"Ooo, those goody-goody Smurfs make me sick!"

I don’t know what it was about these little blue guys (and girl)…but I have very warm memories of virtually everything to do with The Smurfs. From the TV show, to the board games, to one of the first videogames I ever played…it was like everything they touched was gol…er, blue.

Unfortunately, my memory being what it is, I don’t recall the names of all the Smurfs, just the main ones. Of course there was Papa Smurf, with his white beard, and his red (not white like the others) cap and pant/shoe combo. Then there was the only female Smurf in the entire village, Smurfette, with her long blond locks and her frilly dress. And no, I never thought she was ‘hot’ or anything like that. Now Bugs Bunny dressed up as a woman…

The rest of the Smurfs were a hodgepodge of ‘seven dwarves’ type characters…Sleepy, Lazy, Handy, Brainy (did a little research on wikipedia). They lived in mushroom houses, ate ‘smurfberries’…and would manage to incorporate ‘smurf’ into virtually every sentence. How smurftastic!



Of course, the show wouldn’t have been exciting or nearly as entertaining if not for the ying to the Smurf’s yang…enter Gargamel. This poor old sap really had it in for the Smufs. I forget what it was he was after (if anything at all), but if memory serves it was almost if he and the Smurfs had some sort of tenuous agreement that allowed both sides to live somewhat peacefully in the forest…but ‘war’ was only an overheard song or a stomach craving away (I think he wanted to eat them?). Gargs was your typical ugly villain, with bald head, missing teeth and ratty black robe (with obligatory ‘patch’ job)…I think he had a cat too.

Anyway, I still have a little Smurf sitting on top of my TV…I hadn’t noticed him a long time…until a couple of days ago when I got to thinking of he and his tribe. I sure hope Gargamel hasn’t gotten the best of those blue little guys…and girl.



Merry Christmas...hehehe...