Rewatching and reviewing Smurfs (1981 TV Series) - Season 2
Rewatching and reviewing Smurfs (1981 TV Series) – Here’s Season 2.
- 1. The Good, the Bad, and the Smurfy
The only season premiere that doesn’t introduce us to a new character (except for Tracker, but barely), but still a very good episode. I find the story similar to the “Sideshow Smurfs”, where some Smurfs are also captured by a stranger and taken away, and then the others organize a search party, except that this episode is so much better and well written. It feels like a Smurf story, it’s entertaining and doesn’t spend too much time focusing on the rescuers, while also being consistent with the number of Smurfs.
Rating: 9/10
- 2. Sister Smurf
It’s strange how in most episodes Smurfette is the centre of attention and here suddenly nobody cares …
Rewatching and reviewing Smurfs (1981 TV Series) - Season 1
Rewatching and reviewing Smurfs (1981 TV Series) - Here's Season 1.
- 1. The Smurfette
A solid pilot episode, but nothing special. I like how the Lone Smurf idea was added, but it doesn’t really get along with Smurfette’s character in this series. I liked the comic book ending better where Smurfette leaves the village to retain a good relationship between the other Smurfs because it truly is ridiculous how they fight for her attention, even characters like Vanity and Grouchy. Still, not a bad episode.
Rating: 6/10
- 2. The Smurf's Apprentice
I’d say it’s quite a disappointing adaptation considering that the comic wasn’t bad at all. I feel like they threw in too much unnecessary scenes and everything happened too fast, while it wasn’t even that ente…
The Smurfs versus the snorks
Which popular character is better?
The Smurfs, they are blue people that live in the village
The snarks they live in the ocean
The Smurfs villain is Garmel
The snores have some villains
The winner is the Smurfs
Top 5 Clumsy Smurf episodes
Clumsy's best episodes. Also he shares many of them with Brainy since they often appear together as best friends.
5th place: The Clumsy Genie
Though Season 9 is considered a bit "unsmurfy", this episode might be worth checking out. Foolish Clumsy takes role of a genie in the lamp - just in the moment when genie is required the most.
4th place: The Smurfiest of Friends
This is one of the episodes focusing on relationship between Brainy and Clumsy, best friends in the series. It shows us what does real friendship mean, and the story itself is really touching.
3rd place: No Time for Smurfs
In this episode, Brainy, Handy, Clumsy and Smurfette are playing with their smurfball, but later start playing with time - and trying to fix it only makes it worse.…
"The Jeremiah School"
I'm thinking of creating a Christian version of the Harry Potter books called The Jeremiah School. In this series, young people with supernatural powers are given dreams that they are the Jeremiahs, the young prophets that have been called of God to be His army in the end times, and to that end they go to a school called the Jeremiah School, which is watched over by a headmaster who is the longest-living Jeremiah and probably the first to be called a Jeremiah, the founder Jeremiah Xavier. They have a school of prophets that oppose them, the Luciferian Academy, and over the course of the book (and probably the series) the two schools butt heads with each other, using their supernatural abilities against each other to fight for supremacy ove…
Top 5 Brainy Smurf Episodes
Brainy has got a lot of focus episodes - but these are the best among them.
5th place: The Smurfiest of Friends
This is one of the episodes focusing on relationship between Brainy and Clumsy, best friends in the series. It shows us what does real friendship mean, and the story itself is really touching.
4th place: No Time for Smurfs
In this episode, Brainy, Handy, Clumsy and Smurfette are playing with their smurfball, but later start playing with time - and trying to fix it only makes it worse.
3rd place: The Smurfic Games
I think this is the best cartoon show special, and the Smurfs' version of the Olympic Games is great, also it's great when Clumsy forms his own team and is actually competitive. Brainy again messes it all up, but he still appears…
Top 5 Smurfette Episodes
My list for Smurfette's best episodes in the 1981 TV Series.
5th place: The Mr. Smurf Contest
As every Smurf wants to take Smurfette to the dance, Sassette has a solution - Smurfette will decide herself after their performances. And Gargamel again becomes a Smurf, infiltrating The Mr. Smurf Contest.
4th place: My Smurfy Valentine
First of the two specials about Smurfette, with the debut of Chlorhydris in the show, as well as Cupid's first appearance. Smurfette searhes for a Prince Smurfing only to realize that she already has a full village of them.
3rd place: Squeaky
Smurfette saves a mouse, Squeaky, and takes him as a pet. But she learns about the death after Squeaky passes away, which stresses her so much, that she runs away before it happens to…
Top 5 Papa Smurf Episodes
I had time and created this list, I just want to know others' opinions and improve it. Later I might post that kind of list for other characters too.
5th place: Papa's Family Album
This is the episode in which Papa shows the Smurflings how he raised Brainy's generation, and it's quite entertaining to watch little Brainy saving his fellow Smurfs.
4th place: Papa's Wedding Day
Fearing that he's becoming old, Papa falls in love with Flowerbell, and soon ends up acting as young as all the others, while his obsession annoys other Smurfs. A remarkable episode with Papa playing the main role.
3rd place: Smurf on Wood
At first not so much about Papa, the episode runs into superstitious Smurfs believe that he's become a toad, and a superstitious wizard thin…
Paul Reubens passed away
Paul Reubens, the man behind Pee-Wee Herman and the voice of Jokey Smurf from the live-action Smurfs film series, has passed away recently.
It's about time!
Finally, the 2021 series is returning with more S2 episodes! But I'm still puzzled about why it was delayed for that long!
Off-topic: my journey with autism
May is Mental Health Month, and I just want to share that I have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, or ASD. It's a condition that I had since birth, only back then it wasn't called autism, it was called something else. I have been in special programs and residential schools throughout my entire life, and the experiences I had with them weren't entirely pleasant. I have written the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf series as an expression of what it's like to have ASD, only using telepathy as a substitute. I'm afraid to have children because they will most likely inherit my ASD in the womb, and I don't want to subject another life to the same experiences I had growing up with ASD. I don't plan on hiding the fact that I have ASD.
My Papa Smurf passed away
It's been a few months now, but I still miss the presence of my own father Roger L. George, who passed away in January 2023 at the age of 82. Strangely, I don't feel any grief or sorrow. I just felt that it was his time to leave this world, and I pray that it is with God.
Season 3
Questions on Season 3:
- During this season, will Brainy evolve from the talkative side to the positive side as in some episodes?
- Will Jokey and Clumsy be less present during season 3 after season two?
- Will there be some episodes where Willow and Papa Smurf will continue their series of disputes as in the three episodes of season 2?
- Would Grouchy be less present during this new season, because Jokey had fewer episodes in the second half of the second season, for Clumsy, he had had a lot in the previous two seasons, and Grouchy didn't?
- Can we see Homnibus again?
- Could Vanity sometimes stop saying bullshit about the colors of trucks, like in "Smurfs on Fire", where he did a not funny bullshit for me, because it's just a truck
- We could see the girls' …
The delay of more S2 episodes of the 2021 Smurfs series
Is there something going on with the delay of the series? I'm now losing patience! Anyone with info would be appreciated.
Babybus' unofficial Smurfs song
While I was watching Smurfs in Chinese, I noticed Babybus (The worst one) made an unofficial Smurfs song
Look: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky7ee6fK1Pw
Theory about smurfberries
I have a theory about why the Smurfs are more easygoing and friendly toward each other in the 1980s cartoon show and the live-action movies than they are in the comic books and the 2021 animated series: it is the presence of smurfberries. I think that smurfberries act as a natural anti-depressant, which results in their overall more laid-back behavior, and why they worry when Gargamel in "The Last Smurfberry" cuts off their natural supply of smurfberries from the forest, laying for them a trap by taking the last thriving smurfberry bush and surrounding it with a snake pit.
Opinion: "Me, I don't like..." Grouchy sucks
Am I the only person around here who thinks that the Papercutz comic book English translation of Grouchy's common catchphrase sucks? Personally, I don't like the literally translated "Me, I don't like..." because it sucks the grouchiness out of Grouchy's character when the more dynamic-equivalent version "I hate..." worked a whole lot better in English. This may be chalked up to a difference in cultures, but it still doesn't work as an English translation. In the 2021 cartoon show, it makes Grouchy sound rather robotic and less realisitically grouchy, like he's saying that to be politically correct than showing his real feelings in any situation that he even remotely passionately dislikes.
The Smurfs (2021 review)
UPDATE (12/7/2023): I soon realized that Johan and Peewit didn't come back in the second season. Also, I added in more details of the review that were left out, thanks to fans of the 1980s cartoon show.
This new version of The Smurfs is slightly better than the 1980s cartoon series, but only in animation quality. Chef and Greedy are separate characters once again, along with Clumsy and Dimwitty. Baby Smurf and Wild Smurf make surprise returns to the series, which is true since they had not been seen since the 1980s. Brainy Smurf is no longer as self centered and arrogant as you'd expect, and his ego has been downplayed (reverting to a bookworm Smurf). While Hanna-Barbera was instrumental in extreme character build-up and taking artistic libe…
The Lost City of Yore (Smurfs review)
This episode is one of the earliest examples of a random events plot and it is done poorly. Half of the plot is wasted on Nosey Smurf, who is a one dimensional obsessive busybody who has no respect for other's privacies and is all melodramatic when the Smurfs reprimand him. Also, he sounds far too recognizable to Frank Nelson (who does his voice). The Great Swamp Witches are no better themselves and keep talking about the Lost City of Yore to find a magic scepter, except they never achieve that goal. Gargamel and Azrael appear in the middle of the episode to visit the Witches, but they are distracted by the other Smurfs searching for Nosey, Brainy and Clumsy. Even after the three Smurfs get captured, Nosey keeps getting reprimanded for get…
Opinion: Is Nickelodeon killing The Smurfs?
I believe this is a fair question to ask, because there has been no new episodes in English on the channel for weeks, and there's no way to contact the network about the situation. It may be the network or a problem with the production team that's dubbing the episodes to English, but whatever, it doesn't help that Smurf fans are starving for new content that's in English, and the French already got a few dozen or so episodes released so far. Something has got to be done with the series, or else it may end up with the same fate that CBS handed to the 1990s The Flash series, being killed off for not having a single night to stick with for new episodes.
Jack Angel passed away
Jack Angel, the voice of Papa Smurf in The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol and The Smurfs: The Legend Of Smurfy Hollow specials, has passed away.
Revisiting the Live-Action Movie Universe: 10 Years Later
It's been ten years since the first Smurfs movie in the Live-Action Movie Universe has been universe, and since I have only seen that and The Smurfs 2 a few times since their releases, I saw those movies again recently and I'm still floored by the great (if not absolutely wonderful) job Sony Pictures Animation did in bringing the Smurfs to life. It wasn't like watching a live-action cartoon like other efforts in bringing cartoon characters to a live-action universe. It was like watching real people come to life. It was like everything I imagined the Smurfs to be if they actually existed in the real world. I also like how they interacted with the modern world in the few times they appeared in it through time travel, even with the cast chang…
Video feature review: "Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue"
I watched the special when it first aired in April of 1990, pretty much when the Smurfs were winding down as a Saturday morning phenomenon thanks to its "time-traveling" Season 9 episodes. It was a pretty bold idea at the time, to do a cartoon crossover special that was like Who Framed Roger Rabbit done with TV cartoon characters (well, mostly them...Looney Tunes were actually animated film feature characters). However, what they choose to team together to deal with is the controversial issue of drugs, since parents were concerned about their children picking up the drug habit from their own schoolmates and such. The Smurfs already had an episode dealing with a drug-like magical object that entranced its users called "Lure Of The Orb". But here…
The Smurfs: A New Touch of Blue
On Nickelodeon, there's a special place inhabited by little blue beings, three apples tall, and know that even feeling blue is a good thing!
Smurfette: "*giggles as her teeth become rainbow colored and drinks some more*"
It's The Smurfs: A New Touch of Blue!
Everyone: *cheering*
A new show featuring all our favorite blue friends,
SmurfBlossom: Oh my gosh! This is gonna be so much fun!
With all new adventures!
SmurfJade: "Catch me if you can, Gargamel!"
Complete with friendship,
SmurfLily: "I'm so glad that we didn't give up! *hugs Smurfette*"
love,
SmurfStorm: "*kisses Clumsy's cheek*"
Clumsy: "*gushes* Awww."
laughter,
Smurfettes: "*laughing*"
and fun!
Papa Smurf: "This calls for a celebration!"
The Smurfs: A New Touch of Blue! A brand new show coming ne…
Kelly Asbury passed away
Recently today, Kelly Asbury, the director of Smurfs: The Lost Village, has passed away due to cancer.
Link to article
Smurfs Season 2 episode reviews (minus Johan and Peewit)
Here's some brief reviews of the episodes that appeared in Season 2 of the Smurfs cartoon show, minus the Johan and Peewit episodes.
- 1. The Smurf Who Couldn't Say No
Interesting episode, but Papa Smurf came off as rather distant to Pushover instead of fatherly and sympathetic to his situation.
- 2. The Adventures Of Robin Smurf
Moderately entertaining.
- 3. S-Shivering S-Smurfs
Moderately entertaining.
- 4. Sister Smurf
Gets more interesting near the end when the Smurfs rescue Smurfette and Laura from the old hag.
- 5. Revenge Of The Smurfs
Moderately entertaining.
- 6. The Three Smurfketeers
Not as fun as the Robin Smurf episode.
- 7. Heavenly Smurfs
Moderately entertaining.
- 8. It Came From Outer Smurf
It's too bad we only get to see the alien visitor in this episode.
- 9. Squeak…
Danny Goldman passed away
Danny Goldman, the voice of Brainy Smurf from the Smurfs cartoon show of the 1980s, has recently passed away.
Link to article
Appearances section in character articles
As a suggestion, for characters that have multiple appearances in stories and episodes that make them main characters instead of supporting ones, they should have a separate page for listing them.
Rene Auberjonois passed away
Rene Auberjonois, who voiced the character Hotap in the Smurfs cartoon show episode "Papa's Family Album", has recently passed away.
Link to article at Washington Post
Nonexistent Smurfs media presentations
Whoever keeps posting the article for "The Princess of the Dragon", I know that it DOES NOT EXIST because I have Googled it. Please STOP trying to post the article, whoever you are, or you will be blocked from this wiki. Fair warning.
Rules On My Channel
No Swearing Allowed No Racist Words Allowed No Talking About Gargamel Allowed No Talking About Mexico Allowed