History of the Smurfs Some quick Smurf Facts The smurfs creator,Pierre Culliford, was born 1928 in Brussels.

Pierre, better known as 1952, he decides to work as Cartoonist professionally and devouts his passion to the occupation 1958, multiple smurfs appear for fist time in the toon 1981 smurfs premier in usa, filling nbcs 9:30 slot on saturday mornings Since 1982, he produced approximately 200 cartoons with the Hannas - Barbera stu dios In December 1992 Peyo died , and the whole Smurfworld grieved. ok, a list of a few KNOWN and POSITIVLEY IDENTIFIED Main smurfs. Actor Smurf - acted out the roles of William Shakespeare's plays. Architect Smurf - he designed those cute little mushroom houses. Baby Smurf - the baby Smurf. Barber Smurf - he cut the Smurf's hair... although only Smurfette had hair. Brainy Smurf - wore glasses and annoyed everyone because he thought he knew ever ything. Clockwork Smurf - brave Smurf made out of lumber. He couldn't speak. Clumsy Smurf - he was always tripping over things and causing accidents. Cobbler Smurf - Made shoes Dabbler Smurf - liked to invent new things. Doctor Smurf - the doctor Smurf. Double Smurf - like Vanity Smurf. Dreamy Smurf - he was always daydreaming. Editor Smurf - wrote the Smurf village newspaper. Farmer Smurf - grew the crops to feed the village. Had a New England accent. Flighty Smurf - I DO NOT RECALL THIS SMURF. aLLTHOUGH I AM ASSURED OF HIS EXISTA NCE!!! Greedy Smurf - the village cook. Grouchy Smurf - always complained. Harmony Smurf - played the trumpet very badly. Handy Smurf - had a pencil above his ear. He built and fixed things. Hefty Smurf - had a tattoo of a heart on his arm. The strongest Smurf. Jokey Smurf - liked to play jokes by giving away presents that exploded. Lazy Smurf - always sleeping and never working.

Marco Smurf - liked to travel to faraway places. Miner Smurf - wore a hard hat with a light. Nobody Smurf - was a nobody until he became Somebody Smurf. Nosey Smurf - always poked into the other Smurfs' business. Painter Smurf - wore a beret and painted pictures. Papa Smurf - leader of the Smurfs. He had a red hat and white beard. MY HERO!!! Poet Smurf - wrote poems, usually to Smurfette. Pushover Smurf - a pushover with little self-confidence. Scaredy Smurf - scared of everything, including his own shadow. Sickly Smurf - was always ill and wore a scarf. Sloppy Smurf - was a slob. Smurfette - the only female Smurf when the show started. She was actually create d by Gargamel. Somebody Smurf - used to be Nobody Smurf. Tailor Smurf - had a needle in his hat and made clothes. Timber Smurf - the lumberjack Smurf. Toughy Smurf - liked to pick fights. Tracker Smurf - very good at tracking. Sometimes led Smurfs to places. Vanity Smurf - carried a mirror with him. Wandering Smurf - carried a stick on his shoulder with a bag on the end of it. Weakling Smurf - the weakest Smurf. Weepy Smurf - always cried about everything. Wild Smurf - lived in the forest. Wooly Smurf - a cowboy Smurf. Later on, four Smurflings were introduced: Nat - a Smurfling. Like nature and had a leaf or something on his hat. Sassette - a confident and outgoing Smurfling. Slouchy - a Smurfling who slouched. Snappy - a Smurfling. tere are 104 smurfs by my account, and here they all are, along with a not so br ief account of the history.

Long, long ago, deep in the forest, there was a hidden village where tiny creatu res lived. They called themselves Smurfs. They were good. Then there was Gargame l, the evil wizard. He was bad. Well, the forest is still there. And if you list en, you may hear Gargamel's rage. But if you were good, you may just catch a gli mpse of the Smurfs. Just how evil was Gargamel? So evil, he attempted to get tho se rotten little sickeningly sweet happy Smurfs through their big hearts. He cre ated a Smurfette, using ingredients such as half a pack of lies and the hardest stone for her heart. Not a very original thing to do, but this was 100 .. wait.. make that 98 Smurfs at the time (I may be wrong. I'll explain later), all of wh om were male. The next morning, Hefty Smurf overheard someone crying, while pick ing smurfberries (remember that part), and shortly thereafter, he met Smurfette. She was all alone in a hideous forest full of frightening noises, and also weak and helpless. Being the gentleman that he was, Hefty picked her up over his sho ulder and took her into the village where she could stay for as long as she like d. But they were in for a surprise. She contacted Gargamel with some magic littl e mirror, and he commanded her to get out there and capture their little blue he arts. She gulped and got started. She tried hard, but failed. Smurfette was put on trial for flooding the village, in view of the evidence in what Greedy Smurf had told them. She broke out in tears and admitted she was working for Gargamel. Papa told her it wasn't her fault that Gargamel created her to smurf them. She decided she wanted to be a real Smurf. This had never been done before. But, Pap a Smurf managed to undo Gargamel's spell, .. "And now with the power of all I co mmand, Smurfette become Smurf, and before me stand!" And, boy, was it a smurfy s pell! The others started bringing her gifts and offering to walk her home. Heck, I don't blame them one bit! She finally looked like a real Smurf, but feeling l ike one she had to manage on her own. And she did. All was well for a few years. Gargamel didn't give up so easily, though. He attempted to undo Papa's undoing spell on Smurfette. This time, Papa Smurf wasn't going to be able to give Smurfe tte another smurfy spell, because it could only be done once. Gargamel's new spe ll took a while to take effect. When it was done, she had to wear a blonde wig s o the others wouldn't know. Then she looked around for that mirror and contacted Gargamel again. This time, Smurfette seemed a lot meaner and more evil than whe n she was originally created.. maybe even worse than Gargamel. She got them all captured this time. Unfortunately for Gargamel, her feelings towards the sweet a nd nice Smurfs were still inside her. She somehow freed herself from Gargamel's spell, along with the other Smurfs. What happened here? Why did Smurfette seem s o mean the second time around? Her voice even seemed meaner. I don't remember he r being mean the first time. She was scared back then. And why did she keep the mirror all those years? Then we have the episode which had Papa Smurf telling a story about the first smurfberry bush. Unless I'm mistaken, Captain Dreamy took some smurfs on a cruise, they got stuck on an island where Greedy complained tha t there was nothing to eat but some seeds. They took the seeds home and planted one, and it became the first smurfberry bush. What was Smurfette doing in this f lashback? Wasn't Hefty picking smurfberries when he met Smurfette, crying in the forest? Then we have an episode called "The Hundredth Smurf". Bad luck was happ ening all over the village. Papa Smurf read that to stop this bad luck, the danc e of the hundred Smurfs must be performed. A hundred smurfs!?!? They need a hund red smurfs! Do they HAVE a hundred smurfs! He counted everyone, including Lazy, Greedy, Smurfette, and himself. There were only 99! What to do!?!? Meanwhile, Va nity Smurf had two broken mirrors in one day. How unlucky can a Smurf get? He de cided to make a mirror out of unbreakable silver. Oooh, how exciting! By the tim e he finished it, lightning struck him and the mirror. His reflection came to li fe. It followed him to the village, screaming "Myself by followed being I'm. Hel p!" To Papa Smurf, this was good luck. They found their hundredth Smurf! But it could only dance backwards. That night, Vanity got mad at his double and kicked him out. The next morning, the Smurfs tried to find him, so they can teach him n ot to dance backwards. He was struck by lightning, and talked normal as he was f ound by Vanity, Smurfette, and Papa. And the dance was performed. I don't rememb er seeing the hundredth Smurf again. What became of him? He didn't have a past l ike the others did. What did they name him? Did they build him his own house? (u

pdate 6/16/98) Now I'd like to ponder the question about how many Smurfs there a re. We started with 98. Smurfette was 99. Vanity's reflection became 100. But th ere was one episode called "Smurfomatic Smurfulator". Handy has a bad dream abou t trying to find a machine he created. When he found it, it turned into a statue of himself, and then the statue of himself turned into Gargamel. What did that dream mean? Painter's dreams tell him what to paint. The colors to use and every thing. He is an artist, so he listens. Maybe... That's it! Handy's dream told hi m to build the greatest machine in the hostory of Smurfdom!! .. If he only knew what it was, or how to build it. Such a deep condition couldn't go unsmurfed. He got to work on the machine, using some other Smurfs' stuff as material. This up set them very much. Until... Gargamel receives a package from his mother. It was a bunch of magic weed seeds that would grow into huge weed and do who knows wha t. Aren't mommies wonderful? The machine was built by the time the weeds had app eared in the village. The Smurfomatic Smurfulator was meant to mow the weeds up quickly and effectively. Handy was the hero! But if you listened closely after t he part where Hefty saves Brainy from a weed, Papa Smurf counted the 98 Smurfs o n the machine. Who was missing? Easy. Vanity, Lazy, and Clumsy. Don't worry, the y made it. But for you non math majors, that adds up to 101. Where did the extra Smurf come from? This was before Baby, Grandpa, Nanny, Wild, and Sasette came t o the village. I think I have the answer. In "The Fake Smurf", Hogatha the Witch created a spell to get the Smurfs back for destroying her magic locket. (We'll discuss that later) The spell turned her into a Smurf. She had to paint a pea bl ue and glue it to her butt for a tail, though. She tried to blow up a bridge wit h Jokey's presents, and she tried to poison their food, not knowing it was a lau ndry bucket. Later, her tail was found, and the search for the impostor began. I t was Snorty, of course. She tried to change herself back. She did, except she w as still Smurf size. They threw her out. Maybe these last two episodes co existe d? Maybe Snorty was number 101 for a while? If so, don't you think Papa Smurf sh ould have suspected something when he counted 101 Smurfs on the Smurfomatic What chamasmurfit? Baby Smurf became 101 when he was delivered by the stork. Sasette was created by Snappy, Slouchy, and Nat (after they became kids again, but we'll discuss that later, also), making her 102. That same season, Baby was going to have a very special day. At an exact time of that evening, he would be placed on a mushroom and speak his first word. That first word would give us a little pee k into his future. Gargamel kidnapped Baby, which the other Smurfs just couldn't let happen. They made a deal with him. He has to take care of Baby and then let him and one adult Smurf go, and the rest of the Smurfs would willingly give the mselves to Gargamel. The Smurfs drew straws, and Grouchy, who loves Baby the mos t, was the one to take Baby there. Gargamel, surprise surprise, tried to double cross them. He nabbed Grouchy and Baby, having all 100 Smurfs! He didn't get the kids, Snappy, Nat, Slouchy, and Sasette. They offered themselves for the releas e of Grouchy and Baby. Gargamel accepted, not knowing it was a plan to free all the Smurfs. Grouchy rushed to the mushroom and barely made it. What was his firs t word? Grouchy hates Baby's first word!! "Ga.. ga ... Gargamel" .. This meant h e would become a leader someday, and protect the Smurfs from danger. And nothing was as dangerous as Gargamel. Back up. That's 104 Smurfs