Come on, Smurfs! Lets smurf on over to smurf that other smurf!

Lame, lame, lame. For this show, I have this grading scale.

Crappy
Crappier
Crappiest

First of all, the animation. I could make a Q basic game that looked better. The stories are overly happy and weak. The first episode I saw of it, I barely got through the intro. They use the word "Smurf" entirely too much. I have seen no worse shows than this. I don't know why people are so crazy about it, or why is continues to air. No humor, no fun.

Probably the thing that I was thinking every time I watched this show was: Boring. Boring. Boring. ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzz.

If there was a betition out to destroy everything Smurf, my name would be on it 5000 times.

Okay, after seeing the smurfs sitting at the top of the 'Worst 5' TV list for months, I'm going to take pity on them because, I don't think they belong there. Certainly the show is without substantive logic and I doubt it's something I would watch now for anything but nostalgia factor, but I do remember watching it whenever it was on as a kid.

I think I enjoyed the stuff with Gargamel and Azrael the best.

(edit: yeesh even with that much endorsement they're immovable... guess they'll be on our Worst 5 list for a while longer...)

When I was young I loved the smurfs and had quite a collecton of little figures as well. the show is a bit on the uber-happy side, but you have to love that gargamel. And for the record, there were 3 female smurfs (still not enough), smurfette, sassette, and grandma.

Having said that, this isn't a show I would probably ever get too excited to watch ever again as an adult.

This, my friends, is a vivid failed government conspiracy to brainwash and zombify the children of America. But then again, maybe not. Maybe it's just a piece of overly cheery, almost creepy crap. God save us from the Smurfs.

Blue is my favourite color and there are plenty of notable blue characters in animation, Stitch, Sonic the Hedgehog, the Roadrunner; as well as characters in other mediums like Gonzo in the muppets.

The smurfs however could put a person off the color of the sky for life, why did they all have to be blue (just a rhetorical question you understand)? Gargamel is a terrible villain, which is just as to be expected from a guy who an uncanny sound-a-like of Dick Dastardly (due to the fact that they were voiced by the same person). I was always expecting him to point at his cat and say " Azrael, this is your fault" in fact he may have done (my memory is a little off on minor details).

Animation, well it Hanna-Barbera, so of course it's absolutely terrible, everything is so bright and cheerful; not that I mind cheerful, but it's just the incessant nature of it, even the Care Bears had some moments of despair. This is one of the most happy cartoons ever, as one-dimensional as it is one-colored. Blue as the characters may be, when I see this show I only see red.

Upon first watching it, all I remember observing was a bunch of short, blue looking dwarfs, with only one female character. Interesting. I took several glances at this show as a child, and could never watch more than two minutes of it. I just remember every scene feeling dead. I now pretty much feel that this is one of the lamest shows to date. sure it was made in 1981, but i've seen better standards in the 70's. even as a small child, i knew what good animation and lively character development was, and this was hardly it. it amazes me it lasted over 250 eps. i guess the makers could afford that when they seemed to use five colors throughout the series.

I can remember being able to buy Smurfs merchandise at BP garages. Not that I ever did, mind you. I was in my teens when this show was on and I regarded it as nothing more than an excercise in merchandising aimed at kids. Mind you that only puts it in the same category as a gazillion other shows over the past twenty five years, but th early to mid 80's was particularly awful for this.

Somehow Smurfs were never as popular amongst young males as Transformers or Dragonball, this despite the presence of the obviously irresistable Smurfette. Hmm, this has been my shortest review ever, but to write anything more comprehenmsive I'd actually have to find a copy of something Smurf and watch it again, and this might lead to me suddenly wanting to watch 'The Wombles' or something (though actually that would probably be an improvement)

I'm sure there are people who have fond memories of these little blue thingamibobs, the same as there are people who love My Little Pony, but I'm afraid I'm not either of them.