"Never Smurf Off 'Til Tomorrow" is a Season 4 episode from the Smurfs cartoon show.
Characters[]
- Lazy Smurf
- Handy Smurf
- Brainy Smurf
- Hefty Smurf
- Smurfette
- Natural Smurf
- Papa Smurf
- Painter Smurf
- Greedy Smurf
- Vanity Smurf
- Dreamy Smurf
- Baby Smurf
- Clumsy Smurf
- Grouchy Smurf
- Tailor Smurf
- Farmer Smurf
- Unnamed Smurfs
Synopsis[]
Lazy, Handy, Smurfette, Brainy, Hefty, and Nat fly away in a windmill and get trapped in a volcano that is about to erupt.
Plot Summary[]
The Smurfs are busy preparing for a hurricane that's coming their way. Hefty and Painter are making sure the shutters are shut good and tight, Handy is covering up Smurfette's garden with a wooden box, Nat Smurf is busy securing a bird's nest with rope, Greedy is using what Handy thinks is vanilla icing for caulking up the windows (though Greedy reveals it's butter pecan), Vanity is making sure his "precious babies" (meaning his mirrors) are nice and safe, and Dreamy is at the dock with a crew working on securing the S.S. Smurf II. Handy then heads for the village windmill to check up on Lazy and finds him sleeping on the job, resting on the windmill sails. Handy pulls him awake and warns him that a hurricane is coming and that it's urgent to secure the windmill and make sure the sails don't tear apart. Lazy at first just goes back to sleep, but with a splash of cold water from Handy he realizes the urgency and tries to get the windmill shut down and secured before the hurricane comes. However, in his trying to throw the last switch to shut down the windmill, he gets hit in the head and is rendered unconscious.
Soon, the winds begin to blow really hard, and as the animals in the forest scurry into their holes for safety, Papa Smurf and Handy make one final check to make sure everything is secure. The windmill is the last thing they need to check on, and although Brainy questions Handy putting Lazy in charge of shutting it down, he is certain that Lazy wouldn't let any Smurf down in that task. However, when he does check up on Lazy, Handy finds him laying down again and accuses him of not being faithful in doing his job. As Lazy feels the bump that has formed on his head, Handy calls for some of his fellow Smurfs to help him get the windmill shut down.
Things get really hectic in the Smurf Village as the winds pick up. The Smurfs that are safe inside their houses are trying to keep their precious items safe, while Handy and his crew are trying to get the windmill shut down. Lazy asks if there's anything he could do to help, but Handy doesn't want his help, blaming him for not doing his appointed job. However, the combined strength of Hefty and Handy is not enough to stop the axle from spinning the propeller, and Brainy gets knocked into the axle when a door gets blown off its hinges. Soon, the speed of the spinning propeller causes the windmill to be ripped from the ground and carried along by the winds, far from the Smurf Forest and over the sea to a distant island, where it falls inside the chasm of a volcano and then falls apart.
Handy checks the location of where they have landed and judges from what he sees on the walls of the chasm that the volcano erupts once every 500 years, which Brainy takes as a good sign. But suddenly a rumbling beneath them occurs, and Handy calculates that the last eruption of the volcano was exactly 500 years to the day! This makes the Smurfs fearful and realizing that they need to escape the volcano before it blows real soon.
Back in the village, after the hurricane has passed, the Smurfs see that the village is a wreck, but everything in it is safe... until Papa Smurf shows up and tells them that the windmill was blown away and must have taken six of his little Smurfs with it. The village leader tells Dreamy that it's time to prepare his sailing ship so they can go and find the missing Smurfs. However, at the dock, Dreamy could see that the hurricane has done damage to the S.S. Smurf II, and that they'll never be able to go after the missing Smurfs now. Papa Smurf encourages them to think that nothing is impossible for them to accomplish, since they have endured through great hardships before, and that even without Handy who built the ship, they can still repair it and bring it back in top shape in time to mount a rescue.
Meanwhile, inside the volcano, the six Smurfs are busy trying to assemble a rudimentary helicopter from Handy's plans and leftover parts that survived from the windmill crash. Hefty asks for Brainy's help, but after seeing that Brainy is more interested in criticizing Handy's design for the helicopter, Hefty pulls him away from the plans and carries him straight toward actually helping. Handy gives Brainy a hammer and tells him to "smurf the forward smurfilizer", but as the village intellectual carries the hammer in order to do the job, he trips and causes the hammer to fall into the boiling lava at the bottom of the volcano.
The Smurfs take a look at the lava that's slowly rising, with Handy saying that in a few hours, the "place is gonna smurf". Smurfette wonders if Handy's "whirlysmurfer" will get them out in time, and Handy assures her that it will. Lazy brings over a bunch of tools, eager to lend a hand to the solution, but as Handy tries to think of what Lazy can do, Brainy just has a total nag fest with Lazy, blaming him for getting them into the mess in the first place until a rockslide gets him to shut up. Lazy asks for Handy's opinion if he was truly to blame, but he doesn't give Handy much time to answer before he realizes he's better off staying out of the way until the "whirlysmurfer" is finished.
Back in the Smurf Village, the remaining Smurfs are pulling together to get the S.S. Smurf II back into shape for a rescue. Soon, it is ready for launch, and Farmer cuts the rope loose to send the sailing ship into the waters, where Dreamy is already at work getting the crew to hoist up the sail while Papa Smurf plots a course. However, time is not so kind for the Smurfs still in the volcano, as the lava continues to rise and Handy gets them to hurry up in finishing the work. Meanwhile, Lazy is busy sleeping in a cave, and in his dream Smurfette warns him of a danger in the village that requires him alone to save his fellow Smurfs. He sees that a tentacled bug monster is threatening the village, and so Lazy tells Smurfette that all he needs is a Smurf catapult and an onion. Soon the catapult is wheeled out, and Lazy eats the onion before he is launched into the face of the monster and breathes onion breath into its face as he snores, causing the monster to fall dead on its back. Smurfette wants to thank Lazy for the rescue with a kiss, but Lazy decides it's time to go back to sleep again, telling her that right now his kisses are so deadly.
However, at this point, the dream ends, and the real Smurfette goes into the cave to find Lazy while the other Smurfs get inside the "whirlysmurf" and prepare for takeoff. She finds him about to have lava pour down on him and tells him it's time to go, but Lazy says he's staying, that he doesn't deserve to live because he let his friends down. Smurfette refuses to let Lazy stay and takes him with her as they get inside the "whirlysmurfer". Lazy finds out that his seat doesn't have any pedals like the other Smurfs to power the propeller, but Brainy tells him that he can go to sleep while the others work like he normally does. As the Smurfs work together to crank the pedals, the propellers spin and the "whirlysmurfer" lifts off from the ground, moving safely away from the volcano before it erupts. However, an explosion knocks Handy out and the "whirlysmurfer" starts to plunge. Lazy gets out of his seat and gets into Handy's to crank the pedals and turn the craft so that it rights itself again. Smurfette cheers as Lazy has saved the day, but soon the Smurfs tire out from all the pedaling and the "whirlysmurfer" ends up landing in the water, forcing the Smurfs in it to evacuate the craft before it sinks.
Hanging on to whatever pieces were left floating in the water, the six Smurfs wait for a rescue while Handy feels the bump on his head. Brainy sees what he thinks is a dolphin approaching, but as Nat reveals, the creature is actually a shark and is about to eat Brainy alive when Nat calmly talks the shark down from doing so and it departs, making Brainy wonder about him. After spending a cold wet night hanging out at sea, Smurfette notices that not only does Handy have a bump on his head with axle grease, but also so does Lazy, thus vindicating him of ever sleeping on the job. With his fellow Smurfs apologizing for ever blaming him, Lazy feels so happy that he goes back to sleep. But then the S.S. Smurf II sails into view, and Papa Smurf and the ships' crew has found the missing Smurfs at last.
Later, with all the Smurfs safely home again, Handy is already overseeing work on building the new windmill, telling Papa Smurf that Lazy has been very helpful in its construction. However, as Papa Smurf hears snoring, he sees that Handy has built a machine that uses the breath of Lazy's snoring to power a paintbrush arm, with the village builder saying that Lazy is good for certain jobs better than others.
Trivia[]
- In the official English YouTube release of the episode, the series' name was mistakenly used the Spanish name (Los Pitufos) in the video name.
- In the official German YouTube release of the episode, the video used the HD widescreen version of the season 1 opening with the German version of the "Smurfingland" theme song, and the slightly modified version of the Peyo's credit.