The Smurfs Channel

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Smurfs TV is a television channel on Toon Goggles that is created by the partnership of IMPS, LAFIG Belgium, and OTTera. It airs the 1960s Smurfs cartoon show and the 1980s Smurfs cartoon show.

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The Smurfs brand, which launched in 1958 as a comic strip, has since spawned multiple TV shows (including a CG-animated series that Nickelodeon picked up in 2020), films and consumer products programs.

OTTera recently hired a director of business development for Africa, signaling its next geographical target for expansion after successful launches in China, LatAm and North America. The channel maker also rolled out a preschool channel brand called ducktv in July.

NC (vo): And, of course, that's what matters most, so they threw more money at the sequel to make more money back. The result, once again, is the not-pleasant bouquet of nausea under the guise of family entertainment.

Andre: What up, homie? Hey, put me down for $200 on the Patriots losing, a'ight? Ain't no way their ass can cheat to victory this year. You know what I'm saying? (NC is quite confused at what he's seeing) When you gonna come back here with my bong, a'ight? I gots to get high. Man, (in his nerd voice) Black Nerd has to review a new Power Rangers movie trailer (normal voice) and I can't do that unless I get blazed as fuuuck. Hey, man, I'm-a have to call you back, there's a White Walker present. (He hangs up) Well, well, well, if it isn't the Nostalgia Bitch.

Andre: Oh, I get it, I get it. You thought I was gonna leave beautiful sunny California to fly to yo' neck of the woods, in the dead o' winter, to talk about a damn Neil Patrick Harris Smurfs sequel wit' yo' punk ass?

Andre: That's real sad. I feel bad for you, Critic. I'm-a pray for you. Maybe the next time you do a charity shout-out, you should be shouting out to getting you a life. I ain't got time for this. I got an underground gambling ring to take care of! Not to mention all those hot Nintendo Switches that I'm-a sell on eBay... that fell off a truck. You ain't hear that from me. A'ight, man. Peace, loser! (stands up and leaves)

NC (vo): Uh, what did he do to her in there? Is it the same treatment (a shot from Zelda II is shown, with the woman in the village telling Link, "Please let me help you. Come inside.") Link gets when he goes into that woman's house to regain life?

(He suddenly shows to the camera he was holding the binoculars, and upon noticing that, he hides them in his jacket, smiling sheepishly; cut back to... Entertainment Tonight, where it is announced that Gargamel is a stage magician)

NC (vo): Okay, there's, like, a billion of you. And nobody invented Facebook yet. I think this would be quite common. Also, you nearly wiped out their village! You're lucky they didn't burn you like a Kentucky-fried Joan of Arc, and you're bitching that they forgot your birthday?! If blue privilege was a thing, you'd be the (picture of 1971's...) Violet Beauregarde of it!

NC (vo): Speaking of blue, that's the cruel name given by parents Neil Patrick Harris and Jayma Mays, celebrating his birthday with the arrival of Harris' stepdad. But Harris hates him, because he's...reasonably nice?

NC (vo): Huh. T-That seemed kind of a leap there. It...it used to be (two screenshots from The Smurfs 1981 series and a shot from the first movie are shown) he wanted to eat them, then he wanted to turn them into gold, then he wanted to increase his magic, now he wants to conquer the world. Jesus, he's gonna run out of things he wants to do soon!

(NC is shown drinking ale from the bottle and channel-surfing at the same time, not looking at camera (and if you listen closely before he cuts back to the scene you can hear bits of audio from the studio c sketch Channel Surfing). After he finishes drinking, he stops pressing buttons on the remote and looks at "the TV")

(Cut to a clip from the Donald Duck cartoon, Der Fuehrer's Face, where the titular character is screwing the caps onto artillery shells in an assembly line and saluting to Hitler's portraits repeatedly)

NC (vo): She seems to enjoy doing evil...especially when it's inconsistent, like not breaking mirror glass, but breaking window glass...as the Smurfs are launched out while Harris saves his stepdad.

NC (vo): So, it's revealed that all of Harris' anger towards his stepdad was for nothing. Oh, not because Harris was being a total heartless dick! But because the bird that was taken away from him as a kid wasn't because the stepdad was allergic, but because Harris was allergic.

NC (vo, as Patrick): Oh, well, still hate my dad. Off to botch this movie so bad, they'll reboot it in a few years. (normal) But Gargamel finally shows his true colors and tells Smurfette that if she doesn't give the secret formula to changing the Smurfs blue, he'll let Vexy and Hackus die.

NC (vo): But they all get captured, and soon Gargamel is taking all their essence away. Oh, what? No onions? (A scene from the previous movie with onion getting diced in front of captured Papa Smurf is shown briefly)

(A poster for 2015 movie Room appears, with an arrow pointing to Jacob Tremblay's character and a caption "Same Kid Nominated for Screen Actor's Guild Award". NC is shocked, stunned and pleasantly surprised with this revelation)

NC (vo): They take great talent and use them at their worst. Neil Patrick Harris is super unlikeable in this, none of the actors are given any funny lines. Even Hank Azaria, whose voice is pretty funny and has good timing, still can't make any of this work! It's a bad follow-up to an already bad film. And I'm happy as hell it's the last one I ever have to watch for Sequel Month.

(He crosses his arms and nods, smiling. As the dramatic drums kick in and camera starts zooming, Tamara and Bill also nod. Cut back to NC still smiling and nodding. Then back to Tamara and Bill doing the same...only for Bill to show the paper with the title "Garfield 2" on it, with "2" having the striped tail)

The series began airing on Cartoon Network in 1992 and also aired on Boomerang. During syndication, the short season 4 introduction sequence replaced all intros due to time constrictions. Also, seasons 8 and 9 were omitted from the channels due to some programs were not under the syndication package from the infamous strike in 1988. Despite this, all seasons are available on the Boomerang app.

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The Smurfs (French: Les Schtroumpfs) is a Belgian computer-animated television series developed by Dupuis Audiovisuel, IMPS, and Peyo Productions. It is the second television show based on the Smurf characters, after the original 1981 series of the same name.

The series was almost entirely produced in Belgium, with 75% of the animation completed at Dupuis' DreamWall animation studio in the city of Charleroi. Its CGI animation style is mainly based on the film Smurfs: The Lost Village.

The show was first announced by Peyo Productions in 2017. The next year, its European broadcasters were announced: Ketnet (Flanders), TF1 (France), KiKA (Germany), and La Trois (Wallonia). In 2020, it was reported that the broadcast rights had been picked up by the American entertainment brand Nickelodeon for several of its channels, but the airing agreement does not extend to the original 1980s Smurfs series (which continues to be distributed by Warner Bros. in North America).

The series was almost entirely produced in Belgium, with 75% of the animation completed at Dupuis' DreamWall animation studio in the city of Charleroi. Its CGI animation style is similar to the film Smurfs: The Lost Village.

The show was first announced by Peyo Productions in 2017. The next year, its European broadcasters were announced: Ketnet (Flanders), TF1 (France), KiKa (Germany), and RTBF (Wallonia). In 2020, it was reported that the broadcast rights had been picked up by the American entertainment brand Nickelodeon for several of its channels, but the airing agreement does not extend to the original 1980s Smurfs series (which continues to be distributed by Warner Bros. in North America). After 18 months on pay-TV, the series will stream on mh:freshwebsites:Netflix in the United States and abroad. The series made its world premiere, on RTBF's OUFtivi channel in Belgium, on 18 April 2021.

For the franchise:

• Adaptation Displacement:
• A lot of people know the Smurfs. The original comic book series, Johan and Peewit? Not so much.
• The 1980s Animated Adaptation is probably more well-known for American audiences than the Smurfs comic books.
• No one will blame you if you didn't know that there was a 1961 Smurf cartoon. Even in Europe, it's overshadowed by the 1981-90 cartoon and has never seen so much as a VHS or DVD release. For 15 years, the 60s era shorts would only be seen at a permanent Smurfs exhibit at the Belgian Comic Strip Center in Brussels, Belgium. Eventually, the French Youtube channel begun uploading episodes of the 1960s series on October 28, 2023 beginning with the episode "The Smurfnapper" in restored format.
• Alternative Character Interpretation: Smurfs, with how their society works, their lookalike costumes, and leader with a red hat could be seen as a symbol of Communism. In turn Gargamel could be seen as a symbol of Capitalism (especially considering initially he wanted to capture a Smurf for a potion to make some gold). See also Wild Mass Guessing.
• Cant Unhear It: For many fans, the Hanna-Barbera iterations of the characters are the voices that are imagined when reading printed content. This is particularly the case for Don Messick as Papa Smurf, Lucille Bliss as Smurfette, Paul Winchell as Gargamel, and Danny Goldman as Brainy. That said, some have also grown attached to Hank Azaria as Gargamel thanks to the live-action films.
• Common Knowledge: The Smurf's use of Smurfing is used as a way to replace swears with a family friendly version of them, like how 'barnacles' and 'fish paste' is a swear substitute on SpongeBob SquarePants. Expect this is decidedly not the case. The comic and animated series made a concerted effort to not have the Smurfing work as a substitute for swearing. In the original comic, when the Smurfs actually did swear, it was censored using symbols rather than using some form of 'Smurf'. Most people who think this applies to the series is because of how many parodies use it that way.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff:
• The Smurfs were very popular in the US and Canada during their heyday in the 80's. To the point that three feature films based on the franchise was created in the United States during The New '10s by Sony Pictures Animation. Since the film rights were moved to Paramount and Nickelodeon, multiple Smurf animated films were announced in early 2022. Contrast to Belgium (the franchise's native country), where they only created three animated Smurf projects. Even the second season of CGI series premiered first in United States one month before Belgium did.
• The Smurfs are also very popular in Germany, with multiple German exclusive Smurfs albums released since the 90's. Vader Abraham popularizing the series during the 70's might have played a big role in this.
• Similar to Germany, the Smurfs are also popular in Greece, with Smurfette being the lead singer in various Greek Smurf albums.
• Jerkass Woobie:
• Gargamel is all too happy to call himself "evil," but he's got plenty of reason to be unhappy. First, it is strongly implied that he had a seriously abusive childhood from every time we meet one of his relatives on-screen, said relative is either trying to mooch off Gargamel, browbeat and berate him, or both, even the wealthy ones like Balthazar. Second, to near Cosmic Plaything levels, every time he tries to do anything it cosmically backfires on him due to some bit of information or event he had no way of knowing, even if his labors are good, honest work. In addition to the entry in Hard Work Hardly Works, there's been other episodes where Gargamel did try his hand at honest work only to be thwarted either directly or indirectly by the Smurfs. The most prominent of these is when Gargamel actually won at an audition to become the royal court mage, honestly (his spell ingredients were a bit jumbled by transport to the castle, and his spell malfunctioned, but the fact that he summoned a tornado indoors, rode the tornado without injury, and nobody else in attendance was hurt convinced the judges that his power and control were more than sufficient for the job). Unfortunately, his first task, finding out why the chickens were not laying eggs was solved by Papa Smurf outside his knowledge. Perhaps Gargamel could have kept the job even then, but the Smurfs that were delivering the message to the king just had to stop and intrude on Gargamel's lab, without permission which ANY mage or alchemist would have good reason to be angry about. When Johan caught Gargamel threatening the Smurfs, only then did Gargamel learn that the Smurfs were good friends of the king and was real lucky not to wind up in the dungeon. Makes his obsession with making the Smurfs suffer seem a bit more reasonable, doesn't it? Gargamel was also compelled by force of arms to take Scruple in, as an apprentice, something which everyone can agree he is ill suited to do, and Gargamel doesn't even receive compensation of any kind, not even for the kid's living expenses. Thank evilness, or whatever that The Smurfs is a Sugar Bowl or somebody at Gargamel's castle would be seriously under-nourished if not starving to death. As a bonus, one episode had Gargamel plan and nearly succeed at carrying out his genocidal vengeance against the Smurfs with a powerful artifact or spell of evil, and he's stopped by Sassette when she says "I love you, pappi Gargamel!". Gargamel just... stops and breaks down crying because nobody ever said that to him before, not even his own mother. There are times that the audience may really want to give Gargamel a hug.
• Azrael gets a bit of this too. Remember, Gargamel's the best owner he's ever had. Azrael has had other owners. That hole in his ear was an injury one of his previous owners did when he was a kitten, deliberately.
• Chlorhydris stole an attractive male sorcerer away from a competing sorceress, but having to live the rest of her life thinking the man she loved and wanted to marry just didn't show up on their wedding day was understandable enough to make anyone with her powers want to make the world suffer with her for the unhappiness that she had to live through. Unfortunately, she had to choose the Smurfs as the target for her making the world as miserable as she was, but when they found out that her witch rival had turned her husband-to-be into stone and kept him in that state for twenty years, they did everything they can to help bring that happiness back into her life and at least give her the hope of a happy ending...until her husband-to-be accidentally sat on Chlorhydris' black heart arrows which she carelessly left on a seat that he sat on and caused his heart to be filled with nothing but hate. That just broke her heart all over again, and she's back to being her old bitter self again, desiring to ruin everybody's happiness.
• Brainy Smurf at times. While he's insufferable and considered The Scrappy both in-universe and out, the other Smurfs never give him a chance or at least try to tolerate him. He gets literally beaten up pretty much every time he talks, even though the Smurfs are supposed to be kindhearted and forgiving, especially with each other. Sometimes, the reader may have the impression that he's the village's punching bag even when he doesn't do anything wrong. For instance, in Le Schtroumpf Reporter, Hefty Smurf and another Smurf get annoyed because the aforementioned reporter has started writing very intellectual and hard-to-understand articles in his newspaper. They come across Brainy, who tell them that the new articles are very interesting and ask them if they agree. They beat him up for that. In La Gourmandise chez les Schtroumpfs, when Greedy Smurf gets indigestion (because he didn't listen to Brainy), and Brainy (after helping him to return to his home) starts to annoyingly list the medicine that he will give to him, he gets a kick in the ass.
• Memetic Molester: Papa Smurf in one of his poses has a really creepy smug look on his face. It doesn't help that in one of the stories he was going after Smurfette.
• Memetic Mutation: Smurf Cat.ExplanationA bizarre, realistic image of a Smurf with a cat-like face went viral in 2023, often paired with the lyrics to Alan Walker's "Spectre," and often pitted against the "strawberry elephant." It become an Ascended Meme later when The Smurfs' official Instagram account posted a picture of a blue Azrael, dressed like a Smurf, walking while a Smurf laughs at him. The blue Azrael looks similar to Blue Smurf Cat.
• Moe: The franchise in general, since Smurfs are small and cute, so many characters qualify. The most obvious examples are:
• Smurfette. In a cast of male characters, she stands out as the adorable, wholesome, blond, and sweet Girly Girl.
• Baby Smurf is The Baby of the Bunch, and so cute that even Grouchy Smurf has a soft spot for him.
• The four Smurflings, a group of playful children who also serve as Kid-Appeal Character, possibly the reason why they have a major role in later seasons.
• Clumsy, a sweet-natured, naive Kindhearted Simpleton who is accident-prone but means well, occasionally falling into The Woobie. The fact that late actor Anton Yelchin provided the voice of Clumsy in the live-action Sony movies only further increased it's moe appeal.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Brainy Smurf in the later comics, live-action movies and Smurfs: The Lost Village (all of which were made after the death of creator Peyo). He no longer makes long speeches as much to annoy Smurfs, his maturity increased, becomes more knowledgeable, has more sympathy for others and is no longer self-centered. His insufferable tendencies have also been downplayed (he retains a level of pretentiousness to keep him comical, though can at least back up his bragging by being useful more often).
• The Scrappy: Weepy Smurf. He does nothing but constantly weep over bad things and good things. His voice is far more annoying than Brainy when he's upset, making him unpopular with fans.
• Strawman Has a Point: The Greek version of the song "The Smurf School" portrays the teacher figure as a Sadist Teacher, but he's rightfully strict, because the Smurfs are essentially being disrespectful, boorish Jerkasses to him.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Some fans find Brainy Smurf sympathetic because (at least in the comics) despite his constant nagging, he often has a point and is victim to brutal physical violence when the other Smurfs are annoyed, without them getting any chastisement for this, even though the Smurfs are supposed to take pride into being more peaceful than humans.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?: The Smurfs (whose society can somehow be described as an "utopia") have been mistaken (to Peyo's great amusement when he was alive) for a metaphor:
• Of the occasionally creepy "groupthink" vibe common in cartoons during The '80s.
• Of a Communist society. Never do you see one "Consumer Smurf" buying from a "Shopkeeper Smurf" (in fact, one story explicitly states that the Smurfs don't use money and every Smurf with a job seems to do it for free), and the fruits of the community's labor is divided evenly amongst the community. Each Smurf has their own job, and any attempt at trying a different job typically ends in disaster. Gargamel comes off as a metaphor for capitalism, wanting to make money no matter the cost or what he destroys in the process. And topping it off, their leader wears red.
• Of the KKK. A hundred critters in pointy white hats living in what amounts to a secluded commune led by a wizard with a pointy red hat. It should of course be noted that it was made by a Belgian, and the KKK esoteric imagery is mostly unknown in Europe.
• The Smurfs are actually a patriarchal conservative utopia. They live in a static and autarchic rural agrarian system, away from evil technological and social progress. They are ruled by a wise, benevolent, kind but stern patriarch who lays down the law and without whom anarchy and chaos engulf the village.
• Certain real-world societies have also high-jacked the meaning of on paper communism. On paper, the Smurfs would be an ideal socialistic society or the above mentioned patriarchal society. Papa Smurf is essentially the government role that helps inform and "control" what jobs the Smurfs do for the society. In real life such a system would wholly depend on having all the right pieces in all the right places; in reality what most westerners call "communism" is more like socialism with a corrupt Papa Smurf turning it into a flat out dictatorship.
• There have been two explicitly political issues. One is "King Smurf" (The Dutch translation even called him the Smurfhrer). The other one, "Smurf versus Smurf," is a satire of Belgium's linguistic division.
• Some can see Gargamel as the stereotypical image of Jews in the Middle ages (despite having a normal nose, no beard, and no accent) and later on: short (Gargamel actually isn't short, he seems to be because he's slouchy) with back-hair and big curved nose. He is chasing after the innocent Smurfs and he wants to either make gold out of them, or eat them (cartoon only for this one). In addition, the story of Smurfette: She was initially an evil creation of Gargamel and was black-haired with a big nose. After her transformation into Smurfette, she has blond hair and blue eyes, and she is a kind and good-hearted woman. In one episode Gargamel kidnapped her and put a spell on her so she turned evil again, and she resumed her black-haired appearance. When she turned good again, she also resumed her blond hair again. All of of this can be explained by very very older literary tropes like Uglyness Equals Villainy and Dark Is Evil, among others. Gargamel is just your usual sorcerer and it requires much effort to see him as a Jew.
• Fundies put the "fun" in fundies by claiming that the principal Smurfs represent the seven cardinal sins while Papa Smurf represents the devil and that Gargamel is a Catholic priest; thing is, his clothes do look like those of a priest...

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