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"Lab Assistant" is the twenty-seventh episode of Season 1 of the CGI TV series, The Smurfs.

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Synopsis[]

Papa Smurf takes Monkey as his assistant due to Brainy's injury, but Brainy and Monkey go into a war when Monkey turns out to be a better assistant.

Summary[]

In Papa Smurf's lab, Brainy assists the village leader with heavy pleasure, with Papa Smurf telling him the Magic Convention isn't in another three days. As Brainy is about to give him his weasel worm powder, he loses balance of the ladder and falls down in a pot. Papa Smurf asks if he's alright and Brainy says he is and so is the powder. However, when he gets up, he ends up falling once more. Papa Smurf sees Brainy has twisted his ankle.

Clumsy and Dimwitty take Brainy to Doc, who gives Brainy a wheelchair as various Smurfs pass by him. He knocks on Papa Smurf's door, and he opens it. He sees Brainy and welcomes him in. Papa Smurf tells him with the intellectual Smurf being injured, he has hired someone new to take his place... Monkey! Brainy is surprised as Monkey climbs on Papa Smurf, with him saying he's a very smart monkey. Papa Smurf leaves to pack and assigns Brainy to train him, as two assistants is just what he needs.

As Brainy gets mad at Monkey, Handy and Jokey mock him and he closes the door, enraged. Brainy tells Monkey that he will train him since he will never have the intellect that he has... only to see that the paper explaining how Smurfs evolved from monkeys, Monkey himself switches it so that monkeys evolved from Smurfs. Brainy is not impressed and gives him his first lesson: to put his bag away. Monkey responds by throwing it away. Papa Smurf asks one of them to bring him some Orchid Root. Brainy is about to take it, but Monkey immediately takes the potion and gives it to Papa Smurf, who congratulates him for the fast job, and he knew he would make a good assistant, much to Brainy's sadness.

Later, Papa Smurf leaves and says he'll be back in a moment. In the meantime, Brainy gives Monkey lesson two: basic math. He tells him to study several formulas and turns the board around so Monkey will memorize them, but all Monkey draws is a banana. Brainy laughs at him and says he can't write a single formula as Monkey rolls his eyes. Then, Brainy introduces Monkey to organizing Papa Smurf's lab: including scissors, magnifying glasses, and potions like trilobite, an exploding powder. He then tells Monkey to turn around as he rearranges them, and he tells him he has 10 minutes. He believes he will never figure it out.

Papa Smurf picks some flowers as Brainy comes by and lies to him by saying Monkey messed up everything. Papa Smurf is surprised and goes to check with Brainy. When they arrive in the lab, nothing is on the table, and everything is on the shelf and in the cupboard. Papa Smurf is impressed as he has never seen the ingredients so well-organized, and Monkey has improved their entire way of working. Brainy is angered.

In the morning, Brainy wakes up and when he puts his leg down, it has suddenly healed up and sees that he can go back to being Papa Smurf's one assistant again. When he goes into the lab, he sees Monkey has his bag with Papa Smurf and he says Monkey is going to the convention with him. He takes Brainy's glasses and puts them on Monkey, making him his "one and only" assistant. Suddenly, Monkey starts speaking in Brainy's voice and vice versa while Brainy starts speaking in Monkey's voice. Papa Smurf and Monkey laugh at him, but then, Brainy wakes up in bed and it turns out that it was only a nightmare.

Brainy goes to the lab and throws away the wheelchair while limping to the door. He tells Papa Smurf (who is with Monkey) that he is all better. Papa Smurf questions if he is really up for it and Brainy shows him his ankle is all "better", but when he turns, he struggles not to scream. Papa Smurf is surprised since he has never seen anyone heal this fast. He says there's lots to do before the convention.

Lab Assistant

As Papa Smurf walks off, Brainy tells Monkey he can get lost, so Monkey in turn touches Brainy's still-injured ankle. He struggles to scream, so he screams outside to a nearby Smurf, who falls. Brainy chases Monkey, but he ends up tripping over a chair. Papa Smurf asks what is going on here and Brainy attempts to pin the blame on Monkey. Papa Smurf tells them to keep the noise down and asks for a Turtle Tears potion and the two fight over it. Brainy successfully takes it and gives it to Papa Smurf, though the potion is trilobite powder. Monkey gives him the actual potion and Papa Smurf thanks him for it while calling him "My assistant". Brainy is ticked off and tries to attack Monkey by jumping in the air in slow-motion, but Papa Smurf asks him what he is doing. Brainy tells him he was just dusting his cap, much to Papa Smurf's confusion. He leaves to pick some poppies and leaves him in charge.

Brainy steals the trilobite out of his lab and leaves it, limping away. Monkey watches this. He hides it in a tree in another attempt to lose Papa Smurf's trust in Monkey. Papa Smurf comes back into his lab and sees Brainy as he warns him about Monkey again. Papa Smurf and Brainy go to the tree that Brainy had hid the trilobite in. Papa Smurf goes to look inside the tree and only sees acorns. They go back in the lab, where Papa Smurf asks Monkey if he had the trilobite powder and Monkey shakes his head. Papa Smurf then trips and sees that Brainy has left his bag on the floor - the bag that he realizes has the powder in it. He gets madder and believes Brainy is trying to sabotage Monkey. He orders him to get some rest while he and Monkey are away. Papa Smurf tells Brainy that Monkey is coming to the convention with him.

The minute he leaves, Monkey grins at Brainy, who goes berserk and attacks Monkey. He then tries to attack Monkey with various things until he uses the trilobite powder, which explodes all over Papa Smurf's lab and the two fly in the air. Monkey notices Brainy flying higher than him and he decides to save him. Monkey swings all around the village and various nearby objects and goes into the forest's trees, where Brainy is about to come flying down to the ground, but Monkey saves him... at the expense of his leg, which gets hit onto a rock. Brainy thanks Monkey for saving him and they form a friendship, but both of their legs are broken now. Brainy apologizes for attacking and they realize they both went a little too far.

Papa Smurf sees the blown-up lab covered in ash and sees Brainy and Monkey, who have both injured themselves, which upsets the village leader. Brainy advises that he and Monkey can go together.

Later, Papa Smurf is seemingly taking Brainy and Monkey (who are both in wheelchairs) to the convention... until it is revealed they have to crack nuts for Chef, saying since they've been acting nuts, they have to crack them too as a punishment. Papa Smurf also tells them he is going to the convention alone. He calls for his Stork, also telling them that this will be a vacation now. Brainy and Monkey laugh until they are given nutcrackers by Chef as he orders them to get cracking. Brainy and Monkey are happier that they will be doing this together as they watch Papa Smurf fly away.

Trivia[]

  • Despite this episode airing first, this and "Funny Mommy" are set after "Monkey See, Monkey Do".
  • Oddly, Doc is not seen wearing a coat in this episode.
  • The first pan of the village in the beginning repeats footage from "Where's Papa Smurf?".
  • The second pan of the village towards the end of the episode repeats footage from "Kitchen Klutz".
  • The picture Brainy explains to Monkey shows how the Smurfs evolved from monkeys. One of the stages looks similar to a Swoof, except it's blue, while another stage shows a Smurf in the same pose as in the "V'la Les Schtroumpfs!" vinyl record.
    • The stages of how the Smurfs evolved from monkeys is a direct reference to the Darwin theory of evolution.
    • This is also a direct reference to the episode "The Magic Egg" where Papa Smurf turns himself into a monkey's uncle after three Smurfs wish to be Papa Smurf.
  • The potion that Brainy throws at Monkey when they are fighting is Trilobite. Trilobites are extinct marine arthropods, which is what the label shows.
  • The Danish title has the same title as the Norwegian one. This is notable for being one of the few episode languages to share a title with another language.
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