And, no, the plural of smurf is not "smurves". Although maybe it should be.
(Les Schtroumpfs) are originally an extremely popular (and still ongoing) French Belgian comic book by cartoonist Pierre Culliford (aka Peyo) that started in the 1960s. It is more universally known for the long-running Saturday Morning Cartoon series that Hanna-Barbera created for NBC in the 1980s.The Smurfs were born in another comic, Johan and Peewit, where they became so popular they got their own Spin-Off books that eventually overshadowed the comics that created them. The Smurfs (originally called Schtroumpfs in French) are tiny creatures, who looked human except for their blue skin and tails, and were constantly pursued by Gargamel, an impoverished sorcerer who plotted to steal the Smurfs so he could create gold (or eat them, he's never really been at that clear on his motivations). Papa Smurf, an alchemist in his own right, generally saved the day.The Smurfs tended to be named according to their personality or occupation. They were all male until Gargamel created a female Smurf with black hair. After she entered the Smurfs' mushroom village, however, Papa Smurf transformed "Smurfette" into a blonde, with an appropriate change in personality. In later seasons, the Smurfs made human friends such as Johan and Peewit, and three Smurfs were irrevocably rascalized, and later created another female smurf called Sassette. (More information here.) They also have two wikis dedicated to them: Smurf wiki and then there is another smurf wiki.Although not strictly Merchandise Driven, the Smurfs were featured in just about every category of products intended for children: dolls, toys, clothing, comic books and even a breakfast cereal. Besides their Saturday morning series, the Smurfs appeared in a Christmas Special and other seasonal programs in prime time.A CGI-animated Smurfs feature film was released by Sony Pictures (not Warner Bros.!) in 2011. Its page is here.
Gargamel trying to enter the Smurfs' village but usually ending up back at his own house because only a smurf (or people the smurfs trust) can find the village. Some plots have him overcome this.
International Adaptation: the original name is "Schtroumpf", a word without any meaning which was randomly made up by Peyo*
Actually, the name was chosen to mock the german word for Stockings, Strümpfe
. In any language, the translation is a similar and evocating meaningless sound, except for the Italian word 'puffi', which is a word meaning 'debts' in Genoan Dialect, the Turkish word 'Şirin', which means 'cute', the hebrew word "dardas" which is made up from the words for thistle and gnome, the Spanish name "pitufo" which derives from "patufet" a character of catalan folklore, the Catalan name "barrufets" that means "imp" or "fey" and some few others like "hupikék törpikék" in hungarian and "pottokiak" in euskera.
Overuse of the word smurf, as any part of speech, in the blue guys' conversations. It is used as a contextual language; Umberto Eco wrote a pun essay on the subject, "Schtroumpf und Drang", (see the essay collection "Sette anni di desiderio", 1983). It is not a swear-word replacement but is somet-, usu-, ALL THE SMURFIN' TIME parodied as such.
Jokey Smurf's exploding "surprise packages".
Brainy Smurf moralizing and subsequently being hit with a wooden mallet (thrown out of the village in the animated version).
Papa Smurf leading the other Smurfs on a long journey.
And I`m The Queen Of Sheba: In Smurf Versus Smurf, when Papa Smurf has switched bodies with Gargamel (long story), and the smurfs have caught not-Gargamel, he reveals that he's really Papa Smurf. Cue one smurf: "Yes, and I'm the Smurfette."
This also appears in the cartoon version of "Romeo And Smurfette", which lifts that scene particularly from that story.
This gets hinted at in the comic book story Bathing Smurfs as Vanity and another Smurf sit with each other at Handy's new private beach resort, with the other Smurf commenting that it's a great place to "watch the Smurfs".
Animated Adaptation: In addition to the Hanna-Barbera series, there were several animated Belgian shorts produced in the 1960s, a Belgian feature film in 1976 (La Flűte ŕ six schtroumpfs which was later dubbed to English and released in the United States in 1983 as The Smurfs and the Magic Flute), and The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol which uses both 3D CGI and regular 2D animation.
"Is it much farther, Papa Smurf?" "Not far now..." "Is it much farther, Papa Smurf?" "Not far now..." Later: "Is it much farther, Papa Smurf?" "Yes, IT IS!".
Bad Ass Grandpa: Papa Smurf. He often saved the day and would often volunteer for dangerous physical tasks.
Battle Interrupting Shout: In the comic book story and cartoon episode of "King Smurf," all that is needed to stop the Smurf civil war is for Papa Smurf to return and roar, "Stop!"
Beauty Equals Goodness: Actually more of an inversion, but Smurfette originally looked like a male smurf with a bad black wig and a dress. The cartoon features her makeover as seemingly coming with her Heel Face Turn, which adds a slight layer of Unfortunate Implications (the comics had Papa Smurf give her some ''Plastic Smurfery", so it wasn't an entirely automatic transformation.)
Big Dam Plot: The Smurfs have a dam protecting their village from flooding. Many stories have the dam breaking or treathening to break, like in the Smurfette's initial appearance, where she makes Poet Smurf open the dam out of curiosity.
Though Gargamel become more of a minor character as the series went on. The most important problems come generally from the Smurfs themselves, especially when Papa Smurf is away.
Broken Aesop: The Smurfs, who generally do not use money in their society since they emphasize friendships and family more than personal possessions, pay the player of the Facebook game The Smurfs & Co. with coins which can be used to purchase more Smurf houses and structures to populate their village with.
Brown Note: The turlusiphon (shazalla-kazoo in the cartoon show), a magic trumpet that caused anyone who heard its song to fall into a permanent magical sleep.
Canon Foreigner: Among many original creations in the Hannah Barbera cartoon, Grandpa and Nanny Smurf. They did appear in the comics that were issued in the short-lived Schtroumpf! magazine, though
A lot of the spin-off merchandise have Smurf characters who don't appear in either comic or cartoon.
Casual Interstellar Travel: Failed. An adventurous Smurf built himself a space rocket but couldn't even get it to take off. The other Smurfs set up an elaborate hoax to convince him he had actually made it to another planet. It didn't work the second time around in the cartoon show as the spell used for turning the Smurfs into Swoofs wore off too soon.
Anyone (with multiple Lampshade Hangings) receiving a gift from Jokey Smurf: "A gift? For me? That's kind! What is it?" (*BOOM!*)
Gargamel: "I'll get you, I'll get all of you if that's the last thing I ever do!"
Cats Are Mean: Azrael, Gargamel's cat, is eager to eat Smurfs.
Character Development: Grouchy Smurf was mostly a one-note character who said "I hate (whatever was said last)." When Baby Smurf arrived in both comic and cartoon, Grouchy is shown to care more for Baby Smurf that he wants to admit to anyone else (though it's this devotion to Baby that allows Baby to stay with them). He also warms to the Smurflings, so if it's a younger Smurf, especially Baby, involved, he's sometimes been allowed to act out-of-character to save them.
Civil War: Two of them. The first when King Smurf took over as Papa Smurf's replacement, and his despotism drove some of the Smurfs into underground dissent and eventually open rebellion. The second when a linguistic divide between the northern and southern halves of the village degenerated into actual war. Peyo was from Belgium... hmmm...
The Animated Adaptation had "Romeo And Smurfette" where the village takes sides in Hefty and Handy's feuding over Smurfette, which was induced by a spell cast on her by Gargamel.
Clockwork Creature: The Clockwork Smurf, followed by his companion the Clockwork Smurfette in the cartoon show.
Color Coded Patrician: Papa Smurf wears red, where everybody else wears white. Grandpa Smurf - who is no longer a leader, but used to be one, and is considered a great adviser - wears yellow.
Creator Backlash: Peyo was quite sorry that the Smurfs became so popular he couldn't concentrate as much on his other series.
David Versus Goliath: Usually played straight in that the Smurfs always win against Gargamel. Subverted at one point when a single Smurf tried to take down Azrael with a sling, but his tiny pebble harmlessly bounced off the cat's forehead. ("I always knew this whole David versus Goliath story was just make-believe!")
Delivery Stork: Smurfs have a symbiotic relationship with storks, and their reproductive process actually involves baby delivery by stork.
Disguised in Drag: Hefty Smurf had to disguise himself as Smurfette to protect her from the unwanted affections of a troll king.
Gargamel disguised himself as a female fairy in "Smurphony in 'C'" in order to trick Harmony into taking a magical musical instrument that would put the Smurfs into a death sleep when he plays it.
He also later disguised himself as the Tooth Fairy when Sassette lost her first tooth.
And again as a Wishing Fairy when Clumsy wanted to make a wish with a penny.
Jokey Smurf once disguised himself as Smurfette to play a joke. His disguise was a total failure and got him a black eye.
A male Smurf had to dress in drag in order to be a queen when two Smurfs were using their fellow Smurfs to play a game of chess.
Dramatic Slip: In "The Weather-Smurfing Machine" (the second story of the book "The Astrosmurf"), the Smurfs are trying to return to the Smurf Village during a snowstorm. Brainy Smurf falls, and when another Smurf offers to carry him, he tells "no, let me die here". The Smurf takes his word and leaves him, so a scared Brainy gets up again and keeps running.
Dressing as the Enemy / The Mole: Gargamel and Hogatha posed as actual Smurfs at one time or another, with Hogatha (Gargamel in the original comic books) being the first but lacking a tail which made her a dead giveaway near the end of the story.
Dropped a Bridget on Him: the originally female Azrael canonically became a tom when the animated series began.
Dumb Is Good: The other Smurfs disliked Brainy's bossy know-it-all behavior, despite the times he actually has a point.
Ephebophile: Papa Smurf's one-time attraction to Smurfette, which also overlaps with Pervert Dad.
"You could be Mama Smurfette!"*
Smurfette, ironically, is appointed as Mama Smurfette in the comics in a recent album, but because Papa Smurf wanted the Smurfs to learn to respect her despite her gender.
Everyone Calls Him Barkeep: None of the Smurfs has a name; they are known by their occupation or most obvious personality trait (Handy Smurf, Clumsy Smurf, etc.). The only Smurf that has an actual given name is Sassette.
Everything Is an Instrument: The Smurflings upstaged Brainy's orchestral performance in one story (and the animated episode adapted from it) with music from instruments made of junk.
Faceless Masses: All identical Smurfs in white clothing. It works for the creators of both the comic books and the cartoon show so they can bring in a character that becomes prominent for a while and then easily write him out.
Smurfs: Can't you see we're the same! We are the same! We are the same!
Failure Is the Only Option: Gargamel's goal of vengeance is condemned to failure, of course. But there's also Season 9 of the cartoon series, when the Smurfs were sucked into a time warp and spent the remainder of the series desperately trying to make their way back to Smurf Village. So it's two Sisyphean goals in one!
Actually, only one Sisyphean goal replaced by another, as the Smurfs in the final season mostly dealt with Gargamel's distant ancestors and not the wizard himself.
Fauxtastic Voyage: Happens in "Astro Smurf". The Smurfs help another Smurf's dreams of visiting another world by pretending to go on one of these. Using a volcano crator as the moon and dressing as aliens called Schlips, which in the Animated Adaptation were renamed Swoofs.
The cartoon show sequel story, "Dreamy's Pen Pals", had the Smurfs this time transform the Smurf Village into the Swoof Village when Dreamy as Astro Smurf entered his spaceship to "travel" to their world. Unfortunately, Brainy had cut corners in completing the transformation formula Papa Smurf used to transform the Smurfs into Swoofs, so they changed back a bit too soon, revealing to Dreamy that he had never really traveled to the stars.
Feathered Fiend (type C): The Cracoucass/Howlibird, a giant mutant bird that laid waste to the Smurf village.
Flight: The main method of air travel for the Smurfs is to ride storks. However, one Smurf wanted to fly unaided and tried all sorts of methods, none of which was successful. He eventually drank a magic potion that made him lighter than air, but found he couldn't get back down to ground level. The others fed him bricks until he was too heavy to fly again.
Follow the Leader: The extreme popularity of the comics and the animated series led to many attempts at repeating this success. Examples include the Galaxians from Le Scrameustache and The Snorks (part of a few attempts by HB studios itself!).
Fountain of Youth: Three Smurfs get youthened unexpectedly in "The Smurflings".
Four-Fingered Hands: The Smurfs have four-fingered hands and four-toed feet, while the humans they encounter have five-fingered hands. In their first comic book appearance, though, they did have five fingers.
Furry Female Mane: Although not a furry, Smurfette embodies the spirit of this trope: Males of a species are apparently bald but females must have plenty of head hair.
The Smurfs are rarely seen without their hat, Papa Smurf being an exception while in the first album.
Gang of Critters: You can blame The Smurfs for starting this trend.
Genghis Gambit: In order to reunite the Smurfs riven by Civil War, Papa Smurf swaps bodies with Gargamel and attacks the village.
Giftedly Bad: Harmony Smurf. Just carrying a music box makes it play badly.
Grumpy Bear: Grouchy Smurf. In the comic books, it was speculated at one point by other Smurfs that he never quite got over being stung by the Buzz Fly (apparently because he was the first victim and stayed the longest under its effect).
In the cartoon show, "The Smurfette" took place before "The Purple Smurfs", indicating that Grouchy's behavior was natural.
In the comic, the Smurfs also had Snappy Smurf, but this one, unlike Grouchy, was violent and tended to shout and curse a lot. He mellows down a bit after being turned into a Smurfling, though.
Hates Everyone Equally: Grouchy Smurf. Although, he does like Baby Smurf, Smurfette, and Papa Smurf.
He loves flowers, but he doesn't likes the idea of everyone knowing that.
The Hecate Sisters: At least in form, Sassette (maiden), Smurfette (mother), and Nanny (crone)
Heel Face Turn: The Smurfette. Note she was never evil in a The Vamp or The Baroness way, more a case of The Scrappy: She got on everyone's nerves, offered her help despite not being useful, and expected that everyone paid attention to her and fulfill all of her wishes, no matter how outrageous. Also note the list of "ingredients" when Gargamel creates her, which includes envy and vanity. Strangely, her most negative deed (she actually tried to have the entire village flooded) happened after said smurfical surgery. Yet, when she reveals that Gargamel created her, she is put on a trial. Which is heavily biased, but in her favor: everyone testified for her because she was pretty! In later stories, she is good, but no real explanation is given.
In the cartoon show, Smurfette was changed into a real Smurf through the use of magic, and this following her attempt to flood the village and she confesses she was doing it on Gargamel's orders. With that her change of heart is genuine and she quickly proves it to everyone.
In the cartoon, Smurfette followed Gargamel's orders out of fear because he created her and could un-create her as well. In the comic, Smurfette was just left to be found by trhe Smurfs and her mere presence should have cause them to fight for her *
which failed because the Smurfs didn't find her attractive, and even despised her annoying attitude
Hello Nurse: Smurfette, after her makeover, elicits this response in her fellow Smurfs. She actually became a nurse several times in the comics, such as in Doctor Smurf.
Hidden Elf Village: in the original books and the first few seasons of the cartoon.
Hidden Heart of Gold: Grouchy may say he hates everything, but if theres one thing he does love, it's Baby Smurf. Papa Smurf even lampshaded this after Brainy accused him of getting rid of Baby when he went missing.
In an earlier episode that showed Smurfette's origin, after Grouchy and the others were captured by Gargamel and they believed that Smurfette tricked them, Grouchy says, "I hate the Smurfette". But at the end after she saves everyone, he privatly draws a heart with an arrow through it and says, "I love the Smurfette too, but I hate anybody to know about it".
Informed Attractiveness: Vanity Smurf considers himself the most handsome smurf in the village. If it wasn't for that flower in his hat, he'd be indistinguishable from most smurfs.
Invisibility: Gargamel once used magic paint that made him invisible. Strangely enough, that paint seemed to make any surface look paper-thin when seen through the invisible part.
Jokey in the cartoon show once wore a cloak that made him invisible, though when he got wet wearing the cloak, it made the invisibility permanent until Papa Smurf took care of the problem.
Nat Smurfling wear a brown hillbilly hat and footless pants with a suspender, Wild wore a leaf-woven hat and a loincloth, and Sweepy wore a black suit due to his being a chimney sweep.
Smurfette is shown to have multiple copies of the same dress she wears.
Ludd Was Right: Whenever a Smurf decides to bring a new technology or system that is meant to make their lives easier, it will always be dropped by the end.
Clumsy Smurf confusing an object with another: "Bring me a (X)!" "Sure." "No! That's a (Y) !!" "Ah ?"
Magic Feather: The smurfberry jam in the Smurf Olympics and in the episode "A Little Smurf-Confidence".
Magic Music: The first time the Smurfs were mentioned in Johan & Peewit was because of a magic flute they had made, which causes people to dance uncontrollably until consuming all of their stamina when played. Also, Gargamel once tricked the Smurfs by giving Harmony Smurf a magical instrument that causes everyone who hears its sound to fall into catatonia.
Magnum Opus Dissonance: Peyo's favourite work, and actually his original main one was Johan and Pewitt (Johan and Pirlouit in its original French title)... But, one day, in one of this series' album, appeared a certain band of little blue creatures. They were intended to be one-shot characters, but quickly became Ensemble Darkhorses... And from then, The Smurfs (Les Schtroumpfs) became the single most remembered work of Peyo.
Mass Oh Smurf!: Happens when a crowd of Smurfs instantly find themselves confronting Gargamel or some danger bigger than themselves.
Mirror Self: In the Smurfs story "The Hundredth Smurf", Vanity Smurf's mirror is struck by lightning, which brings his reflection to life. The reflection speaks backwards and does everything Vanity Smurf does, but in reverse (lifting the right arm when Vanity lifts the left, for instance). After he causes chaos in the village by his opposite nature, the reflection decides to return to the mirror, but he goes through it instead, and comes out a regular Smurf.
Mordor: Retconned. The Smurfs were initially supposed to live in a remote place called "the Cursed Land", surrounded with hostile deserts and ice-capped mountains, and covered with dark forests. By the time they got their own spin-off series, however, the Cursed Land had become a regular forest, whose only peculiarity was that humans would always get lost in it unless guided by a Smurf (except for the area where Gargamel lives, which retained a sinister look). As time went by, the setting became ever more hospitable, until it turned into an actual Sugar Bowl (see below).
Nerd Glasses: This is why Brainy Smurf wears glasses. In the original French version, he is called "Schtroumpf ŕ lunettes" which means "Glasses Smurf".
Never Bareheaded: The Smurfs rarely if ever take their hats off.
Nice Hat: All the Smurfs wear hats (Phrygian caps) which they keep on at all times; the only time in the comics a (male) Smurf is seen without his hat is Papa Smurf, who is bald, but this may be due to his age. (Grandpa Smurf later shows up wearing head hair around the sides and back of his head.) In the animation, some of the Smurfs get their hats off and are revealed to be bald. Apparently, keeping on a hat is a big deal for the Smurfs: In the album The Jewel Smurfer, Jokey Smurf refuses to take off his hat at the request of a human and gets very aggressive at his suggestion.
In one album, you can spot one smurf without pants, but who still kept his cap.
No Export for You: Most of Infogrames' Smurf-related videogames during the 8-bit and 16-bit system generations never saw an American release, with only a few exceptions.
Thankfully averted with the books; arguably the best thing about the movie coming out is that nearly all of Peyo's albums are being translated, most of them for the very first time.
No Eye In Magic: In the comic book story Smurf vs. Smurf, Papa Smurf uses an eye contact magic spell on Gargamel the wizard so that the two of them would switch appearances and that Papa Smurf would be able to stop the Smurfs from fighting over the use of the word "smurf" in compounded words and phrases. During this, however, Gargamel breaks into Papa Smurf's laboratory and finds the magic words so that he can make eye contact with Papa Smurf and transform back to their original appearances. This scene is later adapted into the cartoon episode version of "Romeo And Smurfette".
Non Fatal Explosions: Jokey's explosive presents never do any harm except just splatter black soot on people.
Older than They Look: The young adult male Smurfs are really about 100 years old (150 in the cartoon show), while Papa Smurf is 542. Grandpa Smurf was mentioned as being twice Papa Smurf's age.
Once in a Blue Moon: The stork brings new baby Smurfs when the moon is blue.
One Gender Race: And it is to be remembered that all the female Smurfs were magically created.
Papa Wolf: Don't threathen the Smurfs if you don't want to be on the receiving end of one of Papa Smurf's potions.
Perma Stubble: The Swoofs (magically-disguised Smurfs in the album "The Astrosmurf") have what appears to be a ring of Fred Flintstone stubble around their mouths, though it could also simply be tribal face paint. In the animated adaptation of the story, there's a Swoofette, who is Smurfette in disguise, and even she has it!
Pervert Dad: Papa Smurf's one-time attraction to Smurfette in "Romeo And Smurfette".
Pet the Dog: In the album where Baby Smurf is introduced, when Grumpy Smurf learns that the stork is coming back to take away Baby Smurf, he decides to take him away in the woods because he doesn't want him to leave. When he eventually returns, he cries and shows more emotion that he has ever done in the series.
Gargamel has some regarding Azrael, despite being abusive to him sometimes. For example, when he dissuaded Bigmouth from eating Azrael in "Smurf Soup" (the animated version of that story tried to make Gargamel more self-centered, though).
Pie in the Face: Jokey masquerades as the Masked Pie Smurfer to attack his fellow Smurfs with pies. The reason he did this was because he thought they were getting too gloomy. Of course this resulted in an Escalating War and Jokey ended up being pied by Baby Smurf. In the comic version "The Masked Smurfer", Jokey did it to take advantage of the frequent arguments among Smurfs, and even pied himself to avoid suspicions.
Planet of Steves: All verbs and nouns are replaced with "Smurf".
Actually this trope is played straighter in the books: Smurfs who don't have a specific hobby/job are named just "Smurf". "I picked Smurf's bottle smurfer/smurf screwer" "Poor Smurf !" "Vote for Smurf"...
Purely Aesthetic Era: Averted with most of the world who keep their Middle Age setting, yet played straight specifically with the Smurf Village, thanks to Handy Smurf's somewhat advanced inventions.
La Résistance: The opponents to King Smurf's tyranny.
Rightful King Returns: Besides Dreamy in the cartoon episode "The Smurf Who Would Be King", Papa Smurf also plays this role in "King Smurf" when he returns to stop the fighting among all his little Smurfs and to put an end to King Smurf's role as king.
Rip Van Winkle: In an episode, the other Smurfs fool Lazy into thinking he has slept his way into the future where all his fellow Smurfs are now elderly and Papa Smurf has long since passed away. However, Lazy discovers the truth when he uses magic to try bringing them back to their actual ages and they wind up being young Smurflings.
The comic version is almost the same, except that Lazy Smurf finds out when overhearing a conversation, and pretends to have added a de-aging potion in the soup to get even.
Running Gag: Several of them, most notably Jokey Smurf's exploding gift boxes.
She's a Man in Japan: Azrael was female in the original Spirou stories and made male in the Hanna-Barbera cartoon. In what has to be a first for this trope, the gender switch was made canon!
There was often Lampshade Hanging, such as in a Johan & Peewit album where Peewit attempts to explain the Smurf language to other humans, but things get extremely confusing:.
Peewit: If I say "I smurf the smurf", it means...
Humans: Well... urr... I eat in bed?
Peewit: No, it doesn't! It means: I go to the woods! I mean, it's obvious!
Smurf: No, no! "I go to the woods" is "I smurf the smurf"! As for "I smurf the smurf", it means "I warble at aurora" !
Status Quo Is Almost God: Save for some new characters (the Smurfette, the Smurflings...), the village always come back to its previous state at the end of the story.
Sugar Apocalypse: The rather infamous Unicef ad campaign that bombs the Smurf Village.
Also see Zombie Apocalypse below, they almost faced extinction that time.
Sugar Bowl: Medieval Stasis never looked so good. Also Gargamel creating a Female Smurf being the only change he ever successfully made to their village.
Take That: Peyo got the inspiration for Brainy Smurf through one of his childhood friends, who liked to show off and to play the wise guy.
Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Smurfette gets changed into a 'proper Smurf' by Papa Smurf because the other Smurfs don't approve of her.
That Poor Plant: Papa Smurf once tried a growth serum on a daisy, but it ended up turning the flower into a huge Man-Eating Plant.
Theme Park: There was a Smurf theme park in France, but it didn't work well and has now become Walygator Parc (with not a single Smurf-related element in it).
This Is My Side: In Smurf versus Smurf, the village is divided and one enterprising north Smurf paints a line along the middle. Unfortunately, it runs right through one poor Smurf's home, creating confusion as to which side he belongs to.
Trademark Favorite Food: Sarsaparilla leaves, in the original comics. In real life, sarsaparilla is poisonous and Peyo intentionally drew them different so that child readers would not attempt eating them if they found it. In the series it's Smurfberries.
Unusual Euphemism: "Smurf" has been used as such a few times, like that time a Smurf insulted another one for taking his ladder. In parodies, it's used only as such.
Vague Age: Granted, The Smurfs are defined as 100 years old (150 in the cartoon show), but what makes them an example of the trope is the fact that it's unclear which human age equals that; most of them have specific jobs inside the village, yet they frequently play ball and act immature. Maybe one thing or the other may be the consequence of living in a small village led by their father (Papa Smurf is no mere name - he raised the 98 Smurfs). They were more clearly defined as adults when three of them were age-reversed to Smurflings, which made the adult Smurfs behave somewhat more mature and proved that we were better with the vague age.
The vagueness is amped up with the live-action movie character Gutsy Smurf, who sports really long sideburns while most of his fellow Smurfs are barefaced.
Verbal Tic: Using the word 'Smurf' in every single sentence can be very annoying.
The Virus: "The Black Smurfs" (adapted into the episode "Purple Smurfs").
Walking Shirtless Scene: Pretty much what a male Smurf's life is, coupled with the Limited Wardrobe. Given that in cold weather they tend to wear little else besides a scarf, it would suggest that they are adaptable to weather changes.
We Are As Mayflies: The Smurfs are definite long-livers compared to humans — they can live up to 600 years (Grandpa Smurf is a few centuries beyond that) and still remain active and sprightly. In the Animated Adaptation, it's mostly due to the Long Life Stone which gives the Smurfs their longevity, though its power must be replenished every 1000 years or the Smurfs will suffer Rapid Aging that leads to their death.
Weather Control Machine: The Smurfs invented one, but Farmer Smurf and Poet Smurf fought over which weather they wanted, and caused it to go berserk. Papa Smurf in the comic books, and Handy in the cartoon show, had to destroy it.
Why Am I Ticking?: When Gargamel finds about the creation of Sassette, he uses sorcery to make everything made with that clay to explode with the noon sun. Papa Smurf manages to create an antidote, and uses it just in time before she does explode as she scares Gargamel by trying to befriend him after she was initially rejected by her fellow Smurflings.
Wild Card: Bigmouth, who can be an ally or enemy of the Smurfs, depending what will get him some food.
Xenophone: The peddler who sells musical instruments in The Smurfs and the Magic Flute produces one while showing of his wares. He even admits that he doesn't know what it is but says it sure makes a lot of noise.
Younger than They Look: Smurfette, despite being an adult Smurf, is only about a few years old, being a magically-created Smurf.
Zombie Apocalypse: "The Black Smurfs" ("the Purple Smurfs" on the international markets), who are the result of being bitten by a fly. Black Smurfs can infect other Smurfs by biting them. The webcomic Ménage Ŕ 3 pointed out that this is the originalZombie Apocalypse, done in the comics seven years before Romero's first film.
Tropes appearing specifically in the comics:
Accidental Art: In an one-page story, Painter Smurf's canvas is taken away by the wind and it hits the ground several times, getting all kind of stains. Papa Smurf arrives and thinks his painting is brilliant, asking him how he did it. Painter Smurf replies it was "a little inspiration, a lot of perspiration".
May be a subversion: the only sentient robot was the garbage-eating one (because he ate some of Papa Smurf's magic potions) who then reprogrammed every other one to obey him.
Art Evolution: The Smurfs, in their very first appearance in Johann and Peewit, had very pointy hats that only drooped a little at the end.
Enfant Terrible: The so-non-aptly-named Jeantil (which sounds like "gentil", meaning "considerate").
Evil Twin: The Smurfs deal with evil duplicates of themselves in The Smurf Threat that were created by Papa Smurf to get the Smurfs to stop fighting with each other.
Frothy Mugs of Water: Averted. Gargamel and Azrael were bottle partners, and the Smurfs themselves were fond of drinking alcohol- at the point that Papa Smurf had to invent a wacky story of an evil genie trapped inside a bottle to prevent the Smurfs from opening it and drinking the special liquor he had on it.
Homage: Doctor Smurf is largely inspired by Jules Romains' well-known and beloved play Dr. Knock. It lampshades the play with a comical footnote and a retake in Smurfing of the play's most popular lines.
Loin Cloth: Tailor Smurf made one to Wild Smurf to wear. Before that, Wild Smurf was covered with leaves.
Loves Me Not: Deconstructed. One smurf was doing the routine, and ends up with "Loves Me Not". Another smurf asks him about his luck and he replies, gesturing to the now barren flower field that "Yeah, I can't find one that has an odd number of petals!"
And there's other time that, as a joke, two Smurfs take petals from the flowers to ensure the one doing the routine always gets "Loves Me not".
Off Model: Comic example. In the original editions, there are several coloring errors, such as Papa Smurf's pants turning white in a panel, a Smurf's pants turning blue in another one...
Paper-Thin Disguise: This was subverted when Gargamel once put on a rabbit suit — with his face still visible — and the Smurfs had a lot of trouble to keep themselves from laughing (even Azrael laughed) as they decided to pretend his disguise fooled them, until they trapped him with a paralyzing potion.
Product Placement: A 15-page spinoff story arc was an advertisement for the Benco breakfast chocolate powder brand.
Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Papa Smurf in The Finance Smurf refuses to go along with the title character's suggestion of charging his little Smurfs for his services, even as impoverished as he is when he has to pay off his little Smurfs for their services during the time he was sick when the Smurf Village monetary system was in place. Eventually every Smurf decides to go Screw The Money to Finance Smurf when they realize that the old ways of cooperation and sharing were better.
Series Continuity Error: the story The Finance Smurf introduces the money system and the Smurfs are revealed as not knowing what money is at all. This contradicts earlier stories, such as The Egg and the Smurfs where a Smurf makes a wish to become "rich" - and ends with jewels and money as a result - and in Smurf Stories where Handy Smurf creates a machine that can turn hazelnuts into gold coins and Handy Smurf tells Papa Smurf he'll use the coins to buy more hazelnuts.
During the Smurflings origin story, three Smurfs are sent to Father Time's home to get a new sand clock for Papa Smurf. The place is full with all kinds of clocks, and there's a lot of coins scattered in the floor, because "Time is money". The Smurfs recognize them as money and even can tell their worth.
Silly Reason For War: In Smurf Versus Smurf, a civil war erupts in the Smurf village over whether the word "smurf" should be used as an adjective (south end) or a verb (north end). This gets funnier in languages that allow for many composite words (e.g. Dutch and German) because now the war is about whether the proper term is "corksmurf" or "smurfscrew".
As a whole, this was parodying the language divide issues in Belgium.
Stealth Pun: The waste disposal robot in the comic book story "You Don't Smurf Progress" would eat garbage and turn them into bricks that he would expel from his rear hatch. In essence, he was shitting bricks.
Sticky Situation: Gargamel creates a treat that ends up trapping a Smurf that touches it, but as Gargamel runs over to where he has set the trap, he also gets stuck in the trap, and so do birds, a cow, and several other things on his way home. Papa Smurf makes a potion that frees everything that got stuck in the trap — everything, that is, except for Gargamel, whom Papa Smurf has no more potion for, but he does leave a recipe for the formula for Gargamel to make up.
Symbol Swearing: You might be surprised but it happened all the time in the original comics by Peyo. Yep, the comic overall was much less childlike than its Animated Adaptation.
Snappy Smurf cursed all the time.
It was even played with in one one-page gag story, where a random Smurf hits his foot with a hammer and begins Symbol Swearing up a storm until Papa Smurf tells him to wash his mouth out with soap. In the last panel, when the Smurf speaks again, his word balloon is completely clean, but now soap bubbles containing swear symbols are floating all around him.
We Want Our Jerk Back: In a comic book story, Papa Smurf plays a prank on Jokey Smurf in order to get him to stop playing his pranks on other Smurfs, only to find out that the other Smurfs are bored from the lack of his pranks, so he allows Jokey to play them once again.
Worthless Yellow Rocks: Miner Smurf dislikes gold, as he thinks it is a too soft metal to be of any use. Finance Smurf decides to take the gold to turn them into coins and create a money system. The gold coins ends up being melted and reforged into musical instruments at the story's end.
Tropes appearing specifically in the animated series:
All Just a Dream: Lazy, Brainy, and Greedy enter a paradise world behind a waterfall in "Paradise Smurfed", where its master eventually tries to imprison them for his own purposes. Brainy and Greedy escape, but Lazy doesn't. Fortunately, Lazy finds out that it was all just a dream.
Or Was It a Dream?: Dreamy Smurf in "The Smurf Who Would Be King" dreams that he has been taken to the land of the Pookies, who have been waiting for his return to deliver them from the tyrannical Norf Nags. The end of the episode, however, may suggest otherwise, as Dreamy trips over a crystal similar to the ones seen in his dream.
In the Season 2 intro, the Smurfs do a merry circle dance around a staked-down Gargamel and Azrael.
A Protagonist Shall Lead Them: Dreamy Smurf dreams of being taken to the land of the Pookies where his Second Coming portends a deliverance from the tyrannical Norf Nags.
Aside Glance: Papa Smurf at the end of "The Fountain Of Smurf" and "Papa's Day Off".
Asshole Victim: Jokey Smurf accidentally became this in the episode "The Kaplowey Scroll" when he made Grouchy angry enough to say the word "kaplowey" which made Jokey disappear. Fortunately, Papa Smurf reversed that.
Beard of Evil: Gargamel attempted to grow his own through the use of a magic potion in the episode "Symbols Of Wisdom", desiring to be like the evil wizards with beards that he admired. The only problem, though, was that his beard grew so long that it ended up reaching to the Smurf Village.
Gargamel did sport a fake Beard of Evil when he was masquerading as the dream date wizard Harlequin in order to get his hands on Hogatha's "magic whistle", which was really her bird call. However, during a kiss, the fake beard attached itself to Hogatha's face, revealing her dream date to be Gargamel, yet Hogatha doesn't notice it until after Gargamel is gone when she looks at herself in the mirror and says, "I have charm, I have beauty, I have a beard...A BEARD?!?"
Berserk Button: In "Bigmouth's Friend", the destruction of Clockwork Smurf becomes this for Bigmouth.
Blessed with Suck: In one episode, Smurfette is given a Midas touch power that enables her to turn whatever she touches into candy, but as in the case of King Midas turning his daughter into gold, Smurfette ends up turning Brainy into a Smurf sculpture of candy.
Breaking the Fourth Wall: Grandpa Smurf does this in "Lost Smurf" when he plants one of Jokey's "surprises" near the door of the prison inside Castle Captor for him and Nanny Smurf to escape.
Cloning Blues: A very literal example. Gargamel in one episode creates six copies of Brainy Smurf for his gold-making formula, which amounts to six times his usual annoyance level.
when Vanity visits a house full of mirrors that makes all his reflections come to life while Vanity himself vanishes.
Composite Character: Chef Smurf and Greedy Smurf from the comic books are mixed into the cartoon version of Greedy Smurf.
Continuity Nod: In the cartoon special "My Smurfy Valentine", Chlorhydris the evil witch spoke of Azrael having "royal blood in his veins" — which interestingly turns out to be true in Season 9's "Mummy Dearest" when the Smurfs meet his distant ancestor, the cat pharoah Azra.
Costumer: During the Time Travel episodes, the Smurf's outfits would change to match the locations they arrived in (i.e. kilts when in Scotland).
Cross-Dressing Voices: June Foray as Jokey Smurf; Brenda Vaccaro as Gargamel's nephew, Scruple.
Cut Short: The time-traveling episodes of the final season ended with no resolution of whether the time-traveling Smurfs ever made it home.
Cute Mute: Laconia, a friendly elf (where in her case, elf means a Smurf-sized human looking cutie). Utterly voiceless, she communicates by hand signs only, a skill often focal to every episode she gets in.
Darker and Edgier: Oddly enough, the animated series' Christmas Special. 'The stranger', unsettling in his own right, was implied to be serving something very, very bad, and behaved evilly enough to frighten Gargamel into breaking their (quite worthwhile) bargain to co-operate and all.
Deal with the Devil: In "Harmony Steals The Show", Harmony signs a contract that allows him to use Ghostwriter's original symphony as his own in exchange for being his eternal performer at his spectral nightclub. Papa Smurf and the other Smurfs help Harmony break the contract by revealing before the judge and jury that Ghostwriter's "original symphony" was actually musical pieces stolen from other musicians.
In "Smurfette's Dancing Shoes", Smurfette receives a pair of shoes that enables her to dance gracefully, but the imp who gave her the shoes says now she must marry him. Papa Smurf gets her out of that situation by the end of the episode by making the magic shoes appear on the imp and having him dance uncontrollably.
Droste Effect: In "Now You Smurf ‘Em, Now You Don‘t", There's a scene where Vanity brings Greedy a painting of himself bringing a painting of himself in the exact pose he stands in when presenting it.
Evil Tastes Good: In the cartoon, Gargamel usually wanted to eat the Smurfs, and went on and on about it. *
In the comics, he initially needs a smurf as an ingredient for a potion that would turn lead into gold. Then, after repeated humiliations, he's plain and simply motivated by vengeance.
Fantastic Drug / G-Rated Drug: A 1986 episode, "Lure of the Orb," features several Smurfs becoming dependent on the drugging effects of a magic orb, presented to them by a beautiful princess (actually, an ugly witch in disguise). Only when the Smurfs follow her to her castle does she reveal her true self, after which she enslaves them.
Fish Out of Temporal Water: In season 9, the Smurfs get stuck travelling through time, stopping at different time periods as they attempt to get back home. The series ended before they could.
Flower from the Mountaintop: This was the plot of a TV episode; subverted at the end when the Abominable Snowman reveals that there are actually hundreds of the flowers growing up there.
Fountain of Youth: The Smurfs encountered a literal fountain of youth twice in the cartoon series.
Get Back to the Future: How the time-traveling season started with the episodes "The Smurfs That Time Forgot", "Lost In The Ages", and "Cave Smurfs".
Getting Crap Past the Radar: In the Supersmurf TV episode, Bigmouth the ogre had just stolen the Smurf's entire warehouse of food and the Smurfs were trying (obviously) to get it back. Smurfette tries to use her "feminine wiles" to charm him into giving the food back. The opening dialogue was:
Bigmouth:(to the Smurfette standing in his open hand) What you want, Smurf? Smurfette:(vamping) Oh, you silly ogre, I'm not a SMURF, I'm a SmurfETTE. (pause, hands on hips) Wanna see? Bigmouth:(long pause, vehement headshake) ... No.
Let alone the fact that Smurfette origin story was that she was made by Gargamel in an attempt to seduce the Smurfs.
And Flowerbell invoking Mae West's "come up and see me sometime" line at the end of "Papa's Wedding Day".
Gender Bender: The cartoon version of "The Fake Smurf" has Hogatha switching genders when she becomes a Smurf.
Gender Equals Breed: Hinted at in a painting that Painter Smurf had created of Papa Smurf and his prospective bride Flowerbell the woodnymph in the episode "Papa's Wedding Day", with their offspring being male Smurfs. Of course, given how the painting depicted the couple, it was done to dissuade Papa Smurf from marrying Flowerbell, as the other Smurfs knew the whole thing was a setup.
Getting The Boot: On the TV series, Brainy gets tossed out of the village at least Once an Episode. This was done as a "safer" alternative to what happened in the original comics, where he was hit on the head with a mallet, although it would take more violence to toss him far enough to land on the outskirts of the village.
Good Angel, Bad Angel: Appears in a few episodes in the form of Angel Smurf and Devil Smurf whenever a Smurf is tempted with a moral dilemma.
Hey, It's That Voice!: According to the Smurfs Wiki, Angel Smurf was voiced by William Christopher, known at the time as "Father Mulcahy" on "M*A*S*H."
Green Aesop: "The Incredible Shrinking Wizard", which deals with Gargamel polluting the Smurf river and the effect that it has on both the wizard and the river's inhabitants.
Heel Face Turn: Flowerbell the woodnymph, does a Heel Face Turn in the episode "Papa's Wedding Day", where she tricks Papa Smurf into marrying her so that he could be captured by Lord Balthazar in exchange for her freedom. Realizing what she had done, she aligns herself with the Smurfs so that she could help rescue Papa Smurf.
Hellgate: Oddly enough, one seems to appear in the Christmas special, in the form of the stranger's travelling spell when he moves to try to steal away the two children.
I Ate What?: In "Hogatha's Heart Throb", Gargamel disguised as Hogatha's dream date is offered a refreshment that he enjoys until the witch reveals that he was drinking "snail mead".
I Am Not Spock: Francisco Colmenero is still remembered for his voice as Papa Smurf in Spanish (along with Peg-Leg Pete). Same for Esteban Siller as Gargamel.
I Believe That You Believe It: There was one TV episode about a daydreaming smurf meeting an alien, and while Papa Smurf did not just believe him he said that at least he thought that it was possible. This got its reward in the end of the episode, when he also would see the alien's spaceship leaving (with the rest of the smurfs still believing the other smurf to be crazy).
I Just Want To Be Badass: Tuffy Smurf is always wanting to be like Hefty Smurf, and tries to prove himself to be like him constantly by doing some daring things that usually put the other Smurfs in danger.
Interspecies Romance: Handy Smurf has one with Marina the mermaid in a few episodes, plus Papa Smurf had one with Flowerbell the woodnymph before he realizes that it was a setup.
Invisible to Normals: Smurfette's pegasus friend Blue Eyes is only visible to Smurfette, which makes other people including her fellow Smurfs think that her friend is imaginary.
Jackass Genie: Genie Meanie, who makes the lives of the Smurfs miserable, and then dangerous when Gargamel takes control of him. Fortunately, Papa Smurf finds the special words to put him under his control, forces him to undo the harm he's done, and finally orders him to stay in his container until he decides not to be mean anymore.
Literal Ass Kicking: An animated episode involved a spot that appeared on someone's face and (apparently magically) made them unhappy. It could only be removed by kicking them in the butt, but this transferred it to the kicker. Cue an episode of the Smurfs unusually full of ass-kicking. Handy even devised a machine to do the kicking, only to find the machine's operator was considered the kicker. It turned out that kissing the spotted person made the spot vanish without a transfer.
Loud of War: The episode "Romeo And Smurfette" had a duel between two groups of serenading Smurfs led by Hefty and Handy who are trying to out-woo each other for Smurfette's affections, ultimately resulting in a brawl that Papa Smurf had to stop.
Mama Bear: In the episode, "Smurfette Unmade," this trope is what breaks Gargamel's spell that forcibly reverted Smurfette to her original evil black haired form. This happens when she captures the Smurfs and Gargamel is about to kill Baby Smurf first for his goldmaking spell; Smurfette's conscience angrily flares up in defiance to this evil and suddenly she is transformed back into her blond form, furiously throwing around explosive vials of unstable magic potion until she sends the villains flying out of the house before she rescues the Smurfs.
Meat O Vision: The smurf-colored glasses that Handy created in the eponymous episode, which enabled Smurfs to see anyone as handsome and harmless, allows Bigmouth to see Gargamel and Azrael as a pair of walking delectables, which caused Bigmouth to chase Gargamel and Azrael into the forest while the Smurfs make their escape.
Media Watchdogs: Glass objects were absent, as the breaking of such was actually not allowed on cartoons at the time, although this was less noticeable in the show's quasi-medieval setting.
Men Don't Cry: The very manly Hefty Smurf chides his fellow Smurf Weepy for being a sissy for crying in one episode, but at the end of it even he is found crying.
Messenger of Doom: Grandpa Smurf in the four-part episode "Smurfquest" returns to the village after a 500-year quest around the world to warn the other Smurfs of the impending danger of the Long Life Force Stone losing its power.
Moral Guardians: In addition to the "obvious" Communism metaphor (see What Do You Mean, It's Not Political? below), there was a lot of complaints about how the Smurfs encouraged witchcraft and satanism back in the day.
My Smurfness, What Have I Done?: Grouchy's reaction to making Jokey disappear by using the word "kaplowey" on him in anger, followed by a very sad "I hate...myself".
Never Say "Die": Surprisingly enough, averted. The words "die" and "dead" are used in several episodes; the most notable one being the episode "Squeaky".
Never Trust A Hair Tonic: Gargamel and Brainy learned this lesson the hard way in "Symbols Of Wisdom".
The Night That Never Ends: Actually the opposite in "Queen Smurfette", as Father Time fails to bring the close of the day on Smurfette's birthday, resulting in the day never ending until Papa Smurf brings it to Father Time's attention.
Nobody Poops: Discussed in one episode where Brainy tries to get out of joining some other Smurfs in searching for a rare flower on a snowy mountaintop by making a bunch of excuses, one of them being that he has to go to the bathroom.
Old Man Marrying A Child: Averted in "Romeo And Smurfette" when Papa Smurf along with the other Smurfs start having those thoughts about marrying Smurfette, but she even turns her peers down by stating that she's still too young and that she loves all her fellow Smurfs equally.
Our Giants Are Bigger: The Smurfs dealt with a few giants in their episodes, including one brought to life by Gargamel by using smurfberries, which proved to work against Gargamel because his giant now loved smurfberries.
Party Scheduling Gambit: On the animated series, Brainy Smurf throws a "smarty party", but excludes the Smurflings for being too young, so they decide to throw their own party. Eventually, everyone goes to the Smurflings' party after being expelled from Brainy's party for breaking any of the myriad rules he set up.
Phantom Zone Picture: Painter Smurf starts painting these in one episode, which ends up trapping Papa Smurf into a painting.
Rapid Aging: Took place in the four-part "Smurfquest" episode when the Long Life Force Stone, which allowed the Smurfs to live long lives through decreased aging, was losing its power, though the Smurflings didn't grow taller as they aged, and Baby Smurf only shows slight wrinkles.
Red Sky, Take Warning: In the episode "Lost Smurf", the trope takes a twist as a shifting multicolored sky portends a danger that only Grandpa Smurf knew about — a mysterious haunted castle that has taken Nanny Smurf away when she went after him.
Refugee From TV Land: An episode of the TV series has the in-universe fictional character Don Smurfo (a Smurf Zorro expy) enter into the real universe of the Smurfs.
Rump Roast: The cave child Grog is given toasted tooties near the end of "Lost In The Ages".
Samus Is a Girl: At the climax of "The Smurfette" (an adaptation of the story where Smurfette first appeared), Smurfette disguises herself as "The Lone Smurf" and even disguised her voice, though she still has visible eyelashes.
Scooby Dooby Doors: Used in the episode "Lost Smurf" when Papa Smurf, Hefty, Brainy, Wild, and Sassette get chased through a series of doors in a long hallway inside Castle Captor.
Also in the episode "Smurfing For Ghosts" when Peewit, Brainy, and Clumsy are being chased by ghosts in Quarrel Castle.
Scotireland: Miner Smurf is spoken of as having either an Irish or a Scottish accent.
The Scottish Trope: "The Kaplowey Scroll" proved that the word "kaplowey" was dangerous when Grouchy used it on Jokey after being the butt of one of his pranks, and after that every Smurf feared to say anything ever again.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Greedy was like this in one episode when he decided to go on strike from being the village cook and leave the village to offer his service for someone who really cares about his craft. Poet and Painter were also like this in another episode, and so was Smurfette and the Smurflings when hardly any of the Smurfs were paying attention to them.
Second Coming: Dreamy Smurf dreams that he has been taken to the land of the Pookies, who have been waiting for his return to deliver them from the tyrannical Norf Nags. The end of the episode, however, may suggest that it was otherwise, as Dreamy trips over a crystal similar to the ones seen in his dream.
Skip of Innocence: Smurfette often does this when she joyfully has a walk in the forest, in various albums of the series.
Snake Oil Salesman: The Smurfs dealt with one of these in "The Miracle Smurfer".
Sticky Situation: In an animated episode, Gargamel tries to trap The Smurfs in a sticky glue trap, only to end up trapping Hogatha who is none too pleased about it. She demands to be freed from the trap, but Gargamel tells her to get herself out. Hogatha does, but she uses her magic to put Gargamel into his own sticky trap.
In another episode, Gargamel casts a spell that causes the Smurfs to get stuck to each other, which Papa Smurf uses to his advantage by having the stuck Smurfs stick on Gargamel, forcing him to come up with a counter-spell that frees him and all the other Smurfs.
Stop Helping Me!: Farmer's attitude towards Gourdy the genie, who came in in the later seasons to help Farmer Smurf whether he wanted it or not.
Taken for Granite: The Smurfs in one episode were a victim to a spell that petrified them and half their forest, and would have stayed that way had Peewit not been able to convince two feuding sorcerers to stop fighting with each other and recite the incantation together that reverses the condition.
Gargamel himself was a victim of a potion that turned him and his cat Azrael into stone. Papa Smurf restored him to normal.
Temporary Blindness: In one episode, Poet Smurf is struck mute, and learns sign language from a friendly elf named Laconia.
Also, in the episode "Dark Ness Monster" Brainy Smurf is rendered practically blind after losing his glasses. He has to rely on Clumsy Smurf's guidance for the episode, which results in the two becoming best friends.
Theme Tune Cameo: The Smurfs are prone to la-la-ing their own theme song.
It also has a comic book appearance in the story Bathing Smurfs.
Unexplained Accent: They flourish among the Smurfs; several of them have very distinct accent that they really have no reason for having developed. For example, Clumsy speaks in a distinct Southern dwarl, Painter speaks in a French accent, Miner's clearly meant to be Irish and Farmer from Maine.
The Unintelligible: Both Clockwork Smurf and Wild Smurf were this in the cartoon show, whereas their comic book counterparts either could speak Smurf language from the start or eventually learned how to do so.
The Vamp: Flowerbell the woodnymph in "Papa's Wedding Day" on the cartoon show. Also the cartoon version of the Smurfette before her Heel Face Turn.
We Want Our Jerk Back: In "The Essence Of Brainy", Brainy once loses his Know-Nothing Know-It-All essence and the other Smurfs must find a way to bring back his usual annoying self.
Would Hit a Girl: Hefty attempts on hitting Smurfette in the cartoon adaptation of "The Smurfette" after she fesses up she's taking orders from Gargamel.
Zap Zap Kiss: Selwyn and Tallulah, the bickering sorcerer couple who fight with each other as much as they love each other.
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