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The Smurfs<ref>And, no, the plural of smurf is not "smurves". Although maybe it should be.</ref> (''Les Schtroumpfs'') 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 page for that comic can be [[The Smurfs (Comic Bookcomics)|found here]].
 
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]].
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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.
 
A CGI-animated ''Smurfs'' feature film was released by Sony Pictures (not Warner Bros.!) in 2011. Its page is [[The Smurfs (Filmfilm)|here]].
 
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* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Vanity Smurf.
** This gets hinted at in the comic book story ''Bathing Smurfs'' as Vanity and another Smurf sit with each other at Handy's new private beach resort, with the other Smurf commenting that it's a great place to "watch the Smurfs".
* [[Animated Adaptation]]: In addition to the [[The Smurfs (Animationanimation)|Hanna-Barbera series]], there were several animated Belgian shorts produced in the 1960s, a Belgian feature film in 1976 (''La Flûte à six schtroumpfs'' which was later dubbed to English and released in the United States in 1983 as ''[[The Smurfs and The Magic Flute (Animation)|The Smurfs and Thethe Magic Flute]]''), and ''The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol'' which uses both 3D CGI and regular 2D animation.
* [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]: Father Time and Mother Nature helped the Smurfs on more than one occasion.
* [[Are We There Yet?]]
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** 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]].
* [[Blind Without'Em]]: Brainy Smurf.
* [[Born Asas 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 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.
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* [[Dramatic Slip]]: In "The Weather-Smurfing Machine" (the second story of the book "The Astrosmurf"), the Smurfs are trying to return to the Smurf Village during a snowstorm. Brainy Smurf falls, and when another Smurf offers to carry him, he tells "no, let me die here". The Smurf takes his word and leaves him, so a scared Brainy gets up again and keeps running.
* [[Dreadful Musician]]: Harmony Smurf.
* [[Dressing Asas 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.
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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.
* [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]: the Smurfs' names.
* [[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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* [[Mouse World]]
* [[Narcissist]]: Vanity Smurf.
* [[Nature Hero]]: Wild Smurf, who is the Smurf expy of [[Tarzan]]. He was even [[Raised Byby Wolves|raised by squirrels]].
* [[Nerd Glasses]]: This is why Brainy Smurf wears glasses. In the original French version, he is called "Schtroumpf à lunettes" which means "Glasses Smurf".
* [[Never Bareheaded]]: The Smurfs rarely if ever take their hats off.
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* [[Non-Fatal Explosions]]: Jokey's explosive presents never do any harm except just splatter black soot on people.
* [[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 Aa Blue Moon]]: The stork brings new baby Smurfs when the moon is blue.
* [[One-Gender Race]]: And it is to be remembered that all the female Smurfs were magically created.
** [[Shrug of God|...though nothing has been revealed as yet about Nanny...]]
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* [[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.
** Gargamel has some regarding Azrael, despite being abusive to him sometimes. For example, when he dissuaded Bigmouth from eating Azrael in "Smurf Soup" (the animated version of that story tried to make Gargamel more self-centered, though).
* [[Pie in Thethe Face]]: Jokey masquerades as the Masked Pie Smurfer to attack his fellow Smurfs with pies. The reason he did this was because he thought they were getting too gloomy. Of course this resulted in an [[Escalating War]] and Jokey ended up being pied by Baby Smurf. In the comic version "The Masked Smurfer", Jokey did it to take advantage of the frequent arguments among Smurfs, and even pied himself to avoid suspicions.
* [[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"...
* [[Purely Aesthetic Era]]: Averted with most of the world who keep their [[Middle Age]] setting, yet played straight specifically with the Smurf Village, thanks to Handy Smurf's somewhat advanced inventions.
* [[Raised Byby Wolves|Raised By Squirrels]]: Wild Smurf.
* [[La Résistance]]: The opponents to King Smurf's tyranny.
* [[Rightful King Returns]]: Besides Dreamy in the cartoon episode "The Smurf Who Would Be King", Papa Smurf also plays this role in "King Smurf" when he returns to stop the fighting among all his little Smurfs and to put an end to King Smurf's role as king.
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* [[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 Asas 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.
* [[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.
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* [[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.
* [[Younger Than They Look]]: Smurfette, despite being an adult Smurf, is only about a few years old, being a magically-created Smurf.
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: "The Black Smurfs" ("the [[Bowdlerise|Purple]] Smurfs" on the international markets), who are the result of being bitten by a fly. Black Smurfs can infect other Smurfs by biting them. The webcomic ''[[Ménage à 3|Ménage À 3]]'' pointed out that this is the ''[[Ur Example|original]]'' [[Zombie Apocalypse]], done in the comics seven years before Romero's first film.
 
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