History Main / Smurfing

* [[LampshadeHanging Pointed out]], and played with a little, in an episode of ''series/MyBoys'', the TBS sitcom.

-->-- '''Creator/BradJones''', [[TheNostalgiaCritic]] review of ''Film/TheSmurfs'' [[https://youtu.be/x-31DKJrFbA?t=772 review]]

-->-- '''Creator/BradJones''', ''Film/TheSmurfs'' [[https://youtu.be/x-31DKJrFbA?t=772 review]]

* Non-native speakers of a language often cannot tell the difference between words that native speakers swear are pronounced totally differently. Apparently, if you never had to distinguish between two phonemes during the first few years of your life, it takes lots of practice ever to learn to notice the difference. Most well known is the "flied lice" phenomenon (or, conversely, westerners' trouble with "getting" word tones), but can also happen between more closely related language. For example, Danes commonly have trouble telling the English words "dock", "duck", "dug", and "dog" apart. Or, for that matter, Dutch people and "bat", "bad", "bed" and "bet".

-->-- '''Creator/BradJones''', ''Film/TheSmurfs'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-31DKJrFbA review]]

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' has Wander and Sylvia tasked with delivering a box, without looking inside. Wander's curiosity about the contents of the box drives him to near insanity, and despite Sylvia's attempts to get him to leave the box along he eventually runs up a tree with the box and yells "You can't box me, Box-ia! I'm gonna box this box and there's not a box BOX BOX BOX!"

* The object needed to defeat the [[BigBad Naughty Sorceress]] in ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' is known in the Help forums as the Smurf.

* The cats on Fargo's ship in VideoGame/ChronoCross, once you are transformed into a cat and can understand Cat, speak Japanese or English (depending on your translation), except they end almost every sentence and veil swears with "Meow."

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' has Wander and Sylvia tasked with delievering a box, without looking inside. Wander's curiosity about the contents of the box drives him to near insanity, and despite Sylvia's attempts to get him to leave the box along he eventually runs up a tree with the box and yells "You can't box me, Box-ia! I'm gonna box this box and there's not a box BOX BOX BOX!"

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* Parliament's "One Nation Under a Groove" has the lines "Do you promise to {{funk}}, the whole funk, nothin' but the funk?", "Getting down just for the funk of it" and "Give you more of what you're funkin' for".

* [[LampshadeHanging Pointed out]], and played with a little, in an episode of ''My Boys'', the TBS sitcom.

->''"I had to write on the cover, 'cause you're not ready yet to see a Smurf get Smurfed in the Smurf!"[[labelnote:*]]"One of those Smurfs stands for 'anus!'"[[/labelnote]]''

->"I had to write on the cover, 'cause you're not ready yet to see a Smurf get Smurfed in the Smurf!"[[labelnote:*]]"One of those Smurfs stands for 'anus!'"[[/labelnote]]

When you smurf a particular word as a different part of smurf than it should be used as. Pretty smurfin' simple, right?

* ''Series/NeonJoeWerefolfHunter'''s eponymous protagonist oftens uses the sound "he-yump" to substitute words, punctuate sentences, or as an expression of emotion. His meaning is always immediately known through context. His go-to search engine is even he-yump.com.

[[SelfDemonstratingArticle When you smurf a particular word as a different part of smurf than it should be used as. Pretty smurfin' simple, right?]]

Related to [[UnusualEuphemism Unusual Smurfing Euphemism]], [[PlanetOfSteves Planet of Smurfs]], [[PokemonSpeak Pokesmurf Speak]], [[VerbalTic Smurfbal Tic]], [[LikeIsLikeAComma Smurf is, Like, A Comma]] and (sometimes) [[InherentlyFunnyWords Insmurfingly Funny Words]]. And for extreme circumstances, CensoredForComedy.

* In the ''Franchise/StarDarlings'' franchise, several Starland terms and expressions have the word 'star' in them.

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* The word "Frak" in ''Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined'' is usually just an UnusualEuphemism, but occasionally crosses over into this.

** Lampshaded by Lore Sjöberg in ''TheBookOfRatings'': "A middle-aged man with a hand-puppet going 'Meow meow love meow meow meow friends' in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe: beloved children's icon. A middle-aged man with a hand-puppet going 'Meow meow love meow meow meow friends' at the bus stop: a good reason to give undivided attention to your crossword puzzle."

** In the comic, it was ''never''[[note]]except one notable instance in ''King Smurf'' parodying Cambronne's LastStand[[/note]] used to cover profanities (that's what SymbolSwearing is for). In countless parodies, it's used almost ''only'' for that.