History ReferencedBy / TheSmurfs

* Dutch singer Vader Abraham (''Father Abraham'') became filthy rich in 1978 after releasing ''The Smurf Song'', which was translated in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish and Japanese, all sung by himself. This was followed by many other Smurf-themed songs.

* In the WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "Valuable Lessons" two network censors think the Warner siblings are too violent so they show them a cartoon called "The Cute and Fuzzy Snugglers" in an attempt to soften them up, the cartoon features purple Smurf-like creatures who look up to Papa Snuggler, a Papa Smurf parody.

** After kidnapping [[Series/XenaWarriorPrincess Lucy Lawless]] in ''Treehouse Of Horror X'' Comic Book Guy informs her to she will now be his SexSlave and gives her a list of names he wants to be addressed by: Obi-Wan, Iron Man, Mr. Mxyzptlk, and Big Papa Smurf.
** In ''Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore'' Homer looks at a statue of the Hindu deity Vishnu and confuses him with Papa Smurf.
** In ''Homerland'' Annie Crawford imagines Papa Smurf in her hallucinations.
* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'': In an episode of ''Robot Chicken'' Smurf Village is victim to a flood. Gargamel finally manages to capture some of the drowned Smurfs and eats them. However, waiting for so many years turns out to be a disappointment, because they don't seem to taste well. After only one bite he throws the rest of his meal away and orders some Chinese food by phone.

** In another, parodying the movie ''Film/{{Se7en}}'', Brainy Smurfs investigates the mysterious deaths. The culprit is [[spoiler:Jokey Smurf]].

** In ''Dances With Smurfs'' Cartman tells a tale in which he went to the Smurf village and was accepted by them to live in their midst. He tries to sell the movie rights but is furious when he learns somebody else already beat him too it: Creator/JamesCameron's ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' (by the way: this episode aired before the film had premiered.)

* In the WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "Valuable Lessons" two network censors think the Warner siblings are too violent so they show them a cartoon called "The Cute and Fuzzy Snugglers" in an attempt to soften them up, the cartoon features purple Smurf like creatures who look up to Papa Snuggler a Papa Smurf parody.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode, "[[Recap/RugratsS2E2ChuckieVsThePottyTogetherAtLast Together at Last]]", Larry and Steve get jobs painting Phil and Lil's house. When Phil accidentally causes a can of blue paint to fall on Steve, Larry says, "Oh, dude! You look like a Smurf!"

* In the short, "Working Pig" from the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode, "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS1E37CareerOpporToonIties Career Oppor-toon-ities]]", when Hamton gets a job at the ACME Mall's toy store, some of the toys he tries to sell to Elmyra are of the "Muffy Smuffs".

'''Franchise/TheSmurfs''' have been a mainstay of popular culture since their creation in 1958. Originally a [[BelgianComics Belgian comic strip]], ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' by Creator/{{Peyo}}, it quickly became a CashCowFranchise in the following decades, culminating in the 1965 animated film ''Les Aventures des Schtroumpfs'', the 1976 animated feature ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfsAndTheMagicFlute'' and Dutch singer Vader Abraham (''Father Abraham'')'s 1977 hit single ''The Smurf Song'', which was a top 5 hit in many countries and was translated by him in many other languages, including Japanese. After ''WesternAnimation/HannaBarbera'' turned the series into a Saturday-morning children's TV cartoon series, ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'', in 1981, the Smurfs became a global phenomenon in all other parts of the world too, including the USA. In the 2000s the CGI live-action ''[[Film/TheSmurfs Smurfs]]'' films revived interest in the franchise.

* ''ComicBook/{{Urbanus}}'': In ''De Hittentitten Zien Het Niet Meer Zitten'' Urbanus is attacked by some Smurfs, but they are picked up by two representatives of the ''WesternAnimation/HannaBarbera'' studios (namely Fred and Barney from ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'') to take them to Hollywood.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{MAD}}'' had a spoof of ''Film/{{Mama}}'' involving the Smurfs, called "Papa".

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'', the title character refers to one of the Guardians of the Universe as Papa Smurf after he receives a Franchise/GreenLantern ring and joins with the rest of the Green Lantern Corps on Oa.

* In the WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "Valuable Lessons" two network censors think the Warner siblings are too violent so they show them a cartoon called "The Cute and Fuzzy Snugglers" in an attempt to soften them up, the cartoon features purple Smurf like creatures who look up to Papa Snuggler a Papa Smurf parody.

* There have been some other unofficial Smurf themed records released in other countries, which all form the same pattern. Take a current hit single, replace the vocals with some Smurf related lyrics and sing everything in a helium voice. TheOtherWiki has an entire article about it: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smurfs_music]]

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': One cutaway gag had two Smurfs talk about one of them scoring with Smurfette and using the word ''Smurf'' as a substitute for the word ''fuck''.

* Creator/UmbertoEco once wrote a pun essay called ''Schtroumpf und Drang'' (a pun on ''Sturm on Drang'') about the use of the word ''smurf'' in speech.

* WebOriginal/TheNostalgiaChick devoted an entire episode to female {{Expy}} characters of male cast members and named it TheSmurfettePrinciple.

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* ''ComicBook/BenoitBrisefer'': In one album, Lady Adolphine is given a present which promptly explodes in her face. Afterwards she looks knowingly at the reader. This Smurfs reference was especially obvious since both ''Benoit Brisefer'' and ''The Smurfs'' were made by the same creator.
* ''ComicStrip/DeKiekeboes'':

* In the cartoons of Dutch cartoonist Gummbah, the Smurfs are frequent background characters, often shown as degrading, cigarette-smoking, unshaven cynics.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Urbanus}}'': In ''De Hittentitten Zien Het Niet Meer Zitten'' Urbanus is attacked by some Smurfs, but they are picked up by two representatives of the ''WesternAnimation/HannaBarbera'' studios (namely Fred and Barney from ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'') to take them to Hollywood.

'''Franchise/TheSmurfs''' have been a mainstay of popular culture since their creation in 1958. Originally a [[BelgianComics Belgian comic strip]], ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' by Creator/{{Peyo}}, it quickly became a CashCowFranchise in the following decades, culminating in the 1965 animated film ''Les Aventures des Schtroumpfs'', the 1976 animated feature ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfsAndTheMagicFlute'' and Dutch singer Vader Abraham (''Father Abraham'')'s 1977 hit single ''The Smurf Song'', which was a top 5 hit in many countries and was translated by him in many other languages, including Japanese. After ''WesternAnimation/HannaBarbera'' turned the series into a Saturday-morning children's TV cartoon series, ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'', in 1981, the Smurfs became a global phenomenon in all other parts of the world too, including the USA. In the 2000s the CGI live-action films ''Film/TheSmurfs'' revived interest in the franchise.

'''Franchise/TheSmurfs''' have been a mainstay of popular culture since their creation in 1958. Originally a [[BelgianComics Belgian comic strip]], ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' by Creator/{{Peyo}}, it quickly became a CashCowFranchise in the following decades, culminating in the 1965 animated film ''Les Aventures des Schtroumpfs'', the 1976 animated feature ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfsAndTheMagicFlute'' and Dutch singer Vader Abraham (''Father Abraham'')'s 1977 hit single ''The Smurf Song'', which was a top 5 hit in many countries and was translated by him in many other languages, including Japanese. After ''WesternAnimation/HannaBarbera'' turned the series into a Saturday Morning children's TV cartoon series, ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'', in 1981 the Smurfs became a global phenomenon in all other parts of the world too, including the USA. In the 2000s the CGI live-action films ''Film/TheSmurfs'' revived interest in the franchise.

Naturally, this has lead to countless shout-outs, references, spoofs, homages and other winks to the franchise.

* ''ComicBook/BenoitBrisefer'': In one album Lady Adolphine is given a present which promptly explodes in her face. Afterwards she looks knowingly at the reader. This Smurfs reference was especially obvious since both ''Benoit Brisefer'' and ''The Smurfs'' were made by the same creator.

* In the cartoons of Dutch cartoonist Gummbah the Smurfs are frequent background characters, often shown as degrading, cigarette smoking, unshaven cynics.

[[AC:Western Animation]]

'''Franchise/TheSmurfs''' have been a mainstay of popular culture since their creation in 1958. Originally a [[BelgianComics Belgian comic strip]], ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' by Creator/{{Peyo}} it quickly became a CashCowFranchise in the following decades, culminating in the 1965 animated film ''Les Aventures des Schtroumpfs'', the 1976 animated feature ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfsAndTheMagicFlute'' and Dutch singer Vader Abraham (''Father Abraham'')'s 1977 hit single ''The Smurf Song'', which was a top 5 hit in many countries and was translated by him in many other languages, including Japanese. After ''WesternAnimation/HannaBarbera'' turned the series into a Saturday Morning children's TV cartoon series, ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'', in 1981 the Smurfs became a global phenomenon in all other parts of the world too, including the USA. In the 2000s the CGI live-action films ''Film/TheSmurfs'' revived interest in the franchise.

'''Franchise/TheSmurfs''' have been a mainstay of popular culture since their creation in 1958. Originally a [[BelgianComics Belgian comic strip]], ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' by Creator/{{Peyo}} it quickly became a CashCowFranchise in the following decades, culminating in the 1965 animated film ''Les Aventures des Schtroumpfs'', the 1976 animated feature ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfsAndTheMagicFlute'' and Dutch singer Vader Abraham (''Father Abraham'')'s 1977 hit single ''The Smurf Song'', which was a top 5 hit in many countries and was translated by him in many other languages, including Japanese. After ''WesternAnimation/HannaBarbera'' turned the series into a Saturday Morning children's TV cartoon series, ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'', in 1981 the Smurfs became a global phenomenon in all other parts of the world too, including the USA. In the 2000s the CGI live-action films, ''Film/TheSmurfs'' revived interest in the franchise.

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'''Franchise/TheSmurfs''' have been a mainstay of popular culture since their creation in 1958. Originally a [[BelgianComics Belgian comic strip]], ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'', by Creator/{{Peyo}} they quickly became a CashCowFranchise in the following decades, culminating in the 1965 animated film ''Les Aventures des Schtroumpfs'', the 1976 animated feature ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfsAndTheMagicFlute'' and Dutch singer Vader Abraham (''Father Abraham'')'s 1977 hit single ''The Smurf Song'', which was a top 5 hit in many countries and was translated by him in many other languages, including Japanese. After ''WesternAnimation/HannaBarbera'' turned the series into a Saturday Morning children's TV cartoon series, ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'', in 1981 the Smurfs became a global phenomenon in all other parts of the world too, including the USA. In the 2000s the CGI live-action films, ''Film/TheSmurfs'' revived interest in the franchise.