History ShoutOut / TheSmurfs

* "[[Film/TheColorPurple The Color Smurfy]]"

* "[[Film/BillAndTed Painter's Egg-Cellent Adventure]]"

* After Nat points to a tree full of apples in "The Smurfs Halloween", Snappy explains it magically grows fruit all year around courteously of a witch living in the forest to Nat suggest they may be [[Franchise/SnowWhite poisonous apples]].

* Among the costumes the Smurfs are seen wearing at the ball of the full moon in "The Reporter Smurf" are [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Supersmurf]], ComicBook/LuckyLuke, UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus, Franchise/SherlockHolmes, Myth/RobinHood and possibly UsefulNotes/DavyCrockett (hence the hat).

* "[[Franchise/{{Superman}} Supersmurf]]" [[note]]Brainy wears glasses like Superman's everyday identity, Clark Kent, and dons a cape. The only difference is Brainy is vision-impaired so has to wear glasses and the spell for strength and flight he uses only lasts two hours whilst Superman was born with it.[[/note]]

* When the Smurfs believe a comet is coming to destroy the world in "The Comet Is Coming", they plan to send Baby Smurf [[Franchise/{{Superman}} to another planet in a rocket as the last survivor]] of Earth.

* At the beginning of "Bigmouth Smurf," Gargamel chases Greedy, Harmony, Smurfette and Painter wearing four mechanical arms like [[Comicbook/SpiderMan Doc Ock]].

*** The fact Gutsy mistakes said person in statue costume for a [[Franchise/SpiderMan green goblin]].

* Brainy's music band is called the '[[Franchise/{{Superman}} Brainiacs]].'

** Before noticing the four Smurfs falling, Victor mentions on becoming a "[[ComicBook/FreedomFightersDC free]][[VidoGame/FreedomFighters dom]] [[WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM flig]][[WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground hter]]".

* Smurfette gains the power of [[BlessedWithSuck whatever object she touches turns into smurfberry candy and then accidentally turns Brainy into candy]] in "Smurfette's Sweet Tooth''".

* In "The Littlest Witch", Papa sends Hefty, Smurfette, Painter and Scaredy to gather [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes witch]] [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts hazel]], name of two different character voiced by Creator/JuneForay who happens to voice [[ActorAllusion Jokey]].

** One of the antagonists is Ganelon, the treacherous false friend of the local lord (he kidnapped the lord son), who shares the name of [[Literature/TheSongOfRoland one of the most famous traitors in medieval literature]].

** Papa's comment "a leopard cannot change its spots" is a common phrase that comes from [[Literature/TheBible Jeremiah 13:23]], which reads "Can an Ethiopian change his skin or a leopard its spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil."

* In the Papercutz English translation of "The Astro Smurf", Astro Smurf says "[[WesternAnimation/ToyStory to infinity and smurf]]!" as he begins to take off in his smurfship.[[note]]It's very important to note that this story predates Toy Story by '''''decades''''' making this "translated" line a {{Macekre}} by default.[[/note]]

* "Smurfphony In 'C'": In the Creator/HannaBarbera [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs animated version]], the smurfphony melody is based on a gavotte by [[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]].

** The UNICEF organization based in New York is also seen, ya know, the one that used the [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs cartoon opening theme]] for a [[SugarApocalypse public service announcement]] intending to raise consciousness effort of reforming [[TykeBomb child]] [[ChildSoldiers soldiers]] in Burundi.[[note]]UNICEF can be spotted in the background little to the left from the middle point of the screen eighteen minutes, thirty seconds into the film, the words are blue and all lowercase.[[/note]]

** It's also the title of a season one episode from the Creator/HannaBarbera [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs cartoon]] show.

* Brainy's music band is called the '[[Franchise{{Superman}} Brainiacs]].'

* Brainy's music band is called the '[[{{Superman}} Brainiacs]].'

* "[[Myth/KingArthur Smurfs Of The Round Table]]"

* Under the influence of the magic orb in "The Lure Of The Orb", Harmony gets his band to play faster, similar to a scene from ''Film/ReeferMadness''.