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"Blue Eyes Returns" is a Season 4 episode from the Smurfs cartoon show.

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Synopsis[]

Smurfette calls Blue Eyes to help her destroy Gargamel's magic cloud that floods the whole land by water.

Plot Summary[]

The story begins with Farmer telling Papa Smurf that if the crops don't get any rain soon, that they're going to wither and die. Papa Smurf agrees that they're going to need more than just a little rain soon, which is confirmed with Brainy reporting that the village well has run dry. As Papa Smurf is left to wonder what he's going to do, Gargamel has already come up with a solution: a rain-making device that uses magic beans that will enable to create rain whenever and wherever he wants, and for as long as he wants.

High upon a mountain, Papa Smurf checks up on Handy with his weather-predicting device, which strangely tells him that there's going to be rain, even though there's only a single cloud up in the sky, so he thinks that his machine is wrong. Smurfette says that without rain, there can't be a rainbow, and without a rainbow, she won't be able to see Blue Eyes again... a thought which makes Brainy voice his disapproval of what he sees as a childish fantasy. Smurfette tries to convince Brainy that Blue Eyes is real, and Clumsy is too quick to say that he believes her. Papa Smurf ends the discussion by saying that he believes that they should all go down to haul water from the river to water Farmer's crops, which they agree upon doing.

Soon, Gargamel is ready to give his rainmaker a test run, and since there's only one cloud in the sky directly above him, that is all he will need for his test run. Lighting the fuse that will launch the magic beans into the air, Gargamel recites the following chant: North wind, north wind, stay far away; little cloud, little cloud, rain this very day; flood the forest, sweep the Smurfs away. And soon with a powerful explosion, the magic beans are launched straight into the cloud, and instantly rain comes pouring out of the cloud, making Gargamel so happy that he can now control the weather that he does a song and dance right underneath the small rain cloud.

As Papa Smurf and Handy now notice the one small rain cloud pouring down over one single spot, Smurfette is in the village with the other Smurfs using Handy's fire engine to water Farmer's crops. But Smurfette's mind is still on Blue Eyes, the winged orange horse she had met some time ago and says that she wishes that there would be a flood so that Blue Eyes would come out of the sky and save her. She wonders if it's wrong to make a wish like that, and Farmer says there's no harm in having that kind of a daydream. However, as the rain continues to pour down over Gargamel's house, the waters eventually make their way to the Smurf Village where it starts flooding. The Smurfs do everything they can to keep the flood waters from destroying their food supply as well as their houses, but ten days later it reaches the point where after consulting with Mother Nature, Papa Smurf tells his little Smurfs that they must build an ark.

Meanwhile, in the Land of Myth, Michael the leprechaun is taking a snooze when Blue Eyes visits him, asking when he's going to go down. Michael says that he can't go down with his pot of gold without a rainbow, and there can't be a rainbow until the rain stops, which at this point is now fifteen days since it has started. Blue Eyes becomes worried about the Smurfs, particularly Smurfette, hoping that they will be all right, and Michael tells the young horse not to worry, that the Smurfs are able to take care of themselves.

Back in the Smurf Forest, the Smurfs are busy building the ark and getting the S.S. Smurf II loaded with all the provisions they will need, which in Brainy's mind also includes all his completed written works. Gargamel, in the meantime, is now beginning to regret coming up with a rainmaker as he prepares to salvage whatever he can out of his house so that he and his cat Azrael can escape the rising waters. It is then that Smurfette tells Papa Smurf that it's all her fault for wishing it would rain so hard because she wanted to see Blue Eyes again. Papa Smurf tells her that her wish wasn't responsible for making it rain like that, which makes her feel only a little better about herself.

With the ark finished, Papa Smurf and his little Smurfs set sail for dry land, with Nat staying on Mt. Smurf to make sure that his animal friends would reach high enough ground to escape the rising waters. At night, with the ark and the S.S. Smurf II holding their position on the waters, Smurfette remembers the words spoken to her by Blue Eyes' mother: "Whenever you need a friend true blue, think of golden shoes and friendship true, then say, 'Blue Eyes, Blue Eyes, I need you'." Smurfette recites the words, and instantly Blue Eyes hears them in the Land of Myth. Realizing that Smurfette truly needs her, Blue Eyes tells Michael, who again tells the young horse that he can't go down without a rainbow. Blue Eyes asks if there's another way, and Michael tells him of the North and South Poles, with the North Pole being the closer of the two that he can use.

As the Smurfs try to offer some help to Gargamel by launching food at him that he could eat, despite the fact that he hates smurfberry pie, Blue Eyes soon encounters the North Pole and asks if he could slide down him so he could reach Earth, and the North Pole reluctantly complies, saying that he can't stop the young horse anyway. He hurries as fast as he can to reach Smurfette, but as he flies across the sky to reach her, the Smurfs start receiving messages sent in bottles from their friends King Gerard, Sir Johan, and Peewit, as they are also experiencing being flooded out of their own castles. Gargamel receives one from his own godfather Lord Balthazar, telling what he's going to do if he finds out his godson is responsible for the flooding.

After a good deal of patiently waiting, Smurfette hears the whinnying of Blue Eyes as he approaches the ark, and quickly jumps onto him and flies off into the sky to see what they can do about the flooding. While Papa Smurf reprimands Gargamel for his foolishness of seeding the cloud with magic beans, Smurfette and Blue Eyes fly into the cloud and see for themselves the folly of the evil wizard using too many magic beans for his rain cloud. Smurfette wonders what they're going to do, and Blue Eyes realizes there's only one thing to do: he turns around and uses his rear hooves to kick at the cluster of beans, making them explode upon impact. Soon the rain cloud disappears, and with the rain cloud gone, the waters begin to recede from the forest until everything is dry again, making the Smurfs cheer.

Alone at the Great Oak Tree with a rainbow in the sky next to it, Smurfette tells Blue Eyes that it's so sad that she will only get to see him two more times in her life as she realizes that her friend must return to the Land of Myth. Blue Eyes feels the same way with Smurfette as he starts up the rainbow to return home, and as Smurfette watches him depart, she hears his mother's words speak to her once again: "Whenever you need a friend true blue, think of golden shoes and friendship true, then say, 'Blue Eyes, Blue Eyes, I need you.'".

Trivia[]

  • Thirty-one characters appear in the episode, almost tied with "Smurfquest" with the greatest number of characters.
  • This is the second and final instance in the series that Gargamel, Azrael, Johan, and Peewit are featured in the same episode, though Johan and Peewit are solely background characters in this episode.
  • This is the final appearance of Blue Eyes.

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