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"The Black Smurfs" is an episode from the 1961 Smurfs cartoon show.
Characters[]
- Papa Smurf
- Brainy Smurf
- Grouchy Smurf (in his pre-Grouchy state)
- Bzz Fly
- Unnamed Smurfs/Unnamed Black Smurfs
Synopsis[]
A Smurf is stung by the Bzz Fly and then turns into a black Smurf, which now jumps around uncontrollably and bites every Smurf he can catch. The bitten ones then also turn into black Smurfs. Papa Smurf must find a cure as soon as possible to stop this unusual disease.
Summary[]
Brainy and a Smurf go to the forest to work on chopping down trees. However, the ordinary Smurf gets stung by a fly known as the Bzz Fly that turns his skin jet black, drives him insane and reduces his vocabulary to the single word "Gnap!".
Brainy, panicking, runs to tell Papa Smurf that the Smurf has turned all black. Papa Smurf becomes fearful, realizing that that Smurf has been infected by the Bzz fly. Brainy spots the transformed Smurf hopping his way to the village. They chase after him and capture him, binding him in rope. After Papa Smurf tells some of his little Smurfs to take the captured Black Smurf to his house, he tells the others that the last known case of this disease was when he was 108 years old, but now he can't remember what the cure was. Until then, he orders the other Smurfs to stay alert while he thinks about it.
However, the captured Black Smurf doesn't stay bound for long. After breaking his bonds, he spots a normal Smurf outside his house and bites his tail, turning that Smurf black as well. As he watches the two Black Smurfs hop into the forest, Papa Smurf sees that he needs to find the antidote. He tells his little Smurfs not to disturb him as he spends the night working on a possible cure for the Black Smurfs.
By morning, Papa Smurf send some Smurfs to capture one, though in the process another Smurf gets bitten while trying to capture one, getting caught in his own lasso. This results in some Smurfs capturing the new changed one. Papa Smurf tries his cures on the captive though it fails as it only causes him to faint. It was a mistake, however, to release him, as Papa Smurf sends a Smurf to carry him back to his house, but the Black Smurf wakes up and escapes by biting the Smurf's tail who in turns infects a bystander.
He and the new transformed Smurfs went back to the forest to escape capture. The next day none of the Smurfs want to get another Black Smurf, so Papa sends three Smurfs out to get one. They capture a Black Smurf as one of them acts as bait while the others knock it out with a rock. They return with it and Papa Smurf pours the antidote on the Black Smurf's head, which causes it to break its bonds. Papa Smurf then runs for cover as a bunch of Black Smurfs hops out of his laboratory and into the forest... all except for one which is knocked out and dragged back inside Papa Smurf's laboratory, though he escapes as well.
Having no other option, Papa Smurf and his remaining Smurfs leave to capture the Bzz fly as fifteen of them (sixteen at the point during Papa Smurf's talk) are now infected. However, some of the Smurfs end up capturing other animals, while the infected keep adding to their numbers. Eventually, Papa Smurf captures the Bzz fly; however, he fails to get a cure from it, which causes problems. As time is running out each day, dozens of Smurfs are getting infected, until they are only about a handful left. Papa Smurf then decides to give it a tuberose flower to eat, which causes it to sneeze and turn blue. Realizing the cure is tuberose pollen, he and Brainy go out to test it on a Black Smurf and it works! They get all the flowers and when Papa asks if everyone is here, one Smurf replies there still one missing before they hear the sound of him getting infected, before replying that everyone is here, and they take the flowers home.
Meanwhile, the first Black Smurf and leader of the transformed Smurfs sneaks into the village and overhears this, so to avoid being sprayed with the antidote, he paints himself blue. After giving all the remaining Smurfs their bellows that contain the antidote, they prepare to battle the Black Smurfs. However, a swarm of all the infected Smurfs appear into the village and attack. It becomes a disaster, for if a Black Smurf was cured, he is immediately bitten again. Also, the fake blue Smurf turns the favor over to his side by biting some of the Smurfs with bellows.
This changes the playing field as this enables his transformed brethren to turn the last remaining Smurfs black -- all except for but Papa Smurf, who is now out of pollen. The village leader runs to his laboratory to get more of the antidote when the leader who painted himself blue ambushed him. This fails as he knocks over a lamp, causing a fire in Papa Smurf's house. While Papa Smurf is trying to douse the flames, a hoard of black Smurfs bites him, knowing all hope is lost tells as the village leader turns black as well. Fortunately, an explosion occurs that also sprays the pollen in the air turning the Black Smurfs into their happy blue selves. Papa Smurf is relived and finds it the right time to celebrate!
Trivia[]
- Brainy's role in the episode is changed from the comics; while he was a bystander that was told by Papa Smurf to search for the missing Smurf, here he is present with him from the beginning and he tells Papa Smurf about the Smurf turning black.
- While Brainy was absent from the original 1959 version of the story, he appears in this version.
- This is the first time Brainy wore glasses.
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