"I Was A Brainy Weresmurf" is a Season 7 episode from the 1980s Smurfs cartoon show.
Characters
- Brainy Smurf/Brainy Weresmurf
- Papa Smurf
- Malakov
- Talbot
- Clumsy Smurf
- Nat Smurfling
- Snappy Smurfling
- Smurfette
- Harmony Smurf
- Wolves
- Unnamed Smurfs
Synopsis
Brainy is affected by a plant that turns him into a Weresmurf.
Plot Summary
Nat and Clumsy are playing with three wolf cubs, while Brainy watches them and complains that Nat had told they would visit some friends, but he doesn't want to spend the day with the cubs. Clumsy finds them cute, but Brainy warns him that they will become aggressive beasts, not noticing that the mother wolf is behind him. Nat adds that papa wolf disappeared, and mama wolf feels alone since then. Before leaving, Brainy is accidentally scratched by a stinky flower after the wolf cubs knocks him over, while fetching the stick from Clumsy.
At a circus, when the dancing bear is taking the coins thrown by the townspeople, his costume opens, revealing him as a human named Malakov, so he and his snake Talbot must escape the angry townsfolk. He needs a new number to replace the dancing bear.
At the Smurf Village, Brainy, Snappy, and Smurfette sing at a symphony directed by Harmony (this will allow Brainy to forget about his scratch, as he'll be busy covering his ears). During the song, Brainy begins howling like a wolf. Later that night, he finds he has grown a beard, which he finds perfect for his dinner with Smurfette, but then he watches the full moon and becomes a Weresmurf. Shortly later, Smurfette finds her garden ruined and Brainy from behind a house next to hers. She chastises him until she sees he has become a Weresmurf. Smurfette faints while the Weresmurf leaves.
Meanwhile at the Smurflings' playhouse, Clumsy and Nat are having a pajama party, while Snappy tells a horror story, until the Weresmurf enters the house and makes everybody run away. They go to Papa Smurf, who tries to stop the Weresmurf until he's called by a wolf howl and follows it.
Brainy thinks he's got the look to attract Smurfette... |
...but he ends up with the look that would scare Smurfette. |
The howl comes from papa wolf, who is caged in the circus carriage. Malakov and Talbot put Brainy in a smaller cage and plot to use him in the show.
Papa Smurf reads a book saying that a pure-hearted Smurf can become a Weresmurf if scratched by wolfsbane, which means Brainy was transformed by his earlier scratch. Brainy needs a silver root and garlic collar before midnight of the following day, or he will become a Weresmurf each full moon.
The following morning, Brainy awakens normal in his cell and doesn't know how he arrived there, but then he sees Malakov, who tells him he will become his new star. That night, the audience is coming to the circus while Brainy assures Malakov that he won't be working for him, until Malakov shows him the moon so Brainy Smurf becomes the Weresmurf.
Papa Smurf has made the collar, but now the Smurfs need to find Brainy Weresmurf. Nat has mama wolf tracking Brainy down. They reach the carriage and find papa wolf. While the wolf parents leave, Smurfette believes they were misled until they see the Weresmurf there. Before they can do anything, the Smurfs are captured by Talbot. Malakov arrives shortly after and the Smurfs are put in the same cage as the Weresmurf in order to finish them, but they remind Brainy Weresmurf who are them and who he is, so he breaks the cage. Malakov tries to whip him, but then the wolf parents return, scaring Malakov and Talbot away. The Weresmurf is about to leave on his own, so Clumsy tries to reach him with the collar but trips. Luckily, the Weresmurf sees this as a game and catches the collar, which turns Brainy back into a Smurf.
Later at night, everybody in the village is awaken by a howling. It is Brainy, but he hasn't become the Weresmurf again; he's only calling his wolf friends. Snappy notices this means they won't sleep, so Brainy takes his guide for a harmonious howl to help the Smurfs to sleep. This is still a bothersome noise to the Smurfs.
Trivia
- The title of this episode is a play on the movie title I Was A Teenage Werewolf.
- Brainy's beard is blue, but this was a byproduct of his gradual wolf transformation and must not be considered his potential beard color. In a previous season episode "Symbols Of Wisdom", Brainy grew a beard with red hair.
Goofs
- When Smurfette encounters Weresmurf Brainy, she was in her regular white dress but when she went to meet Papa Smurf, she was in her pink nightdress.