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"All The News That's Fit To Smurf" is a Season 7 episode from the Smurfs cartoon show.

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Synopsis[]

Reporter makes the first newspaper for the Smurfs using Handy's machine and he writes a very attractive article about Papa Smurf's dangerous expedition.

Plot Summary[]

The Smurfs are gathered in Handy's workshop as he unveils and demonstrates his latest invention: the smurferific printing press. The only problem Handy finds with his invention is that he can't find anything interesting to print, and Brainy's offer of having it print out all his collected works doesn't count in Handy's mind. Then another Smurf comes in ask about the invention, sounding very curious about its purpose. Papa Smurf thinks that it can be used to print out a newspaper, and that it will take a Smurf who likes to ask a lot of questions, which he sees that Smurf as being since he has "a nose for news".

So that Smurf begins his work as Reporter, collecting news from around the village that he thinks Smurfs might find interesting. One of his interviews is with Clumsy about his rock collection, which he shows off to his fellow Smurf, including a rock with various colored stripes on it. Soon he's got enough material to print out his first edition of the Smurf Village newspaper, but as Reporter and Snappy find out, no Smurf seems interested in taking a copy for anything besides Vanity using one for dusting off his feet. Brainy comes by and tells Reporter that no Smurf is interested in reading about things that they already know, but rather what they don't know, and that he needs the "right angle".

Reporter takes Brainy's words to heart and starts looking for things in the village to write about that Smurfs don't know about, and to give the news articles the "right angle" just to make things interesting, such as Smurfette's new hat and Greedy's muffins. With the next edition of the Smurf Village newspaper called The Smurf Tattler, the Smurfs find themselves interested in picking up a copy but are appalled to discover that there are things in the articles that were misquoted or gave false information, which ends up making Reporter rather unpopular among his fellow Smurfs such as Harmony.

Later that night, Greedy, Handy, Jokey, and Smurfette convene together in Greedy's kitchen to talk about private news that's been going on in the village, checking to make sure that Reporter isn't present to be snooping in on their disclosures, but not realizing that he is right in the room hiding underneath the table writing down everything he hears in his notebook. By the following day, with the publication of that day's edition of the newspaper, more than just those four Smurfs find themselves angry when private information about their fellow Smurfs has just been made public news, and they chase after Reporter, ready to let him have it for his snooping into their private business.

As Reporter hides himself behind a barrel and wonders why his fellow Smurfs would react to him just simply reporting the news, he overhears Papa Smurf talking with Grandpa Smurf about a secret map that he discovered to a location that he doesn't want any Smurf to know about, particularly Reporter. This peaks Reporter's curiosity as he camps outside Papa Smurf's laboratory and hears about the discovery of a grove of super smurfberries at the bottom of Creepy Deepy Canyon, where they could collect its seeds and possibly grow their own grove of super smurfberries. After Reporter leaves to put this information into the next edition of his newspaper, Papa Smurf says that he doesn't want any Smurf to know about that location because it contains sleeping snapdragons that are dangerous when awakened. Grandpa adds that the only thing that can protect the Smurfs from the snapdragons has been lost for years, which is why Papa Smurf must go to that location alone.

The following day, Snappy has his fellow adult Smurfs picking up copies to read about the discovery of super smurfberries, which makes Brainy seem suspicious to read about because of Reporter's new reputation of mishandling the news. But when Brainy reads it for himself and discovers that what Reporter has reported about is true, he only wonders why Papa Smurf hasn't taken him along. Nevertheless, this has piqued the interest of several Smurfs in the village that they decide to head over to Creepy Deepy Canyon, where Papa Smurf is at this moment attempting to cross past the sleeping snapdragons in order to reach the super smurfberries. He comes to one of the bushes and tries to pull a berry from it, which drops to the ground but fortunately doesn't awaken the snapdragon, much to Papa Smurf's relief.

Meanwhile, back in the village, Grandpa Smurf pays an unfriendly visit to Reporter to talk to him about the map he had printed out in the daily newspaper that Brainy and some other Smurfs are using to reach Creepy Deepy Canyon to get to the super smurfberries. Reporter gulps when he realizes that he didn't stick around to hear about the giant snapdragons that protect the groves in the canyon, which Grandpa Smurf says their only protection against them is the legendary Rainbow Rock which he has yet to ever see. Reporter knows who might have such a rock, and so he takes Grandpa Smurf with him to get the rock.

At that moment, Papa Smurf has finished collecting enough seeds from the super smurfberry bushes when Brainy and some other Smurfs arrive in the canyon, talking loud enough to disturb the sleeping snapdragons and to have them wrap their tendrils around the intruders, ready to have them for their meal. But just when it seems that all hope of rescue is lost, Reporter and Grandpa Smurf come racing into the grove with Grandpa carrying a rock that looks just like Clumsy's, with Reporter saying that it is Clumsy's rock. Grandpa Smurf says that it's the Rainbow Rock, and suddenly it produces rainbow light beams that cause the snapdragons to lose their captives and to fall asleep again.

With the Smurfs safely back in the village, Reporter pledges to only print news that's "smurf to fit", and with a little prompting from Papa Smurf, he adds that he will print the whole story. Brainy wants Reporter to write about how he remained calm in the face of danger when dealing with the snapdragons, but Brainy's request was responded to with the usual catapult that he gets from his fellow Smurfs.

Trivia[]

  • Prior to The Smurf Tattler, there was a village newspaper that was peddled by Editor that appears in the episode "The Secret Of The Village Well", but it is unknown who published it or how it was published.
  • The title is a parody of The New York Times famous slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print" first introduced in 1896.
  • The newspaper "The Smurf Tattler" parodies student newspaper The Tattler.
  • Reporter's curious behavior before he became what he is was very similar to that of Nosey.
    • Vanity being seen getting impatiently annoyed at him for invading his house to gaze at the mirrors only to mistakenly destroy them is reminiscent to how every Smurf in the episode "The Lost City Of Yore" had been shown to get easily and hastily irritated at Nosey for his constant snooping.
    • Nevertheless, as the Smurf was never referred to as such before he became Reporter, it isn't likely that he is indeed the same character.

Goofs[]

  • When Greedy says "This isn't what I said!", his voice matches Handy's.

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