History Main / Smurfing

* Interestingly, Empath in ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' can't fluently speak a word in Smurf without sounding like MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels to other Smurfs. The only times he can do this is when he's extremely angry or very scared.

The UrExample is, of course, ''Franchise/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 [[TropeNamers Smurf Smurfer]].

* [[https://funtranslations.com/ Fun Translations]] has a Smurf Translator.

* ''Manga/ShinryakuIkaMusume''. In the English dub and the Crunchyroll subs, Squid Girl peppers a lot of her squiddences with the word "squid" and other ocean life puns.

* This is lampshaded [[CrowningMomentOfFunny surprisingly well]] in the LiveActionAdaptation ''Film/TheSmurfs''. 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!"]]

-->Magister Janotus de Bragmardo [[note]] Best translated as [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar "Biggus Dickus".]] [[/note]]: "Ego sic argumentor: Omnis glocka glockabilis in glockenturmio glockando, glockans glockativo glockare facit glockabiliter glockantes. Parisius habet glockas. [[GeniusBonus Ergo gluck.]] [[note]] German CanisLatinicus version. "Ergo gluck" is a scholastic formula, meaning about Q.E.D.[[/note]]

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

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

The UrExample is ''Franchise/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 [[TropeNamers Smurf Smurfer]].

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** This is the believed origin of the word "barbarian". The ancient Greeks thought all non-Greeks' language just sounded like "bar-bar", and therefore gave them a name to reflect that.

[[IThoughtItMeant Not to be smurfed]] for "Smurfing", a practice on ranked online games where an experienced player makes a new account to dominate lowbies or get back in practice. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smurfing Or any other type of "smurfing"]], for that smurf.

* The "Mission to Mars" episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans'', in which everything is boinga: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvfIi7l5FTY

* A few dialects actually have words that work like this, especially pidgins[[note]](dialects used primarily by people who don't share a first language, and thus some or all of the participants in most conversations are a little shaky on vocabulary)[[/note]]. For instance, Hawaiian Pidgin features 'da kine,' which can stand in for pretty much any action or object the speaker can't remember da kine for.

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

* Lo, I smurf you the [[http://websmurfer.devnull.net/ Websmurfer]].

* [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in ''RickAndMorty'' with Squanchy:

* ''Creator/David Hasselhoff'' does this with his nickname, "Hoff." He says things like "Hoffy Birthday," "Hofftastic," "cup of Hoffee," "take the day Hoff," "Party your Hassel Hoff," etc.

The UrExample is probably ''Franchise/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 [[TropeNamers Smurf Smurfer]].

* 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. Well known examples include JapaneseRanguage and ArabBeobleTalk, but this can also happen between more closely related languages. 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".

** Actually parodied quite a bit; in a sketch that parodies Smurfs [[XMeetsY filtered through]] Avatar, Gargamel as a Smurf is learning their language and apparently failing proper grammar and inflection. In vignette of women characters discussing sex, Smurfette gets a sexed about how someone wants to " smurf her smurf" and she responds how that could literally mean anything.

* 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."
* The iOS remake of ''Skweek'' uses the word "skweek" in every level-completion quote, often in contexts where common four-letter words could easily be substituted.