History Headscratchers / TheSmurfs

* The above raises the question: if the Smurfs are naturally a Main/OneGenderRace, as all indications appear, why would they be attracted to a female?
** Smurfette was created by Gragamel to cause trouble, perhaps he just made her that way.

** In addition to the fact that Smurfette wasn't a "real" Smurf from the start and probably wouldn't have worked for mking gold, Gargamel's motivations for capturing the Smurfs varies a bit. He does want to use them to make gold, but he also wants to eat them because apparently they taste good -- but the ''main'' motivation for his continued pursuit of the Smurfs seems to be that ItsPersonal. He's been thwarted, defeated and humiliated by the Smurfs so many times now that he wants revenge; in very many episodes he begins schemes that are meant to totally destroy the Smurfs and would render them useless for eating or gold-making... but by now he seems to wiew killing them all, or at least causing the rest of them grief by killing ''some'' of them, as a decent consolation price, even if he ''doesn't'' profit from it.

** In addition to the fact that Smurfette wasn't a "real" Smurf from the start and probably wouldn't have worked for mking gold, Gargamel's motivations for capturing the Smurfs varies a bit. He does want to use them to make gold, but he also wants to eat them because apparently they taste good -- but the ''main'' motivation seems to be that ItsPersonal. He's been thwarted, defeated and humiliated by the Smurfs so many times now that he wants revenge; in very many episodes he begins schemes that are meant to totally destroy the Smurfs and would render them useless for eating or gold-making... but by now he seems to wiew killing them all as a decent consolation price, even if he ''doesn't'' profit from it.

** Let's see. Going by cartoon continuity (since the events of the comic are somewhat different) there were originally 98 Smurfs in the village, including Papa Smurf. Then Gargamel creates Smurfette, and the number increases to 99 -- we know this because Papa counts all the Smurfs in the episode ''The Hundredth Smurf'' and concludes that they're 99. In the same episode, Vanity's reflection comes to life and after some time spent as a backwards Smurf is reflected and becomes the titular hundredth Smurf. The Smurfs stay an even hundred for a while until Baby Smurf appears, bringing the number up to 101. After some time Nat, Snappy and Slouchy get themselves de-aged and become Smurflings, but that doesn't alter the actual number of Smurfs any -- but when Sassette is introduced she's once again magically created as a new Smurf and increases the number to 102. Later, Grandpa Smurf, who's a notorious wanderer, returns to the village and moves in for good, and then there are 103 Smurfs. Then, Wild Smurf is discovered; a Smurfling who got lost and was presumed dead for many years but was in reality raised by wild squirrels -- with him the number becomes 104. Finally, there's Grandpa's old flame Nanny Smurf, the last "extra" Smurf character to be introduced in the show, making the final number of Smurfs 105. Which is the number that's presented in the later days of the franchise. Other Smurfs who are "introduced" over the course ov the cartoon have in reality been there all along, they just haven't gotten any individual on-screen attention yet and have only appeared as anonymous Smurfs in crowd scenes. Whew!

** Just good old nature.

** They aren't. [[WildMassGuessing Smurfette is a boy Smurf in drag.]] However the title of the girliest smurf still belongs to Vanity Smurf...

* Are Smurfs really blue? Or was... Angry Smurf's commercial canon, and they're actually orange, and we all need to fix the color settings on our TVs?

* For a communist society, it strikes me as odd that they still haven't executed Jokey Smurf.

* The first time Gargamel appeared, it was established (in the original Belgian comics, at least) that he needed a smurf in order to create gold. A couple of stories later, Gargamel is shown to be able to create smurfs himself, as he made the Smurfette. From that point, why would he even bother to try to capture smurfs? He could just make a batch, transform them into gold, use the money to built his own smurf/gold factory and become the richest, most powerful sorcerer alive.