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Recap / The Smurfs Book 4, Story 1: The Egg and the Smurfs

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The Smurfs get a magic egg that grants wishes.


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  • And Then What?: One Smurf wishes for riches and gets a lot of jewels. At first, he's happy, but then another Smurf asks what he's gonna do with them. He has no answer.
  • Anthropomorphic Food: One Smurf turns into a sausage. Another Smurf (presumably Greedy) sees him and decides he's going to eat him!
  • Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: A Smurf tries to become tall, but when he's told that he isn't tall enough, he turns himself into a giant Smurf.
  • Be Careful What You Wish For: As a Smurf found out the hard way when he said what he did while striking the egg.
  • Call-Back: To "The Black Smurfs", when the Smurfs complain about Grouchy's behavior.
  • Identity Impersonator: The three Smurfs that turned themselves into Papa Smurf.
  • Literal Metaphor: The Smurf trying to break the egg became the very thing he unwittingly said he'd be, a sausage.
  • See You in Hell: When a Smurf couldn't decide what he would want to wish for with the magic egg, an impatient Smurf says "to the devil with you" while pushing past that Smurf and bumping the egg...and that Smurfs ends up being with the devil!
  • Your Tomcat Is Pregnant: Gender inverted here, when a Smurf raises up a chick that hatches from the magic egg, thinking that it will grow up to be a hen that will lay magic eggs. To his sad surprise, it grows up to be a rooster.

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