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Papa Smurf gives Farmer a magical solution for curing the bad crop of vegetables he has been growing lately. Chef Smurf, who becomes impatient for the new crop of vegetables, forces Farmer to use more than the recommended dose of the solution to get better crops sooner. Soon Farmer sees that he now has bigger fresh crops of vegetables...but after the Smurfs eat them, they start turning into vegetables!
Tropes associated with this story include:
- Anthropomorphic Food: What the Smurfs start turning into by eating the new vegetables.
- Call-Back: The Aerosmurf from the self-titled story makes its appearance here as the aircraft that would help Farmer and Chef spread what they think is the antidote over the Smurfs affected by the new crop of vegetables.
- The Cameo: Gargamel has this kind of appearance in the story when Papa Smurf checks to see if his little Smurfs have all been captured by the evil wizard and finds out that they haven't.
- "Eureka!" Moment: After Papa Smurf has been turned partially into a cauliflower, he wonders how he became that way until he realizes that he ate one bite of the stew made from the new crop of vegetables.
- Freudian Slip: Brainy accidentally calls Papa Smurf "Papa Pea" (at least that's how it's translated) after being incarcerated when he was turned into a pea.
- Giant Food: What Farmer gets when the recommended dose of Papa Smurf's magical solution is exceeded.
- How We Got Here: The story that Farmer and Chef tell Papa Smurf when he returns home and finds those two as well as Greedy and Smurfette as the only Smurfs left in the village.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Jokey treats Poet's transformation into a zucchini as a joke, only to be transformed into a tomato the next morning.
- Mutagenic Food: The new crop of vegetables that turn the Smurfs that eat them into vegetables.
- Stealth Pun Insult: Brainy after eating the new vegetables gets turned into a pea. A "pea brain".
- A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Farmer and Chef get turned into vegetables after accidentally eating the mutagenic vegetables when they crashed the Aerosmurf into Farmer's garden near the end of the story. Papa Smurf decides to leave them as vegetables for a while so they would learn their lesson.
