The Smurfs (Les Schtroumpfs in French) are a fictional race of small blue creatures who live in a forest somewhere in Europe. The Belgian cartoonist Peyo introduced Smurfs to the world, but English-speakers perhaps know them best through the animated television series from Hanna-Barbera Productions. Blue (from Old High German blao shining) is one of the three primary additive colors; blue light has the shortest wavelength range (about 420-490 nm) of the three primary colors. ... A dense growth of softwoods (a forest) in the Sierra Nevada Range of Northern California A forest is an area with a high density of trees (or, historically, an area set aside for hunting). ... A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ... A cartoonist at work. ... Pierre Culliford (June 25, 1928 – December 24, 1992), known as Peyo, was a Belgian illustrator, perhaps best known for the creation of the Smurfs comic strip. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Cartoon Network Studios, formerly known as Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. ...

Smurfette, Vanity Smurf, and Brainy Smurf

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History

"Johan & Pirlouit"'

Peyo wrote a Franco-Belgian comics serial in Le Journal de Spirou called "Johan & Pirlouit" (translated to English as Johan and Peewit). The setting lies in the Middle Ages in Europe. Johan serves as a brave young page to the king, and Peewit (pronounced Pee-Wee) functions as his faithful, if boastful and cheating, midget sidekick. Johan rides off to defend the meek on his trusty horse, while Peewit gallops sporadically behind on his goat, named Biquette. The pair feel driven by their duty to their king, and by the courage to defend the powerless. Belgium and France have a long tradition in comics, known locally as les bande dessinées. ... Spirou is: a Belgian childrens comic magazine; one of its serial comic strips, which is also published in hardcover format the eponymous character of the comic strip. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... A monarch is a type of ruler or head of state. ... The term midget refers to something which is smaller than usual but well-proportioned. ... Don Quixote and Sancho Panza unsuccessfully confront windmills. ... Binomial name Equus caballus The Horse (Equus caballus) is a sizeable ungulate mammal, one of the seven modern species of the genus Equus. ... A goat is an animal in the genus Capra, which consists of nine species: the Ibex, the West Caucasian Tur, the East Caucasian Tur, the Markhor, and the Wild Goat. ...

On October 23, 1958, Peyo introduced a new set of characters to the "Johan & Pirlouit" story. This alone caused no great excitement, as the brave duo constantly encountered strange new people and places. This time, they had the mission of recovering a Magic Flute, which required some sorcery by the wizard Homnibus. And in this manner, they summoned a Schtroumpf. October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 69 days remaining. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

"Schtroumpf" is an invented word. According to an interview with Peyo, the word came to him as he asked a friend for salt during lunch and, struggling to find the word that eluded him finally managed to say "passe-moi le schtroumpf" (pass me the salt). The word sounds like the German word "strumpf" ("sock"), but this might be a coincidence. It would later be translated into nearly 30 languages. In some of those languages, Schtroumpf became the word "Smurf", see The Smurfs in other languages. In any case, the tiny blue people proved a sudden hit, commercially speaking. They quickly moved into their own comic series, which became a tremendous success.

Animated Smurfs

Smurfette and Papa Smurf

In 1965, a black and white 90 minute animated film was made about the Smurfs, Les Aventures des Schtroumpfs. It received little attention, and not much is known about it. Smurfette and Papa Smurf (from the Hebrew Wiki) File links The following pages link to this file: The Smurfs ... Smurfette and Papa Smurf (from the Hebrew Wiki) File links The following pages link to this file: The Smurfs ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... This article is about the term as used in media and computing; for more specific uses, see Black and White. ... Animation refers to the process in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ...

However, in 1976, La Flûte à six schtroumpfs (an adaptation of the original "Johan and Peewit" story) was released. Michel Legrand provided the musical score to the film. 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Michel Legrand (born February 24, 1932) is a French composer, arranger, conductor and pianist. ...

In the late 1970s, Smurf merchandise, distributed exclusively by a California company, Wallace Berrie and Co., made its way to America and became a huge success. NBC Television executive Fred Silverman's daughter had a Smurf doll of her own, and Silverman thought that a series based on the Smurfs might make a good addition to his Saturday-morning lineup. This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ... The National Broadcasting Company or NBC is an American radio and television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... Silverman, Time, 1977 Fred Silverman (born 1937 in New York City) is an American television executive and producer. ...

The Smurfs secured their place in North American pop culture in 1980, when the Saturday-morning cartoon, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, finally debuted on NBC. The show became a major success for NBC, winning numerous Emmy awards, and spawning spin-off television specials on an almost yearly basis. Popular culture, or pop culture, is the vernacular (peoples) culture that prevails in a modern society. ... 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Saturday morning cartoon is the colloquial term for the typical television animation programming that was typically scheduled on Saturday mornings on the major American television networks since the mid 1960s. ... Cartoon Network Studios, formerly known as Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. ... The National Broadcasting Company or NBC is an American radio and television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... The National Broadcasting Company or NBC is an American radio and television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... An Emmy Award. ...

In 1983, an English version of La Flûte à six schtroumpfs was produced, and titled The Smurfs and the Magic Flute. 1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Smurf Figurines

Smurf collectible figurines, made of PVC, first appeared in 1965. Introduced in Germany, the first three Smurf figurines were Normal Smurf, Gold Smurf and Convict Smurf (complete with black-and-white striped prisoner's outfit). In 1966 Spy Smurf, Angry Smurf and Drummer Smurf appeared. In 1969 five more Smurfs followed: Moon Smurf, Winter Smurf, Brainy Smurf, Guitar Smurf and Papa Smurf. PVC may refer to the following: The chemical compound polyvinyl chloride Irregular heartbeat: premature ventricular contraction In frame relay, ATM and X.25 a permanent virtual circuit This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... General Name, Symbol, Number Gold, Au, 79 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11 (IB), 6, d Density, Hardness 19300 kg/m3, 2. ... In the anatomy of animals, the brain, or encephalon, is the supervisory center of the nervous system. ... The classical guitar typically has 3 nylon and 3 nickel-wound strings. ...

For a while advertisers used Smurfs to promote Renault garages and — in the United Kingdom and Australia at least — the figurines were given away when petrol was purchased. Renault S.A. is a French vehicle manufacturer producing small to upper-midsize cars, vans, buses and trucks. ... Petrol pumps in Germany Petrol (commonly known as gasoline in North America, and sometimes also called motor spirit) is a petroleum-derived liquid mixture consisting primarily of hydrocarbons, used as fuel in internal combustion engines. ...

Many people do not realise that the Smurf figurines given away with the petrol promotions actually still continue in production today. The popularity of the Smurfs in countries such as Belgium and Germany has never waned, and Smurf collecting has become a growing hobby worldwide, with 400 different figures produced so far. New Smurf figures continue to appear: in fact, only in two years since 1969 (1991 and 1998) have no new smurfs entered the market. Schleich's new release of 2005 Smurfs sees a return to the "classic" Smurf characters, with new figurines of Papa, Smurfette, Grouchy, Brainy, Vanity, Jokey, Harmony and Baby Smurf. The hobby of collecting consists of acquiring specific items based on a particular interest of the collector. ... A hobby is a spare-time recreational pursuit. ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...

Neither Convict Smurf nor Spy Smurf ever appeared in the animated television series, although both Spy Smurfs and convicted Smurfs played a minor role in the original second issue of the comic "Le Schtroumpfissime" ("King Smurf"). In this story Papa Smurf leaves the village, and a clever Smurf manages to gain power by winning an election through exaggerated election promises, and later turns into a dictator-type King. Jokey Smurf is arrested for having a bomb exploding in the megalomaniacal dictator Smurf's face, getting thrown in jail with the Sing-Sing type striped dress. Later the Spy Smurfs manage to liberate the political prisoner, while Brainy Smurf gets captured in the process. A running gag through the comic is that no-one is interested in liberating Brainy Smurf. An election promise is a promise made to the public by a politician who is trying to win an election. ... Dictator was the title of a magistrate in ancient Rome appointed by the Senate to rule the state in times of emergency. ... Dictator was the title of a magistrate in ancient Rome appointed by the Senate to rule the state in times of emergency. ... Sing Sing Correctional Facility is a prison in Ossining, New York. ...

Satanic rumors

During 1983, rumors of the Smurfs' Satanic activities spread across Puerto Rico. Those who believed the theory claimed seeing Smurfs below plants in their houses, next to their beds, dressed as the devil, etc. As Telemundo Puerto Rico had just begun to telecast Smurfs programs that year, a possibility exists that a rival television channel started the rumors. 1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Satan (שָׂטָן Standard Hebrew Satan, Latin Sátanas, Tiberian Hebrew Śāṭān; Aramaic שִׂטְנָא Śiṭnâ: both words mean Adversary; accuser) is an angel, demon, or minor god in many religions. ... Telemundo Puerto Rico is one of Puerto Ricos most popular TV channels. ...

The rumors spread like wildfire through the religiously conservative Latin America, where people went so far as to claim that small, demon-like Smurfs propagated through their recorded albums and attacked those who would play their music. This was very much in tune with the prevalent belief of the 1980s of satanic propagation through recorded music, as many rock bands made open references to satanism in their work. Conservatism or political conservatism is any of several historically related political philosophies or political ideologies. ... Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ...

Shortly thereafter in the United States various conservative Christian groups also began to label the Smurfs as "Satanic" -- due to the positive light in which their activities portrayed the use of magic and of sorcery. The term Christian means belonging to Christ and is derived from the Greek noun Χριστός Khristós which means anointed one, which is itself a translation of the Hebrew word Moshiach (Hebrew: משיח, also written Messiah), (and in Arabic it is pronounced Maseeh مسيح). ...

Later Years

The Smurfs television show enjoyed continued success until 1990, when, after a decade of success, NBC cancelled it due to decreasing ratings. 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The National Broadcasting Company or NBC is an American radio and television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ...

The death of Peyo in his hometown of Brussels in late December 1992 effectively sealed the fate of the Smurfs. This did not stop the Smurfs comics, though, as Lombard Productions hired specialist cartoonists to imitate Peyo's style and draw more of the adventures. Emblem of the Brussels-Capital Region Flag of The City of Brussels Brussels (Dutch: Brussel, French: Bruxelles, German: Brüssel) is the capital of Belgium and is considered by many to be the headquarters of the European Union, as two of its three main institutions have their headquarters in the... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

With the commercial success of the Smurf empire came the merchandising empire of Smurf miniatures, Smurf models, Smurf games and Smurf toys. Entire collecting clubs devote themselves to collecting PVC toys. A scare story that claimed Smurf figurines used leaded paint circulated in Britain in the 1970s, leading Jonathan King to release a single, Lick a Smurf for Christmas (All Fall Down) under the name of Father Abraphart and the Smurps. Vinyl siding Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is a widely-used plastic. ... General Name, Symbol, Number Lead, Pb, 82 Chemical series Poor metals Group, Period, Block 14(IVA), 6 , p Density, Hardness 11340 kg/m3, 1. ... This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ... Jonathan King is the stage name of Kenneth George King (born December 6, 1944, London), a wealthy pop music impresario who in 2001 received a seven year prison sentence for four indecent assaults and two more serious sexual offences on schoolboys aged 14 and 15. ...

Smurf Universe

The Smurfs

The storylines tended to be simple tales of bold adventure. The cast had a simple structure as well: almost all the characters look essentially alike — male, very short (just "three apples tall", a French expression), with blue skin, white trousers with a hole for their short tails, white hat, and some additional accessory that identifies each one's personality. (For instance, Handy Smurf wears overalls instead of the standard trousers). They can walk and run, but often move by skipping on both feet. They love to eat smilax leaves. Species Smilax bona-nox Smilax glauca Smilax hispida Smilax rotundifolia Full list of Smilax species The modern genus Smilax includes only those plants with woody vining stems and thorns. ...

The male Smurfs almost never appear without their hats, which leaves a mystery amongst the fans as to whether they have hair or not. According to a canonical source, they are indeed bald: one episode of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon has Greedy Smurf removing his chef's hat to give Papa Smurf a pie he had concealed under it, revealing a bald head. Male is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces sperm. ... Keen aficionados of any phenomenon such as authors, hobbies, ideologies, genres or fashions can collectively manifest as fandom. ... In the context of fiction, the canon of a fictional universe comprises those novels, stories, films, etc. ... Baldness (formally alopecia) is the state of lacking hair where it usually would grow, especially on the head. ... A slice of strawberry-rhubarb pie à la mode A pie is a baked dish with a pastry shell that covers or completely contains a filling of meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, cheeses, creams, chocolate, custards, nuts, or other sweet or savoury ingredient. ...

The Smurfs fulfill simple archetypes of everyday people: Lazy Smurf, Grouchy Smurf, Brainy Smurf, and so on. All Smurfs are said to be 100 years old, and there are normally 100 Smurfs. (This number increases as new Smurf characters appear.)

Specific Smurfs include:

• Papa Smurf, 542 years old, has a bushy white beard, red hat, and trousers. Papa Smurf, as the oldest and therefore the wisest of all Smurfs, officially functions as the leader of the village.
• Smurfette, a female Smurf with more delicate features than the male Smurfs, was chemically created by the sorcerer Gargamel as obnoxious and with stiff, black hair. She was transformed through a spell cast by Papa Smurf, wearing a white dress, white high heels and having long wavy blonde hair (surgery in the comics).
• Baby Smurf (male-gendered) joined the village later, brought in by a stork, which increased the number of smurfs to 101. (The number eventually went higher as more Smurfs appeared.)
• The Smurflings were introduced in the mid-1980s:
  • 3 young boys (Slouchy, Snappy, and Nat). Originally, those kids were normal Smurfs from the village, but one day, they went inside a wizard's house under a request by Papa Smurf and then accidentally entered inside a magical grandfather clock. The clock, by a time spell, turned the three Smurfs into children.
  • Sassette, a young girl Smurf. She is a redhead with braided hair and wears pink overalls. She was originally magically created like the Smurfette, but by the three kid Smurfs instead of by Gargamel. The three kid Smurfs felt sorry for Smurfette who was lonely as being the sole female in the village, so they broke into Gargamel's mansion and stole the magical recipe book that provided the origin of Smurfette's creation. They then created Sassette from it.
• Grandpa Smurf and Grandma Smurf. Grandpa Smurf, an older version of Papa Smurf, was introduced several years later and was soon followed with a female counterpart. Grandma and Grandpa are original to the animated series and do not appear in the original comics (except in the comic strips in the French "Schtroumpf" magazine).
• Clockwork Smurf, a wooden robot built by Handy Smurf. It is difficult to tell if Clockwork Smurf should count as part of the Smurf population, but considering that he shows real personality and feeling, it seems as if he could.

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Smurf Language

Characteristic of Smurfy language is the frequent use of the word "smurf" and derivatives of it in a variety of meanings. The Smurfs replace enough nouns and verbs in everyday speech with smurf as to make their conversations barely understandable. It was implied a number of times that the Smurfs all understood each other due to subtle variations in intonation that Johan or PeeWit (or the viewers) could not detect. A noun, or noun substantive, is a word or phrase that refers to a person, place, thing, event, substance or quality. ... A verb is a part of speech that usually denotes action (bring, read), occurrence (to decompose (itself), to glitter), or a state of being (exist, live, soak, stand). Depending on the language, a verb may vary in form according to many factors, possibly including its tense, aspect, mood and voice. ...

So that the viewer is able to understand the Smurfs, only some words (or a portion of the word) will be replaced with the word "smurf". Context offers a reliable understanding of this speech pattern, but common vocabulary includes remarking that something is "just smurfy" or "smurftastic".

The Smurfs even made war among themselves about the use of the "smurf" word: whether to use it as a verb or as a noun. This story is considered as a parody on the taalstrijd (language war) between French and Dutch speaking communities, still present in Belgium. War is a state of widespread conflict between states, organisations, or relatively large groups of people, which is characterised by the use of violent, physical force between combatants or upon civilians. ... In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. ...

Smurf Village

The Smurfs live secretive lives, in houses made from mushrooms or houses that just look like mushrooms (often made of stone), somewhere in the middle of a deep forest. Johan and Peewit would make visits, as well as a number of other forest natives. Basidiocarps (mushrooms) of the fungus Leucocoprinus sp. ...

List of Smurfs

Actor (fka: Timid), Baby, Barber, Bashful, Brainy (fka: Supersmurf; King Smurf), Clockwork, Clumsy, Cobbler, Dabbler, Dreamy (fka: Astrosmurf), Editor, Farmer, Flighty, Grandpa, Greedy (fka: Master Smurf), Grouchy, Handy, Harmony, Hefty, Jokey, Lazy, Marco, Miner, Nanny, Nat (aka Natural), Nosey, Painter, Papa, Poet, Pushover, Sassette, Sickly, Scaredy, Sloppy, Slouchy, Smurfette, Snappy, Somebody (fka Nobody), Sweepy, Tailor, Timber, Toughy, Tracker, Vanity, Weakling, Weepy, Wild, Wooley.

See Characters in the Smurfs. Airborne (aka Aviator) Airborne Smurf is a Smurf who has a sole passion in life: flying. ...

Voices in the Hanna-Barbera series

• Don Messick --Papa Smurf/Azrael/Dreamy Smurf/Sleepy Smurf
• Paul Winchell - Gargamel/Baby Smurf/Nosey Smurf
• Lucille Bliss - Smurfette
• Barry Gordon - Brainy Smurf
• Frank Welker - Clockwork Smurf/Hefty Smurf/Peewit/Poet Smurf/Puppy
• William Callaway - Clumsy Smurf/Painter Smurf
• Alan Young - Miner Smurf/Farmer Smurf/Scaredy Smurf
• Hamilton Camp - Greedy Smurf/Harmony Smurf
• Michael Bell - Grouchy Smurf/Handy Smurf/Lazy Smurf/Johan
• June Foray - Jokey Smurf/Mother Nature
• Linda Gary -- Dame Barbara

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The Smurfs in other languages

• Arabic: Sanafer سنافر (singular: Sanfur سنفور)
• Basque: Pottokiak (singular: pottoki), after the Basque pony race pottoka. Early editions used pitufoak, straight from Spanish.
• Catalan: Barrufets (singular: barrufet)
• Chinese: Lan jing ling (藍精靈)
• Croatian: Štrumpfovi (singular: Štrumpf)
• Czech: Šmoulové (singular: Šmoula), name based on their light blue colour.
• Danish: Smølferne (singular: en Smølf)
• Dutch: Smurfen (singular: Smurf)
• Finnish: Smurffit (singular: Smurffi)
• French: Schtroumpfs (singular: Schtroumpf)
• German: Schlümpfe (singular: Schlumpf)
• Greek: Stroumfakia Στρουμφάκια (singular: Stroumf/Stroumfaki Στρουμφ/Στρουμφάκι)
• Hebrew: Dardasim דרדסים (singular: Dardas דרדס). The real meaning of the word is a small child
• Hungarian: Törpök (singular: Törp)
• Icelandic: Strumpar (singular: Strumpur)
• Italian: Puffi (singular: Puffo), the name has been reinvented from scratch because in Italian language the "schtroumpf" or (in Italian spelling strumpf) reminds speakers of the Italian word "stronzo", literally meaning 'piece of excrement'. Note that the dialect word 'strunz' is even closer to 'strumpf'. The fantasy name "Puffi" is derived from word "buffi" (singular: buffo, as in opera buffa) a word meaning at same time "funny" and "strange".
• Polish: Smerfy (singular: Smerf)
• Portuguese Estrumpfes (singular: Estrumpfe), (Brazil knows them as Smurfs)
• Romanian Ştrumfi (singular: Ştrumf)
• Slovak: Šmolkovia (singular: Šmolko)
• Slovenian: Smrkci (singular: Smrkec)
• Spanish: Pitufos (singular: Pitufo; later used as a slang word for 'local cop' in Spain, after their blue uniforms). In an early time, they were published by the magazine TBO under the name of tebeítos.
• Swedish: Smurfer(na) (singular: smurf)
• Turkish: Şirinler (singular: Şirin)
• Serbian: Štrumpfovi (singular: Štrumpf)

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Similar creatures

• The Astrosniks were a similar fictional race with a space-based theme.
• The Snorks were a similar, though less popular, fictional people that lived underwater and had snorkel-shaped protrusions on their heads.
• The Littl' Bits were a fictional race of tiny forest people that resemble smurfs in their size and naming convention.

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External links

• Blue Imps Smurfs Collection - Formerly known as Smurf Valley, this is a collectors' resource and features photos of many collectible smurf items, as well as detailing the history of how the Smurf story began.
• BlueBuddies.com - Smurf Compendium featuring over 2,000 different Smurf products.
• BlueTalk - Support forum for smurf addicts from all over the world
• National Garage Smurfs - Nostalgic website aimed at the National Garage Smurf Collectors
• Smurfs Cartoons on TV - History, Cartoon Episode Guide, Voiceovers
• Smurfs at Kittyscavern.com - Incredible collection of Smurf products and information.
• The Smurf Community - Smurf forum moderated by several experienced Smurf enthusiasts
• The Smurfs Official Site
• WebSmurfer - translates web pages into Smurf language, allowing you to "smurf the web"
• Smurf Name Generator - Funny page about Smurf society, also gives you a Smurfy Name