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Smurftacular
Baby Smurf
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posted 11-12-2002 03:14 PM
Hi. I'm just redicovering the Smurfs and I have a few questions about the TV shows. Please answer those that you can.1) How many Smurfs episodes are there? Vic George's episode guide lists 422 shows. The I.M.P.S. business page (http://www.smurf.com/business/reg_users/b_main.html) says there are 256. 2) How does IMPS come up with the stat (listed on the same page) that it would take 16 days, 8 hours to watch all of them. That would imply that each of the 256 episodes are over 90 minutes long! 3) Where can I see them? Do you have any pointers to pages that list channels that carry the Smurfs? Cartoon Network doesn't seem to have them on very often (just the Christmas specials on Dec 12,14,24, and 25 and Boomerang is only airing episodes on Dec 7, 8, 14, and 15). 4) Are they available for purchase anywhere? Thanks!
Posts: 2 | Registered: Nov 2002
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Vic George
Smurf
Member # 37
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posted 11-23-2002 05:59 PM
Just for the record, I can be stumped, considering that I haven't been an avid watcher of the Smurfs even throughout its original Saturday morning cartoon run.But anyway, considering that I went through the ardurous task of reading through the Smurfs Cartoon Episode Guide published by the now-defunct Smurf Collectors Club Int. and listing all the episodes of the cartoon show (plus the two "other presentations") in proper order, I can safely say that the total number of episodes IMPS has posted on The Official Smurfs Website is incorrect...it is NOT 256, it is 420 (which includes multi-part episodes which are counted as one episode, plus the specials which are all done by Hanna-Barberra; the Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue and the Smurfs And The Magic Flute movie are NOT considered episodes since the former takes place outside the "universe" of the cartoon show and the latter was simply not produced by Hanna-Barberra or was even part of the cartoon series). Another thing is that most of the episodes (not including the multi-parters and the specials) run for about 15 minutes on the average; some for about 20-25 minutes -- which is why on the now-syndicated SMURFS ADVENTURE show the producers have either edited out certain scenes (like the final wish Papa Smurf makes to Genie Meanie in that particular episode "The Magical Meanie" to stay in his bottle until he stops being mean) or time-compressed the episodes (making the voices sound more heliumish than they did originally) to make it fit within its 30-minute running schedule. The one good thing that came out of the SMURFS ADVENTURE show was that the producers went back into one of their episodes, "The Magnifying Mixture", and fixed a blooper that caused some spoken dialogue that Hefty and Gargamel spoke to be out of sync, making it appear that Gargamel was "throwing his voice" through Hefty!
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-- VIC GEORGE, Westfield, MA, USA
Posts: 222 | From: Westfield, MA, USA | Registered: Jul 1999
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Vic George
Smurf
Member # 37
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posted 12-06-2002 10:36 AM
Well, on the subject of bloopers, there's another blooper in the episode "The Blue Plague" that I'm not sure the producers have fixed. In that episode, Papa Smurf goes out into the forest to make up some magical lotion to restore a prince who had been turned into a frog, and has left Brainy in charge (from what I remember). However, when Greedy rings the bell to call everybody to lunch while Brainy slips into the soup that potion that made the Smurfs behave like chickens after they ate of it, there's a shot where we see all the Smurfs, including Papa Smurf, working up at the dam. Apparently, the producers reused a shot that appeared in a previous episode of Smurfs working up at the dam, but forgot to take Papa Smurf out of the shot!
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-- VIC GEORGE, Westfield, MA, USA
Posts: 222 | From: Westfield, MA, USA | Registered: Jul 1999
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