Return to Recap: The Smurfs (1981).
The basis for the comic book story "The Strange Awakening Of Lazy Smurf".
The other Smurfs decide to teach Lazy a lesson about his laziness, so when Lazy comes back to the village after resting in the forest, he sees that the village has fallen into disrepair and that his fellow Smurfs have now aged 300 years and unable to do anything for themselves anymore. Lazy gets worked to the bone taking care of his fellow Smurfs' needs until he decides to make a youth formula for them...but when they take the youth formula, it turns them all into Smurflings!
Tropes associated with this episode include
- Crapsack World: The Smurf Village as it appears 300 years later...or so Lazy's fellow Smurfs made it appear.
- Faked Rip Van Winkle
- Fountain of Youth: The youth potion that turned the Smurfs into Smurflings.
- Rapid Aging: Gargamel gets hit with the same potion that restores the Smurfs back to their proper ages, turning him into an old man.
- The Reveal: Lazy fed the old Smurfs a youth potion, only to discover later that they were playing a trick on him and that they weren't really old.
- Time-Passage Beard: Seen on the Smurfs who pretended to have aged 300 years while Lazy remained beardless during his "long sleep". Smurfette is most likely wearing a wig.
