History Main / Smurfing

** In the comic, it was ''very rarely''[[hottip:*:including one notable instance instance parodying Cambronne's LastStand]] used to cover profanities. In countless parodies, it's used almost ''only'' for that.

* Feferi from {{Webcomic/Homestuck}} sometimes uses "glub" in this way.

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* Parodied in ''{{Homestuck}}'' in the beginning of Act 4 flash with the salamanders:
-->"GLUB!!! That's my way of saying go over there and check it out. 'GLUB' can mean basically anything I want it to mean. It's really cool having a bullshit language."
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When you smurf a particular word as a different part of smurf than it should be used as. Pretty smurfin' simple, right?

* Senor Chang on {{Community}} substituting Chang for other words. It actually catches on so much even Jeff mistakenly uses Chang a few times.

* In Webcomic/{{Educomix}}, Drug Abuse's adoptive mother [[UnfortunateNames Domestic]] can apparently only say the word "Word."

* Early on in ''TheDictator'', it is stated that [[TheCaligula General Aladeen]] has ordered that a great number of words in the [[{{Qurac}} Wadiyan]] language be replaced with "Aladeen"...including contradictory words like "positive/negative" which causes a great deal of confusion (as shown by a doctor informing a patient that he's "[[CrossesTheLineTwice HIV-Aladeen]]" and the latter not knowing how to react). Used as a RunningGag throughout the film (a restaurants "Open/Close" sign has "Aladeen" on both sides and in a credits scene, Aladeen himself accidentally shoots a man in the leg because the safety catch was on "Aladeen" instead of "Aladeen").

The UrExample is probably ''TheSmurfs'', who smurfed it to ridiculous extremes, and fused it with SpeciesSurname, making some smurfs contain the word upwards of thirty smurf. [[CaptainObvious It is also]] the [[TropeNamer Smurf Smurfer]].

* ''ShinryakuIkaMusume''. Squid Girl peppers a lot of her squiddences with the word "squid" (at least, in the Crunchyroll subs).

** Utilized amusingly in the original Japanese of ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}''. The protagonist orders a catgirl to repeat a tongue twister he recites, and her version is hopelessly-but-cutely mangled by about twenty "nya"s.
*** The fansubs offer an interesting solution to this: The tongue twister is given as "Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?", and her reply is "Can mew imeowgine an imeowginary meownagerie meownager imeowgining meownaging an imeowginary meownagerie?"

* The [[TropeNamer Smurf Namer]] is ''TheSmurfs'', of course. While the reader is, of course, left to smurf the smurf from context, it is smurfed (most directly in the lesser-smurfed ''{{Johan and Peewit}}'' smurf that ''The Smurfs'' were originally smurfed off from) that the Smurfs themselves can smurf the difference between instances of "smurf" with no smurf; it is just outsiders that smurf them as identical. Smurfly, outsiders are insmurfable of ''pronouncing'' "smurf" reliably however hard they smurf.

** In the comic, it was ''very rarely''[[hottip:* :Including one notable instance instance parodying Cambronne's LastStand]] used to cover profanities. In countless parodies, it's used almost ''only'' for that.
** In some comics, even the smurfs can't understand each other. Actually, they can understand each other or not, whether it fits the plot or for funny purposes.
** In the same spirit, in most case, the smurfs use the word "smurf" just enough to leave the sentence understandable, except for funny or plot purposes. Johan and Peewi agreed to rescue the smurfs from a "smurf-smurfing smurf" without other clue. So they were unprepared to fight a [[spoiler:fire-spitting dragon]]. In most incarnations, the smurf would rather have said [[spoiler:"a fire-smurfing dragon"]]

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* [[BeingJohnMalkovich Malkovich. Malkovich malkovich? Malkovich!!!]]
* ''BringItOn''. Cheerocracy or cheertatorship?
* This is lampshaded [[CrowningMomentOfFunny surprisingly well]] in the [[Film/TheSmurfs live-action Smurfs film]]. The man with whom the Smurfs are staying is getting annoyed at this trope, culminating in him shouting "Smurf-etty smurf smurf smurf!" One of the Smurfs then says, [[PardonMyKlingon "There's no reason for that kind of language!"]]

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* ''{{Discworld/Eric}}'' - Eric's [[strike:wossname]] parrot, who constantly substitutes the catchall metasyntactic variable "wossname" for random words.
* In the seventh ''{{Captain Underpants}}'' book, A group of skateboarders are "duded" that Melvin duded their dudeboards. One of them says "I'm gonna dude that dude if it's the last dude I dude!

* [[LampshadeHanging Pointed out]], and played with a little, in an episode of ''MyBoys'', the TBS sitcom.
* ''{{Scrubs}}'': J.D. gets some Smurftacular advice from Turk on leadership:

* Henrietta Pussycat, of ''[[MisterRogersNeighborhood Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood]]'', replaced words with "meow". An interesting example because most smurfing involves replaces nouns, verbs and occasionally adjectives which can be easily guessed from context, but Henrietta would replace words at random, leading to very odd and often unintelligible speech patterns.

* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' haters often enjoy chagrinning the word "chagrin" into every chagrinning sentence they chagrin.

* The Rapos from ''{{Drawn to Life}}'' use the word "Rapo" for just about everything.

* The object needed to defeat the [[BigBad Naughty Sorceress]] in ''{{Kingdom of Loathing}}'' is known in the Help forums as the Smurf.

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk Chicken chicken chicken.]]
* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' parody "FriendshipIsWitchcraft" has Rainbow Dash do this with "rainbow" and "dash" -- culminating in a monologue where it devolves into complete PokemonSpeak.
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* York in ''TerrorIsland'' does this for a while, starting here: [[http://www.terrorisland.net/strips/293.html]]
* In ''{{The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob}}'', the [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Bigfoot]] language consists entirely or almost entirely of the word "Ook!"
* Nodwick has "KRUTZ!" Possibly the only smurfing word to ever have a city named after it.
** 'Krutz' is a general, all-purpose curse word that was heavily promoted by a villain, because every time it was used, he would collect the negative energy released when someone swore.
* The Killotrons in ''SkinHorse'' destroy the smurf destroy at random instead of other verbs.

* Feferi from {{Homestuck}} sometimes uses "glub" in this way.
* Sidekick Man in [[http://nekothekitty.smackjeeves.com/ Neko the Kitty]] only knows [[http://nekothekitty.smackjeeves.com/comics/1032436/773-think-of-it-as-a-synonym-for-smurf/ one adjective.]] It's erotic.
* Rage comics often use words like "herp" and "derp" in a Smurfing like dialogue.

* Again, ''TheSmurfs'', although the animation was toned down compared to the comics. Primarily they used the word Smurf as a positive adjective.
** The whole basis of the song "Peewit Wants A Smurf" in ''{{Film/The Smurfs And The Magic Flute}}''.
* ''UnforgottenRealms''. Episode 10:

* Spoofed in ''FamilyGuy'':

* Then there's the ''SouthPark'' episode "Starvin Marvin in Space", where they meet the [[PlanetOfSteves Marklars]], who replace every Marklar, with Marklar.
* The Yummies of ''MaryokuYummy'' stick "yum" into words on occasion (i.e. "yumzillion", "yumtastic", "Yumtober the 10th", "Yum's the word").
* The "Mission to Mars" episode of ''TheBackyardigans'', in which everything is boinga: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvfIi7l5FTY
* In "The Tick vs. The Big Nothing", Arthur and TheTick encounter two alien races, the Heys and the Whats, who of course only say "Hey" and "What", respectively. At one point, Arthur is mistaken for a Hey and interrogated by a What who can speak Hey. He manages, in spite of having no first-hand knowledge of the language:

* The watch-dog on ''{{The Simpsons}}'' who barks entire advertisements. "And now, a message from the Latter-day Saints..."

* The scene preceding the DisneyAcidSequence in WinnieThePooh (2011). Pooh starts honeying[[hottip:*: seeing]] everyone as honey, and they start to replace random honeys[[hottip:*: words]] with the word honey. (e.g. "I can't wait to see the honey on that honey's honey when he falls into our honey!") Soon, practicably every honey is replaced with the honey honey, including the honeys in the honey! Honey honey honey honey honey!

*** In some accents, including those in much of California, the words "merry", "marry" and "Mary" sound alike. Context is very important.

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* The scene preceding the DisneyAcidSequence in WinnieThePooh (2011). Pooh starts honeying[[PotHole seeing]] everyone as honey, and they start to replace random honeys[[PotHole words]] with the word honey. (e.g. "I can't wait to see the honey on that honey's honey when he falls into our honey!") Soon, practicably every honey is replaced with the honey honey, including the honeys in the honey! Honey honey honey honey honey!

Related to [[UnusualEuphemism Unusual Smurfing Euphemism]], PlanetOfSteves, PokemonSpeak, VerbalTic and (sometimes) InherentlyFunnyWords.

* Californians are well known for their overuse of the word "like." Like you know we're all like "Dude you were like so freaking awesome." Like that. I'm like, one of them. So, would you like, like to say more? (This is an exaggeration, I don't talk that annoyingly, but i know that there are a lot of others that overuse like)

* Californians are well known for their overuse of the word "like." Like you know we're all like "Dude you were like so freaking awesome." Like that. I'm like one of them. So, would you like, like to say more?

** Utilized amusingly in the original Japanese of ''Literature/{{Bakemonogatari}}''. The protagonist orders a catgirl to repeat a tongue twister he recites, and her version is hopelessly-but-cutely mangled by about twenty "nya"s.

** Utilized amusingly in the original Japanese of ''{{Bakemonogatari}}''. The protagonist orders a catgirl to repeat a tongue twister he recites, and her version is hopelessly-but-cutely mangled by about twenty "nya"s.

* In the real world of airlines, smurfing is the result of some poor ground handler forgetting to lock on the hose that empties the blue water from the airliner's toilets. When the valve is opened the tank contents shower the poor handler and turn him a pretty and hard to wash off shade of blue. Holy smurf!

* Sidekick Man in [[http://nekothekitty.smackjeeves.com/Neko the Kitty]] only knows [[http://nekothekitty.smackjeeves.com/comics/1032436/773-think-of-it-as-a-synonym-for-smurf/ one adjective.]] It's erotic.

* "KRUTZ!" Possibly the only smurfing word to ever have a city named after it.

* ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory Mario & Luigi]]: The Emoglobins in Bowser's globin tend to insert "globin" in place of other globins.