THE SMURFS STARTED ZOMBIE MOVIES?!?!?

in 1963, six years before George Romero filmed Night of the Living Dead, Peyo introduced a Smurfs storyline called Les Schtroumpfs Noirs, or “The Black Smurfs” (they changed them to “The Purple Smurfs” in the U.S. for the obvious reasons). In it, a Smurf is bit by an unusual stinging insect which spreads a virulent disease that turns its victims into angry, insane black creatures that hop around shouting “GNAP!” while also mindlessly trying to bite every smurf in sight to spread the plague. As the Smurfs try to contain the infection, the Smurf patient zero regains enough intelligence to disguise himself as a regular Smurf, infiltrate the village and further spread the Smurfy disease. And just when it looks like lone survivor Papa Smurf has developed a cure… he’s goddamn bitten and transforms too. But luckily, he knocks the cure into the fire, where it explodes, curing everyone and bringing everything back to normal. Except in the original comics, where the first bitten Smurf never regains his normal happy outlook on life and becomes known as… Grouchy Smurf. Which is understandable. You’d be grouchy too if you almost brought about the Smurfocalypse.

-Topless Robot

While Smurfs were everywhere in the states during the ’80s, they were even bigger in the UK during the ’70s. You’d find Smurf figurines everywhere. You even got them free for buying gas at National Garage Petrol stations, who had the slogan “service with a smurf,” which, because of the vagueness of the Smurf language, could’ve meant anything. Unfortunately the demand for Smurf figures was so high that at one point, the manufacturers got them painted overseas in Hong Kong, forgetting that overseas lead paint requirements were much lower than the usual European regulations.

Suddenly people all over the country were terrified that kids were going to get lead poisoning from putting Smurfs in their mouths (how stupid did they think kids were back then?). Of course, no kids ended up dead by Smurfs, although it did lead to a parody song called “Lick a Smurp For Christmas (All Fall Down)” by Father Abraphart and the Smurps… which thankfully doesn’t exist online.

-Topless Robot

One of the most popular iPhone apps in 2010 was Smurf Village, which allowed iPhone users to make a, well, Smurf Village and rebuild it after Gargamel destroys it. While the app was free, users could buy extra things to pretty up their village like extra mushroom houses, wheelbarrows and smurfberries (and those things weren’t cheap, as batches of smurfberries can go for $60 and buildings like a town bakery sells for $100). Well, it turns out that kids could buy those things just by tapping on them without even a warning that the user’s iTunes account was getting charged… which meant kids could rack up huge bills for their parents without even knowing they were doing it. That led to kids spending literally thousands of dollars on the apps, including one Swedish mom getting charged $7,800 for virtual Smurf stuff during a single car trip. Afterwards, they built in a capability to lock out purchases and programmed it to give warnings about the purchases and gave refunds to people who complained, but some people were still out a whole lot of smurfberries.

-Topless Robot

The smurfs was put on air by an NBC official after observing how much she loved the doll, he decided that the Smurfs might be a good fit for his Saturday morning cartoon fest. It was it aired for nine seasons.

-MF

Purple is the color of smurfs when they hold there breaths or choke.

-S.W.W.

there where origionally 97 but as the show grew there came to be 100 smurfs