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* JustJokingJustification: Brainy says this of [[GreatBigBookOfEverything The Book That Tells Everything]] in the comic book story "The Smurfs And The Book That Tells Everything" when it answers Clumsy Smurf's question by suggesting that he and Brainy should switch places, with Brainy being so power-hungry over being the official guardian of the book that he wouldn't consider relinquishing his role to someone else, especially Clumsy.
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* BedsheetLadder: In the comic book story "The Smurf Threat", Papa Smurf, Hefty, and Jokey escape their imprisonment inside the Grey Smurf prison camp by making a ladder using torn pieces of Smurf pants.
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* {{Arrowgram}}: The Grey Smurfs sent arrowgrams to the Smurfs prior to attacking them, hoping that they would surrender, in the comic book story "The Smurf Threat".
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* BookBurning: The Grey Smurfs in the comic book story "The Smurf Threat" burn all of Papa Smurf's spell books in order to keep him from finding the spell to make the Grey Smurfs vanish.
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* BlankBook: The Book That Tells Everything in the comic book story "The Smurfs And The Book That Tells Everything" is initially blank except for the page numbers. However, when the reader of the book asks it a question, the book will cause the answer to the question to appear only on that selected page.
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* GreatBigBookOfEverything: The Book That Tells Everything from the comic book story "The Smurfs And The Book That Tells Everything". It's capable of answering every question and solving every problem, except that it never warns the consulter of the book the consequences of using its solutions.
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* SomethingElseAlsoRises: In the story "The Smurf Garden", when Smurfette kisses Dopey Smurf, the floppy part of his hat rises. This sometimes happens to each Smurf who gets kissed by Smurfette.
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* SlippingAMickey: Papa Smurf in the comic book story "The Smurfs And The Book That Tells Everything" was given a glass of smurfonade after he had collapsed and was brought back to the village, which was laced with a formula that the book gave to Lazy for curing insomnia. While he was asleep, his little Smurfs locked him inside his own house.
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* HowWeGotHere: Much of ''Smurf Versus Smurf'' is Papa Smurf recalling what went on the village that required him to seek out Gargamel's help.
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* BananaPeel: Used in a comic book story about Baby Smurf's paper dolls, who play that trick on a hapless Greedy Smurf carrying a dessert with him.
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* TheOlympics: The comic book story ''The Olympic Smurfs''.
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* FloatingInABubble: One of Flying Smurf's methods for attempting flight in the story "The Flying Smurf" involved being blown up inside a bubble which floated in the air until a passing bird popped it and sent him falling down, crashing through the roof of a Smurf house.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: In the album ''You Don't Smurf Progress!'', the Smurfs create robots that do their chores, but [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters these eventually rebel.]]
** May be a subversion: the only sentient robot was the garbage-eating one (because [[AWizardDidIt he ate some of Papa Smurf's magic potions]]) who then reprogrammed every other one to obey him.

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* AIIsACrapshoot: In the album ''You Don't Smurf Progress!'', the Smurfs create robots that do their chores, but [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters these eventually rebel.]]
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]] Though in this case only robot becomes sentient robot was the garbage-eating one (because [[AWizardDidIt he ate some of Papa Smurf's magic potions]]) who and it then reprogrammed every other one to obey him.him.
* AlasPoorVillain: King Smurf doesn't die, but when all the blame on the disaster that befallen the village falls on him, he just bows his head in shame and sets out to repair all the damage he did. The others join in and the village starts to recover from the civil war.
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* HumanChess: A non-villainous version appears as a one-page gag in the comic book story "Smurfery".
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* HeWentThatWay: Hefty Smurf chases after Clumsy in the comic book story "Salad Smurfs" after he has turned into a potato, which was thought to be a contagious disease (Smurfs turning into vegetables), but later turns out to be result of eating MutagenicFood. He passes by Greedy in his pursuit and asks if he has seen Clumsy. He says he hasn't, but that he has seen a large potato. Greedy then points in the direction where he has seen the potato, and Hefty sees Clumsy trying to hide himself within the village well.

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* HeWentThatWay: Hefty Smurf chases after Clumsy in the comic book story "Salad Smurfs" after he has turned into a potato, which was thought to be a contagious disease (Smurfs turning into vegetables), but later turns out to be the result of eating MutagenicFood. He passes by Greedy in his pursuit and asks if he has seen Clumsy. He says he hasn't, but that he has seen a large potato. Greedy then points in the direction where he has seen the potato, and Hefty sees Clumsy trying to hide himself within the village well.
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* HeWentThatWay: Hefty Smurf chases after Clumsy in the comic book story "Salad Smurfs" after he has turned into a potato, which was thought to be a contagious disease (Smurfs turning into vegetables), but later turns out to be result of eating MutagenicFood. He passes by Greedy in his pursuit and asks if he has seen Clumsy. He says he hasn't, but that he has seen a large potato. Greedy then points in the direction where he has seen the potato, and Hefty sees Clumsy trying to hide himself within the village well.
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* BowelBreakingBricks: It's simply the main function of the waste disposal robot in the comic book story "You Don't Smurf Progress": he eats garbage and he turns them into bricks which he ejects from his rear hatch.

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* BowelBreakingBricks: It's simply the main function of the waste disposal robot in the comic book story "You Don't Smurf Progress": he eats garbage and he turns them into bricks which he ejects from his rear hatch. Surprisingly, he doesn't poop bricks when he sees that the queen companion Handy Smurf made for him when he became King Trash fell apart and a swarm of termites came out of her.
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* BowelBreakingBricks: It's simply the main function of the waste disposal robot in the comic book story "You Don't Smurf Progress": he eats garbage and he ejects bricks from his rear hatch.

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* BowelBreakingBricks: It's simply the main function of the waste disposal robot in the comic book story "You Don't Smurf Progress": he eats garbage and he turns them into bricks which he ejects bricks from his rear hatch.

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* BottomlessBladder: The comic book story "Bathing Smurfs" has Handy build an outhouse near his house by the lake, in case anyone was wondering about a Smurf's personal physical habits.

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* BottomlessBladder: The comic book story "Bathing Smurfs" has Handy build an outhouse near his house by the lake, in case anyone was wondering about a Smurf's personal physical habits. habits.
* BowelBreakingBricks: It's simply the main function of the waste disposal robot in the comic book story "You Don't Smurf Progress": he eats garbage and he ejects bricks from his rear hatch.



* SomethingElseAlsoRises: In the story "The Smurf Garden", when Smurfette kisses Dopey Smurf, the floppy part of his hat rises. This sometimes happens to each Smurf who gets kissed by Smurfette.
* StealthPun: The waste disposal robot in the comic book story "You Don't Smurf Progress" would eat garbage and turn them into bricks that he would expel from his rear hatch. In essence, he was [[spoiler:shitting bricks]].

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* SomethingElseAlsoRises: In the story "The Smurf Garden", when Smurfette kisses Dopey Smurf, the floppy part of his hat rises. This sometimes happens to each Smurf who gets kissed by Smurfette.
* StealthPun: The waste disposal robot in the comic book story "You Don't Smurf Progress" would eat garbage and turn them into bricks that he would expel from his rear hatch. In essence, he was [[spoiler:shitting bricks]].
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* PrankDate: In "Romeo And Smurfette", a Smurf is given a date invitation by who he thinks is Smurfette, so he gets all washed up, perfumed, and carrying a big bouquet of flowers out into the forest where the invitation said she would be. It turned out to be a prank played on him by [[ThePrankster Jokey]] who [[DisguisedInDrag dressed himself up as Smurfette]]. And that Smurf was none too happy about it!
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* OhWaitThisIsMyGroceryList: In the comic book version of "The Astro Smurf", Harmony (or Drummer) makes an announcement that Astro Smurf's invention is ready to be unveiled, but the first thing he reads off is a recipe Greedy Smurf had given him.
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* EmptySwimmingPoolDive: Hefty in the comic book story "The Smurf Threat" makes a masterful dive into an empty river bed.
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* FreudianSlip: Gargamel in the episode "Gargamel The Generous" tries to hide the fact that his sudden niceness to the Smurfs is because he wants the diamonds that they have found, though he accidentally refers to Papa Smurf as Papa Diamonds.
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* FreudianSlip: Gargamel in the episode "Gargamel The Generous" tries to hide the fact that his sudden niceness to the Smurfs is because he wants the diamonds that they have found, though he accidentally refers to Papa Smurf as Papa Diamonds.
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* FishingForSole: In the comic book story "You Don't Smurf Progress", a Smurf who is using one of Handy's robot servants to go fishing ends up catching an old sock and other bits of junk from the river.
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* TheOlympics: The comic book story ''The Olympic Smurfs''.
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* MutagenicFood: The comic book story "Salad Smurfs" had the Smurfs turning into AnthropomorphicFood from eating magically-treated giant vegetables.
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* GiantFood: The comic book story "Salad Smurfs" had Farmer grow really big vegetables from his garden when Chef Smurf forced him to use more of Papa Smurf's fungicide and fertilizer than was necessary. Unfortunately, it had the side effect of turning the Smurfs who ate the vegetables into AnthropomorphicFood.
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* CarryingACake: A one-page gag has Jokey stumbling to keep a pie intact as he carries it over to his recipient so that he could splatter his face with it.
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* AnthropomorphicFood: ''Salad Smurfs'' is a comic book story about the Smurfs turning into anthropomorphic vegetables.

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