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"Bungling Babysitters" is a Season 8 episode from the Smurfs cartoon show.

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Synopsis[]

Smoogle must save Baby from Hogatha due to irresponsibility of his arguing babysitters Handy, Brainy, and Greedy.

Plot Summary[]

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Hogatha the witch appears outside the cottage of Passionetto the beautician, whom she seeks to "improve upon perfection", despite his underhanded comments about nothing outside of having a new body being what could help her. Nevertheless, he cordially greets her as he takes her inside his shop, has her sit upon her chair, and gives her a mud pack that he claims will give her baby soft skin. Passionetto is so eager to be rid of his customer that he ejects Hogatha from her chair and tells her to remove the mud pack when she gets home.

Meanwhile, in the Smurf Village, Nanny holds up Baby Smurf, saying that she has never felt baby soft skin in ages. She needs to find a babysitter so that she could go off to visit Mother Nature, but as her pet Smoogle is so eager to tell her that he is willing to watch over Baby Smurf, Nanny refuses, saying that she would need a mature Smurf to do the job. As if to answer her dilemma, Handy shows up with a smurfomatic rocking chair for Nanny to test out, and Greedy shows up with a baker's dozen of muffins for Nanny to bring to Mother Nature (though Greedy has already eaten the ten in that dozen). Handy is the first to offer watching over Baby Smurf, but as soon as she starts to leave, Greedy is fighting with Handy over who gets to watch over Baby. Then Brainy shows up and takes Baby Smurf away, offering himself to be the official babysitter, when he trips over a rock and causes Baby to fly out of his arm, causing Smoogle to make a quick rescue of the blue infant. Nanny suggests that they should let Baby decide, and while Baby points toward Smoogle, Nanny doesn't notice it as she finds herself pestered by the three Smurfs demanding to be the babysitter. Finally, Nanny blows the whistle on their argument and puts Baby in his crib, saying that the child now has three babysitters for the day.

In Hogatha's castle, the evil witch is chiseling away at the dried-up mud pack, eager to see how her face will now appear. Unfortunately, after pulling the mud pack, she is horrified to see her face now has more wrinkles than ever. After turning Passionetto into a goat with her magic powers, Hogatha looks through her books for a way that she can get baby soft skin. She finds the listing for such a formula, in which it says that she needs one gurgling baby. Shaking one of her jars and finding she is all out of gurgling babies, Hogatha tells her pet vulture that she needs to go out and find one.

Back in the village, Handy falls asleep rocking Baby Smurf in his smurfomatic rocking chair when Greedy shows up, saying it's time for Baby's feeding as Smoogle shuts off the rocking chair. Handy tells Greedy that maybe he should test the baby liquid, but Greedy over tests it by drinking the bottle's entire contents, making Baby Smurf cry. Then Brainy shows up, chiding Greedy as he takes Baby Smurf out of Handy's hands as he is eager to demonstrate the proper care in babysitting, but as Brainy walks off with Baby who is given a full bottle by Smoogle, he accidentally activates Handy's rocking chair, causing the village builder to be rocked right out of the chair and right onto Greedy.

Meanwhile, Hogatha's search for a gurgling baby brings her to a nest where she sees a lone baby bird nesting, but when she goes to grab the baby bird, its mother soon comes and pecks angrily at the witchy intruder, causing her to fall. Her pet vulture barely manages to come to his mistress' rescue. Later on in the forest, Hogatha spots a bear cub all by itself, but as she gets close to it, she finds herself being chased by the cub's mother, and again Hogatha's pet vulture comes to her rescue.

Brainy, Greedy, and Handy take Baby out for a walk in the forest to test out Handy's new strollomatic baby stroller, with Smoogle accompanying them. They soon reach a fork in the path, and the three Smurfs argue with each other over which path they should choose to take Baby on. However, in the middle of their arguing, Baby's stroller goes off by itself down one of the paths, and Smoogle tries to alert the three arguing Smurfs about it, but Brainy tells Smoogle that they're rather busy. So Smoogle chooses to take action himself, by suddenly rolling himself into a ball and catching up with Baby's stroller, activating the brakes before both Baby and stroller go off a cliff. Unfortunately, Hogatha shows up at that moment to snatch up Baby from his stroller and to send Smoogle plummeting back down into the forest, where he and the stroller land upon the three squabbling Smurfs. Handy notices something has happened to the stroller, and all three of them notice that Baby is no longer in the stroller. Smoogle's noise-mimicking cues them into the fact that Hogatha has taken Baby Smurf.

In Hogatha's castle, the evil witch puts Baby Smurf in a small cauldron, where she is ready to use the formula on herself by placing a glass dome over the cauldron and a funnel over her face, as the fumes from the formula would give her the facial treatment she desires. Brainy, Greedy, Handy, and Smoogle watch from a window as Hogatha starts up her treatment, but as the three Smurfs argue over how they should handle entering her castle, Hogatha soon spots the blue intruders and tells her pet vulture to stop them. The three Smurfs try to make a run for it but end up causing themselves to fall inside and be captured by Hogatha. As she puts them inside a picnic basket, Smoogle quietly sneaks inside and frees Baby from the cauldron before she returns and notices her little blue moisturizer is gone. While Baby frees the three captive Smurfs from the picnic basket and they flee with him, Smoogle leads Hogatha on a wild-goose chase through her chase by mimicking Baby's gurgling and hiding in places where she thinks Baby Smurf is hiding, only to not find him there at all. Then as Hogatha spots the three Smurfs about to make their escape through the window with Baby Smurf and chases after them, Smoogle rolls under her feet and knocks her and her vulture over into the table where Hogatha finally gets her facial treatment -- only it now gives her the face of her pet vulture.

After their escape, Brainy, Greedy, and Handy fall asleep while Smoogle keeps Baby Smurf company by playing a "pattycake" game with him just before Nanny returns, asking how Baby Smurf is. The three Smurfs wake up and tell her that Baby is fine, which makes her so glad that she's now going to ask if they are willing to watch after the child on the following day. All three Smurfs quickly make a run for it, which makes Nanny Smurf wonder about them as Smoogle and Baby slip a wink to each other.

Trivia[]

  • Hogatha's vulture, who is normally called Harold, is referred to as Edgar in this episode.
  • This is the final episode to feature Hogatha and Harold.
  • This episode has the third lowest number of characters in the series, with only nine characters appearing. The other two episodes are "Nobody Smurf" and "Smurfette's Golden Tresses".

Goof[]

  • When Handy, Greedy, and Brainy said "And where's Baby?!", Greedy's napkin is missing.
  • When Baby and Smoogle wink at the end of the episode, Smoogle's eye turns white.
  • When Hogatha picks up the Smurfs, they're as big as she is.

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