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18 comments to "10 Smurfiest Facts About The Smurfs"
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Pol x
January 17th, 2008 at
5:18 am
“The Smurfs became a worldwide hit after Hanna-Barbera featured them in an animated series in the 1980s, so it is quite natural to assume that they’re an American creation.”
Natural to assume?
Please explain how it’s natural to assume?
It is possible for things to exist, even flourish, outside of the USA you know.
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Stane
January 17th, 2008 at
5:51 am
I was really surprised to see this thing about Smurfs and KKK.
The usual politic related Smurf controversy in Europe is that Smurfs are in fact communists. This notion comes, both from their idealistic little village society and the Peyo’s own political inclinations.
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Alex
January 17th, 2008 at
5:53 am
Exactly what it means: the Smurfs were popularized in America by Hanna-Barbera, which is an American animation production company, so it’s natural to assume that they came up with the idea of the Smurfs as well as their other hits.
Obviously this wasn’t the case, but unless you were really into it, you might not have known.
I agree with you on your last point. Indeed it is possible for things to exist, and even flourish, outside of the USA.
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Vako
January 17th, 2008 at
7:41 am
One constantly reminds himself that the USA is not the center of the Universe.
I think Gargamel is sort of a neat name. Maybe I’ll give a pet that name or supm. Is Gargamel supposed to be a stereotype of “The Jew”?
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Sandra
January 17th, 2008 at
7:57 am
Please never, ever post this much information on Smurfs again.
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stacyj
January 17th, 2008 at
9:52 am
“a computer-animated 3-D movie is in the works”
Oh, yuck. I am so ridiculously depressed that Hollywood is inflicting upon us yet ANOTHER CGI 3-D movie, especially another one based on what was originally 2-D animation (well, okay, originally a comic adapted for 2-D animation). I realize it isn’t always the medium that’s to blame but lord, the days when CGI stuff looked “neat” seem so far gone. These days so much of it just looks uncanny and disturbing at best, very much lacking in character or ‘heart.’ I also realize that HB wasn’t exactly a shining example of the amazing stuff one could do with 2-D but good -lord- do I miss 2-D animated movies (as well special effects done with muppets or stop-motion rather than computers, and the like)!
On a completely unrelated note, what was Smurfette called in the original? If the Smurfs were ‘Schtroumpfs,’ was she ‘Schtroumpfette’?
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Pol x
January 17th, 2008 at
10:21 am
Alex,
actually I think you’ll find that outside the USA it was widely known that the smurfs were not from the USA.
Your reasoning is that if a thing is shown to a USAnian they think it is from the US because that is where they saw it.
Sort of cyclical thinking there.
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Ry
January 17th, 2008 at
11:25 am
I agree with Sandra.
There are limits.
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Monster
January 17th, 2008 at
1:05 pm
Pol x, I guarantee you that the vast majority of Americans who have heard of the Smurfs, a) only know them from an American cartoon and b) naturally assume they are an American creation. That’s the truth, so get over yourself.
The only reason I knew they weren’t an American creation when I was a kid was because I read the comics, and they clearly weren’t American.
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Pudifoot
January 17th, 2008 at
1:09 pm
well smurf me, that was just smurftacular!
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anon
January 17th, 2008 at
1:34 pm
Tangentially related–Peter Jackson was reportedly looking into making a Tintin movie with Steven Spielberg. Not sure where this went.
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Alex
January 17th, 2008 at
2:43 pm
@pol X: Your reasoning is that if a thing is shown to a USAnian they think it is from the US because that is where they saw it.
Smurf no!
My reasoning was that an American animation production company Hanna-Barbera popularized The Smurfs into a worldwide fame. -
Milenka
January 17th, 2008 at
3:11 pm
Aw, I loved Los Pitufos, until i heard Peyo made a satanic pact to get rich, and like thousand of kids in my country; Chile; got really scared lol, it was a really big urban myth down here.
Oh and there were horrible stories about Pitufina (Smurfette) attacking little kids in the night, so we were all freaked out.
Until now Pitufos are used in scary stories,and a lot of 20 something like me still remember stories about Papa Pitufo pulling hair out of babies heads lol. -
Alex
January 17th, 2008 at
11:20 pm
@Sandra and Ry: why the hatin’?
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Elen Prague
January 18th, 2008 at
7:21 am
Good thing that you waste so much time by putting all this together, so we all can waste outr time together by reading and watching
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chu_jelly
January 24th, 2008 at
3:29 pm
esta es la mejor pagina de los pitufos q haya visto..
“los pitufos” es en nombre de esta caricatura en mexico
o love da snurfs
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Nate Deviate
February 13th, 2008 at
3:05 pm
I had a crush on smurfette when i was young
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jozo
March 14th, 2008 at
9:58 am
fiken deine mutti
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