Fridge Brilliance
- 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 Delivery Stork lost a Smurf who ended being the eponymous character. This means that if Wild Smurf didn't get lost, there would have been 100 Smurfs! It fits!
- Rewatching some episodes (due to a case of nostalgia triggered by the release of the movie) with TV Tropes fresh on the brain reveals that this show is no more nor less Communist than most shows of the 80s.
- In the Live-Action Adaptation, 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?
- Being quite young when first reading The Smurfs and the Howlibird, I understood one plot point way later: the reason why Papa Smurf tasked two Smurfs to get rid of his dangerous fertilizer formula "in the desert". Since it was shown to create Smurf-Eating Plants, Papa Smurf wanted it to be lost in a place with no plant life to avoid any risk of a repeat.
- Grouchy hates absolutely nothing. He is only uncomfortable with hugs, stimuli, crowds and being forced to do what he doesn't want to (all typical traits of autism). This becomes clearer in "Hefty's Heart", when Gargamel infects Hefty with the Hate Disease, causing him to mistreat his friends and disown Baby Smurf, things Grouchy would never be able to do.
- Brainy didn't really believe that Clumsy was bad luck in "Clumsy Luck". In fact, Papa Smurf was about to leave the village, and as Brainy secretly covets the post of Papa Smurf, he was determined to come up with anything that would serve as an excuse for him to impose himself as leader of the village. As soon as Clumsy broke Vanity's mirror, Brainy soon saw it as the perfect tactic, taking advantage of the fact that Clumsy is the only smurf truly subordinate to him.
- In "Squeaky", when the eponymous mouse dies, Smurfette initially just thinks he's sick and sleeping. This might be because she was artificially created fairly recently and thus has no experience of death.
Fridge Logic
- The Live-Action Adaptation 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...
- To be fair, Gargamel has the Villain Ball super glued to his hands.
- 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".
- 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.
- Also, Gargamel really wants the magic to himself with no regulations. Bargaining with the Smurfs and depending on them giving him hair and stuff would limit the convenience of just having it whenever he wants. That combined with the fact that giving Gargamel that stuff would give him an upper hand, and it’s easy to see that neither side would benefit much from this agreement.
- 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?
Fridge Horror
- 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, 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 but to be a scapegoat. (And he's even more of a narcissist than Vanity is.) Think about it.
- How can Gargamel's books state that Smurf essence is needed to brew the 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.
- A new Smurfs album addressed that issue. An exchange between Papa Smurf and Homnibus revealed that Gargamel got his "magic book" from a Snake Oil Salesman and it's full of non-sense. This actually become a plot point in Gargamel, friend of the Smurfs.
- 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 Johan and Peewit comics): the 1980s cartoon show, Sony Pictures' live-action film series, and the 2021 cartoon show. So it's very possible that in those different continuities, the Philosopher's Stone recipe really has boiling Smurf alive as a ingredient.
- A new Smurfs album addressed that issue. An exchange between Papa Smurf and Homnibus revealed that Gargamel got his "magic book" from a Snake Oil Salesman and it's full of non-sense. This actually become a plot point in Gargamel, friend of the Smurfs.
- In The Smurfs and the Howlibird, Papa Smurf's failed fertiliser turns a flower into a carnivorous plant. Then, it is accidentally ingested by a fledging bird, turning it into a big predatory bird overnight. What happened to the two other nestlings??
- In "Romeo and Smurfette", all the male Smurfs fall in love with Smurfette. This includes Papa Smurf, and if he's the father of everybody, then that would mean Smurfette was being hit on by her own brothers and father!
- Well, she's adopted , so, they are "step" brothers.
- Gargamel wants to eat the Smurfs, and there are times when he outright attempts to eat a character alive on-screen, even though he lacks most teeth (which would render it hard if not impossible to chew). The size difference also sometimes puts the Smurfs as small enough to fit in his mouth and, combined with the lack of teeth, gives off a particularly morbid implication that wouldn't be out of character for Gargamel. With all that in mind, it begs the question: how frightening would he become without the one thing that keeps him from achieving this goal?
- Though the forest is idyllic and Gargamel never wins, the fact stands that the Smurfs are only truly safe while they're in their village - and even then, as long as Gargamel doesn't discover it. So this means two things: one, they're toast if he figures out where the village is and how to thwart them, and two, they're at risk the moment they leave the village boundaries. And they sometimes have to go into the forest for one reason or another, knowing there's always the equivalent of a Super-Persistent Predator on the loose nearby. The only thing that really keeps them safe is that The Good Guys Always Win, otherwise...
