Funny / The Smurfs (1981)

General

• Regardless of the season, rest assured that Gargamel's spectacular failures will make you laugh at least once per episode. Bonus points if he screams "MOMMY!" while running for dear life or he makes a fool of himself in front of his wizard colleagues.

Season One

• Gargamel's evil plan to attack the Smurfs in "Romeo and Smurfette" is... starting a Ship War!
• In "Foul Weather Smurfs", the bit where the weather house figures fight each other.
  • During their fight over the weather changing machine, Poet is on top Farmer (at arm's length), flailing both arms and legs with snow around them:
    Poet: No! Sun! Sun! Sun!
    Farmer: Rain! Rain! Rain!
    (both stop)
    Poet & Farmer: Snow!?
  • Smurfette complaining about her laundry getting all wet because of the rain at the beginning of the episode. Clumsy decides to help her but slips on a puddle, getting mud all over her who she thanks sarcastically. Cue Brainy making a comment:
    Brainy: Now did you see that! Isn't that the smurfiest thing you ever-
    (bucket lands on his head and he falls back)
    Brainy: Gosh, it's coming down in buckets now!
  • The expression on Handy's face before suggesting going for a dip in the lake.
  • Brainy trying to open the umbrella only for it to stop raining just as he opens it. When he closes it, the rain starts again and Brainy can’t get the umbrella to open again.
  • Each time Poet begins his "Ode to the Sun," he sticks his nose up.
  • The scene where it's completely foggy during the Smurfs' walk back to the weather machine:
    Smurfette: My goodness! It sure is thick!
    Clumsy: Uh yeah...
    (walks right into tree and rubs nose while smiling sheepishly)
    Clumsy: A real pea-souper!
  • Also, during the Smurfs'^note who are now weary walk back to the weather machine, the weather changes three times in the course of nine seconds:
    (heat wave)
    Vanity: Oh, I'm soo hot...
    (snow)
    Vanity: Mm-mm now I'm c-c-cold...
    (rains)
    Vanity: And now I'm so-
    (Lightning flashes and boom of castle thunder causes Vanity to jump in Smurfette's arms)
    Vanity (high-pitched): SCARED!
  • At the end of the episode, Poet decides to write "An Ode to the Rain":
    Poet: How am I supposed to finish my new "Ode to the Rain?"
    (Jokey, who's sitting on a tree branch above, pours water on top Poet's head with a watering can)
    Jokey: That better?
    (Everyone but Poet laughs with Jokey)
    Poet: Well, at least it's ecologically sound! Hmph!
• In "The Magic Egg", Hefty says he'll crack open the egg with an axe "or I'm as smurf as sausage". The egg's magic then turns him into a sausage. See it here.
  "Help, I'm a sausage! I'm a sausage!"
• Something similar happens in "Bewitched, Bothered, and Be-smurfed" when Smurfette is walking around with a locket that (unbeknownst to her) grants wishes. At one point, she visits a sick Greedy Smurf and, after leaving, wishes that he was "out of that bed and fit as a fiddle". The locket reacts appropriately, and suddenly a fiddle with legs and Greedy's hat and napkin runs out of Greedy's house screaming for Papa Smurf; playing music wildly all the while. The dumbfounded expressions on the Smurfs Greedy passes by is just the icing on the Smurfberry cake.

  Hefty: This is terrible! Not only is Greedy a fiddle, but he's also out of tune! (covers ears)

• In Jokey's Medicine, Smurfette and Greedy begin planning revenge on Jokey while Harmony is with them. When Harmony complains about Jokey ruining his "beautiful music", Smurfette and Greedy stare at him as if to say "beautiful music, my ass".

Season Two

• In the episode "It Came from Outer Smurf", Clumsy attempts to help Handy with building the water wheel by thinking he could do the same magical powers as the alien (disguised as an ordinary Smurf) did.
• The very idea of Greedy, despite his being the same size as the other Smurfs, could actually have the weight of several Smurfs in "Gormandizing Greedy" and be too heavy for a swing seat and make such a huge splash in a pool as to empty it completely, not to mention his vain attempts to lose weight and get in shape...and Papa Smurf catching him smuggling a big dessert under his hat, which in turn leads to a brief glimpse of Greedy (or any Smurf) hatless and bald!
• While talking to Brainy and Vanity in "Papa's Wedding Day", Papa Smurf bends over to show that he's as energetic as ever. However he hears what he thinks is his back crunching. Papa Smurf reacts with shock to this as we pan over to see the real source of the crunching — Greedy chowing down on a carrot as he leans against a wall not unlike the way Bugs Bunny would.

Season Three

• In "The Magic Earrings", Hogatha buys one of a pair magic earrings that can pick up sounds from around the world. After learning Gargamel's just bought the other one, she decides to sweet-talk him out of it. She uses a spell to change her from a fat, bald hag to a gorgeous, slender, redhaired woman. Gargamel is so taken with her beauty, he all but faints in shock, murmuring, "Lovely... lovely!"
  Hogatha: [checking out her transformed self in the mirror] No comparison with my dazzling natural beauty, but it should be enough to do the trick on Gargamel.
• Hogatha not noticing that she's wearing a fake beard until she looks in the mirror and sees it when she casually says, "I have charm, I have beauty, I have a beard..." in "Hogatha's Heart Throb".
• In "Chip Off the Old Smurfs", Handy and Painter are arguing over Baby Smurf's future when Poet Smurf walks in to find Baby Smurf singing a song to himself, in baby talk, and rhyming the last syllable as he sings. Poet's response? "Why, listen to that, free verse!"

Season Four

• Smurfette's idea of a honeymoon with Hefty in the cartoon special "Smurfily Ever After".
• In The Smurfomatic Smurfolator, Gargamel receives a package containing "diabolical seeds" from his mother, along with a letter explaining that it will help him get rid of the Smurfs. Gargamel plants the seeds and nothing happens. He then reads the rest of letter and it says: "You forgot to water them you idiot."
• Bigmouth Smurf involves Gargamel turning Bigmouth into a large Smurf. The results are about what you expect.
• "Gargamel's Miss-Fortune": The scene where Miss Esmeralda Fortune knocks at Gargamel's door.
  Gargamel: Now, who can that be? Go away!
  Miss Fortune: If you don't let me in, you'll regret it for the rest of your miserable life!
  Gargamel: [gulps] Well... as long as you put it that way, I suppose... [Opens the door.]

Season Five

• At the end of "Queen Smurfette", after nighttime finally befalls Smurfs Village in due to it being a very long day, everyone is in bed, tired and exhausted. It doesn't take long before the sun rises again as the Shade of Night rolls itself back up, and the Smurfs are treated to an unwelcome wake-up call by Harmony:
  Smurfs: Aaw, smurf it off, Harmony!
  • Also, when the Smurfs are singing Smurfette "happy birthday", it suddenly gets dark. The Smurfs notice and quicken the song to finish it.
• "Kow Tow We Won't Bow" has several moments:
  • King Bullrush's Dream Sequence, where he imagines becoming a 'Masked Marvel' to fly and chase after the Pussywillow Pixies, only for Sludge and his men to think he's another Pixie and down him with their bubble guns.
  • This exchange when Wartmongers Ooze and Bilge are introducing Smurfette to the others members of The Cause.
    Ooze: Quiet! There's guards all over the place!
    Bilge: WHOA!! There is?
    Ooze: This is a prison, you idiot!
    Bilge: Oh. I forgot...
    (Ooze rolls his eyes)
• "The Dark-Ness Monster" involves Brainy losing his glasses, finding laughs in just how Blind Without 'Em he is.
  • After he initially loses his glasses in an encounter with the Dark-Ness Monster, Brainy is given an eye test by Papa Smurf which involves identifying pictures of other Smurfs. When shown a picture of Vanity, he guesses Puppy (Vanity is offended by the error, while Puppy looks bemused), and when shown a picture of Smurfette, he guesses Hefty.
  • Grouchy gets two lines in this episode courtesy of Brainy's myopia, both of them comic highlights.
    • With Papa Smurf away to get a bag of magic sand from the Sandman to fashion a new pair of glasses, Brainy is in charge of the preparation committee for the Smurfball finals. He declares that he'll use a handful of ribbons to decorate "this tree". The "tree" reacts in characteristic style:
      Grouchy: I HATE BEING A TREE!
    • After Brainy finally admits to Clumsy that he needs a guide Smurf until he gets new glasses, the duo run into Grouchy and Baby Smurf, both of whom Brainy can recognise by touch alone. Once again, Grouchy's reaction is both hilarious and in character:
      Brainy: [feeling Grouchy's face] And Grouchy! I'd know your frowning face anywhere!
      Grouchy: I HATE MY FROWNING FACE ANYWHERE!

Season Six

• The Smurfs acting like they were on drugs from being exposed to Gargamel's Daredevil Dust in "Reckless Smurfs". Watch in the background as one Smurf constantly spins himself around on a fence post while balancing himself on his nose.

Season Seven

• In "Poltersmurfs", after the titular prankster little spirits are let out, a trio of poltersmurfs are playing music off key in Harmony’s house just as badly as him... in which the tone deaf Smurf is tapping his foot, commenting that it has a smurfy beat, enjoying it instead of freaking out like the others. It's then when he asks if they can dance to it is when the spirits start throwing things at him. After one of them slams an oversized tuba on him goes running out asking for help.
  • Also, while three of the poltersmurfs are trashing Painter's house, one is having a sword fight with Painter, but with paintbrushes:
    Painter: Take deez... an' deez (steps into bucket of green paint) It iz no uze! (jumps out of window) Everysmurf fer himself!
  • When Brainy and Greedy, who's been eating the "joke candy" on the way to Dark Castle where the titular spirits came, close the slab of rock trapping the poltersmurfs once more. Greedy begins talking, emitting his garlic and onions breath onto Brainy:
    Greedy: That was close!
    Brainy: (waves hand in front of face) Eew... you're too close!
    (Greedy clamps hand over mouth)
  • At the end of the episode, after Jokey apologizes Brainy starts getting into a lecture about something scaring him, only to stop when he hears moaning. Thinking it's the poltersmurfs, Brainy hides behind Papa Smurf. As the moans get louder, the camera gets to a faraway shot of Papa Smurf, Grandpa, Jokey and Clumsy looking at Greedy sitting on a bench, retching in pain for eating too much joke candy.

Season Eight

Season Nine