Return to Recap: The Smurfs (1981).
While the Smurfs prepare to stock up for the coming winter, Lazy decides to go to sleep near a waterfall, where he is soon awakened by a person named Cicero, who offers to the young Smurf a paradise world that he can escape to. Brainy and Greedy also follow Lazy through the waterfall and see for themselves the beautiful garden that the paradise world is comprised of, with its guardian Bacchus offering it freely to his guests. However, they soon become bored and wish for some excitement, which Bacchus gives in the form of "hide and hunt" — a game that turns out to be deadly when Bacchus uses his magic powers to make traps spring up wherever the Smurfs are hiding.
Tropes associated with this episode include
- All Just a Dream: As Lazy's journey into the world behind the waterfall turns out to be.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: The three Smurfs in Bacchus' paradise wished for some excitement. They got more than they bargained for when Bacchus uses his powers to turn things in his paradise into death traps for the Smurfs during a game of "hide-and-hunt".
- Broken Masquerade
- Crapsaccharine World: Bacchus' paradise world, as it turns out.
- Fauns and Satyrs
- Literary Allusion Title: A pun on Paradise Lost.
- Pleasure Island: Bacchus' paradise lets the Smurfs do whatever they want, but the payment for such services is that the Smurfs must now be part of Bacchus' dinner plate.
