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1	Return to [[Recap/TheSmurfs Recap: The Smurfs]].
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4	A formula turns a baby bird into a monster who attacks the Smurf Village.
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8	* AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade: A Smurf barricades the door of his house by using furniture, thinking that the Howlibird won't get in that way, but doesn't take into account that the bird could attack his house from ''above''.
9	* AgonyOfTheFeet: A Smurf working on restoring the village well asks another Smurf to fetch him a stone, but as that Smurf grabs the stone and tries to pass it over, he is distracted by Papa Smurf coming into the village to warn his little Smurfs about the Howlibird, accidentally dropping the stone on the foot of the other Smurf.
10	* BeastlyBloodsports: Papa Smurf fights with the denuded Howlibird in the same manner as a bullfighter, wearing the creature down with so many passes until eventually it collapses.
11	* BlowingARaspberry: After rendering the Howlibird bird helpless, one Smurf does this to it.
12	* TheCameo: Gargamel makes a cameo appearance in the story as the Smurfs visit his hovel to get from him a shrinking formula.
13	* CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase
14	* DangerousDeviceDisposalDebacle: The plot is started by the pair of Smurfs tasked to get rid of the dangerous formula dropping it down a cliff rather than traveling all the way to the desert.
15	* FeatheredFiend: The Howlibird.
16	* ModestyTowel: A Smurf goes through the entire story just wearing a towel around his waist, and when Papa Smurf has to use something to bullfight the Howlibird after it has been stripped of its feathers, he uses that Smurf's towel to do it.
17	* NonFatalExplosions: Papa Smurf launches a firecracker at the Howlibird, which strips it of its feathers and causes it to fall out of the sky relatively unharmed.
18	* PokemonSpeak: In the original French version, the creature was named Cracoucass after the onomatopeia of his screech.
19	* [[ManEatingPlant Smurf-Eating Plant]]: The mutated plant in Papa Smurf's laboratory in the early part of the story.
20	* SuperWindowJump: One of the Smurfs breaks into Papa Smurf's laboratory by hurling himself through a window when the door is blocked by the Smurf-eating plant.

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