"What a Doll" is the eighth episode of Season 3 of the CGI TV series, The Smurfs.
Characters
- Vanity Smurf
- Smurfstorm
- Rowena
- Dwayne
- Gargamel
- Gulp
- Caterpillar
- Smurfwillow (Mentioned only)
Synopsis
Rowena turns Vanity and Storm into dolls.
Summary
Vanity and Storm are out in the Smurf Forest, where Storm is beginning to get agitated with Vanity for being out here for hours over getting flowers for himself and being too vain about it. Just then, they hear the sound of Rowena, who is asking for a "Prince Charming" while using a doll version of Storm.
Rowena wanders around the forest with her pet plant Gulp. She tells her to "attack" Princess Smurfina and the plant barks at the doll. Rowena cries for help, which worries Vanity, not because she is using an outdated portrayal of a lady like Storm says, but because the doll looks hideous. Vanity comes out of the bushes that he and Storm were hiding from and berates Rowena for having such a dirty doll, but when he recognizes Gulp, he distracts the two and runs off with Storm, who chastises Vanity for not keeping his mouth shut.
The two Smurfs continue to run away from Rowena and Gulp. Storm manages to escape, but Vanity doesn't, since he was too busy looking at himself in the water. Suddenly, he is caught by Rowena, who demands to know why Vanity was talking bad about the doll. Vanity tells her that it is not a good representation of the Smurfs, pointing out that it looked like a rat. Rowena agrees - and believes that Vanity is a cuter representation of a doll, much to Vanity's worries. Meanwhile, Storm gets away from Rowena, but realizes that Vanity is gone, much to her fustration.
Rowena takes Vanity to Gargamel's hovel, where Vanity is very nervous and reluctant to go. Rowena assures him that she will take care of him. Nearby, Gargamel leaves his hovel with Dwayne inside when he is scared by Rowena. She tells him that she is playing with her Princess Smurfina doll (while hiding Vanity) and she just needs to go to the bathroom. Gargamel comments on the weirdness of kids.
Inside, Rowena puts Vanity down on a table in her upstairs room while calling him "her little secret". Dwayne stops playing on his Snap to look at Vanity, seeing that a Smurf can be used to launch a rocket. Rowena argues with Dwayne for Vanity, who wants to leave now but Rowena refuses, and tells him her plans to turn him into a real doll. She puts Vanity down and with a drop of a potion, she turns him into a living doll! Rowena is happy that she has now found her Prince Charming, which makes Dwayne observe the Vanity doll and talk badly about it. Rowena tries to get the doll back from Dwayne, and all of a sudden, Gargamel comes up and gets hit with the doll. He does not recognize that this is an actual Smurf and orders the kids to play outside.
Outside the hovel, Gargamel observes the kids; Dwayne plays on his Snap while Rowena plays tea party with her Vanity doll. She encourages Vanity to eat a caterpillar, which he refuses to. Rowena gets irritated and says he will have to eat to become big and strong to save the Princess from her plant Gulp.
Storm watches the tea party and questions why Vanity won't even run out. She takes a bone arrow and releases it. Unfortunately for the kids, it ends up breaking something in the hovel. Gargamel screams for Rowena and Dwayne's presences and they walk inside. Storm manages to find Vanity, who Rowena left behind outside. Storm learns that Vanity has been turned into a doll and mocks him for it. She offers to take Vanity to Willow and prepares to leave while dragging him.
In the hovel, Gargamel punishes Rowena and Dwayne for breaking his potion by reprimanding them of snacks for the day. This upsets both kids, who clarify that neither of them broke it, but Gargamel doesn't listen. Just then, Rowena notices Storm's bow and arrow launched at the potion. Storm and doll Vanity try to escape, but suddenly, Vanity is grabbed by Rowena. Dwayne also grabs Storm, ready to use his new jetpack Smurf. Storm threatens him, but all he does is stretch her nose out. Vanity tries defending her, but Dwayne simply says he is next.
Rowena continues having tea with Vanity while Dwayne prepares to launch Storm into the sky with a rocket. To save Storm, Vanity abruptly yells that she is his bride, much to the shock of everyone. Rowena immediately stops the fuse and is happy for their love. Storm has second thoughts about this escape plan. Dwayne tries to stop Rowena, but she says that if she makes the wedding, Dwayne can set them into the air. He complies with this.
Inside the hovel room, Storm is also turned into a doll and is placed near Vanity. She tries to escape but is stopped by Rowena. Vanity tries to do the same and lies, saying he has "pre-wedding jitters" which Rowena finds sweet. She now declares Vanity and Storm married. Unfortunately, she orders to kiss the bride, which worries the both of them until Dwayne interferes and wants the honeymoon now. Storm is glad that this interference happened… but Dwayne's idea is much worse. The two are tied to a rocket and are about to be launched into the air. He lights the fuse, which makes Vanity protest to be let off. Rowena, however, has lost interest in the dolls and prefers her Princess Smurfina doll instead. The fuse then goes off and the two are sent flying!
Vanity and Storm fly all around the forest, which makes Storm get the idea to control the rocket. The two begin spinning and eventually spin the rocket back into Gargamel's hovel. All of a sudden, Gargamel, who is busy downstairs, collides with the rocket and falls, watching the rocket Smurfs. He tries to chase them around his hovel and they end up hitting one of his cells. This makes the rocket fly upstairs as the kids and Gulp watch.
Dwayne, Rowena, Gargamel, and Gulp all try to catch the rocket but fail as it is too fast. Storm then notices the doll potion and spins the rocket into the air. She drops the potion onto the ground, which turn the evil trio into dolls. To make things worse for them, Gulp prepares for her offscreen snack! Elsewhere, Vanity and Storm leave the hovel and plans to fly them home, but suddenly, they get hit by a tree and the rocket explodes. The two are glad at this luck, though they still have a number of problems. The dolls of Vanity and Storm head to Smurf Village, where Storm is questioning her and Vanity getting married. Vanity denies this, saying that humans can't make Smurf weddings and says the flower arrangements were an absolute disaster, much to Storm's annoyance.
Trivia
- This is the second episode in which Gargamel appears without Azrael, with the first being the previous episode "Rowena's Plant".
- This episode has the fewest characters out of the entire series, at only seven (tied with "Mummy's Doll"). Vanity and Storm are also the only Smurfs to make an appearance in this episode.
- This is the third episode in which only one male Smurf is present, with the first being Wild in "Wild Gets Tamed" and the second being Dimwitty in "Dragon Pet".
- In "Dreamer: Master Of Love", Dreamer briefly attempts to ship Vanity and Storm together when he sees Vanity's lips puckering up, but his idea is dropped when Storm "insults" Vanity after asking if he has a pimple on his face. In this episode, Vanity and Storm are both scared at the idea of kissing one another by Rowena, so it can be assumed that Dreamer's attempts on shipping the two failed.
- Dwayne's jetpack has the same color of the Mini-Jokeys' one from "Joke's On You".
- In the background of Dwayne and Rowena's room, there is a teeth toy that resembles the one Jokey had from "A Smurfy Christmas".
- This is the eleventh episode in the series in which the background Smurfs do not appear. The other episodes are "Pop Out!", "Mirror, Mirror On The Armoire", "Smurfy Mother's Day!", "A Thief Among Us!", "Mommy's Masterpiece", "Back To Nature", "Wild Gets Tamed", "An Unsmurfy Friendship", "House Call", and "Dragon Pet".