"Salad Smurfs" (original French title Salade de Schtroumpfs) is a comic book story that was created and published by Studio Peyo in 2006. It was released in English on October 8, 2019 by Papercutz under the title "Smurf Salad" with "The Aerosmurf" as its secondary story.
Characters[]
- Chef Smurf
- Farmer Smurf
- Papa Smurf
- Greedy Smurf
- Brainy Smurf
- Poet Smurf
- Smurfette
- Jokey Smurf
- Vanity Smurf
- Dopey Smurf
- Scaredy Smurf
- Hefty Smurf
- Handy Smurf
- Grouchy Smurf
- Lazy Smurf
- Stork
- Gargamel (Mentioned only)
- Unnamed Smurfs
Plot Summary[]
The Smurfs are tired of Chef Smurf's disgusting food (except for Greedy, who eats it anyways). When Papa Smurf takes matters into his hands, he notices the food looks disgusting indeed, to which Chef Smurf tells him it's the best he can do with the vegetables he gets, so Papa Smurf goes to Farmer for an explanation. Farmer doesn't have one; the plants get love, water, sun, everything, so Papa Smurf takes a carrot to examine it and finds tiny parasitic fungus that impede the vegetables' growth. Papa Smurf gives a plant growth formula and a fungicide to Farmer, yet warns Farmer Smurf to not use more than a few drops each day.
Papa Smurf leaves the village for a few days. Chef gets an ultimatum from the Smurfs and tells Farmer to use the maximum dose of the formulas to hurry the growth of the vegetables. The following day, Farmer's vegetables grow really big, and Smurfs enjoy the new food.
When Papa Smurf returns to the Smurf Village, he finds it deserted and thinks Gargamel could have captured the Smurfs, but when he spies the wizard's home, he sees him still planning his upcoming revenge, and no Smurfs in it. Since it's late, Papa Smurf decides to resume the search in the morning and eat some food (that he notices is better than when he left). Suddenly, he hears noises and finds Chef, Farmer, Greedy and Smurfette. Chef Smurf tells him that after using the formula, the food got better, but that night Scaredy found an anthropomorphic zucchini and awakened everyone for help, until they found the zucchini was Poet. The following days, Jokey became a tomato and Vanity turned into a pickle. Since they thought it could be contagious, the Smurfs voted to quarantine the three vegetable Smurfs. The following day Dopey, who was guarding them, became a potato and tried to run away, but was captured and quarantined. Brainy arrived as a pea and was quarantined too. With time, more and more Smurfs became vegetables, until the day Hefty became an eggplant and, instead of getting quarantined, freed all the vegetable Smurfs, so the four remaining normal Smurfs went into hiding. Since then, they have been waiting for Papa Smurf's return.
Papa Smurf finds about the overdose of the growth formula and theorizes that the oversized vegetables may be the cause of the Smurfs' transformations. Farmer Smurf didn't eat vegetables because he didn't like the unnatural use of the formulas, Chef didn't eat them because he cooks so much that he loses interest on what he has cooked, and Smurfette didn't eat because she's on a diet, while Greedy did indeed eat the vegetables and hasn't been transformed.
The problem is when Papa Smurf also becomes a vegetable, although he only partially turns into a cauliflower. The Smurfs flee from him, believing his theory was wrong, before he can remember that he ate some food indeed. Papa Smurf goes to the forest to find the vegetable Smurfs and tell them that the food is what turned them into vegetables.
Meanwhile, the four normal Smurfs decide that the only possible antidote is to use the growth formula on the Smurfs, spraying it by plane. The vegetable Smurfs arrive and chase Chef and Farmer, who they blame for their predicament. While escaping on the plane, the Smurfs forget Greedy, and Smurfette falls from the plane. Papa Smurf shows Smurfette that the transformations aren't contagious, and then finds why Greedy hasn't transformed: he eats a sarsaparilla leaf every day for dessert. Before Papa Smurf can analyze one leaf, Smurfette tells him about Chef and Farmer's plan, but it's too late: the plane arrives before they can hide, as Chef and Farmer spray the formula on the others, which could be catastrophic. Papa Smurf quickly munches the leaf, which cures him, and then he, Greedy, and Smurfette give sarsaparilla to the other Smurfs. Chef and Farmer crash their plane on a pumpkin, and the formula causes them to become vegetables, the only two among the cured Smurfs. Papa Smurf decides to leave them as vegetables for a brief time to teach them a lesson.
Trivia[]
- The plane used to spray the formula is the Aerosmurf, the same one that Handy Smurf made for Flying Smurf in "The Aerosmurf". Strangely, it's found full of webs, even though it's unlikely for Flying Smurf to have renounced it.
- Also seen in the garage with the Aerosmurf are King Smurf's litter, the cockpit section of Astro Smurf's spaceship, Vanity's mirror from "The Hundredth Smurf" (although the actual mirror was destroyed), Handy's power drill, and the weather dial from the weather-smurfing machine.
- This is not the first time sarsaparilla acts as an antidote: this also happened in "Smurf Soup", but back then Papa Smurf knew it beforehand (not a mistake, they were different formulas). Sarsaparilla in soup form was used as an antidote for the fake sarsaparilla formula Gargamel created to mutate the Smurfs in the comic book version of "The Clockwork Smurf".