Ah, the first cartoon I EVER watched. Too bad I was TOO young and don't remember much about them, but I do remember absolutely being addicted to the show.
When I was a kid it was hard to tell who loved the Smurfs more. My sisters and I or our grandpa. He was a hard working, no-nonsense type but when it was time for the Smurfs he would often already be at the tv ahead of us. Everyone would often guess who would win the race to the tv.
Incidentally, Gargamel and his cat Azrael *were* originally characters from the comic. They first appeared in an early comic from 1959, "The Smurfnapper" ("Le Voleur de Schtroumpf"), in which Gargamel wanted to capture Smurfs, as a Smurf was part of an ingredient to create the Philosopher's Stone, which, indeed, he wanted to use to create gold! But, time and again, he fails. :)
His motive kinda flip flops between that and eating them in the animated series. I prefer the former because the later is really messed up considering how Baby, Greedy, and Clumsy were almost all victims of that . The way they shouted and cried in terror was just really hard to see considering there just little innocent creatures. Sure the gold spell is bad to but eating them out of spite is way crueler.
The story's name was later changed to "The Flute with Six Smurfs," because of the Smurfs' popularity (you can see this in modern issue prints of the album). In international markets, it's more aptly called THE SMURFS AND THE MAGIC FLUTE. Belvision made a film adaptation of it in 1976, which I consider to be the best adaptation of the Smurfs ever made! It was brought to the US in 1983, and was a box-office success. Anime voice actor veterans dubbed over the characters in the US version!
What's ironic was that before the change, the Smurfs would turn black and unintelligible once they're sick. After that creators decide to change them to purple when they're sick.
as a belgian i have to point out that the name schtroumpf came from when Peyo had a lunch with someone from spirrou he had to ask for salt in french but didn't know the word for it and accidentialy called it schtroumpf.
peirens lennert As european citizen I like more the comics. In Spain and hispanic-american countries are called "Los Pitufos" and smurfette is "pitufina".
You should've included in your retrospective THE SMURFS AND THE MAGIC FLUTE (Belvision; 1976), the animated film adaptation of "The Flute with Six Holes," which I consider to be the best Smurfs adaptation ever made! Atlantic Pictures brought the film to the US in 1983, and it was a box-office success (the highest for a non-Disney film at the time, before THE CARE BEARS MOVIE in 1985). It was dubbed by voice actors (including Cam Clarke as Peewit) working on US dubs of anime.
@@victoriakaren2324 Yeah! The Smurfs originally appeared in a JOHAN & PEEWIT comic album; the 9th Volume, THE FLUTE WITH SIX SMURFS (initially called THE FLUTE WITH SIX HOLES in the serialized version), so naturally, Johan and Peewit were the main heroes in the movie! Needless to say, because of their importance in Smurf history, Hanna-Barbera included JOHAN & PEEWIT segments in their cartoon series!
@@ryuuseipro oh that's a good thing to heard johan and peewit was second favorite series from peyo im glad that they make the film adaptation for smurf and the magic flute i read alot of smurfs and johan and peewit as a kid
Fun facts: • Smurfs are actually genderless (or at least one-gendered). • The Smurfette was artificially created by Gargamel and turned into a real smurf by Papa Smurf. • The trope where there's only a single women among a plethora of men is named "The Smurfette Principle". • Smurfs' tendency to replace every single verb, adjective and sometimes even noun with a variation of "smurf" is godsmurf smurfing as smurf.
I loved the smurfs when I was a kid. Back then I never really thought about their origin or anything. Now that I'm grown up I now wonder were there other smurfs when Papa was a smurfling? What happened to them after Papa became an adult?
Though the original French-Belgian comic they were based on was from the late '50s, and the first animated adaptations were from the early 1960s (cartoon shorts in B&W).
Homnibus: Nevertheless, there's one thing i could try for you! Send you there by hypno-kinesis! What do you think of that? Peewit: Well... Johan: Er...
one thing she forgot to mention that smurfs normallly are only guys but the antagonist Gargamel made the female character as a trap but it failed and she lived with them evere since
The 1980 series can now be viewed on Netflix. For a while I remember they did re run the show on normal tv on kids channels for a while. I watched them myself when I was younger.
That is pretty cool. I'm hoping the CGI remake would be cool, even though I do feel that CGI is very overrated and it needs to go. In fact, it would be cool if it was done through cel-shade/toon shading. -KT
In French, my first language, they are called Les Schtroumpfs, in Dutch it's De Smurfen. Belgium's three official languages are French, Dutch/Flemish, and German.
Tintin is also from Belgium (my country), just like the Smurf. Both basedon Belgian comics. You can write to Watchmojo to tell them to do the history of Tintin, or maybe I'll ask them for you.
dis will ruin ur childhood... there was another cartoon about the smurfs that ran from 1961 to 1967 unfortunately, it can only be seen at some place I saw the name but I forgot WHY IS IT ALWAYS IN ONE EAR AND OUT THE OTHER SO QUICKLY lol
I love the original Smurfs so much, not really the new ones, absolutely HATE what they did to Smurfette, she was originally sweet and innocent and then suddenly they have her kicking butt and everything, since when did that happen?
I used to watch the Smurfs when I was a young girl. The Smurfs figurines from when I was a young girl are in parents' attic somewhere. My favorite smurf was Papa Smurf. I thought he was cute. The 1 thing I didn't like was that there was only 1 female smurf & she was blond. That's why I preferred other cartoons such as Care Bears, Shirt Tails, Jem, Strawberry Shortcake & Friends because there was more diversity in colors. It freaked me out that there was only 1 female in the Smurf village.
I am from Belgium, so i speak Smurfs. Some comments say: i like to fly Smurfette or i want Smurfette to lick my house. Jesus, Americans need to learn how to speak Smurfs.
I found smurfthing very interesting online -- not sure if this relates to the new movie, but it looks hilarious -- THE SMURFY GUIDE TO PROGRESSIVE SMURFTIANITY!
"We're an autonomous collective. We take it in turns to act as a sort of Executive Officer for the week. But all the decisions of that Officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting..."
@ShawnRavenfire yea, Ive been watching boomerang a bit the past few months and smurfs is on most days, it reminded me that Im not really pro-medieval times but I like when they keep a show's settings intact otherwise it generally ends up horrible (ex: the underdog movie that came out I saw the trailer for the smurfs movie months ago and it looks almost as bad but Im still hoping that Im wrong and people have finally learned to adapt a cartoon
Actually no...Peyo created a Johan et Pirlouit story called La Flûte à Six Trous (The Flute with Six Holes). plus, there were much more then six smurfs...as you can plainly see!
Honestly, I love the Smurfs and their generous humor, but the newer versions of the show and comics made in 2010 and 2012 are not really very well placed. The fact that they are somehow instantly removed from their normal life as a happy, ungrowing community to the enormous New York city doesn't seem very fitting. Plus, the whole concept of love in the movie throughout makes no real sense, since dating and love has never been a main personal goal among the adorable blue creatures. I think the movies were a little displaced, is all I'm saying :|
Okay, it wasn't mentioned in the video and some people will scoff because they only remember the '80s cartoon but here's the thing: The Smurfs can be brilliant. While many of the Smurfs comics were just cute little stories, Peyo used others as a light and humorous way of critiquing big issues. For example, there's a story called "The King Smurf" which is basically about how dictators rise to power. It starts with Papa Smurf leaving the village on business and telling the Smurfs to just take care of themselves for a while. This leads to an election in which a very ambitious Smurf gains power. Her takes over the whole village. There's a rebellion. And it all ends with Papa Smurf coming home a week later and putting a stop to it yelling "Stop it, you're all acting like a bunch of humans". It's a story that can only really be done with a community like the Smurfs.
+Adam Hoffman What's funny about that is that ambition is antithetical to true communism. The system would have to collapse--as we've seen it in history--before ambition could be seen by one or a few to gain power, like *RUSSIAN OLIGARCHS*. But if this all happened while Papa Smurf was gone, then he was the one who kept the system going, which makes HIM the dictator.
as a guy who read the books in french when i was a kid i d like to make one correction to this video gargamel orrigionally wanted to eat them, then in the 80's they changed it to making gold out of them.
Papa smurf got the Karl Marx beard and a red uniform. Brainy got the Trotsky glasses and is always kicked out of town and the smurf hats are based on the hats of the revolutionaries in the French revolution. And the certainly shear the chick!
The Smurfs really nice Characters that represent good and "love of the neighbor":). It goes to say that the Nazis did not represent Love in any way. The Smurfs are too kind to be Nazis and they are devoid of rage, unlike the Nazis were full of rage. Also, back in the 1980s the Smurfs were popular in Israel. The Smurfs simply show us that good is possible. As for Garamel, he is more like the Nazis themselves in that he is obsessed with hurting the smurfs for having Love within their hearts.
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Ah, the first cartoon I EVER watched. Too bad I was TOO young and don't remember much about them, but I do remember absolutely being addicted to the show.
It still comes on tv ..........
natalie vordick Eh, I lost interest in it as I got older. It just didn't catch me at the right time to stay with me permanently, know what I mean?
yea igues so
queenofsugar i watch fairy tail too
ZhangtheGreat watch king smurf its on yt i never saw that episode on tv but i saw it on yt
I love the smurfs back when I was kid.
The Smurfs & *LF I liked *s (uh) YOUNG kid 8)
When I was a kid it was hard to tell who loved the Smurfs more. My sisters and I or our grandpa. He was a hard working, no-nonsense type but when it was time for the Smurfs he would often already be at the tv ahead of us. Everyone would often guess who would win the race to the tv.
Same here 👍👍👍
Brain washing. Easier with children
Glad you do 😊
Incidentally, Gargamel and his cat Azrael *were* originally characters from the comic. They first appeared in an early comic from 1959, "The Smurfnapper" ("Le Voleur de Schtroumpf"), in which Gargamel wanted to capture Smurfs, as a Smurf was part of an ingredient to create the Philosopher's Stone, which, indeed, he wanted to use to create gold! But, time and again, he fails. :)
His motive kinda flip flops between that and eating them in the animated series. I prefer the former because the later is really messed up considering how Baby, Greedy, and Clumsy were almost all victims of that . The way they shouted and cried in terror was just really hard to see considering there just little innocent creatures. Sure the gold spell is bad to but eating them out of spite is way crueler.
I grew up on the smurfs and remember it fondly I’ve always been a fan of them
the smurfs are one of my big time child hood treasures
The story's name was later changed to "The Flute with Six Smurfs," because of the Smurfs' popularity (you can see this in modern issue prints of the album). In international markets, it's more aptly called THE SMURFS AND THE MAGIC FLUTE. Belvision made a film adaptation of it in 1976, which I consider to be the best adaptation of the Smurfs ever made! It was brought to the US in 1983, and was a box-office success. Anime voice actor veterans dubbed over the characters in the US version!
I have some smurf comicbooks at my home
Why
What's ironic was that before the change, the Smurfs would turn black and unintelligible once they're sick. After that creators decide to change them to purple when they're sick.
You mean when one of the Smurfs got bitten by a purple fly and the smurfs gotten infected
that is not true, in the original comic they turn purple like in the series.
I remember watching the show when I was younger, but it wasn't until early May of this year when I rediscovered it
as a belgian i have to point out that the name schtroumpf came from when Peyo had a lunch with someone from spirrou he had to ask for salt in french but didn't know the word for it and accidentialy called it schtroumpf.
peirens lennert
As european citizen I like more the comics. In Spain and hispanic-american countries are called "Los Pitufos" and smurfette is "pitufina".
Lying Dutchman don’t forget Gaston!
Schtroumpf is the funniest name.
And the two used that word in place of regular named items for a while.
Man I remember watching the smurfs as a kid and now im watching king of the hill. I don't know why but as a kid I had a crush on the girl smurf
Her name is Smurfette
@@awesomegirl5190 me to
they should've said something about smurfet being made by garggamel
I heard this recently as well, what's the back story to that?
The episode "Gargamel's Time Trip" somewhat explains the reasoning for it
You should've included in your retrospective THE SMURFS AND THE MAGIC FLUTE (Belvision; 1976), the animated film adaptation of "The Flute with Six Holes," which I consider to be the best Smurfs adaptation ever made! Atlantic Pictures brought the film to the US in 1983, and it was a box-office success (the highest for a non-Disney film at the time, before THE CARE BEARS MOVIE in 1985). It was dubbed by voice actors (including Cam Clarke as Peewit) working on US dubs of anime.
Hold up the adaptation of johan peewit exist?
@@victoriakaren2324 Yeah! The Smurfs originally appeared in a JOHAN & PEEWIT comic album; the 9th Volume, THE FLUTE WITH SIX SMURFS (initially called THE FLUTE WITH SIX HOLES in the serialized version), so naturally, Johan and Peewit were the main heroes in the movie! Needless to say, because of their importance in Smurf history, Hanna-Barbera included JOHAN & PEEWIT segments in their cartoon series!
@@ryuuseipro oh that's a good thing to heard johan and peewit was second favorite series from peyo im glad that they make the film adaptation for smurf and the magic flute i read alot of smurfs and johan and peewit as a kid
Always weirded me out there's only one girl.
Initially there were none.
Nadeem Hosein
o:l soo ...doesnt adding a female version mess there ecosystem?
Fun facts:
• Smurfs are actually genderless (or at least one-gendered).
• The Smurfette was artificially created by Gargamel and turned into a real smurf by Papa Smurf.
• The trope where there's only a single women among a plethora of men is named "The Smurfette Principle".
• Smurfs' tendency to replace every single verb, adjective and sometimes even noun with a variation of "smurf" is godsmurf smurfing as smurf.
LinkEX D:L then how the funge did they reproduce?
Lord Meric I don't really think so...
The Smurfs are my favorite childhood TV show 😊😊😊😊😊🍭🍭🍭🍭❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
Watched this expecting more details but it was too short. Should've called it a brief look at the Smurfs.
I loved the smurfs when I was a kid. Back then I never really thought about their origin or anything. Now that I'm grown up I now wonder were there other smurfs when Papa was a smurfling? What happened to them after Papa became an adult?
I think Papa Smurf was an only child and his parents went off to repair the stone that keeps them alive
I love the Smurfs
you forgot that they were first animated in europe BEFORE america did the cartoon series
Please, make the origins of Tom&Jerry!
YESSSS
Long time no origins of tom and jerry
'81 - '89...The Smurfs were THE 80's.
Though the original French-Belgian comic they were based on was from the late '50s, and the first animated adaptations were from the early 1960s (cartoon shorts in B&W).
@@ryuuseipro We know Brainy
@@jake90009 You know Brainy, huh? Congratulations. ;)
@@ryuuseipro I don't know how you got that out of what I said...
Who still loves the Smurfs? I do!
me too
I do too, even better as I watched the Lost Village movie earlier, to commemorate the movie's 7th anniversary of it's release
Moral, dont let Hollywood do your movies.
I'd loved this even more if it talked about that *one* PSA...
Homnibus: Nevertheless, there's one thing i could try for you! Send you there by hypno-kinesis! What do you think of that?
Peewit: Well...
Johan: Er...
looking forward to the new live action smurf:) just bough the first one on dvd and looking forward to see it
there were three girls: smurfette, sassette, and granny smurf from the cartoon
one thing she forgot to mention that smurfs normallly are only guys but the antagonist Gargamel made the female character as a trap but it failed and she lived with them evere since
The 1980 series can now be viewed on Netflix. For a while I remember they did re run the show on normal tv on kids channels for a while. I watched them myself when I was younger.
This was the Saturday morning show that brought NBC out of the ratings cellar to number one!
Let's let Hana Barbara get their hands on Sergals. :D I'd love to see how they would tras--preserve these creatures.
Watched Smurfs 2, with my boys it was really funny.
Back when kids didn't have the dirty minds they have now..
That is pretty cool. I'm hoping the CGI remake would be cool, even though I do feel that CGI is very overrated and it needs to go. In fact, it would be cool if it was done through cel-shade/toon shading.
-KT
You've got to do the origins of the Care Bears!
Oh that's fine too
proud to be Belgian Germany may conquered us twice but we conquered the whole world with the smurfs.
In French, my first language, they are called Les Schtroumpfs, in Dutch it's De Smurfen. Belgium's three official languages are French, Dutch/Flemish, and German.
the smurfs are great love them takecare all
Tintin is also from Belgium (my country), just like the Smurf. Both basedon Belgian comics. You can write to Watchmojo to tell them to do the history of Tintin, or maybe I'll ask them for you.
Watchmojo have a video on Tintin.
I Love Smurfs Blue Is One Of My Favorite Colors!🥰🩵🤍
awesome
You're forgetting the animation from the late 1970s with theme tune performed by Father Abraham(Vater Abraham) in 1977.
Vader Abraham...
Yeah....Oops! I gave the German spelling! As Maxwell Smart would say.... "Missed it by tha-aa-aa-aat much, Chief!"
Hi
dis will ruin ur childhood... there was another cartoon about the smurfs that ran from 1961 to 1967 unfortunately, it can only be seen at some place I saw the name but I forgot WHY IS IT ALWAYS IN ONE EAR AND OUT THE OTHER SO QUICKLY lol
@@kyndaldoesgaming3649 It was likely a very forgettable version.
In spain and hispanic-american countries are called "Los Pitufos" and smurfette is "pitufina". I like more the comics.
In Japanese, they are the same name as the English language, but pronounced as "sumaafu"
Now:the smurfs the lost village
I love the smurfs
Me too
Everybody likes smurfs tv show
I’m here because of Kat Williams
Question: How was this video posted BEFORE the Smurfs movie released in 2011??? They talk about it like past tense!!!!!!!
How did Smurfs procreate before Smurfette came around?
love them smurfs thanks for great video takecare all
Me too. I agree with you
Johan & Peewit Don’t Know Gargamel
I love the original Smurfs so much, not really the new ones, absolutely HATE what they did to Smurfette, she was originally sweet and innocent and then suddenly they have her kicking butt and everything, since when did that happen?
Since the lost village
the magic of time travel
damn that gargamel!
Well not all is lost for The Smurfs they just released two great mini-movies far superior to their big screen counterparts.
I don’t know if you’ve done this but can you do top 10 smurfs
All The Smurfs I Know:
Papa
Smurfette
Baby
Brainy
Sleepy
Clumsy
Grouchy
Hefty
Vanity
Vexy
Hackus
Jokey
Greedy
Baker
Farmer
Gutsy
Narrator
Handy
Chef
Crazy
Party Planner
Sassette
Nat
Slouchy
Snappy
Painter
Harmony
Scaredy
Grandpa
Doctor
Lazy
Tailor
Dreamy
I love smurfs
I used to watch the Smurfs when I was a young girl. The Smurfs figurines from when I was a young girl are in parents' attic somewhere. My favorite smurf was Papa Smurf. I thought he was cute. The 1 thing I didn't like was that there was only 1 female smurf & she was blond. That's why I preferred other cartoons such as Care Bears, Shirt Tails, Jem, Strawberry Shortcake & Friends because there was more diversity in colors. It freaked me out that there was only 1 female in the Smurf village.
Blue haired smurf though... What is it?
I am from Belgium, so i speak Smurfs. Some comments say: i like to fly Smurfette or i want Smurfette to lick my house. Jesus, Americans need to learn how to speak Smurfs.
Smurfs are my 2nd favourite cartoon (my first are simpsons)
I found smurfthing very interesting online -- not sure if this relates to the new movie, but it looks hilarious -- THE SMURFY GUIDE TO PROGRESSIVE SMURFTIANITY!
Ok then i am the only one watching this video in 2023 back then when I was kid i used to love Smurfs
Can you do the origins of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe please?
Wasn't there a whole dark storyline in world of how Smurfette was created? Can't remember now...
"We're an autonomous collective. We take it in turns to act as a sort of Executive Officer for the week. But all the decisions of that Officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting..."
@ShawnRavenfire yea, Ive been watching boomerang a bit the past few months and smurfs is on most days, it reminded me that Im not really pro-medieval times but I like when they keep a show's settings intact otherwise it generally ends up horrible (ex: the underdog movie that came out
I saw the trailer for the smurfs movie months ago and it looks almost as bad but Im still hoping that Im wrong and people have finally learned to adapt a cartoon
The Smurfs are from my country Belgium.
Actually no...Peyo created a Johan et Pirlouit story called La Flûte à Six Trous (The Flute with Six Holes). plus, there were much more then six smurfs...as you can plainly see!
Top 10 smurfs pls
Honestly, I love the Smurfs and their generous humor, but the newer versions of the show and comics made in 2010 and 2012 are not really very well placed. The fact that they are somehow instantly removed from their normal life as a happy, ungrowing community to the enormous New York city doesn't seem very fitting. Plus, the whole concept of love in the movie throughout makes no real sense, since dating and love has never been a main personal goal among the adorable blue creatures. I think the movies were a little displaced, is all I'm saying :|
Exactly.
because the live action films weren't and still isn't as good as the comic strip nor the 80's cartoon, because it lack charm, style and originality
dude, this is cool
Google Smurfs Homunculus. Pretty creepy .
Maybe I can make a comedy reboot of the Smurfs on Adult Swim
Virtual Randomation Maybe you can not do that?
Okay, it wasn't mentioned in the video and some people will scoff because they only remember the '80s cartoon but here's the thing: The Smurfs can be brilliant. While many of the Smurfs comics were just cute little stories, Peyo used others as a light and humorous way of critiquing big issues. For example, there's a story called "The King Smurf" which is basically about how dictators rise to power. It starts with Papa Smurf leaving the village on business and telling the Smurfs to just take care of themselves for a while. This leads to an election in which a very ambitious Smurf gains power. Her takes over the whole village. There's a rebellion. And it all ends with Papa Smurf coming home a week later and putting a stop to it yelling "Stop it, you're all acting like a bunch of humans". It's a story that can only really be done with a community like the Smurfs.
+Adam Hoffman What's funny about that is that ambition is antithetical to true communism. The system would have to collapse--as we've seen it in history--before ambition could be seen by one or a few to gain power, like *RUSSIAN OLIGARCHS*. But if this all happened while Papa Smurf was gone, then he was the one who kept the system going, which makes HIM the dictator.
How did they know about the 2011 smurf movie but this video was uploaded in 2010
They didn’t tell the real origin story.
Another sequel THE SMURF 2(2013)&animation movie THE SMURF:THE LOST VILLAGE(2017)
RIP Smurfette
My Childhood
as a guy who read the books in french when i was a kid i d like to make one correction to this video gargamel orrigionally wanted to eat them, then in the 80's they changed it to making gold out of them.
He wants all 3 in the cartoon: To eat them, turn them into gold or destroy them
I would Smurf Grumpy with a smurfing pan.
can you do spongebob squarepants
@@fioravanti675 spongebob squarepants is my favorite cartoon
@@fioravanti675 whatever
Papa smurf got the Karl Marx beard and a red uniform. Brainy got the Trotsky glasses and is always kicked out of town and the smurf hats are based on the hats of the revolutionaries in the French revolution. And the certainly shear the chick!
I thik James Cameron was accused of stealing ideas from the Smurfs story for the movie Avatar.
Call me crazy but I once heard the Smurfs were based on real life. The creator would talk to those little critters.
its the flute with six smurfs
the smurfs is super silly,there are movies smurfs the lost village 2017
The Smurfs or get a reboot it looks good
lalalalalala sing a little happy song
Nice
Wow, you didn't mention the unicef commercial
they honor the creator he still lives
Do History of Speed Racer!!!!!!!!
The Smurfs really nice Characters that represent good and "love of the neighbor":). It goes to say that the Nazis did not represent Love in any way. The Smurfs are too kind to be Nazis and they are devoid of rage, unlike the Nazis were full of rage. Also, back in the 1980s the Smurfs were popular in Israel. The Smurfs simply show us that good is possible. As for Garamel, he is more like the Nazis themselves in that he is obsessed with hurting the smurfs for having Love within their hearts.
+Leah Kurshan Nobody claimed they were Nazis like the Germans, they claimed they were COMMIES like the Russians
I know I love the smurfs too.
WAIT. How did this video refer back to a 2011 movie even though it was posted in 2010?!?
Exactly!
What about the shorts and movie in the 1960s?
That's what I've heard since high school in the mid 90s, but I don't know if it's true.
ive alaways loved the smurfs la la la la la la la la la la la takecare all have a great day evryone