off their pants.
* [[Verbal Tic]]: Using the word 'Smurf' in every single sentence can be very annoying.
* [[The Virus]]: "The Black Smurfs" (adapted into the episode "Purple Smurfs").
* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]: Pretty much what a male Smurf's life is, coupled with the [[Limited Wardrobe]]. Given that in cold weather they tend to wear little else besides a scarf, it would suggest that they are adaptable to weather changes.
* [[We Are as Mayflies]]: The Smurfs are definite long-livers compared to humans — they can live up to 600 years (Grandpa Smurf is a few centuries beyond that) and still remain active and sprightly. In the [[Animated Adaptation]], it's mostly due to the Long Life Stone which gives the Smurfs their longevity, though its power must be replenished every 1000 years or the Smurfs will suffer [[Rapid Aging]] that leads to their death.
* [[We Want Our Jerk Back]]: In a comic book story, Papa Smurf plays a prank on Jokey Smurf in order to get him to stop playing his pranks on other Smurfs, only to find out that the other Smurfs are bored from the lack of his pranks, so he allows Jokey to play them once again.
* [[Weather Control Machine]]: The Smurfs invented one, but Farmer Smurf and Poet Smurf fought over which weather they wanted, and caused it to go berserk. Papa Smurf in the comic books, and Handy in the cartoon show, had to destroy it.
* [[Why Am I Ticking?]]: When Gargamel finds about the creation of Sassette, he uses sorcery to make everything made with that clay to explode with the noon sun. Papa Smurf manages to create an antidote, and uses it just in time before she does explode as she scares Gargamel by trying to befriend him after she was initially rejected by her fellow Smurflings.
* [[Why Didn't You Just Say So?]]: Even the ever-respectable Papa Smurf does this in ''A Child among the Smurf''.
* [[Wild Card]]: Bigmouth, who can be an ally or enemy of the Smurfs, depending what will get him some food.
* [[Wishplosion]]: One Smurf episode featured a [[Literal Genie]].
** The comics and cartoon show featured a magic egg that conceded wishes when hitting it.
* [[Wizard Beard]]: Homnibus the good wizard.
* [[Worthless Yellow Rocks]]: Miner Smurf dislikes gold, as he thinks it is a too soft metal to be of any use. Finance Smurf decides to take the gold to turn them into coins and create a money system. {{spoiler|The gold coins ends up being melted and reforged into musical instruments at the story's end}}.
* [[Would Hurt a Child]]: Gargamel would even hurt Baby Smurf.
* [[Xenophone]]: The peddler who sells musical instruments in ''The Smurfs and the Magic Flute'' produces one while showing of his wares. He even admits that he doesn't know what it is but says it sure makes a lot of noise.
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