The Thanksgiving Episode of the series, loosely adapted from the Smurfs comic book story "The Smurfs And The Magic Bird". Tracker and the boy Smurflings find a golden pheasant out in the forest on the day of the Harvest Feast and bring it to the Smurf Village, where the Smurfs discover that it is a rare magic Wishing Bird. However, Lord Balthazar is also after this bird and wants to use it for his own purposes.
This story provides examples of:
- An Aesop: Papa Smurf delivers one near the end of the story when Clumsy mopes about not being able to make a wish with the Wishing Bird, to appreciate the things that you already have.
- Age-Gap Romance: Sassette accidentally triggers this with Empath when she wishes that Empath would tell her how much he truly loves her, which came off as a bit too creepy for her and had to deal with his affections, even when she was accidentally given an Overnight Age-Up to compensate for the age differences between her and Empath. Fortunately Papa Smurf restores everything to normal near the end of the story, so Empath and Sassette go back to being just friends with each other.
- Bring My Brown Pants: Lord Balthazar peed in his robe when he found out he was in Tartarus.
- Fire and Brimstone Hell: Tartarus, where Lord Balthazar ends up in via Duncan's wish, is portrayed as this.
- Food End: The story ends with the Smurfs attending the Harvest Feast dinner, although Empath takes the opportunity to make apologies to Sassette for his behavior with her during the dinner.
- Getting the Boot: Brainy gets this twice in the story — once when he was giving Printer a hard time about printing a second copy of his latest book, and another time near the end of the story when he is about to share what he had written in his latest book.
- Get Out!: Greedy gives Vanity a harsh warning to get out of his kitchen when Vanity bothers him about when the food is going to be ready to eat.
- Hand Gagging: Smurfette does this to Brainy when he tries to answer Mother Nature's question about the Wishing Bird giving them problems, and she and the other Smurfs lie that it hasn't been giving them any problems at all.
- Living MacGuffin: The Wishing Bird, which Lord Balthazar is after.
- Make a Wish: The Wishing Bird enables wishes to be granted when it is fed birdseed and sings after it is made happy.
- Mocking Sing-Song: The boy Smurflings tease Sassette with "Sassette's in love with Empath" when she playfully tells Empath to go be with Smurfette and calls him "you big lover Smurf" after she and Empath are restored to normal.
- Oh, My Gods!: Empath swears an oath "by the Great Ancestors" that he will not go after any other Smurfettes after he has been cured of his magical attraction to Sassette.
- Overnight Age-Up: Sassette accidentally gets aged up to an adult Smurf when Smurfette says she wishes that Sassette would be the same age as Empath. Fortunately by the end of the story, Sassette is reverted to her normal age again.
- See You in Hell: Duncan McSmurf wishes for Lord Balthazar to be in Tartarus at the moment he tries to capture Empath, Duncan, and Polaris Psyche when the three of them try to rescue Tapper and the Wishing Bird... and sure enough, Balthazar ends up being there.
- Temporary Blindness: Clumsy was hit with temporary muteness when Brainy accidentally wishes for Clumsy to be silent while they were watching over the Wishing Bird. He soon regains his speech when Papa Smurf comes to discover the bird for himself and uses it to restore Clumsy.
- You Mean "Xmas": The Harvest Feast is the Smurfs' analog to Thanksgiving in the series. Because the Smurfs are vegetarians, a pastry dish called a cornucopia is substituted for the turkey.
