A Christmas Episode that is based on the Smurfs comic book story "The Little Tree". Timber tells Empath of the first Winter Solstice the Smurfs had since their parents passed away, how Timber when he went out into the woods to find a good evergreen tree for the Winter Solstice celebration came across a little tree that was actually an elf who was cursed by an evil witch because she refused to divulge the location of a legendary golden tree with golden pinecones. However, an evil human sorcerer who is in debt seeks to take advantage of the situation and threatens Timber and the elf tree's sister Vini into finding the tree and retrieving the pinecones before sundown or else the little tree would be burned to cinders.
This story provides examples of:
- All That Glitters: Timber and Vini find out that the so-called golden tree is just an ordinary tree that produces ordinary pinecones that reflect sunlight. Timber then has Painter bring a can of gold paint so that they could dip the pinecones in the paint and paint them so that they appear to be golden in order to send Evil Marduk away to deal with his debt, allowing the other Smurfs to bring Arboria to the village.
- Bankruptcy Barrel: Evil Marduk ends up wearing one at the end of the story when the bailiff finds him trying to pass off gold-painted pinecones as actual gold and takes away all that the sorcerer has.
- Meaningful Name: Evil Marduk, which turns out to be a mashup of two different names of a Babylonian king.
- MockGuffin: The golden tree with the golden pinecones, which turns out to be an ordinary tree with ordinary pinecones reflecting sunlight off them.
- Named by the Adaptation: The little tree's name in this adaptation is Arboria.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Since this adaptation of the story takes place when the Smurfs were still Smurflings, Evil Marduk was created as a substitute for Gargamel in the original version.
- You Mean "Xmas": While the framing of the story does take place on Christmas, the main story itself is focused on the celebration of the Winter Solstice, which is before the time the Smurfs ever heard of Christmas.
