History Recap / TheSmurfs1981S1E21TheFakeSmurf

* DelayedExplosion: Hogatha attempts to destroy the Smurfs by sabotaging the bridge with Jokey's "surprises", but instead of exploding when she pulls the trigger at the moment the Smurfs are crossing the bridge, they end up going off when Hogatha herself starts across.

* TippedOffByTheTail: An inverted example. Clumsy's showing Hogatha's tail to Papa Smurf is what alerts him to the fact that there's a fake Smurf among them. Immediately afterward, when the Smurfs are checking each other's tails, Hefty demands to see Hogatha's. She flees, but Hefty immediately notices the lack of a tail.

* TippedOffByTheTail: An inverted example. Clumsy's showing Hogatha's tail to Papa Smurf is what alerts him to the fact that there's a fake Smurf among them.

* MeaningfulName: The other Smurfs call Hogatha's Smurf impersonation Snorty Smurf due to her VerbalTic of snorting like a pig.

* TippedOffByTheTail: An inverted example. Clumsy showing Hogatha's tail to Papa Smurf is what alerts him to the fact that there's a fake Smurf among them.

In the story, Hogatha wishes to get revenge on the Smurfs for destroying her magic locket in "Bewitched, Bothered, And Be-Smurfed" which cost her one of her nine lives, so she brews up a potion that will change her into a Smurf, albeit [[GenderBender a male Smurf]]. After swallowing the completed formula, Hogatha checks to see her transformation and realizes that it isn't completely perfect -- the one thing she lacks is a tail. Taking a pea from the table and painting it blue before putting a spot of glue on it, Hogatha creates a tail for herself and then heads out into the forest to find a Smurf that will take her into the Smurf Village. As luck would have it, Hogatha finds Vanity near a sarsaparilla patch. He offers her a sarsaparilla leaf, which tastes disgusting to her.

Hogatha follows Vanity into the village, and as Papa Smurf gathers up all the Smurfs to practice the 100 Smurf Dance, Hogatha tries to go her own separate way when Papa Smurf gets her to join the others in the dance. However, Hogatha finds herself unable to follow along and messes up everything in the dance, forcing Papa Smurf to expel her from the group. Glad that at least her cover wasn't blown, Hogatha goes into a Smurf's house and sees something boiling in the kettle. Thinking it to be soup, she puts a little poison root in it, hoping that the Smurfs will eat the soup with the poison and die from it. But during the meal where she sits and watches the other Smurfs eat hearty, Hogatha sees that they're not affected by the soup, and so goes back to the house with the boiling kettle and finds out that it's full of nothing but dirty laundry.

Hogatha tries another method for doing in the Smurfs: with the completion of the suspension bridge over the River Smurf, she plants Jokey's "surprise" packages underneath the bridge and waits for the Smurfs to begin crossing it so that she can blow them up. Unfortunately, her explosive sabotage didn't go off until she crosses over the bridge, and she ends up falling into the river, crying out for help. After the Smurfs rescue her, Papa Smurf sees that someone has sabotaged the bridge and tells his little Smurfs that there's "a smurf among us". Fearing that she will be found out, Hogatha tries to sneak away, but in doing so her tail falls off, which was discovered by Clumsy and brought to Papa Smurf's attention.

Papa Smurf then calls his little Smurfs together again to warn them of a "fake Smurf" on the loose. Hogatha realizes at this point that part of her masquerade is gone and flees into Papa Smurf's laboratory to make a potion that will restore her true form so she could squash the village flat. Several Smurfs get a battering ram to break down the door so they could stop Hogatha, but it is too late: she swallows the completed formula and transforms back into her old appearance...though now she is only Smurf-size. Unable to cast a spell to defend herself, Hogatha was captured by the Smurfs and brought out to the village limits where they set her free, warning her to never set foot in the village again.
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* GenderBender: Hogatha the witch becomes a male Smurf.

In the story, Hogatha wishes to get revenge on the Smurfs for destroying her magic locket in "Bewitched, Bothered, And Be-Smurfed" which cost her one of her nine lives, so she brews up a potion that will change her into a Smurf, albeit [[GenderBender a male Smurf]]. After swallowing the completed formula, Hogatha checks to see her transformation and realizes that it isn't completely perfect -- the one thing she lacks is a tail. Taking a pea from the table and painting it blue before putting a spot of glue on it, Hogatha creates a tail for herself and then heads out into the forest to find a Smurf that will take her into the Smurf Village. As luck would have it, Hogatha finds Vanity near a sarsaparilla patch, who offers her a sarsaparilla leaf to eat, only for her to find out that it tastes terrible.

* TrashTheSet: Hogatha's final plan as a fake Smurf is to burn the village to the ground, but she gets found out before she can put that plan into motion.

* TrashTheSet: Hogatha's final plan as a fake Smurf was to burn the Smurfs and their entire village to the ground, but she gets found out before she could put that plan into motion.

* DelayedExplosion: What Hogatha's attempt to destroy the Smurfs by sabotaging the bridge with Jokey's "surprises" ended up turning into.
* FreudianSlip: Hogatha, when she thinks she has poisoned the Smurfs' soup, refuses to eat the soup when Greedy tries to force her to eat it, saying "I'm on a low-poison diet."

* MeaningfulName: Hogatha's Smurf impersonation was named Snorty Smurf because of her VerbalTic.

* ImpostorForgotOneDetail: Double subverted. When Hogatha first transforms herself, she is dismayed to see that she's become a Smurf without a tail. She makes one by painting a dried pea blue and gluing it to the back of her pants. Later, though, her tail falls off and is found by Clumsy. Clumsy shows the pea to Papa Smurf, who warns the others of the impostor, and the fake Smurf is soon spotted.

* BatteringRam

* FreudianSlip: Hogatha when she thinks she has poisoned the Smurfs' soup refuses to eat the soup when Greedy tries to force her to eat it, saying "I'm on a low-poison diet."

* ImpostorForgotOneDetail: Hogatha's impersonation of a Smurf lacked her having a tail.

* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Attempted by Hogatha and failed, as she didn't know what she actually put the poison root into.