The Smurfs (animation): Difference between revisions

* [[And There Was Much Rejoicing]]: In the episode "For The Love Of Gargamel", Gargamel and Azrael get [[Taken for Granite|turned to stone]] by [[Hoist by His Own Petard|the very potion]] the evil wizard intended to use on the Smurfs. The Smurfs take advantage of Gargamel's demise by having a celebration. Of course, Papa Smurf, realizing that [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him|they would be no better than Gargamel for leaving him and his cat in such a frozen state]], does not join in the celebration, but rather has the Smurfs gather ingredients for [[Save the Villain|a potion to unfreeze Gargamel and Azrael]]. Of course, [[Ungrateful Bastard|Gargamel still rants and raves about getting even with the Smurfs]] after he and his cat are de-petrified.

** In the Season 2 intro, the Smurfs do a merry circle dance around a staked-down Gargamel and Azrael.

* [[Aside Glance]]: Papa Smurf at the end of "The Fountain Of Smurf" and "Papa's Day Off". Also Grouchus Smurfus in "The Monumental Grouch".

* [[Asshole Victim]]: Jokey Smurf accidentally became this in the episode "The Kaplowey Scroll" when he made Grouchy angry enough to say the word "kaplowey" which made Jokey disappear. Fortunately, Papa Smurf reversed that.

** Three episodes in the series -- "The Smurfbox Derby", "Handy's Window-Vision", and "Skyscraper Smurfs" -- were continuity nods to visions Dreamy had of the future in "Gargamel's Miss-Fortune".

* [[Costumer]]: During the [[Time Travel]] episodes, the Smurf's outfits would change to match the locations they arrived in (i.e. kilts when in Scotland).

* [[Cute Mute]]: Laconia, a friendly elf (where in her case, elf means [[Our Fairies Are Different|a Smurf-sized human looking cutie]]). Utterly voiceless, she communicates by hand signs only, a skill often focal to every episode she gets in.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Oddly enough, the animated series' Christmas Special. 'The stranger', unsettling in his own right, was implied to be serving something very, very bad, and behaved evilly enough to frighten Gargamel into breaking their (quite worthwhile) bargain to co-operate and all.

* [[Deal with the Devil]]: In "Harmony Steals The Show", Harmony signs a contract that allows him to use Ghostwriter's original symphony as his own in exchange for being his eternal performer at his spectral nightclub. Papa Smurf and the other Smurfs help Harmony break the contract by revealing before the judge and jury that Ghostwriter's "original symphony" was actually musical pieces stolen from other musicians.

* [[Flower From the Mountaintop]]: This was the plot of a TV episode; subverted at the end when the [[Abominable Snowman]] reveals that there are actually hundreds of the flowers growing up there.

* [[Fountain of Youth]]: The Smurfs encountered a literal fountain of youth twice in the cartoon series.

* [[Get Back to the Future]]: How the time-traveling season started with the episodes "The Smurfs That Time Forgot", "Lost In The Ages", and "Cave Smurfs".

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: In the ''Supersmurf'' TV episode, Bigmouth the ogre had just stolen the Smurf's entire warehouse of food and the Smurfs were trying (obviously) to get it back. Smurfette tries to use her "feminine wiles" to charm him into giving the food back. The opening dialogue was:

** And Flowerbell invoking Mae West's "come up and see me sometime" line at the end of "Papa's Wedding Day".

** And of course, there's [[Ephebophile|Papa Smurf's amorous interest in Smurfette]].

* [[Getting the Boot]]: On the TV series, Brainy gets tossed out of the village at least [[Once an Episode]]. This was done as a "safer" alternative to what happened in the original comics, where he was hit on the head with a mallet, although it would take more violence to toss him far enough to land on the outskirts of the village.

* [[Glass-Shattering Sound]]: Harmony's playing the triangle at a pitch that makes Brainy's glasses crack in "Smurphony In 'C'", and Denisa's scream that makes the vials in Gargamel's hovel shatter in "Denisa's Greedy Doll".

* [[Loud of War]]: The episode "Romeo And Smurfette" had a duel between two groups of serenading Smurfs led by Hefty and Handy who are trying to out-woo each other for Smurfette's affections, ultimately resulting in a brawl that Papa Smurf had to stop.

* [[Magic Mirror]]: Of various types, depending on who owns it or created it.

* [[Mama Bear]]: In the episode, "Smurfette Unmade," this trope is what breaks Gargamel's spell that forcibly reverted Smurfette to her original evil black haired form. This happens when she captures the Smurfs and Gargamel is about to kill Baby Smurf first for his goldmaking spell; Smurfette's conscience angrily flares up in defiance to this evil and suddenly she is transformed back into her blond form, furiously throwing around explosive vials of unstable magic potion until she sends the villains flying out of the house before she rescues the Smurfs.

* [[Meat-O-Vision]]: The smurf-colored glasses that Handy created in the eponymous episode, which enabled Smurfs to see anyone as handsome and harmless, allows Bigmouth to see Gargamel and Azrael as a pair of walking delectables, which caused Bigmouth to chase Gargamel and Azrael into the forest while the Smurfs make their escape.

* [[Media Watchdogs]]: Glass objects were absent, as the breaking of such was actually not allowed on cartoons at the time, although this was less noticeable in the show's quasi-medieval setting.

* [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot]]: The ''Johan & Peewit'' cartoons.

* [[Popcultural Osmosis]]: The animated Saturday morning show used nothing but clips of classical music for mood and theme setting.

* [[Public Domain Soundtrack]]

* [[Rapid Aging]]: Took place in the four-part "Smurfquest" episode when the Long Life Force Stone, which allowed the Smurfs to live long lives through decreased aging, was losing its power, though the Smurflings didn't grow taller as they aged, and Baby Smurf only shows slight wrinkles.