"No Smurf Out!" is the twentieth episode of Season 2 of the CGI TV series, The Smurfs.
Characters[]
- Scaredy Smurf
- Handy Smurf
- Brainy Smurf
- Smurfblossom
- Chef Smurf
- Smurfette
- Hefty Smurf
- Papa Smurf
- Jokey Smurf (Mentioned only)
- Greedy Smurf (Mentioned only)
- Racing Snail (On a picture)
- Unnamed Smurfs
Synopsis[]
Because Scaredy is afraid that a ghost is haunting his house, he asks Handy to make it secure. Too well secured, he finds himself locked in his house, with Handy, Brainy, Blossom, and later, Chef.
Summary[]
It is a normal night in Smurf Village as Scaredy is being scaredy as usual - he creeps around to his house as he shivers. The mere sight of a caterpillar who fell from a branch freak him out as he hides near his Smurf house. He is about to get into his house, but Smurfette comes by and greets him goodnight. Scaredy is frightened by her voice and rushes into his house. As he is in his house, he observes around using his candle as a light. He hears something and turns around, which is just his shadow. He freaks out anyway as he yells "GHOST!".
In the morning, Handy is in his workshop nailing a hammer as he tries to tell Scaredy there are no ghosts in his house. He also says even if there were, he's not a ghost-smurfer, just a home improvement guy. These delights Scaredy, who begs him to do something to his house. Handy agrees to this new home improvement idea.
Later, Handy repairs and builds something in Scaredy's house as the cowering Smurf shivers. He opens the house door and sees everything is the same... except it's not. Handy shows him all the changes he made to the house - thick walls via sarsaparilla fiber, reinforced window, chimney security, and a brand-new break-in handle. Handy assures Scaredy that no ghost will ever come into his house ever again. Scaredy thanks the repairman with hugging all over the floor.
Our three Smurfs have been smurfed in!
Just then, Brainy comes in to inform the two that lunch is going to be served at 12:00 and they are one minute late. As Brainy starts yapping about being on-time, Scaredy tells him that Handy had just repaired his house into a ghost-free house. Brainy is unsure of this, observes everything, and criticizes Handy, claiming there is no sarsaparilla fiber. These angers Handy and he begins yelling at Brainy. He is about to leave, but he sees the door isn't opening. He tries harder and harder, but nothing happens. He now sees that they are locked in. Scaredy panics and faints as Brainy say there is a small chance of there being a windstorm that can free them. Handy and Brainy pull together, but nothing happens. As they take a breath, they are hit by Blossom, who slams the door open, ready to tell Scaredy a story. Handy tries to tell Blossom not to close the door, but she closes it anyway, believing this is a game of hide-and-seek. Handy is so furious that he yells at her, so loud that two nearby Smurfs who are relaxing, hear them. They shrug it off, thinking that it's nothing.
Handy bangs on the door, wanting to see if any nearby Smurf is around, but to no avail. Blossom sees this as an opportunity to start dancing with Scaredy, much to his un-delight. While this happens, Handy begins screaming while Brainy observes and writes down everything happening, but he is knocked away by Handy. They try to get the attention of a nearby Smurf, who doesn't hear them and picks up a flower and walks off. Handy informs the three other Smurfs that the walls are too thick for them to hear anything. Brainy assures them that the Smurfs will find out he is missing and will miss his intelligence. He informs them that someone will open the door in ten seconds. In these ten seconds, Hefty and Smurfette practice push-ups and Smurf-Fu, respectively. Both notices that Brainy didn't come to criticize them on their training as Hefty says he doesn't miss his blabbering and the only one who misses Brainy is his smurfway.
In the house, Brainy sees that no Smurf has come to see where he is. Handy has had enough and prepares to break the door down. When he hits it, he just hurts his body, saying that the sarsaparilla fiber is really sturdy. Brainy gets an idea though mathematics.
Brainy uses some logs and a board, preparing to break out of the house. He jumps off of the ladder he was on, but instead of the door breaking free, the board bounces Brainy onto the ceiling. Brainy decides to think of a new plan: hit every one of Scaredy's belongings to the door, hoping it will open. Handy shares this thought, though Scaredy worries about this.
Brainy, Handy, and Blossom take several things out of his closet and door to throw at the door. Nothing works, not even Jokey's gag box. As they are going nowhere, they use specific objects and proceed to attempt to break the door. Everything they throw and whack at doesn't work, and they are much more tired. They see a stool and use it against Scaredy's will. When they hit the stool, it bounces everywhere in the house as the Smurfs take cover under Scaredy's table. Handy now realizes this is one of Jokey's gifts.
Just then, Brainy begins to shake, now needing to pee. Scaredy is afraid as he thinks Brainy might end up peeing in his house. Blossom tries to lighten the mood and tells him a story while hopping around... a story about a unicorn needing to pee. Brainy sarcastically says this is very helpful, though the sarcasm is less noticeable with him being focused on peeing.
Handy is losing all types of sanity as he screams, needing something to hammer or do anything. Brainy assumes this is a case of "home-improvemtomania". In Handy's insanity, he imagines Brainy as a nail and starts chasing him around the house. Blossom is annoyed with this nonsense and stops the two. As Brainy says he still needs to pee, Handy gets an idea; they make a tunnel.
The four Smurfs "dig" a tunnel by continually jabbing four forks in the ground. There is no progress, but they keep doing it anyway. Suddenly, somebody opens the door - Chef, who wants somebody to taste his pie since Greedy says it has too much salt. However, the four Smurfs try to stop the door from closing, but they didn't make it in time and collapse on the ground. Chef believes they don't want his pie, but he tells them nobody is leaving until they've had a taste of his pie. Handy pies Chef with his own pie and throws the bouncy stool. The stool bounces around the house until Scaredy catches it in a fit of rage and throws it out of the window. The four other Smurfs see that the window was not locked at all. The five Smurfs have freedom - Brainy runs into the outhouse, Blossom skips away, and Handy and Scaredy hug. Chef is more concerned about why nobody tasted his pie. Handy is then enraged, however, as nobody heard their cries for help. He and a reluctant Scaredy walk to Papa Smurf's lab.
In Papa Smurf's lab, Handy barges in as he is mad that he didn't know they were in Scaredy's house. Just then, Scaredy points to a clock, saying they've only been in the house for 10 minutes. Handy sees the error in his yelling and walks away with Scaredy, much to Papa Smurf's confusion.
Elsewhere, Brainy has got a brand-new location he gets himself stuck in... the outhouse!
Trivia[]
- The only location that appears in this episode is Smurf Village, mostly in and around Scaredy's house. Papa Smurf's lab and the outhouse appear at the end of the episode.
- The English dub of this episode makes this one of the very few episodes in which Mark Irons does not voice any characters.
- One of the items in Scaredy's house is Smurfette's pink vase that was last seen in "My Smurf The Hero".
- Brainy references "Archimedes" when trying to break out the house using logs and a board. Archimedes refers to a Greek mathematician.
- Scaredy "breaks the fourth wall" in this episode. When Handy is mad at Papa Smurf for seemingly not being worried about him being trapped in Scaredy's house, Scaredy says they have been in his house for 10 minutes, which was close to the time duration of the episode (11 minutes).
- The animation of Handy bumping his head on the ceiling with the stool is similar to the fluid animation in "Who Nose?".
- This episode and "Souffle Shuffle" have a lower number of viewers, at 0.14.[1]
- Though not officially stated, the low rating for these episodes leads to a possible factor in Nickelodeon delaying premieres of the show until "Smurf To The Future!", which was the first new episode to air in eight months.
Goofs[]
- Blossom is incorrectly called "Begonia" in the French description of the episode.