Return to Recap: The Smurfs.
The Smurfs meet a group of identical counterparts from another village, who act all evil and selfish.
Tropes associated with this story include:
- Aesop Amnesia: The Smurfs are not getting along again and fight. They should have learned. Papa Smurf decides to use magic again by creating an enemy for them to unite against. It ends up creating a menace worse than expected. He should have learned!!
- Arrowgram: The Gray Smurfs sent arrowgrams to the Smurfs prior to attacking them, hoping that they would surrender. Unfortunately, Papa Smurf's response leads to a war with the Gray Smurfs.
- Battle Discretion Shot: Hefty gets into a fight with three Gray Smurfs who have stolen food from the Smurfs, and while only the two Smurfs following Hefty get to see the fight that we don't, we do get to see Hefty shaking his fist at the badly-wounded Gray Smurfs running back to their village.
- Bedsheet Ladder: Papa Smurf, Hefty, and Jokey escape their imprisonment inside the Gray Smurf prison camp by making a ladder using torn pieces of Smurf pants...leaving the hapless victims with a Censor Shadow.
- Book Burning: The Gray Smurfs burn all of Papa Smurf's spell books in order to keep him from finding the spell to make the Gray Smurfs vanish.
- Buffy Speak: This dialogue between Papa Smurf and a nameless watchtower Smurf.Watchtower Smurf: They're everywhere. The village is surrounded. They're armed to the smurfs. They even have things...you know, machines.Papa Smurf: Machines?Watchtower Smurf: Why, yes, you know...to smurf stones.Papa Smurf: To smurf stones? (Rock comes flying and strikes the base of the watchtower.) Catapults!Watchtower Smurf: (finger raised up from the wreckage.) That's it! Catapults!
- Censor Shadow: Used in the story depicting the Smurfs who gave up their...uh, pants to create a Bedsheet Ladder for Papa Smurf, Jokey, and Hefty to escape the Gray Smurfs prison camp.
- Chew-Out Fake-Out: Papa Smurf chews out Hefty for picking a fight with the Gray Smurfs after specifically telling his little Smurfs not to use violence against them in any of their dealings. Afterward, though, Papa Smurf smiles, as Hefty's willingness to go against Papa Smurf's orders for the sake of sticking up for his fellow Smurfs has produced the result of the Smurfs being united together again.
- Dressing as the Enemy: Papa Smurf, Hefty, and Jokey throw dust on themselves to darken their clothes so they could impersonate their Gray Smurf selves.
- Empty Swimming Pool Dive: Hefty makes a masterful dive into an empty river bed.
- Evil Twin: The Gray Smurfs are basically a village full of them. The Great Leader is more of a dictator to his little Smurfs than Papa Smurf is to his own. Gray Greedy would go so far as to even eat things out of other Smurfs' hands to feed his appetite. Gray Jokey is more vicious with his jokes than Jokey is. Grey Handy seems to not care about taking good advice when it comes to building and repairing things. And Gray Smurfette is rather snide with her comments when it comes to dealing with her normal counterpart. Only Brainy seems to admire his Evil Twin counterpart for his desire to be more ruthless in catching his fellow Smurfs doing things against his leader's orders than Brainy himself is.
- Gone Horribly Right: Papa Smurf had to create a group of evil duplicates of himself and his little Smurfs so that they could see in the duplicates what they were becoming with all their fighting among themselves. It succeeds all too well in bringing the Smurfs together when the duplicates become such a threat that they nearly destroy the village and take the original Smurfs captives. Near the end of the story, Papa Smurf spends it working on a way to make the duplicates disappear.
- Great Escape: One of the Smurfs in the Gray Smurf prison camp makes his escape by digging a tunnel from the camp to freedom. He reaches the Smurf Village by the time the story ends and the Gray Smurfs have disappeared.
- Impersonating the Evil Twin: Papa Smurf attempts to impersonate his Evil Twin self the Great Leader after he, Jokey, and Hefty escape being imprisoned in the Gray Smurfs' prison camp in order to find the laboratory in the Gray Smurf Village and make the antidote that will cause the Gray Smurfs to disappear. The Gray Smurfs encountering Papa Smurf almost buy into the impersonation until Jokey accidentally lets slip a joke that gives them away.
- POW Camp: The Gray Smurfs set up one for the captured Smurfs.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: The Gray Smurfs all have red pupils in their eyes, marking them as evil and dangerous.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Papa Smurf orders his little Smurfs not to respond to the Gray Smurfs with violence when the Gray Smurfs ward them away from the dam with weapons during their protest of the Gray Smurfs hoarding all the water. Later on, when the Smurfs see that the Gray Smurfs were harassing them and robbing them of food that they were harvesting from the forest, Hefty decides to pick a fight with the Gray Smurfs and send them back to their village with nothing but bruises. The Smurfs applaud Hefty for his heroic act, but Papa Smurf still scolds Hefty for going against his orders...which immediately afterward he smiles, realizing that Hefty's decision to do so has resulted in his little Smurfs being united together again.
- Shot in the Ass: Farmer receives an Arrowgram from the Gray Smurfs right in the behind.
- A Taste of the Lash: After Papa Smurf and a few of his Smurfs were caught outside the Gray Smurf prison camp, the two Smurfs were chained up with the Great Leader threatening to give them ten lashes each. When Papa Smurf tells his little Smurfs not to worry because the Gray Smurfs aren't real and they will soon be gone, one of the Gray Smurfs gives one of the chained Smurfs a whip lash.
- This Means War!: When Papa Smurf receives an Arrowgram from the Gray Smurfs, demanding him to turn over Hefty Smurf or else, Papa Smurf refuses to do so. The next Arrowgram he receives pretty much says this.
- Trash the Set: The Smurf Village gets trashed and set on fire by the Gray Smurfs. At the end of the story, the original Smurfs are seen rebuilding it.
- Watching Troy Burn: The original Smurfs watched helplessly while being carried off in chains as the Gray Smurfs burned the Smurf Village to the ground.
