"The Scariest Smurf" is the eighth episode of Season 1 of the CGI TV series, The Smurfs.
Characters[]
- Scaredy Smurf
- Brainy Smurf
- Smurfette
- Hefty Smurf
- Handy Smurf
- Gargamel
- Azrael
- Papa Smurf
- Jokey Smurf
- Vanity Smurf
- Greedy Smurf
- Grouchy Smurf
- Dimwitty Smurf
- Snail
- Homnibus (On a picture in Papa Smurf's lab)
- Unnamed Smurfs
Synopsis[]
On Halloween, Scaredy Smurf transforms into a monster from one of Papa Smurf's potions and, despite him, wreaks havoc in the village.
Summary[]
On the evening of Halloween, Hefty is in his house carving pumpkins, but he is suddenly scared by Handy. The two then argue over if Hefty was scared or not.
Meanwhile, Brainy is in Papa Smurf's laboratory putting up a potion when Scaredy begs Brainy to help him get through the annual Halloween party. Being reluctant at first, he agrees to help Scaredy. Brainy then asks Scaredy to deliver dangerous potions to Papa Smurf, who is in his own house.
Scaredy begins to walk and tries to ignore the dark. He stops walking when he sees Smurf being chased by another Smurf and then sees a snail. As soon as he believes the coast is clear and he starts walking, he sees Jokey in a Halloween costume. This scares Scaredy and he runs off. He runs into Handy's workshop, where the three potions have mixed and spilled as he trips and falls on the floor. The potions cause several of Handy's inventions to fly in the air and then, Scaredy himself starts flying and soon, a brief laser light show happens in the workshop.
At the annual Halloween party, the Smurfs are enjoying themselves as Papa Smurf gives two of them some candy. Handy pretends to be a zombie and Greedy tastes a cake that Brainy offers. Grouchy hates Halloween. Vanity watches two Smurfs cosplay as Jokey, until the real Jokey comes and scares both of them. Dimwitty tells Smurfette that he is goes as a "Smurfasorus Rex".
Just then, Smurfette discovers that there is another Smurf (who is Scaredy, transformed from the potion) that is wearing a robot suit and shows everyone. The Smurfs are quite impressed on the "costume" and believe it's Handy, but the robot suit almost loses its balance and nearly hits Smurfette. Hefty defends her and also thinks it's Handy, but the real Handy is at the buffet. Vanity thinks it's a real-life monster and the Smurfs run away and around the village, with four of them running off into the forest as robot suit Scaredy chases them. The remaining Smurfs hide in the trees at the edge of the village.
In the forest, the four Smurfs (Handy, Hefty, Brainy, and Smurfette) are still running from robot Scaredy and Smurfette discover a ramp so they can get away from him. However, Scaredy causes them to get sent flying as he accidentally bounces on it. Scaredy, too, is sent flying when a rock catapults him as well.
Meanwhile, Gargamel tells Azrael that he loves Halloween and how he is dressing as Brainy. Suddenly, the four Smurfs crash into the door of Gargamel's hovel, which Gargamel believes are random trick-or-treaters. When he opens the door, Scaredy crashes into Gargamel, with the latter believing he is a monster. The Smurfs and Gargamel all run around the hovel in fear. Azrael locks himself in a cage and swallows the key. Gargamel's glasses (imitating Brainy's) come off and he realizes there are Smurfs in his hovel. He is about to get them, but Azrael's cage dismantles of the chain, hitting Gargamel's head and knocking himself out. Robot suit Scaredy runs out in fear, much to the Smurfs' confusion.
While the Smurfs walk back from Gargamel's hovel, they inform the others that robot suit Scaredy is gone... until they see him again trying to get back in his house. When Brainy accidentally steps on a stick, Scaredy turns around and the four Smurfs run away.
Scaredy notices Brainy and pulls him by his pants. He tells him that he has to do something, but Smurfette and Handy repeatedly kick him, finishing with Hefty hitting him with a hammer, causing Scaredy to drop Brainy and fall onto the ground. The Smurfs then discover the monster was really Scaredy. Papa Smurf comes and puts on fangs as a joke, scaring Scaredy and he runs off again as the Smurfs laugh.
Quotes[]
Smurfette: (Looking at Dimwitty wearing a rubber ducky float) "Um, Dimwitty, what are you supposed to be?"
Dimwitty: "A Smurfasorus Rex!"
- - Dimwitty explaining his costume
Trivia[]
- This is the first Halloween special of the series and the first holiday special in general.
- This is the first episode of the series in which Farmer does not appear in.
- This episode and "The Magic Pumpkin" only air in reruns on Nickelodeon USA in the month of October, making these episodes rather rare to find on American TV, since they are Halloween-themed episodes. As such, "DRIIINNGGGGG!" and "Lost Cat" also do not air often, as they are the series' respective sister episodes.
- Scaredy kisses Brainy three times.
- This is the first episode to mention that kids exist in this series, as Gargamel mentions "trick-or-treat" implying that they are quite nearby.
- The following Smurfs wear these costumes:
- Brainy: Pumpkin
- Smurfs can also be seen wearing pumpkins.
- Handy: Skeleton
- Jokey: Gag box
- Dimwitty: Smurfasorus Rex
- Vanity: A design similar to Magician Smurf, who has yet to appear in this series.
- Smurfette wears her "Great Cassandra" costume used in "Who's Heftier?".
- Hefty is wearing a knife on the back of his hat.
- Some unnamed Smurfs are wearing brown hats with a black ring and black pants.
- One Smurf is wearing a black hat with brown pants.
- Two Smurfs pretend they're Jokey.
- Two Smurfs wear Gargamel and Azrael masks.
- Brainy: Pumpkin
- This episode has been adapted into the children's storybook "The Scariest Smurf".