THE SMURFS EPISODE THAT CREATED THE ZOMBIE GENRE - RETRO TOON REVIEW | Double Toasted
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- THE SMURFS EPISODE THAT CREATED THE ZOMBIE GENRE - RETRO TOON REVIEW | Double Toasted - Today at Double Toasted we look at a Smurfs episode called 'The Purple Smurfs'. In this funny video, we give our review of The Purple Smurfs, and discuss why this episode created the modern Zombie genre. What do you think about all this? Let us know in the comment section below.
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Fun Fact: The actress who played Smurfette in this show was the original voice of Anastasia from Disney's Cinderella and later Miss Bitters from Invader Zim. Seriously.
The original Black Smurf story is probably a homage to Richard Mathison's 1954 novel, "I Am Legend", with Papa Smurf as the last survivor instead of Nevill. ( A bat did the original bite in that story, not a bug.) In the novel, the infected turned pale white instead of black/ purple. Also in the book, Nevill wants to capture and study the infected, to find a cure, just like Papa does here.
It’s definitely I Am Legend. I wouldn’t be surprised if this Smurfs episode included direct references to both adaptations, The Last Man On Earth and Omega Man.
I Am Legend is sometimes seen as the first zombie apocalypse story, even though the creatures in it are described as vampires. Romero admitted he was heavily influenced by it.
No Rapid Rambling RJ It was A Purple Fly!!!!
The Vincent Price Movie The Last Man On Earth was an adaption of that too I always liked the different spin on the zombie that novel and the different film versions had. Really clever observation and good taste.
@@vampirasilents2021 Last Man On Earth was I believe the first of three adaptations of the novel, and it's generally considered the most faithful of the three (though Matheson reportedly hated it). The Omega Man (which I haven't seen) was a loose adaptation, and then there was the 2007 I Am Legend with Will Smith, which despite being the only one to feature the book's title, is not all that faithful to the book. It sets the events in a futuristic NYC, makes the main character a scientist studying the plague rather than an everyman, and makes the creatures a lot more zombie-like than vampire-like.
I have to admit: I still think 1968's Night of the Living Dead blows all of them away (though I've heard Matheson was unhappy with it as well, especially since it was an unsolicited ripoff which he got no credit for).
"Brawny Smurf" (the one with the heart tattoo) is named Hefty Smurf.
Though Grandpa Smurf did call him Brawny once, since he didn't remember his name either.
Hefty Smurf invented CrossFit. He lifted weights WHILE on his exercise bike at the same time.
The Smurfs were created in 1958 for Peyo's other comic series Johan and Peewit (Johan et Pirlouit) before gaining it's own series in the early 1960s.
I grew up with this series and remember this episode well. I also remember the episode where Gargamel created Smurfette, but no one seems to remember that one, either. I loved this series.
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This was always such a memorable episode growing up.
I think "Brawny" Smurf was actually named Hefty.
Yup
I heard that the grouchy smurf in the original stories or comics used to be just a regular smurf, which only became the angry grouchy smurf we know and love due to the long-term effects of becoming a zombie smurf.
I also think grouchy was the original first smurf infected or bitten, which turned him into the original smurf zombie it kinda makes sense why grouchy acts diffrent all the time as every smurf seems to be happy all the time all except for grouchy.
I guess they changed the cartoon origin story due to adding in smurfette early in the series pretty dark stuff when you think about it.
You're right. In the original comic it's Grouchy who first gets stung by the Bzz fly. Apparently he was just a generic Smurf who had an allergic reaction to the sting. So even when he was cured, he remained grouchy and got his new name.
With these Retro Toon reviews I hope we get Fist of the North Star,TMNT, X-men, Transformers, Spawn, Aeon Flux,Spider-Man 90’s, Hey Arnold, Nickelodeon Doug, Rugrats,Duck Tales, Gargoyles, and maybe Captain Planet at least for the Don Cheadle Puns! Lol😅 and of course DBZ!
Hell hope we get Sonic Satam too
And also the retro toon review for The Super Mario Bros Super Show!
this nigga had a list
I curious for them to do a retro review of cgi spiderman cartoon. Also Spiderman Unlimited that weird Spiderman cartoon that took place on a counter earth. Edit: fun fact Electro in Unlimited is an anthropomorphic Electric eel.
More people need to see the premise of Fist of the North Star: Extra-thick Bruce Lee traveling through Mad Max and making bandits explode with his martial arts.
Zombies and Vampires are connected quite a bit, and funny enough, the hopping is a thing in some forms of Vampires. Since they are corpses, they can't bend their knees as much so stuff like Jiang-Shiactually do hop
For YEARS, I've mentioned episode in passing whenever my friends and I would talk about nostalgic cartoons and NO ONE remembered this episode! I would bring up that episode of Smurfs where they turned 'evil' if you bit their tails and everyone would look at me like I was crazy!
Worst, smurfs started off kinda racist. In the original comic book way before the cartoon the zombie curse was they would turn "dark", as in BLACK. It was condemned for being racist as the " BLACK " smurfs lacked intelligence and the smurfs ran around screaming the "BLACKS" are coming!
Well, the creator was from Belgium. I mean, Belgium is well-known for it's open racism towards Africans/black people. Look at how they have a festival wearing blackface and calling Africans "The Savage".
Damn
I didn't know that. I knew they were black, I read these versions. But I only read it translated to my language, and they made sure to take out any assosiation (black was not a word for dark skinned people either, since it's wrong and we weren't quite influenced enough by other languages to call people who aren't black black yet at the time).
When I first saw the cartoon episode with the switched colour sceme I was just confused.
I’ve heard that the white hoods were representations of the clans members with the red hood being the grand dragon.
Was there actual ethnic coding with the black smurfs, or as it merely just the color? I can probably accept it as just an unfortunate pick given that the color black is oftentimes universally associated with sinister stuff - the black of night, black cloaks, black eyes, black gaping holes, etc.
This is one of the few Smurfs episodes that I remember vividly, just because of how dark the subject matter struck me even as a kid.
Same!
"Next on AMC's The Smurfing Dead..."
Toon review is a fantastic addition to the lineup. I love this
Can’t believe I forgot about that episode. It was dope when I saw it back as a kid.
I saw that cartoon on its original airing. ALL the kids on the elementary school playground were talking about it the next day. It flipped our sh!t. Notice you don't ever actually see smurfette get infected? I think she turns up changed at the end but we can't have her squeal when some smurf dude bites her in the azz.
It scared the shit out of me! I was 4 years old when it originally aired and it's one of my main memories from back then!
Gargamel didn't kill any Smurfs. But he did increase the population by one by creating Smurfette. 😂
Romero never trade marked the term “living dead” which brought about the fast, talking, thinking, and only wanted brains zombies. Fun Fact: the director mentioned in the DVD that they made more money when they sold all of their gravestones and props to the “Interview with the Vampire” production then all the tickets and VHS sales from both ROTLD part 1 and 2.
This episode must of being horrifying and also interesting because if sparked people's interest in zombie movies.
Goddamn, I am so nerdy I actually knew the topic of the vid cause I read this thing!
The explosion at the end basically creates a fog that envelops the entire village, they got super lucky.
Very... because there was no one left to same them.
Man, I've read that comic! And saw that episode in TV! Though I never even considered "zombies" an option, for me, I always assumed that this story was a case of vampiric infection spreading wildly.
I watched the Purple Smurf episode when it first aired when I was 4 years old. It's been 42 years and that shit burnt itself into my brain. Scared the shit out of me.
In fact, it's one of the only episodes where I can remember what happened. All the others are pretty much a blur. I can't believe they marketed that stuff to young children! 😯
I know the comic was....messed up, but I love this episode. 28 Smurfs later for the win! 🥰
"They've made some changes, huh"? Lmaoooooooo
I liked the Smurflings the best, cause their traits were an amalgamation of multiple other smurfs and their prescence forced the other smurfs to be more mature (at least somewhat).
I remember the OG Spill crew talking about this when they reviewed the live-action Smurfs movie, good to see these old ideas be brought back!
I forgot the "snarf" sound they made. That shit killed me😂😂 Great episode
i saw a video of this with the 28 days later theme lol
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Well, The Walking Dead just ended it’s 11th and final season, and by end I mean they finished the main casts story while sprinkling teases for their spin off shows.
The Smurf of Us
The Walking Smurf
The 80s Transformers cartoon did almost this exact premise with each autobot getting infected and lasting 3 episodes
I not only watched the cartoon TV show as a kid in the ‘80s, I also read the comic books, and in one of them it features these infected smurfs-except for some reason (probably a bit of Mandela effect here), I remember them as being green, not purple.
Your thinking about when Dreamy Smurf wanted to go to the moon and the smurfs went and created a whole production to make him think he was there. They were Swoops after they took a potion...green aliens.
@@AishaRaison No, that's not what I was thinking about, actually. I do remember Astro-Smurf very well (it was one of my favorites). There was another smurf comic book I had which featured a variety of short comics, most of them no longer than a page (though it also contained the somewhat longer story King Smurf). One of the short pieces dealt with these infected, zombie-like smurfs, and my memory of it was that they were called green smurfs. It was explained that if they bit you, you became green, and I think this particular piece centered around Jokey Smurf painting himself green to trick the others.
Except I haven't been able to find any references to green smurfs anywhere on the Internet--all the references are to either purple smurfs, or the original black smurfs in the European version. So I'm guessing what I saw in the comic book I had as a kid were purple smurfs, and I'm simply misremembering.
I'm not sure whether I saw the purple-smurf episode of the TV series. It came out in 1981, and I think that was before I began watching the show. In theory I might have seen it on a rerun, but I don't specifically remember this episode.
@@Kylopod Maybe it was a misprint or a purposeful reprint so they looked closer to green as opposed to black and avoid future racism claims from more modern audiences.
@@obie-1309 I just found it online, on a smurf website. It turns out I was not misremembering. In this particular comic, the color of the infected is definitely green, not purple. The plot is that one of the smurfs (Jokey, I assume, though I can't tell for sure) paints himself green and starts chasing other smurfs, who seem to be familiar with what a green smurf is (one of them says, "If he bites us, we'll all turn green!"). The punchline to the strip is that the fake green smurf overhears the smurf he stole the paint from, and learns that the paint never comes off.
Ever since I started hearing about the "purple smurf" some years ago, it led me to believe I was having distorted memories of that comic book I read as a kid, where I thought I distinctly remembered the color as green, not purple. It's almost like I gaslit myself on this point. This may seem totally trivial to most people, but I just find it a little encouraging that I still have a reliable memory of my early childhood, even into my mid-40s.
I have a few guesses as to why the infected smurfs in the comic I had were green, whereas on the show they were purple. The American distributors knew the black smurfs were unacceptable, but the cartoonists weren't consistent about which color to use as a replacement. My guess--and this is just me spitballing--is that they initially chose green for the printed versions, but on the TV show they needed a color that would have made the infected smurfs distinguishable on black-and-white TV sets, which many families still had at the time. (My family had a B&W set until 1980, just a year before this episode aired. I remember seeing Kermit the Frog in color for the first time, and how exciting it was.)
Papa smurf booking it out the door had me 💀
Ain't loyal at all! 🤣🤣🤣
@@skittles7306 He was too old for that mess.🤣🤣
I thought that this zombie Smurf episode was going to ended with a twist that it was all a dream from Lazy Smurf while he’s been asleep during work
This GNaT! episode is the most epic Smurf…if not ….the most epic Saturday cartoon where imminent doom of all major characters almost came to be
Just like the way Scrooge mcduck comic inspired Inception.
I watched the Smurfs cartoon as a kid and this Ep was pretty damn dark and somewhat scary and bleak
The thing is…. French fries are Belgium too.
That rabbit was like Debo’s coming😂
This, the ducktales Golden Goose episodes, the Mesuda bug from Reboot.
Childrens shows love hopeless scenarios!
This was my favorite episode ever lol
Hefty Smurf has the heart ❤️ tattoo.
Jokey Smurf: It's just a prank Bro!!!
23:37 🤣Papa Smurf sure enough did leave the other Smurfs as get away bait!
They are not obsessed with ass - they are obsessed with tail. That's where they bite them in the original. :)
So the purple smurfs love chasing tail then.
@@daliborjovanovic510 😏🤣🤣🤣
I hope you guys do a retro review of Akira. One of the best movies of all time in My opinion
Early 80's was a different time period, for a children's cartoon.
Somebody should recommend this episode to The Nostalgia Critic for "Dark Toons".
Can you review The Snorks!??! I honestly just remember the opening theme as reruns ran on Cartoon Network.
Bahahah yess, Well Done Gentlemen on pitching that lost scene of this Episode with Gargamel fighting off the Infected Smurfs with a shotgun and them targeting his ass 🎭👌
i go with zombies are reanimated dead and infected are still living with something that they act a similar way but should die out without true sustenance
I remember this episode. Fond memories ❤
I would have liked to have seen Gargamel run into the purple Smurfs.
I think there was a rust disease that spread in Transformers Gen 1 that was similar to the zombie plague too...
. Rodimus Prime brought back Optimus Too help since he couldnt deal with it.
Man I use to love this show growing up still own a vintage Astro Smurf comic ❤Good times 😊
I think the only time they actually show a Smurf biting a tail is when Papa Smurf gets bitten. The network censors probably vetoed showing any more, which is weird, because it was clear.
Papa Smurf sends Lazy and Brainy to the gulag.
This is the first Smurf story that I read and it is surprisingly dark, but in the comic they turn black though..
Transformers would have a zombie apocalypse episode in 1987, "The Return of Optimus Prime". It was space spores that turned you into a mindless beast and instantly infected anyone it touched. For some reason it worked on livings things AND robots...
Um, zombies were around long before the smurfs were. Zombies go back to the 1800's. Also, Romero was influenced by the I Am Legend book.
This title is too crazy 😂
20:37...."Brawny" Smurf? I thought his name was "Hefty"
Thank you for this. It's reassuring to learn I wasn't the only one astonished by this episode. Maybe the most horrifying Saturday morning cartoon ever. The devious Purple Smurf who painted himself blue and laughed evilly. Thank goodness I was in the 7th grade when it was made. It would have freaked me out if I were half that age.
Good thing “Headshot Smurf” was in the village at the time!
Jokey stayed playing too much! I must admit that I "scoffed" at the premise myself.. but KC did a good job proving his point. I definitely appreciated the walk down memory lane. Not saying the zombie "Smurf-pocalypse" feels like a big opportunity missed. 😁
I remember reading about this over a decade ago on Cracked. If I remember correctly alot of the cartoons came from published cartoons.
check out the episode Smurpony in C. that was a strange episode
I remember this and a Superfriends episodes that had a vampire effect the Justice League and then the city I think. So weird.
Interesting that "black" Smurfs were the first publicized zombie outbreak. Because zombies themselves as a idea concept. First originated in African folklore.
He also thought Smurfs could be made into gold.
This shit is crazy! 🤣
I first found out about this episode thanks to "The Smurfs" Spill review
Man I totally remember this Episode & I remember it being absolutely Hilarious 🤣🤣
Smurfette Was A Creation Of Evil Wizard Gargamel.
Pretty sure I Am Legend, its adaptation The Last Man on Earth and George Romero's reimagining of that, Night of the Living Dead.... created the modern zombie genre.
Hefty smurf, not "Brawny", but nice review guys.
Happy Friday Toasties stay warm and stay golden
Smurf Berry crunch is my favorite cereal 🥣
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Mr. Popo, come get your son. 😅
I heard "Night of the Living Dead" was inspired by "I Am Legend".
Hefty Smurf Is His Name!!!
If this is going to be a new regular thing for Double Toasted then may I suggest some Beast Wars at some point? My pick for an episode would be the Transmutate one.
EDIT: 25:26 Did anyone else think about the same Solidjj video that I did when Korey said that?
I'm 46. So The Smurfs are my generation. This episode tho is thee one I remember the most. Because they kept going around saying "gah-nat gah-nat" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I thought the term Zombie was based off black slaves?
I remember the Gnnap episode.It def disturbed me as a kid
9:20 Damn!
Y'all going to react to That 90s Show next?
There probably really is a connection to Africa and the Smurfs being black in the original, with Belgium having been one of the worst colonial powers there. In the comic, the fly was named very close to the real African Tse-Tse fly, which spreads a deadly illness that puts people in a sleep-like state.
I loved the Smurfs as a kid but I do not recall this one lol
Alright so the more I watch, the more I am recalling this episode lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I remember this scared the shit outta me as a kid 😂😂😂😂
Me too
Same!
Hey Double Toasted you all should do a video on the kids movie Mousehunt. I tell u there was a particular raunchy scene later in the movie that i dont know how they got away with but I enjoyed it as a kid cus i was a early bloomer anyway. One more Christopher Walken is in the movie too!
My 1980s childhood. When Smurfs fart it smells like blueberries.
This episode is what Turner Carlson biggest fear. But Blue Replacement Theory instead.
Wow, I remember this episode when I was a kid.
No! No! No! Hell No Double Toasted!! Is Not What Happen Papa Smurf Found The Cure With A Purple Fly? Because It Was A Purple Fly That Started The Whole Mess.
20:46-20:53 😂😂😂😂
That episode scared me when I was a kid!
Hey, this was NO DAMN JOKE‼️
I saw this episode as a little kid, and the shit broke me!!! I made my best friend watch it, because I had never seen anything like it. It is some messed up, creepy as HELL. When I got a little older I tried to tell people about it, but in my memory I thought the infected Smurfs yelled “ENOUGH‼️”. And that was even worse, and made it feel even more angry and terrifying! As if these Smurfs had truly been overloaded with hate and disgust for their fellow Smurfkind. Like these fools straight up snapped, a they’d just had it with civilized society. They were ready to see it all turn purple and BURN‼️ My childhood ended with that episode, and I saw how fragile our world really was. I grew up obsessed with zombies, and I drew them constantly, filling sketchbooks with nothing but zombies…..Got good at it, but eventually burned my hands out with arthritis. Enough!!!
14:05 He forgot one common source of infection, Fungi. Which seems odd since he talked about the last of us.