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Cartoon
Smurfs

Animal
Smurf

Outfit: white footie pajama pants / white hat / deadly explosives

Tagline: Substituting the word "smurf" for random verbs or nouns in a sentence. Example:

“Then let us be rid of it... once and for all. Come on, Mr. Frodo. I can't smurf it for you... but I can smurf you.”

Plot summary: The Smurfs are a race of shirtless, mainland Snork atheists who worship the metaphorical representations of nature and physics, Mother Earth and Father Time.  They exist as a Marxist village in the woods (referring to each other as 'Smurf,' i.e. Brainy Smurf, Papa Smurf, Handy Smurf, to avoid elitist titles) and despite their different professions and distinctions are all completely equal.  Thusly, even though some Smurf occupations (like Handy or Farmer) are more important than others (like Grouchy or Lazy), there is never a feeling that the value of one's work makes a Smurf more important than the next, and that everyone in the village is a Smurf first.

Jokey Smurf's occupation ("Jokey") suggests that his role was to entertain and maintain morale, but the good natured ribbing of his youth drove him to Smurf Madness and now he spends his days hand-delivering mail bombs to other people in the village.  In fact, that's his only joke:  presenting a Smurf with a wrapped giftbox that explodes when they open it.  You think if it was his job that he'd try to switch up his pranks every now and then, but I guess Jokey is a little less Karl Marx and a little more Allah, and Allah doesn't seem like the kind of ruling voice that would be okay with Papa Smurf slipping on a banana peel. (more)

User Comments: Adding to the idea that everyone in the village is unique is that signature Smurf gear, the white fatigues and blue skin, as a general work suit similar to the Mao Suits of Maoist China.  The only major difference is the hole in the butt to let the Smurf tail breathe, because I'm pretty sure that Mao's Three People's Principles didn't involve standing behind a chanting Chinaman with his ass hanging out.

These days Jokey would be labeled as "Terrorist Smurf," and his "Weapons of Smurf Destruction" would be a hot topic amongst political humorists and others who are lousy human beings.  Personally I think the Smurfs was an optimistic look at how terrorism IS a joke; a broad concept that cannot be defined by one brown guy giving another brown guy a bomb.  I think that if the Israelites and the Palestinians could learn from Jokey Smurf there would certainly be less death in the world, and certainly more jagged spiked haircuts and heads and upper torsos covered in soot.

User Rating: 5.6/10 (14,479 votes)