History YMMV / TheSmurfs

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Brainy Smurf in the later comics, live-action movies and ''WesternAnimation/SmurfsTheLostVillage'' (all of which were made after the death of creator, Peyo). He no longer makes long speeches as much to annoy Smurfs, his maturity increased, becomes more knowledgeable, has more sympathy for others and is no longer self-centered. His insufferable tendencies have also been downplayed.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Brainy Smurf in the later comics, live-action movies and [[WesternAnimation/SmurfsTheLostVillage Smurfs: The Lost Village]] (all of which were made after the death of creator, Peyo). He no longer makes long speeches as much to annoy Smurfs, his maturity increased, becomes more knowledgeable, has more sympathy for others and is no longer self-centered. His insufferable tendencies have also been downplayed.

!! For the [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981 HannaBarbera animated adaptation]]:

* BrokenBase: Most die-hard fans find the show to be heartwarming and hilarious, while some criticize the series for its toned-down violence and Hanna-Barbera's own brand of comedic slapstick compared to the wit and humor of the original comics.

* WeirdAlEffect: ''Very'' few people realize that [[https://youtu.be/0IKXIq32dZY Gargamel's theme]] is not an original composition, but an esoteric piece of classical music, specifically [[https://youtu.be/0mnrHf7p0jM "Schubert's Unfinished Symphony".]]

* HeartwarmingMoments: Grouchy saving Baby Smurf´s life in Diaper Daddy
** In "Smurf your Seatbelts" Handy´s smile after Smurfstorm saves his life and calls him a friend.Not long after,he returns her the favor and she hugs him.Specially sweet taking in count they spend most of the episode bickering.

* TheWoobie: Scaredy Smurf in "The Scariest Smurf" spends the episode trapped inside a robot without being capable to comunicate with his fellow smurfs and is completely terrified about it.

* UnexpectedCharacter: A lot of viewers haven't expected Baby Smurf to be included in the cast, given that he had been AdaptedOut from the previous Smurf movies.

* HilariousInHindsight:
** In the episode "''Clumsy Luck''," a second glasses-wearing Smurf appears in one scene. While at the time, it was just an animation error (a duplicate of Brainy, to be exact), come the 2011 movie, a second glasses-wearing Smurf, in the form of Narrator Smurf, now exists.
** The voice Creator/AlanYoung provides Miner Smurf sound like a somewhat deep version of [[WesternAnimation/MickeysChristmasCarol Scrooge]] [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales McDuck]]. Similarly, the voice [[Creator/JuneForay Jokey]] uses while disguised as titular Don Smurfo sounds an awfully like [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales Magica De Spell]].
*** Alan Young plays an even more blatant Scrooge expy in one of the final season's time travel episodes, a Scottish ghost who Young goes completely [=McDuck=].
** In the newest Japanese dub broadcasted by Animax Japan, Creator/RomiPark voices Grouchy Smurf. The hilarity came with the fact she previously voiced [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Edward Elric]], who is not only extremely grouchy but also takes [[BerserkButton personal offense to being called "small"]]. Grouchy is not only, well.. ''grouchy'', he is also ''smaller'' than Ed.
** Also from the Animax's Japanese dub, Creator/YuukiKaji voices Brainy Smurf, who is pursued by a giant guy (Gargamel) and his cat, Azrael. Yuuki also played Eren in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', who's also pursued by a giant. This is even more hilarious, in a meta-way, besides Kaji (Eren) and the aforementioned Park (Hange), there's also Creator/MarinaInoue (Armin) voicing Poet Smurf and Creator/YuuKobayashi (Sasha) as Painter Smurf.
** In "A Pet for Baby Smurf", when Gargamel attempts to transform Azrael into a creature to help him track down the Smurfs and their village, one of his attempts has him turn the cat into a green pig. And then just a little 25 years later, the ''Franchise/AngryBirds'' franchise makes its debut - and it happens to also feature green pigs as not just villains but [[ArchEnemy arch-enemies]] to the titular Angry Birds in practically the same vein as the extraordinarily bitter relationship between Gargamel and the Smurfs.
** During the final season's abortedarc of time travel, the group ends up in a very inaccurate version of AncientRome and aids one of history's first pizza makers against Gargamel's lookalike ancestor. After their help, the chef thanks them in modern Italian, not Latin - by saying 'Molto Bene'. Of course, the Doctor in Doctor Who's episode 'Midnight', the Doctor is taunted by a disembodied entity with those exact words.

* HilariousInHindsight:
** Anyone who had watched ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' know that Music/KatyPerry guest starred in one episode....and ended up dating [[Creator/NeilPatrickHarris Barney Stinson]]. Also Series/ProjectRunway Tim Gunn was his tailor.
** Creator/NeilPatrickHarris guest starred on ''Series/{{Glee}}'', where he was the rival of Will. He apparantly also stole his wife [[Creator/JaymaMays Emma Pillsbury]].

* UnexpectedCharacter: A lot of viewers didn't expected Baby Smurf to be included in the cast,given that he had been AdaptedOut from the previous Smurf movies.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: The show has incredibly fluid animation for a TV-budgeted CGI cartoon, with special attention paid to the exaggerated movements of the characters.

!!For the 2021 series:

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!!For [[VideoGame/TheSmurfs1994 the 1994 video game]]:

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The Smurfs were very popular in the US and Canada during their heyday in the 80's.

** Besides, the AnimatedAdaptation is probably more well-known for American audiences than the Smurfs comic books.

** No one will blame you if you didn't know that there was a 1961 Smurf cartoon. Even in Europe, it's overshadowed by the 1981-88 cartoon and has never seen so much as a VHS or DVD release.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Gutsy. Crazy and Narrator to some extent.

* UnpopularPopularCharacter: Clumsy.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: Some fans find Brainy Smurf sympathetic because (at least in the comics) despite his constant nagging, [[StrawmanHasAPoint he often has a point]] and is victim to ''brutal physical violence'' when the other Smurfs are annoyed, without them getting any chastisement for this, even though the Smurfs are [[{{Hypocrite}} supposed to take pride into being]] [[NotSoDifferent more peaceful than humans]].

!! For the [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs HannaBarbera animated adaptation]]:

** Azrael gets a bit of this too. Remember, Gargamel's the best owner he's ever had. Azrael has had other owners. That hole in his ear was an injury one of his previous owners did =when he was a ''kitten,'' deliberately.
** Chlorhydris stole an attractive male sorcerer away from a competing sorceress, but having to live the rest of her life thinking the man she loved and wanted to marry [[RunawayGroom just didn't show up on their wedding day]] was understandable enough to make anyone with her powers want to make the world suffer with her for the unhappiness that she had to live through. Unfortunately, she had to choose the Smurfs as the target for her making the world as miserable as she was, but when they found out that her witch rival had [[TakenForGranite turned her husband-to-be into stone]] and kept him in that state for twenty years, they did everything they can to help bring that happiness back into her life and at least give her the hope of a happy ending...until her husband-to-be accdientally sat on Chlorhydris' black heart arrows which she carelessly left on a seat that he sat on and caused his heart to be filled with nothing but hate. That just broke her heart all over again, and she's back to being her old bitter self again, desiring to ruin everybody's happiness.

* TheScrappy: In the 1980s cartoon, Brainy Smurf was someone who nobody (except Clumsy Smurf) liked in-universe or out. On the surface, he's a KnowNothingKnowItAll who's more of a narcissist than Vanity Smurf (a guy whose ''name'' denotes narcissism) and more annoying than, well, anyone else on the show, mostly because of his whiny, nasally voice as he lectures anyone unlucky enough to listen. He never plays a vital part of the story (unless he's the ''antagonist'' of the story, which happened ''a lot''). Worst of all, this guy tends to do terrible things all the time, like bake living gingerbread Smurfs that almost destroy the village, blame Clumsy for losing Baby Smurf (after ''he'' was responsible) and put him through a KangarooCourt, and even seize control of the village, crown himself king, rule like a tyrant, and start a Smurf civil war. [[AdaptationalVillainy (Although in fairness, it wasn't him in the original version.)]] Thankfully averted in the live-action movies and [[WesternAnimation/SmurfsTheLostVillage Smurfs: The Lost Village]], where he is shown to have more sympathy for others.

* HilariousInHindsight: It's a running meme that the Smurfs are communists, and in 2011, there was a children's movie accused of being communist propaganda... except that it was ''Film/TheMuppets'', not ''TheSmurfs''.

* OlderThanYouThink: The Hannah-Barbera series isn't the first time the characters speak in English. The earliest appearance of The Smurfs talking in English was in a [[https://youtu.be/w9TU9dFXPgU series of British commercials for National Benzole in 1978.]]

* SeasonalRot: The final season was a ReTool of the series that saw the Smurfs lost in time and traveling through different eras trying to get home. The change proved unpopular and led to ratings to plummet, which led to the series' cancellation shortly after.

* BrokenBase: Most die-hard fans find the show to be heartwarming and hilarious, while fans of the comics criticize the series for its toned-down violence and Hanna-Barbera's own brand of comedic slapstick compared to the wit and humor of the original comics.

* BrokenBaseCharacter: Some fans find the Smurflings as a fairly good addition to the cast, while others found them unnecessary or too annoying as characters (reducing Papa Smurf and all the other adult Smurfs to being babysitters).

-->'''Smurfette''': Yes Vanity, come one out!

*** Alan Young plays an even more blatant Scrooge expy in one of the final season's time travel episodes, a Scottish ghost who Young goes completely McDuck.