History YMMV / TheSmurfs

* UncannyValley: Azrael definitely falls into this.
** Just look at the movie poster! Papa's even doing the {{Dreamworks}} smirk!

** When Smurfette was evil, she had black hair and a big nose just like the other Smurfs have. When she was turned good, she became a blonde, her nose got smaller and she seemed to become more of a ditz.

* CharacterDevelopment: In the American cartoon, Grouchy Smurf was mostly a one-note character who said "I hate (whatever was said last)." When Baby Smurf arrived in "Once in a Blue Moon," he is shown to care more for Baby Smurf that he usually wants to admit to anyone else, even himself (though it's this devotion to Baby that allows Baby to stay with them). He also warms to the Smurflings, so if it's a younger Smurf, especially Baby, involved, he's sometimes been allowed to act out-of-character to save them.

** There has been two explicitely political issues. One is "King Smurf" (The Dutch translation even called him the Smurführer). The other one, "Smurf versus Smurf", is a satire of Belgium's linguistic division.

* AdaptationDisplacement: A lot of people knows the Smurfs. The original comic book series, ''Johan and Peewit''? Not so much.

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: The Smurfs had their share of creepy adventures. Like ''The Black Smurfs'', where the Smurfs were being turned into evil black versions of themselves that could say nothing but "G'nap!", and bit each other on the tail to spread the infection. Or the animated ChristmasSpecial where they rescue 2 children and Gargamel from an evil wizard, who conjures a wall of fire around himself, the kids, and the IneffectualSympatheticVillain, only to fade away screaming in defeated despair under the Smurfs' repeated singing of a sappy holiday song.

** There's also the episode All Work and no Smurf, in which overworked Smurfs begin to transform into various inanimate objects. Talk about AndIMustScream.

** And then the episode where Brainy Smurf gets turned into a monstrous Werewolf-Smurf creature from a scratch from a magical plant.
** Whatever you do, don't say "Kaplowey"! It'll make whatever you're pointing at vanish. People included. (At the end, using the word on the magic scroll that empowers it reverses the effect and things begin reappearing...but [[FridgeLogic a) who knows what dangerous things it might have been used on? and b) sooner or later the scroll will reappear too!]].

* The first ever Smurf story was "The Black Smurfs", and the idea of evil black-skinned Smurfs has become quite... politically incorrect. The animated adaptation made them purple.
* When Smurfette was evil, she had black hair and a big nose just like the other Smurfs have. When she was turned good, she became a blonde, her nose got smaller and she seemed to become more of a ditz.
** She was never evil to begin with in the original comic, but she was much more of a ditz when black-haired.
* Some nerd annoys you with his talk? Why, extreme violence to shut him up is apparently completely okay!

* KarmaHoudini: Smurfs often cause grievous physical violence towards Brainy Smurf when he has been nagging them too much. We never see them being lectured/punished by Papa Smurf for this ''very'' unethical treatment.

* UnfortunateImplications: The first ever Smurf story was "The Black Smurfs", and the idea of evil black-skinned Smurfs has become quite... politically incorrect. The animated adaptation made them purple.
** When Smurfette was evil, she had black hair and a big nose just like the other Smurfs have. When she was turned good, she became a blonde, her nose got smaller and she seemed to become more of a ditz.
*** She was never evil to begin with in the original comic, but she was much more of a ditz when black-haired.

* NightmareFuel: The Smurfs had their share of creepy adventures. Like ''The Black Smurfs'', where the Smurfs were being turned into evil black versions of themselves that could say nothing but "G'nap!", and bit each other on the tail to spread the infection. Or the animated ChristmasSpecial where they rescue 2 children and Gargamel from an evil wizard, who conjures a wall of fire around himself, the kids, and the IneffectualSympatheticVillain, only to fade away screaming in defeated despair under the Smurfs' repeated singing of a sappy holiday song.
** Worse was the ending of ''The Black Smurfs''. Papa Smurf had been bitten. The only reason anyone was cured was cartoon physics, with the fire spreading the antidote as a gas rather than diluting and burning it on the ground. Otherwise they'd all still be that way.
** There's also the episode All Work and no Smurf, in which overworked Smurfs begin to transform into various inanimate objects. Talk about AndIMustScream.
*** Actually they still had mouths and spoke, which arguably makes it worse.

* EpilepticTrees: A disturbing amount of them contradict the show's continuity (just look at the conspiracy theories surrounding Smurfette).

* PeripheryHatedom: The Smurfs had this at some point.

* AdaptationDecay: The cartoon series has a lot of differences in continuity from the original comics.
** Also, {{The Movie}}. ''[[TheMiddleAges Smurfs]] [[WeAllLiveInAmerica in]] [[BigApplesauce New York]] [[MindScrew ?!]]'' Why not {{Superman}} as a Belgian superhero raised by an Anvers couple and protecting King Albert II?

*** I'd pay to see that.