De smurfen
Creators:
PeyoCast:
Don Messick, Danny Goldman, Lucille Bliss, Frank Welker, Michael Bell, June Foray, Hamilton Camp, William Callaway, Alan Oppenheimer, Alan Young, Charlie Adler (more)VOD (1)
Seasons(9) / Episodes(256)
Plots(1)
The Smurfs are a group of over 100 bluish, three-apple tall creatures who live in the mushroom homes of Smurf Village. They are led by 543-year-old Papa Smurf. Their lives would be perfect were it not for the villainous Gargamel, a wizard who spends his days trying to capture them to eat, turn into gold, or for other evil reason. Gargamel's cat Azrael adds to the menace, always looking for a smurfalicious snack. (official distributor synopsis)
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Belgian comics, series, and films have two superstars, the first is Tintin's father Hergé and the second is Peyo, the author of the Smurfs, who is a generation younger. As a kid, I loved the "Smurfin!" LPs and of course the series, and it was interesting to watch the blue boom... I'm yet to watch the new movies, but I'm putting the comic albums up there with Asterix and Tintin. Shortly before the Smurfs, Peyo drew the amusing medieval adventures of Johan and Pirlouit and the adventures of Poussy the cat. And it was from Johan that the whole smurf village later split off in 1958. We can see what such incidents looked like in the film The Smurfs and the Magic Flute (1976). Meanwhile, the first stand-alone "The Black Smurfs" comic book was released in 1963. Three years later, Smurfette made her first appearance and the rest is history. In retrospect, I'm glad that even after all these years, the original Smurf series is still watchable and quite entertaining for adults. It would be a shame to bury such a phenomenon in the archives.
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