YMMV / The Smurfs S 2 E 18 The Lost City Of Yore

• Anvilicious: This episode is hit with it pretty hard. The Smurfs are reprimanding Nosey constantly for getting his nose into trouble and Brainy lectures about curiosity at the end of the episode. It feels like the writers were trying too hard to convey an Aesop, but failed miserably.
• Broken Base: Some fans like this episode for its interesting concept of a lost city where a wizard is to reduced to dust after losing control of the wand. Others dislike it for being dumbed down by Nosey Smurf's antics, which was shoehorned into the plot (although this choice was done to please Moral Guardians).
• Fanon Discontinuity: Most fans tend to forget this episode for its sad attempt at Smurf-related slapstick mixed into an already Darker and Edgier plot.
• Narm: Nosey Smurf is this when the other Smurfs blame him for his snoopish behavior. Also, the witches when they want to go to the Lost City of Yore. Both examples are overly Melodramatic and full of Narm.
• Padding: This is basically an 11-minute episode stretched to 22-minutes and most of it is wasted on Nosey Smurf's antics, such as snooping his nose into everything without giving it a break.
• The Scrappy: Nosey can be this to most fans of the show. He constantly snoops into his fellow Smurfs' business, which is his only character trait. Thankfully, this is his only appearance and he was abandoned from the show afterwards.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The episode had two plots: one involves a Smurf letting his curiosity get him into trouble in the village and another involves two witches searching for a mysterious scepter from a forbidden city. Had the former been dropped or the Smurfs forgiving and accepting Nosey for who he is (despite his snoopish behavior), it would've been a much better episode.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: We're supposed to sympathize with the other Smurfs for having their privacy invaded by Nosey's curiosity, but they were kind of being hypocritical jerks to him for not knowing they can, sometimes, peek into each others' businesses themselves.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: The episode shows us the wizard reduced to dust after losing control of the wand... in a children's show.