"Family Time" is the first episode of Season 3 of the CGI TV series, The Smurfs.
Characters
- Gargamel
- Dwayne
- Rowena
- Lucretia
- Brainy Smurf
- Smurflily
- Mummy
- Bigmouth
- Azrael
- Papa Smurf
- Unnamed Smurfs (In Gargamel's imagination)
Synopsis
Gargamel confiscates Dwayne and Rowena's toys. Seeking revenge, they free Brainy and Lily, who their uncle had captured.
Summary
Lily is quietly reading a book in the village while Papa Smurf is mixing a couple potions together. He notices that he is out of freeklwort and asks Lily to get it in the forest. Suddenly, Brainy barges into the scene, saying that he can get it. Lily tells him to back off, but Papa Smurf advises that they both get. Lily and Brainy decide to work together and head off to the forest.
The two Smurfs are now out in the forest on Brainy's smurfway as Lily stops to get the freeklwort. Out of nowhere, Gargamel shows up and successfully captures them.
As the wizard plans to put Brainy and Lily in his cauldron, he gets a knock on the door. He puts the two in a cage. The person knocking is Mummy - who brings in his niece and nephew - Rowena and Dwayne. This does not delight Gargamel, nor Dwayne and Rowena. Rowena blows a raspberry while Dwayne is playing on a video game device. The kids ask their grandma why they have to stay here and Mummy explains to them that the wizard's sister is getting her sorcerers license renewed, while she is getting a foot massage. Gargamel tries to get them someplace else, but Mummy sees that all he is doing is obsessing with Smurfs again and proceeds to leave.
Rowena makes fun of Azrael and yanks his tail, which makes the cat yowl and run away. She is then very interested in the magic cauldron that Gargamel has, and the wizard tells her it can make objects come to life. This also interests Dwayne, who runs to it and orders a spoon he throws in it to stick to the largest nose in the room. It eventually lands on Gargamel. The kids find this funny, but the wizard does not. He responds by confiscating Dwayne's Snap and Rowena's doll named Lucretia. Gargamel goes to get more newt root and leaves the hovel, not caring about the kids' pleas.
Lily assumes that the kids hate their uncle, which catches Rowena's attention. The Smurfs introduces themselves and Lily comes up with a plan: the kids free them to get back at Gargamel. The kids are excited at this idea, and Brainy and Lily take off and hide into a barrel in the hovel.
Gargamel comes back with his newt root and sees that Dwayne and Rowena are unusually clingy towards him. He looks up and sees that his Smurfs are gone. They tell him that they freed them as a get back for their taken things. As Gargamel cries and screams on the floor, he gets an idea. He decides to "genuinely" bond with the kids.
He goes out of the hovel with them and take them to an "ice cream shop" with a "nice ice cream man". Said ice cream man turns out to be Bigmouth, who assumes the kids are his "meat delivery" and takes them in. Gargamel sees that his mission is complete.
Rowena and Dwayne are tied up while Bigmouth stirs his pot. Brainy and Lily, who have followed them, discover a way to free them. Brainy starts by distracting Bigmouth, allowing Lily to roll out the logs that Bigmouth trips on. Brainy frees the kids while Lily throws carrots at him. When she runs out of carrots, the ogre chases her up his stairs. Lily successfully jumps to the ground. The same cannot be said for Bigmouth, who gets stuck in a barrel. The Smurfs and kids escape while Bigmouth runs with the barrel on his head and screams.
The kids thank the Smurfs for saving them - but not before they end up taking them back to Gargamel in exchange for their stuff.
Gargamel is quite happy that the kids are gone while he reads and sits with Azrael. Suddenly, they come back, which causes the cat to zoom off. Rowena shows Gargamel the captured Smurfs, so he gives her and Dwayne their toys back. Gargamel locks them in his cage once again. He tells the kids that he plans to mind control them and take over their village. Just then, Azrael screams for Gargamel being on his tail, which angers the wizard for interrupting his daydream and locks him in the basement.
As Gargamel opens the cage and is about to dip Lily and Brainy, the kids ask to do the honor. Gargamel contemplates but eventually gives them the duty. Lily and Brainy bite them and attempt to escape. When Gargamel and the kids gang up on them, Rowena traps Brainy in a lid. She wants yet another exchange - a super sparkly pet spider. While Dwayne searches for Lily (who has hidden in the barrel again), Gargamel decides to pick up the Lucretia doll and offers her a brand new one. Rowena instead yells at him, so loud that he drops the doll. Gargamel threatens to rip the doll, but realizes it disappeared.
Lily has taken the doll and drops it into the life potion. She orders it to bite Rowena, and then drops a brush into the potion, which repeatedly hits Dwayne. The final blow is her putting a skull in it, which begins biting Gargamel. She then puts a spoon in it to free Brainy while Gargamel and the kids keep getting hit. Lily and Brainy escape.
They arrive back at the village, but when Papa Smurf asks if they have the freeklwort yet, they realize that they don't, and head back off into the village. Papa Smurf simply sighs and admires his little Smurfs.
Trivia
- For the first time, a brand new intro sequence is used for the season.
- This is the first time in which Smurfette and Hefty are absent from the premiere episode of the season.
- Grouping this episode with its sister episode in the US, this is the third episode in which Grouchy is absent from both segments, with the first two being "Brainy Gets Ghosted!"/"Gargamel Goes Gaga" and "Wild Gets Tamed"/"The Yummyus Pie".
- None of the background Smurfs physically appear in this episode, though they are shown in Gargamel's imagination.
- Dwayne can be seen playing a video game on a console, referred to as a "Snap". This is the first time a product placement like this has been used.