History Fridge / TheSmurfs

*** It's non-sense in the ''comics continuity''. Don't forget that they're three other ''Smurf'' continuities, different from the comics (four, if you count ''ComicBook/JohanAndPeewit'' comics): the [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981 1980s cartoon show]], [[Film/TheSmurfs Sony Pictures' live-action film series]], and the [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs2021 2021 cartoon show]]. So it's ''very'' possible that in those different continuities, the [[PhilosopherSStone Philosopher's Stone]] recipe ''really'' has boiling Smurf alive as a ingredient.

*** It's non-sense in the ''comics continuity''. Don't forget that they're three other ''Smurf'' continuities, different from the comics (four, if you count ''[[ComicBook/JohanAndPeewit]]'' comics): the [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981 1980s cartoon show]], [[Film/TheSmurfs Sony Pictures' live-action film series]], and the [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs2021 2021 cartoon show]]. So it's ''very'' possible that in those different continuities, the [[PhilosopherSStone Philosopher's Stone]] recipe ''really'' has boiling Smurf alive as a ingredient.

** In "Hats Off To Smurfs", Papa Smurf uses Gargamel's ugliness spell against the villain himself, forcing him to describe the formula to cure Vanity as well as himself. But if Gargamel knows the formula to return to normal, why doesn't he just regenerate on his own and leave Vanity without a cure? Did only Papa Smurf know where to find the ingredients?

** A new Smurfs album addressed that issue. In exchange between Papa Smurf and Homnibus revealed that Gargamel got his "magic book" from a SnakeOilSalesman and its full of non-sense.

* In "The Hundredth Smurf" (third story in the "The Egg and the Smurfs" album), a hundred Smurfs are required for the Dance of the Moon, but there are 99 only. In "The Wild Smurf", we find that the DeliveryStork lost a Smurf who ended being the eponymous character. This means that if Wild Smurf didn't get lost, they would have been 100 Smurfs! [[EurekaMoment It fits!]]

* In "The Hundredth Smurf" (third story in the "The Egg and the Smurfs" album), a hundred Smurfs are required for the Dance of the Moon, but there are 99 only. In "The Wild Smurf", we find that the DeliveryStork lost a Smurf who ended being the eponymous character. This means that if Wild Smurf didn't have get lost, they would have been 100 Smurfs! [[EurekaMoment It fits!]]

* In "Romeo and Smurfette", all the male Smurfs fall in love with Smurfette. This includes [[PervertDad Papa Smurf]], and if he's the father of everybody, then that would mean Smurfette was being hit on by her ''brothers''.
** Well she's adopted so "step" brothers

** New Smurfs albums addressed that issue. In exchange between Papa Smurf and Homnibus mentioned that Gargamel got his "magic book" from a SnakeOilSalesman and its full of non-sense.

* In TheFilmOfTheSeries, when the Smurfs go to an antique book shop to get the remaining elements of the potion required to go back to their world, they come across a book about their species. One of the pages from the original books shown during this scene comes from the book "The Smurf Apprentice", in which a Smurf tries his hand at magic. In the cartoon adaption of “The Smurf Apprentice”, Clumsy Smurf himself takes the role of the apprentice smurf. Now, who is one of the main Smurfs in the movie?

* TheFilmOfTheSeries sheds some light on Gargamel's entire motivation for capturing Smurfs - their skin flakes, sweat and tears carry potent magic, and a sample of Smurfette's hair allows him to power his ring and a wand. Surely the Smurfs can reach a compromise, like Gargamel leaving their village alone in exchange for weekly bags of shavings and hair clippings, toenail clippings and even tubs of bathwater...

* In "Romeo and Smurfette", all the male Smurfs fall in love with Smurfette. This includes [[PervertDad Papa Smurf]], and if he's the father of everybody, then that would mean Smurfette was being hit on by her ''brothers''.

* In TheMovie, when the Smurfs go to an antique book shop to get the remaining elements of the potion required to go back to their world, they come across a book about their species. One of the pages from the original books shown during this scene comes from the book "The Smurf Apprentice", in which a Smurf tries his hand at magic. In the cartoon adaption of “The Smurf Apprentice”, Clumsy Smurf himself takes the role of the apprentice smurf. Now, who is one of the main Smurfs in the movie?

* TheMovie sheds some light on Gargamel's entire motivation for capturing Smurfs - their skin flakes, sweat and tears carry potent magic, and a sample of Smurfette's hair allows him to power his ring and a wand. Surely the Smurfs can reach a compromise, like Gargamel leaving their village alone in exchange for weekly bags of shavings and hair clippings, toenail clippings and even tubs of bathwater...

* In ''The Smurfs and the Howlibird'', Papa Smurf's failed fertiliser turns a flower into a carnivorous plant. Then, it is accidently ingested by a fledging bird, turning it into a big predatory bird overnight. What happened to the two other nestlings??

* How can Gargamel's books state that Smurf essence is needed to brew the [[PhilosopherSStone Philosopher's Stone]]? Is this just theoretical alchémy or is it empirical? In the latter case, that would mean that, at some point in the past, some unnamed Smurf ''was'' boiled alive by an alchemist.

* If you think about it, the naming and talents of Smurfs is actually pretty smurfed up. So, there are several hard-working smurfs. However, in the village, the majority has talents which screw up their lives (Lazy is almost constantly sleepy, but forced to work; Flighty can't decide on ''anything''), or screw up the lives of the rest (Jokey, while being the morale booster, can get a little annoying, and, obviously, [[DontExplainTheJoke Clumsy]]). Both categories can end up ostracized by their society, in the case of Brainy, whose talent is implied not to be a know-it-all [[ButtMonkey but to be a scapegoat.]] (And he's even more of a narcissist than Vanity is.) Think about it.

* In TheMovie, when the Smurfs go to an antique book shop to get the remaining elements of the potion required to go back to their world, they come across a book about their species. One of the pages from the original books shown during this scene comes from the book "The Smurf Apprentice", in which a relatively clumsy Smurf tries his hand at magic. ...a clumsy Smurf. Now, who is one of the main Smurfs in the movie?

* If you think about it, the naming and talents of Smurfs is actually pretty fucked up. So, there are several hard-working smurfs. However, in the village, the majority has talents which screw up their lives (Lazy is almost constantly sleepy, but forced to work; Flighty can't decide on ''anything''), or screw up the lives of the rest (Jokey, while being the morale booster, can get a little annoying, and, obviously, [[DontExplainTheJoke Clumsy]]). Both categories can end up ostracized by their society, in the case of Brainy, whose talent is implied not to be a know-it-all [[ButtMonkey but to be a scapegoat.]] (And he's even more of a narcissist than Vanity is.) Think about it.

* Rewatching some episodes (due to a case of nostalgia triggered by the release of the movie) [[TVTropesWillEnhanceYourLife with TV Tropes fresh on the brain]] reveals that this show is no more nor less Communist than [[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong most shows of the 80s]].

* In "The Hundredth Smurf" (third story in the "The Egg and the Smurfs" album), a hundred Smurfs are required for the Dance of the Moon, but there are 99 only. In "The Wild Smurf", we find that the DeliveryStork lost a Smurf who ended being the eponymous character. This means that if Wild Smurf didn't have get lost, they would have been 100 Smurfs! It fits!

* If you think about it, the naming and talents of Smurfs is actually pretty fucked up. So, there are several hard-working smurfs. However, in the village, the majority has talents which screw up their lives (Lazy is almost constantly sleepy, but forced to work; Flighty can't decide on ''anything''), or screw up the lives of the rest (Jokey, while being the morale booster, can get a little annoying, and, obviously, [[DontExplainTheJoke Clumsy]]). Both categories can end up ostracized by their society, in the case of Brainy, whose talent is implied not to be a know-it-all [[ButtMonkey but to be a scapegoat.]] Think about it.

** Not to mention the movie states that just a tiny portion of Smurfs essence has made Gargamel a serious threat to the Smurfs. If the Smurfs were to give him their hair, and such things that were extracted from Papa Smurf in the movie, Gargamel would go to next step... and try to (of course) take over the world. Or at least, the known world at that time.

** More importantly, it is a standard principle of magic that things like your hair, nail clippings, etc. can be used against you if a suitably evil magician were to get his or her hands on them. Very likely the Smurfs would be extremely wary of voluntarily giving those things to Gargamel, who fits the profile of "evil magician" to a "T".

** To be fair, Gargamel has the VillainBall super glued to his hands.