"Love Those Smurfs" is a Season 5 episode from the Smurfs cartoon show.
Characters[]
- Vanity Smurf
- Brainy Smurf
- Snappy Smurfling
- Chlorhydris
- Papa Smurf
- Smurfette
- Gourmet Wizard
- Painter Smurf
- Clumsy Smurf
- Greedy Smurf
- Baby Smurf
- Hefty Smurf
- Dreamy Smurf
- Sassette Smurfling
- Toucan
- Delivery Person
- Handy Smurf (Does not speak)
- Nat Smurfling (Does not speak)
- Slouchy Smurfling (Does not speak)
- Grouchy Smurf (Does not speak)
- Gargamel (Mentioned only)
- Unnamed Smurfs
Synopsis[]
Chlorhydris makes all the Smurfs love only themselves except for Vanity, Brainy, and Snappy, who must get humble pie to reverse that spell.
Plot Summary[]
Chlorhydris receives a package from a delivery person from the Spell Of The Month Club, which she despises getting because all she sees that the packages are good for is heat from her fireplace. Nonetheless, after she opens up the package, she finds out that the latest spell is for one that makes people love only themselves. At first believing it to be worthless, Chlorhydris then decides to try it out on the Smurfs so that she can destroy their love for each other -- a thought that makes her and her pet toucan laugh.
Meanwhile, in the Smurf Forest, Vanity, Brainy, and Snappy are enjoying a day at a reflecting pool inside a cave, with Vanity enjoying seeing himself in the pool's reflection. Brainy, however, is more interested in how everything is so quiet inside the cave, which suddenly gets disturbed when Snappy takes a dive into the pool, also causing Vanity's reflection in the pool to be distorted by the ripples on the water's surface.
Soon, at Chlorhydris' observatory, the evil witch's self-love spell is ready. With a final chant, she sends a wisp of its smoke to the Smurf Village, where at this moment, as the other three Smurflings are playing with each other while Painter watches over them and Baby Smurf, Papa Smurf is in Smurfette's house to offer his opinion on which of her dresses look better on her. Then suddenly Papa Smurf feels so strange and starts looking in the mirror admiring himself in it while asking Smurfette if she thinks he looks really distinguished with a beard. Smurfette tries to get Papa Smurf's attention back toward deciding on the dresses before she realizes how silly the question is and starts to think that she looks beautiful no matter what she wears. The spell soon also affects five other Smurfs who were busy playing a friendly game of smurfball with each other, which resulted in a fight between Hefty, Dreamy, and Clumsy over which Smurf is the best smurfball player.
At the reflecting pool inside the cave, Brainy finally comes up with a brilliant idea that he feels that he has to share with Papa Smurf. After Vanity and Snappy join Brainy in his return to the village, Brainy finds out that Papa Smurf has no interest in hearing whatever ideas Brainy has come up with, saying that he already came up with that idea years ago. Meanwhile, Painter is busy doing what Hefty thinks is a portrait of himself, and his customer is telling Painter to hurry it up because his arms are getting tired. Vanity comes up to ask Painter if he would do a portrait of him by the reflecting pool so that he would have a picture of two perfect Smurfs, but Painter refuses, saying that he's already taking a picture of what he thinks is the perfect Smurf. And much to Hefty's disappointment, the picture Painter had created was one of himself in Hefty's pose, making Hefty so mad that he literally frames Painter in his own painting. Snappy finds Sassette playing jump rope all by herself and asks where the other Smurflings are, and she simply says that she doesn't have time to play the silly games of her fellow Smurflings. Clumsy comes by as Brainy is disappointed that Papa Smurf does not want to listen to him about the greatest thought in history. As Clumsy claims that he just did too, he ends up getting thrown out of the village. Snappy tries to tell Papa Smurf about the other Smurflings not wanting to play with each other, but Papa Smurf isn't interested in dealing with his little Smurfling's problem, saying that things are much better when you don't care about anyone but yourself.
Snappy finds out from Papa Smurf's words that he and all the other Smurfs must have been under a spell, and Brainy and Vanity confirm Snappy's suspicions when they find in one of Papa Smurf's books the spell for self-love, which Vanity sees as rather pointless. Upon further reading, the three Smurfs discover that the only way to break the self-love spell is for its victims to eat a slice of humble pie, which only the Gourmet Wizard knows how to make, and to get him to help, the book says that he must be overwhelmed with flattery.
Upon reaching the Gourmet Wizard's house, which is a place that looks like something out of Hansel And Gretel, the three Smurfs get to work on flattering the wizard as he receives his guests into his house for dinner. However, after dinner when Brainy requests for the making of a humble pie, the Gourmet Wizard refuses to make one, and he also refuses to listen to the problems of others. Snappy then turns to playing on the Gourmet Wizard's vanity by stating that Gargamel has claimed he can make a better humble pie than the Gourmet Wizard could. This makes the infuriated wizard respond to the challenge by making the humble pie and giving it to the Smurfs, telling them to take it to Gargamel and make him eat his words.
With the humble pie, the three Smurfs return to the village and watch as all their fellow Smurfs just pass by the pie without wanting to take a slice of it. Snappy then comes up with an idea: he calls out to every Smurf that the pie in the center of the village is only for the best-looking, most intelligent, and smurfiest Smurf in it, and that attracts every Smurf toward the pie where they gobble it up.
Soon with the pie plate empty, Papa Smurf listens to Brainy saying that if he hadn't convinced the Gourmet Wizard to make a humble pie, the Smurfs' love for each other would have been destroyed forever. Vanity says that it was him that got the Smurfs invited to dinner, and Snappy says that it was him that got the Smurfs to eat the pie. Papa Smurf stops the fighting between the three Smurfs by saying that they should be proud of what each of them has done, but just in case they become too proud, he shows that he has saved three slices of humble pie for each of them.
Quotes[]
Vanity: "Oh my, look at this! The Spell of Self Love: When properly casted, this spell will make any being love only himself! Who needs a spell for that?"
- - Vanity when he finds the spell casted by Chlorhydris
Trivia[]
- Many foreign DVD releases (as well as the iTunes edition) carry the syndicated Smurfs Adventures repackaging of this episode, as opposed to the rest of the episodes, which remained uncut (although this episode also uses the modified Season 1 intro sequence and credits for foreign markets).
- In the syndicated version of the episode, the entire soundtrack was in 2x higher than usual in pitch octave.
- This version is also used on the UK DVD.
- Although the episode's conflict was because of Chlorhydris, she never appeared again after the scene where she releases the curse. This means that she never got any comeuppance for her actions and is one of the only two villains to never receive punishment. The other was Lofty in "A Loss Of Smurf".
- The Smurfs running to eat the pie is very similar to the running animation in "The Magic Egg" and "Smurfette's Dancing Shoes".
- Brainy, Vanity, and Snappy are the only Smurfs to not be under Chlorhydris' spell.
- This is another episode where a spell cast from far away, not specifically aimed the Smurf Village, fails to affect a small number of Smurfs who are away from the village. This time, the spell is carried on the wind, and being deep inside the cave may have protected Brainy, Vanity, and Snappy.
- Clumsy receives the Brainy treatment in this episode - by Brainy (getting thrown into another direction and hitting his head).
- This is the 5th episode in which someone other than Brainy gets this treatment after "A Mere Truffle" (Tracker and Grouchy), "The Sorcery of Maltrochu" (Peewit), "The Purple Smurfs" (Jokey), and "The Hundredth Smurf" (also Jokey).