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* 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 (he retains a level of pretentiousness to keep him comical, though can at least back up his bragging by being useful more often).
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* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Brainy Smurf in the later comics, live-action movies and ''WesternAnimation/SmurfsTheLostVillage'' (all of which were made after the death of creator, 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 (he retains a level of pretentiousness to keep him comical, though can at least back up his bragging by being useful more often).
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** Clumsy, a sweet-natured, naive KindheartedSimpleton who is accident-prone but means well, occasionally falling into TheWoobie. The fact late actor Creator/AntonYelchin provided the voice of Clumsy in the live-action Sony movies only further increased it's moe appeal.
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** Clumsy, a sweet-natured, naive KindheartedSimpleton who is accident-prone but means well, occasionally falling into TheWoobie. The fact that late actor Creator/AntonYelchin provided the voice of Clumsy in the live-action Sony movies only further increased it's moe appeal.
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** Besides, the 1980s AnimatedAdaptation is probably more well-known for American audiences than the Smurfs comic books.
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** Besides, the The 1980s AnimatedAdaptation is probably more well-known for American audiences than the Smurfs comic books.
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* QuestionableCasting: In the Italian dub of the 80s cartoon, the two manliest Smurfs (Hefty and Grouchy) are voiced by... [[CrossDressingVoice a teenage girl]] (a very young Creator/GiuppyIzzo, who also voiced Baby Smurf and one of the Smurflings), and she makes them sound like children. This changes in the Italian dubs of live-actions and later adaptations where they both got male voice actors.
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* WTHCastingAgency: In the Italian dub of the 80s cartoon, the two manliest Smurfs (Hefty and Grouchy) are voiced by... [[CrossDressingVoice a teenage girl]] (a very young Creator/GiuppyIzzo, who also voiced Baby Smurf and one of the Smurflings), and she makes them sound like children. This changes in the Italian dubs of live-actions and later adaptations where they both got male voice actors.
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* WTHCastingAgency:
** Music/KatyPerry as Smurfette.
** Not to mention Creator/NeilPatrickHarris, Creator/AntonYelchin and [[Film/X2XMenUnited Nightcrawler]].
** [[Series/KickinIt Joel McCrary]] also makes [[VocalDissonance Farmer Smurf]] sound like a big fat guy.
** Music/KatyPerry as Smurfette.
** Not to mention Creator/NeilPatrickHarris, Creator/AntonYelchin and [[Film/X2XMenUnited Nightcrawler]].
** [[Series/KickinIt Joel McCrary]] also makes [[VocalDissonance Farmer Smurf]] sound like a big fat guy.
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%%** Music/KatyPerry as Smurfette.
** %%** Not to mention Creator/NeilPatrickHarris, Creator/AntonYelchin and [[Film/X2XMenUnited Nightcrawler]].
**[[Series/KickinIt Joel McCrary]] also [=McCrary=] makes [[VocalDissonance Farmer Smurf]] sound like a big fat guy.
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* CreatorBreakdown: Peyo himself, initially hated women, and created Smurfette as a dainty damsel-in-distress with an emphasis on negative traits, which was considered sexist at the time. But when Hanna-Barbera adapted the series to television and changed Smurfette to be a strong female heroine, Peyo was forced to follow suit and gave her more of a major role in the comics.
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** The Smurfs are a Communist society due to them having assigned jobs that are even in their names, Papa Smurf wearing red, and the acronym "Soviet Men Under Red Father".
** Smurfette getting with every Smurf because she's the only girl. (Which isn't even true.)
** Vanity Smurf being gay.
** The Smurfs are a Communist society due to them having assigned jobs that are even in their names, Papa Smurf wearing red, and the acronym "Soviet Men Under Red Father".
** Smurfette getting with every Smurf because she's the only girl. (Which isn't even true.)
** Vanity Smurf being gay.
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** The Smurfs were very popular in the US and Canada during their heyday in the 80's. To the point that [[Film/TheSmurfs three]] [[Film/TheSmurfs2 feature]] [[WesternAnimation/SmurfsTheLostVillage films]] based on the franchise was created in the United States during Main/TheNewTens by Creator/SonyPicturesAnimation. Since the film rights were moved to Creator/{{Paramount}} and Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}, multiple Smurf animated films were announced in early 2022. Contrast to Belgium (the franchise's native country), where they only created three animated Smurf projects. Even the second season of CGI series premiered first in United States one month before Belgium did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Smurfs_(2021_TV_series)_episodes#Season_2_(2022)
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** The Smurfs were very popular in the US and Canada during their heyday in the 80's. To the point that [[Film/TheSmurfs three]] [[Film/TheSmurfs2 feature]] [[WesternAnimation/SmurfsTheLostVillage films]] based on the franchise was created in the United States during Main/TheNewTens by Creator/SonyPicturesAnimation. Since the film rights were moved to Creator/{{Paramount}} and Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}, multiple Smurf animated films were announced in early 2022. Contrast to Belgium (the franchise's native country), where they only created three animated Smurf projects. Even the second season of CGI series premiered first in United States one month before Belgium did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Smurfs_(2021_TV_series)_episodes#Season_2_(2022)
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** The Smurfs were very popular in the US and Canada during their heyday in the 80's. To the point that [[Film/TheSmurfs three]] [[Film/TheSmurfs2 feature]] [[WesternAnimation/SmurfsTheLostVillage films]] based on the franchise was created in the United States during Main/TheNewTens by Creator/SonyPicturesAnimation. Since the film rights were moved to Creator/{{Paramount}} and Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}, multiple Smurf animated films were announced in early 2022. Contrast to Belgium (the franchise's native country), where they only created three animated Smurf projects.
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** The Smurfs were very popular in the US and Canada during their heyday in the 80's. To the point that [[Film/TheSmurfs three]] [[Film/TheSmurfs2 feature]] [[WesternAnimation/SmurfsTheLostVillage films]] based on the franchise was created in the United States during Main/TheNewTens by Creator/SonyPicturesAnimation. Since the film rights were moved to Creator/{{Paramount}} and Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}, multiple Smurf animated films were announced in early 2022. Contrast to Belgium (the franchise's native country), where they only created three animated Smurf projects. Even the second season of CGI series premiered first in United States one month before Belgium did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Smurfs_(2021_TV_series)_episodes#Season_2_(2022)
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** The Smurfs were very popular in the US and Canada during their heyday in the 80's.
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** The Smurfs were very popular in the US and Canada during their heyday in the 80's. To the point that [[Film/TheSmurfs three]] [[Film/TheSmurfs2 feature]] [[WesternAnimation/SmurfsTheLostVillage films]] based on the franchise was created in the United States during Main/TheNewTens by Creator/SonyPicturesAnimation. Since the film rights were moved to Creator/{{Paramount}} and Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}, multiple Smurf animated films were announced in early 2022. Contrast to Belgium (the franchise's native country), where they only created three animated Smurf projects.
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* ClicheStorm: Of the "live action cartoon adaptation" genre. It has [[UnintentionalUncannyValley hyper-realistic]] CGI, is a HumanFocusedAdaptation, has ProductPlacement out the wazoo and TotallyRadical attitude to WereStillRelevantDammit levels... There were even people who ''genuinely believed that [[PoesLaw trailer for it was fake]]'' [[PoesLaw because of how cliched it was]] (which makes the second trailer's use of [[Music/TheHives "Hate To Say I Told You So"]] feel like a hilariously meta NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer).
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* ClicheStorm: Of the "live action cartoon adaptation" genre. It has [[UnintentionalUncannyValley hyper-realistic]] CGI, is a HumanFocusedAdaptation, has ProductPlacement out the wazoo and TotallyRadical attitude to WereStillRelevantDammit levels...attitude... There were even people who ''genuinely believed that [[PoesLaw trailer for it was fake]]'' [[PoesLaw because of how cliched it was]] (which makes the second trailer's use of [[Music/TheHives "Hate To Say I Told You So"]] feel like a hilariously meta NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer).
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* WereStillRelevantDammit: Papa Smurf wearing Wayfarer sunglasses on the poster, Smurfette turned into a shopaholic ditz right out of ''Series/SexAndTheCity'', Smurfs rapping...
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* DorkAge: from ''The Baby Smurf'' to ''The Strange Awakening of Lazy Smurf'', the slapstick and social parody were toned down (in fact, it begins earlier, with the secondary stories of the album ''The Smurfic Games''). ''The Finance Smurf'', the last album made before Peyo's death, and those that follow it, recover these parts that made the book successful.
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* DorkAge: AudienceAlienatingEra: from ''The Baby Smurf'' to ''The Strange Awakening of Lazy Smurf'', the slapstick and social parody were toned down (in fact, it begins earlier, with the secondary stories of the album ''The Smurfic Games''). ''The Finance Smurf'', the last album made before Peyo's death, and those that follow it, recover these parts that made the book successful.
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** If you count stories between the comic book continuity and the cartoon show continuity, ''The Finance Smurf'' recycles the plot of "The Smurfs and the Money Tree", even to how it ends (Greedy and Finance both suffer a case of PyrrhicVictory or PyrrhicVillainy in that they gain possessions at the cost of losing friends).
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** If you count stories between the comic book continuity and the cartoon show continuity, ''The Finance Smurf'' recycles the plot of "The Smurfs and the Money Tree", even to how it ends (Greedy and Finance both suffer a case of PyrrhicVictory or PyrrhicVillainy in that they gain possessions at the cost of losing friends).
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* WTHCastingAgency: In the Italian dub of the 80s cartoon, the two manliest Smurfs (Hefty and Grouchy) are voiced by... [[CrossDressingVoice a teenage girl]] (a very young Creator/GiuppyIzzo, who also voiced Baby Smurf and one of the Smurflings), and she makes them sound like children. This changes in the Italian dubs of live-actions and later adaptations where they both got male voice actors.
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* ClicheStorm: Of the "live action cartoon adaptation" genre. It has [[UncannyValley hyper-realistic]] CGI, is a HumanFocusedAdaptation, has ProductPlacement out the wazoo and TotallyRadical attitude to WereStillRelevantDammit levels... There were even people who ''genuinely believed that [[PoesLaw trailer for it was fake]]'' [[PoesLaw because of how cliched it was]] (which makes the second trailer's use of [[Music/TheHives "Hate To Say I Told You So"]] feel like a hilariously meta NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer).
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* ClicheStorm: Of the "live action cartoon adaptation" genre. It has [[UncannyValley [[UnintentionalUncannyValley hyper-realistic]] CGI, is a HumanFocusedAdaptation, has ProductPlacement out the wazoo and TotallyRadical attitude to WereStillRelevantDammit levels... There were even people who ''genuinely believed that [[PoesLaw trailer for it was fake]]'' [[PoesLaw because of how cliched it was]] (which makes the second trailer's use of [[Music/TheHives "Hate To Say I Told You So"]] feel like a hilariously meta NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer).
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* UncannyValley:
** Azrael definitely falls into this.
** The Smurfs themselves can also be this.
** Azrael definitely falls into this.
** The Smurfs themselves can also be this.
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* {{Moe}}: The franchise in general, since Smurfs are small and cute, so many characters qualfy. The most obvious examples are:
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* {{Moe}}: The franchise in general, since Smurfs are small and cute, so many characters qualfy.qualify. The most obvious examples are:
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** Clumsy, a sweet-natured, naive KindheartedSimpleton who is accident-prone but means well, occasionally falling into TheWoobie.
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** Clumsy, a sweet-natured, naive KindheartedSimpleton who is accident-prone but means well, occasionally falling into TheWoobie. The fact late actor Creator/AntonYelchin provided the voice of Clumsy in the live-action Sony movies only further increased it's moe appeal.
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* {{Moe}}: The franchise in general, since Smurfs are small and cute, so many characters qualfy. The most obvious examples are:
** Smurfette. In a cast of male characters, she stands out as the adorable, wholesome, blond, and sweet GirlyGirl.
** Baby Smurf is TheBabyOfTheBunch, and so cute that even Grouchy Smurf has a soft spot for him.
** The four Smurflings, a group of playful children who also serve as KidAppealCharacter, possibly the reason why they have a major role in later seasons.
** Clumsy, a sweet-natured, naive KindheartedSimpleton who is accident-prone but means well, occasionally falling into TheWoobie.
** Smurfette. In a cast of male characters, she stands out as the adorable, wholesome, blond, and sweet GirlyGirl.
** Baby Smurf is TheBabyOfTheBunch, and so cute that even Grouchy Smurf has a soft spot for him.
** The four Smurflings, a group of playful children who also serve as KidAppealCharacter, possibly the reason why they have a major role in later seasons.
** Clumsy, a sweet-natured, naive KindheartedSimpleton who is accident-prone but means well, occasionally falling into TheWoobie.
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* 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.
* SugarWiki/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.
* 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.
* TheWoobie: Scaredy Smurf in "The Scariest Smurf" spends the episode trapped inside a robot without being capable to communicate with his fellow smurfs and is completely terrified about it.
* SugarWiki/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.
* 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.
* TheWoobie: Scaredy Smurf in "The Scariest Smurf" spends the episode trapped inside a robot without being capable to communicate with his fellow smurfs and is completely terrified about it.
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* 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.
* SugarWiki/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.
* 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.
* TheWoobie: Scaredy Smurf in "The Scariest Smurf" spends the episode trapped inside a robot without being capable to communicate with his fellow smurfs and is completely terrified about it.Go [[YMMV/TheSmurfs2021 here]].
* SugarWiki/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.
* 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.
* TheWoobie: Scaredy Smurf in "The Scariest Smurf" spends the episode trapped inside a robot without being capable to communicate with his fellow smurfs and is completely terrified about it.
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* AccidentalInnuendo: In the episode "Hats Off to Smurfs" Vanity hides himself in a closet after being turned ugly.
-->'''Papa Smurf''': Vanity, you must come out!
-->'''Smurfette''': Yes, Vanity, come on out!
* BrokenBase: Most die-hard fans find the show to be heartwarming and hilarious, while some criticize the series for its toned-down violence and Creator/HannaBarbera's own brand of comedic slapstick compared to the wit and humor of the original comics.
** As for the Smurflings, some fans find them 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).
* CoveredUp: ''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".]]
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Marina and Scruple. Gourdy's slowly making his way up there as well.
* FanonDiscontinuity: Most fans would pretend that the time-travelling saga from the ninth season never happened, and to a lesser extent, Seasons 5-8 (where the Smurflings where introduced).
** A few bad episodes of the series would be ignored, such as ''Clumsy Luck'', ''Chlorhyrdis' Lost Love'', etc.
* FanPreferredCouple: A lot of them. To name a few, the most popular between HoYay shippers seem to be the pairs of best friends Brainy/Clumsy and Hefty/Handy, while the het side´s most popular has canonical couple Handy/Marina due to their sweet romance (even if featured in only three episodes); also the canonicaly one-sided Smurfette and Hefty possibly because of how close they seem to be in some episodes. It increased a little after ''The Lost Village'' movie (which is outside the canon of this series).
* GrowingTheBeard: The show started off as adaptations of comic stories with original stories written for the series. They were mostly slapstick-based with little to no hints of story. Johan and Peewit were introduced in the second season, but that's not saying much.
** Season 3 was when the show started to improve. Episodes became more story-based, new characters were added (such as Marina and Laconia), and Handy's inventions started to resemble more or less to modern technologies (such as telephones and wheelchairs).
* HoYay: Brainy and Clumsy, inferred in at least one episode, "''The Smurfiest Of Friends''."
* OlderThanYouThink: The Hanna-Barbera series isn't the first time the characters spoke in English. The earliest appearance of The Smurfs speaking in English was in a [[https://youtu.be/w9TU9dFXPgU series of British commercials for National Benzole in 1978.]]
* RecycledScript: The villain-disguised-as-a-Smurf ploy was used a few times in the cartoon show, both by Hogatha and Gargamel.
* TheScrappy: A lot of people had nicer things to say about Smoogle compared to Nanny Smurf when they both were introduced in season eight.
* 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 worst offender is the unusual exaggeration on the slapstick (for example in "Cave Smurfs") and the replacement of Gargamel's voice actor. The change proved unpopular and led to ratings to plummet, which led to the series' cancellation shortly after.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong:
** Some folks on Website/YouTube noticed the similarity between ''The Smurfs'' theme song and the scatting melody of the J. Geils Band's "Centerfold", both of which came out in 1981.
** The episode "Smurfing For Ghosts" uses a tune that sounds very similar to Ray Parker Jr.'s "Ghostbusters", while the cartoon special "The Smurfic Games" uses one that's similar to Vangelis' ''Film/ChariotsOfFire'' theme tune.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: "The Great Slime Crop Failure" has King Bullrush's hunters venture out for a farmer to fix [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin their great slime crop failure]] and they make it to Gargamel's hovel, only to be chased off by Azrael. This is the closest we’d ever get to a VillainTeamUp between Gargamel and the Wartmongers in the whole show.
* ToyShip: Sassette and the male Smurflings, mainly Nat and Snappy.
-->'''Papa Smurf''': Vanity, you must come out!
-->'''Smurfette''': Yes, Vanity, come on out!
* BrokenBase: Most die-hard fans find the show to be heartwarming and hilarious, while some criticize the series for its toned-down violence and Creator/HannaBarbera's own brand of comedic slapstick compared to the wit and humor of the original comics.
** As for the Smurflings, some fans find them 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).
* CoveredUp: ''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".]]
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Marina and Scruple. Gourdy's slowly making his way up there as well.
* FanonDiscontinuity: Most fans would pretend that the time-travelling saga from the ninth season never happened, and to a lesser extent, Seasons 5-8 (where the Smurflings where introduced).
** A few bad episodes of the series would be ignored, such as ''Clumsy Luck'', ''Chlorhyrdis' Lost Love'', etc.
* FanPreferredCouple: A lot of them. To name a few, the most popular between HoYay shippers seem to be the pairs of best friends Brainy/Clumsy and Hefty/Handy, while the het side´s most popular has canonical couple Handy/Marina due to their sweet romance (even if featured in only three episodes); also the canonicaly one-sided Smurfette and Hefty possibly because of how close they seem to be in some episodes. It increased a little after ''The Lost Village'' movie (which is outside the canon of this series).
* GrowingTheBeard: The show started off as adaptations of comic stories with original stories written for the series. They were mostly slapstick-based with little to no hints of story. Johan and Peewit were introduced in the second season, but that's not saying much.
** Season 3 was when the show started to improve. Episodes became more story-based, new characters were added (such as Marina and Laconia), and Handy's inventions started to resemble more or less to modern technologies (such as telephones and wheelchairs).
* HoYay: Brainy and Clumsy, inferred in at least one episode, "''The Smurfiest Of Friends''."
* OlderThanYouThink: The Hanna-Barbera series isn't the first time the characters spoke in English. The earliest appearance of The Smurfs speaking in English was in a [[https://youtu.be/w9TU9dFXPgU series of British commercials for National Benzole in 1978.]]
* RecycledScript: The villain-disguised-as-a-Smurf ploy was used a few times in the cartoon show, both by Hogatha and Gargamel.
* TheScrappy: A lot of people had nicer things to say about Smoogle compared to Nanny Smurf when they both were introduced in season eight.
* 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 worst offender is the unusual exaggeration on the slapstick (for example in "Cave Smurfs") and the replacement of Gargamel's voice actor. The change proved unpopular and led to ratings to plummet, which led to the series' cancellation shortly after.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong:
** Some folks on Website/YouTube noticed the similarity between ''The Smurfs'' theme song and the scatting melody of the J. Geils Band's "Centerfold", both of which came out in 1981.
** The episode "Smurfing For Ghosts" uses a tune that sounds very similar to Ray Parker Jr.'s "Ghostbusters", while the cartoon special "The Smurfic Games" uses one that's similar to Vangelis' ''Film/ChariotsOfFire'' theme tune.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: "The Great Slime Crop Failure" has King Bullrush's hunters venture out for a farmer to fix [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin their great slime crop failure]] and they make it to Gargamel's hovel, only to be chased off by Azrael. This is the closest we’d ever get to a VillainTeamUp between Gargamel and the Wartmongers in the whole show.
* ToyShip: Sassette and the male Smurflings, mainly Nat and Snappy.
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* AccidentalInnuendo: In the episode "Hats Off to Smurfs" Vanity hides himself in a closet after being turned ugly.
-->'''Papa Smurf''': Vanity, you must come out!
-->'''Smurfette''': Yes, Vanity, come on out!
* BrokenBase: Most die-hard fans find the show to be heartwarming and hilarious, while some criticize the series for its toned-down violence and Creator/HannaBarbera's own brand of comedic slapstick compared to the wit and humor of the original comics.
** As for the Smurflings, some fans find them 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).
* CoveredUp: ''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".]]
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Marina and Scruple. Gourdy's slowly making his way up there as well.
* FanonDiscontinuity: Most fans would pretend that the time-travelling saga from the ninth season never happened, and to a lesser extent, Seasons 5-8 (where the Smurflings where introduced).
** A few bad episodes of the series would be ignored, such as ''Clumsy Luck'', ''Chlorhyrdis' Lost Love'', etc.
* FanPreferredCouple: A lot of them. To name a few, the most popular between HoYay shippers seem to be the pairs of best friends Brainy/Clumsy and Hefty/Handy, while the het side´s most popular has canonical couple Handy/Marina due to their sweet romance (even if featured in only three episodes); also the canonicaly one-sided Smurfette and Hefty possibly because of how close they seem to be in some episodes. It increased a little after ''The Lost Village'' movie (which is outside the canon of this series).
* GrowingTheBeard: The show started off as adaptations of comic stories with original stories written for the series. They were mostly slapstick-based with little to no hints of story. Johan and Peewit were introduced in the second season, but that's not saying much.
** Season 3 was when the show started to improve. Episodes became more story-based, new characters were added (such as Marina and Laconia), and Handy's inventions started to resemble more or less to modern technologies (such as telephones and wheelchairs).
* HoYay: Brainy and Clumsy, inferred in at least one episode, "''The Smurfiest Of Friends''."
* OlderThanYouThink: The Hanna-Barbera series isn't the first time the characters spoke in English. The earliest appearance of The Smurfs speaking in English was in a [[https://youtu.be/w9TU9dFXPgU series of British commercials for National Benzole in 1978.]]
* RecycledScript: The villain-disguised-as-a-Smurf ploy was used a few times in the cartoon show, both by Hogatha and Gargamel.
* TheScrappy: A lot of people had nicer things to say about Smoogle compared to Nanny Smurf when they both were introduced in season eight.
* 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 worst offender is the unusual exaggeration on the slapstick (for example in "Cave Smurfs") and the replacement of Gargamel's voice actor. The change proved unpopular and led to ratings to plummet, which led to the series' cancellation shortly after.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong:
** Some folks on Website/YouTube noticed the similarity between ''The Smurfs'' theme song and the scatting melody of the J. Geils Band's "Centerfold", both of which came out in 1981.
** The episode "Smurfing For Ghosts" uses a tune that sounds very similar to Ray Parker Jr.'s "Ghostbusters", while the cartoon special "The Smurfic Games" uses one that's similar to Vangelis' ''Film/ChariotsOfFire'' theme tune.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: "The Great Slime Crop Failure" has King Bullrush's hunters venture out for a farmer to fix [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin their great slime crop failure]] and they make it to Gargamel's hovel, only to be chased off by Azrael. This is the closest we’d ever get to a VillainTeamUp between Gargamel and the Wartmongers in the whole show.
* ToyShip: Sassette and the male Smurflings, mainly Nat and Snappy.
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-->'''Papa Smurf''': Vanity, you must come out!
-->'''Smurfette''': Yes, Vanity, come on out!
* BrokenBase: Most die-hard fans find the show to be heartwarming and hilarious, while some criticize the series for its toned-down violence and Creator/HannaBarbera's own brand of comedic slapstick compared to the wit and humor of the original comics.
** As for the Smurflings, some fans find them 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).
* CoveredUp: ''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".]]
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Marina and Scruple. Gourdy's slowly making his way up there as well.
* FanonDiscontinuity: Most fans would pretend that the time-travelling saga from the ninth season never happened, and to a lesser extent, Seasons 5-8 (where the Smurflings where introduced).
** A few bad episodes of the series would be ignored, such as ''Clumsy Luck'', ''Chlorhyrdis' Lost Love'', etc.
* FanPreferredCouple: A lot of them. To name a few, the most popular between HoYay shippers seem to be the pairs of best friends Brainy/Clumsy and Hefty/Handy, while the het side´s most popular has canonical couple Handy/Marina due to their sweet romance (even if featured in only three episodes); also the canonicaly one-sided Smurfette and Hefty possibly because of how close they seem to be in some episodes. It increased a little after ''The Lost Village'' movie (which is outside the canon of this series).
* GrowingTheBeard: The show started off as adaptations of comic stories with original stories written for the series. They were mostly slapstick-based with little to no hints of story. Johan and Peewit were introduced in the second season, but that's not saying much.
** Season 3 was when the show started to improve. Episodes became more story-based, new characters were added (such as Marina and Laconia), and Handy's inventions started to resemble more or less to modern technologies (such as telephones and wheelchairs).
* HoYay: Brainy and Clumsy, inferred in at least one episode, "''The Smurfiest Of Friends''."
* OlderThanYouThink: The Hanna-Barbera series isn't the first time the characters spoke in English. The earliest appearance of The Smurfs speaking in English was in a [[https://youtu.be/w9TU9dFXPgU series of British commercials for National Benzole in 1978.]]
* RecycledScript: The villain-disguised-as-a-Smurf ploy was used a few times in the cartoon show, both by Hogatha and Gargamel.
* TheScrappy: A lot of people had nicer things to say about Smoogle compared to Nanny Smurf when they both were introduced in season eight.
* 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 worst offender is the unusual exaggeration on the slapstick (for example in "Cave Smurfs") and the replacement of Gargamel's voice actor. The change proved unpopular and led to ratings to plummet, which led to the series' cancellation shortly after.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong:
** Some folks on Website/YouTube noticed the similarity between ''The Smurfs'' theme song and the scatting melody of the J. Geils Band's "Centerfold", both of which came out in 1981.
** The episode "Smurfing For Ghosts" uses a tune that sounds very similar to Ray Parker Jr.'s "Ghostbusters", while the cartoon special "The Smurfic Games" uses one that's similar to Vangelis' ''Film/ChariotsOfFire'' theme tune.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: "The Great Slime Crop Failure" has King Bullrush's hunters venture out for a farmer to fix [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin their great slime crop failure]] and they make it to Gargamel's hovel, only to be chased off by Azrael. This is the closest we’d ever get to a VillainTeamUp between Gargamel and the Wartmongers in the whole show.
* ToyShip: Sassette and the male Smurflings, mainly Nat and Snappy.
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** Even other Smurfs weren't safe from this. Nosey Smurf keeps peeking into other Smurf's businesses, despite meaning well. The other Smurfs keep constantly blaming him for everything he does, even on dangerous missions.
** Weepy Smurf is by far an even worse character than the other two. He does nothing but constantly weep over bad things and good things. His voice is far more annoying than Brainy when he's upset. His voice actress, Mona Marshall, doesn't help matters any.
** Weepy Smurf is by far an even worse character than the other two. He does nothing but constantly weep over bad things and good things. His voice is far more annoying than Brainy when he's upset. His voice actress, Mona Marshall, doesn't help matters any.
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* StockParodyJokes: The Smurfs are a Communist society due to them having assigned jobs that are even in their names, Papa Smurf wearing red, and the acronym "Soviet Men Under Red Father".
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** The Smurfs are a Communist society due to them having assigned jobs that are even in their names, Papa Smurf wearing red, and the acronym "Soviet Men Under RedFather".Father".
** Smurfette getting with every Smurf because she's the only girl. (Which isn't even true.)
** Vanity Smurf being gay.
** The Smurfs are a Communist society due to them having assigned jobs that are even in their names, Papa Smurf wearing red, and the acronym "Soviet Men Under Red
** Smurfette getting with every Smurf because she's the only girl. (Which isn't even true.)
** Vanity Smurf being gay.
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** 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 1981-90 cartoon and has never seen so much as a VHS or DVD release.
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** 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 1981-90 cartoon and has never seen so much as a VHS or DVD release. Currently, the 60s era shorts can only be seen at a permanent Smurfs exhibit at the Belgian Comic Strip Center in Brussels, Belgium.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: "The Great Slime Crop Failure" has King Bullrush's hunters venture out for a farmer to fix [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin their great slime crop failure]] and they make it to Gargamel's hovel, only to be chased off by Azrael. This is the closest we’d ever get to a VillainTeamUp between Gargamel and the Wartmongers in the whole show.
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* 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 (though he retains a level of pretentiousness to keep him comical).
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* 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 (though he (he retains a level of pretentiousness to keep him comical).comical, though can at least back up his bragging by being useful more often).
