The Wedding Episode special of The Smurfs (1981), which aired in early 1985 during the Season 4 broadcast.
In the story, the Cute Mute wood elf Laconia and her beloved Woody come to Papa Smurf to ask if he would be willing to marry them. Papa Smurf agrees to do so, and the wedding plans rapidly grow into a massive affair as everyone tries to make the wedding special. As Maid-of-Honor, Smurfette is right in the thick of it, and she daydreams about a Smurf husband of her own, but all of her Imagine Spots come crashing down when she realizes that all of her Smurf neighbors have flaws.
Gargamel catches wind of the upcoming wedding and attacks it by creating an Ominous Pipe Organ called the Ghoulliope that will hypnotize the Smurfs into walking to their doom. Laconia, who is immune to the Ghoulliope's Mind-Control Music, rescues Smurfette by plugging her ears and the two of them work together to free the others.
Afterward, Smurfette despairs that their massive wedding ceremony was ruined, but Woody and Laconia are just as happy with a simpler affair, showing that the perfect wedding doesn't require the perfect setup, the perfect cake, or even the perfect groom, just love.
Tropes associated with this special include
- Action Girl: Laconia and Smurfette work together to save the day.
- Apology Gift: The Ghoulliope arrives (ostensibly) as a present from Mother Nature along with her regrets that she can't attend.
- Bags of Letters: Clumsy is given a ton of invites to deliver to the guests of Woody and Laconia's wedding, which are all dumped on top of him by Handy's crane. Clumsy gets the help of the Pussywillow Pixies to deliver the rest of the letters since they could fly.
- Bouquet Toss: Done at the end of the episode, which Smurfette catches.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: The Pussywillow Pixies point out that Smurfette catching the bouquet means she's the next one to get married. She then notices the other Smurfs starting to gather around her, which causes her to look at us.Smurfette: Uh-oh.
- Bridal Carry: When Smurfette imagines herself being married to Hefty, he carries her in a jog through the village to his house. Smurfette asks if he's doing this because he's so eager to be alone with her, and Hefty says he's doing this because it's good exercise. (This scene is a Shout-Out to Rocky II, where Rocky Balboa carries his newlywed bride Adrian in this fashion.)
- The Cameo: Several of the Smurfs' friends make non-speaking appearances at the wedding, including Michael the Leprechaun, Tharp, Perwinkle, Queen Fauna, Flowerbell, Gunilda, and Dismal Boggs.
- Creepy Wedding Music
- Cut a Slice, Take the Rest: Greedy does this to a test cake that he made in preparation for Woody and Laconia's wedding.
- Disability Immunity: Well, probably. For some unexplained reason, Laconia, who is unable to speak, is also immune to Gargamel's magic music. This would be logical if she was a deaf-mute, but throughout the show, she is presented just as an ordinary mute, which makes it something of a Plot Hole.
- Give Away the Bride: Papa Smurf played this role as well as the minister of Woody and Laconia's wedding, since we don't see whether Laconia has any parents or not.
- G-Rated Sex: Or in this case, G-Rated Marriage Consummation, as when Smurfette imagines herself being married to Hefty: he takes her into his house, gets (partially) undressed, and wants to get all "hot and sweaty" with Smurfette...by doing exercises with her!
- Imagine Spot: Smurfette's dreams of being married to some of her fellow Smurfs. She even considers Papa Smurf for a second before shaking it off.
- Leaf Boat: Clumsy uses a leaf boat to deliver invitations for Woody and Laconia's wedding, with his first stop being the Pussywillow Pixies.
- Mind-Control Music: To which all but Laconia fall under its power.
- Ominous Pipe Organ: The special's Ghoulliope.
- Wedding Smashers: Gargamel, with his Ghoulliope.
