"Clockwork Smurfette" is a Season 7 episode of the 1980s Smurfs cartoon show.
Characters
- Handy Smurf
- Clockwork Smurf
- Clockwork Smurfette
- Gargamel
- Scruple
- Azrael
- King Gerard
- Princess Francesca
- Papa Smurf
- Snappy Smurfling
- Sassette Smurfling
- Baby Smurf
- Smurfette
- Greedy Smurf
- Clumsy Smurf
- Painter Smurf
- Nat Smurfling (Cameo)
- Unnamed Smurfs
Synopsis
Handy makes a Clockwork Smurfette for a lonely Clockwork Smurf, but the Clockwork Smurfette falls in love with Handy instead.
Plot Summary
At King Gerard's castle, Clockwork Smurf is prepared to go fishing when he notices a couple falling in love with each other. He also notices King Gerard pacing around with a bouquet of roses in his hand. He says, "How wonderful it is to see you." and Clockwork thinks he's talking about him. But as Clockwork watches, he finds out that King Gerard is now with a female companion of his own, a young lady named Princess Francesca. King Gerard apologizes to Clockwork as he has forgotten about the fishing trip and has made other plans with the princess. Neither does the young royal want to play ball with Clockwork, as he would rather spend time alone with the princess, something, he says, which is part of being in love. Clockwork watches sadly as the two lovebirds go off together to be alone with each other.
In the Smurf Village, Handy shows off his teeter-totter Smurf cradle which Snappy and Sassette play on to Papa Smurf, showing how they could put fun into rocking Baby Smurf to sleep. Then Sassette notices Clockwork coming into the village, looking rather sad. This gets Handy's attention, as he wonders what is wrong with his creation. He briefly examines the mechanical Smurf's inner parts and finds nothing wrong there. Then Smurfette shows up, and Clockwork quickly races over to her and starts kissing her hand. Handy thinks that whatever's affecting Clockwork has now worked itself out, but when Smurfette takes Baby Smurf away to have his bath and Clockwork offers to help, Smurfette refuses, saying that the bath water could rust his gears, making Clockwork sad again. Then Greedy shows up with a plate of freshly made smurfberry gumdrops, and Clockwork scoops them all up from the serving plate, which makes Papa Smurf puzzled as to why he would do that. Handy is watching Smurfette and Clumsy operate the teeter-totter Smurf cradle to rock Baby Smurf to sleep again, and Clockwork gives the handful of smurfberry gumdrops to Smurfette, who thanks him for the gift. Papa Smurf realizes that was the reason Clockwork took the gumdrops.
It is from these interactions Clockwork has with Smurfette that make Papa Smurf and Handy realize that Clockwork needs a female companion for himself, and so Handy goes about to create what he called the Clockwork Smurfette, a female mechanical Smurf with a wind-up key in the back. Sassette helps Handy as he puts his new creation together, and also helps Clockwork to be patient as he is waiting for his companion to be created. Upon completion and first activation, Clockwork Smurfette seemed to be operative for the first several seconds before she conks out, apparently not able to function entirely on her own yet. Handy's second attempt to get Clockwork Smurfette operating again doesn't last more than a few seconds, which makes Handy frustrated to the point where he couldn't get her to work. Then Clumsy comes with a cake that Greedy baked because he thought that Handy and the Smurfs who were with him would get hungry, but he trips over a toolbox and lands with his face in the cake and Clockwork Smurfette knocked off the table. Clumsy thinks that he has broken something, but low and behold, Clockwork Smurfette opens her eyes and is now fully functional, which makes Handy happy.
Smurfette is outside Handy's workshop consoling Clockwork when Clockwork Smurfette makes her appearance, which makes Clockwork so happy that he lavishes all his attention on her, planting kisses on her hand. Smurfette looks at Clockwork Smurfette and says that she's so beautiful. Clockwork Smurfette turns her eyes toward her creator Handy, who then turns her eyes toward Clockwork, the desired object of her affections. But Handy can't help that Clockwork Smurfette only has eyes for him and not Clockwork, whom she rejects. Handy tries to tell Clockwork Smurfette that she is meant for Clockwork, not for himself. Then Painter shows up and has the two mechanical Smurfs join him together for a portrait he wants to create of the two lovebirds. Clockwork Smurfette waves Handy goodbye as she and Clockwork depart to Painter's studio.
Meanwhile, in Gargamel's castle, the evil wizard tells his apprentice Scruple to hurry up with the Dragon Dust, which the young lad fetches from the top of a shelf. Gargamel is outfitted with wings, saying that one drop of his high-flying formula and his wings will take him soaring high in the skies to find the Smurf Village. He pours the Dragon Dust into his cauldron to mix with the rest of the formula, then he dips his wings into the formula, and suddenly he goes flying around his hovel until he instantly drops to the ground, with Scruple and Azrael laughing. Gargamel realizes that his pupil has given him Lava Dust instead of Dragon Dust, and soon Scruple finds himself backing away from his master as he tries to discipline his pupil for his mistake when one of the bubbles from the formula touches Gargamel, causing him to go into a blank hypnotic stare. Scruple fearfully tells Gargamel to leave him alone, and Gargamel obeys that command instantly, making Scruple realize that the bungled formula actually puts whoever touches its bubbles into a hypnotic state. Scruple decides to have fun with this and then commands Gargamel to stand on his head and bark like a dog, which Gargamel ends up doing, making Scruple laugh until the effect wears off and Gargamel is back to his normal state, ready to thrash Scruple for his insubordination. The young lad makes his master see that the bungled formula can be used to hypnotize people and make them do the spellcaster's bidding, as Scruple shows by exposing Azrael to the formula's bubbles, with the only drawback is that the effect doesn't last very long. Gargamel says that the effect would last long enough to draw the little Smurfs right into his waiting arms, laughing afterward.
Back in the Smurf Village, Smurfette is outside her house smelling the flowers in her garden when she goes inside to get her watering can. She goes outside and sees that all her flowers have been picked. Around that time, Clockwork Smurf is sitting by himself pulling petals off a flower, wondering if his newly created companion will ever truly love him, when Handy shows up, asking why Clockwork is sitting all by himself and wondering where his new girlfriend had gone. Then Clockwork Smurfette shows up, and Clockwork Smurf tries to hand her a bouquet of flowers, but Clockwork Smurfette just slaps him away, sending him spinning around. She presents Handy with a bouquet of flowers she has picked herself -- the same flowers that have come from Smurfette's garden. Clockwork seems sad that his companion now only has eyes for Handy, and Handy is surprised that his new creation is now lavishing all her attention on him, until Smurfette shows up and angrily accuses Handy of picking her flowers for his "new girlfriend". She takes the bouquet out of Handy's hand and says that he should have asked first if he could pick her flowers, as Clockwork Smurfette picks Handy up in her arms and carries him, further breaking Clockwork's heart and making Handy upset at Clockwork Smurfette for her unwanted affections.
Out in the forest, Gargamel is carrying a container on his back full of the hypnotic formula, telling Scruple to hurry up because he's going to have a cookout with the Smurfs once he uses that formula on them. Scruple says he is going to take a breather on a rock that he sits upon, and Azrael decides to join him in resting. But Gargamel is having none of that, as he sprays his pupil with a bit of the formula, causing Scruple to get up and haul the equipment, stepping on Azrael's tail in the process. Gargamel laughs, saying that he could get used to this.
Back in the village, as Painter sets up Clockwork with an easel on which he could paint a masterpiece for his female companion, Greedy sets a freshly baked pie on a windowsill, saying that he can't wait until it's cool enough to eat. With Greedy's back turned, a pair of mechanical hands grab the pie and carry it away. Clockwork Smurfette carries the pie, but briefly stops when she sees Clockwork has created a picture of her to capture her heart. Instead, Clockwork Smurfette just walks away disgusted, causing Clockwork to fall to the ground with his head pushed through the canvas. In Papa Smurf's laboratory, the village leader finds out that Handy is hiding himself away from the unwanted affections of his latest creation when Clockwork Smurfette shows up again, this time presenting the stolen pie to Handy, which Clockwork witnesses through a window, further breaking his heart. Then Greedy shows up and accuses Handy of stealing his pie, which he decides to give to his fellow Smurf by smashing it into his face, making Handy so upset at his new creation that he tells her he wishes he never made her. This makes Clockwork Smurfette so sad that she runs off into the forest crying her eyes out. However, in her flight out into the forest, she trips over a root and collapses by running straight into a tree, causing her inner parts to be exposed.
Soon, Gargamel, Scruple, and Azrael come across finding Clockwork Smurfette in her inert form, and Gargamel has an idea: by filling her with his hypnotic gas formula, he could use her as a boobytrap to capture as many Smurfs in the village as they can. They place her by the Great Oak Tree where they are sure the Smurfs will find her, and soon enough Handy and Clockwork find Clockwork Smurfette there, with Handy not hearing her ticking and saying that they need to get her to his workshop. Meanwhile, Gargamel laughs as he watches from a distance, realizing that Handy and all his fellow Smurfs will all fall for the trap.
Back in the village, a crowd of Smurfs all wait outside Handy's workshop for any news about Clockwork Smurfette's condition, and Papa Smurf tries to calm them down, saying that Handy is "smurfing everything he can for her". Inside the workshop, the female machine Smurf is hooked up to an oil IV drip while Handy gets ready to look at her inside. He opens and soon finds strange orange bubbles coming out of her. One of them hits Handy and he falls into a trance, while Clockwork remains unaffected. The bubbles pour out of Handy's workshop and also start affecting the other Smurfs as they too fall into a trance state. Gargamel spies on the Smurfs using his telescope and sees that the Smurfs have received his "package", and now it's time to use hypnotic suggestion to get them to do what he wants. Using a megaphone, Gargamel calls out to the Smurfs and tells them to come to the Great Oak on the double. which everyone in the village obeys except for Clockwork, who isn't affected by the hypnotic bubbles.
As Clockwork takes his inoperative companion with him, Gargamel continues to lure the hypnotized Smurfs into the cauldron he has set up for them to walk into so that he could stew them. Clockwork sees what Gargamel is doing and lays his companion aside safely behind a log while he goes to confront the evil wizard and his two companions. As Clockwork Smurfette awakens again, Gargamel sees that Clockwork has pulled the plank that the Smurfs were walking up away from the cauldron, causing them to awaken from their hypnosis safely away from being boiled, though not safely away from danger yet. Gargamel gets upset that Clockwork is ruining his plans and chases the little mechanical Smurf all around while the Smurfs in the cauldron awaken and find themselves being cooked in a stew. Clockwork tries to lift up the cauldron to tilt it over and let the Smurfs who are in it to escape when Scruple knocks him down with a pot in his hand, thinking he has taken care of the little blue troublemaker. This makes Clockwork Smurfette so upset that she emerges from hiding and runs around Scruple's legs so fast that he couldn't even see her. Then she picks up Scruple by the ankle and whirls him around until he lands in a bush. She lifts up the pot that Clockwork has trapped under, and the two mechanical Smurfs are pleased to see each other until they hear the cries of help from their fellow Smurfs inside the cauldron. Both the evil wizard and his apprentice decide to handle the two Clockwork Smurfs together, but instead they end up being picked up and tossed with incredible strength into the container full of the hypnotic bubbles, which Gargamel and Scruple end up breathing in, bringing them into a hypnotic state. The two Clockworks then upturn the cauldron and release the Smurfs that are trapped inside it, shaking each other's hands afterward.
Seeing that Gargamel and Scruple are now under a trance, Papa Smurf commands them both to return to their hovel, which they obey instantly as they leave the scene. Greedy says that they should go tell the two villains to go jump in the lake, and so the both of them obey that command and jump into a lake. But there is still Azrael to take care of, as he charges at the now-freed Smurfs. Clockwork then sprays a torrent of bubbles at Azrael, causing him to fall into the hypnotic trance, and Papa Smurf then commands the cat to go to Gargamel, which he obeys. Gargamel and Scruple both emerge from the lake back to their normal selves, with the evil wizard blaming Scruple for creating that mixed-up formula in the first place, when Azrael jumps into the lake and lands on top of both villains.
Back in the Smurf Village, Handy says that he wishes that there was some way he could give both Clockworks his thanks. Clockwork Smurf and Clockwork Smurfette find themselves in love with each other, which Papa Smurf says it is "smurfy enough". The Smurfs wave goodbye to the mechanical couple as they both leave the village together hand in hand. After they depart, Handy says hopefully he won't have to make repairs for a long time... until he sees Baby Smurf with a broken toy in hand, and he amends that statement with "except for little ones, that is." which makes both Handy and Baby Smurf laugh.
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